The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We have nothing to communicate respecting
the diplomatic proceedings at Constantinople,
except that we know they are commenced and
in full activity. But with respect to one of the
parties, whose interests form the subject of the
conferences, that party lets us know more than
we could wish. An application was made by
Mr. Dawkins to the Provisional Government
of Greece, at Egina, requiring either a suspen-
sion of hostilities against the Turks, while the
negotiations are going on, or the absolute recall
of the Greek army within the Peloponnesus,
described by Mr. Dawkins as " the territory
placed under the guarantee of the three
Powers." Now this very expression assigns to
the Greeks a pretty extensive homestead, as we
say in England, which they never could have
acquired for themselves. However, Count. Capo
d'lstria expresses the dissatisfaction of the Go-
vernment of which he is President, with the note
of Mr. Dawkins, and, we think, gives it a more
harsh interpretation than necessary. The Count
argues as if there were only one course proposed
—that of recalling the troops within the isth-
mus : whereas they may rest in their present ad-
vanced position, be it where it may, only they
are not to fight, or not to be known to fight,
unless attacked. The Count also speaks
as if all the inhabitants were to be brought
within the isthmus : whereas the demand
only speaks of the militants. In truth,
the inhabitants of Attica may rest where
they are, and the Greek troops may also con-
tinue to protect them from insult till their fate is
decided, and at least their personal safety gua.
ranteed, by the treaties now under debate. Still,
however, it cannot be denied but that the Greeks
have some cause to apprehend that the Pelco.
ponnesus, or Morea, is all that it is meant to
secure to them. We confess that we ourselves
should wish that Attica and the country to the
west (designated by a line drawn from the
Eubcea to the Gulf of Arta) were added to it.
All above that line would be Thessaly, and not
Greece. But we are very certain that the
Greeks never could have acquired the Pelopon.
nesus for themselves, and therefore they ought
to be grateful even if they get that. We believe
the fact to be, that the Allies are determined
upon the independence of the Peloponnesus.
The Duke of Wellington was content that the
rest should be considered as debateable matter:
but the success of the Russians in the north wilt
now make it an object of great interest to the-
Sultan to buy them off by the further surrender
of the districts below the line which we have
mentioned, of which Attica is a part : it is at
least understood that the Sultan is expected by
the Allies to make that concession.—Times.

There are very dull readers of Newspapers,
we know; but we could not have thought it
possible that any had been so stupid as to pay
the least attention, or attach the slightest credit,
to the list :of new Ministers which are fabricat-
ing, day after day, by a Morning Journal.
Some of our correspondents, however, assure
us of the existence of such idiots, and even
think that the folly may spread if not corrected.
Well, then, we here correct it, and assure the
public that nothing is less in the intention of all
those who have the power of dissolving the Mir
nistry, than making even the slightest change in
it. They grievously mistake, also, who fancy
that we have any interest in the subject. We
were what we are now, before the present Mi-
nistry came in, and shall remain the same if it
were to be dissolved ; of which, however, we
see no probability at present. We will just
mention one proof among many, of the extreme
ignorance even of those who form the new Mi-
nistry; and therefore conceive what their confid-
ing readers must be. On Monday they present
a list, in which even the name of Lord Mans-
field is not mentioned : on ithe next day they
present another list, in which they make him
Prime Minister !—/bid.

The good effects which we ventured to anti-
cipate as the certain result of the recent judi-
cious and vigorous measures adopted by the
Irish Executive Government, are realized to
their fullest extent by the last received accountS.
We do not make this assertion on the authority
of the newspaper accounts only—we have before
us private advices of the most respectable de-
scription from various quarters, and they concur
in representing the improved state of the dis-
tricts so lately the scenes of factious insurrec-
tions. In Fermanagh, which might be consi-
dered as the hot-bed of party dissensions, the
arrival of the King's troops has been followed by
the dispersion of the mountain encampment of
the peasantry ; and another not less gratifying
result—namely, that the hitherto predominant
faction of the Orangemen has abandoned those
illegal exhibitions and offensive demonstrations
which have caused so much irritation, and which
so frequently terminated in bloodshed. On the
borders of the contiguous counties of Armagh
and Tyrone, where a numerous assemblage of
the Catholic peasantry had fixed their bivouac,
the vigorous measures of Government have pro-
duced- the same effect—the encampment is
broken up throughout the southern counties,
tranquillity is restored—the legal investigations
into the various unfortunate occurrences are in
some instances concluded—in others in progress ;
even in Clare itself, where the impending elec-
tion must of necessity predispose them to politi-
cal excitement, the public peace has latterly re-
mained undisturbed. To sum up all, we think
we are scarcely too sanguine, judging from the
concurrent opinions of men fully competent to
judge, in predicting the commencement of the
pacification of Ireland.— Morning Chronicle.
The Report from the Select Committee on
the Irish Miscellaneous Estimates, with Minutes
of Evidence, &c. which was distributed yester-
day, furnishes some curious information on the
state of Ireland. It has been said of the restric-
tive system of England, that our industry struck
root in spite of it ; that the system was mis-
chievous, and prevented the country from being
so prosperous as it otherwise would have been ;
but still it could not prevent the beneficial ope-
ration of other causes of prosperity. It may in
like manner be observed, that the Judicial In-
stitutions of England, though generally bad, have
not been able to arrest the tendency to improve-
ment, and that the couptry has thriven in spite
of its Institutions. We lave in Ireland as good
a proof as could be desired, of the general
worthlessness of the English Judicial Institu-
tions in themselves; for in the country, where
the correctives which exist in England are not to
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