The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-28 00:00:00

[TILE PUBLIC LEDGER.]

We have received the Paris Papers of Wed.
nesday, with the Etoile of Thursday. They are
principally occupied with the affairs of Russia,
or, more properly speaking, of the Russian
Court, though the subject has become rather flat,
from frequent repetition ; and thero is not much
probability, at least for the present, of its re.
suming its attraction. Besides, the intelligence
is as contradictory as the tone of speculation is
conflicting ; and it is so difficult to get access
to the interior of a despotic Court, that it is ne-
cessary to receive with extreme caution any ac-
count of its secret movements. The Male, which
is apparently indebted to the Russian Chancery
at Paris, fur many of those statements which
it has recently furnished, continues to assure its
readers, that the accession of the new Emperor
has been received every where, and by every
class, in Russia, with the most unequivocal de-
moustrations of joy. We shall not venture to
contest this assertion, particularly as the jeal-
ousy of that Goverment deprives us of the'
means of ascertaining its truth or falsehood ; but
this we will venture to assert, that if the official
documents contained " the whole truth and
nothing but the truth," that the calm and con-
tentment, of which the 'toile speaks will not
be of long duration. It is not in human nature,
particularly in that of an individual accustomed to
thoughts of empire, and absolutely trained from
his infancy to entertain lofty projects, to play
fur any length of time the part that has been
allotted to Constantine. Something therefore
remains to be disclosed, to enable us to compre-
hend the motives of his conduct ; and, front the
extraordinary care with which it is kept back,
there is strong ground to suspect that a compro-
wise has been entered into between the two bro.
thers, which, however capable of explaining
their harmony, may form the ground of
great and just dissatisfaction to Foreign Powers.
Constantine—the imperious Constantine—who
Was saluted, even in his cradle, with the
title of King of tire Greeks—has yielded with
so good a grace—with such cheerful resig.
nation, in fact—to an arrangement, that would
have made the blood of the vilest pea-
sant on one of his estates boil in his veins,
that, to understand the proceeding, some further
information is obviously necessary. In the mean
time, the Cordon Sanitaire,- which the Austrian
Gevernment has given orders to establish on the
frontiers of Turkey, may serve to throw some
light On the subject ; and this hint certainly af.
fords a better solution of the enigma of that
Prince's "mince than is to be found in the official
documents. It is probable therefore that there
is a secret understanding between the two bro-
thers, thut Constantine shall be indemnified for
the Crown he has renounced, with another
Crown ; and that the object too of his waking
and sleeping dreams from the first moment that he
was capable of lisping the word. At Constanti-
nople, too, where he would govern by the right
Of conquest, he could encounter no opposition on
account of his Catholic wife ; and it strikes us
strongly, that we shall hear, before many months,

that he is at the head of a powerful army, and on
his way to accomplish the splendid destiny that
was held out to him at the baptismal font. At
least the Austrian Government, to judge from
its Sanatory Cordon, seems to have come to a
similar conclusion ; and we suspect that other
Powers view the matter in the same light.