The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-04 00:00:00

their dislike to eartiption and abuse of every
kind, luietly
_suffer themselves to be petitioned
for a continuance of this scandalous
.and illegal
traffic. A Mr. Pearson, who it seems was for
merly a member of the Com Mon Council him-
Self, has petitioned, and afterwards addressed this
body upon the. subject, and, in doing so, has
thrown More light upon it than suited the taste
of those who looked forward to a continuance of
the same practice, as. a source for recruiting "the
dilapidated finances of the Corporation—dilapi-
dated, too, in no small degree by what the pa-
rodist of Lord Byron called " The Love of
the Turtle!' We do not wish to yield to
or contribute to vulgar clamour when we say
this ; and, whenever Mr. Hunt, in his new ca-
pacity of a City Auditor, lets the world know
how much of its finances are actually expended
in eating and drinking, should the sum turn out
to be insignificant, we will readily retract our
present opinion, that it is by no means so. Ar-
guing, then, from this impression, we would ask
can the annals of hard-heartedness furnish any
thing more thoroughly base and degrading, than
to see a body of men actually feasting upon the
greatest of commercial misfortunes—insolvency;
and they themselves persOns taken from that very
rank in society, to which the very same calamity
most frequently applies ? But though there
may be no other instance where the office of
Under. Sheriff has been openly sold, the City of
London is far from being the only place m the
kingdom where iniquitous' charges are permitted
to be made by persons who get hold of that
office. • The truth is., that a man has only to be-
come unfortunate, either by his own neglect or
by unavoidable circumstances, to be rendered
doubly so " by operation of law," and there can
be no doubt but that numberless persons every
day, who, by a little indulgence and forbearance
on the part of those who have demands upon
them, would in the end pay every body in full,
now live to see themselves reduced to premature
beggary, and, their creditors' money gone, to feed
attorneys, secondaries, bailiffs, and the hundred
other hangers-on, who, like the eagles, are sure
to assemble wherever the body is -to be found.
The City of London has now, however, an op-
portunity of ridding itself of this scandal; and
we shall anxiously watch what the result will be.
Next to seeing arrest for for debt, and all the
charges on insolvency, done away, we are most
desirous that the latter should be so reduced, as
to be no longer a source of robbery both of
debtor and creditor. We wish Mr. Hume, or
some, other patriotic and intelligent Member of
Parliament, would take up this matter, and get
an inquiry instituted into all the charges con-
nected with insolvency; which we should not at
all wonder were to turn out to be little, if any
thing, less than ten shillings in the pound upon
all the debts sued or distrained for in the king
dom.—Morning Herald.

There. appears no longer to exist a doubt that
the Court of Constantinople has adopted the pro-
visional step of laying an embargo upon all the
property of English, Russian, and French-sub-
ject§ in its dominions, in order to secure what
degree of compensation it .can for the destruction
of its fleet and the massacre of its people, in the
port of Navarin ; or that it is' determined to in-
sist upon the compensation for that outrage being
rendered complete, as a preliminary to any fur-
ther negociation with the Powers, whose arbi-
trary and insolent pretensions it has thought pro-
per to withstand. That this was the actual pos-
ture of affairs, at the date of the litest intelli-
gence from Constantinople, is distinctly admitted
by the most confidential organs of the British
Government ; whose tone of confidence and
exultation upon the general subject of the Treaty
of Intervention has un,lergone a remarkable
change in consequence or the unexpected firm-
ness of the Porte, and of the alarming results with
which the silly, and base, and treacherous "con-
duct of their pfitrbns now appears even to them
to be pregnant. The Ministry, to judge

by the altered tone of their supporters, is
in a most deplorable state of consternation
and embarrassment. And in what other state
indeed can they be, when they reflect that the
nation is on the eve of a war,' the success of
which, with -reference .to its ostensible object,
notwithstanding all the boasting we have been
condemned to hear, is extremely doubtful, and

the collateral eff'ects of which, should its Ostensi-
ble object even be attained, are likely to be still
more injurious to the interests of England; than
if that object should entirely fail? .They must
be conscious that the war into which England
is apparently on the point of being forced, will
be one on which victory and defeat are equally
to be deplored—one from which no accession of
national glory or po\ver can possibly accrue
one which has sprung out of their folly, and
baseness, and injustice, and which can produce
to the injured nation of which they are the op-
probrium and the curse, no other consequences
than misfortune and disgrace. This war, if war
it is to be, will illustrate in a most forcible man-
ner the predominant qualities of Administra-
tion.—lts -i»zbecility—for the results of the
war must of necessity be to aggrandize a Power
already too strong, and with respect to
which every Statesman knows • that Eng,
land has the justest grounds of jealousy and
apprehension ; and to enfeeble or annihi-
late another Power, already too weak, and
by its position, one of the natural guarantees of
important British interests, and one of the na-
.
tural outworks of some of the most valuable pos-
sessions of the British Crown.—lts despicable
. .
basenCs.s—for the war,. will have been entered
upon unjustly with a weaker Power, which had
undeniable claims upon the protection of Eng-
land, from the evident and almost the admitted
Motive of avoiding a just war with another
Power, only because it is . thought to be the
stronger ; a war besides, which the latter would
Never have dared to provoke, and which nothing
but the coward spirit of the British Administra-
tion could have led it to anticipate.---Of its
treachery and ilfjustice—,for during the, .five
years in which Turkey has been making vigorous
and exhausting efforts to reduce her rebel sub-
jects to obedience, she never ceased to receive
assurances of the persevering neutrality Of Eng-
land, till the' humiliating moment when English
integrity and spirit,ifthe present Ministers ever pos-
sessed the least portion ofeither, succumbed to the
insolent and menacing demonstrations of Russia.
only remaining hope of peace • still che-
rished by the English Administration, and its
organs •of the Press, depends, according to
the explicit confession of the latter,
.upon
'
the successful mediation of Austria between

the Ottoman Court and the three Powers—
parties to the Treaty of Intervention. Su far
as England is concerned, the inediatorial office
thrust upon Austria would no doubt be a very
easy one ; but by the Treaty of Intervention the
cause of England is identified with that of Rus-
sia, who will not be so easily pacified, we
glishmo2
To all but En
ima-
gine, as it is by war only
can be advanced. whose
that her real objects
dread of the consequence to their most irnivrtwit

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