The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

The accounts from Constantinople. by the list
German mail are of such a nature as might h4ve
been expected from the whole course of the pte-
vions intelligence during the last six weeks. -4 he
Sultan, who was equally deaf to the demandsf of
his enemy and to the exhortations of his mast
discerning friends, while there was only an aim-
proaching•certainty of the overthrow of all his
means of warfare, has at last, it seems, giien
way to xvents, for the truth of which his Own
eyes and ears were evidence that could hardly be
appealed from. The Russians are -in Adrianople,
with easy and unresisted access to the capital :
the Asiatic army of Russia has one division on
the road to Scutari, at the southern threshold of
Constantinople. It is not, therefore, the Euro-
pean territory, or encampment, as it has been
some:imes called, of the Mahometans, fiom
which they are now on the point of expulsion ;
but that which constitutes the life and essence of
Turkey, her eastern empire, is actually over-
whelmed. Nor when the Grand Seignor flies
across the Bosphorus, will he have a single for-
tress wherein to shelter his harem and his remain-
ing treasures, or one province over which he
.can
exercise a free and unmolested rule. What in•
fluence this extensive and unwished-for revolu-
tion i., likely to exhibit upon the affairs and po-
litics of Christendom, it is not yet time to in-
quire. The first thing to be looked at is what
. Ibiin the ruins of the Turkish empire may as-
mine. That Egypt, under the shrewd and am-
bitious barbarian who occupies it, will remain
much longer a blaze to the denuded and help-
less monarch, who, if he inhabits the Seraglio
another month, must do so on sufferance, and
not as lord, but tenant, becomes a matter of no
unreasonable doubt. 'I he Dardanelles are seized
and completely fortified, and in whose hands will
then be placed the Sea of Marmora, the Bos-
phorus, and the entire Euxine ? We have no
wish to create or to aggravate embarrassments,
by comparing the chances of resistance to Russia
upon the Mediterranean with what they might
have been upon the Danube. Coalitions, per-
haps, are difficult things to form, and very often
hazardous, even when, to a certain end, success-
ful. The Turk, also, when more formidable to an
enemy than he now is, may have been but intract-
able, and inefficient as an ally ; but it is
to be hoped that the faithful adherence of the
Russian Emperor to engagements formally an-
nounced at the commencement of the war, and
always professed during its progress, will render
any question of forcible interference on time part
of the Allies unnecessary at the present crisis.
The mediation of their Ambassadors cannot fail
to be effectual in restoring peace, if any reliance
can be placed on the repeated declarations of his
morierate and unambitious views. The details
furnished by these German journals, and by let-
ters professing to be from Pera, if not in all
respects authentic, are probable and interesting.
It is said that Turkish commissioners had at
length repaired to the head quarters of Count
Diebitsch. But if the statement of the condi-
tions to be offered by them be correct, another
proof is afforded of either extraordinary obdu-
racy in the Mahometan spirit, or ofan extremely
literal reliance on the assurances of the Emperor
Nicholas before he began the war; or finally of a
belief that England and the other specta-
tors of this unequal combat would step in
, .
wlthout hesitation to supply by force, what-
ever want of brains or want of prowess
might Fe apparent in the councillors and
in the troops of Turkey, when the one
appears inaapaLle of reasoning, and the other un-
wilium fight. This, if Turkish interests only
were concerned, wonitl be leaning somewhat
hard upon the generosity of a neighbour. Why
did not the Porte accept the Greek Treaty, and
relieve the parties who signed it from the ma-
nacles which it imposed upon their efforts to
aave, la, every timing short of war itself, the em-
pire of Turkey from destruction ? Itisstated in a
letter from Bucharest. dated "the2lst of August,
that the Russian army of reserve, amounting to
30,000 men, had passed the Balkan, and was
within a - few marches of Aidos on the 18th.
The knowledge of the approach of this reserve,
which secured General Diebitsch's rear, had
doubtless encouraged him to undertake his ra-
pid and. decisive movement on Selimno and Ad-
rianople. The two following military reports
have been published at Bucharest :
" On the 13th (25th) July, Colonel Govoroff,
who commands in the fortress of Magara, attacked
the enemy's camp on the river Osma, (which falls
into the Danube at Nieopolia) and completely de-
stroyed it.
" This brilliant enterprise was executed in the
followinv: manner :—One hundred and sixty volun-
teers, under the command of Captain Askenoff, hay-.
ing before day-break passed the Danube, and clam-
bered up time pr eipitous bank of that river, turned
the enemy's camp, And without firing shot rushed
headlong upon it with the bayonet. Time Tniks,
400 in number, surprised a: they were, male at first
an obstinate resistance, but they were at last routed
tv our hrave fellows, and obliged to save themselves
by fiijht, leaving more than 100 dead on the field.
Two standards and 40 prisoners are the trophies of
this tkesl of arms.

Vie prisoners, expecting aid from Nicopolis,
erKteevuural to escape, but the attempt cost all of
them, two excepted, their lives.
" hi the night of the Ist (13th) Attgo,t, the
gart:sou of Nicopolis was remforced from Sistov, by
troops who had been sent over to the left bank of
the Danube, in the expectation of obtaining posses-

sion of Turi' by surprise.
" The tirvaness and excellent dispositions of Co-
lonel Govoroff having rendered this enterprise abor-
tive, the enemy, aftkr in vain endeavouring to eurry

one of the'out;sorkg, e4.4ented himself with invest--

ii Turnu. General Stegman being informed of
the danger which threatened tite garrison,..sent a de.
rach:nent of troops from Magar.►, big the enemy

did not think it prudent to face them. lie has-
teued hack over the Danube, Leavine at kcid4
small detachment, whence, in spitetir the fire of

,Nicopolis, it was quickly dislodged by tho Wagers

of the 7th regiment,
" From the numbe' of dead and wounded which
the enemy left on the graug,d he had occupied, it was
evident that his loss had been clinsiderable.

'The last number of Blackwood'i Magazine,
Jo its opening article, threatens its fAign,ds, the
01e1 Tories,' with a severe objurgatiOu for
those many faults of theirs, -which their natural
enemies never, 44.- the writer in the Magazine
affirms, lay to their citsfp and as a foretaste of
the intended castigation, ai*tines the Tories of
having suffered others " to take tfi initiative in
fifty measures in which the necessity and pinvricty
were abundantly manifest," It then refers to th
establishment of the Edinburgh Review, which
has so many years' priority of Ow quarterly
to the lately projected and coldly pursued project
of King's College,
alter Mr, Brougham's Lou'
don University was in full operation ; and, in fine,
to the tardy appearance of the Family Library,
when the country had been already deluged with
cheap publications issued from the press of
the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge.
These inqance,. arc certainly by no means ill
chosen to mass the wide difFerence between

the conduct of the two great parties-in. Ow
State ; but We apprehend that. Blackwood is ex-
tremely mistaken when he represents such
ferences in tactics to arise from any "sluggish-
ness" in the Tory or High Church Party.—
The alertness and activity of that party, when
objects conformable to their principles arc pre-
sented to their notice, might be
.proved by re-
ferring to the establishment of the Constitutional
Association, and to the zeal with which the So-
ciety for the Suppression of Vice, and other In-
stitutions of a like character, is maintained.—
The fact is, that those measures characterized by
Blackwood as manifestly proper and necessary
are things for which the victims of his reproof
have no relish. They are not disposed to pro-
mote the diffusion of knowledge, or to facilitate
the education of the Poor. The free and manly
spirit of inquiry, as well in. letters as politics,
which the conductors of the Edinburgh Review
may justly claim the merit of having dissemi-
nated throughout a wide range of readers, was
to people of Blackwood's sort matter of deep
regret, far from being a spirit which they could
desire to cherish or diffuse. The progress, too,
of knowledge among the labouring classes,
through Mechanical institutions and cheap
books, is regarded by them with no sentiment but
one of alarm and discontent ; and the erection of
an institution where any portion of the youth
of the country might enjoy the advantage of a
liberal and comprehensive scheme of education
was little agreeable to those who would have
learning for ever encumbered by the shackles and
trammels of schoohnen and priests, and would
rather seal up the fountains of knowledge than
have their waters distributed by other hands than
those to which the ecclesiastical constitutions of'
Oxford and Cambridge have confided them. To
serve his own purpose, the writer in Blackwood
has represented the London University as in full
operation at the epoch when the King's College
was projected. In point of fact, however,
although the arrangement for opening the Lon-
don University had been at that time com-
pleted, the manner in which its lecture-rooms
might be filled was yet problematical ; and it
was in this crisis of doubt, and in the hope, un-
questionably, of' crushing the London Univer-
sity by the establishment of a rival, patronised
by both the Church and the Court, that the
projectors of King's College brought forward
their project. But so .soon as this hope was extin.
guished by the complete success of the
London University, the Subscribers to King's
College became languid and careless in
the prosecution of their enterprise, the real
aim and design of which such superven-
ing coldness plainly evinced. But when,
it may be demanded, have any measures
of large or liberal improvement emanated from
the Tories ? With whom did the reformation of
the Criminal Law originate ? Not with Mr.
Peel, though by him latterly prosecuted in a
very commendable spirit. At whose instance
were the recent Commissions for Amendment
of our Judicial system, in both its branches of
Law and Equity, issued ? Through whose exer-
tions have the vast funds destined to charitable
purposes been wrung from the hands of pecula-
tion and misappropriation? Tories, "sluggish,"
indeed, to promote proper and necessary mea-
sures ! Have they not, in truth, been vigorous
and zealous to resist every one of those " proper
and necessary measures," included both in
Blackwood's catalogue and our supplement ?
Blackwood is an able publication, but the so-
phism is sufficiently bold which would represent
the most obstinate and protracted opposition as
a " sluggish" co-operation. It was not surely
until the Tories had found all their efforts to
stem the tide ineffectual, that they fell on the
scheme of attempting to divert its course.—
Morning Chronicle.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

On Saturday a young man namt d Anderson was
charged by a baker with having stolen his dog.
The defendant said that the dog was his own,
and itsnatne was '6 Tippoo."

The baker denied thin, and said the dog's nave
as " Jack Scrogitins."

His Lordship called out " Tippoo, Tippoo," but
the dog took no notice.
" Come here, Jack Scroggins," said Mr. Holder,
and the dug was at his feet in a moment, amidst
the laughter of the crowd.
The LORD MAYOR said there was no doubt that

the clog w:.5 " Jack Scroggins," and the naniere:
minded him or the very just sentence of transporta-
tion for life just passed upon two brutes in the
human form for manslaughter. He trusted that
though the brutal love for prize lights %las coun-
tenanced and sanctioned by brutes of high rank, the
determination of the Judges of the land to suppress
it would ba attended with success.

Mr. Holder said that the sentence passed upon
the fellows alluded to, had thrown a complete
damper upon the spirits of the gentlemen of the
fancy. Ile ihought that if transportation were ex-
tended to all ihe blackguard hackers of the thieves
who filled the prize-ring, society would be greatly
benefit rid by the permanent departure of bullie3 and
gamblers, and rascals of the basest kind.
The LORD MAYOR asked the prisoner if he had
any
-one to speak to his character.---The prisoner had

io- friend present but his wife, and was remanded.
Jack Seroggins and his master went home together.

GUILDHALL

On Saturday an hosiler, named Hewson, in the
employ of Mr. Eames, the coach proprietor, was
charged with driving a van over a poor old woman,
named Ann Smith; Oil Thnrsday evening, at the
corner of St. Martin's-le-arand...,The prisoner was
committed.