The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-16 00:00:00

of the Lords still remains open. The Master of the Rolls
wits, till lately, looked to by Ministers as an efficient Law
Officer in the House of Commons. Since Sir William
Grant's time that has ceased to be the case. It remains
to be seen how that point will be disposed of. Should
Sir John Copley succeed Lord Gifford in -that post, too,
then he must cease to be a Member of the House of Com-
mons; and his Into successful struggle for the University
of Cambridge will present the singular circumstance of
the successful candidate in such a contest never taking his
seat. Such an event will evince the policy of Mr. Goul-
burn's standing, which will, in all probability, insure his
future return. The Attorney-General's retirement from
the Bar will, throw abroad professional emolument, pro-
bably little short of 16,000/. a-year. Of these the greater
part \vitt de‘Ave upon the new Solicitor-General, Mr.

Tindal, who practises in the same Court ; but Mr.
Brougham, Mr. DCIMMTI, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Marryat, and
others, will. all share the spoil. Mr. Scarlett alone can
rise no higher in point of business than he has done. He
is engaged in cry thing, and will be now without a
rival.--• Morning Herald.

Hitherto the attention of the publie has been directed
exclusively to the management of the second Greek Loan : •
but the application of the former loan is,involved in equal
mystery, and calls for strict scrutiny. One of the bond-
holders remarked, at the late meeting, that, if the funds
applied by this country had been wisely administered, the
fall of Navarino.might haVe been prevented: and, We are
inclined to think, that his observation was .Nvell, founded.
Navarino did not surrender till near the end of May, 1825.
Its fall was owing to three causes. First, there was a total
want of means to protect the harbour, though, from the
narrowness of the entrance, that harbour, the best and
most capacious, in Greece, , is peculiarly easy of defence.
Secondly, the works of the fortress were in an extremely
dilapidated state, and incapable of standing a siege con-
ducted with the least skill or spirit. They were; indeed,
'nearly in the same state, in which they had been left
by the Turks in 1821. Thirdly, Conduriottis and the
Greek Government where without means of keeping to-
gether any considerable body of troops in the field,
or, of preventing the secession of the Epirotes and the
other natives of Northern Greece. Some or all of these
causes of weakness might have been removed or dimi-
nished, by means of the first loan. The fortifications
might have been repaired. Some preparations might have
been made for the defence of the harbour; or means might
have been furnished to enable the Greeks to keep the field
at so critical a moment. Unfortunately nothing was done.
The first loan was, to all appearance, as useless to the
Greek cause as the second has been. Navarino, left to its
own feeble garrison, with the harbour in possession of the
enemy, and without any chance of relief by land, was
forced to surrender. The Egyptians forthwith spread
themselves over the Morea; and the fortunes of Greece,
unable to. recover from the effects of that blow, have ever
since been rapidly declining. The persons who took upon
themselves the management of the first loan, may justly be
held answerable for the catastrophe which a wise disposal
of the funds under their controul might have averted ; and
we hope,' therefore, that The gross. misapplication of the
second loan will not so occupy the.minds of those who take
,an interest in the subject, as to prevent them from scruti-
nising strictly the transactions connected with the first loan.
—New 'Timis.