The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-31 00:00:00

WRIT OP THE PU111.14 JOURNALS.

The Chamber of Deputies did not sit on Thurs-
day ; but we learn, from the journals, that the com-
mission appointed, on the proposition of M. B. Con-
stant, to inquire into the propriety of abolishing the
discretionary power of the Government to re-esta-
butsh the Censorship, had reported unfavourably to
the measure recommended, by a majority of seven
to two. It is not hence to be understood that the
seven antagonists of the motion were for a coNdi-
tional Censorship,—far less that they thought it:;
immediate re-establishment either possible or desir-
able;e but they expressed set unwillingness to change
'toy portion of the law of the press without a re-
visiou of the whole. France seems to be making
rapid progress towards the completion of her insti-
tutions, or the removal of obstructiottiS 'to the exer-
cite of ber rights, but the aborts-mentioned check to
the Itlberal party, ;intones several others; shows that
the, precipitation of change does not preeltete in-
quiry, and drat the Chambers poesees Yfembers nu-
merous ;And courageous enoesek to resist sudden,
though nerhaps reasonable. innovations. The Mi-
-Dieters have evidently no firm bold of either party,
Watt derive their support from resting an arm on 6e
ennstinutional pornott of both. As yet they have
tenstrived to command the suffrages of the
whole of the left side, because they have made
concessions toe public opinion r and to secure
the vo-operatidlF of a d'etnehment of the right,_
because they gratified the hatred of the latter
to M. de Villeins In the meantime the anti-
ministerial Ultrae, who occupy seats in the
erne Chamber by the known influence, and in
the other, by the direct nomination, of the late Ca-
binet, are endeavouring to alarm the Court and the
Church by raising the cry of revolution and jacoe
Itinism against the royalist deserters and the con-
atitutional liberals. The Gazette de France, in the
hands of the ousted party, has of late shown great
real and displayed considerable talents in exposing
the alleged tnischiefs, and pointing out the probable
dangers of the new coalition of antagonise factione,
tend the timid submission of the Government to
their will: The writers in this journal, who com-
posed pert of the literary' forces of M. de Villele,
boldly defend Royalty- ,against th King's Go-
vernment, and the Royalists again their own
measures. The party for whose /Aunt to power
they contend seems to adhere film y tegether, and
in ease of any disunion between the present ma-
ority in the Chambers end the directors of
!elate affairs, would be ready again to seize the
helm. For it eeeres evident, that the King has
been obliged to listen reluctantly to the voice of thee
people,—that he ...alleged his Ministers against his
will, at the dictation of the Chamboest—theet these
`Ministers are now obeyiug an impulse which they
oauttot resist, and that if the Court is separated from
she Jesuits, it is only by a slight partition like that
of the confessional chair, through which they can
still whisper, and which they soon hope entirely to
remove. The eagerness on the part of the Liberal,
to gain all they can for public freedom during the
period of their ascendancy, and the alarming cry of
revolution on the party of the Ultras, may bring
abut a rapture among the present supporters of the
Cabinet, before a really constitutional majority has
acquired consolidation, or asserted its ciahns to the
national confidence. But the prudence of the Mi-
nietry, in throwing the responsibility of the most de-
licate inquiries and projects on commissions appoint-
ed ht. the King or the Chambers, may avert for a
time the necessity of their taking such e decided
part as would endanger their popularity with either
of the aides by which they are eopported.—Times.
pursuance of Mr. Brougham's motion, two die-
tsinet Commissions are to be issued—oue for the
Revision of the Practice in' our Courts of Common
Law ; another for the Amendment of the Law of
Real Property. The Commissioners for the latter
epartment are not yet named; but it is understood
eNat Sergeant a Bogen qiiet and Stephens, with. Messrs.
...klderson, Parke, and Pattison, are to be the Com-
mon Law Commissioners. In a matter of this na-
ture every thing depends on the character of the
erten; and we must, therefore, be excused making
some remarks on the respective qualifications of
Those gentlemen to discharge the important trust
anfided to them. The two last named, Messrs.
Parke end Pattison, are eminent Pleaders, being
generally esteemed at excellent lawyers; thorough
adepts in their own peculiar and technical parts of
the profestiOn ; but making no pretensions to the
more litseisal ever- exalted attributes of Advocates.
Frorotteneh Inertia is not in human nature to expect
any rigorous measure of reformation, since any very.
extensive alterations or effectual simplification of
legett,process would destroy their practice. And
eittbnuf attributing to those gentlemen any son.
diri feelings, we ought all to bear in mind the rea-
soning of the whitestniths, who made shrines for
Diana at Ephesus—" Great is Diuna of the Ephe
tiens"—for, " Sirs, ye know that by this craft we
have our wealth." There is no gentleman named
in the Commission from whom we can expect that
the two, above named craftsman will experience any
etrennons opposition. gerjeant Bosanquet is a pet-
eon of no great vigour, nor are his dispositions much
known; and Mr. Alderson, though generally consi-
dered a man of strong mind, partakes in some degree
of the talent for turning, in which one person has
eminently found his account. ,Seeolont Stephens,
indeed, has afforded evidence of the possession of
talents which would well qualify him to act with
advantage in a commission for the amendment of the
law. His book on pleading is by far the first work'
on that sehiect; and entitlee him to a high place
among jurist,. Had he, with either Mr. Parke or
Mr.Pattisoo, but not with both, been associated
with such membcre of the professione—men who
aspire to a higher name than " mere lcguleii—anc:-
pea syllabarum, cantatores formularzon,"—and
whose talents as advocates would insure them even
a greater share of business under a more intelligible,
reasonable, pure, and simple system of practice,
something might be expected; but from a commis-
eion constituted as we understand_ this is to be, no-
thing.—Morning Chronicle.
There is not the slightest foundation for the re-
port that the Porte had agreed to au armistice for
three months. No entreaties from the other Powere,
to induce Russia, either not to invade Turkey, or to
delay doing so, have had the least effect. She states
distinctly that she enters Turkey on a ground of her,
own—the violation of the Treaty of Ackerman, and
the wrongs suffered by her subjects ; and having
publicly announced her determination to seek prompt
reparation by an armed force, she can no longer, with
reputation, abandon that determination. It is pro-
bable that by this time the Russians have crossed
the Pruth; and the best-informed in the political
circles do not expect they will stop till they have, at
least, attempted Constantinople. Ministers are' in
great perplexity at present. • France does not draw
with us now; and the armament in the Mediter-
ranean is a source of infinite uneasiness to• Ministers.
We suspect they would willingly compound for
41giers, if they could be certain that no intention '
teas entertained with re eard to Egypt. It strikes
712 that the French will' purchase their coffee and
otton at a very dear rate, by an attempt to colonise'
Algiers ; and as Egypt is a country of unbounded
fertility, possessed of a patient and laborious
peasantry, trained by ages of servitude to the
most perfect submission, sad as- it can be de-
fended with comparative ease, while Algiers it
in a country which can only b defended with
great
which have been given, that the latter is the
destination of the French armament, we can almost
excuse Ministers for having their suspicions with re-
gerd to the former. But however this may be, Mi-
nisters will not feel themselves so secure as to yen_
tore to diminish either the Naval or :Military forCe ;
and we have heard, indeed, that both will be mime_
diately increased in the Mediterranean. The affairs
of Portugal are another source of perplexity to Mi-
nisters. It is greatly to be lamented that we should
have been so mixed up by Treaty with that country
as to be obliged to send a force thither, whielo
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niarde, yet in reality enabled the Constitutioailitte
to put down the Servile& Had an Englich force
not entered Portugal, the Absolutists would have
been successful ; and, should Miguel now trample on
the Constitution, tie shall have been, however in-
nocently, the cause of aggravating the sufferings of
the Constitutionalists, whom we encouraged. by our
presence to commit themselves. We wish we were
well rid of our particular connexionwith Portugal.
With foreign nations our relations 'should be merely
commercial. The Portuguese imagine that we at-
tach a great value to the influencing their Govern-
ment, and our interest !s greatly promoted by the
connexion, ?fence the jealousy of our interference,
Which breaks out every now and then in so unequi-
vocal a manner.—lbid.
This evening the Corn quetion is to be brought
forward in Pailianient. To us it appears a plain
question—either as an abstract one, or What is called-
a protective one, or one of Revenue. As an ab-
stract question,
.every grower of Corn knows, that
if we import the product of foreign land, we !mist
export the product of British land, in order to pay
for the import product The abstract question
comes to this then (at least we think so)—that if a
man posse-i,ing 100 acres of hold, on which he
grows wheat, and nothing but wheat, and on which
wheat he and his family live; yet if he can import
wheat at a less price than he can grow it for, and is
determined to grow no more wheat, but to import
wheat—yet, on the presumption that this man has
nothing in the way of maintaining his family to look
to but his 100 acres of land and his labour—yet, he
being resolved to grow no more wheat, but is de-
termined to import it, he must pay for his wheat so
imported ; and how can he pay for it but by means
of his laud and labour, having nothing as we pre-
mised, but his land and labour to-enable him to pay
for his imported wheat ? It comes to this then, that
from his land of 100 acres, and his labour on the
said land, he must produce wood, wool, iron, lead,
upper, tin, barley, oats, cattle, poultry, game, or
'We.ething else, in order to pay for his wheat im-
ported. Therefore, in an abstract point of view,
the wheat question comes to this—that if the land
of England does not grow wheat, it must grow some-
thing else to pay for wheat—consequently, as a
rent question—whether the land grows wheat or
whether it does not, it is the same thing to the
landlord. Now as to a protection question. If a
quarter of corn costs in England 605., and if the
like quarter of corn can be imported at 405., put on
a tax of 205., and the protection is at once given—
even mere than given, because it will cost at least
101% a quarter to bring the quarter of wheat to this
country—in freight, iusur6nce, merchants' profits,
brokers' commissions, &c. And as a revenue ques-
tion. Suppose, by means of the importation of wheat,
which we will assume, for illustration's sake, amounts
to the sum of 100 millions a year in value, we could
levy and collect a tax of fifty per cent. on it, which
would be in the proportion of 20s. on 40e. Here
would be a revenue of 50,000,0001. got in an in-
direct way, the most pleasant of all ways to tax-
payers.—Morning Herald.
The lobby of the House of Commons presented,
we understand, a curious scene on Thursday even-
ing, when the Marylebone Select Vestry Dissolution
Bill was to be read a second time. Both parties,
reverend and irreverend, formed a passage through
which the Members had to pass. On the one aide
was placed the leader of the Insurgents with the
petition of the inhabitants upon his shoulder; on the
other stood the select, anxiously looking out for one
of their own body who was to present their counter-
petition—when, lo and behold Mr. Alderman
Wood, to whom the Bill is intrusted, having put
down his name early on the Speaker's list, came out
and informed his friends that the Bill had been read
a second time without any opposition—and away
went the select, clamouring wofully at- their dis-
appointment, and at the trick, as they called it,
which had been played them.—lbid.
The remarks contained in the Extraordinary Sup-
plement of the St. Petersburgh Journal of the 11th
instant on the Turkish Proclamation of the 20th
of December, indicate with sufficient clear-
ness the intentions of the Court of *Russia; but, as
we have already observed, neither of those docu-
ments amount to pledges of indefinite or unchange-
able line of policy ; for neither being regularly offi-
cial, the form in which the two Governments have
thus been talking at rather than to each other, war-
rants the conclusion, that they- have not on either
side intended the documents to be considered as
public and irrevocable acts. That Russia would act
in the spirit and upon the principles of the article in
the St. Petersburgh Journal, if she were not likely
to encounter any other opponent than Turkey, we
are ready to believe. Affairs have arrived at the
precise point which might have been foreseen by all
politicians of ordinary sagacity, from the date of the
Treaty of London, which was foreseen by many—
foreseen meet clearly, contemplated and desired with
the most joyful and triumphant anticipations by
the Russian Government itself. Russia became a
party to that Treaty, mainly, we believe, and have
always believed, for the purpose of producing the
state of things that now actually exists. The ex-
pected harvest of Russian ambition now appears to
be fully ripe, and she will be deterred from putting
in the sickle, if deterred at all, only by the appre-
' hension 'that she may be interrupted in the act of
reaping—that she may be driven with loss and ig-
nominy from this field—or that while she is occus
pied there, the rich and ample granaries where she
has stored away the produce of former harvests of
the same kind, may be violated and destroyed--an
apprehension from which she would hare been en-
tirely free, had the powers of Government in Eng-
land not passed into the hands of men very different
frog: those with whom the Treaty of London. origi-
nated. The pretence that Russia may fulfil the Treaty
of London, and at the same time wage a separate
war against the Porte, is one, the absurdity of which
sets all reasoning at defiance. The Russian Jour-
nal insinuates this pretence indeed, rather than
advances it ; thus indirectly reproving the more li-
beral and more shameless Journals of France and
England—the more eager abettors of Russian am-
bition, who do not scruple directly to maintain the
opinion, that the two characters of Mediator and
Belligerent—of umpire and party, are in no wise
incompatible. Whenever Russia shall distinctly
put forward this pretence, as her liberal partizans in
France and England encourage her to do, it must
and will be taken not as an argument, but as an
intimation of her definitive resolve to prosecute her
ambitious purposes per fas ant nefas. Let us now
regard this question in another point of view. It
is to be presumed, that at the period when
Russia became a party to the treaty of media-
tion, she had no ground of quarrel against Turkey,
or none which she intended to prosecute; other-
wise she was in all respects what we suppose nei-
ther she nor her liberal advocates will admit, an
utter hypocrite, concealing alike from the object of
her enmity and from the powers with whom she was
then contracting an alliance, not only her ulterior
objects but her actual position. Then with re-
spect to any offences, however numerous and . ag-
gravated, which Russia may now allege against
Turkey, it is clear that they must have been com-
mitted subsequently to the Treaty; and in conse-
quence of it, that they are offences lot specially
directed against Russia as a separate power, but
against Russia as one member of the alliance.—
dence it evidently follows, that Russia can have no
motive but an ambitious one, and no right whatever
to treat any complaint she may now have against
Turkey, as any other than a federal complaint, or to
prosecute it by any other than federal councils, or
by any other than federal means. Should she, from
the natural and excusable—(our argument does not
require us to say, as we might say, the justifiable)
manifestations of Turkish resentment, pick out for
herself a separate ground of quarrel, or a pretext for
isolated operations not sanctioned by her Allies,
Russia will pro Claim at once her ambitious purposes
to the world, and breathe suspicion, insult, and de-
fleece towards the Powers with which she is united
by Treaty for the aeoompliehment of a *MINOR par-
, pone--illornifig Amt.

SECOND EDITION.

N OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

IMPERIAL PAR LIAIVIENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Press were not admitted till five minutes beti►re
five o'clock. Several strangers were allowed to enter
before we got in, who, to add to the great inconvenience
reporter:; ;we usually under from a crowd bainel them,
occupied the front of the Bar.
The Duke of WELLINGTON made his appearance a
few minutes before five o'clnck. He wore a blue riband,
star and garter. He was soon followed by Lord Goderich, the
Duke of Gloucester, Lord Eldon, and a number of others,
there being an uncommon number of Peers present. The
space too below the Throne was crowded with Members'
from the House of Commons. Indeed, to have seen the
assemblage of Commoners, one would have supposed that
nothing of interest was going on in their own House.
Lord TEYNHM presented a petition from the Broad Silk
Weavers of Spittalfields, praying for the prosection of
Wages.
The Duke of GLOUCESTER presented a petition from
certain Protestant Dissenters of Gloucester, praying for
the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts.
The Duke of MONTROSE presented a petition from
the Provost and Corporation of Glasgow, against the Cor-
peration and Test Acts.

The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from
Woodborough, against the repeal of the Corporation and
Test Acts.

The Noble Duke also presented a petition from certain
Woolgrowers, residing near Sherwood Forest, in Notting-
ham, against the importation of Foreign Wool.—The peti-
tion was laid on the table.