The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-25 00:00:00

Principalities :

VIENNA, DEC. I I.
Their Royal Highnesses the Infant of Lucca aad
his Consort intend, as we hear, to spend the whole
winter at Vienna. Gen. Baron Von Ficquelmont
is on the point of sett;ng out on his mission to St.
Petersburgh: Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador,
has to-day dispatched a Courier to the Ambassador
of the Netherlands at Constantinople.
DEC. 12.---Numerous Couriers continue to pass
through this city between Lowdon, Paris, and Con-
stantinople. The mail from the latter city, of the
26th of November, has not yet arrived, but is hourly.
expected.

Letters from Brody, of the sth, say that the
Russian troops returning from the right bank of the
Danube are collecting in the principalities; 6,000
infantry, 1,800 cavalry, and four brigades of artillery,
had arrived at Bucharest. These troops must -be
new clothed, and Count Pahlen is to take the neces-
sAry measures • for procuring cloth and leather.
Tailors and shoemakers are much sought after, and
even foreigner; are engaged, which was not done
before. The hospitals at Bucharest are said to be
filled with sick, Ittl as it is feared that tire mild
weather may cause a recurrence of the epidemic
disorder,the old precautions are again enforced. Specu-
lators, who at the beginning of the campaign sold large
quantities of various articles to the Russian army, are
again purchasing. As it is to be supposed that
these people are sure of disposing of their goods, it
is inferred that the next campaign will be on the
same plan as that just ended, and that the measure;
said to be taken in Little Wallachia and Servia are
only a demonstration in favour of the main army.
If the Russians intend to make themselves mestere
of the whole course of the Danube, and operate on it
next spring, very different measures would be neces-
sary, to which the badness of the roads would be a
very great obstacle. The conveyance of the heavy
artillery, and of all the requisites for passing great
rivers, to a great distance, is not to be thought of
under circumstances, when light troops can hardly
advance a mile (five miles English) in a day.

BUCHAREST, NOV. 29.

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Nothing has occurred here since the last post.
We still are without any certain accounts respecting
the movements of the Turks on the other side of the
Danube. Troops are going to Little Wallachia to

His Majesty's ship Galatea, Sir CHARLES
SULLIVAN, wept into Portsmouth Harbour
yesterday, to be paid off:

The elections to the different City Wards
closed yesterday. They were characterised by
no particular party spirit, except in the few in-
stances where the subject of Select Vestries was
alluded to, when the disapprobation of the
majority of the electors, with regard to these
grinding monopolies was, much to their honour,
both promptly and unequivocally expressed."
In the Ward of Farringdon. Without, Mr.
HUNT, of Radical notoriety, made him-
self conspieuous by a copious defence of his
morals, but having, nevertheless, lost his election,
retires into private life with the peculiar and
satisfactory consolation that " virtue is its own
reward." CORBETT too—that paragon of purity,
consistency; and bashfulness, whose generous
payment of his debt to Sir FRANCIS BUR-
DETT can never be sufficiently admired—is in
the same predicament, and may now borrow
his associate's Matchless Blacking to pen dia-
tribes against the Electors, on his own lately in-
vented paper.

Brunels Papers of the 24th, inst. have been
received. They state that the KING has or-
dered a project of law for regulating the liberty
of the Press; and for abolishing the present law

n force

BRUSSELS, DEC. 23,

The sittings of the second Chamber of the States
General, for the last three days, have been entirely
occupied in discursing the budget. In the sitting
of yesterday the President announced the receipt of
a message from his Majesty, with a project of law
for abolishing the measure adopted in the begin-
ning of his Majesty's reign against the licentiousness
of the Press. In the sitting of the 23d the project
of law for a loan to the Colonies was adopted by:a
majority of 84 to 17. The Chamber then adjourned
to the 19th January.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 21.
The pleadings in the affair of M. de Potter con

tinned yesterday till one o'clock, after which M. de
Potter rose to speak. The narrow space allotted to
the public was crowded with persons eager to hear
the speech of our courageous fellow citizen. The
most profound silence prevailed during his speech,
which made a profound impression ; he had scarcely
concluded when shouts of applause burst from all
parts of the Court. Neither the respect due to the
Court, nor the injunctions of the President, could
check them; and the Magistrates having ordered that
those who should indulge in these noisy marks of,
approbation to be turned out of the Court, the
whole audience proceeded to the door. At a
quarter before two o'clock the Court retired to
deliberate, and at half-past two declared the
accused guilty, and sentenced him to 18 months'
imprisonment, and a flee of 1,000 florins. This sen-
tence was received with hootings and hissing, and
the Court was cleared.

When the carriage with M. Potter and three
marechaussee in it left the Court, it was received
with repeated cries of " Potter for ever! Down
with the Ministers !" and the crowd accompanying
the carriage increased every moment, uttering loud
acclamationS. Immediately after M. de Potter had
re-entered his prison, the windows of the hotel of
M. Van Maarten, opposite, were broken to pieces
with stones. The police, however, dispersed the
mob, which separated quietly.

The Scotch character is amusingly developed
in the comments made by the different Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Papers on the subject of the
late V‘Test-port -murders. Each Journal seems
to think its own honour implicated in the busi-
ness, and hastens to prove, first, that BURKE
and his wife are both Irish ; and secondly, that

the idea of cutting people's throats for the sake
of selling their bodies to anatomists, is far too
original for the inferior conceptions of Scotch-
men. Now really, however much we may be dis-
posed to admire and love his national diffidence,
we cannot but think it superfluous on the present
occasion. Further than his name—and what a
name ? —there is nothing to prove that BURKE is
an Irishman ; while with respect to the inferior
conceptions of the Modern Athenians what, let
can equal the ingenuity of Lord LAU-
us ask,
DERDALE'S famous torture-boot ? Really the
Scotch do themselves injustice in this respect,
and it is for us, as impartial English Journalists,
to render them that praise 'which their own
amiable bashfulness prevents them from publicly

reinforce General Geismar. The typhus continues,
and all kinds of provisions grow dearer.
VIENNA, DEc. 13.—Metalliquee 951 ; Bank Shares,
1,096.

STOCKHOLM, DEC. 2.
The sitting of the 28th November in the Cham-
ber of the Nobility was very stormy. Baron Auch-
ersward made an accusation against the Ministers,
especially against Count Wetterstedt. Tlio latter
concluded his reply by calling on M. Aucheraward
to present his accusation, with the documents to
support it, to the Committee of the Constitution.
'Phis proposal was acceded to. Col. Montgomery
Proposed the abolition of the lottery, as dishonour-
able to the nation. Count Wetterstedt seconded
this motion, declaring that the King himself had
proposed it, together with the budget. M. Auch-
ersward made a motion at great length on the mi-
litary and naval force, the fortresses, &c. To the
astonishment of the Assembly, he proposed a con-
siderable reduction of the funds destined for the envy.

HAMBURG'', DEC. 12.
During the last 10 days of November 56 cargoes
of corn passed the Souad : of these 40 were bound

to British, ene to French, and two to Dutch ports ;
one was bound to Bremen, and one to Leghorn ;
the rest to Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ports.

A French Paper again states, that it has been
resolved in a Council of Ministers to fit out an
expedition against Algiers. The force destined
by the Government for this purpose is said to
consist of about 50,000 men—a number too
large. by half, unless the French entertain some
ulterior projects of ambition.

claiming. The West-port murder, judging from
internal evidence, is decidedly of Scotch origin.-
There is a cool, methodical, business-like air about
it, a scientific tact in the conception, and a prac-
tised ease in the execution, which no Irishman
could ever yet attain. An Irish murder is
hasty, sudden, and impetuous—an English one,
phlegmatic, cunning, mercenary—but it has been
reserved for the Scotch, in this last unequalled
atrocity, to blend the qualities of both English
and Irish guilt, with a scientific effrontery pecu-
liarly and pre-eminently their own.