The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-01 00:00:00

is a fabrication. Another asseveration has been

made, and repeated with great confidence, that
Austria is not friendly to the .COurse pursued by
:she ,other Powers. We have the best authority
for stating, that Austria is doing every thing in
her power to ret-oneile all ladies to that course,
and particularly the Turks, and is anxious that
the business should terminate' amicably. This
is equally the desire of England and France ; and
the most confident expectations arc at present
entertained, that, witli the aid of Austria, every

thing will be satisfactorily settled. As to France
and England, they never were on better terms
with each other than at present, and never were
more anxious to avoid what might lead to dis-
agreement among themselves or among any other
Powers. Don Miguel will be here in a few
days, and will remain here some time. Our

troops will shortly be withdrawn from Portugal ;
as it is considered that the circumstances which

required their presence in the Peninsula no longer
exist.. Morning Chronicle.

The appointment of Sir Anthony Hart to
the Lord Chancellorship of Ireland appears to

be a judicious one, inasmuch as he is an able
Chancery lawyer and no politician. We have
always thought that the promotion of men to
judicial situations on account of their political
services and party-zeal has been peculiarly inju-
rious to the interests of Ireland. There is a
great deal too much of that sort of promotion in
this country ; but it cannot do so much mis-
chief here as in the sister kingdom, because po-
litical feeling is not carried to the same degree of
personal animosity, nor does it interfere so much
with public duty in England, as among our less
civilized and more impassioned neieityours.
Besides, public opinion exercises a surveillance
over all persons in authority here, and produces
a moral controul almost tinlno,,vti in Ireland.

Still we could wish that Government, in ap-

pointing persons tcl administbr the laws in this
country, would always look only to the ability,
knowledge, and professional qualifications of
those wbom they select, and not be guided in
their choice, as they sometimes are, by a desire
rather to serve political partisans than to main-
tain the dignity and virtue of the judicial cha-
za.cter. • If freedom from political bias in ap-
pointments of this description be necessary in
England, how much more so in a country where
the prejudices and exasperation of political party
taint and embitter all the relations of society, and

are the very bane of public justice ? , The Lord
Chancellorship of Ireland has, in particular, al-
ways been disposed of on political considera-
tions. It has, with very few exceptions, been
given as a bribe to family connections, or as
a reward to political subserviency, without re-
ference to the capacity or professional merit
of the individual, This should not be ;

and we trust the
.present appointment to
that important station is to be considered as the
era of a new system in the judicial history of
Ireland. It is not right that the Lord Chancel-
lor, who has to decide on the most important
questions of property between persons of all per-
suasions, should be subject to that political bias
which works as much wrong by warping the
judgment as if it corrupted the heart. Neither
is it wise nor expedient that a Public functionary,
who has to fill up the commissions of the peace,
should be either a violent partizan or the tool of
the incendiaries of any party. Hitherto Sir
Anthony Hart has not gone out of the line of
his profession to make a name as a politician.
Whether he is of a temperament incapable of
being acted upon by the contagion of party po--
litics.in Ireland we cannot tell ; but we trust lie
bas too much good sense to allow even Irish ex-
citement to turn him aside from the " noiseless
tenor of his way," into that angry current of po-
litics in which the integrity of public character
perishes, and in which the fortunes of Ire-
land have suffered wreck. We know it is dif-
ficult for a Lord Chancellor to steer clear of the
prejudices of party, and to preserve in such a
state of society the evenness of his temper and
the strict impartiality of his judgment—but,
without pretending to any great foresight, we
may anticipate the pure and faithful administra-
tion of justice with more confidence of one who
has never engaged in the contentions of party,
than we can of any others, who, however emi-
nent their talents, have devoted themselves to the
intrigues, the squabbles, and the animosities at
political ambition.—Morning Herald.
A correspondent, whose letters we inserted a
day or two ago, upon the subject of the London
University, has been the predecessor of a host
of others, who agree with him in thinking that
the establishment in the metropolis of an institu-
tion of this nature, founded upon the principle of
excluding religion altogether from its course of
study, would be an event pregnant with danger
to the Constitution of the land,civil as well as ecclesi-
astical, unless effectually counteracted by such mea-
sures as the friends of that Constitution may adopt in
its defence. •We cannot afford space for a distinct
consideration of each of the separate suggestions
we have received upon this subject ; but we have
the greatest pleasure in stating that they are so
numerous, and generally urged with so much
ability and zeal, as to convince us that a spirit is
abroad which requires only to be concentrated
and directed to accomplish fully the object which
. our correspondents have so much at heart—that
of protecting. the religion of the land, together
with its civil polity, from one of the_ most insi-
dious and dangerous attacks with which they have
been threatened in modern times. It will, ,we
hope,
be more conducive to the success of the
cause in which we heartily unite with,them, if
we select from the variety of projects offered to
our notice that which seems to IA to be the most
advantageous ; and force it upon the at-
tention, and recommend it to the favour of
all the loyal and religious part of the
community, and particularly
.of all those
who by their rank,.. station, and influence,
can, if they will, most effectually pro-
mote it. We have no hesitation, then, in pre-
ferring to any other mode of resisting the influ-
ence of that impiety and disloyalty, of which the
projected London University cannot fail to be
the centre and the source—that of planting by
the side of it an Institution which shall be its
superior in respect of academical character,
equally accessible to the middle classes of society,
and which shall have for its highest and proudest
distinction, that it instils the doctrines and en-
forces the obligations of religion. It is thus that
the enemy may be successfully combated with
his elm weapons, and the cunning device by
Which it is attempted to deluge England with
infidel and revolutionary principles, be rendered
utterly abortive. We the more confidently re-
commend this • mode of resisting the threatened
• attack upon the religion, and consequently upon
the morals and peace of society by the corrup-
tion of its middle class,.
the most valuable, the
most religious, and beyond most
its various. classes
powerful ofAll question the 'asses.t.: because we re-
collect that a similar attempt having' been made
only a few years agq.tV corrupt the loN'ver orders