The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-08 00:00:00

ALEXANDRIA.

SEPT. 16, 1839.—We wait with 14reat anxiety
the arrival of news from Europe ; though from all
we observe, the Paella is likely to profit l►ttle by the
extraordinary moderation he has exhibited—a mo-
deration which, displayed in the full tide of success,
ought to obtain for him the friendly opinion of
Europe. Nobody doubts that he might, if he
pleased, march upon Constantinople, and be
every where received with open arms, for the Mus-
selman population regard him as theh saviour, and
they look with natural distrust upon all the Chris-
tian Powers, who, one after another, have conspired
to tear away, fragment after fragment of the Ottoman
empire, about whose integrity they talk so much.
Russia, whose whole history is a history of spolia-
ations of Islamism ; England, the destroyer of the
Mahomedan power in India, and of late the cap-
turer of Aden in Arabia ; Austria, the invader, and
th

___e now possessor, of the old provinces of Turkey
on the Danube ; France, the despoiler of Algiers I
It is somewhat too much for these great Powers to
be perpetually parading their affection for the Os-
manlis—they having each in turn appropriated a
portion of the Mahomedan spoils.
If the great Powers who, in violation of all inter-
national law, have chosen to prevent an amicable
settlement between two branches of the great Mus-
sulman family, propose to Mehemet Ali reasonable
conditions, he is too wise to reject them. But if
they suppose he is to be trifled with—if, in igno-
rance (and they are grossly ignorant) of the state
of Mahomedan feeling, they push him to extremi-
ties, he will most assuredly fling himself upon the
people, and who can foretell the issue ? Perhaps
an Etuopean war.
Nothing can be so false as the news spread by the
hired press of Smyrna as to the state of Syria.
The return of the Turks to Syria would be re-
garded as a fatal calamity. What would the Syrian
Christians say, if the universal toleration of the
Viceroy, were now supplanted by the old bigotry,
persecution, and cruelty of the Turkish Pachas ?
Quite as unfounded are the statements as to the
discontent of the Turkish fleet. Between it and
the Egyptians their exists a perfect fraternity. The
reception of Mehemet Ali by the Turkish seamen,
is always enthusiastic. What has been called the
defection of the Paella, was the unanimous impulse
of the whole fleet, which represents the nationality
of the Mussulmans, and looks to the Viceroy as
having the great mission to consolidate the empire.

The Sud of Marseilles has the following cone-
spondence :
" ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 16.—8 y the last
packet-boat M. Cochelet, Consul-General of
France, received instructions from Marshal Soult
to inform Mehemet Ali that France could not sup-
port his excessive pretensions without causing an
European war ; consequently she engages him to
confine his claims to the concessions which have
been made to him, and to restore the Turkish fleet, '
as, when France had promised to defend the Vice-
roy when he was attacked, against all honour and
justice, by the Ottoman army, it was to defend the
status quo, which has given way to another situa-
tion of affairs. M. Cochelet is besides charged to
assure the Viceroy that France will not participate
in the hostile demonstrations which might be made
against him, and that she would even oppose by
arms the invasion of Egypt by any European
Power. Mehemet Ali, who was still indisposed
when he received this notification, was much affected
by it, and the determination he will take cannot be
anticipated. •
" P.S. It is now affirmed (8 o'clock P.m.) that
the Viceroy has as yet given no reply to M. Coche-
let. M. Caille, Marshal Soult's aide•de-camp, is
still here, and will not depart by this packet."

THEATRES.

COVENT- GARDEN.

_ .
" Love's Labours Lost" was again played here last
night. The costume (as we have before intimated), the
decorations, and scenery, were everything that the most
fastidious could desire ; and it is evident that the kind
of excellence which characterised Madame's former
theatrical management will be seen at the larger and
more splendid house over which her taste and tact
preside.