The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Hopes, we observe, are entertained in some
quarters of a successful issue to the neguciatiou
about (it is assumed) to be opened by the Bri-
tish and French Ministers,at Constantinople, for
a termination of hostilities between Russia and
the Porte. However anxious all human men
must be for a speedy stoppage to• the effusion of
blood, and for a return to that condition of gene-
ral politics wherein the resources of states might
be turned exclusively to the furtherance of com-
mercial and peaceful interests, it may be well to
guard the public against disappointment, should
they feel any confidence in a result at once
favourable and expeditious, to the expected
efforts of the combined Ambassadors towards
reconciling IVlahmond to the terms originally
proposed by the Imperial Court of Russia.—
Unless the situation of the contending Powers
be very different from what accounts from their
respective capitals have described it, we should
think that neither has yet been sufficiently beaten
to accept the demands of its adversary. Russia
has never publicly abandoned or withdrawn
her pretensions to " indemnity and secu-
rity" from the Porte,—indemnity for the
cost of this most lavish and wasteful
war, and security against—not the aggres-
sions (for Russia could fear no ozgression)
but—the possible independence and futtze fret;
agency of the Turks. It hasjustly been asserte4l,
and often repeated, that all the produce of taxa-r""`'
tion or plunder in Turkey for five years to come,
would not defray the ruinous expenditure of the
present Russian invasion. The cost could be
made good no otherwise than by the cession of
provinces, the transfer of which must affect other
states besides Turkey : and in like manner, the.
" securities" required by Russia, being mani-
festly no other than the delivery to her officers
of certain maritime and commanding positions,
always threatening fresh encroachment upon tiA;
Turks, would not only, in the actual enthusiasm
of that people, be treated with contemptuous
anger, and tend so far to prolong the war, but
would of necessity compel the resistance of more
than one great Eurouean Government to their .
execution. On the other hand, the Porte, in-
stead of listening to such injurious and humiliat-
ing terms, has declared that it would not nego-
tiate with Russia, so long as a single Cossack
remained upon the Turkish territory, The parties
then have not had " the fight taken out of them,"
and until that happens, we have but little
hope of peace. With respect to the last battle,
the highest military opinions are adverse.to the
inference which the Russian Commander-in,
Chief invites the world to draw, of his havinci.
nr inflicted any serious loss upon the infidels beyoa
that of their materiel, which they can spare moat
easily. If the Grand Vizier got even a limited
portion of his troops to Marasch, it would serve
as a nucleus, round which the remainder might
rally, and we know with what aptness an eastern
army can disperse and reunite itself. Once at
Marasch, no enemy could prevent Redschid
Pacha from retiring into Shumla. In the last
engagement it is obvious, as well as in the ne-
glect and absence of intelligence which forced it
upon the Turkish General, there was nothing
wrong with him but the want of that combina-
tion and habitual circumspection which have
now become habits, or almost instincts, in. the
military men of Europe ; nor was there any defect
of pluck in his men : the core and first prin-
ciple of all warriors was conspicuous in them,
for they appear to have fought with courage and
obstinacy ; not a single regiment gave way until
all were ready to bear each other company ; trt d
it is not very probable that a whole army which
had sustained a " sanguinary," " murderous,"
and " most obstinate" battle, without being
thrown into the least disorder, or moving but in
the most disciplined and regular manner during
the whole forenoon, causing a great and acknow.
ledged destruction of its enemy, should in a
moment, and from mere dread of a second attack
by the same assailants, have been panic-struck,
and from right to left fled like one man, after
discharging the whole of its artillery, but before
it had the opportunity of firing a single musket.
Such a flight, by such troops, is, we say, by no
means probable, unless it had been ordered by
its Chief with a view to sacrifice that only which
could not be carried off—to wit, the guns and
baggage, and to save what was most precious,
viz. the lives of his brave soldiers. If Count
Diebitsch succeeded in " finding" the Grand
Vizier with his troops at Marasch, it is Just
possible, from the contiguity of that place to
Shumla, the Russian General might also " find"
him too strong to be attacked. A few days,
however, will enable us to substitute evidence for
conjecture.—Times.
A Morning Contemporary (the Herald), al-
luding to the dispute between the Bishop of
Lincoln and the Rev. Mr. Wray, observes :

" It is impossible that a Curate can support him-
self and a family decently upon the stipend which
he is now allowed by law, even though he receive it
without any abatement, which is far from being al-
ways the case. He is consequently obliged to have
recourse to some other employment to eke out the
means of life; and if he cannot procure another
Curacy, or some other engagement in the Church,
he generally becomes an instructor of youth, and
thus fills two sorts of occupations, either of which,
if rightly performed, ought to be quite enough to
employ the laborious attention of any man. But
some Bishops, of late, set their faces against Curates
and other ill-paid Ministers of religion taking pupils,
because, they say, it interferes with their clerical
duties. So Vicars and unpatronised Rectors, with
very small livings, are prevented from enjoying plu-
ralities, while the greater number of the Dignitaries
of the Church are themselves pluralists ! Surely, a
Christian Church ought to be regulated upon prin-
ciples more consonant with the just sentiments and
the meek and beneficent virtues of Christianity."

It is this dealing with two measures on the
part of the Bishops and other Dignitaries—one
for themselves, and another for the working
Clergy—which so much irritates and provokes
the country. When the higher Clergy are Plu-
ralists, how can they expect that their orders
should be obeyed by poor Curates, who are plu-
ralists of necessity, without repining ? When-
ever a man sets himself up for a Reformer, he
challenges investigation into his own conduct.—
Thus the Bishop of Lincoln, when as the head
of a College he insisted on the residence of the
Fellows, was met by a corresponding demand on
the part of the latter that their Head should also
reside. It must be allowed that no man speaks
more forcibly on the evil of Pluralities than the
Bishop of Lincoln. His last charge would al-
most tempt the holder of three or four fat livings
to content himself with one. Amd yet we learn
from a good source, that during the Bishop's last
visitation, and at the very time he was delivering
this very charge, he gave to Dr. Madelcy, the
Vicar of Horneastle, which.in 1821 had a popur
lation of 3,osB—quite a sufficient number of
souls to find one shepherd in sufficient occupation
—the living of Stickford, thus beautifully exem-
plifying the difference between profession and
practice. It is true, it was afterwards discovered