The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Much has appeared within the past week re-
specting the warlike preparations of Turkey—
her defiance of the Great Powers now united for
the protection of Greece—and her pompous call
for aid and support to all within the sphere of
her influence. These threatening indications,
coming to us through the atmosphere of Aus-
trian diplomacy, of course lost nothing in their
passage. The possibility that such a State as
Turkey should be able to resist the armed in-
tervention of the thssee Great Powers of Europe.
united in the holy cause of the preservation of
Greece, and determined on effecting her com-
plete separation for every piacticat purpose from
the Turkish Empire, is too absurd a proposition
to be entertained for moment. It might as
reasonably be contended that Spain, in her present
state, would be-able to resist the designs of Eng-
land and France, supposing those two Powers
had agreed on the emancipation of Cuba front .
the Spanish yoke. No ! happily for the watts
such despotisms possess no real, strength. 'lhey
may—like the expiring tapersesaled on the eve
of their extinction a wild and transitory glare ;
•they can scare only the most timid and tints-
fleeting—the life is out, to revive no more. We,
on the contrary, rejoice at, any symptoms of,
blind and impotent rage on the paft of the AF..s-
sulman, as they afford additional ritsoof of the
more than probable rejection of the mediation
offered by the Allied Powers. It will be borne
in mind, that they have already announced their
determination, in that event, immediately to
send Consuls to the Greek Government, and
to maintain with it. relations of amity and
good will. And, as we showed in s former
article, the actual and unqualified recognition
of the independence of Greece is the consequence.
But, in opposition to any such inflated state-
ments and short-sighted reasoning on the power
and means of resistance of Turkey, we have one
fact, but no trifling one, to teeth's!, for it involves
a further dismemberment of the Ottoman territo-
ries. It is no less than the secession of the Paella
of Egypt from the dominion of the Porte. We
can now announce most positively, that he has
communicated his determination to withdraw
from all further participation in the bloody
-struggle (too long carried on) between Greece
and her oppressors. This hitherto dreaded and
most powerful instrument of Turkish tyranny has
thus, then, opportunely dropped out of its hands
—a tolerably decisive specimen of the success
likely to attend any appeal from the Sublime ;
Porte to her vassals. The attentive observer of
passing events will recognize at once the tremen-
dous importance, at this conjuncture, of the reso-
lution
of the sagacious and powerful ruler of
Egypt. He will not overlook the support which
Greece and Egypt can mutually afford to each
other, but see at a glance the facilities and de-
spatch thus given to the work of completely li-
berating Greece—a work that has too long
lingered. We are informed that the Pacha first
made known his determination andviews through
the medium of the British Consul at Alexandria,.
in order to ascertain how far he might rely on
the concurrence of the Allied Powers. The
answer returned to so welcome an overture, at a
moment when the fleets of England, France, and
Russia were actively arming in defence of Greece
(and the ships of the latter Power are only de-,
tained by contrary winds for our ports) is obvious.,
The case admitted but of one course ; and it is,
understood that the British Government. acted,
ow this emergency with all the promptitude which
the occasion deserved. • We have been disposed;
to lament—perhaps to blame—pit delays; but
the issue now, at least, whilst it cannot be doubt-
ful, will not long be protracted, nor will it, sVe.,
think, fall short of the cxpectations of the best
friends of Greek independence.— Times.
We have copied from the Leeds Mercury an
account of a Vestry Meeting, held in Leeds on
Thursday last, called for the purpose of laying a
rate for the necessary repairs of, and for defray-
ing other expences connected with, the three
new churches recently built in the parish. The
parish of Leeds is one of the most populous and
wealthy in the kingdom, and the meeting has
been looked forward to with considerable anxiety
by the people of every part of England. The
question, as was truly stated by Mr. Baines, the.
intelligent and respectable proprietor of the
,Leeds Mercury, is a national question ; it affects
every one of the 199 Churches built or building
through the land. It appears that,though every effort
had been made by those who called the meeting
to procure supporters, so general, among all
classes, was the disapprobation of the principle
on which these Churches were built, that out of
the most numerous meeting ever held in the
Parish Church, consisting of at least 4,000 per-
sons, not more than 40 or 50 persons supported
the motion. From the first we were opposed to
the building of these new Churches, as a most
unprincipled and unnecessary waste of the public
money, and the experience of every day seems to
confirm us in our opinion. The reason assigned
for this demand on the public was, that the po-
pulation in many places had outgrown the capa-
city of the Churches, and that therefore it be-
came necessary to build additional Churches to
supply the wants of the existing population.
But the people are best acquainted with their
own wants, and an increase of people brings with
it increased ability to supply wants. Humanity,
might dictate the building additional Churches
or Chapels in places at a distance from a Parish
Church, where the inhabitants were unab*, from
their poverty and paucity of numbers, to supply
the want themselves; but in large, populous, and,
wealthy places like Leeds, no such assistance is;
necessary. Those who belong to the national
Church must be supposed as willing as thel
different denominations of Dissenters to erect:
additional places of worship, when the ca-
pacity of the old is insufficient for tlieir in
creasing numbers ; and the very circumstance
of additional Churches not having been built in'.
any place was at once a proof' that they were;
-;'
not wanted, or that the cause lay in some obsta
cle quite different from that of a deficiency of
goodwill and a deficiency of means. The plan'
originated in a sort of low cunning on the part:
of certain pretended friends of the Establishment
We know, they said :to themselves, that the ca-
pacity of the Parish Churck and the increase of
the population are quite distinct questions ; and
that if there were more people belonging to
the Establishment than could be contained in its
churches, additional ones would have been built
and that ~consequently the old are sufficient ; but
let us avail ourselves of this increase of popula-
tion to build additional churches at the expence
of the nation, and to throw the expence of fur-
nishing them, . and keeping them in repair, on
the Dissenters as well as the Church-goers, and
who knows but when we have thus provided for
the building and repairing of the Churches at
the expence of the Dissenters, we may succeed
in drawing over many of these very Dissenters
to the Establishment? But this politic plan,
like many other politic plans, has not produced