The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIC PUBLIC JOURNALS.

uoifldeexrpsltaoion,iin,gwoele'stillazsueaglvees,
It is irksome to be plac'ed under the necessity
designedespecially to be etlicle-
i)rex'engtaivvee
it
tof
as foutritrheorpimniioscnoisiociejilie-
phrases, which have been somehow or other mis-
ptiloaiiii.atolryveancl
certainly
days ago, that the King's Ministers had been
injured by the representation that the existence
of such a power as Turkey was necessary to the
balance of power ; but we took pains to qualify
and expound that opinion by stating what it was
that Ministers did feel, to be necessary to the
balance of power ; and we hoped that the feeling
which we then ascribed to them, being at the
same time fully impressed with it ourselves, was
not of a nature to be confounded with any gra-
' tuitous affection or admiration for Turkey. If
the Chinese, the Japanese, or Abyssinians, or
Ashantees, were occupants of what now is,
Turkey in• Europe, and from a consciousness of
what their own interest, well understood,
must suggest to them, were as little disposed
as the Turks to attack or disturb their
unoffending neighbours, we. should feel just
as anxious to save them from being overrun and
subdued by
.Russia, as we now arc to protect
the Porte .from the same calamity. BUt.few
persons would be uncandid enough, and few
candid ones sufficiently stupid, to construe sudi
a jealousy of Ituian conquest into A belief that
the- existence of " Abyssinia in Europe,". 43r of
‘‘ Ashantee in Europe," was necessary to the
balance of power. The security of any.
,bat,
barous, though innoxious-people, frthn a certall
and specific danger, does surely not imply that
their perpetual existence in a given spot is air
equally necessary matter. The true meaninz hi
.be imputed to Ministers is, not that Turk(":i
must 'always be where slit is; but that Ittissia
must never be there, except bh Conditions
yet likely to be listened to. In othe'r atOrW,,,
that the balance of power forbids the coiloe4
of Turkey by a particular enemy at this partictid
lar time—not its eternal duration as an Et:relic:lu
State. At the same time it is pOssible, and
perhaps desirable, that Turkey may one day
be expelled from Christendom, without the
agency of Russia, and without adding dan-
gerously to Itussian power. We arts
iti-
dined to think that TUtkey, if not enlightened
and civilized, may be destroyttl from with,
in,—that, from the impulse given Greeeci
the Christian subjects of the Seraglio may, b;
fore a single generation expires, every where eotif
federate against that obdurate and Lim:tura
despotism,—that the revival of an independent
Greek empire may one day, with the assent of a
preponderancy of European nations, supersede
the Crescent, while it frustrates the ambition of
the Czar. But it is alike just for "Epsilon"
and " Upsilon" to. acknowledge, that a .Man may
deprecate the immediate conquest of Turkey by
one specific military power, without being fiiirly
accused of desiring that Turkey herself
always form a member of the European world:.
It is true that the
.policy of England atttl o!
other Governments has-had, as described by tier
Duke of Wellington, the maintenance of Turkey
for one of its essential objects; but it was not for
the sake of Turkey,—it was,as a licit f;hift, to
avoid the worse alternative .of an overigroAii :nits
still encroaching power. Under these impre:-,-:
sions, we still find reason to be satisfied that thy
reverses recently experienced by Russia arc proved
by private letters to be far more grave than lice
fallacious bulletins have admitted ; and that hi-
therto her operations of this campaign have been
more imbecile and unsuceessfid than those of the
year preceding.— Times.
There has been for sonic time at licad-quat',
tors an obvious indisposition to take, ny step
likely to afford an opportunity for calling forth a
display of popular feeling in Ireland; but in
some cases, the course of natural, in others the.
course of political events, seems determined to
counteract this Ministerial antipathy to agitation,
The number of vacancies in the Representation
of Ireland at this moment is probably without a
parallel, except in the case of a General Eleca
tion, and it does so happen that the various on.
represented counties and cities are all of the first

order. Clare, a county of great extent, is about
to experience the wholesome (may we venture
so to call it ?) agitation of a contest. Down,
generally placed at the head of the Irish coun-

iies, has lost a llepicsentative by the appoint-
ment of Lord Castlereagh to the situation of a
Lord of the Admiralty. Wicklow exhibits
another vacancy; and the premature death of
Sir Nicholas Coulthurst exposes Cork, the po-
pulous and commercial emporium of the South
of Ireland, to the excitement which must result

from a fierce and dubious struggle, more espe-
cially if, as is asserted, Mr. Callaghan is
again to take the field as the champion of a
defeated, but not disheartened, party. While the
actual existence of vacancies in so many and such
important districts necessarily tends to unsettle
the minds of the rustic politicians (and in Ire-
land long habit has made every rustic a politi-
cian), the expectation of them prdducesin other

quarters consequences perhaps more mischievous.
It has been for some time perfectly understood
that the great county of Galway is to send Mr.
Daly from its representation to grace the Peer-
age ; and Louth is to lose the services of Mr.

ster, by his elevation to the Judicial Bench
_ _

of the Court of Exchequer. In Galway, the
Catholic proprietary is by far more important
and wealthy than in any other county in Ireland,
while in Louth the successful struggle made at
the last General Election, to redeem the Repre-
sentation from an hereditary domination, which
had controuled it for the best part of a century,
has given an impulse to political feeling which
will assuredly make itself felt in the approaching
contest. We are not among those who augur
unfavourably from these demonstrations of in-

creased and increasing interest in passi►►g events.
We hope and trust that the wise and healing
measure of the last Session has deprived thcm
of every thing that might, under other circum-
stances, have been dangerous. We would only
warn the mercurial and warm-hearted population
of Ireland to be upon their guard, and to avoid
committing themselves.—Morning Chronicle.
We copy in another column, from the Bubli3
Morning Register of Wednesday last, an

count of a Meeting of a Society in Dublin,
which has for object the improvement of he-
land. At that Meeting Mr. Leader, who is a
great advocate for the establishment of some-
thing like colonies on the bogs of that country,
alluded to us as unwilling to listen to any
schemes of improvement, though they might
not even come into collision with Poor Laws.—

in the Chronicle of Wednesday last we inserted
an extract from a Dublin Paper, requesting in,.
formation respecting what are commonly called
the Poor Colonies in Holland ; and we have re-
ceived a paper which appears to have been
.c • thn ”nrir Urn
printed, but not published,. containing some ac-