The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-30 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1239.

every encouragement. We recommend the Reso-
lutions to the earntst zzt(-otioll of out. reajcr.-i.

We see with more regret than surprise that the
working men of Kendal, like those of Glasgow, pre-
fer seeking the Charter to procuring a repeal of
the Corn-laws. At a meeting held there they pro-
fessed a hatred of the Corn-laws, but they wanted a
guarantee that they should' not be re-enacted, and
they cheered for the Charter. They cheered, too,
most vociferously for Mr. FROST. The Tories are
pleased with this exhibition of a determination of the
people to have a complete democracy, even by violence,
and exult that the friends of moderation and rational
reform are defeated. Deeply do we deplore—differing
on this point, as on all others, from the Tories—the
breach, which is widening every day, between the
middle classes and the working men ; and for the
preservation and restoration of peace no sacrifice
should be thought too great in bringing about a
mutual agreement. We hope that moderate men
of both classes will take this matter into serious
consideration, for their present mutual exasperation
seems only to cut their own throats.

Letters from Constantinople, of the 4th inst.,
have been received. An extraordinary sensation
prevailed in the diplomatic circles of that city, in
consequence of a revelation made by M. AVEDICK,
the Armenian interpreter of the Capitan
who, having escaped ftom Alexandria, arrived a
few days previously at Pera. M. AVEDICK in-
formed the Divan and the Ambassadors that the
Capitan Pacha in, betraying the Turkish fleet
to MEHEMET ALI, acted by the advice, and
with the entire concurrence, of the French
Admiral LALANDE ; and that, in'fact, it was the
French Admiral who first suggested the measure,
and who had actually planned it with the Rear-
Admiral OsmAN Pacha before communicating with
the Capitan Pacha. We are not in the least sur-
prised at this. Our readers will perhaps remember
that when the French Journals, pravious to the
betrayal of the Turkish fleet, boasted of the honour
done the French flag by the Capitan Paella's
interview with Admiral LALANDE, to which
Admiral STOPFORD was not invited, we intimated
that the circumstance would turn out to be little
to the credit of the French nation ; and that when
the Turkish fleet was betrayed to the VICEROY
we roundly charged Admiral LALANDE with
being privy to that infamous transaction. We
were not then at liberty to give our authority for
such a statement, but the confidence we reposed in
the quarter whence we received it, induced us
to publish it. We were not deceived, and we
now leave to the National the task of
extracting food for French vanity fro:n this fresh
proof of French naval influence in the Mediterra-
nean. That Admiral LALANDE will be called
upon by the French Government to give a flat
and indignant denial to the statement of M. AVE-
DICK we no more doubt than that the gallant
Admiral will obey the behests of the Minister of
Marine upon this point. But no explanation
which may take place will have the least influence
upon our convictions.

No progress appeared to have been made at Con-
stantinople relative to the final settlement of the
Oriental question. The Echo de l'Orient of the
7th inst., states that the adjustment of the differ-
ences between the VICEROY and the Porte, would
be effected through the mediation of Austria only
—a very unlikely story. The following additional
and later intelligence from the East is extracted
from the Paris Journals of Saturday :
We have before us the Journal de Smyrne of the
sth and 9th inst., and the Echo de :Orient of the 7th.
The Constantinople correspondence of the 9th, in
the Marseilles Semaphore of the 24th inst., states that
Marasch having been completely occupied by the
Egyptian army, the Porte has notified this movement
to the diplomatic corps, pointing out the disagreeable
circumstances which might result from Mehemet Ali
taking no notice of the instructions of the mediating
Powers.

The private correspondence from Alexandria dwells
upon the difficulties of the five Powers agreeing on the
Eastern question ; upon the failure of the Count de
Pontois at Constantinople to induce the Porte to listen
to the terms proposed by the French Cabinet to Me-
hemet Ali, and accepted by him ; and upon the increas-
ing exertions of the Ottoman Councils, at the instiga-
tion of Lord Ponsonby, to resume a war footing. The
Viceroy was in excellent health and spirits. A letter
from Alexandria of the 6th contains the following pas-
sage :
" A corps sent by the Porte against the Kurds had
just been repulsed with loss, and many men have perished
trom the rough attacks of these insurgents."
Refat Bey, late Ambassador at Vienna, had returned
to Constantinople.
The reigning Prince of Servia, since his arrival in the
Turkish capital, had been received with due honours.
He is the second son of Prince Milosch, who was forced
to abdicate.

The weather bad been dreadful, and several vessels
had been lost in the Black Sea, and even in the port of
Constantinople itself.
M. do Sercey, the French Ambassador to Persia, left
Constantinople on the 2d, on board the French steamer
of war, Veloce, for Trebisond.

Letters from Tabriz, dated November 4, give some
news from Kurdistan. Mahmoud Khan was still con-
tinuing his war with the Pachas of Vow and of Er-
zeroum.

Letters from Athens, dated the 27th of November,
in the Echo de [Orient, announce the definitive es:a-
blishment of the bank of Messrs. Wright and Eynard.
The bases of the establishment had been agreed to in a
Cabinet Council at which the King presided, and opera-
tions were to commence in January. This correspon-
dence is, however, completely at issue with the Mercure
of Syra of the 30th of November, which announces
that at the moment of going to press it had received ad-
vices from Athens that the negotiations were cancelled,
and that Mr. Wright's agents, MM. Amon and Lloyd,
had left the capital.

The whole of the French Journals of rivay
and Saturday have been received, with Madrid
Papers of the 21st inst. Their contents are unim-
portant. On a second ballot, on Friday, the
Chamber of Deputies elected M. MARTIN (du
Nord) its fourth Vice-President, to the great dismay
of Ministers, who voted for M. VIVIEN. The
Secretaries were then elected. Their names are MM.
DE MALLEVILLE, DE HAVIN, DE BIGNON, and
DUBOIS. On Saturday the Chamber being regularly
constituted M. SAUZET the President, was con-
ducted to the Chair, upon which he delivered a
speech filled with common-place expressions abo
his gratitude for the honour done to him, and his
determination to discharge his duties with impar-
tiality.

Tile following extracts are from the French
Journals. Those of Madrid contain no news of
any interest.
Twelve days has the Court of Assize at Rennes been
occupied with the trial of 30 prisoners for the Corn-
riots at Dol. On the 24th fourteen were acquitted,
and sixteen found guilty. The sentences were—one to
imprisonment for five years, one for four years, three
for two months, six for six months and a fine of 50f.,
three for two months and a fine of 161., and two a
fine of 100 f. without imprisonment. One of the pri-
soners, a woman, attempted suicide between the ver-
dict and the sentence, by dashing a :largo stone jug
against her head, but was not much hurt, and was let
off leniently by the penalty of 1001. fine.
The Tartare steam-boat, which left Algiers on the
21st, arrived at Toulon on the 24th, with dispatches.
The reports which have been circulated at Toulon, and
acording to which the Arabs had suffered great losses,
are not confirmed. Up to the 21st no action of im-
portance had taken place.
On the 24th there were received at Toulon letters
from Ourlac dated the 10th of December, which speak
of the approaching departure from France of Rear-Ad-
miral Lasusse, with the Montebello and another ship of
the line.—Consittutionnel.
The Minister of Commerce has addressed the follow-
ing circular to the Chambers of Commerce in the sea
ports :
Gentlemen,—Some of the English regulations re-
specting pilotage presented the assimilation of the
French to the British flag, as stipu'ated in the conven-
tion of 26th February, 1826.
" To remedy this, the King's Government had re-
quired, 1. The exemption for all our vessels under 60
tons burden from the obligation to take a pilot in en-
tering all the ports of Great Britain. 2. The right,
for all French vessels, not to pay the pilotage, when
they have been unable to obtain a pilot, after having
made all the customary signals,
" I have the satisfaction to inform you that the de- I