The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-28 00:00:00

But this was effected, -by a dreadful sacrifice
of most valuable interests, and the emergency
being past, those commercial countries have
already put off their armour, and have re-
lapsed into their former habits of peaceful in- -
dustry and enjoyment. In Russia supplies of
mon, to. almost any extent, can be drawn from
the community withont, in any degree, derang-
ing its established relations. The people are
not conmorcial, but agricultural ; they are rude
in their habits, poor, and content with little; and
o❑ such a community a conscription hnposes
comparatively lit le- hardship. They are, brave
and hardy ; and having little feeling and. reflec-
tion, they are the very best tools which a con-
queror can work with, as they have no rule of
conduct but the ortters•of their superiors. As a
military power, thereft..‘.re, Russia is, in the pre-
sent state of Europe, without a rival. The war-
like habits of the other European powers, formed
by a long war, are declining under the benumbing
influence of industry and peace. But throug*
the wide precincts of the Russian empire mili-
tary habits are still cherished. The peaceful em-
ployments which chain down the population of
the other States to constant industry, are little
knoWn among the agricultural hordes of Russia ;
and this great country is just as ready to take
to field, as is indeed evident from her opera-
,ons against the Turks, as on. the first tiay after
e peace.

In these circumstances an important question
occurs : what is to be the consequence of the
present contest ? If the Russians advance to
Constantinople, will they be allowed to partition
the Turkish Empire ? • Will Austria stand by a
quiet spectator of this act of plunder ?or can -
this Povhr, even 'if disposed, stand out single-
handed against • the vast influence of Russia
Will new alliances then be formed now against
the overgrown dominions of Russia, as they
were in past times formed against the dreaded
preponderance of France ? The rise of the
Russian power leads, in short, to a new era
of European politics. It furnishes an en-
tirely new object of anxiety to Statesmen,
awl gives a new direction to their cares.—
Yet: what can be done to resist the too-
visible progress of this colossal power ? if Russia
turns her attention to the cultivation of her half-
desert territories, and to the instruction of her
people in art, in knowledge, and in industry;
if she grows great by domestic improvement
(and there
.are many that think this is her

,rue, and is even a surer road to greatness

than by the paths of ambition and blood), what
can he said ? We cannot complain of this her
natural growth by such laudable means. But
when this vast power, relinquishing the path of
domestic iml,rovemen4 grasps at • territofia)
aggrandisement at the e`xpence. of her 'neigh-.
hours ; when we see her enlarging her already
overgrown dominions by new additions froro
weaker powers, foreign States have no doubt $
right to interfere—and to mark out the'boundal
beyond which she cannot be allowed to pass'
They have a right to do this as a precaution fair
their own safety, for it would be contrary to ever,'
principle of policy that they should quietly stana
still, and see themselves gradually encroaches

upon by a more powerful neighbour, on whose
mercy-they would have then to depend for the
existence. No State is bound to wait until it i 5
in this manner completely circumvented by the
toils of ambition. But the time of interference
is a delicate question, and turns on considers'
tious of expediency, and on the particular cif•
cumstances of the case, which ought tobe weighei
deeply and anxiously before steps be taken tc"
commit a nation immediately to the alternative
of war. We ought to be slow to pass that'
boundary from which there is no retreating witll
honour—when we must advance, and encounter
all the sure evils, and all the uncertain hazards, Qf
an arduous contest with a powerful enemy.

Brussels Papers say, that the Russians 10c
sent an 84 gun-ship, and a brig of 14 guns, t(7
reinforce the fleet in the Black Sea :

IT.USSULS, AUG. 15.
A British Cabinet 3lessenger from Vienna, with des.'
patches for London, passed through this city last isigbt•
The navigation of the Sound, and the Holstein Cid:c
Canal, has much increased during the first few months
the present year, whilst that of England has decreased.
The number of ships belonging to the Netherlands
br
have passed the canal in this period amounts to 640;- 'aid
the exception of a very small number, they were all
ballast ; almost all have returned to the ports of the Nevi
lands with cargoes of wheat, rye, barley, timber,

ashes, and linseed. ,
ST. PETEitesilitGli.
The St. Petersburgh Journals to the 10th August COll'
tain more detailed bulletins of the operations of the 111199iatt
army in Turkey ; but only to the evening of July 20.
AeG. 6.—ln the beginning of July the Tschtena, 5
ship of the line of 84 guns, and the Mingrelia brig of 14
guns, were launched from the Imperial Dock-yard as
Nicoiajeff, and were to go down the Bug and the Leman t°
Oczakoff in the Euxine, where they are to be fitted out'
The River Input, has now been deepened, so that ell
largest ships can navigate it. We are indebted to Admirsi
Greig for this improvement.
tip to 6th August, 827 vessels have arrived at Cronsto
the number that had sailed was 578.
GnEssA, Auc. -.ri• .0
Since the spring there liar been pretty frequent esia :it,
Ithe Crimea; the :wheat is fine, and the harvest JO°
1,,
4ommenced about Nicolajeff in the middle of July.' Vssf's
usto
tunately the rigorous winter has not destroyed the lc': iy
i as we hoped it would; they have Alone great mischief s° -0' 1
rr
ships, all in ballast, have arrived here from Constann
c,:rfoontphssiedlienni
ifisnyitgmetipi
past;eliarc
hitherto eve
settswteeivulervye numbers.r!b aey 1 ,
part of the country, as they have done us little datino
The'Prussion State Gazette to the 21st August
i°o4
sive, has no accounts from the, only tubsequent t°
bulletin of 29th July. .veeT7Yhreilueacskitis:ooil