The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-01 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

[DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.'.

[MORNING HERALD.] •
The most material intellizence in Friday's
Paris pp.pers, is the march of the Russian army
thrlu -;!) Hungary. If the design be to attack
Spai?l; it is one at which truth, justice, and hu-
manity must shudder—if it be to take joint pos-
session with Austria, of the Italian Peninsula, in
the face of the rest of Southern Europe, it is un-
questionably the most remarkable event in the
political history of Europe. It appears that the
Russian Consul has left Jassy; and an article
from Vienna states that this circumstance has
damped the ardor-of the Greek insurgents. It
is very possible that .the Emperor has no project
Of aggrandizement on the side of Turkey at pre-
sent—He has probably other and much more im-
portant views.

[MORNING POST.]
The Marquis of Londonderry took his seat and
the oaths yesterday in the House of Commons.—
In the course of the evening his Lordship took
a part in the proceedings, and supplied some
timely checks to the flippant ignorance of Mr.
Hume, who seized the earliest opportunity of re-
suming his ridiculous exhibitions. Through this
Gentleman the public business has been delayed
mare in' the present Session than it has been for
many years. This admission, we have no doubt,
be will regard as a triumph. It may be thought
to be his plan to furnish double work for all the
Clerks in the Government Offices—to compel
Ministers to increase the existing establishments;
and then, of course, he will come forward with
much vh tuous indignation against those who thus
zu2rnent the burthens of the State, and increase
their own patronage; supposing thkt the discern-
ing public will not perceive that his bungling
motions tend mainly to create the additional
charge. His labours remind us of those of the
unfortunate Mr. Pauli, who put the Country to
the expellee of 11 or 12,000/. for papers, to for-
ward a motion, which, when it was at length
made, was negatived after a brief debate, with-
o,.:t a division.

NEW: TIMES.]
Jt is somewhat extraordinary to observe how
Tize 'l'illres now speaks of that nation of heroes
and pa triotq the Neapolitans. " More blood has
been *shed," says the veracious and accuratejour-
"nalist " in celebrating the King of England's
birth-day in Scotland, than in replacing the King
of the Two Sicilies on his throne.' We should
think the rioters presented- as much opposi-'
tion to the le&al force, if the military be a le-
gal force, as the whole kingdom of Naples of-
fered. to the invading army of the Austrians:"
The incen.sistencies of The Times, it is hardly
worth while to notice ; but the malignity of
this article is such as merits' exposure and in-
. diinant reprobation. The impression which
if is evidently calculated to make is, that the
military, at Glasgow and Edinburgh attacked
th populace, and killed and wounded a number
of individuals ; wheieas most manifest, from
all the accounts, that the soldiers acted only on
the defensive, and received much more injury
than they inflicted •on the mob. They did not,
kill, and hardly injured, a single individual, and
the lives lost, if any were lost, were owing to the
breaking down of , a bridge on which the rioters
had crowded. The wicked endeavours to excite •
a vindictive spirit in the people against the sol-
diery, can have no other, effect than to render
the lager less patie-.nt and hurhane than they
have hitherto shewn themselves, in the discharge
of their painful duties.

rMORNING CIIRDNICLE.]
" The Coronicle," says- one Gentle-
min, 44 at length admits that Church property is
under the' same protection of law as other pro.
pertv." At length! who ever supposed that it
was nottinder the protection of laW ? But as all
propeety owes its existence to law, and is created
.for the general, good, law Clay also dispose of it
at any, such manner as may be most con-
4,iiciVe to the general good. The Sovereigns of
kliztose all the Protestant Stakes of-Europe, at the
tine of the Reformation, and latterly many Ca-
tholic Sovereigns, conceiving that it was in-
-jn rhus to the public interest that A bbies,
Monasteries, and other Ecclesiastical Corpo-
rations, should be possessed of a very great
proportion of the property of the State, suppress-
ed those Corporations, and subjected the pro-
perty to a new and more beneficial arrangement.
Austria, Bavaria, Prussia, Wurtemburg,Baden,
&c. now pay pensions to many Ecclesiastics who.
belonged to the Corporations, deprived in this
manner of their property. The Spanish and Por-
tuguese Cortes have in I:ke manner deemed it
necessary to suppress Ecclesiastical Corporations
as not merely useless but injurious to the State,
and to dispose of their property, with the deduc-
tion of an allowance to the dispossessed indivi-
duals. in a manner•better calculated to promote
the general interest. We have not heard of any
complaints against the liberality of the Spanish
and Portuguese Governments, as Compared with
the other Governnients which adopted the same
course. The attention of the writer to whom
we have alluded has been so exclusively directed
to French Ultra-Royalist Politics, that he
may almost be excused' for' knowing little of

• [BRITISH PRESS.]
,It would seem that among the Greeks no ee-
nexal plan of operations has been as yet adopteCl;
the Chiefs of the several bodies'of men in arms
act independently each of the other, and no
authority is as yet conferred upon any person or
persons to direct the energies of the whole to
the general good. Prince Ypsilanti has endea-
voured to induce the other Chiefs to acknowledge
him as Generalissimo of the Greek armies, but
jealousy or personal ambition prevents them from
acceding to his proposal. The want of a recog-
nised head must operate to the disadvantage of
the Greeks, and will, perhaps, by causing divi-
sions in their body, enable the Turks to wrest
from them eventually the fruits of their early
enterprise or, valour.