The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-29 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'clock.

In the Home of Commons last night, Mr. DILLON
3IZOWNE called the attentipn of the Government to the
retched condition of the famishing poor in Ireland.

or I ELIOT adulated that the misery of the peasantry
frzs exceedingly great, and that the Irish Government
had telo_.n some steps to alleviate it, but he declined to in-
form the House what they were. It is terrible to see
-the inhabitants of one of the most fertile countries in
-.Europe thus subjected to all the horrors of periodical
famine. Dr. WHALE, the Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Team, in a letter from that city, addressed to Sir
BOBERT PEEL, states, as a fact known to himself, that
some of the people there are obliged to go two entire
days without a morsel of food. " I have made myself,"
-writes that Prelate, "conversant with the details of
:misery, and though even a sense of duty would excuse
imy absence at this season, I have thought it a more im-
perative duty to stay at home to encounter' all the
importunities of. distress, and to soothe those pangs of
suffering which it is impossible for me to appease.
Numbers in this neighbourhood go to bed without tast-
ing a morsel of food during the entire day, and some
Tasi the second, doomed_ to the same state of want."
This is the sad condition of the poor t':-.rour,hout one
fourth of Ireland. No - wonder then that they are fast
losing all regard for the right of private property, and
that the doctrine "-that it is better to seize food where-
ever they can find it than starve," is now generally advo-
cated by them. To add to the general calamity, though
thousands of pounds have been spent in organising the
:machinery of a Poor-lawLfor Ireland, there are as 'yet no
workhouses to afford shelter to the utterly destitute.
That the people of Ireland should be discontented
,:•r such dreadful privations is very natural. Neither
is it to be wondered at that they break open
meal-stores and seize the provisions which they
.have no means of purchasing, rather than lie
(low,' and die of hunger. But it is the duty of the
Government to anticipate, by relief, this appeal to force.
To :plunder the public is a trade soon learned and not
easily forgotten. The doctrine of a community of goods,
when once acted uplin, is very apt to suggest a repeti-
tion of the practice. Hence the g+ eat danger of not an-
ticipating this crisis in the case of a hungering multitude.

.Mr. Alderman WhIPHERY made a noble stand in the
,e of Commons last night for the freedom of—Turbot.
The worthy Alderman left to Lord JoUN RUSSELL the
less inviting task of protesting against the exclusion of
corn from the tariff, and the retaining so high a duty on
sugar; that he might address himself exclusively to
the grievance of imposing a duty upon a fish
in so great request at all City feasts. We
are not surprised that so frequent a guest at
the Mansion House as Alderman HumpitEnv
should have spoken warmly upon so interesting and per-
:soma a subject. Bnt what does surprise us is the ingya-
-titude of Sir ROBERT PEEL, who replied by a laugh to
tthe question so pathetically put by the Aldertman,•as to
what mischief turbot had done, that it should be singled
out as the special object of taxation ? Yes, the Premier,
who is himself a merchant tailor and a freeman of the
City, and therefore ought to sympathize with the woes
.of Aldermen—who so often feasted at the expense of
the City, and therefore ought to have cherished a grate-
ful remembrance of civic hospitality—we repeat, this
wary Premier only laughed _in • answer to Alderman
IIumPHERY's pathetic appeal for the free impor-
tation of fresh turbot ! Can any person after this
.question the immeasurable. extent of official
ingratitude? What ! tax an Alderman's turbot, and
Glow a poor man's herring to pass untaxed ? Does this
:draw gratitude towards the givers of City dinners ?
IThee did ever the miserable devourers of Yarmouth
bloaters . entertain her MAJESTY'S Ministers with
turtle and . venison, and all the luxuries of the
:season ? Why, therefore, extend to them a boon
moused to the providers of such splendid enter-
taint:fent, as well as their most abundant par-
takers ? It is for Sir ROBERT PEEL to answer these
questions. In the mean time, we call upon the Alder-
:manic body to adopt some public means of resenting thii3
Ministerial attempt to curtail Mansion House dinners of
their fair and established proportions—this filching of
turbot from the City feasts.

The following letter from Greece included in the
(rwlvisli correspondence of a Contemporary, bearing
time the 7th inst., shows the extent to which " the re-
twurces of that country are drained by Bavarian adven-
turers." We are assured that the picture it presents is
mot the least exaggerated, and that the figures are pQr-
fectly correct :
" The budget has been discussed in the Council of State,
which has given rise to many public attacks on the old re-
pejed grievance of the sums lavished upon Germans. The
Ministerial paper coolly replies, that there are, in truth, very
few Bavarian officers in the service—cnly such as are become
indispensably necessary in particular departments of the civil
:and military service. I beg thereon to subjoin a few figures.
The organisation of the army is composed of 2C6 officers ; of
it's 131 ate natives of Bavaria. There are besides 72
13aysrians in other branches of the public service. These '223
foreigner.: receive annually 573,780 drachmas (20;4040 of
Greek
_pay, or four-fifths of the deficit, according to the Bud-
lot. Lille revenues are statedto be 18,500,000 drachmas, and
the expenses 19,1.300 000 drachmas ; but there is reason to bee
Iliewe that the fornifr figure is an exaggeration.] The foreign
wasters hold the highest rank in the artillery, engineers, anti
ether scientific departments of the army ; and the civil em-
ployes are Professors in the -11e:iversities, Judges, archi-
tects &c. Their r.,eri's may, I think, be fairly esti-
mated Score the standard of their former rank and social
positioa in Germany. Of the officers few ever held a com-
mission in the Bavarian army, but were nearly all private
soldiers, a few only were subalterns, six of the latter are now
full Color:els. The professors' came as shopkeepers and ar-
t.san: to Greece (the Eldorado of Bavaria), and here,have be-
come int-t:rmorphosed into academicians, learned lawyers, or
:mighty architects. The worst has yet to be told. For instance,
ielul.tions of the army
.require that every officer shall
preViously pass an exannriatton before a military court pre-
vious to obtaining his commissior. ; -now, riot only are the
Bavarians entirely exempted from this regulation, but the
board for the ex unination of Greek officers is composed
wholly of Bavarians."
It is nonsense to talk of th freedom of Greece while
ihr.s system is suffered to continue. Our only wonder
is the great forlearance exhibited by the Greek people.
Were tL ey to throw King OTIIO and his Bavarians into
the sae.% it 'you'd not occasion us the least surprise.

i;:tcppt the ,Rayal ordounanco for imposing a duty
upon imported lincn and linen thread, and aletvling article
in Cuurrier Francais, on the Eastern question, there
is nonSiis of any political interest in the French Jour-
nals of Monday. Of course there is plenty of election
matter, but it is of no interest out of France. The ful-
levying is the Courtier's article on ~the affairs of the

A terrible crisis is getting up at Constantinople, which may
skei:le the very existence of the Ottoman empire. The policy
rea,:tion, which some months past it was hoped was near its
end, gaining 4rength every day, and the effect which it pro-
&wee are becoming more, and more alarming. A general in-
surrection may at any time time take place in Syria. In Diar-
tbekir and at Alossul a revolt has already burst forth ; Bulgaria
is in commotion ; bleed has been spilt at Aivaii and Calymnos,
where the inhabitants determined on resisting the insupport-
;able vexations of the authorittes. Wallachia was beginning to
prosper ; but Russia, fearing that the Sclavonian power, which
tia.us was springing up on her frontiers, might hereafter prove
an ebstade to her plans, contrived to excite disturbances
there, and then, under cloak of those tumultuous movements,
obtained from the Porte that Chekib Effendi should be sent
to Bucharest as extraordinary commissioner. Chekib is
.entirely dcvoted to the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, and
will only act according to her suggestions. It is said that
X. de Metternich is beginning to get uneasy at this state
,of things, and that he regrets each day more and more the
toe-operation which. Austria so inconsiderately gave to the treaty
effiuly 15. The state of Syria, is the principal cause of the
differences which are now in agitation between the Porte and the
_European Powers. England, which guaranteed to the tribes of
,the Lebanon, in 1840, through Mr. Wood, the maintenance
,of their privileges, protests with great vivacity against the
:nomination of a Mussulman to the direct government of the
AMountain, and against the presence of the Albanians in Syria.
'The Austrian Internuncio unites with Sir S. Canning, and
M. elm Botirquencv follows in their train, by order of M.
•Guixot. But Itussia, far front joining in those efforts, excites
ithe Livan to resist. The representatives of France, England,
7and Aasotria, have been exceedingly discontented with the lan-
:guage held by the Rtssian Charge d'Affairs in the confer-
.enms which took place At the French Embassy, and they
edeeideil that they ought to treat with the Divan
-without the co.operation of .11,1. de Titow. The Sultan
was ,Itst,o.ed to folt-w their councile; but his Ministers, gamed
.over by Russia, have caused this good int..ntii.n to be fruitless.
Eve:yhuoy sees what Russia aims at in exciting troubles in the
'Ottoman empire, but the aim of these proceedings of Russia
'escapes this notice of the imbecile and fanatic council-
ttisrs of the Sultan. Who could believe that Sarin.)
when pressed by the. Anibassxdois to put an end
to the disorders of Syria, , should
..repV by comparisons
drawn from the state of France and England, and by remind-
big the Conference of the millions of signatures to the Chartist
ttttu,n,
and of the disorders at Toulouse and Clermont?
•Vhe madman ! who does riot understand the difference which
/exists between the crisis that occurs in a normal state, and
:the convulsions and the rattle of death; Thus the judge
iment which the Opposition in France had formed against
the Treaty of July, is fully justified. The einflagration which
the execution of the Treaty has excited in the East cannot
now to be extinguished Turkey
is rapidly approaching her
t' ore al4 s
are brooding over tha dead body,
olds a fleet and an army always
sidle two
Russia,birds " of
wpfiriecyl
:ready for the conquest of Contittrnetinjoapnled;
en; and, other,lthtsliemusof
Engiand, which stretches .fort
Suez. It may be asked what France it doing in
.this crisis.
France ! oh, she is obeying. Or orders of 31' (1,442t,'!
Tout." JUNE 23.—The squalitol3) under tne c0n,044