The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-07 00:00:00

of Berlin can, therefore, say 'nothing about war,
but they all consider it as a thing inevitable. The
following are extracts :

'Lamy, MARCH 23.

So many things that are untrue, or only half true, are
daily reported here with so much confidence, that even a
correspondent, who should send you communications from
the highest circles, would often be in danger of sending
you false accounts. One day it wasrelated, at the King's
table, that the Russians had crossed t 1 Froth, and the
Guards had left St. Petersburgh. If we come to inquire,
we find that some person, who was as likely to be mistaken
as another, expressed his opinion that the Russians would
soon cross the Pruth, and that the Guards would march
from St. Petersburgh. To-day we ere told, in the streets,
that the State., Gazette contains the Russian Manifesto ;
but, when we take up that Journal, we find the Manifesto,
as it is called, is only a serious article from the St. Peters-
burgh Journal, which some persons consider as warlike,
and others as pacific. It is certain that even the strongest
term in diplomatic language, in our days, proves little or
nothing—the days of political sensitiveness, when a strong
word indicated war, are gone by, and in future nobody
will believe in war till it is really broken out. Nay, since
the battle of Navarin, even that criterion, formerly so de-
cisive, does not seem to be sufficient. We can, therefore,
say nothing about war, except that every body here con-
siders it to be inevitable.

SMYRNA, FEB. 19.

Hitherto there has been no interruption whatever of
public tranquillity, because our Paeha governs with more
prudence and moderation than is usual with the Turks.
However, the prospect of the future, which is involved in
much uncertainty, excites apprehensions, and several fami-
lies have already taken measures to seek an asylum at Tino,
in case there should be any general disturbance.

The fate which has befallen the Catholic Armenians in
Constantinople has not yet extended to those here, and
even the banishment of those individnals of the )owist
class, who were formerly under English or French protec-
tion, is executed more pro forma than in earnest. The fort
of Scio is still blockaded.

ROTTERDAM, MARCH 22.

(The,commencement relates, from the Dutch Papers,
the account of the disturbances in PStimatra, in October,
1827, and the suppression of them. The writer then
proceeds.)
Meantime the frequent insurrections which have oc-
curred for some years past in our East India possessions,
give reason to expect no good end, hut rather a general insur-
rection, which may perhaps overthrow our dominion in those
countries. The inhabitants having been accustomed during
the government of the English to a liberal system of Admi-
nistration, the prohibitory measures which have been again
introduced by our Government appear doubly hard. The
aversion to the Dutch increases in the East -Indies every
year, and that in proportion as commerce and industry de-
cline. As well the preservation of our colonies; as the
interest of commerce, must determine our GovernMent-to
adopt milder measures. With this view a new Governor
was sent from Europe to Batavia. But the influence. of
the Colonists, who will renounce their privileges and their
monopoly, is so great, and the whole system of restriction
has taken such deep root. that the most humane endeavout s,
and the most judicious measures, must necessarily be
baffled by those obatacle4, unless they are executed with
the greatest firmness. An insurrection in the East India
Islands is the more dangerous, as the Malays, who form
a great part of the population, are equally revengeful and
brave.

1 We are glad to understand that the vast in-
crease of juvenile delinquents has attracted the
particular attention of the CoMmittee appointed
by the House of Commons to inquire into the
Police of the Metropolis, for there certainly can
be nothing more disgraceful to our country than
our character for committing annually to the
contamination of a gaol,. innumerable infants who
can scarcely be considered morally responsible for
their conduct, and frequently, too, for offences
so trivial as to excite disgust and astonishment
at the conduct of the inhuman prosecutor. The
loss of twopence, sixpence, or a shilling's worth
of property, left culpably exposed, is considered
sufficient reason for pursuing to the death some
hapless urchin, exposed, as, he may have been,
to all the temptations of :abject poverty or abso-
lute starvation.

It certainly is very unaccountable that a nation
which authorises the infliction of corporal punish-
ment on soldiers and sailors, (men come to

the years of discretion, and who naturally
regard it as the greatest possible degradation),
should yet scruple to adopt it in the case of
children, to whom it cannot appear in that
light. We do not talk of aggravated cases, but
surely it is a mockery of justice, to employ the
time of a judge, and jury, with witnesses, and at-
tornies, et hoc genus omne, to determine how
much longer a boy of eight or ten years old shall
be imprisoned, for stealing a pound of meat, or a
yard of ribbon, when the parish beadle in the ab-
sence of the father might administer summary
and far more effectual correction, on the Magis-
trate's pronouncing in open Court that the Charge
.was proved. It is well to stickle for the rights
of men and the sacredness of their persons, eve.;
but if boys ever bad those privileges they hare
so long since fbrfeited them by prescription, that
it is a farce to talk of them: