The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-31 00:00:00

the Albanians in his service, who are clamor-
ous for pay. The British and French Admirals,
however, are said to have insisted that Lord
COCHRANE and Colonel FABVIER should sus-
pend any operations against the posts in the
hands of the Turks during the existence of the
Armistice.

It is stated in a letter from Riga of the 14th
inst. that the Emperor NICHOLAS was on his
way to Odessa, and .from thence to the head-
quarters of the Army.

The accounts from Spain are unimportant.

Extracts of these papers are given in another

column.

It will be seen by the Order in Council, pub-
lished in last night's Gazette, and inserted in
another column, that a slight modification has
been made in the regulations excluding vessels
belonging to the United States from the British
Colonies, by permitting vessels of that country
to enter the ports of the Bahama Islands in bal-
last, and to export from thence•salt and fruit.
The United States are already suffering much
from the policy their Government adopted, which
led his MAJESTY'S Ministers to exclude these
vessels from the West India Colonies, with
which they had so long carried on an exten-
sive and lucrative trade ; and we have no
doubt they would gladly retrace their steps if
our Government would now make the concessions
which they originally offered. The trade, how-
ever, of our Islands is now getting into other
channels, and the inconvenience at first occa-
sioned, by the cessation of direct intercourse with
the United States, in a great degree removed ;
and therefore there is every reason to believe that
our Government will not relax in the restrictive
regulations, except in those cases, like the pre-
sent, in which it may be for the special advan-
tage of some local interest of our own Colonies
to do so.

Private accounts from Paris state, in positive
terms, that the Chambers are to be dissolved on
the sth of November, and that it is expected the
elections will be finished by the 15th, and the
Chambers meet again on the 15th December.

The following is an extract from the Calcutta
John Bull Paper of the 2d of April The
David Malcolm has arrived from Rangoon,
bringing round the expected Ambassadors from
his Majesty the King of AVA. The main
object which these Ambas,ssadors have in view
is to obtain from the British Government
a prolongation of the period at which the
next instalment under the treaty of Melloon
is due, on the alleged ground that the
treasury of the King of AVA is too
poor to disburse anything at present.—Our
letters refer to an attempt on the part of
an Armenian, well-known at Rangoon, to make
a bargain with the Court of Ava, by which, on
promise of his interest with Sir A. CAMPBELL,
to procure delay in the payment of the instalment
due, this Armenian was to enjoy a mono-
poly of trade of various articles at the port of
Rangoon. This intrigue, which the Armenian
had carried on at the Court of Ava personally,
had come to the knowledge of Sir ARCHIBALD
CAMPBELL, who had taken the most effective
means to defeat it. It is also said that the Burman
Treasury is sufficiently able to make good the
money due under the Treaty."

There is a silly gentleman, named FRENCH,
going about town, whose 'eccentricities of mind
have lately taken a very deplorable turn, namely,
a cucoethes loquendi. Under the influence of
this malady, he has ventured to attack every
thing decent and respectable in his country's
institutions; has discovered that Mr. CANNING
was Anti-Catholic at heart, and that Mr. COB-
!
BETT—the polite, insinuating, classical, anti all-

accomplished Mr. COBBETT—is among the
best friends that the Papists ever had. But
this is not all ; he has even ventured to put
the two in direct contrast to each other.—

COBBETT versus CANNING, is the cause which
the Counsellor (for we have reason to believe
that Mr. FRENCH practises at the Bar) pleads
before the Catholic Association, and we need
scarcely add, that he takes good care that the
Plaintiff shall not be nonsuited. We are really
at a loss what terms to employ in speaking
of such manifest absurdity : to think that, in the
Nineteenth Century, when the universal " march
of mind" must, we should conceive, have de-
scended even to Mr. FRENCH'S level, a person
should be found silly, mad, or mischievous
enough to question, not merely the Catholie
sincerity of Mr. CANNING, but the detestable
apostacy of Mr. CoBBETT,—to think, we
repeat, that at such an enlightened period
so peculiar a nondescript should exist, affords
a melancholy proof that there is no sounding
the depths of human folly. Mr. FRENCH,
we hear, is a scholar ; he may perhaps remem-
ber a striking passage in RABELAIS' Voyage
to the Holy Bottle, wherein he observes that there
is a certain class of politicians who seem so in-
curably smitten with self-love that should they

ever be discovered, like NARCISSUS, by the
banks of river, pond, or lake, it would be a debt
owing to the public for the nearest byestauder to
push them into it. Let Mr, French take the
hint. " Mutato nomine"—he knows the rest.

On Thursday the Rev. DAVID DAVIDSON
was unanimously elected Minister of the Chapel of Ease at
Broughty Ferry.- .Caledonian Mercury.