The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-28 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House met at Three o'clock this day, and
upon our admission to the gallery we found Mr.
C. GRANT upon his legs attempting to move for
some returns, when he was called to order by the
Speaker, the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod hav-
ing just then knocked at the door of the
House. Upon his admission, he informed the
SPEAKER. that his presence, and that of the other
Members of the House of Commons was immediately
required in the House of Lords to hear his MAJESTY7S
Assent given to several Bills, and also to hear the
Royal Commission read, by which the present Ses-
sion of Parliament was to be prorogued.
The SPEAKER and about fifty Members then pro-
ceeded to the House of Lords.

Upon his return the SPEAKER standing (at
the Table) informed the House that his Majesty's
Assent had been given by Royal Commission
to the Sugar Bill, Walcott's Eestate Bill, the Con-
solidated Fund Bill, and the Savings Banks' Bill.
The SPEAKER also acquainted the House, that the
Lords appointed by his Majesty's Commission had
prorogued this present Parliament.

The French Papers of Thursday and Friday
have been received, by extracts from which it
will be seen that the Russians are bent in earnest
upon pushing forward to Constantinople with as
little delay as possible. This is just what we
expected, notwithstanding the repeated assurances
of moderation professed by Russia, whose am-
bition is as surely fixed on Constantinople
" As rolls the wave before the settled wind."

We are on the eve of great events. France,
after all her misgivings, is now determined upon
sending an expedition to the Morea, consisting
of 17,000 men. This will decide the liberty of
Greece. When Constantinople is once taken by
Russia, and Greece independent through the
spirited agency of France, England may storm,
but her rivals will laugh secure in the possession
of their prey.
The French Minister of Marine made a very
interesting speech in the Chamber of Deputies,
upon the state of the French Navy, and the
various improvements recently introduced by his
predecessor, or about to be introduced by him-
self. We shall give the substance of this Teed)
to-morrow.

Frankfort Papers of the 20th inst., received
this morning, contain the following particulars
from the scene of operations in the East, bu
they arc not marked by any event of COllhe
quence :

OFFICIAL. NOTICE.
ODESSA, JUNE 2S
The Commission appointed at Odessa by command or
his Imperial Majesty, which has to investigate the claims
of Russian subjects against the Ottoman Porte, subsequent
to the date of the battle of Navarin, calls on all those who
have any such claims to allege; to accompany their state-
ments with the necessary documents, in proof of their cor-
rectness. Those persons who have already sent in their
claims, without supporting them by authentic documents,
are desired to send them without delay to the Commis-
sioners.
Oct the representation of the Governor-General
,of
New Russia, his Majesty the Emperor has been pleased to
charge the Counsellor of State, Dunajeff, Governor of Ta-
ganrog, with the provisional administration of Bessarabia.
His Excellency is already gone to Kincheneff.

BISTRITZ (IN TRANSYLV.tNIA), JULY 2.
The movements in the neighbouring countries have not
yet had any effect here. We enjoy the greatest tranquil-
lity, and are not even alarmed at the plague in Bucharest,
as we are well aware of the judicious and strict measures
adopted by the Russians. We leave however already seen
some small divisions of Turks that were intercepted by the
Russians pass under escort through Transylvania. The
first consisted of 127 persons, with 133 horses ; the se-
cond of 16 persons and 21 horses ; the third, of 13 men,
is still among us. They march by what is called the
iron gate of Orsowa. All observe the strictest discipline.
In addition to the military occurrences of which the ac-
count has been published, we know here that on the 15th
(June) General Hermann with two regiments of Yagers,
and 24 pieces of cannon, proceeded towards Guirgewo, in
which fortress Kutscbuk Paella is snaking preparations for
an obstinate resistance. At Bucharest, a requisition has
been made for 14,000 iron shoes for the draught oxen, and
all the bakers are ordered to bake biscuit. In little Wal-
lachia, the division of • General Gorzakow has obliged
10,000 Turks to fall back to the Tate de Porte of Wid-
din. Dernisch Pacha commands all the troops in and
about Widdin. In all the passes lending to Transyl-
vania, Cossacks are posted
~to ,thirevent all expor-
tation. In one of the last sallies made by the
garrison of Brailow the Russians took prisoner an
officer of the name of Anselmi, formerly in the French
army, and Knight of the Legion of Honour, whose kiss
is greatly lamented by the Turks. The boyards in the
two principalities have, with the consent of Count Pahlen,
opened a loan of ten millions of piastres to cover the mili-
tary expenses, and as usual wanted to lay the whole bncelen
on the poor ceuntry people. Under the protection of
Russia, however, all the oppressive measures of the old
Oriental Administration will cease, and the boyardsthem-
selves will be obliged to pay their part. Since the Aus-
trian Agents have left Bucharest, M. Minziacky has
taken care of the affairs of the numerous Austrian sub-
jects, whom be treats with the greatest attention.

In another colUmn we have inserted from the
Manchester Guardian—a Paper which has uni-
formly
supported liberal principles with an
highly creditable to its character—a
ability
reso-
lution from the Manchester Chamber of Com-
merce, which represents the largest manufacturing
community in this kingdom, expressive of their
high sense of Mr. HUSKLISSON'S enlightened,
judicious, and valuable services to the Commerce
of the country, whilst a Minister of the Crown.
-If any thing were wanting to enhance the

value of this proud mark of respect and gratitude,
it will be found in the fact that the tribute is
paid to Mr. HUSKISSON at a period when he
has no longer the official power to enforce his
own principles of Free Trade—and just at the
moment when die utility of those principles is
called in question by interested parties, who rail
against Mr. HUSKISSON for the very benefits
which the adoption of Ins liberal and en-
lightened views have conferred, and are daily
conferring, upon the great body of the people.
To a public man we can fancy nothing more
truly acceptable than the spontaneous admira-
tion and thanks of those for whose welfare his
public labours have been successfully employed ;
and if anything can add to his gratification, it
must be the consciousness that their applause
springs from the pure sense of gratitude for past
favours, uninfluenced by the prospect of future
benefits, except indeed it be those resulting from
the practice of his own principles. Sweet is the
praise of our fellow men,—but sweeter far is that
praise which expects no return !

The Vienna Gazette of the 15th instant copies
:he following from the Universal Gazette of

Greece :

VIENNA, JULY 15.

The Universal Gazelle of Greece gives some account
of the visit of Count Viario Capo d'lstria to Megara, where
he saw the troops under the command of the Stratarch
(General) Demetrius Ypsilanti. On this occasion the Count
requested the General to insert in the Order of the D.iy an
Address to the troops under his command, in which are
the following passages :—" I have come among you by
order of the Government, and your bravery and good will
entitle the Government to entertain the fairest hopes.
" Your General knows, and you too know, that your
country calls on yin; to reconquer it. This country was
once free and celebrated; what it is now yon know. The
sacred city of Athens is before your eyes, and Athens is
the seat of the ancient national glory. Do not hope to see
the Greek Continent free, so long as the Crescent roles in
Athens.
" The General knows, and you know, that the present
Government considers all the Greeks as its children, and
makes no difference between those or the Continent and
those of the Islands, but all of you must pay it equal ho-
nours, that your obedience may diminish the difficulties
which it encounters in the performance of its duty.
" When the General 'commands it is the voice of the
country that commands, and in honouring him you obey
the voice of your country."

The Fourth Report of the Finance Committee
evinces the same diligence and laborious research
as the others formerly published. It presents,
within a short compass, a view of the rise and
progress of the public debt since 1792, its in-
crease during the war, and its trifling decrease
since the peace. The absurdity of artificial
sinking funds which pay one debt by incurring
another, is pointed out ; and the " Dead Weight
Scheme " is also censured, and justly, although
there is a complicated absurdity in this latter pro 7
ject on which the Finance Committee have not
touched. The Committee state that the trans-
action by which we gave the Bank a perpetual
annuity, for a longer life annuity, was truly
a loan ; and that this system still involved the
error of keeping up the Sinking Fund by bor-
rowed money. This is true ; but there is a
further error. The military pensions or an-
nuities on lives were to all intents and purposes
a Sinking Fund : for what is the effect of such
a Fund, but to convert the whole debt into a
temporary annuity, longer or shorter, according
to the proportion which the Sinking Fund bears
to the principal sum. It haS been calculated
that a surplus of one per cent. converts a per-
petual into a 45 years' annuity. Those military
pensions, therefore, being all temporary annuities,
formed in fact a Sinking Fund, which should
have been taken so far as it would go in part of
the five millions per annum, to be set apart for
the redemption of debt. But we threw:aw ay
this Sinking Fund, by convertiog it into a per-
manent annuity, while we were at the same. time
establishing another Sinking Fund ; and thus we
run into all manner of useless complexity and
expenee, doing and undoing, building up and
pulling down, without the smallest possible ad-
vantage. We really hope this system will now
be for ever put an end to.