The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-08 00:00:00

. the North. The Presbyterians, the Methodists,
the Unitarians, and the Church of England
people, have got hold of that part of Ireland—
:. never again to belong to the Catholics in a reli-
gious respect. It certainly was a bold attempt of Mr.
Lawless and his coadjutors to attempt to take the
people of the North by storm in the manner they
did ; their common sense ought to have told
them that that which might do in the South
would not in the North. That Mr. Lawless
has been so completely defeated we are glad ; and
we think the Orangemen did perfectly right to
resist. As an individual we respect Mr. Lawless,
for we have heard that, in his Kimily and connec-
tions, he is a very excellent man ; but to pro-
ceed on such an expedition, among a people who
are almost altogether opposed to the religion that
Mr. Lawless professes, appeared to us indiscreet
in the extreme ; and we are highly pleased that
such scheme of working upon the passions of the
Catholic linen and cotton weavers of the North
of Ireland, has been defeated.—lbid.
It appears by advices from Toulon, that they
first and second divisions of the French army
have landed in Greece, and that Ibrahim either
made or received some cause of quarrel which
was likely to have led. to blows. But for the
present the matter has been amicably settled.
There can be no doubt that the Tripartite Al-
liance, having the deliverance of Greece for its
real or ostensible object, has in an unspeakable
mlnner assisted the views of French and Mis-
sion ambition. The destruction of the Turkish
fleet at Navarin now enables Russia to talk of
blockading the Dardanelles, and enables France,
by occupying the Turks in Greece, to withdraw
them from the defence of Shumla and of Varna.
Thus the Tripartite Alliance has departed alto-
gether from its main object. Its effect is now not
to rescue Greece, but to overthrow the Ottoman
Power ; and it is with regret we must add, that
England has, by means of the weak and mis-
chievous policy of our late Liberal Ministry, be-
come a party to its violation. It was ridiculous
from the onset to imagine that Russia should
combine with France and England for the mere
liberation of Greece—that she should use no
more force for this purpose than the Combined
Powers might think necessary ; while, on the
other hand, we believe she never disguised the
fact, that she had cause of quarrel with Turkey
on another and more personal or isolated ground.
One would have thought that in such a state of
timings great moderation would have been ob-
served in doing any thing which *hould place the
Autocrat in a better situation, as to his personal
contest, than he would have been by his
alliance with France and England ; but it
must be obvious that the destruction of the
Turkish fleet gave Nicholas an advantage,
without which, in all probability, we never should
have heard of his blockading the Dardanelles.—
Whatever the nature or form of the Turkish Go-
vernment may be, and we never approved of or
defended it—whatever might be the brutality or
ferocity of her sway over the Greek Christians
—however opposed her institutions may be to
those which we would wish to see predominate
in the world—still we think it never can be de-
nied that in her case the rights of nations have
been violated, and the recognised obligations of
treaty most outrageously set at defiance. Since
the restoration, France has panted for some hold
in the Mediterranean ; and to imagine that she
will not retain possession of the Mores, requires
a stretch of credulity to which we can never lend
ourselves. Her ambition may now be easily in-
dulged ; it is covered by the pretext of •gene-
rosity, a love of classic soil and recollections,
and the more glittering, but not less egre-
gious fallacy, the liberation of the captive Chris-
hail from his heathen oppressor. This sounds
finely—it reads well upon paper—it excites ad-
miration in the saloon—it begets sympathy in
the would-be philosophical Christians of the
French empire ; but however that people may
cheat themselves into the belief of their disinte-

restedness or national magnanimity, no other
Power in Europe can be so blinded. They have
run riot in their praises of the victory of Navarin
—almost title first naval achieveinent in which

they could ever boast of victory, even when shared
with their then Allies ; but they have studiously
withheld the object which that tripartite con-
quest secured to them, namely, the unresisted
occupation of the Morea. The same manner of
reasoning will equally apply to Russia, with re-
gard to her designs upon the Turkish provinces
bordering on the Danube, and in respect to the
free navigation of the Bosphorus, the Sea of
Marmora, and the Black Sea: The Russian fleet
will no longer be frozen up at Archangel, it will
luxuriate in seas without a tempest, and
under skies without a cloud. Not even.

the fulfillment of Russian ambition (which we
scarcely believe to be the total demolition of
Turkey), taking that ambition to extend to the
addition of certain provinces, anti the payment
of certain exorbitant sums of money, and per-
baps the possession of some important fortresses
by way of security for the due performance of
her contract—taking these things to satisfy the
measure of' her present ambition, we do not see
how British trade, or any other British interest,
can be injured by it. To talk of the invasion
of India is ridiculous, though a 114rning Paper
has so very classically reminded us of the re-
so mins. 'We u!ts which followed the incursions of the Scy-
which may regret the increase of power
our mistaken policy has conferred upon
France and Russia ; but we see nothing at pre-
sent in the acquisition Of either which should
make us "cry havock, and let slip the dogs of
war." As long as peace can be honourably
preserved, our illustrious Premier will not
be driven from its maintenance ; and if the
other alternative should unhappily become fic-
he will be able to show the world that
Waterloohave left behind them
heroestcriessarY' Trafalgar who triumphed at and
an example
exiafinplewhich «ill
notonl)‘'b.e full,)Te ourselves, in former
times, imitated, b
pos-
sible, surpassed % e have
times, admitted rules of blockade, which we can-
not now with decency deny to other Powers ;
and,
as we have before said, until our flag is
treated with indignity, our trade interrupt-
ed, our honour or our dignity insulted or
no right to assume
contemned, we have
that the views of Russia or of France have for
object the destruction of the kalance of power
in Europe. 'We do not know that our Levant
trade is likely to suffi:r materially from the
Russian blockade ; but this we do know, that
liberal policy of our late liberal Cabinet has
thrown many obstacles in the way of the Duke of
Wellington.—Morning Post.

Counsellor LAMB (an old man, at the tinie
the late Lord ERSKINE was in the height of his reputation),
was a man of timid manners and nervous disposition, and
usually prefaced his pleadings with an apology to that effect ;
and on One occasion, when opposed to ERSKINE, he hap-
pened to remark that " he felt himself growing more and
more timid as he grew older." "No wonder," replied
the witty but relentless Barrister; " every one knows, the
older a lamb grows the more sheepish he becomes."—.Not-
tingham Mercury.