The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-02 00:00:00

not connected with that society, may be crushed
by false reports or interested machination. A
member of that society may have a private
pique against any man who is struggling to
get on in business by hottest endeavours, and
he may, by inventing a malicious fiction, or co.
louring a rumour, blast the character and ruin
the credit for ever of the unheard, unquestion-
ed, undefended victim. What right have any
men to constit►tta themselves into 'so formidable
a tribunal on the fame and property of others,
until they have proved to public satisfaction that
their own characters are above suspicion ? And
then why should the unsupported word of one
man, because he is enrolled as the member ofa se-
cret combination, have the force of a moral Ranh).
der,to cot off a fellow-citizen from the confidencwor
all mankind ? There may be often, no doubt, names
upon the " swindler's list," which deserves to be
there, but as no one is responsible for the placing
the name of another on this record of infamy,
and as it is never known by what hand`the blow
is given, it is evident that a door is thrown open
for oppression of the most dangerous and foulest
kind. As long as such a Society continues to
muffle itself in secrecy, and shrinks from the
glances of the press, the names of the most inno-
cent persons may be sent round the metropolis in
company with those most notorious for fraud,
and the injured parties have uo chance of.inves-
ligation nor hopes of redress.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Last night we received the Paris Papers of
Friday, with the Etoile and Moniteur of Satur-
day. The principal topic of political interest at
this moment in the French capital is the election
of a Deputy for Vervins, instead of General Foy.
Neither of the liberal candidates will give up his
pretensions. The Constitutionnel throws all the
weight of its influence into the scale in favour of
its eloquent defender, M. Dupin, The Courrier
Francais labours with equal zeal tolusure the re-
turn of M. ',Lahti.. The subscription for the fa-
mily of General Foy amounted to 595,000 francs,
nearly 24,0001. sterling. The Emperor Constan-
fine, it appears, had not left Warsaw on the 23d
nit., nor was preparation then made for his de-
parture... The news of his brother's death, it is
stated, had shocked him to such a degree as to
induce serious indisposition. advicer from
Missolonghi, in the Moniteur, we learn that,great
efforts bad been made there since the raising of
the siege, in order that the place may be fit to
defend itself against the fresh attack with which
it is menaced. The troops. Of Redschid Pacha
were again moving towards Missolonghi, but the
Captain Pacha would not be able to co-operate
effectually until he hid defeated Miaulis, Who
Was off Cape Papa, watching his .operations.—A
Spanish Correspondent of the Etoile has supplied
that Paper with un Amiable instance of his na.
Ilona! absurdity. lie' gravely affirms that the
privuteers " cruising under the flag of the• Am-
erican insurgents" are fitted out at Gibraltar by
Bertrand de Lis and the,other constitutionalists
who have taken refuge there— .It ,svo
suppose, be too disgraceful to admit that the
marine of the revolted colonies is blockading the
ports of the 'Peninsula. The *Madrid Papers
exult in the capture of nine highwaymen as much
as if some great military achievement had been
performed: \V hot must we think of a Govern-
ment reduced to this wretched condition ? Yet
it is this power that objects to the recognition of
the flourishing states of Mexico and Colombia t

.PUBLIC LEDGEII,I
Last night we received several sets of German
Pants, including the Austrian Observer, to the
21st ult. They are all ocCupied with that single.
subject of European interest at, the present
meat--the change on the Russian. Throne, ocba•
signed by the death of the Emperor Alexander.
A Stutgard Paper, of the 28th ult. says, that the
Court went into mourning on that day ; and the
Court Gaotte contains: a long and detailed'. ac.
count of the last rnements of a Monarch,whostood
in the double relation of brother.in-law and first
cousin to the present King of Wurtemberg.
—This double tie, however, did not pre.
vent
,his lute Imperial Majesty from recall•
big his Minister from. Stutgard, merely becaUse
the King of Wurtemlerg had, some :time before,
given his subjects a Constitutian; which did .not
suit the taste of Alexander; and it was not till
the King saw himself compelled to modify that
'Constitution, that is, to take out the.graiu, and
leave the husks, that the diplomatic Intercourse
between the, two States was. renewed. At Caris,„
ruhe, orders have been also•:issued for a Court
mourning, which is to continue six weeks ; and
as the late if.roperor war married to a Princess
of that Court, the. impression the, melancholy
news has mode there, Way, be, easily Imnagin.
ed.. But we refer our Readers to the 'notic'e
which appears in the Austria?' Observer, as
a pretty faithful index of the feelings to which it
has given rise in the courtly Circles of the Con.
thient generally: At first, ,the truth of the intel-
ligence was doubted at Vienna, if any credit be
due to this statement ; and we are eventold; that
a trarisient gleam of hope had succeeded the first
panic. After' paying a. proper tribute to the de-
parted Emperor, 4,4 whose name occupies ,one of
the most glorious places lathe book.of history,"
the,Austrian Observer passes to his successor;
but the information is of adnty as possible. In.
deed,"lt merely says, that he would make no dis.
closure of his sentiments respecting his plan of
Government till he reached the Russian Capital.

[mottNnso Parr.]
As might naturally he expected, the effects of
the lotaconvetsions in the commercial world hove
been felt in the collection of the Public Revenue.
Tills will be epporent when the accounts of the
quarter shalt be finally made up. As fur as they
have yet been cast, the deficiency in the Cus-
toms amounts to upwards of 700,000/. The
produce of that; branch of the Revenue for
the year ending on the let of January,
was 10,096,0001., that for the year ending
yesterday, is' expected to be 14,920,0001; but
as from tiiis sum are to be deducted the
Duties transferred from the Excise to the Cur-
toms on the *th of April, last, which amount to