The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-04 00:00:00

the main points of the writer's arguments in a clear
and intelligible light :
Who would gain by Egypt relapsing into chaos? Ought
we not to wish civilisation to spread along the banks of the
Mediterranean ? It has taken root in Africa, thanks to our
arms; in Egypt, thanks to Mehemet Ali; in Greece,
thanks to the Treaty of London (1827) ; in Constanti-
nople, thanks to the salutary reforms attempted by the
Sultan. It were painful to think that Egypt, after the
death of Mehemet Ali, should relapse into barbarism. As
soon as the hereditary right be granted to Mehemet Ali's
family, his children will maintain it. What Pacha will
dispute it? I may add that this regular and peaceable
manner of creating new states seems one of the maxims
of the present age. Thus Greece became, by degrees,
an independent kingdom. Thus Moldavia and Wal-
lachia, by a succession of treaties, have secured a greater
independence with regard to their old master, the Sultan,
than with regard to their present master, the Czar. This
hereditary gift to Mehemet Ali's family would be one of the
regular and peaceable acts which prepare the new life of
' states. The Porte would retain its right of sovereignty,
and would assuredly be stronger, aided by the power
of her hereditary vassal, than she is now ; for now Egypt's
strength is detrimental to Turkey—in future it would be
useful to her. An oriental confederation, which would
unite under the bold and decided protection of Eastern
Europe the scattered members of the ancient Ottoman
empire, Egypt, under the title of hereditary Pachalick,
Moldavia and Wallachia as Hospodorats, with Constanti-
nople for centre and capital, and Sultan Mabmoud for
Sovereign and President. This were surely preferable to
the impossible resurrection of the entireness of the Otto-
man empire, which is an idle dream, a mere catch of
diplomatists, who wish to make the Sultan an instrument
for their designs. But no one notices it. Should Turkey
undertake the war she will not effect this impossible resto-
ration, and the effects of diplomacy could alone create this
oriental confederation ; the commencement and keystone
of which should be the reconciliation of the Porte and
Egypt. But this reconciliation can only be effected by the
Porte recognising the hereditament of Egypt.
The naval armament of France for the ensuing
year is to consist of 130 armed vessels with 20,137
men. Among the concessions made by the new
Government to the Liberal party, is the adoption
of a resolution to increase the Anti-Carlist block-
ade on the coast of Spain.
The following are extracts from the papers :
A journal says this morning that the Government has it
in contemplation to increase the Municipal Guard of Paris
to the number of 6,000 men; but that this proposal is not
much relished by the Municipal Council of Paris, which
is of opinion that the City is not rich enough to maintain
an army at its own expense.—Constitutional.
The " Swiss Directory" has addressed to the States the
report of the federal military commission, touching the
amendments proposed by the military regulation of 1817.
The federal army is to be thus .composed :—Engineers—
Five companies of sappers, each of 100 men ; two flying
bridge companies, of one hundred men each : total,
700. Artillery-30 companies for the service of the bat-
teries, 3,980 men ; 10 companies for artillery and field
pieces, 810 men; five park companies, 803 men : total,
6,218 men. Train horses, 3,492. Cavalry-24 compa-
nies of chasseurs, of 64 men ; in' all, 1,536. Riflemen-
-43 companies of 100 men ;in all, 4,300 men. Infantry—
Staff officers, &c., 1,437 men ; 452 companies, 49,828
men ; in all, 51,265.—T0tal general, 64,019 men and
3,492 horses.

The disloyal attempts of the supporters of Sir Robert
Peel to put forward a subject as a rival to her Majesty
have been completely defeated by the course adopted
by the Queen Dowager, Their first plan was to have
regular Drawing Rooms at Marlborough House, in
order to eclipse those of her Majesty, which the Tory
Journalists, notwithstanding the long list of names pub-
lished by them in the Court Circular, asserted were thinly
attended. The Queen Dowager soon undeceived them
by announcing her determination to withhold her coun-
tenance from such proceedings. Then came the City
affair ; and the Tories and other friends of Corporation
abuses having resolved in Common Council not to ad-
dress her Majesty, proposed to get up an address in
the Court of Aldermen to the Queen Dowager, but
the letter of Lord Howe to the very fit representative
of the rabid old bigotted faction in the City, at once put
an end to the scheme. Sir Peter Laurie has taken
nothing by his booing, and the High Tory dames at the
West-end must feel not a little mortified that they have
taken no more by their disloyalty.
We have been requested to state that the resolutions
proposed by Mr. Ashurst, in the Common Council, on
Thursday, were not correctly given in the newspapers.
The two first were placed last, thereby rendering the
whole almost unintelligible.

His Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Russia, and the Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
and Prince William Henry of the Netherlands, arrived at
Rotterdam on Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock.
The Rev. T. Gisborne, M.A., prebendary of
Durham, has given 2001. towards the endowment of Holy
Trinity Church, Darlington.
Mr. Macauley's reception has been triumphant,
and he will be returned without opposition. Both Whigs
and Radicals are delighted with him; and the Tories con-
fess that he is a man of whom any party might be proud.
His speech in the Assembly Rooms on Wednesday was
magnificent. It was not only superior to any electoral ad-
dress we ever heard, but we do not think it too much to
say, that, viewed with reference to the occasion, it has never
been equalled in the British Isles. It combined the excel.
lencies of the highest order order of eloquence. Nothing
could exceed the skill with which he evolved his argu-
ments, analysing current opinions into their elements,sepa-
rating great truths from associated fallacies, and rendering
fine distinctions palpable to common understandings._
Scotsman.
The United Service Benevolent Institution, for
the benefit of Widows and Orphans of her Majesty's
officers in the Navy and Army, held a public meeting on
Monday, the 3d inst., at Carlton Chambers, 8, Regent-
street, which was most respectably and numerously at-
tended, Major-General Wright Ray, Roy. Eng., in the
chair. Amongst the distinguished officers present, we
observed Admiral Sir David Milne, Sir Richard Williams,
Royal Marines, Major-General Lemon, Honourable East
India Company's Service, Lieutenant-General Sir Lewis
Grant, Major White, Captain Robert Kerr, Royal Navy,
Sir John Jones, Bart., Colonel Dundas Campbell, Cap-
tains Hay, Grant, Mackenzie, &c., &c., and Lieutenant
Hart, 49th. A vote of thanks was passed to the Gallant
Chairman, and the meeting separated.
REGATTA.—The reproach that our beautiful
reach of water has so long remained a blank to our wit-
nessing an annual regatta (thanks to the Nobility aril
Gentry of the neighbourhood) is at an end, and the treat
on Friday week promises to be of the most enchanting de.
scription. For the One Hundred Guineas Cup, six boats
are entered.---Reeding Mercury.
The heir apparent to the Turkish throne was to
leave the harem of his mother on the 15th ult., and to as-
sume a regular establishment of his own. This was consi-
dered at Constantinople the greatest innovation on ancient
customs which the Sultan had yet attempted. The young
Prince in question is called Abdul Medjid, and completed
his 16th year on the 20th of April. The Sultan has
another son living, Abdul Aziz, now in his 10th year, and
four daughters.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.—The country, as
well as the London Clergy, we see are actively bestirring
themselves to raise a clamour against the proposed grant.
That many petitions against the Ministerial measure will
be manufactured by these very pilaus and not over scrupu-
lous persons is as certain as the fact of the Priesthood's
inveterate hostility to the spread of information, and the
diffusion of knowledge.
Yesterday morning the widow of the late Sergeant
Major Shepperd, of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, who
was shot on the Barrack Parade, expired from excessive
grier

PUBLIC MEETING IN SUPPORT OF THE
QUEEN AND THE REFORM MINISTRY.—This day a highly
respectable meeting of the citizens was held in the Town-
hall, convened by the Right Worshipful the Mayor, on a
public requisition, containirg one hundred and eight
names, for the purpose of considering the propriety of
presenting an address to her Majesty the Queen, expressive
of strong attachment to her Majesty's person, and
high admiration of her Majesty's firm adherence to
the principles of liberal government. The meeting was
most numerously attended; and the body of the Hall was
filled with respectable tradesmen. At half-past twelve
o'clock, John Uniacke, Esq., the Right Worshipful the
Mayor, entered the Hall, and was received with loud
cheering. On the motion of Alderman E. S. Walker,
seconded by John Kearsley, Esq., he was unanimosly
called upon to preside. Resolutions and an address in the
sense of the requisitionists were unanimously agreed to..—
Chester Chronicle of Friday.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—
Last Friday an experimental trip was made to Littlebo-
rough, a distance of sixteen miles from Manchester. The
local Guardian, after giving some details, says, " We
understand that the Directors expect to have the line open
for locomotive power—(though not for the conveyance of
passengers, as there is much work to be done in stations,
sidings, turnplates, &c., and sueplies of water and coke)--
in a fortnight or three weeks ; 'but it will probably be open
for the conveyance of passengers early in July. We be-
lieve an efficient police is to be appointed forthwith for this
portion of the line. We may congratulate the inhabitants
of Rochdale on their being thus brought within twenty
minutes' distance of Manchester; and we doubt not that
they will soon discover and experience the advantages
which this practically nearer neighbourhood will give them
to the great market for their manufactures, and the great
centre of the business and commerce of the district.
Another iron link is added to the chain of comm unication
which ere long will encircle in its wide en:brace—we trust
in bonds of union—the whole of our manufacturing and
commercial towns and great seaports.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Yesterday informa-
tion was given to the police that on the previous evening
Frederick Syret, in the service of a silk mercer, in New
Bond-street, absconded from the house, stealing and
taking away 1201. in Bank notes, and 331. in gold and
silver, together with a valuable watch, and various articles
of jewellery, lace, &c., amounting in the whole to more
than 2001.

ATROCIOUS CASE OF STABBING BY A BOY.-
Richafd Rooney, a determined-looking young ruffian, not
more than fifteen years of age, and who has several times
been in custody for offences of different descriptions, was
committed to the House of Correction yesterday by Mr.
Rawlinson, for stabbing in the arm a man named Mead,
who went into Mrs. Rooney's house in order to rescue the
mother and her family from the sanguinary intentions of
her unnatural son.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1839

LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNE 3. —Wind W. S. W.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 3. —Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the
Phoenix, Hyortb, from Christiano. Sailed her Majesty's
ship Buffalo, for Quebec. Put back, Perseverance,
Saunders, Sunderland, with loss of main-topmast.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 2. —Wind E. to E. S.E.—Strong
breezes.—Put back, the St. Petersburgh, Sarnow, Stettin.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 3 Wind S. E. fresh.—Arrived,
the Ruby, Anning, from Lisbon ; Augusta Maria, Roche-
fort. Sailed, Qneen Mab, Ainsley, Canton; Franklyn,
Farwell, New York ; Eleanor, M' Pherson, Quebec ; Em-
ma, Jervis, Lisbon. Off port, the Actress, from New
Orleans, Henry, Mobile.
BRISTOL, JUNE 3.—Arrived, the Echo, Sankey, Cadiz.
GLOUCESTER, JUNE 3. —ArrivedCommerce, Stee, Lisbon.
WATERFORD, MAY 31.—Sailed the Harmony, M'Clin-
tock, for Quebec.

Coax, JUNE I.—Off port, the Fyer, Krause, from St.
Croix ; Talleyrand, Webb, New Orleans.
&too, JUNE I.—Arrived the Oliveira, steamer, Oliveira,
from St. Übes. Sailed the Pomona, Doyle, for Quebec ;
Argus, Little, Ditto.
LYNN, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Emily, Oudsen, from
Fillau ; Catherina Maria, Kroneman, Stettin.
HULL, JUNE 2.—Arrived the Emanuel, Rickenfrack,
from Rottock ; Eton, Wilson, Hamburg ; Jonge Simon,
Fock, Ditto ; Severne steamer, Mowle„.Ditto ; Emma,
Dockder, Gottenburg ; Erin, steamer, Hayden, Dunkirk ;
Seahorse, Bonet), Rotterdam ; Rhine, Thompson, Ko-
nigsburg ; Friede, Ossi, Riga.
PENZANCE, JUNE 2.—A large fleet of homeward vessels
are reported to be at the entrance of the Channel by the
Omega, Chalmers, which passed this port yesterday from
Hobart Town.

SLIGO, MAY 30.—The Smyrna, Baird, arrived here from
Liverpool ; in working into the harbour she struck on a
rock and is very leaky.
YARMOUTH, JUNE 3.—The Despatch, Wilson, from
Rotterdam to Stockton, struck on the Barber Sand this
morning, fell over on her broadside, and it is supposed has
since broken up, as part of her cargo is drifting about.

A piece of timber (American Pine) marked A. W. B, sup-
posed the beam of a vessel, has been picked up at Yarmouth.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET; MONDAY.—The arrival
of the steamer Liverpool has given an impetus to our Cot-
ton Market, and an advance of fully id. per lb. has been
obtained. The transactions are estimated at 3,000 bags
of all kinds.
The French mail arrived this morning. No ship letters.
( From the Montreal Papers received yesterday to the
16th May.)
The Committee of Trade of this city, having petitioned
his Excellency the Governor-General for extension of time
for the payment of import duties, the following satisfac-
tory reply has been received :
Government House, Montreal, 7th May, 1839.
Sir,—Having laid before the Governor-General the pe-
tition from the Committee of Trade of the City, request-
ing that his Excellency would be pleased to extend the
delay in the payments in specie of bonds and duties about
to become due to the Collectors of the Customs at the
different ports of entry of the Province, I have the honour
to acquaint you, for the information of the Committee of
Trade, that his Excellency has instructed the Collectors of
her Majesty's Customs to receive the notes of those banks
authorized to suspend specie payment in payment of duties
upon goods about to be imported, until the Ist of June
next, provided that 10 per cent. additional are lodged in
their hands as security for the redemption of the notes in
specie within ten days after the Ist of June.
THOMAS LEIGH GOLDIE, Civil Sec.
This is a judicious instance of executive liberality for
which his Excellency, Sir John Colborne, merits the
thanks of the mercantile community.—(Remark of the
Montreal paper.)
The accounts from New Orleans state, to the 10th of
May, that there was a manifest dullness in every branch of
business in the Western produce market, and the anima-
tion which prevailed had ceased, but without any variation
of prices. Merchandize for the interior has been but little
sought after.

With respect to Cotton, the parties are anxiously ex-
pecting intelligence, per steam ship Liverpool. From the
contradictory reports currant as to the position of the Li-
verpool market, transactions iu our own have been limited.