The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-07 00:00:00

tVENING EDITION. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. WOOLWICH, OCT. 6. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—The non-commissioned officers sa d gunners and drivers appointed to proceed to Con stant inoPle were ord ere d, w h en th ey arrived in London o° Saturday night last, to keep themselves in commu meation w i t h one of the Members of the Foreign Office, v jlao, instead of allowing them to wait for the first tralti by the railroad to Southampton, ordered post-chaises, 1, 1 1 1 (1 they were dispatched by express to Portsmouth, e t ! with two persons connected with the Turkish assY. At Portsmouth they were to embark for t i2 L ta as the quickest mode of conveyance to their a.l,l,tte destination. 4°YAL ARBENAI —Yesterday tickets were placed O ti ti ev t _ll i e doors of the . I:arions departments of this great admitted depot prohibiting the public who might ,. be . wilatettted to the grounds from entering any place 4 44 re workmen are employed, and to which they ef ea sy access un til th e i n t e lligence was received St a late cal am i tous fi re i n D e vonport Dockyard. herjltilagers are ordered to withdraw from every place, the ° la the dockyard and Royal arsenal, an hour before te, t lp t a lr a , leave wo r k. Parties visiting the dockyard a pared -Iv remain at the gate until a policeman can be L er i ° accompany them, and consequently the num 14,1111.Ying for ad m i ss i on is not nearly so great as it y a rtag the last month. Raan n sterd ay a very serious accident occurred to a . a „ar u driv er o f t h e R o y a l A r till e ry, named John kild - • it is the usual practice to send men with a horse 4 1 4. 4 4 , 11 4) the upp er par t o f th e Common to collect the 0n 11 tired at the fli ,-, -stafF from the mortar battery. ,_ wee e "'lay, while the men employed on this duty' is work, J o h n Bee ha d c h arge o f t h e h o rse, and foot nd f oot ° action o f stoop i ng t h e an i ma l t ram pled oa his out cau se d hi m to f a ll, an d before he could get forty — h , the way the cart, loaded with shells varying from a reak . " ° 1 ° upwards of 0 00 lbs. weight went over him, te ro 111°g several ribs and otherwise injuring him in tee: l• To• day he is in a high state of fever, and his Very 1 , doubtful. OF LORD MAYOR. ttEO., 4t , Were LivutvmF.N,—Before these vile aspersions the T st3t upon the character of Alderman Harmer, by Yea r ° l es newsp a p er , you h a d known him for several h earts Past only as an active, clever, generous, openA 4 r i ta ed gentleman, a n d a most efficient Magistrate. as ellange must have taken place all at once for 1 h ave become what the Times represents him to have observed in th e cons t an t h a bit of seeing him, and I I thalerved n o thi ng o f thi s c h a nge ; on the contrary, more kind-hearted and generous than ever. 4 4 2, 61 " you an instance of this :—On passing through dr e g' nu ds at Ingress the other day, I noticed a bun ;4lc' a a n , tl I. tY men employed in cutting down and clea k r - - t a %' an immense mound of chalk ; and on remar we Alderman that he was incurring an enormous . e-4 e. ‘. p tiad re , i e he replied, r,_ ws poc k ets, to Pounds a week into these poor lino their wives and children with? " Pure religion Sp th e sad r , id e 6 led before God is, to visit and relieve the poor lle '44041 tidistress ;" at least Christianity tells to so. 'The I are th te ,d front of his offending," as far as you and tatia„ tri , e d, is, that some yerrs ago, when he had some ‘ 1 0(1: 1 1_" ) invest, the Dispatch newspaper was brought fa r C e r r his notic e by the present part-proprietor, invest thing i w " sole proprietor, and thinking it a good invL , s o_ ilo embarked his money therein. There was 1. hily g the Dispatch at that period to have prevented t his P' c 'd man' s d o i ng the same. But, in making I 'l 4 411,"sinient there was no understanding either tale he was to write in the paper, or to die bthe L ari auie ghat I s i tould be w ritten. It was not pro would be permitted to do this, whilst Ao t lginal p ropr i etor rema i ne d . Wh enever o pi n ions seljt,s, e h nti ments hav e b een promu l ga ted offensive to him till at W eS he to do? Remonstrate? He has done 1 1 / 4 „; uundred times, and in the strongest terms! Prop; nex t? Buy o u t hi s p a rtner, and become sole *oai r et ° l ' in order to control the paper. His partner paperbought out. NN ' Cot be • ? Throw up the hat thin I ' l / 41 e Who i s the man among us that has moral eon year?nangb to throw up se v er al thou , and Funds vesper The " head and front of his offending," as ! eta !he Times newspaper is, that the two Efitors e. , rat e t ad a ,"portal quarrel, and no means are too despe kaabo re..-ted to to injure one another. Alder- Pa rt . ionie r a n 3 the Mayoralty are the vulnerable of th wit h the Editor of the Dispatch. The Editor stro T imes knows this, and cares nothingaholu.etadee viptt an innocent man, so that he gain hisre there tieriii)!alter and the Southwark election were and Mr. W vul alt'e Part with the Editor of the 11% e l; Was attacked by the Dispatch." But he was has b e4 'utnniated half so much as Alderman Harmer tiles et) in the Times, because the fe ud between Qi a ;, `rwo Editors had not then assumed the deadly r 'tter that it has since done. I am, &C. A STAUNCH CHURCHMAN. 411 ' AND TEIE TIMES. St' To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. , h a d ev IS the English public, or if private individuals, Lpensibi n s i 9Pcsed that a newspaper proprietor wes re : iSt ! ai r s for what was said by , newspaper writers, I : 114 i'e t ra -4t rk i\ . lr • Walter would have had many a drub -"hie'. forth and A man like Mr. Walter pretending to ahh" a nd preach up religion (the very thing . he IN 4' a nd virtu e (of which he never had a grain), to 4. -11Plete mock. I would advi. e Mr. Walter not tili , titi t 4' tl, ll , l l el : \r ia nguage : if he does, I will expose some- Walter will not like. et-sti Rct, Cit Z. H. Y. Liveryman of the City of London. 1 P -eltsEcuTlON THE JEWS IN THE EAST. T he . I '6at 'nn " MA.Yor. received the following cominun-i -taedi'rnm rn mtha Ru ss ian Minister, relative to the 'ne 31NI at I • t of the Persecution of 13.1(wsubject ama a cu on ' be sub 1 Ily / Asbburnham-house. i kilow . .4 041, , n ,t. i accordance with my duty, I made on W h b lett il y t :,:" Int erial Government the communication ti atni --‘," d:d m P e the honour to entrust to me, of ut -; 4 : 0 -s interest which the meeting held in the ty (/` thel" Manifested on the occasion of the persecution i LI D a sr , le lites at Damascus. 11, 1 / 4 :?1 - 1 L e r Z that document before the Imperial Cabinet, ith,( l ,or the po your . desire, _I was persuaded before % ttrip„... Ind sentiments and sympathy with which it.. 4 'sn'f ' a l Government would receive so honourable 111 on l estat inu of the roceed;ng; of the citizens of Lon ti a question of such deep interest. l ia n : 7 infinite satisfaction to me to offer to you a te e s- - tti teti sa t! t he 'cello.. with which the resolutions were the t° 1 ) 1 t n 'Y t _ i r ansnii7tin g to your Lordship herewn I,his 11 : t t/O' t t i l e des patch Which I have just received from . ' r t i te tir 'n V ice-C ' haellor, by which he desires . to 4 , 4 2 tit t :,,.?° 11 his warmest 'thanks for the interes . t:ng 11 . 411 ti"nn, a to you, at the same time, ''tte lb "'''' t ile princial find the humanity it announces l *,\lttie:(l;lsteciated bv'th e e s ' Government and his Imperial the, • .._ -eive, my Lord, my highest cons ideration,. To the Lord BRU N OW. . - May or o f L on d on . , ko . k . Petersburgh, August 31. ,o lki . -,., Artors,,— t Is y of ) v Itut 13 ' I ' m duty to acknowledge *l'M] Ex the receipt your despatch, by k inti.... Y°4 do me the honour to transmit to . me the re ti°o. Z i 'D - assed at the meeting, held in the city of .ILeons -1!1)-; t he subject of the persecutions which the he -41 Y a. 14t118 bar e had recently to submit to from th 111)444 anthwities. th IStd 004 4 °t t the principles of humanity and justice, the --e h i 61. 4 . t1 "s of that ttonourablo mectia; could no t. t but t 1)4441 1c...." ,PPreciated by the Imperial Government. p atchll l, tere lYof the unanimous and lively interest ti E t fat e ,ol les: unfortunate inhabitants inspire 1 4i4 : 414aci i . ) ; 82°. t 1 they have been to the EgYP -4.;,,°".44-Pesjeca'ed( associates as itself to the declarations 114) 11,'' 111.4t a 'n the anal of that meeting for the s the atre ni: such revolting abuses and atrocities n tb a .e, ` 4 eat r ,, 'Nell the city of Damascus has lately been b e i" 1 ; 11 e Lr,,,1 Monsieur Baron, to- offer this testimony to ; 11t ere4 r ;' ' Il aYur, and to thank him particularly for the ‘" t hcs - ' `,T ‘ vul itnunicati on which his Lordship has made hei ~,uveroinent through your means. . liti trat i" The assurance of my distinguished con- Oo„ (Signed) NESELRODE. THE LATE ASSASSINATION IN PARIS.- The body of the unfortunate female assassinated in the Rue des Boucheries is still exhibited in the Morgue. An immense crowd of spectators, greedy of horrors, is every day to be seen there gazing at the corpse, covered with wounds and contusions, the head almost completely severed from the trunk, and the hair clotted with blood. There seems to be no reasonable motive for prolonging this hor ' rible exhibition, no fewer than four individuals having been arrested and charged with the murder. There is every Li ..... probability that the real assassin will be immediately dis t ...g Ivr - 1". Z°...._. _ ._,.............._ covered, and there would certainly seem to be no ade tll6l:,'NueneT:fl'ltoPOLlTAN POLICE ACT.— ID quate reason for the exposure of this unsightly Nelf i Vige numerous accidents having arisen through corpse . for . a period exceeding a week. Of the hate 6t gene nee of the drivers of carts, waggons and other four individuals arrested and charged with the murder • 2 ' t he C div I, sued Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police ono is a . female. All four have been twice _ con -411104 to *met orders for the constables of the various fronted with the body. They were confronted the It i t e i 4 th art; b rin g to justice all offenders who infringe open second time on Saturday, at two o'clock, and then con etnitrutale'et'ileua:__th,e, Ever sectinift . he Act referred to ducted to the house in which the crime was committed.. 4 1440 C rr i age, who : i,:irly.person h aving t h e carer of an ' From the inquiries which have been instituted, it would :ithou t l a ° ; n any horse or r go t t d h e er on a any animal drawing th.ereoth,eosuimtheye, appear that the assassin and his victim supped together after entering the apartment on the night of the 25th of t i',c e h eo a ta di eit v a i n n e g e a fr n ( c ) l re ho_ldi . n the reins a ; . or a wh i o ng shall be at September. A wine bottle entirely empty, and a brandy th e 1.. piete control aueu cart or carriage as not to have bottle, in the bittern of which there were only a few 1 11 t , ii e rae, ehetuje over every horse or animal drawing drops left, were found upon a table near the bed, and 4(4 course of p a" ld liable to a peealty not exceeding 405." upon a paper I d near it were found the marks of eat. A handkerchief marked hr eff endi the last fortnight a great number of per- some piveoF ° l. co , m • P °l 'ght bat °d►n agait - t. p L " which belonged neither to the deceased nor to ' .... oar -aOr e M t Hardwick, enactment nave ucen • •, 'a t , b 'r- ,at the M•sylebone Police the owner of the room, was also . found on the floor, toge vtnalt Y whom the of t,:,, i Y r °, l 20s. each, y . were very p ro p er ly fi ne d i n the they with . five pawnbroker's tickets. The publican has fill be ing brou 4.1'.1411Y would be with an intimation t h at i n t h e eve nt been discovered who sold the :vine and eau de vie to the ri ti fi l . ) c again ted . t\ ' efiteld„, ing she entered his shop, accompanied by a young man jebt,nes , ( ~- . Y) Mr. N th i e eh c o a l s s e appl e d to the I n solvent whom he thinks he will be able to identify. The pOli.. ,0,,,...., ,--ourt, i n ean was to be immediately confronted with the four parties lloli e -'_ . the C i o ty n f M r. Woodthorpe, the o h f ia L l o i n fe d , o o ;: e , l or b an order d to sell a arrested. o,erytoont Insurance leave to prove f d or y th a e creitor named tlyerten):ll4 forCASTLE, suLtEile,rDiano3l,tBlsTpoaCrtHy ,atNt.abß: this ancient — a a e r r i e h n e t residue. Mr. DuDketjaNnir Duchess of Olili ted K ,.!‘ , ‘ a creditor for 7311., and held a polio in the . baronial seat has been confined to Lord Francis Egerton, ,„k Itai,„... ln gdom for 1,2001., on which he paid the yearly Mr. David Dundas, the new M.P. for the ccunty, Mr. ha ,teld ":_ The object of Mr. Overton was that it might Loch, M. P., his Grace's agent, &c. The Duke and f 1 4, •,, de n ad for him to receive a dividend f or the residue Duchess, during their tour through their extensive posses le% , 'A out of 1,200/. a Year set aside for ... the creditors sions,com prising a million and a half of acres, inspected 0 1 Mr. Woodib ' 4 4y to ,id make no salary. The Court thought the schools and irovements inat Tongue, Port - - which his Ni cl ',,, „roue no order in the matter. The creditor ' skerra, Melvich, & c., from the inhabitants of i sel! . .thi seettrity and then apply. Grace received addresses, progress S , ►, PEACE OR WAR QUESTION. FROM THE FRENCH JOURNALS OF MONDAY. (From the Semi-official Constitutionnel.) If two opposite opinions, as is probable, have been manifested i❑ the Council, we ma- judge of the sort of doubt and mistrust which each must have of itself by the simple circumstance of its being opposed. In these extreme cases each party would only decide upon evi dence, and opinions are divided. Decision on any side is full of peril, and to escape from doubt it is natural to endeavour to obtain unanimity. In England, when the life of a single man is at stake, the jury must give an unanimous vote. It is surprising, therefore, that our Government, which has to decide as to the fate of se veral millions of men, should refrain from declaring its decision until it shall have obtained the unanimity which can alone fortify the consciences of men who have to decree peace or the perturbation of the universe. (From the Ministerial Cowrie). Francais.) Government is deliberating ; it is fully impressed with the importance of existing circumstances, and it will no doubt be desirous of fulfilling its duties i” all their extent. It had been said that there were divi sions in the heart of the Administration ; but if the situation of the country had caused any difference of opinion to arise, we believe that no trace of it remains at the present day. The Ministry is united, and re solved as to its proceedings ; we are confident that it will not meet with any obstacles, and that nobody will dare to advise it to act either with feebleness or with temerity. (From the Temps.) The first act of the execution of the Treaty of Lon don does not necessarily call for an immediate declara tion of war by France. We can conceive that the Government might reply to the occupation of Beyrout by taking possession of some important point which should remain in its hands as a guarantee of the very problematical disinterestedness of the allied Powers. An operation of this kind would keep in check the arrieres pensees of the dangerous protectors of the Ottoman empire ; but we persist in thinking that the taking of Beyrout ought not to provoke on our part the immediate adoption of extreme measures. (From the Journal des Debats.) • We hope England may not find herself under the sad necessity of involuntarily aggrandising herself else where, and place ue under the painful necessity of opposing her. (Frog the Presse, Court organ.) The Gazette de France contains the following pas sages : " Sunday, Five o'Clock, r.u.—Several Councils have been held. M. Thiers demanded that measures of war should be taken to reply to the bombardment of Beyrout. " The measures proposed by the adventurous spirit of M. Tillers are to force the Dardanelles in order to oppose the arrival of the Russians, support the move ments of Ibrahim, or force the blockade of Alexandria. " If we are well informed, he was opposed io the Council by a complete resistance. He was told that it was all very well to continue the armaments aril the fortifications, but that there was nothing in the state of things to induce any fresh resolution. " Then M. Thiers demanded that a casus belli should be established ; but this, it appears, was likewise re fused. M. Thiers then spoke of tendering his resigna tion, and in the day's Council it appeared probable that this situation would come to some denouement." We are inclined to believe that these details are not without a foundation of exactitude.• We think we could state the casus belli proposed by M. Thiers. It would appear that M. Thiers is of opinion that nothing ought to be done as long as the execution of the Treaty of London is confined to the northern part of Syria, but that as soon as it is made to bear on the southern part—that is to say, the part adjoining Egypt—that France ought to interfere and take the side of the Pacha. This is childish and absurd ; it is willing something and nothing ; it is simply reserving himself an eventual pretext for dissidence and withdrawal. The Treaty of London is not a work to be thus sawed in halves, accepting one half and rejecting the other. It must be accepted or rejected entirely. It it wounds the honour and interests of France, it wounds them as well by the destruction of Beyrout as by the destruc tion of St. Jean d'Acre. If the violences exercised upon the north of Syria may be looked upon with an eye of indifference, there is no reason for drawing the sword on account of any violences exercised upon the south. Intervention in the latter case would be even more useless and more dangerous than in any other, for it would not have been put into effect before the power of Mehemet Ali was struck to the heart, instead of being employed whilst it was yet possible to find strength and support in this power. An ulti mat urn of that kind is founded on no policy—it is mere childishness. That, however, which is a serious fact is, that M. Thiers wants to establish his casus belli in the absence of Parliament and without its concurrence. If he were to be listened to the French fleet would receive immediate instructions in this sense, and the Chambers would after wards be convoked ; that is to say, they would not be consulted until every thing was arranged for the deci sion of the question without their intervention. These pretensions are curious enough coming from a Parlia mentary Minister. They ought not to astonish any one however. For the last six months M. Thiers has done nothing but make use of the principle which brought him into power : he has never sincerely served it. (From the Courricr Francais.) We are calm, whatever the Debals may say to the contrary ; but we are determined. Those extremes which were at first contemplated with grief we now pre pare for as a necessary evil. Since the taking of Bey rout there is in the eyes of the Powers who signed the Treaty of London no other Power in Europe than themselves. We wish to replace the name of France on the map, from which it has been insolently struck out. In destroying the Pacha of Egypt they would de stroy France, vanquishing and degrading her without combat. We protested against this humiliation in the powerful language of the press so long as the Treaty was a mere written document ; now that the Four Powers pass from protocols to the most insensate acts we must reply to the defiance otherwise than by words. (From the Commerce.) The confusion of tongues seems to prevail in the Press of the Cabinet and that of the Palace. The Constilu•• tionnel, so pacific yesterday, is to-day magnificently cou rageous. The Revue de Paris, on the contrary, dis plays the standard of resignation. The Courrier and the Siecle call for energetic measures, and the Journal des Debats deprecates them as well as it can. Whom is it intended to deceive ? What is passing ? Why do not the Ministers speak out ? Why leave the public mind a prey to these painful doubts? This double game must have a❑ end. M. Thiers wishes to pass for a pattern Of firmness. But does he think to per suade the most simple by fine words? Let him re collect his loud note of preparation after the Treaty of London, and his prompt retreat. Let him cause him self to be called by the Constitutioned the most cncr getic representative of our n a tionality ; this is only laughable. What we now want is acts not words. When will the Ministry convoke the Chambers? Does it give orders to the officers of our fleet ? Is every thing ready for the mobilisation of the National Guard Has it returned a suitable answer, and will it publish its answer, to the Manifesto of Lord Palmerston ? Does it renounce its perfidious and illegal projects of fortifi cation ? This is the only manner which it has remain ing to return into the ways which it has completely abandoned, so that it is at this moment a repetition of M. Mole. Of the war journals, from which we have given no extracts, it will he sufficient to say, that they are still as violent as ever in calling for extreme measures, and in endeavouring to provoke the French Cabinet to a hasty decision by denouncing against it the indignation of the country, if it should still attempt to blend with what is due to national dignity those considerations of hu manity and that regard for commercial welfare, which can only be conscientiously laid aside when the alter native is really the sacrifice of national honour and the loss of that position in Europe which a great nation is entitled to hold. =mum THE SUN, LONDON', WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1840. WAR 1N SYRIA. We have before us an account, given by an officer of high talents and reputation, dated from the Camp off the heights of Djuna, the 19th of September. We cannot do better than extract from it the succinct nar rative of the operations of the Allied forces, and the statement, drawn up from the best sources, of the strength of the different corps at the disposal of Ibra him Pacha, and the positions occupied by them. It will be seen from this account that Ibrahim Paella is not in a condition to be able to force the Allied troops to re-embark " Orr the 10th September, at ten o'clock, "P.M., the Turkish troops and the British Marines effected a land ing at the Kelbson, 10 miles, and at the village of Djuna, 13i miles, north of Beyrout. " On the 11th September, a position was taken up on different heights, the right on the Kelbson, and the left on Djuna, the whole of the troe , eight bat talions of Turks opoo rank and filc . 1,500 Ma rines, being disposed in a semicircle, uttering them ex cellent and very strong positions. " A.* Third position-1,500 Marines, one battalion of Turks. " B. Second position—Four battalions of Turks. " C. First position—Three battalions of Turks. " Soliman Pacha bad made his dispositions against an attack to the south of Beyrout, and the troops landed consequently without opposition at Kelbson and Djuna. " A communication was immediately established with some of the mountaineer chiefs, and up to this day from 5,000 to 6,000 muskets have bn distributed, princi , aally through the means of Sheik— Francis and Abd , :lah Emir, a nephew of Emir Beschir. " iwo small forts north of this camp have also sur rendered : and according to Admiral Walker's returns he is now rationing 400 Egyptian or Albanian de serters and troops who have surrendered. " Ever since the 10th of Saptember Ibrahim Pacha has been manceuvring against this corps. On that day he was at Hachuxbe, fifteen hours E.S.E. of Beyrout ; on the 12th of September he was at Hanne's, fuur hours from our extreme right, but having reconnoitred it, he marched eight hours by his own right to Gatajos (on the 14th and 15th inst.), being then four hours from our left, but having reconnoitred it also, and finding it equally unattackable from the new position taken up by this corps, in consequence of the enemy's movements, Ibrahim Pacha withdrew to Merouba, two hours due cast from Gatajos, being thus to-day six hours from our position. " Some skirmishes have taken place between the newly armed mountaineers and the advanced guard of Ibrahim Pacha, in which the latter always fought to disadvantage. Sheik Francis was on two occasions sup ported by a battalion of regular Turkish infantry, who advanced several hours into the interior of the country. " The forces with Ibrahim Paella in person arc re ported to consist of about 4,000 Egyptian infantry, 1,200 Albanians, 2,500 Egyptians under Osman Bashar, come from Baalbec. 7,700 " Besides these, there are about 7,000 men, of whom 4,000 Cairo militia, under Soliman Basha (Salves ) are at Beyrout and near it. The loss of the latter division since the opening of the campaign is said to have been 1,000 men, killed and wounded, by the fire of the ships before Beyrout. " From all the information that I can collect, Ibrahim Paella seems for the present to have abandoned all idea of marching on Constantinople. Hiraself and all his principal officers are in this neighbourhood ; and several corps from the northern parts of Syria have been moved in a southerly direction. " All reports agree that the following distribution may be considered as tolerably correct :- 10th September, 1840. With Ibrahim Paella at Merouba With Soliman Paella at Beyrout - - At Baalbee, a regiment of Turks forced Men. • 7,700 7,090 - 3,000 _ - 1'2,000 _ - 4,000 into the service At Acre s Saida, &c. - At Tripoli - - For small forts on the coast in this neighbour• hood - 1,300 85,000 " If the whole effective army of Ibrahim in Syria, from the Egyptian frontiers to Adana, is estimated at 60,000, I believe it rather above than below the mark, my estimate from various sources being— Twenty-five regiments of infantry, 2,000 men each ef fective - - - - 50,000 Eleven regiments of cavalry, 1,200 each - 13,200 Albanians and artillery - - - 6,800 70,000 - - 10,000 Deduct non-combatants, sick, &c. 60,000 " Taking from this amount of 60,000 the above 35,000, there remain 25,000, from which garrisons must be furnished to a great many places not in the above list, besides the garrisons of the lines of the Taurus. " For the present Ibraharn cannot think of moving on towards Asia Minor and Constantinople, and this march becomes the less possible as the season is advanc ing and the Taurus will be covered with snow. " The troops of the Sultan w 'dell hitherto covered Constantinople against such a movement, become therefore disposable, and ought to reinforce us here. " There is no possibility of conquering Syria with 5,010 Turks, and in order to render the insurrection aeainst Mehemet Ali more general and formidable, we must be able to advance deeper into the mountains, as the Emir Beschir and Ibrahain, by occupying the passes in a semi-circle round us, prevent the peasants in many parts from joining us." No idea is entertained by this intelli g ent cfficer of the possibility of a successful attack by Ibrahim Paella ; and the obstacle in the way of a reduction of all Syria, to which he alludes, namely, the inability to supply from such a small corps detachments for the clearing of the various mountain passes, was about to be removed by the embarkation of 10,000 Turkish troops already or dered at Constantinople. When these additional troops arrive, the whole Syrian population will be enabled to reach their gallant deliverers. We may thus confidently anticipate the termination of the rule of Mehemet Ali in Syria. The Roman capitals have reference to a sketch which accompanied the description. national guardsman. High words passed on the occa sion, and Mr. Waghorn xas violently Ejected and severely beaten. It would appear, however, that there was something to be said on both sides of the question, as, on making application for redress to Boghos Bey, Mr. Waghorn terminated the matter a l'amiable, by signing an apology." privilege without injury to their temporal duties, and certainly to the benefit of their spiritual ones. A highly valued friend is desirous that there should be a half week-day holiday set apart by the Legislature for the same purpose ; an excellent recommendation if the remaining work time were sure to be more profit ably employed, otherwise wealth and wages would suffer. —Symons's Popular Economy. THE POOR-LAW IN SCOTLAND. The following is the substance of a paper read at the British Association by Dr. W. Alison, on the Manage ment of the Poor in Scotland : He stated that it was not his intention to enter into the question of the religious obligation, humanity, or policy of systematic relief, but merely to illustrate the system established in Scotland. The Scottish law re quires the heritors, ministers, and elders of parishes to levy a tax for the support of their poor ; but the law is disobeyed or evaded, and the assessment varies from la. to 3s. 6d. per head in different parishes, the lowest sum being often levied in those districts where relief is most required. This irregularity arises from the tax-payers having nearly an uncontrolled power of assessing and distributing the poor-rates. There is also a prevalent belief that poor-laws tend to in crease the amount of pauperism, and deteriorate the character of the paupers. But it was plain that the onus probandi rested with those who did not obey the law ; for those arguments would apply equally well to private charity, which must have the same tendency as that attributed to the legal provision. Now, many facts might be quoted to prove that the Scotch system had not had any beneficial effect in decreasing the numbers of the poor, but that on the contrary, the poor pressed upon the means of subsistence, and endured privations as painful to human life, as was the case in any country in Europe, where the relief of the poor had law in its favour. The amount of destitution in the rural districts is very various, but those which present the most favourable aspect arc either in the vicinity of large towns, or have a very small proportion of non-resident proprietors. It must not be supposed that those who come from. the country to the towns intend to become paupers ; ihey come to ook for labour, but they cattle in greater }4filubers than were needed ; many of them are feeble and disabled, end in spite of their privations they are unwilling to return home. The Scotch law of settlement, which requires only three years' residence, has no founda tion in statute, but was sanctioned by the Court of Session so late as 1767, previous to which the support of indigent persons was thrown upon the place of their nativity. Were the old law re vived, there were facts to prove that the amount o misery in Edinburgh would be greatly diminished. Of 871 out-pensioners of the city charity, only 259, or 1 in 3 36, are natives of Edinburgh, and of 432 inmates of that house, only 143 are natives ; and of the out pensioners 82 are Irish and 24 English. Similar dis proportions, between natives and strangers receiving relief, were shown to exist in Dundee, Aberdeen, and several other towns. Out of 1,000 admissions into the Night Refuge, 487 only were natives of Edin burgh ; 163 were Irish ; 37 English ; 9 foreigners, and the rest from various parts of Scotland, Of 346 persons applying for relief to the Benevolent and Strangers' Friend Society in July, 1840, only 14 were natives of Edinburgh ; 65 Scotch ; .51 Irish, and 21 English, who had spent the prime of their life in that city ; 89 Scotch, 77 Irish, and 29 English had not done so. Several other tables were quoted in proof that the larger proportion of the charitable relief given in Scottish towns is bestowed on strangers, and that a change in the law of settlement would relieve the towns from the pressure which they now feel. Evidence of redundant population, want of employment, and distress of the poor, was collected from the answers to q ueries issue d by a society for inquiring into pauperism in Edinburgh. The num ber of persons who replied to these queries was 28 ; out of these, 26 declared that they had seen a vast amount of destitution during the last winter ; 22 out of 25 declared that in numerous instances they had seen necessary articles of furniture and clothing sold to procure subsistence ; 27 out of 28 described the food of the poor as scanty and precarious ; 20 out of 26 ascribed much of this misery to intemperance, but some were inclined to believe that the in temperance might have been as much the result as the cause of misery ; 23 out of 24 declared that many families of labourers arc out of work several months in the year, and added that this was the case with artizans, single women, and widows with fami. lies, who were willing to work ; 13 out of 15 dc. scribed several instances in which numbers of indi viduals or families were associated in one room to diminish rent, and were thus exposed to influences pernicious to health and morals. To take one instance (said the Doctor), where fifty might be given, there was a close in the Cowgate of Edinburgh where 48 families resided, ccnsisting of 158 persons. Of this 48 there were 10 widows who did not earn, even when em ployed, more upon an average than 2s. 6d. a-week ; the larger portion of them had only occasional em ployment ; few of them had permanent employ ment, and some of the men did not earn mare than 3s. 6d. by their labours. Their furniture was scanty in the extreme ; and 16 of them had neither furniture nor bedding at all ; out of the whole number not more than five could be stated to be of intem perate habits. Of the very small number who received aid from the parish, the allowance did. not amount to more did nii!. then. receive' anything. Under these ezreprostanoss ' 'huddled together inlirrEl4t efittibth-s4W iff sd. per week. A widom.,with.ugg,oikec,hihi, the pctir were of self-respect--step by step they sunk into the depths single apartment ; wre tchedness banished ever y fielin g of wretchedness and demoralization. He dwelt at some length on the increasing neglect of the education of their children by the poor ; and endeavoured to prove that disease, particularly fever, ought to be ascribed to destitution, rather than to the want of drainage, ven tilation, or cleanliness. He referred to the exhumations which had been made in Paris, and in Seville, to the prevalence of fever in localities which were compare. tively high and clean, while those in apparently less fa vourable situations were free from disease ; and to the reports published under the sanction of Government, respecting the great fever in Ireland, to show that want of proper food was more commonly the source of conta gioustlisord, r than any otherphys'cal circumstance. Hence I he concluded, that the drainage of the irrigated meadows, which bear the blame of the insalubrity of Edinburgh, wille ect all to h expected, but that a proper want and misery would su pply lf effective food more sanatory regulations of po lice. of The Doctor concluded by stating the social re sults which he expected to follow from establishing a Poor ; dwelling chiefly on its destroyingthe nests of pauperism which are frightful ext ent i n near ly a ll th e towns of legaleS sff c 'te o ac t bt l l e a s ir: provision d;dd t eacha for the of which is a source of misery to the time entire comm unit y . inhabitants , d isease to the nei g hbourhood, and terror to SUNDAY HABITS; of THE LON DONERS. The whole of London airs itself on Sundays. We bare already noticed this change i n the metropolitan habits. The shoals of the working classes who are ex changing their pothouse Sabbath habits for the fresh air of the s urrounding country, are creating an era in the habits of towns. It is the opinion of medical men that the increased healthfulness of London is materially pro duced by this Sunday air-taking. It must not be . supposed that the churches are deserted for the country jaunts ; i t is the gin temple, not the hlouse of God, that suffers by the change ; they who went to church before go still. There are churches in the country,and the scenery, of nature is at as the might be a s et t i o ca e b ff il e i e ty t, o it f any least as inspiring in the worship of "Natures God " fumes and vapours of crowded streets and reeking b eer . shops. There are no class of persons whose motives are more to be respected, or judgment to be deplored, than they who oppose the innocent recreations of th e sal). bath. Could we suddenly spiritualise the whole popu lation, and achieve a millennium of religious perfection, wherewith there could exist no vices to be shunned,' a n n e d ces r s e a m ry ain t e o d c n o o ns i i m de p r rosi h e e m e p a r t the entire as to decrease what is mea sures for observing the sanctity of the Sabbath , although, even then, he e a n n eee vi ss ! ityof procure physical labJu ' r for six days would induce the necessity of physical refreshment on the seve nth. As the case stands, soy ,or theis,Andifim possibleincreasein- nocent leavingThe necessarilySund a y mental, o i urban population, moving and closing for to leave them congregated n towns on a day of rest is the most direct mode of making them drunken and debauched. followed That a contrary effect not only will, but has he fallowing from a contrary course, appears from t but statement made by Mr. Joseph Hume,of which 1 have not been able to ascertain the accuracy, t h ough I be lieve it is foun ded on fact :—., In the first five months of 1838 there were . 2,3 . 80 arrests in London of disorderly persons d drk lB - 40 "1 the same period of 1839, 2,9.20, --an- of _ , 1,320." The ques tion is, whether the Sabbath is better kept by sobriety or drunkenness ; they w h o think by the former must cease to think that the better observance of the Sabbath can be effected by deriving the poorer classes of coin• partitively innocent enjoyments, . and of the utmost faci lity for country a iring and recreation. We are con stantly told of the breach of . the Sabbath abroad, and yet if amount of Sunday sin is test, the Sabbath is at least twice as much broken in this country as in any Con tinental one. Not only as a Physical remedy but as a moral one, not alone as a means of healthfulness, but for the sake of the better observance of the Sab bath, it i s s urely most desirable that every description of recreation which may tendto refresh the body with out injuring the mind, an d to elevate the mind without Y be opened t o th e peop l e on th e confining the body , ma only day on which they can partake of so improving 0 EGYPTIAN NEWS. We find the following from Alexandria, 16th ult., in the Malta Times : Mehemet Ali, in addition to the sufficiently-serious embarrassments of his relations with the Porte and her Allies, has nearly been involved in a separate quarrel with England, arising from the obstinacy of Boghos Bey and the baneful venom of monopoly which unhappily pervades every artery of his commercial system, contrary alike to the letter of our ancient capitulations with the Sublime Porte, as it is inconsistent with the sound ame liorating spirit whieb distinguishes those recent treaties and charters, which have been framed with the view of infusing renewed vigour into all the members of the Turkish body politic. On the 7th inst. a Maltese boat was in the act of conveying, between three and four thousand pounds sterling worth of coin from the schooner Emmetje, now lying in this port, to her Majes ty's steam-frigate Cyclops, when she was boarded by a Custom-house officer, the groups (as the bags of coin are called) seized, and the man in charge rudely handled and deprived of his purse. The Emmetje is under con tract to carry the British mails to and from Beyrout, and the money in question was old coin she brought from Syria for account of a mercantile house, which had purchased it at its intrinsic value as old gold. Boghos Bey hail either got intelligence of the intended ship ment, or the lookrs-out from the fort had espied the boat in its progress, and thus made the seizure. Mr. Friend, the mail contractor, immediately lodged a com plaint, and on the same evening her Majesty's Consul in this port went to a villa of Moharrem Bay, where the Pacha was staying fur a few days, in order to state the case to the highest authority et once. The Pacha being ill referred him to Boghos Bey, to whom he described the seizure. In vain, however, did liosrew Effendi beseech the obstinate Min'ster to settle the matter immediately with out bringing it before the Pacha ; Boghos Bey justified the seizure as well grounded, in consequence of a regu• lation of the Egyptian Government having been some time in force, which rendered compulsory the delivery of all old coin to the mint at a fixed price, and maintained that its exportation was contraband. This unsatisfac tory attempt at an explanation produced a vigorous re monstrance from Colonel Hodges, in which he gave the Paella to understand that he knew nothing of local re gulations, and that capitulations alone were the law and the testimony between Great Britain and the domi nions of the Sultan, and laid particular stress on the insult sustained by the British flag, the treasure in ques tion being in course of conveyance from her Britannic Majesty's packet Emmetje, to her Britannic Majesty's steam-frigate Cyclops ; and concluded by announc ing that, if satisfaction were not given, he would strike his consular flag. Boghos Bey sent in an answer, which is understood to have been the echo of his verbal declarations to numerous indivi duals who have conversed with him on the sub ject, his arguments all turning upon the Custom house and Mint regulations of the Pacha. A crisis seemed to be imminent. Colonel Hodges would have nothing short of the restoration of the money, and an apology for the insult, fixing at the same time Monday, the 14th, at twelve o'clock, as the last time of his re ceiving an answer, as he would then have no alterna tive but to strike his flag. The obstinacy of the mi nister was, however, over come by his fears or his better judgment, and b.2fore the term had expired the money was sent on board, and the officer ordered to apologise. Mr. Waghorn has had a s evere scuffle at the house of Said-el- Gliarbi, where he had been a pp l y ing for the re lease of the brother of his Sail) from the duties of a IRELAND. RECEPTION OF TWO NUNS OF THE ORDER OF MERCY—THE VERY REV. T. MATHEW. GALWAY, OCT. 3.—Thursday, the Ist inst., having been the day appointed for the solemn and interesting ceremony—the reception of two young ladies,(Missjoyce, of Merview, and Miss M‘Donnell, of Westport,)in . to that most pious, exemplary, and useful institute, the Order of Mercy, of which a branch has recently been established i.i this town—the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew, who had kindly undertaken to preach on the occasion, arrived in town about 12 o'clock, and immediately repaired to the parochial chapel, which was densely crowded from an early hour by persons of the first respectability in the town and country, anxious to secure an opportunity, not only of witnessing this novel and affecting ceremony, but of hearing the pious and pathetic appeal of the truly eloquent apostle of temperance. There was a charge of one shilling each for admission, the produce of which, being upwards of 1001., goes towards the charitable ob jects of the sisterhood. The Right Rev. Dr. Browne officiated. The ceremony commenced at half-past 12. Tne Rev. Mr. Mathew preached for nearly an hour, in his most able and impressive style, and the whole con cluded soon after 2 o'clock. After which the apostle of temperance proceeded from the chapel to Eyre.square, followed by myriads.of men and women, about ten thousandLof whom postulated on their knees. The Reverend Gentleman exhorted them at considerable length and with much force and effect, pointing out, fn particular, the great impropriety of drinking cordials by such as make the vow of total abstinence ; consequently, many persons who had done so renewed the pledge, and those who had not previ ously had an opportunity of procuring medals,lwere sup. plied with them by Mr. ill'Kenna, secretary to the apostle, who also enrolled their names. While in the act of administering the pledge, a respectable deputation from Tuarn waited on the Reverend Gentleman with an address, and an invitation to a temperance festival in that spirited town. The pious avocations of the Rev erend Gentleman were suspended for a short period, while the address was real on the part of the deputa tion by Mr. Coyle, to which Mr. Mathew responded in appropriate terms, and promised to avail himself on an early day of the kind invitation of the inhabitants of Tuam Having had an invitation to dine at Kilcoran, the reverend g entleman was obliged to forego, on that even ing, the pleasure of meeting his clerical friends at the College-house. He started for the former place about five o'clock on Thursday evening, and returned to re seine his labours the next day. A great concourse of the fishermen proceeded some distance from the town to greet the apostle on his ap proach, and a crowd remained on Eyre-square await ing his arrival, with the view of taking the pledge. On his arrival he proceeded, in compliance with the en treaties of the poor fishermen, to the Pier-head, where he entered a boat, which was ready for his reception ; and was steered to the Roadstead and Mutton Island, and thence back through the New Dock. The boat in which Father Mathew sat being the first that entered the basin since its flood-gates have been thrown open ; he was followed by a fleet of the fishing boats, &c., one of which had an amateur band on board. Al together the scene was most novel and interesting ; the enthusiasm of the people on shore being responded to by those on the water. As this little fleet had just entered the New Dock, Mr. Michael Barnacle, an operative baker, gave this well-timed suggestion—" Let the New Dock b henceforth called the Mathew Dock," hick was universally adopted amidst the checrings of thousands. Tnis little excursion being over, the Rev. Gentleman again repaired to Eyre-square, accompanied by increased and increasing numbers to the temperance cause. Prior to administering the pledge, he addressed the people in a powerfully effective manner, and dwelt with much feeling on the fatal event that had recently occurred near Eanis, arising from intoxication. lie continued to administer the pledge until near six o'clock, when he retired to the College House, where he dined. In the evening there was a temperance festival at the Mechanics' Institute, at which the apostle presided, and which was numerously and respectably attended. He retired about ten o'clock, leaving the company to enjoy the.nselves. temperately, in singing and dancing, &c. It was, in truth, " the feast of reason and the flow of soul." This morning (Saturday) the Rev. Gentleman took his departure for Ahascragh, where he is to preach to morrow. LATE TR AGEDY AT ENNIS.--THE INQUEST.-011 Thursday an inquest, which was adjourned to the next day, was held when, after the evidence had been brought to a close, the Coroner et ia—Gentlemen of the Jury, I believe that it Ali tot be necessary for you to retire to consider your verdict. 1 would recommend you to fiad that the deceased soldiers came by their deaths in consequence of gun-shot wounds inflicted by John Hurst. Mr. Gallery (one of the jury), said there was no evidence to warrant such a verdict. The Coroner said that Mr. Butler's testimony was conclusive as to • the point, and read it at length. The jury, however, retired, and returned in about ten minutes with the following verdict :—" We find that the said William No3ce and Charles Francis Smith, came by their deaths in consequence of gun-shot wounds inflicted by John Hurst, private 67th Regiment, on the 30th day of September, 1840." The prisoner was then fully com mitted to take his trial at the ensuing assizes ; and the sergeant was retained in custody in order to be trans mitted by an escort to his regiment at Galway, there to be tried by court-martial for drunkenness and neglect of duty. Mr. ►'Connell left Derrynane Abbey on Saturday for Cork, where he will remain till to-morrow, and will on the following day (Wednesday), be entertained in the Theatre at the great Repeal Demonstration in Li merick, whence he leaves for Dublin. LLOYD'S SIIIPPING-(THIS DAY. LONDON, OCT. 7.—Wind, light south westerly airs. DEAL, OCT. 6 —Wind N. W.—Arrived the Miranda, Artis, horn Malaga. Sailed the Folkstone, Bliss, for China ; Marquis of Hastings, Kerr; New South Wales; Ann Mondell, Roberts, Barbadoes ; Plata, Farley, B-ston. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 6 —Wind, N. to N. W.—Arrived thc fiche, Green, horn Lima. Sailed the Martha, Ward, for Africa. SALCOMEE, OCT, s.—Sailed the Albatross, Adams, for Terceira. FALmou - rn, Ocr. s.—Wind N. N. E. to E. N. E.— S. iled the Montrose, steamer, Wilson, for Vigo, &c. ; Burgomaster Janson, Mattherson, Rio Janeiro. BRISTOL, OCT. 4.—Sailed the Falcon, Escott, for Syd ney, New South Wales; Bristoiian, Tkomas, Cape of Good Hope; Jurinia, Cape de Verds. CARDIFF, OCT. 3 —Arrived the Messenger, Banan, from Miramichi. _ . _ - - CORK, OCT. 4.—Arrived the Ann, Johnson, Porto Rico. SHIELDS, OCT. s.—Arrived the Dorothy, Chambers, front Quebec (leaky, having struck on the bar) ; Cowslip, Stutchberry, Bathurst. SUNDERLAND, OCT. 5.--The Scotsman, Skcene, of Aberdeen, coal laden, is sunk at the entrance of the har bour. NOLTII BERWICK, OCT. s.—The Henry, Birncss, from Riga to Leith, was abandoned at sea pr,viout to the Ist instant, having 101 feet water in her hold; crew saved by the Ariadne, arrived here. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTll.—The Gilmour of Glasgow,' 13th ult., lat. 49, lon. 45 ; John and Thomas Moore, Poole to Labrador, 16th, lat. 51, lon. 39, by the Joseph aul Mary, arrived in Leith Roads; Etheldred of Bristol, for London, 19th August, lat. 33, lon. 75 ; Invoice, La guna to Cape of Good Hope, 7th ult., lat. 37, lon. 50, by the Duke of Gloucester, arrived at Cork ; Thirteen, of London for Port Adelaide, by the Moira, Owen, arrived at Calcutta ; Elephant, Calcutta to London, 10th July, by the Moira, arrived at Calcutta ; Dundee, from the Clyde to Sydney, New South Wales, 30th June, lat. 39 S., lon. 28 E, by the Malabar, Southwood, arrived at Calcutta; Mary Pole, Dungarvon to Quebec, 29th August, lat. 48, lon. 62 ; Byrom. Abbs, Limerick to Quebec, 3d ult., lat. 46, lon. 53 ; Emerald, Liverpool to St. John's, New Brunswick, 23d, lat. 49, lon. 15, by the Eliza, Kitkbride, Ba:kwood, arrived in the Downs. MURDER NEAR BARNSLEY.—We have this morning received intelligence of the murder of Mr. George ' Blackburn, farmer, Hilltop, near Barnsley. It appears that he was returning home last evening, when, on the road near to his own house, a stone from an unseen person was thrown at him, and with such force as almost to dis able him ; he, however, managed to reach his own house, but in such a state that his life was despaired of. Medical aid was procured, hut he expired shortly after his arrival. No clue to the murderer has as yet been obtained. The deceased, we understand, was about fifty years of age, and highly respected in the neighbourhood in which he lived, and such a diabolical attempt is not easily ac counted for. —Sheffield Patriot, Oct. 6. DEMERARA.—An atrocious murder was com mitted in Demeri.r.. kst summer. The murdered man, Sampson, had been married after the negro fashion to a woman call,Al Penny Rose, to whom it appeared he had not been constant. Another negro, named Blount, after ards cohabited with Rose. Some jealousies sprung up, which ended in Blount and Rose Penny perpetrating the murder. Both the woman and her paramour were found gui:ty. Penny , being a female , was a s ked by the Chief Justice whether she had anything to say why execution should not take place according to the sertence. Preg nancy was pleaded, and a jury of matrons was summoned and sworn to try whether she was " quick with child." Their deliverance was that she was " not with child. " She was thereforo left for execution. Her co ared nduct callous during the trial was careless, and at l a st she a pp e. When asked what she had to say why execution should not take place, she looked sulkily upon the crowd ar ound her, and said, 6 , Dana me one bab trouble !" They were both sentenced to be executed on th e 29th of August. 'l' he Earl of Cardigan and the Earl of Eglin toun have taken the Billesdon kennels for the hunting season. The Quorn hounds, the finest pack in the king dom, have already commenced cub hunting. MOVE I MARKET and CITY NEWS. (TUESDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—Some few of the Portuguese exchange operators ha ve or d ere d th e i r f r i en d s at M a l ag a and Ali cant to take and remit as many good bids on London for dry fruit cargoes as they can meet with. These orders are on the supposition that the rate of exchange on England will become still lower, in consequence of the scarcity of London bills. The prices of oil and wheat are becoming lower—of the latter, because the crops have not turned out so bad as was expected. The week's average price of wheat in Lisbon is 595. 4d. per quarter, and at Oporto 575. ld. per quarter. Prices vary exceedingly even in districts not more than 10 or 12 miles distant, and this is ascribed to the difference of measure, and the difficulty of conveyance, owing to a want of roads. It is said that the ships that enter the port of Lisbon ?'or repair are re p a i re d a t a very expen cost, and it is suggested that the underwriters might with benefit require estimates by two or three of the most respectable shipwrights to he presented, so that a check might thus be given to overcharge. The treaty for the navigation of the Douro is still in an unsettled state, and the Portuguese Ministers complain that the Di plomatic Committee has not presented its report. This report was drawn up on the :20th of last July, and is favourable to the navigation. The Spanish Minister suspects that the delay is intentional, and has lately re minded the King and Queen of their promise that the affair should be settled before last March. The Minis ters are said to be so much alarmed at the appearances of a revolution that they will not lie in their houses at night without a guard of troops at the door. With respect to some accounts lately before the pub lic of the murder of British subjects at Buenos Ayres, considerable doubts of their truth are entertained by persons connected with the country. By the papers published at Buenos Ayres a short time after the events were reported to hare taken place, not only is no men tion made of any atrocities of the kind, but the greatest harmony appears to prevail between the English and the inhabitants of the country. POST.—The general appearance of the money market has been considerably firmer and more buoyant in the course of the present day. Seldom has a greater change in the opinion of the London public been noticed than the last fortyeight hours have brought forward on the Eastern question, and the true value of the re cently alarming warlike demonstrations of France. A letter from the Count Lara to the Committee of Spanish Bondholders has been translated and printed, confirming the former version of the real powers and propositions of the Count. From this document it does not appear that this nobleman has much confidence in his own ability to cleanse the Augean stable of the finances of Spain. Amongst other disadvantages which the Count has to overcome is Ms own ignorance of the English language, as it appears from his earnest re quest that the Morning Chronicle and Morning Post would cease from " compelling him to torture his dic tionary," the Count evidently having not understood that the Morning Post was in direct opposition to the other newspaper in defending the motives with which ' he had come to England, and which had been very severely mistrusted by every Journal excepting the Morning Post. ' The market for tea has been lower since the arrival of the overland mail from India, large quantities being reported to be on the way to England, re-shipped at Singapore. The price of Company's congous declined to 2s. 31d. per pound, with every appearance of lower rates. The hop duty is now estimated at less than 30,000/. for the year 1840, which proves that there is not one tenth part of the average production, and confirms the accounts of the failure of a crop which is the staple of se‘cral counties, and is expected to cause very severe distress. CHRONICLE.—In a number of the Canton Re gister, just received, there arc some good remarks upon the state of our trade with the Chinese empire since the abolition of the monopoly of the East India Com pany, pointing out that a change was becoming daily more necessary, and that it was a fortunate event for British interests that the Chinese Government have so irrevocably committed themselves in the opium affair as to render decisive operations just and necessary. The state of the free trade with China during the last few years has been almost equally discouraging to the Hong as to the foreign merchants. The Hongs as a body, with only two or three exceptions, are said to be un worthy of commercial confidence, and latterly the fo reign trade has been nearly monopolized by the senior Hong merchants and one or two others, who bought the imports only through their poorer brethren. This system, and the utter insecurity of foreign pro perty when it once entered the port of China, the divided interests of the foreign trade, and the impossi bility of combination amongst its members for self-pro tection, and a counteracting force against the procecci ings of the Hong merchants and the local officers, ccea si3ned such a state of things as imperatively called for the interference of the British Government in order to protect and promote the British.and Anglo-Indian trade 1 to China. _ _ _ -- The Bombay Gazette states that the Black Joke and two other vessels were driven off the coast by thirty war junks. The Jardine, in a cocflict with the Alandarins, received a shot between wind and water, and was com pelled to haul off to repair damages. Lin has offered a very large reward for every opium smuggler's head, and in retaliation the smugglers on the east coast have de prived every Mandarin they could lay hands on of his tail. We take the following account of an assault upon Mr. Waghorn, from the private correspondence of the ilfalla Times, dated Alexandria, Sept. 16 : " Mr. Waghorn has had a very severe scuffle at the house of Said el Gharbi, where he had been applying for the release of the brother of his Sais from the duties of a National Guardsman. High words passed on the occasion, and Mr. Waghorn was violently ejected and severely beaten. It would eppear, however, that there was something to be said on both sides of the question, as, on making application for redress to Boghos Bey, Mr. Waghorn terminated the matter a rainiab/e, by signing an apology. He has applied for the use of the Paella's little steamer, to take the passengers by the Oriental, up the Nile, but it seems that it cannot be spared." HERALD.—A regular steam communication be tween this country and India has been long greatly de sired there, and the announcement of the progress which has been made towards the completion of that object has give❑ great satisfaction. Light goods at Calcutta were scarce for freight, and accordingly about 700 bales jute and hemp, apparently upon ship's ac count, had been purchased. As far back as 1810, much attention (it then being war time) was paid, both by the East India Company and the Government, to render us, through our eastern possessions, independent of con tinental nations for the supply of the latter article ; and yet, strange to say, until the last few years the consumption here of East India hemp has been but little. The situation in which we now stand with Rut• sia, both politically and by the failure of the crop of flax for the two or three last years, has and is now bringing our own produce more into demand. The short quan tity at present shipped will go but in a trifling degree to supply the deficiency occasioned thereby. The Canton Register has a notice that another dividend on the estates of llingtae and Kinqua would be paid by the Consoo about the sth of May. The credit the managers of the Consoo fund deserve for these payments, under the present state of affairs, should be thus appreciated ; they pay the foreign credi tors their claims on the bankrupt Horgs with their own money, or rather with the money of the consumers of Chinese produce, the Consoo fund being raised from an imposition of charges on various articles of import and export. Additional Consoo charges on tea had been imposed to meet contingencies since the English merchants left Canton, from which it may he inferred that it private debts be thus paid, although we may oblige the Chinese to pay our demand for the opium destroyed, yet, by additional duties, the amount will eventually fall upon ourselves. SUN.—The value of Consols, upon commencing business tc-day, was 87 for Money, and 86 to 86 for the Account, a backwardation that proves the Bears to have oversold themselves . Subsequently the price forn immediate transfer was 87 i to -Z-, and fort e 14th i stant 87i to i-. Exchequer Bills went down to 4s. and Is. premium ; and East India Bonds fell from 3s. to 12s. and 15s. discount. The New Three-and-a Half per Cents. brought 96i to 96i ; and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities 951 to -,1-. In Foreign Stocks business was not brisk, but prices generally averaged higher than yesterday. Portuguese New Five per Cents brought 32i to 1, the Three per Cents. 24 1 to -.1. Colombian Six per Cents. were at 22. French Three per Cents. fell from 72f. 50c. to 69f. 50c. ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half did not rally beyond 491. The news by express from Paris, of Es partero h a ving formed a new Ministry , gave a slight lift to Spanish Bonds, the Actives having touched "*li to I t . Shares were nominally lower this afternoon. On all hands it is admitted that the state of the Foreign Exchat,ges is now such as to render some re strictive meas ures on the part of the Director s of the "2vass/..1;2e. to 37c'' Bank of England, not only probable, but even expedient. It will be observed by the following quotations at which Bill s were negotiated this afternoon on the principal cities of the Continent, that matters are by no means mending. On Antwerp t o h n e iloi Return; an d of ot the e F r r x a p n o k r l t o s r o t , f pi r_ a a r t_F is - 1 i ; on Am sterdam, the official sterdain, 12 1 N to 12 li- ; ofn to ci on Hamburgbing the Port of London, a for the week ending I B 4 u B il i- I,ihoo t n o rof l lr 4 loo ll Thursday last :-- Silver Coin to Hamburgh Rotterdam Belgium Gold Coin to the British West Indies 3OO There are several fields of barley and oats in the neighbourhood of Dartmouth that arc not as yet gathered. EVENING EDITION, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF Tills DAY. (From the Times.) The great quantity of matter which has poured upon us in the last few days has prevented an earlier notice of Lord Palmerston's long despatch to M. Guizot, da'ed the 31st of August. This paper is an able one. We should be unjust to the Foreign Secretary and to our selves, if we did not state that it has in some degree modified the impressions previously entertained by us, and, as is most certain, by many other dispassionate and independent lovers of " peace for the sake of peace" in this country, with reference to one or more of the points at issue between the allied Governments with Mehemet AU, cn one side ; and the same British Government, as one of those allies, kith that of his Majesty Louis Philippe, on the other. We shall not repeat a testimony, which would now he needless, to the warmth and anxiety with which, from the outset, this journal has deprecated the calamity of a war, about to be produced, as there was strong apparent ground for believing, by the preci pitate vehemence of more than one European Court, and by the imputed carelessness of Lord Pal mersten in failing to ascertain with greater solicitude and readiness the wishes of the French Government with regard to the objects and intended execution of the Treaty of July, before the formal signatures of the Four Allies Powers had been affixed to it. The de fence, however, brought forward by the Foreign Se cretary is a direct denial of any such accusation on his own part, and en that of the Allies. We must pre mise that a discussion upon the original objects of the Treaty, including the actual mischief to be cured by it, though not the nature of the remedy to be adopted, has been rendered the less necessary, because it is admitted in terms that the whole Fve Powers, France herself in cluded, had from the first declared themselves one and all aereed upon the policy of maintaining the integrity of the Turkish empire ; which, nevertheless, might ar ;n i g ht not presume a simultaneous aceniereeece on all sides in the expediency of the measures to be had recoui.o to. Touching eikoenerits of the question latterly, that is, since JulyeListi- relied epee -France, namely, whether she had received due notice beforehand of the _certain execution of the treaty, or hell a reasonable pre tence for taking umbrage at any want of consideration slio;vn to licr, or slight or unfriendliness in the spirit of the proceedings, Lord Palmerston distinctly affirms— That she was made aware formally, in June, 1539, in common with the other Four Powers, that " the only arrangement between the Sultan and Mehemet Ali which could secure permanent peace in the Levant would be that which should confine Mehemet Ali's dele gated authority to Egypt alone, and should re-establish the direct authority of, the Sultan in the whole of Syria, as well as in Candia and the holy cities, thus interposing the Desert between tile Sultan's direct authority and the province to be administered by the Pacha ; and her Majesty's Government proposed, that as a com pensation for the evacuation of Syria, Mehemet Ali should receive the assurance that his male descendants should succeed him as Governors of Egypt under the Sultan." Thu French Government on this remarked, that " such an arrangement would undoubtedly be Me best, if there were the means to carry it into effect ; but that Mehemet Ali would resist it," and " that coer cive measures would produce a state of things more dangerous than the present ;" " but after objecting to this plan," says Lord Palmerston, " for a considerable time afterwards, the French Government had no plan of its own to propose." The next proceeding of the Go vernment of his Majesty King Louis Philippe was to pro pose a plan—to wit, that from a point a little northward of Beyrout, on the sea-coast, a line should be drawn due cast in the direction of Damascus to the Desert, all of Syria on the south of that line being assigned to Mehemet AU, and all on the north to the Sultan. The French Ambassador gave England further to under stand, that on the Five Powers agreeing to that arrange ment, France would unite with them in employing force to compel its acceptance by Mehemet AU. It may be fairly remarked here, that according to the scheme pro posed by France, the Pacha would be left in possession of the fortresses and harbours of Acre and Beyrout, as a formidable appendage to the half or more of Syria which the Porte was to be deprived of. Tne British Minister declined at once this project, objecting to it besides, on other grounds, as an inconsistency in Fiance, that she should assent to coercive measures in favour of this arrangement, which was " incomplete and insufficient for its purpose," when she objected to the use of them when recommended by the Allies for enforcing 0110 which would be effectual and com plete. Tile answer of Count Sebastiani to this objec tion way be looked upon as somewhat remarkable—viz., that in refusing coercive measures the French Govern ment were influenced by " domestic considerations," that they might be able to assure the public and the Ceambsrs of their having obtained for Mehemet AU the best terms that could be procured for him, and that he had refused them. This is a ticklish argument when addressed to foreign countries, because one knows not where it is to end ; but we do freely and cordially admit, that as a general maxim the concession of a boon which would have a tendency to gratify the French people is of itself entitled to a favourable hearing from Great Britain, or any other neighbouring and civilized State, if she can thereby assist the endeavours of a friendly Government like that, we hope and trust, of Louis Philippe's, in the promotion of an habitual sys tem of conciliatory politics, and if the thing solicited be net in itself objectionable to any very injurious extent. The following formal proposition was then, in the same month of September, 1839, communicated by the French Government to that of England—viz., that ' Mehemet Ali should .iave Egypt and the whole of Syria as an inheritance, together with Candia, for life, giving up nothing but Adana ; but not affirming, that even with this offer, which was a retrogression from the former one, either Mehemet Ali would be content, or, if otherwise, that she (France) would assist in coercing him. This being a proposal (says Lord Palmerston) to give Mehemet Ali a legal and hereditary claim to " a third of the Turkish empire," which he now occupies by force alone, was declined by the British Govern ment. However, the Foreign Secretary made a further offer, which was to adjust the maritime frontier of Syria so that Mehemet Ali should have all the coast as far north as Mount Carmel, including that im portant position, but excluding the town of Acre. This offer was made on the express condition that France should co-operate with the Allied Powers in enforcing it on Mehemet Ali. Lord Palmerston then must be told distinctly, that according to his own offer, he here made the entire question depend on the possession, not of the whole of Syria, as had been put forth in his origi nal prospectus, but on the half of it, minus the two wretched towns of Acre and Beyrout. If his Lordship was ready to give up so much, was it worth while con vulsing- Europe and Asia by a general ;var for the re mainder ? If Lord Palmerston went to war for a right, it was his business to restore Egypt as well as Syria to the Sultan. If he went to war for a profit, is it possible that he or any man could imagine one-half of Syria to be worth such a price—to be an equiva lent for the sacrifices of blood and treasure which he has embraced as an alternative for those frightful evils ? This, we tell the Foreign Secretary, is the weak part of his case. But France, unfortunately, has not left either England or the quadruple alliance a monopoly of such errors. It is proclaimed by the despatch or manifesto on which we comment, that when the French Government was pressed upon the subject, whether it would agree to coerce Mehemet Ali upon any and upon what conditions? The answer was " No, we will not agree to coerce Mehemet Ali at all." Now, with every disposition in the world to construe equitably and liberally the announcement even of an adverse party, on a question of vital moment like - this, what are we to think of such a declared resolu tion of the French Government, considering the earlier admissions of its Ministry, and in a state of Europa and Asia which, according to those admissions, was fraught with evil, and called for an effectual cure ? If a reme dy were required, as was admi tted b y France , it must mean, if it have any signification whatever, a remedy against the acts of Mehemet AU. But here the French Minister escapes from any dismis sion as to the amount of encroachment, usurpation, and violence complained of, but answers to every call upon it for a remedy—" Be the wrong what it may— be the grievance what it may—be the peril to the eivis lized world what it may—l insist that the wrongdoer himself shall be the solo arbiter of the species of redress to be exacted from him—l insist that in eshatever way the estee is to be treated—whether by remedy, he shall himself apply or sanction that remedy—whether by a continuance of the evil, say, by an aggravation of it, he shall not be restrained from either perpetuating or in creasing it ; if you, ye Powers of Europe, attempt to do justice, you incur my supreme displeasure." So matters proceeded until the change of the French Ministry ; after which the now Minister, M. Tillers, confirmed in the most positive terms the previous announcement of Count Sebas tiani, that no concurrence in coercion was to be looked for from Prange. What then was to be done? The evil was be coming inveterate. France lied allowed as much, but, ostOd still s,,hrericould weredo nothing we ll s satisfied i;sfiaendd andw'ha t anxiousw a lefttof tooan for the ll , l , e i st h . France, but not, says the despatch, " in tentions, and of all the means whereby they y signed. If their edw th ith after this execution France." f S h a e , em was apprised rrhe tr treaty na fully t y fairness, oifetlllmtehdei France complains, she is bound whathen she had better re. measure could have been adopted, "al nature bad been proposed. it were, of Mehe jSetoatteed paperat whatever r l o .o f r a d p P roa a tic l rn tt! ac e w r s r t y ora as to " s . With regard to the c`b it, we repeat, an appearance of met Ali, it carries with - u ndignified and unwise. We do and therefore coua y after nll, that there may exist in the solemnly , h R • trust statesmen —French, Russian, and British— harshness and intemperance, u onec:7ssary to its object, hearts of state enough to reelse, it it be virtue enough t too late, the possz thes of their common can not ye d to take measures for restoring " peace, in con dition, an and humanitybr the s pirit of peace. The Ministerial French papers seem to have lost their wits altogether. " The treaty of London," ex claims the Constitutionne/, " has wounded France, and