The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-15 00:00:00

day. • -In following rather a sanctified traveller, who
mixes some little political speculation with his anti-
quarian research, we find him entering that fine por-
tal at Thebes which places him within the " one
hundred and fifty columns;"—those of the inner
circle of which, are . of the enormous diameter of
eleven French feet, and the remainder of eight.
-Though a bigotted saint of our times, he admits
himself to have been awed at the sight ; yet with his
" thickened breath" he begins ,to descant of compa-
rative" taste and proportion—like a man who picked
up the detached pannel of a door, and without pos-
sessing.a single material beyond, on which the laws
of its proportion rested, proceeded to judge the
architecture of the structure to which it belonged.
The Paella of Egypt is making the best road he can
An civilization, in boring, bannotrand growing cotton,
founding libraries, &c.-6:c.; but it is all afarce. His
Learned Librarian was appointed because he had re-
ceived the advantage of impelling in England, viz.
he had . been once to Gibraltar; and he had one
English book that he could not read ! That, with
some purchased iron foundry implements, were quite
sufficient at Grand Cairo to form the ground of ex-
pectation that Egypt, under the presentPacha,would
soon rival the British power I In the fine country of
the Egyptian, there is little or no employment, and
lm want. The Nile mad the Sun bring plenty to
the doors of the poorest cottagers ; yet from habit
and indolence, not necessity, the people are beggars.
It the French ever get footing in Egypt, they will
take India; and if on no other account, it were wise
for us to keep it out of their hands in the most cer-
tain Nay,—by possessing it ourselves, and garrison-
ing it with the unemployed artisans of our manufac-
tortes, who are eating up the substance of the trades-
people, in grumbling discontent at their own idleness
And dependence. This were surely better than send-
ing them to Canada, in order that they may with
facility pass over into the North American States,
and convey thither our arts and habits of industry to
a rival market. There were- few places so easily
improvable by British spirit and capital as Grand
Cairo. It has fallen from what it was under the
Caliphs; but it now contains about 200,000 per-
sons. Men of all nations congregate here; but
mostly in the pursuits of merchandise ; and the
worst spirit of Government in the world has not
been ahle to deprive it of an essential commercial
character. There is said to be a superior animal
chara"ter. in the Turks, as men ; and some writer
designated them as the " aristocracy of nature :" it
is true they make tine soldiers, but you cannot subject
them to any perfect discipline. The English, French,
Austrians, and Russians, will at any time beat them
with- inferior numbers. They do not comprehend,
and will not enter into, the calculations of combined
movements. Their tenure of Egypt is by a thread
as slender as empire ever was held ; and the rule of
the country must in our times either go to some
other European Power, or into a petty Sovereignty
that were disgraceful to all the Powers conniving at
it; and degrading to the inhabitants, mixed as they
are of the wanderers of all tribes and all nations.
We have gone into these desultory reflections, touch-
ing matters of import—supposing that we shall not
be able to obtain from the Emperor of Russia clear
and satisfactory views of his intentions in Turkey;
and that such views will riot be afforded by the pre-
sent Emperor, there is every day mere and more
reason to apprehend.

(FROSI rHE SUNDAY HERALD.)

POLICY OF TILE ECROPEAN COURTS.—There is
no question at the present moment which occupies
so much or se deservedly the attention of all classes,
as the probability of interference, or non-interference,
on the part of the great Powers of Europe, to pre-
vent the destruction or dismemberment of the Otto-
man Empire. The time is now come when they
must declare themselves for the one or the other;
and in the view which we entertain of the subject,
it affords us pleasure to find that Colonel Evans, its
his book " On the Designs of Russia," completely
coincides with us. From Prussia mere neutrality in
the contest is all that could be reasonably expected.
Frederick William is related by intermarriage with
Nicholas, in the same degree that the Emperor
Francis was to Napoleon—he has a large army as-
sembled on his frontiers—the desire of extending
the Prussian territories might not unnaturally, cou-
pled with other motives, conduce to a collusion of
views ; and in case of a declaration of war by the
other Powers of Europe, would certainly lead to a
junction of the Russian and Prussian standards.—
On Austlia, we fear, little reliance need be placed,
though she is undoubtedly more immediately and
strongly interested than any other European Power
in the preservation of the Turkish Empire. But on
this subject Colonel Evans's observations are too
just and too forcible to admit of being paraphrased
by a 'feebler pen.
" Ausnia is very well known to be one of the most
inert and unelistic of powers ; and though, through our
pecuniary aid, she has evinced constancy, her efficient force
by no means corresponds with her territorial extent. The
-contracted and obsolete maxims which still so utterly im-
pede the prosper its, and as completely interdict the union,
of the Austrian provinces, must he to us, her natural ally,
a source of unfeigned regret; fur it is thus that her strength
falls so short of what it should be, as a dike against the
North. Little of a spontaneously energetic character is
to be augured from the Court of Vienna. Nay, unless
under the influence of foreign impulse, it were rash to
assert teat it may not in the sequel personate both the
dupe and the accomplice. A province or two, if demanded
as the price of complicity, will be readily cerceded. The
.treat captor of the territorial booty, thus distributed, will
consider any such transfer as no more than a loan. Ad-
ditional honours and applause will be showered on the
celebrated Austrian Minister, whose dexterity, it will be
said, has thus added, without the employment of anus or
the chances of war, to his master's dominions : while, in
point of fact, the real and inevitable tendency of this pre-
tended aggrandisement will be neither rime nor leas than
that of paving the way for sending back with all practi-
cable speed that Imperial house to its original little domain
of Hapsburg ; or, if not, for rendering it, within a far more
limited period, a mere intermediary and dishonourable
channel, through which to convey to the Germanic na-
tions, with as little chock as may be to their honest feel-
ings, tberuthoritative ukases transmitted for fulfillment.—
Fossiqly,!however, the Cabinet of Vienna, afraid to par-
tal*iirthe ill-gotten spoil, may assume the respectable
'Veiring of a neutral. This may perhaps be on the prin-
ciple of the ingenious expedient propounded a few days
ago, in the legislature ofa neighbouring country—namely,
that the balance of Europe would be best upheld, and the
ambition of Russia repelled, by 'an awe-inspiring reserve'
on the part of the Chamber of Deputies
From the King of Sweden, the most sagacious,
and in point
.of military talents and of the affection
borne to him uy his subjects, the most formidable,
of the Sovereigns of Europe, Russia could expect
no aid. On the contrary, the recent marriage of the
son of the Ex-King of Sweden into the Royal
House of Orange must naturally have inspired him
with considerable dread, lest in his case—the only
exception to legitimacy in Europe—a return should
not be had, sooner or later, to the same principle
which banished the Emperor of France to a barren
rock, and cut short the days of the gallant
)lurat. From such a fate England only can
save hint ; and while she remains constant to his
interests there sics.:l be no doubt that he would
manifest equal regard for. hers. Of Portugal---of
notice
steed he- taken.
Spain--and of the petty German States, no no •
They exist on the snap of
Europe;
but they exercise no
.influence on her interests--
they frequently give rise to wars, and jealousies,
and contentions among other states, but they are too
feeble and sunk too deep in ignorance and poverty
to take any part in them. But France—aye France
—what part would she perform, were the worst to
come to the worst, and the Russian eagle hovering
over the gates of Constantinople? This question
has, in all probability, been already solved, thought
the result is not satisfactorily known to us. That
in case of Russia succeeding in her ambitious enter-
prise, she could have no real interest separate from
that of England, we are willing to admit ; and that if
the enlightened Ministry which now directs her fo-
reign policy remain in office, she will co-operate
with England, is more than probable; but it must at
the same time be admitted, that the reluetancq ex-
hibited by the Wellington Cabinet to execute the
Treaty of the 6th July, has done much towards pre-