The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-03 00:00:00

Lmself to mere remonstrances; and the instant,

wag found absolutely necessary to fire on the rebels,
and bring up artillery against them, he abandoned
the scene of action, and contented himself with issuing
orders and receiving intelligence from his officers, at
a safe distance from the theatre of the massacre.
His allusion, therefore, to his having " resigned
himself to death " is a mere gasconade, for
he took special care that no random shot or desperate
blow of an insurgent sabre should reach his Imperial
person. We do not deny that he showed a certain
degree of moral courage on the occasion, and by his
timely presence among the conspiring regiments,
before either party had proceeded to extremities,
induced some of them to abandon their purpose ;
but physical courage was wholly wanting, for when
the affair assumed a serious and sanguinary as-
pect, then, the EMPEROR of All the Russias
was 'nowhere to be found on the scene of
action ! In another of the Imperial conversations
quoted by the Reviewer, we find the following re-
marks :—" They know me very little (observed
NICHOLAS) who reproach me with ambition. Far
from seeking to enlarge our territory, I would wish to
contract, as Much as possible, round myself the popu-
lation of the whole of Russia. To improve the con-
dition of the Russians is a far better thing than to

aggrandise myself." Magnanimous sentiments these.
but, alas ! how little are they in accordance with the
known acts of the Royal speaker ! What but ambition
and a thirst for personal aggrandisement, induced
NICHOLAS to hurry his armies across the Balkan, and
reduce Turkey to the lowest state of prostration—
to send PASKEVITCH against the frontier provincei
of Persia, and compel the SHAH to surrender a portion

. .
of his dominions—to set underhand intrigues actively
at work at Herat and Khelat —above all, what but
a selfish lust of power still induces the EM-
PEROR to dispatch army after army against
the Circassians, whose only offence is, that
they prefer a life of independence to one of
abject submission to a foreign State which has not
even the shadow of a claim on their allegiance ? We
mention these things, because it has been the fashion
among travellers of late—Lord LONDONDERRY, by-
the-bye, is a great offender in'this respect—to heap
the most fulsome panegyrics upon the Emperor of
Russia, and perversely shut their eyes to the fact
that he is at heart a confirmed tyrant, who deserves
rather the censure than the approbation of freemen.

Intelligence from Lisbon to the 26th ult. has
been received. Affairs seem to be in a very unsettled
state, and loud complaints are made on all hands
against the CABRAL Ministry. A petition to the
QUEEN for their removal had been drawn up, and
signed by three ex-Ministers, but as her MAJESTY
declined to have an interview with Count LAYRADIO,
the nobleman appointed to present it, the document
WAS delivered to the KING. Almeida still held out ;
indeed no measures had commenced for the reduction
of the place, and it is not at all improbable that before
that event takes place CABRAL and his colleagues
may be dismissed. The Cardinal Patriarch, it is said,
protests .against all CABRAL'S proceedings, but the
QUEEN refuses to listen to his advice, and her obsti-
nacy is very generally blamed.

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place. The Finance Minister presided at the adjudi-
cation, when, after a spirited contest, it was awarded
to Senor SALAMANCA, at the price of 110,040,000
reals, or about 1,100,4001. On the same day the
funeral of ARGUELLES took place, when vast numbers
followed his remains to the tomb. The grand levee
fixed for that day had been countermanded, and the
Bourse still remained closed.

The Paris papers bring no additional intelligence
respecting the disturbances in Italy, but generally
anticipate, though on what . grounds they do '
,riot
state, that the attempts at insurrection will be sup-
pressed without the aid of foreign Powers. As re-
gards the affairs of Romagna, we believe there is not

the slightest chance for such a result. The discus-
sions in the Chambers, on Saturday, were generally
without interest. In the Committees M. DE ST.
PRIEST brought forward his motion on Post-oftice
reform, and moved that the subject be taken into
consideration. This was strongly opposed by the
Finance Minister, but without effect, and the ques-
tion was-therefore to be referred to the entire Chamber.
The motion of M. GARNIER PAGE§, relative to the
conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock, was to' be
taken into consideration on the 2d.

The Three per Cents. were done on Sunday at

83f. sc.

LATER FROM the UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING.

The fine packet-ship Virginian, Captain Allen, arrived
here this afternoon from New York, whence she sailed
on the 11th ultimo—five days after the last arrival.
In a commercial point of- view the news is encouraging.
The price of legitimate stocks was steady, with an up-
ward tendency, and those of a " fancy" character, as
they are styled on the other side, were also in request.
Business was brisk; and money was abundant. Not the
least encouraging feature of the commercial news is, the
utter explosion of the attempt to bolster up the price of
cotton beyond its real value. One of the speculators
who " burnt his fingers " in the operation, had failed to
the extent of 250.000 dollars, others were expected to
follow, and the trade—the speculative part of it—was in
a state of consternation and confusion. The price of
the article itself, irrespective of these disasters, was re-
ceding at New Orleans, and the same result had taken
place at New York.
A new Tariff Bill had been introduced into the House
Mr. Clay, in 1832, equalising iruch more
of Representatives, in some degree similar to the one,
introduced by
than does present tariff, the duties from this: coun-
try. It is doubtful whether it will pass. The hostile
position of the Senate and the House of Representatives,
would leave any measure of the kind, passed by the one
House, to be rejected by the other.
Mr. Calhoun, one of the forfmost of American poli-
ticians, had accepted, under Mr. Tyler, the office of
Secretary of State, vacant by the death of the former
Secretary, who was killed on board the Princeton. This
will not make much, if any, difference, in the relative
position of the candidates for the Presidency, as it up-
peers to be understood that Mr. Van Buren is to be the
next democratic. candidate.