The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-03 00:00:00

An article from the Frontiers of Russia,

the German► Papers, ridicules the idea that the
Emperor of RUSSIA will stop sinort of Con-
stantinople, in spite of all obstacles of whatever
sort or degree. Notwithstanding the professed
moderation of NICHOLAS, which continues to
be reiterated in every successive bulletin and
proclamation, the secret has slipped out at last,
if we may credit the following remarkable pas-

sage :—" If we consider that 300,000 well

disciplined troops, of all arms, who have been
prepared for these three, years for this crisis,
advance without interruption—that the most
judicious measures have been taken for the sup-
ply of the army by sea, when it has reached the
defiles of Mount Balkan—and that the de-
claration of war requires full indemnity, and
security for that indemnity—many things may
appear in a different Russia is in
motion. A strong Corps of Observation, under
tins Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, covers the fron-

iers of Poland ; 40 battalions of 1,000 men each,

from the military colonies fOunded by General
ARAKTSCHEJEFF, are now for the first time
sent into the field. Hitherto very few Cossacks,
and no Boshkirs, or other Nomade cavalry, have
been levied, because they are kept for another
purpose. But the defection of the Zaparogians
—the fall of' Anapa—and the advance army of
Georgia, under General PAsiuwincir, to-
wards Erzerum, must be carefully considered.
The Black Sea resembles an immense anchorage.
Half Moscow has emigrated to Odessa."

In what :train of moderation will NICHOLAS

preach after this ? He may well plead that
" war is a seducing game,"—more seductive in
proportion to the power of the invader.

Brussels Papers of yesterday's date have been
received. An article, dated Constantinople,
June I,- gives rather a desponding account of
:albs at Constantinople. The SULTAN is mi.
remitting in his visits to the MosqUes and re-
views of the troops ; but the conduct of some
Janissaries in Asia Minor continues to give
hbn uneasiness. Indeed he can never con-
sider himself safe while any portion of that once
fbrmidable body exists in an organised state.
It was supposed at Constantinople, that as
soon as time Russians passed the Balkan Moun-
tains the whole Christian population of European
Turkey will rise in a body. As a further
indication of time hopelessness of time conflict on '
the part of the monied Turks : it is said that the
piastre has fallen to 30 centimes.

The news from Java in the,e Papers is rather
old: rebellion seems to be the only thing that
flourishes in Batavia :

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 1.

The cries of war resound on our Mosques ; the imperial
charnel house is adorned with the heads of fifty Cossaclis; a
stupid and ferocious populace insult by their vociferations
these melancholy objects.
The Sultan's squadron, which was to enter the Black
Sea, has prudently stopped at Bujukdere, which is four
leagues from Constantinople. Anntiur squadron is sta•
tioned in the Dardanelles.

The contingents of the Sandjiacka of Mentick, Aidee,
Saghala, Sarmikan, and Kodavenkiar, provinces of Ana-
tolia, have just entered the city. They form a body of 9
or 10,000 men ill equipped and ill armed. They are to
be sent to Adrianople. 'the policy of the Divan requiree
this measure, becsnse it.is informed that the Janissaries in
Asia Minor, whe have never been destroyed, are exciting
insurrections, and curse the name of the Sultan.
The reports from Macedonia also cal the attention of
the Sublime Porie: the mountaineers of the Sandjiack of
Kiustendis, and the peasantry in the mivirons of Seres and
Salonichi, have risen ; wherever there are Christians of the
Orthodox Church, it is known beforehand that there will
be insurgents, and that European Turkey will be in a flame
as soon as the Russian* have crossed the Kfaija Balkan; or
Mount Hminus. Sultan Mahmoud assiduously frequents
the Mosques, and every day rev iews bodies of troops,
hot all this cannot now save the Ottoman empire: The
year lb:IS will see the Russians on the Bosphorus. The
Turkish piastre has fallen, to 30 centimes.

The friends of scientific enterprise will be
happy nto learn that a public meeti►ig, at which
the Duke of WELLINGTON will preside, is to
be held on Saturday next, in the Freemason;;'
Tavern. This meeting is to take place, we
understand, under the authority of the Act of
Parliament, empowering the Directors of the
Thames Tunnel to raise a further suns of
money by public subscription, for the comple.
tion of that most arduous and highly interesting
undertaking, in time successful termination of
which our national character is deeply concerned.

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Persons subscribing to this stupendous work
_ .

must feel great satisfaction in the assurance of
the Directors that ►►o call will be made upon

them until a sum sufficient for the comple
tion of the whole shall be realized. A

have on other occasions recommended
_llle Directors to proceed in their spirited
undertaking, we may be at present spared the
task, from a well-grounded conviction, that the
public will come forward along with the Govern-
ment, in support of a work which promises
to be of as much public utility as it is honour-
able to our national character. Let it never
be said by =posterity that we abandoned a noble
undertaking, for want of national spirit and a
few thousand pounds, after the work was more
than half completed. If other countries take
pride to theniSelves in posiessing the " Seven
wonders of the world," let us manifest a proper
emulation by boasting " the Eighth."

An article, dated Madrid, June 19, says that
letters from Portugal state the force which the
Constitutional Junta of Oporto is sending
against Lisbon, at twenty regiments of the line,
thirteen of which' are under the orders of
General CADAVAL.

We this day present our readers with copious
particulars, touching the one great question which
at this moment agitates Ireland, and communicates
its electric influence to every other part of the
Empire. The Clare Election will be long
memorable in the annals of Ireland, and may
possibly form the " watchword" of future enter-
prises, in.which national feeling will be aggra-
vated by a sense of national degradation.
But is it wise—is it prudent in the Govern-

anent of a country, to persist in a course of policy
which every day estranges more and more the alle-
.

giance of one-third of the people from those laws
and that Constitution professing to be established
for the general good ? What would be said
of the father of a family, who professed justice
as the rule of his conduct, while he admitted one
portion of his children to the pate' nal Board, at
which the rest were not allowed to partake ? And

are not the Catholics as much the subjects of
our gracious sovereign as their fellow men—
the Protestants?
_ls not his MAJESTY styled
the father of his people—and as such bound not
less by his own liberal heart, thin by his.elevated

station,to dispense justice freely and impartially to
his afFeutionate subjects? The Sun shines alike on
Catholic and Protestant—should not the dis-
pensers of good, benefit all alike, by copying so
glorious a source of impartial benevolence ? But
is it so P—Do we not see the clouds of prejudice
or party spirit intercept the rays of Royal favour,
and turn that wltich was meant for the cheer-
ing consolatio►► of im oppressed people into
a source of National despair ? Had the Catholic
Question been conceded in justice to the Irish
people, we should not now witness the mighty
movements of an enraged population to de-
feat the N%ishes of Government, if they cannot
achieve their own purpose. If the men at the

head of affairs would condescend to read the
signs of the times, we should not now see the
two-thirds of the Nation looking on with emo-
tion, while the other is trying to assert their pri-
vileges tinder tho stirring impulse of " national
degradation." Whether the " idol" of the
people be returned or not, the Catholic Ques-
tion is at length brought to a tremendous crisis.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, Jutx '2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Re-
trench, from the West Indies ; Lord Sti Iliad transport,
from Quebec; and Dunvegan Castle, Findlay, from
the Mauritius.

PLYMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the
Pilgri►n, Comfort, from Charente.
FALMOUTH, JULY I.—Wind S.W.—Sailed the
Leven, Dunn, for St. Michael's.