The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-26 00:00:00

....M.LtrIkTIN'G ED I_ 0141 IMPORTAN T NEW S FRO 31 THE SEAT OF WAR. L rye have received, by special express from Mar eves, our correspondence, which has arrived by the !ant mail o f t h e 21st inst. Complete success, it Pears, has atten d ed our operations in Syr i a. O ur 7utabtes are frog, Alexa n d r i a th e 6th, C ons t ant i n ople the 16th 9th, . 811I Yrna the S yra the 1 1 th, and Malta the EThe Mr , :ita Post.ofE ce h as i ssue d a no tice, that in nse cltlerice of the rigorous blockade of the ports of ro fIPL and Syria, on the 6th instant, by Admiral Stop atb'y virtue of orders from the English Ambassador Uanstantinople, the mails for Alexandria and India her e not to be for war d e d by h er Majesty's steamer t'ometheus. It was d ou b t f u l w h et h er F renc h s t e a. :era Would be excepted from this blockade. The India 'mails remain at Malta. The Illonit car P ar i s i en o f S atur d ay n i g h t conta i ns •the following eastern intelligence : The Uovernment received on Friday, by the tele ' l e t. the n ews o f t h e arr i va l at Marseilles o f th e fro..war p ac k et- b oat. T h i s steamer b rings d es p a tches the Ea s t, w hi c h h ave not yet b een rece i ve d in It ha s t ransm itt e d some sea news , w hi c h s t a t e Hmg but w h at i s a l rea d y k nown , f or t h e t a ki ng o f • • eYde, which i s t h ere i n ment i one d , h a d b een pu bli s h e d a b t i„ si nge, and this is the only motive which prevented a G overnm en t from informing the public of it." t. ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 6. IN 'nes our last, of the 20th ult., there has little oc '. P led here. Operations in Syria have been prompt I,,,l';,eaccessful beyond expectation ; particulars you "'" °eve learned through Malta, as our communication 1 ... 1518 a manner cut off, and we cannot give credit to the 11 -7 " h trt . s from the palace. . The Pacha puts a good face r"" it, but is evidently disappointed. '„ The foll ow i ng i s a summary o f events s i nce our l as t, l ' • t eth sePt. All the Turkish officers of the fleet allowed A-akte_turn to Constantinople, also those in prison at They will be conveyed in merchant vessels. 8 ri igimeSS has thus got rid of disaffected men, who p l P t itht have caused serious mutinies if the fleet should A re t° sea. The ordinary sailors are distributed eh e '"llhout the ships mixed with Egyptian crews, but commanders complain of their sullen and mutinous wiliPtobsi_tion, and wish . them away also. It is said they l e c sent to Cairo. Sundry chiefs . appointed to the A d et "'Said Bey, flag captain to Hatif Bey, the Vice -144'a% ' Old - Mooties(Mustapha) Paella is Admiral. `grther accounts, and some particulars of Villa da ? done hy th e unprecedented inunda . tion. ' tea's stores, and stacks of grains (it is kept in heaps wat °Pen air) washed away, large tracts of land under Ot!" e, to the utter ruin of cotton, Indian corn, and t craps on th e g round. Fears of a scarcity before dr il ia el atleecr:ll) y can be available—price of wheat in Alex ; - risen to the Peclia's export price. 6 .—A representation was made lo his High ,Tis morning about the proceedings in Cairt 4 "ighness said, " I will put every thing to rights. 4 was on th e move at t h e t i me , h av i ng d e t erm i ne d i ti - ..Nag to C a i ro l ast wee k. H a set ou t thi s morn to - ", e ' lad is i n f u ll con fid ence h e w ill reopen the route , b esnee. Y a letter from Colonel Hodges to Mr. Larking, el l e re informed that a commercial blockade is to take e• Aoatriaßut w e are i n d e b te d to t h e pu bli c l etter o f th e e jl Consul for particulars. It will commence as d °° as th e A dmirals:announce i t. F ifteen to twenty 438Y1 Will be a ll owe d f or vesse l s to come out o f port ; , 1 _ (1 durin g th e fif ;ecn d ays vesse l s w ill a l so b e a ll owe d '° enter. Certificates from the respective Consuls us ko l te ° t he carg oes , & c. N o act i ve operat i ons, says Col. p od ges, will be ta k en aga i nst . Al exan d r i a un t i l f res h 'usteuetion,s active from England, but these may arrive 44 Y day. The En g li s h an d T ur ki sh operat i ons i n S yr i a have have promp t an d successful b eyond expectation. T hey r e ve tak en a flank position that will oblige Ibrahim to • b . r aw hi s f orces to the south, and prevents any move ;eat to th e north. Acre is threatened, but there is, h wil l be, a large force there. A close blockade will el? disagreeable to us, and when it comes we will bun malturselves off to Malta. i‘e h S EPT. 30.—A communication to Captain Fisher, of to M ajesty's ship Asia, about the inconvenience caused e ' antile interests by frightening ships outside— Y are afraid 'to enter. Thus British merchants cannot let • 0 their property removed. se . I.—The French steamer Castor returned from teTaeebringing back the . Abbe, who found the country ..-co disturbed for his missionary labours. The officers ''t' l - t his ship spoke favourably of Captain Napier, and 14.,lmeseribed the operations of the Anglo-Turk force at aida as being well managed; 3,000 Egyptians made I trdly any resistance, surrendering at once. Jaffa and 'true other p o i nts di smantled by the British fleet. So -11, ~j a itti Paella's family arrived at Alexandria by the 4 , Zaseor. The same day the Et na arr i ve d f rom T oulon 3 eleven days ; but her news has not transpired. port ee said to tell the Pacha to hold out firmly, but to tO. o ar" A French o ffi cer o f eng i neers arr i ve d • i Itt liatend the defence of Alexandria. he le , ars that some of Ib ra hi m ' s despatches to Mee • aud nri 'Lli were int erce pt e d b y t h e E ng lish, near Saida ; of other hand the Egyptians took the liberty at b lt ' iri g some d e sp a tches from Mr. Consul Werry, tair 4 : llal cas. The letters by the Pacha's post to eari: l i eem also to have been opened, and our Vice- C an Mr. Wattle, together with the Austrian, Rus. P ee l l : c a Prussian Vice-Consuls, - ordered by Abbas eai ro t ° quit Cairo. Abbas Pacha, Governor of flitto:tin_rieetlrstgldnrandson of Mehemet Ali, arid has Just returned eee e eeuelrout. H e always hated Christians, and is e . a great brute without capacity, and he is t g his spleen in various violent proceedings a 01 4 11 3 . -- -French steamer, Fulton, for Syria, carrying IC all al v _ f ert, with d es p a t c h es for Ibrahim Pacha. 4 11 h• t ue Fren c h steamers h ave b een ver y useful to p ighness Mehemet Ali when his own arc laid up. %Zech steamer Etna, sailed for Toulon. Letters Per p i 1 ° be take n . H ear d o f t h e E sg li s h pass; ngc rs ttae h e :! tal being detained at Cairo. Only a few o c ; Suez in tim e f or th e s t eamer . 0,.... 4 . - -Fren c h packet steamer Leonidas arrived p.m. uie i ci. 4 .--H er Majesty's ship Ganges and corvette tfZe e •l et ned the ships outside ; also the Emmetjee Post %loin P a cket, from Beyrout, but she has not made a t t ' ic atian y et w ith t h e s h ore . News f r o m C a i ro , ti e that I ord er of Abbas Pacha, the hotels had their 'arned rem — "et' and their doors closed, and the travellers the k2ut ; but, on the representation of Mr. Giiddon, !ovree e 'lean Consal-General, the travellers were al be t h i la retur n to the hotels, but the doors ordered to 14 1 14. - }, d. Similar orders were sent to Suez, and the ' o : ltl ee t e . ,° l lses in the Desert shut up ; no travellers al e 're e Pass, e ateh e se Proceedings are unauthorised by the Pacha, !net eie Ali, because this evening Mr. Larking and i tlem - ;" J ohnson waited on his Highness, who assured Ptts, shat ` mails and passengers should be allowed to usual,huld and that if no official person remained, he himself forward the Indian mail ! This was in P enee ' lls km. to the sudden flight of Captain Lyons, the Hon. etOrt r a ,."Y's agent, who in a moment of panic not only e 2 tim es. "cd on board the Asia, but wrote to his subordi %%hitt to quit their pasts and escape ; and if he wrote in 5t 3 4 12 to Aden, the authorities there may prevent th, sss ell Coming up the Red Sea. It is a hard case on ct e 1 ::°Ple in India and England, who look for letters by .iie e . 4 "d Sea route, to find that the chief chance of de -4414 the mails arises from the officials, and not from "tarnet Ali teeTANTINOPLE, OCT. 7.—The success of the Alliei e ed arms in Syria will b e l earne d i n E ng l an d w i t h Leasure, the more so as great results have already Yon secu re d at a very trifling sacrifice of human life. "Ruler correspondent will inform you that the reil e -e r °f KIM, in the Bay of Acre, and only five W ee " f rom it, was taken by three frigates, of whi c h tw o sad English and one Turkish. The guns, mortars, hl te ,: s e t wraunition h av i n g been taken out, the castle was (Se or " 4 P- The same ships then repaired to Tyre -e 14 % ,, ti ' l f out the garr i son , 500 i n num b er , no sooner tooj e approach to commence an attack than they Ot ee; !° their heels, leaving in the place four months' which w ere i mme di a t e ly conveye d to t h e teei eh then succeeded the attack of Sidon, (Sayda,) w as directed by C omm od ore N a pie r , Ad • . eti cre l. walke r , t h e Archduke Frederick, and Captain h h ialge, of the Royal Engineers. The Cyclops, tho Zs and Gorgon (steamers), with a ship of /I I ! . and a brig, English, one Austrian frigate, he aep ed . r frigate, and a corvette, composed t . °Per ee ' , o l % , and just as they were commencing kl eot t , the Stromboli (steamer), with a remforce cieent.°', 330 marines, only 13 days from England, ac tieo : 11 Y hove in sight and joined. Our newly-are /sad de?en tr Ymen were i mme diately in the thick of it, Pi eek ` l 4 _ wonder s ; b ut I regret to state that Lieutenant e wan sh ould so s oon h ave f ound a grave i n S yria ; Ili on 8 41111081 the fi rst man killed. The affair was whoi," -t lie allied forces penetrated the fortress, and the and su r r arris on , 2,000 in number, laid down their arms, ' , ey ed to endered t h emselves prisoners. They were con k 1 4r.e the fl eet, and are to be sent to Constantinople. i ll S at ,' lu PPly of stores, ammunition, &c., were found 111 and these alsowere transmitted to the fleet. eo ga . e ., . u e k„ , le in this affair, English, Austrians, and gei the ", ) behaved admirably, and the Archduke distin , Mt ge himself among the bravest. The fleet conti bel e iieteoni Bay. Ibrahim Pacha was at Dje 1' on'enla, thirteen hours' march . from Beyrout. wv e hund hou rs • red men, under Sheikh Mesoud were four thi ef, winitandTbatice, watched by Sheikh Franisiz, a Druse Pist o l , Is mountaineers, who were posted within soot, ready to engage him the moment he att ere U oder td to stir. Ibrahim's vanguard, 2,000 men, rs...tout O s Pacha, was two hours still nearer Bey guerni the allied Commanders intended on the 28th ,th e h •zeptember to attempt to surprise and cut off (I "' Dail • • • d th • in ters y acetions wre e y moon - bo on , ° Ktr arms, a of pp I. which 19 e OOO stand had a l rea d y le attribut e d among them. Egyptian deserters came ', ever. a t ""Y bY fives, tens, and:thirties. One day 130 in 4 . b ody, with arms and uccoutrements, and among them more than 60 were oiliczrs or sergeants. Amongst others whose gallant conduct has entitled them to notice, is Captain Mustapha. who was brought, up in the English navy. Admiral Walker represents his conduct as most noble. The Admiral himself fights like fury. and I have seen the Egyptian flig which he tool. from Beyrout with his own hand. It showed that cannon-balls had not been spared. We hear little of Suleiman Pacha. He was, with 2,500 men only, sur rounded by a large body of mountaineers, who were seeking to take the whole body prisoners without bloodshed. The above details were brought by the steamer Fer dinand, which went to Alexandria, took to Mehemet Ali a letter announcing his dismissal, and brought away to the fleet the Consuls-General of the Four Powers. She arrived bete on the 3d. _ . On the same day the French steamer of war Euphrate arrived here, front Toulon, and the public have been lost in conjectures as to the object of her mission. All I have been able to hear on the subject is that France formally steps forward as the protector of Mehemet Ali, and threatens armed interference unless the Sultan tin medtately consent to make the ambitious tyrant a pre sent of om: third of the empire his Highness hasinhe rited from his forefathers. France has set her heart upon founding an Arab empire, though it be under a certainty that such an empire cannot possibly stand without the total destruction of the Ottoman power and the certain ultimate occurrence of the events of which she professes a determination to steer clear. On the sth a letter was received here, addressed by Mehemet Ali to the Grand Vizier. It is, of course, in reply to that taken down by the Ferdinand, and con tains, I understand, a declaration that, under the pro tection of France, he is determined to repel force by force, and make good his right to all he possesses. He regrets much to be under the necessity of turning his arms against the Sultan, but cannot submit to injustice, and so forth. The Pacha's conduct has not excited surprise, but that of France has confounded the Porte. Yesterday, Lord Ponsonby and the other Ambassadors of the Four Powers had a long conference with Reschid Pacha on the subject, the result of which has not yet transpired ; but I am told that active operations in Syria will not be abandoned, but, on the contrary, pushed with renewed vigour. It appears that Me hemet Ali has ordered eighteen ships of the line and eight frigates to push their way out of the harbour of Alexandria in defiance of the block ade, and if we have another Navarino-business there, who will have provoked it ? France, by her perverse counsel. If she interfere to protect the Egy ptian ships a collision will take place---then adieu to the peace of Europe. Who will have broken it again ? France. England must bestir herself, or the matter will go to great lengths. What France aims at is as clear as the sun at noonday. She wants a power in Constantinople under her control, to present a barrier against,Russi a— another in Egypt and Syria, to cut off the communication of England with India ; and then, having beaten Eng land out of the Mediterranean, that sea will become a French lake. This ig her scheme ; and let every Englishman, whether Tory or Whig, look upon it and refl .ct if it is not worth while to unite hand and heart to prevent its realisation. For the moment nothing is to be feared here from Russia. The state of Caucasus, Georgia, and all her trans-Caucasian provinces, is such that she is power less in this direction. But if we have nought to dread from Russia, we have everything to apprehend from France, whose ultimate views arc all directed against England. Without going into the question whether a rebel Pacha has rights superior to those of his sovereign or not, let us regard calmly the real tendency of the con duct of France. It is to the destruction of British naval supremacy ; and much as I should deplore war, I would rather see it return with all its horrors than be hold our Government truckling to foreign predominance, and compelled to seek safety in subterfuges disgraceful, and acquiescence mast humiliating. We have armed the Syrians, and plighted to them British faith that they shall not be abandoned. If, therefore, we now, to humour the petulant caprices of an envious neighbour, consent to desert them and de liver them over to the remorseless ferocity of the butcher Ibrahim, our character will be forfeited for ever. What, an Arab empire I it is an absurdity, and he who conceived it should be sent to Bedlam. If Nlche:net Ali must, to please France, reign, he had better reign at Constantinople. The empire would then be pre served undivided. But if France interfere, and by a manceuvre get pos session of Egypt, wheie are we ? Oh, she would en gage to give it up as soon as she had set matters to rights. She made the same promise when she went against Algiers. How has she redeemed that pledge ? By retaining Algiers as a legitimate conquest, and by pursuing a war of extermination against the Arabs, who have the audacity to defend their property, fami lies, and honour, against the fire and sword of an im placable foe. The PlAenix steam frigate set out on her return to Syria on the 3d, and took down Sir Charles Smith, whose health was completely restored by the excel lent air of the Bosphorus. The Gallant General is, probably, by this time at the head of his troops again. The Porte has been active, and has sent off about 5,000 more troops, with a supply 0f money, and stores and provisions in abundance. Whilst lam writir . , a Grand Council is in delibera tion at the Sublime Porte on the exigencies of the mo ment. J. R. MALTA, OCT. 15, 1840. By the arrival of the French steamer Minos, we have received the Smyrna Mauzari Shark of the 9th, with a supplement of the 10th instant. The following are the more important news : " Operations on the coast of Syria have been going on with great success. The fort of Kaiffa in the Bay of Acre has been taken, and after the removal of the guns, mortars, and ammunition, was blown up and aban doned. This was effected by two English and one Turkish frigates, which subsequently went to Sour (the ancientTyre) whose garrison ran off. Four months' provi• sions for 500 men were found in the castle, and were instantly withdrawn. The expedition against Saida (Sider) etas a more serious affair. It was composed of an English ship of the line, a brig, the Gorgon, Cyclops, and Hydra steamers, joined by the steamer Stromboli, which had at that moment arrived from England, having 350 marines on board. Besides these were the frigate commanded by the Archduke Frederick, and one Turkish frigate, and one corvette. The commanders were Ad miral Walker, Commodore Napier, Captain Aldridge, of the Royal Engineers, and the Archduke. There was some opposition, and Lieutenant Hocking, only just out in the Stromboli, and about a dozen marines were killed. The loss altogether between English, Turks, and Austrians, was about fifty killed and wounded. The Archduke behaved most gallantly, and personally headed the party that took the citadel. Saida was soon taken, together with the whole garrison amounting to 2,000 men, who, with stores and ammunition, were conveyed by the Hydra and Gorgon to the fleet, and, it is said, the prisoners will be sent to Constantinople. " Ibrahim Paella was at Djebel Senin, 13 hours dis tance from Beyrout, with only 6,000 men. Sheikh Meshoud, the commander of his left wing, was four hours in advance (near Beyrout) with 1,200 men, and opposed to him, almost within a stone's throw, was the Druse Sheikh Tranzir, with the mountaineers of his tribe. Ibrahim's vanguard, amounting to 2,000 men, under Osman Paella, was six hours in advance, and General Jocmua and Izett Pacha had formed a plan for cutting off and making his whole corps prisoners. In this they expected to succeed on the 28th September. They only waited the arrival of Commodore Napier, whu is the life and soul of all such enterprises. " The famous Soliman Pacha had allowed himself to be caught in a kind of military mousetrap. He is with 2,500 men in a position whence it is scarcely possible a single man can escape, as he is completely hedged in by a large body of country folks, who are directed to take the corps prisoners only, and to avoid shedding blood as much as possible. " The Egy p`ian troops continue to desert in small parties as fast as they can get away. " Ibrahim's flag that was lately so prendly waving over the castle of Beyrout is arrived here. Admiral Walker took it with his own hands. It is full of shot holes." " SMYRNA, OCT. 9.—Sir Moses Mantellore and his lady arrived here by the French Government steamer Minos, accompanied by Dr. Lawie, and D. W. Wire, Esq., and re-sailed in the same vessel for Constantinople the evening of their arrival. " Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Phoenix, having on board Colonel Sir C. F. Smith, R.E., arrived on the sth instant for coals, and left again a few hours after to join Admiral Stopfoid on the coast of Syria." " CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. B.—The French steam packet which arrived on the sth, brought a letter from Mehemet Ali to the Grand Vizier, wherein he states that he is encouraged by France to hold out, and that, under her protection, he shall defend himself to the last. He is very sorry to make war against the Sultan, but will be compelled to do so until his just demands are conceded. It is supposed that the French Cabinet communicated to the Porte its determination to go every length rather than allow the Paella to succumb, and yesterday the Ambas,adors of the Four Allied Powers had a long conference with the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the subject. The result of their deliberations I have not exactly heard, but am assured that the military opera tions in Syria will be prosecuted with renewed spirit. To-day is the usual council day and all the members will be in attendance to discuss this matter in its every bearing. Her Majesty's ship Ganges had arrived off Alex andria to reinforce the blockading squadron off that port. Captain Lyons, the East India Company's agent, has arrived in Malta. " About 300 Maltese have been embarked for Malta on board of two Greek vessels." MALTA, Oct. 16, 1840. By the Castor, French steamer of war, arrived last night from Alexandria, sailed the 7th, we learn that the National Guards had refused to march from Cairo, and Mehemet Ali had set off for that city much dis pleased at the administration of Abbas Paella, under THE ArN, LONDON, MON'DAY, OC_TOBER 26. ISO. whose orders the station houses in the desert had been !evel!ed to the ground, LI n d the inns at Cairo dosed, contrary, and in dirt contradiction to the declara tions and wuracees of the Paella. Many famihes bad lett Alc , .: , ,andria for Smyrna, Constantinop!e, Syri, the lonian Atth:Jis, 'Trieste, and orlKr places. Sir Robert Stopford %las toady looked for at Alex andria. The variance in the communication of the Austrian Consul and Captain Fisher, as to the date of the commencement of the blockade, is unaccountable, one making it the 14th inst., with an indulgence of 15 and in some cases 20 days further, the other fixing it for the 6th, with no such indulgence. It is hardly possible that the Viceroy can stand, and he must thank his friends the French for putting him in the perilous position in which he now stands. Had the French Government and the French press not held out to him hopes of assistance, there is no doubt but that be would have granted all the demands of the Allies long ago, and had now been in peaceble pos session of all Egypt and of part of Syria. The French fleet, consisting of 11 sail of the line, is at anchor at Salamis, but it is asserted that the French Admiral in• tends taking the fleet to N ivarino, as the anchorage at Salamis is not safe at this season. The squadron of his Holiness the Pope, consisting of the Feasa!ta, San Pietro, and San Paolo, gun-boats, under the command of Commodore Cialdis, get under weigh on the 10th, and proceeded, as we understand, on their return to Alexandria to fulfil their diplomatic mission, and deliver their presents. As their appearing off Alexandria at the present moment might tend to 4tmbroil the Turco-Egyptian question still more than it already is (which is perfectly needless), his Excel lency the Governor of Malta has furnished them with special letters of protection to the British naval officer off the port. The Liverpool contract steamer, with the London mails of the 30th ult., arrived from Falmouth and Gib raltar, at two, a.m., on Monday, the 12th inst., and on the same night her Majesty's ship Vanguard would have got under weigh with the despatches for Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, and mail for the fleet, brought by the above-named steamer, but owing to there being no wind and a heavy swell, it was deemed advisable, in consequence of her being so deep in the water, from the amazing quantity of ammunition and stores taken in, to remain until the following morning, when she put to sea for the coast of Syria, and met the Rodney outside, with the second wing of the 19th regiment, under Major Hodgson. This vessel increased the Mediterranean fleet to 43 ships, of which 14 are of the line—all on the coast of Egypt and Syria. The Liverpool has brought out three officers of the commissariat, with a considerable sum of specie under their charge for the use of the force in Syria. They will proceed by the Rodney next week, if no earlier cue veyance offers by steamers, and the 47th and 92,1 regi ments have orders to hold themselves in readiness for embarkation for Syria immediately their expected re. fiefs arrive. The Liverpool awaited the arrival of some vessels from the fleet, and nothing appearing, she left on the night of the 14th inst., having first landed, by direction of the authorities here, the mails for India, Egypt, and Syria, which it was considered imprudent to send on. The French steamer from the Levant came in on the same night, and as she brought such positive as surances from the Pacha that he would guarantee the safe passage of the mails to Suez, the Prometheus was ordered to get up her steam and convey the saute to Alexandria, when at the moment she was putting to sea, the Castor French steamer of war arrived, one day later from Alexandria (sailed the 7th), bringing intelli gence that the blockade of Egypt had commenced on the 6th (sec documents herewith), and that it was in tended to be so rigorously enforced that no vessels of any flag—either mercantile or of war—would be permitted to enter or leave Alexandria after that date, and doubts were entertained whether even the French steamers would be excepted. The Post-office then issued the notice which I send herewith, and the mails remain, as well as those brought by the Acheron from Marseilles, despatched from London the sth inst. The Volcaro steam-packet left last night, cat rying mail for England to Gibraltar, from whence she proceeds to the West Indies. The Medea came in yesterday afternoon, from Plymouth and Gibraltar. Both this vessel and the Rodney will proceed to join the Admiral on Sunday next. The City of Dublin branch steamer between Malta and the lonian Islands, arrived from Liverpool on the 14th. The Apollo troop ship from Zante arrived yesterday, and also the Cyane, United States sloop of war from Jaffa. The troops at Malta are being daily exercised in gunnery by the artillery. " Chief Secretary's-office, Valetta, Oct. 15,1840. " Sir,-1 am directed by his Excellency the Go vernor, to transmit to you, for the information of the mcr • chants, a copy of an official notice of the mercantile blockade of the ports and coasts of Syria and Egypt, which wa3 to take place on the 6th instant, the date of that notice. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your most obedient servant, (Signed) " S. GREIG, Chief Sec. to Gov. " To the President of the Committee of British Merchants, Scc." (con') " Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Britannic Majesty's :lips and vessels of war in the Mediterranean, having re ceived notice from her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople that his Highness the Sultan has given directions for a rigorous blockade to be maintained upon the coast of Syria and Egypt, I hereby, in obe dience to instructions from Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, give official notification to Mohammed Ali, that a strict and rigorous mercantile blockade of the ports and coasts of Syria and Egypt will commence from the date of this notice. " Given under my hand and seal on board her Bri tannic Majesty's ship Asia, off Alexandria, this 6th day of October, 1840. (Signed) "W. FISHER, " Captain of H. M. Ship Asia, and Senior Officer of her Britannic Majesty's Naval Forces off Alexandria. " True copies, W. J. STEVENS, Acting Secretary, " Commercial Rooms? " COPY OF A NOTICE ISSUED BY THE MALTA POST OFFICE, O'N THE 15TH OCT., 1840, AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF THE CASTOR FRENCH STEAMER OF WAR, FROM ALEXANDRIA, WHICH LEFT THAT PORT 7TH OCT. " Rear-Admiral Sir John Louis having just recuived an official advice from Captain Fifiher,conimanding her Majesty's ship Asia, that a strict mercantile blockade had been established on the 6th inst., on the ports of Egypt and Syria, by order of Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, in consequence of instructions from her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, the mails for Alexandria and India are to be forwarded by her Majesty's steamer Prometheus." toe censors. It w ou ld b e cr i m i na l , r, ill not thro w acy n h str ,c!es in the way of their vac in so grave a position, to create new difTh.mities by personal rivalry and , wretched pertfelio disputes. Power is certainly not m very enviable thing in the present day. May those who will have the coura:;e to assume it meet the crisis with honour. 'Buis is our sincere desire, it, unfortunately, it is not our expectation. (From the Siede.) The Chambers will in a few days have to pronounce between the men who were desirous, certainly without rashness, but with persevering firmness, to preserve the French name from humiliation, and those who are ditt posed to submit to it. The majority will say who have best understood their duty to the voice of the nation, which, when manifested, ought to be oseyed. The Deputies bringing with them the impressions which they received in the departments, will not fail to perform their mission with firmness ; and before the solemn vote of the representatives, supported by public opinion, which is almost unanimous, all hesitation must cease, and a!1 opposition must fail. If the Ciown,.having exhausted its constitutional right, should refuse to yield to such a manifestation, it must appeal to the country, and the country will know how to reply. (Front the Temps.) We have confiden ce in the wisdom of the Throne. We have not forgotten with what energy the Prince who is at our head participated in the sentiments which were manifested in France when we first received the news of the treaty of the 15th July. Louis Philippe is the so:- dier of 1789, and the King of 1830. He belongs to our two revolutions, and he cannot forget this when speaking to the two Chambers in the name of the &gutty and power of his country. As to the Ministry, its first duty, even to itself, is to do all in its power to justify its con duct. It was only at the last extremity that it ought to have resigned. (From the Courrier Francais.) We must do the Ministrs the justice- of saying that with the exception of some errors, they have answered the expectations of the country. If the honour of France is to be sacrificed to Foreign Powers, they can not be accused of lending a hand to the work. This is the second time that M. Thiers has carried devotion to his principles to the point of resigning the high posi tion which he was said to have aimed at by every kind of intrigue. What a noble reply to calumny. (From the Capitole, Bonapartist.) The man of the Parliament par excellence is afraid of the Parliament. The Ministe► of a factitious ma jority is afraid of a real majority. The great conqueror of the Ist of March dares not face those whom he con quered. The superb dictator of the mouths of August and September has abdicated ; M. Thiers has resigned. Wa had foreseen the denouement of the tragicomic performance which has been going on for these eight months. The tniserahlt; sleight•of-hand tricks which we have witnessed could.have no other end. In vain, how ever, does M. Thiers hope to escape from the judgment of the country by a forced resignation. On the day following the 15th of July he might have made a volun tary retreat. It is now too late. Before the Ist of March we had England and Spain for allies, and Rus. six, Austria, and Prussia were forced to devour their hatred of us ; we were',the hope of nations without liberty, and the envy 54 .people without glory. We are now expiscd to the insults of Kings and the disen chantment of nations. Before M. Thiers we had a national right which was regarded as sacred, treasures which were swelled by public confidence, and a national credit whose influence was felt in every branch of manu facture and trade. Now our 'charter has been pr.af.►ned. instead of treasure we have'lli:.enormou s deficit, and our credit has undergone the same depreciation us our dig nity. What has M. Thiers done with our army ? lie has destroyed all its traditions of glory by compel ling it to remain passive before insulted honour; and as to our fleet, he has compelled it to waste the energy which it was burning to display. • . (From the Radical Commerce.) We have frequently asserted that the Court wou:d never forgive M. Thiers for having formed the coaii:ion. Courts are less forgetful than nations, and they know how to wait for the proper moment to punish those who have abandoned them. Lost in public opinion by the most deplorable and most culpable administration of our•affairs, M. Thiers has hastened this moment. He has not resigned, he has been dismissed. This is an important fact, and should be well noticed. Already do we hear the confederates of the Ministerial Left trumpeting . theenergy and virtues of this great man, Of this thoroughly, national mind. A recapitulation of the events which brought about the crisis will. enable the public to appreciate the spontaneousness of the retirement of M. Thiers. . • The question does no t li e in a chang e of Ministry ; it is more profound. It consists 'in u change of system —without this names may be combined, lists may be amalgamated, talents may be concentrated ; but a Mi. nistry will not be formed. There will be a mere corpse, which may be put into motion for a short time by artifice, but which will be without life. (From the Presse.) What signifies a word or a phrase more or less in a speech which, of itself, decides nothing, and which merely serves as a field of discussion for parties. Was M. 'riders afraid that. he would not have opportunities enough in that discussion of stating his opinions and juAitying his conduct ? If it be true, as he pretends, that he has a .majority in the Chamber of Deputies, would it not• have been eitslijiir him to introduce into the address a passage sanctionin g what:he foiS done, and in which there could be a decisive vote ?" SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS OF SATURDAY. (From the Sieck.) We can affirm that the speech adopted by the'llinis try, and which was drawn up by M. Remusat, was its a tone perfectly dignified, and, without either violence or temerity, laid before Europe the question of peace or war in a manner worthy a great nation. We arc assured that to this draft the King opposed another, which rendered better his ideas, but which was too wide of those of his Ministers for them to be able to accede to it. From this lament the dissolution of the Cabinet became necessary. It appears that the discordance which broke out had beets foreseen, and with this pro vision Marshal Soult was summoned from his seat of Saint Arnaud. The Marshal, considered more eligible by the about partisans to b ofe madepeace at any price than C o u n t M o l e to keep up an illusio n as to the character of the arrange ment has undertaken the formation of a new Cabinet. It is believed that he received in advance, or at least he has at this moment received, the accession of Messrs. Villemain, l'este, and Duchatel. M. Dufaure has been called to Paris in all haste, and it is supposed that he will suffer himself to be fed by M. Passy, who will, as on all former occasions, yield to the weight of circumstances. M. Martin (du Nord) and M. Tupinier are mentioned as likely to be Ministers of Commerce and the Marine. (From the Gazette de France.) The Soult, Duchatel, Teste, and Villemain combina tion is the only one contemplated at the present mo ment. M. Guizot, who has been written to for the purpose of inducing him to accept the portfolio of Fo reignM. Thiess, also Affairs, will certainly a rrive in Paris, it is said, at the latest on Monday. Upon his consent or refusal will depend the definitive constitution of a Cabinet. It is said that the Duke de Broglie doubts whether M. Gui zot will accept office, and the intimate connection be tweent at h said i t s li proposalese that Louis toraise l l i r) persons giPveb siwpO,oO weight ig ho } v nn tsoe t re the o d was nut i n con formity with his memorandum a nd his last note to M. Guizot, and that M. Thiers rep lied, " M y not e was not properly understood." M. Thiers has obtained the ac were sent f or to St. epeepetaaznecse,oifiluitinsarnensi,gannadtioDn.upleVrreeare assured t h at MM. Cloud in the course of this day. havin g h ear d (From the Temps.) A conversation is reported to have take n p l ace at " Yo u spea k too wish e d s h ould he Cabinet o S f t" tl C ie .. This speech w ill do very well read t l o o d u rh d aimit i .o n fr w teh h pel ic ie h sdp /: e l e a c r h sh p a r l op S o o s u e l ( t i , after Lae official." The second draft was the n read to hi m , b u t sfooronm.e."HeTarotthheisonite was which it w answered, ns upon the merits of it the Marshal observed a profound silence. (Fudge!) (F ro m the Univers.) The Duke de jiroglie has, it is said, endeavoured to induce the King not to accept i the resignation of the Cabinet, but has faile d in .us attempt. t_r ..,.si Majesty continues to be engaged in th e formation of a new Ministry, of w hich Marshal Soult i s to be Presider.t and into which it ap pe ars uncert a i n w h ether M. Guizot for se veral of his friends say t h at lie will ac cept a place, will enter ; w hil e o thers are conv i nced that he will take up the same position as the Duke of de B rog li e . (From Galign ani Saturday afternoon.) It appears certain that the formation o f a new Ca binet will not take P lace till the arrival of M. Guizot from London, although Marshal Soult h as pos i t i ve l y aczepted the task of forming an Admi n i strat i on. The Marshal had another interview with t h e King yester day. It was rumoured in the evening th at the Minis ters had ..vithdraw ntheir resignations, but the repoit a ppears to have b ee n without found at i on. Out of the 459 Members of the Chamber of Depu ties 225 are at present in Paris. upoii which M. Tillers, it is added, would have said to them---' We have now no resource left but to resign ; another Administration will come to make matters up ; it will be branded as such ; and then we will return to power to satisfy the wounded d:gaity of the country.' Follow in up that version, People sa y th a t M. de Remusat, M. Lub er t, an d M. %ivien, have come to the Council with the determination to kick up a quarrel, and to withdraw before the open ing of the Chambers to realize the above-described scheme of policy. " Others say that the King, on the contrary, was de termiocd not to allow M. Tillers to open the Session, under the impression which he would easily have pro duced upon the minds of the Deputies, that the situa tion of affairs was so perilous that his presence at the helm was indispensable ; that with that view his Ma jesty was negotiating with Marshal Soult, M. Guizot, and even M. Mole, and that he was determined to seize on a pretence to get rid of his Ministers. "Be that, however, as it may, the Ministers having come down to the Council with a speech, in wnicil they made the Kieg say that he hoped that , the Chambers would not only sanction all the measures which had been taken to place the country in a proper attitude, but all those which might become necessary to adopt ; the King objected to such a ver sion, and said, that at a moment when Foreign Powers we re showing an evident anxiety to conciliate differences and to smooth obstacles, it was impossible to hold such language to the world, unless people were determined to bring on a general conflagration. Hence the split. " Now as to what followed : the Duke de Broglie having been sent for, respectfully expressed his convic tion that the draught prepared by Ministers was mode rate and proper ; but that it was not difficult to concili ate that draught with the one prepared by the King ; that these matters would easily be made up, and avoid the perils of a new internal crisis on the eve of the open ing of the Chambers. His Majesty answered, that it was too late to make the matter up, and that he clearly saw that his Ministers had made up their minds to leave him in the lurch. " The conversation then proceeded on the part of the Duke de Broglie by asking what were the King's intentions as to the formation of g new Cabinet, him self not swerving from his firm purpose to keep out of power. The King answered, that he had reason to de pend upon the devotedness of Marshal Soult and M. Guizot, who would not desert him at such a moment. The Duke de Broglie replied, that he was not autho rized to say anything on that head ; but that in case of assent upon the part of M. Guizot, he supposed that he intended to have the ForeigliDepartment." Ah ('said the King, that is the difficulty of my situation. I had hoped to unite all the elements of the Conservative party together, and that Count Mole could have been included ; but how accomplisln.that The Doke de Broglie expressed his formal disapprobation of such an attempt, and asked the King what were his intentions if that combination of Soult and Guizot failed ? The King said, that he had not contemplated such an hypothesis, thinking it impossible that he should be deserted on that occa sion. But,' pertinaciously added the Duke, it it should take place, what will your Majesty do?' 'Then,' said Louis Philippe, I will resign myself to that ne cessity, and then act as contraint et force: This shows that Thiers' return to affairs within a few days or hours, although improbable, is not yet impossible. " Some add, that one of the measures contemplated by the Thiers Administration was respecting the organiza tion of the Gardes Nationales mobiles, and ordering the French fleet to anchor before Alexandria. Others as sert, that M. Thiers made cheap of those measures (as to their immediate adoption), that he had only intended to order the French fleet out, and to remain within reach of the telegraph." PORTUGAL. FALMOUWII, OCT. 24.—The Hope packet, Lieut. Cresol., arrived yesterday, with the West India mails. She sailed from Cape Henri, Sept. 9th, and has brought about 18,0001. on freight. This afternoon the steamer Manchester arrived with the Spanish and Portugal mails ; the dates are Gibraltar, Oct. 15th, Cadiz, 16th, Lisbon, 19th, Oporto, 20th, and Vigo, '2lst. LISBON, OCT. 19.—The Queen's health is now so much improved, that no bulletins have been issued for some days, and all apprehensions for her safe re covery are quite at an end. The Senate has passed the Bills relative to the fo reign dividends, the press, and the elective franchise, without any essential alteration in either case, from the . . projects as they passed the Chamber of Deputies. No further advance has.yet been made in the dis mission of the Budget. The subject last under discus sion is a new project of law for facilitating the sale of national property, which it is proposed to put up in the first place upon the terms on which it has for some time been purchased, viz., one-third part in cash, one-third in old paper money, and one-third in Treasury Papers called " titulos of three operations." The law respect ing the dividends being naturally of much interest, I send you a translation in the state it passed the Senate aft( r the alterations effected in its passage through the other Chamber. " Art. 1. The Government is authorised to pro pose, or negotiate with the bondholders of the loans contracted out of the country, a temporary reduction in the payment of the interest of their respective ca pitals, calculated in harmony with the resources of the " Art. 2. 'By the convention treated of in the pre ceding article, the Government may convert the ex isting capitals and their arrears of interest into new funds, under the conditions it may judge most conve nient, without increase of the interest or of the capital. " Art. 3. In order better to assure the bondholders the punctual payment of the interest of the converted capitals, the Government may specially consign, for the payment of that interest, besides the general mortgages, " hypothecas," which served as a guarantee fur those loans, in conformity with the original contracts, what ever revenues of the State, or part of them, that may well assure the realintion of that payment at the periods of their respectively becoming due. " Art. 4. It shall be equally stipulated, in the con vention referred to, that the payment of the interest shall be effected precisely at the periods designated ; but if it may happen from any cause whatever that the said convention is not realised, the payment of the inte rest due for the first half of the present economical year shall infallibly take place on the first days of December and January next, calculating in attention to at least half a dividend of the capitals originally lent. " Art. 5. Should it happen that the coupons or de bentures belonging to the dividend in arrear, due up to the 31st Alarch and 30th June last, are not compre hended in the convention or proposal, the Government is authorized to negotiate with the possessors of tk.e aforesaid coupons and debentures any operation that, being in harmony with the resources of the State, may facilitate to those creditors the payment of the sums due to them, it being incumbent on the Government to present to the Cortes, in the first legislative Session, the proposals which it may judge necessary for this pur pose, in order to be properly discussed and approved. " Art. 6. All legislation to the contrary is hereby revoked." Many complaints have lately arrived here of the de. fcctive state of police in the provinces. Near Evora, in Alentejo, where there is a large fair holding at this time, a gang of mounted guerrillas, about sixty strong, have taken up their quarters, levying contributions on all going there ; and these, I hear to-day, have lately been rein!orced by others from the Algarve. The John Cooper, a large British ship of 650 tons, which came in here on the 14th, having been struck by lightning and dismasted in a hurricane on the 6th instant, when on her way out from Greenock to Sydney, with ninety two passengers, was obliged to submit to five days' qua rantine for want of a bill of health. Her Majesty's brig Trinculo, on this vessel being signalled in distress off the bar, about ten a.m. on the 13th, went out to sea immediately, and Captain Coffin offered his services to tow her in, which I hear were refused ; but she sub vquently availed herself of the Portuguse steamer Vesuvio, which brought her up to Belem, and has re ceived 3501. for so doing. Lord Grosvenor and his Lady and family are here in his yacht, the Dolphin, but leave today for Cadiz. The Espoir brig of war is leaving also to-day for the same destination. The Trinculo brig, British, and Coquette, corvette, French, remain here. MURDER AT CHAMBERY. (From the Private Correspondence of the Gazelle dcs Tribuhatt,r.) We have recourse to you for the purpose of making public a horrible and successful attempt at murder which was some time since made here, and to also ex pose the disgraceful impunity with which crime can be committed in our unhappy country by certain classes of society. Neither the voice of public opinion, nor the long premeditation of the crime, and frightful cool ness with which it was committed, will arouse the Go vernment from its culpable apathy. We are deter mined at least, however, that through the columns of the Gazette des Tribunaux the murderers shall be branded with infamy. M. Meugnier, the Mayor of the commune of Faisson, a little village of La Tarentaise, between Albertville and Montiers, was assassinated on 9.Bth August, 1838. About nine o'clock in the evening, three individuals, muffled up in white blouses, and having their heads en veloped in a species of black hood which completely covered their faces, having holes through which to see, presented themselves at the dwelling of M. Meugnier, who had just retired to bed. The door was opened by a domestic. The strangers asked to speak wth M. I\leugnier. The servant took two of them to the bed room of her master, and the third remained at the door. Two of them.were armed with knives, and the third with a pistol. They demanded his money of M. 11Ieugnier, and he got up, opened his secretary, and took out a pair of pistols and a case containing some silver monies. One of the . aisassins said, " It is go'l that we want, and you have some ; you shall tell us presently I whether you prefer dying by the knife or the pistol." M. Meagnler, boom - nib : 2 alarmed, then apet►ad a draw& and showed them some gold. At this moment Madame Meugnier ran out of her chamber. One of the strangers went and tried to quiet her ; and M. Meugnier, en deavouring to profit by the opportunity, rushed out of the room, but he was iiutncdiate!y followed and brought back into the chamber again, where the doors and windows being closed his cries for help were stifled, and his throat was cut by the assassins in the dark. The murderers did not abandon their victim until Madame Meunier enter«l the apartment with a light and exposed to view the horrible deed of which they had been guilty. They now fled, leaving the mangled and convulsed corpse of the unfortunate gentleman on the floor. It was evident that they were well acquainted with the premises, for they entered by one door, and quitted by another, without any light ; and it is believed that robbery was not the actual motive of these villains for the commission of their crime, for although they took the silver away, they left the gold behind. As they fled they threw their blouses and k nives into the river. Public suspicion points to three priests residing in the neighbourhood as the murderers of the unfortunate Mayor, as their hatred towards him was well known. As the Syndie of the Commune, Meugnier had shown little tolerar.ce towards the vices of the priests. He had reproached one of them with the death of a young husband, who had committed suicide in coneequence of discovering a liaison between his wife and this priest. To another of them he had refused to return some letters of an amorous description which he had written to a young girl, and a third he had made restore au estate of which he had taken unlawful possession. It is said that they had sworn to take his life in re venge for these acts, and an inhabitant of St. Gervais had overheard them planning his death behind a hedge. One of them had been moreover seen to buy two enor mous knives at Albertville. Immediately after the murder the Tribunal of Mon tiers commenced an investigation into the affair, but it was soon broken off. The Lieutenant of the Albertville Gendarmes felt highly indignant that s 3 horrible a crime should remain unpunished, and employed every means to lead to its detection. He spoke out very plainly as to the guilty parties, who, he went so far as to say, were sheltered behind the altar ; and added, that if the authority were given him to arrest the priests, the truth should soon be made known. His statement led to the appointment of a senatorial commission, but the very day the commission proceeded to the place, the Lieute nant of Carabiniers, who was intrusted to take the "in struction," received an order to proceed elsewhere, asd the Marcella! des Logis. who had not hesitated to point to the guilty parties, also had his residence changed. The servant even who opened the door to the assassins declared that she recognised one of the Priests in ques tion. She was consequently sent off to France, and the inquiry dropped. AN EXECUTION FOR MURDER IN FRANCE. (F-om the Gazette' des 1 ribunaux.) No execution has taken place in the department of Ariege for nearly ten years past. More than one crime punishable by death has been committed within that period, but extenuating circumstances having been ad mitted, the lives of the offenders were spared ; and this fact appeared to make many people think that the punishment of death was entirely abolished. An ex ample, however, became necessary, and this was given At the last Assizes for the department of Ariege, by two prisoners being sentenced to death. The indi viduals in queston were Alexis Rousse Janetis, for the assassination of M. Bergasse, a rich landed proprietor of Saurat ; and Jacques Desramond Besse, also for murder. The prisoners had in vain appealed against their sentences, and preparations were made at Foix for the execution of Janetis on the 14th, at Tarascon. This created a good deal of excitement in the vicinity, and a large assemblage took place on the 14th to witness the death of the wretched man. At seven o'clock the Abbe Boy, the Chaplain of the prison at Foix, was introduced to the criminal. and told him that the time had nearly arrived when he must die. He, however, manifested no emotion on hearing this dreadful communication ; and he was shortly afterwards taken into the chapel to the confessional ; which religious ceremony he went through in a cold and formal manner. Alter it was over he requested that he might have some breakfast. Some bread and meat were imme diately served to him, which he appeared to eat with great pleasure. The hour arrived for his departure from the prison for the place of execution before he had finished his meal, which being intimated to him, be, by the per mission of the officer, coolly put the rest into his pocket, to eat as he rode from Foix to Tarascon, which is a con siderable distance. He then deliberately walked down the long and difficult path from the prison of Foix to the Valais de Justice, where he entered a post-chaise, accompanied by the chaplain, and the vehicle having been surrounded by gendarmes, the cortege proceeded on the road to Tarascon, after traversing the town of Foix, which was crowded by a multitude anxious to ob tain a sight of the prisoner's face. During the journey from Foix to Tarascon, which occupied nearly two hours and a ball, Janetis listened in mournful silence to the pious exhortations of his confessor, and he only broke the long silence by reply ing in the affirmative to the question of the venerable ecclesiastic whether he repented of his crimes ? But when this question was repeated at subsequent inter vals, he replied, with a slight degree of impatience, that be had said so before. Oa his arrival at Tarascon be was given into the hands of the executioners, who proceeded to the per formance of the last dread preparations. He then had another religious conversation with the chaplain, after which he decided upon making a full confession of the crime for which he had been condemned to death, adding that he should never have committed it if M. Bergasse, with whom he had had a ruinous law-suit, had given him a little. The hour of death at length arrived, but the scaf fold was not quite ready, for, being erected on a slop ing ground, it was found necessary to strengthen it by supports. During this horrible suspense, in what man , ner will it be supposed the criminal was occupied? He coolly asked if he might be allowed to continue his repast ; and having received an answer in the affirma tive, he deliberately drew from his pocket the frag ments of bread and meat which he had placed there on quitting Foix, and continued eating them as if no thing that was passing in any way concerned him. At length all was ready, and the culprit mounted the scaffold with a firm step, accompanied by the Abbe Boy. The minister of religion then signified that he wished to address the assembled multitude, and, after a few simple and touching exhortations on the awful scene which he had come to witness, he told them that the prisoner had requested him to declare his confession in public, and seek for him the pardon of Gud and of men. " Offer up a prayer," continued the pi lest, " for the unhappy man who is about to expiate his offence by his life." The Abbe then knelt down with the culprit beside him, and, as if by some electric influence, the whole assemblage at the same instant knelt in prayer upon the earth. A few minutes more, and Janetis had ceased to exist. If those who deny the salutary effects of example had witnessed this silent and sorrowful scene, they might hare been able to comprehend the moral effect which the extremity of the law, when accompanied by the sa cred offices of religion, is calculated to produce in the minds of the populace. EMIGRATION FRoill THE, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. From the vicinity of the Kakaberg intelligence has just been received that the well-known Field Cornet , Van der Nest, has returned from the Emigrant camps at Natalia, bringing a flourishing account of everything there ; the consequence is, that every farmer around that neighbourhood is preparing to emigrate, and the great move is to be made in the months of August and September next. The greater part of the farmers of the Ghamtoos River district are also about abandoning their native homes and hearths. Piet Kemp, the Rensburghs, the Kritsingers, and many more—men of the most influential class, and carrying with them great wealth, and a consi derable body of relatives and retainers—will leave the colony immediately to plunge into the dangerous wilds of the interior, in preference to undergoing the continual vexations of our present disorganized situation. That the inhabitants of the irarnediate Kafir frontier —the Kakaberg ard its vicinity—exposed to daily, nightly, hourly annoyance by Kafir depredations should leave the land of their birth, is not to be wondered at, and it is lucky for them that such a safety-valve exists • but here arc people, two h undred miles from t he Kafi r boundary, deserting their homes en masse, because they cannot secure permanent labour, and are exposed to all the evils of licensed vagrancy , by a G overnment which either has not the power or th e will to p ro t ect t h em, Th e migration (mania, as i t has been ignorantly de nominated) extends fur ther than ev en these limits ; the inhabitants of Wo r c ester and of t he Drakenstein s, cl ose to Cape Town, contemplate emigration from their " vexed" homes ; and a large body of those distant colonists are seriously thinking of leaving the places of their own birth, and the graves of their fathers, for the new C anaan. se:pfalvihth truth, that the It is stated omf a i gl delegates 1 , ne tg a sa n bt d easv l et j ü b o eseatl each despatched into the colony a Na n t c he ed diff erent colonial dist t r ua rc ie t bs s e , er i e nviting their fellow -countrymen to join the new tricolor which floats freely at th e R e p u bli c o f Natal ; and this call, it is to be feared, will be generally responded to ; the m ore especially since the return of the late Lieutenant• Governor, Captain Stockenstrom, with such marks of distinction from the Home ssubjects--how j e e tbw profoundly . l Govern ment—proving o how u eit sympathi zes with its wronged ignorant overwhelmingly it isofth real feel ings of the colonists—and ho wpowerful is that irresponsible anti-coloni . al faction which can pluck f rom t h e hands of s laie h sty t s l t i e e al Imperial Ga er rhau ' s scep tre, and r u l e the colonies 'raven Journal of July 2. We are informed that Prince Albert ig likely to have the command of the household troops at the next vacancy, and that he will than resign the llth Hussars. INVENT/40 reErthiAL Ttu: UNION. 7'o THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - Dublin, Oct. 22, 1840. " Iron may wake the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory on consc,'enee. It will be obeyed as long as England is strong ; but resistance to it will be in the abstract a duty ; ,andthe exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question (of prudence." above are not my words. They arc the words of WILLIAM SAURIN, who was the cherished and ad mired organ of the Orange party in Ireland. He was not punished for these words. He was rewarded for his political principles. Ile was, for about twenty years, the Tory Attorney-General for Ireland, and, in fact, the principal instrument of Government during that ti7ne. He was even offered the office of Lord Chief Justice, which he refused ; and he was the political tutor of Peel during his Irish Secretaryship. I, in the most express terms, deny the esmvetenev of Parliament hi pass tke Act of Union. I warn you. do not dare to lay your hands on the Constitution. I tell you that if; circumstanced as you are, you pass Ai.; Act, IT WILL BE A NULLITY ; AND THAT NO MAN IN IRELAND WILL BE BOUND TO OBEY IT. I make this assertion deliberately. I repeat it, and call on any man who hears me to take down my words." . . . Yourselves you may extinguish, bat Parliament you cannot extinguish. It is enthroned in the hearts of the People ; it is enshrined in the sanc tuary of the Constitution ; it is immortal as the island it protects. As well might thefrantic maniac hope that the Act which destroys his miserable body should ex tinguish his eternal soul. Again, therefore, I warn you, do not dare to lay your hands on the Constitu tion ; it is above your power." These are not my words. They are the words of a man, who, after he pronounced them, was made At. torpey-General, first to the Whigs, and then to the Tories, and then to the Whigs again. He was eleva ted to the office of Master of the Rolls in England, He was neat appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Com mon Pleas in Ireland—and he is now Lord Chancellor Plunket. There is such a total ignorance in England of the manner in which the Irish people think and feel upon the subjects of the Union, and of a domestic Parlia ment, that I deem it a duty to give you the foregoing specimens of the sentiments of the highest and rankest Irish Tories ; and of the most elevated and talented of the Irish Whigs. In your paper of the .sth of September, you have ar raigned (aF you were fully entitled to do) my conduct in seeking for the Repeal of the Union Statute ; and you have entered into an argument to prove the utility of that statute to Ireland. I thank you for arguing the question. Your colleagues of the English press do not condescend to argue the matter at all. On , . portion of that press employs itself in calumniating me, vi:if 3 ing ray motives, and falsifying my projects and plans. Another portion of that press contents itself with un generous insinuations and with entreaties to spare the W'aig Administration, and not to be the means of re storing the Tories to power ; ends which I certainly have not in view ; and which my conduct I firmly be lieve, is calculated to prevent and not to facilitate. But you, Sir, take the proper course. You come out upon me with arguments—with reasoning —and, although you mix up some incivilities with )our logic, yet, upon the whole, yours is an effort to persuade and to convince. Therefore, our mode of warfare has— (for I can afford to forgive incivilities)—my warm and decided approbation. I wish I could give equal commendaCon to your matter as I have done to your manner. I cannot, how ever, do so. For you really are as ignorant as any of your Contemporaries of the Press of the real state of the question. The grounds of your reasoning arc con sequently pure assumption. And tour persuasive powers are thrown away in this country, because ever}- body in Ireland perceives and knows the fallacy of your opinions, and the unfounded nature of your statements. You totally miatake all that relates to the efficiency of the Irish Parlia•nent—to the mode in which the Union was brought about—and to its effects upon the Irish people. The first gross blunder—(pardon me for using the word)—that you fall into, is the supposition that there is a real Union between the two countries. I do, indeed, think that you arc a man of candour, and that you will, after some short reflection, admit that it is a blunder to suppose that a real Union exists. There is no such thing. I assert, positively, that there is no real union between the countries. Let us understand each other, and define the mean ing of our words. A Union does not mean the dead letter of an Act of Parliament, or a set of words traced upon parchment or printed upon paper. A Union be tween two countries means a complete political amal gamation, and a complete identification of the inhabi tants of both, in their rights, franchises, and privileges ; in short, a perfect equality in the eye of the law, of all the people of both nations. A Union means the con stituting of one nation by all the people of both countries. Again, the word " Union," does not describe the connection between master and slave ; bctreen so vertigo State and dependant province. If there were a Union between Great Britain and Ireland there would be no difference in rights, fran chises, and political power, between the inhabitants of Cork and those of Kent ; between the people of Kerry and those of Yorkshire ; of Mayo and of Norfolk. Now, Sir, I ask you two questions. First, Do you agree with me in my definition, or description of what constitutes an actual, real Union ? 1 anticipate that your answer is, (because it plainly ought to be) in the a ffirmative. My sccbnd question then is—Does such a Union exist between Great Britain and Ireland ? I atn sure you are too honest and too intelligent not to answer at once—that no suck Union exists. And alter that admission—what respect can I pay to a paper or parch ment Union ? But as you have provoked this discussion, I am sure you will permit me to show to those who are not as candid as yourself, the various points upon which the rights, franchises, and political power of the people of Great Britain, data from those of the people of Ireland, For the greater clearness, we will take these points numerically. FIRSTLY .—TheEcclesiastical revenues of England be long to the Church of the majority of the English people. In England the people are altogether free from the obligation of supporting the Church of the minority of the English people. The Ecclesiastical revenues of Scotlar.d belong to the Church of the majority of the Scottish pevlc. In Scotland the people arc altogether free from the obliga tion of supporting the Church of the minority of the Scottish people. But in Ireland the Ecclesiastical State revenues, belong by law to the Protestant Episcopalian Church ; consisting of less than one-tenth of the entire popula tion. The people of Ireland alone, are compelled to support the Church of a small minority of the popu lation ! Is this a Union? I ask you to answer me fairly and honestly. You cannot affirm that it is a Union. Would the people of England endure that the Church of a small minority of the English people, say of the English Catholics, should be endowed with all the ecclesiastical State revenues of England? I say THEY WOULD NOT! and they would be base slaves if they did ! Or, would the people of Scotland endure that the Church of a small minority of the Scottish people (say the Protestant Episcopalian Church) should be endowed with all the Ecclesiastical State revenues of Scotland.? I say THEY WOULD NOT! and they would be base slaves if they did ! But I say more— that when the question practically arose in Scotland, the people of Scotland turned out upon the mountain side, unsheathed their good broadswords, and resisted to the death (and successfully resisted) that species of despotism. 'this is a mode of resistance not calculated for the present day. But the Irish are not such base slaves as to ad,nit that there is a Union between countries in which these essential disparities exist in the first and most sacred of popular and religious rights. The people of Ireland, therefore, have not the same freedom of conscience that the people of England have. Do you call that a Union % And yet the. Irish people do not require that the ecclesiastical State revenues shall be applied, as in England and Scotland, to the Church of the majority. They know the debasement of spiritual utility which the State gold necessarily in duces. They are for the voluntary principle. But they defy you, or'anybody else, to allege that there is a real Union so long as the present disparity continues —and continues hopeless of relief. SECONDLY.—There is no Union between the two 1 countri es ; b ecause t h e I r i s h peop l e h ave no t an equal proportionate share in the representation with the 1 people of England or of Scotland. two millions and a half. The people of Ireland tor their g millions. The Scotch have 53 representatives Take Scotland first. The people o f la S n c d ot a la rc rid ei a i r i e t have but 105 for two millions and a half. The Irish land, with a population not amou o n re i g than one-half the 1 the population of Ireland, has possessed by Ireland! If their eight millions!!! That is. in ;?o ther to w ( o n r i d e s t . itn. c l o o t- f number of representatives Ireland,pess for the 53 Members there were a real Union, e ore than 150. She has of Scotland, ought to A ga i e _Englan,.., wi t h u dile adevof the d populationffa ' o n c f '' .13 millions, Ireland, with a population of has s t 5 10 0 5 5 —sheis 8 millions, has but I . oa. . - thus England, with a popu lationth tof Ireland , ha s about to twice a not approa ch i ng number of Representatives! ! ! ded of the difference. There is there- Ireland is defrau ded represe ntat i ves . d e'irr a , THIRDLY.—There is no real Union between the two countries • ; because, I repeat, Ireland was, and continues b e , defrauded of her adequate number of representa• to th e , ; even taking that number on the basis on which the calculations for united representation were made by fore Lord Castlereagh himself at the time of the Union. His scale was formed upon the assumption, amongst \other things, that the population of Ireland, was only two-fifths, whereas in point of fact it was more than two thirds, of that of England. He underrated the eons parative imports, exports, and revenue . of Ireland. ,And no :rs five ea i times Union. GREECE. SYKA, OCT. 11.—The King and Queen of Greece have lately visited this town. They remained three days, and the Mayor and Town Council gave a grand bad to their Majesties. His Majesty has refused to sanction the establishment of an English Bank at Athens, for 2,000,000 of drachms, unless it would restrain its ca pital to 500,000, People wonder what can be the motive of such a refusal, so much against the interests of Greece, and the wonder is increased, when no privi lege of issuing paper was required, as the bank was in tended to lend money on mortgage and to discount ac ceptances. Torture is practised at Athens. A Greek (though a Turkish subject) happened to be in a house where a robbery for about four hundred dol lars was committed. He was accused, taken up by the Captain of gendarmerie, and moat horrib y tortured at different times to obtain a confession ; at last, after suffering unheard-of cruelties, such as being hung up by the 14s, an iron hoop screwed round h:s forehead, wounds inflicted in his thighs and legs, &c., he managed to send a message to the Turkish Minis ter, who claimed him, and who has addressed a strong official note to the Greek Government. The person who superintended all this torture, and who ordered it, is named Zeno, and he is the only person daily admitted to an audience of the King, whereas his Greek ministers are obliged to apply for a whole week together before they can get an audience, howsoever urgent may be their business ! FALL OF THE TiIIERS CABINET (From the Conslitutionna.) SPIRIT OF THE PARISIAN PRESS OF FRIDAY. The Cabinet of the Ist of March retires. This de termination was dictated by a sense of duty to the King and to the country. A serious shfferenci' arose upon the most important points of the speech from the throne. In the circumstances by which we arc sur rounded, we must confess that the deep importance of the consequences attached to the dejsiens which may be come to explains the difference of opinion. A para graph in the speech from the throne is an entire sys tem of conduct—it is an engagement of the future. The Ministry of the Ist of March was pledged by its acts to a policy with which it desired that its atti ex:;terait.:(t;cocifvaedlettister:,:tflaaittehdrull'airlicse,oSuanttu,r)-f tude and its language before the chambers should correspond. The power which is not responsible is not, on the contrary, bound by the acts of its Ministers. The following It is not surprising,_ therefore, that, at the moment day evening. may y relate attiewb version 1 l u a i t l v o h u a r ie b heard to • o f consulting the Chambers as to the line of eon _ t h e diff erence between his M ajesty Louis Philipp e and 1e duct to be observed, opinions should differ as to the M. 'riders : mode of presentirg the question. It was the duty lam about to of of the Cabinet to submit its ()Nil system ; this was also the immediate or hidden. "uses of the Ministerial its right ; but the Crown, considering that it is not res- breaking up which has just taken place. ponsible for what has taken place, could propose a less ‘, And first, as M. significant speech, or one even in a different sense, and Thiers and favourable to the King, Louis Philippe. this it has done. The Cabinet would in a manner have It is asserted that some time ago M. Thiers, having pronounced a condemnation upon the measures which it ca ll e d toge ther MM. Chambollc, e di tor of the had adopted, if it had presented itself to the Chain- Siecle, and Leos Faucher, editor of the Cowriet bers without a s y s tem of action. It could not do so Franrai,e, showed them that it was all very well and theref o re res i gne d. Oth e rs may go before the talking about engaging France in a mortal conflict Chambers without a system, or even with one of a with four EuroPean P owers of great ma gnitude, contrary policy to that of the Ministry of the tat of b u t th a t her material means were compl e t e ly insuf- March. There must now be a new Cabinet, and it is ficient for such an attempt. It is said that they both difficult to say how it will be composed. We are sure expressed great - c°ffl'it'en at having, th ro ugh igao that the Ministers who have given in their resignation ranee, incited the Government to such extremities, P. ico s. 0 11 iO ll 4 hi' 13 1 '. tbl 0 6' P rr 5 11. C. 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