The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-04 00:00:00

[Till; TIMES.]

"'Left" his home in DoverT.street, on the 3d
cc itist., without any satisfactory cause being as.
cc. signed for his departure," &c. &c. Such is the
desoription—if the motions of Ambessadms Were
metier of public advertisetnent—that would be
givon in the prints of the unexpected departure
of Count Lieven from the ilritish capital. We
do not pretend to fathom the mystery, nor even
toAreet other people in the search of troth, fur-
ther than be negatives as, " It is not this ; and
q4llstmot be that," i t is trot we be.
neViii, for the purpose of paying a visit to the
Emperor *0 his ecoasion to the throne, that his
rawrmmnotibit gone to Russia ; for if such had
been the wet he would have sPokuu of his °P*
proaching journey before he undertook it, and
prepared fur itleisureiy, as a.man undertakes any

buiiness the discharge of-vieliiik is not pressing
whereas. his Excellency prepared 'hastily ; the
motive for his departure originating. in a. dispatch
from his Government which he received on Tues.
day, by which his immediate presence was re-
quired. As to the negociation which has attracted
the Duke of,Wellington to St. Petershurgh, it
might have been supposed that that could hardly
,have occasioned a summons to be sent out to
Count Lieven ; as, if a suspension is not inter-
posed for the purpose, it might be con-
chided before the arrival of the Count ;
and M. Nesselrode is of himself an ac-
complished and practical diplomatist. Still
we have reason to believe that Count Lieven's
&panto.: is viewed as an important occurrence
by those who are best acquainted with the cir-
cumstances under which it has taken place. He
has assigned no motive for quitting his post and
transferring its duties to another ; and it is at a
critical juncture that this step' is taken by, him ;
certain indicationS of a suspicious character
having been previously given by his Court or his
countrymen,—indications which had called one
whose presence is supposed to carry most weight
with it in foreign negociations from London to
St: Petershurgh, at a season which but ill ac-
corded with the slate of his' health. We have
alio 'learned that a messenger from the Foreign
Office was dispatched last night to St. Peters-
burgh. In the Funds, the money-market, or the
1 commercial-world, there was' nothing yesterday
lof so marked a character as to deserve peculiar
notice.

INEw TIMES.]
Great alarm was excited yesterday morning,
in the City, by the report-that the Russian Am-
bassador had. been suddenly recalled—a report
extremely improbable on the face of it, and posi-
tively contradicted before the close of the Stock
Exchange. it would' seem extraordinary, that
any person should venture to put forth an
assertion which was sure to be so soon, refuted,
if we did not observe, that no evil consequence
ever follows in such cases to the asserter. His
object, whatever it may be, is soon gained ;,and
his next day's fabrication is listened' to with the
same avidity—

~---ranting Truth toils after him in vain.
There is nothing to interest or surprise, in plain
matter of fact, none of the pleasant agitation that
'we are thrown into by a well contrived and well
timed fiction. Take the present instance—we
are assured, in the most positive manner, that the
Emperor of Russia has recalled his Minister from
our Court—and that suddenly—abruptly—with-
out any previous dissusionwithout any of the
usual courtesies of leave-taking-,-in a manner; in
short, which indicates the mostabsolute determi-
nation 'to break off all Amicable relations with our
Sovereign. We feel, at once, all that this can mean
,nothing but instant war--,and we see, in our mind's
eye, a large army crossing the Pruth, and the
Archduke constantine, drawing on his boots to
go and be crowned at Constantinople. All this,
as: we have said, enlivens the' spirits, and agree-
ably exercises the imagination. But, in the real
truth, there is nothing at all extraordinary--4t is
mere every day occurrence. The Emperor
Nicholas, at the commencement of his reign,
'naturally witihed.;to have a personal cenference
with Lieven, and signified his gracious intentions
to that Nobleman, leaving it to him to choose the
convenient time for the journey. Ills Excellency,
of course, takes the earliest opportunity to wait
on his new Sovereign; and he is expected to re-
turn to this country after a short stay at. St.
Petersburgh:7—So much for the alarm of a Rus-
sian War

[monNING cuitottcr.a.l
Tlii) Times yesterday has the following obser-
vations with regard to the departure of Count
Lieven It has been saki that_ the departure
of his Excellency is voluntary, and that he has
obtained leave, of absence to attend the Corona-
tion of the Emperor. This account, we can as-
sert, is not correct : Count Lieven himself does
not advance such a pretext for his intended jour-
ney ; nor, indeed, does he assign any reason at all.
On the Contrary, we can announce, as a fact on
which our Readers may rely,that his Excellency
has been recalled in a very sudden and unex—
pected manner. This measure of the Russian
Government has occasioned no little surprise
and regret :to our Nfliuistry, who are thus de.
' privet, of one confidential channel of communica-
tion with the Court of St. l'etersburgh." Though
we cannot help thinking that the departure of
the Russian Ambassador, in so abrupt a manner
~..7at a time when the differences between the'
Courti of London and St. Petersburg' are such
as to have rendered it necessary- that so dis-
tinguished an individual as the Duke of Wel-
:lington should repair to the last mentioned
capital—wears rat her an alarming a ppear-
mice, we are inclined, at the same time,
to believe, that the Ambassador has not
been recalled. The follosiing observations-from
tf)e. Globe on this subject seem to us to be con.
elusive :—"'One fact would have been necessary
to support this assertion Connt Lieven
had an audience of his 114004 'to present his
letters of recall !---the form always observed in
such cases, and subsequently announced in the
Gazette. • We are confident it will be found, as
WO stated yesterday, that Count Lieven's journey
has nothing to no with the relations between
Russia and this country."

[MICORIONG POST.]
The Commons had a conference with the Lords
last night, for the purpose of communicating the
Resolutions passed by them in 1823 respecting
the abolition of Slavery, to their Lordships, and
of asking their concurrence in the same. On
Tuesday next a proposal is to be made by
Earl Bathurst to that effect, in order that the
Unanimity of both nooses on this- great ques-
tion may strengthefi the hands of his 'Alajesty's
Government, and exert a salutary influence 00
tl►e Colonial Legislatures. In the Commons,
Mr. Brougham having moved for Returns of the
Acts which had been passed since the 15th of
May, 18123, for promoting the religious instruc-
tion of the slaves—authorizing their marriages
And their manumission probibitir►g. their

separation by the sale of those attached to
estates—restricting and regulating the punish.•
ments inflicted by masters; distinguishing the
titles find dates of the Acts, and the places of
their enactment—and whether they had been al-
lowed or disallowed ; Mr. W. Horton expressed
himself willing to go further than the inotion re-
quired, and to present to the House a tabular ar-
rangement and analysis of the Colonial Acts, so
that their import could be seen at a single view ;
besides laying the Acts themselves upon the
table, according' to the usual practice of the'
Mute. Mr. Brougham then gave notice, that on
the 20th of next April, he should move for
leave to bring in a Bill to ameliorate the
condition of The Slaves. After are unsuccessful
attempt made by Cot. Davieito obtain the appoint-
ment of a Select Committee to examine into the ,
whole military expenditure of the country, the
House went into a Committee of Supply and
Lord Palmerston brought forward the Army Es-
timates for the present year. The number of
men asked for and granted is 87,2-10, exclusive
of the troops in the service of the East India
Company ; and the total 'estimate of our Military
Establishment is 6,662,000/. Mr. Ilume, after
'bravely stating that this estimate might he re-
duced one-lie If, moved as an amendment, " that,
in the opinion of
,the Committee, a large re-
duction should. be made in the Estimates, so
as to make them approximate to the esta-
blishments of 1792, as recommended by the
Committee of 1817."—Lord Palmerston, in
reply, shewed that the Committee of 1817
recommended an estnblishment amounting to
8,500,0001., and therefore exceeding ihe present
one by about two millions. He also demonstrat-
ed that as one-half of the whole charge was for
the effective part of the Army, and the other half
for pensions, half-pay, and other items of a na-
ture not reducible, to follow the recommendation
of the lion. Gentleman would be to leave the
country without any'army at all. The Amend.
-meat of the Hon. Member was naturally negativ-
ed after this exposure of his knowledge and wis-
dom, and various other amendments to the sepa-
rate sums voted having experienced the same fate,
the House resumed, and the Report was ordered
to be received on Monday.

[THE PUBLIC LEDaEIt.I

We' have received the Paris rapers
.of Wed-
nesday and the Elate of Thursday ; but they
contain no news of the slightest interest from any
quarter. The Rentes have slightly improved
since the last quotation ; and as- they have
been for some time remarkably steady, this
is an infallible sign that there is not as much
as a speck in the political sky indicative-
of an approaching" storm. It would alone,
too, be sufficient to refute the ridiculous spe-
culations that have been founded here upon
the departure of Count Lieven for St. Peters-
burgh. Had his departure been occasioned by a
misunderstanding between the two Courts, all the
other Great Powers would have been apprized of
it long before now ; and the Continental Journals
would have teemed with paragraphs, announcing
the rapid interchange of communications between
the different Governments, us well as long and
frequent. Cabinet discussions. But it is well known,
that there has been a great dearth of news of that
description of late, so much so, that the most
ingenious alarmist could not have extracted from
the contents of the foreign Journals matter enough
to shake the nerves of the most timid; If Russia
be an exception, it 15 not the ambition of, her
councils, but the factious spirit of her nobles,
that has made her situation the subject of such
intense anxiety abroad. A Government, be.
set by so many dangers at home, with a
Nobility strongly infected with the virus of re.
volutionary doctrines, and with an army count.
ing numerous conspirators in its ranks, has,
little leisure, and still less inclination, to engage
in foreign enterprize. The more we reflect, too,
on the subject of its difficulties, the more we are
convinced that the rule which prescribes the
ejection of bad humours, lest they inflame and
mortify the bowels of the State, does net apply
to the situation of that Power. The disaffected
are an ambitious aristocracy, who think their con•
sequence overshadowed, and their privileges
excessively narrowed, by the unlimited power
of the Sovereign ; and upon such men, the oral.
nary remedy of involving the nation in war,
would not divert them for a moment from the
contemplation of their grievances. Besides, it was
the employment of the Russian army abroad, that
gave rise to the dangerous spirit which it now
manifests ; and, as the same cause would pro'.
duce the same results again, the Government
would evince signs of downright infatuatiop, should
it have recourse to so desperate a mode of meet.
ing the evil. If the tranquillity of Europe has
nothing, therefore, to fear, but what may arise
from the ambitious projects, or even the political
embarrassments of the Russian Court,. it never
rested wpon a more solid basis. That ours is not a
single opinion, is clearly demonstrated by the
strong settseof security which every Cablnetevinces
at the moment. No movement of troops—no
unusual military demonstration of any kind, can
be seen in any part of the Continent ; and we
need not say, that there is-no indication of alarm
in our dock-yards or arsenals.

LysEnron, Thursday Evening.—The
genre that the Bank of England had, at the
request of Government, consented to advance
the sum of 3,000,0001. on the security of
goods, was received here last eight, and seem-
ed to give very general satisfaction to the
commercial classes. To.day a decided improve.
meat was visible on 'Change, and a better feel.
ing generally prevailed among mercantile men.
The transactions in cotton amount to '2,000 bags.
In the early part of the day, some holders at.
►empted to get 04d. per lb. advance ; but we
cannot learn that they succeeded in their object.
The late prices only have been maintained
throughout the day. The apprehensions of the
heavy payments due on Saturday and the early
part of the month, are a check to any important
amendment. Upon the whole., however, there is
an evident improvement.

14IARRIED.

On the Ist inst. at NVatford Church, by the Rev. Mr. Clut-
terbuck, Mr. Robert Hall Atkinson, of King.street, Cheapside,
to Selena, eldest daughter Of John Bruton, Esq., watfoni,
Herts.