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London, England, 1838-10-10 00:00:00

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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 10, 1838.

We never remember a time when the Tories, as a
body, exhibited such unequivocal symptoms of de-
pression as they do at the present period. They get
up no public dinners ; make no public speeches ; but
appear to be quite sulks', inert, and crest-fallen.
Where are the Conservative societies in whose well,
doing they took such deep interest this time last year?
What has become of the Operative institutions which,
not twelve months since, they harangued with such
exceeding animation ? Where are their travelling
orators—their BURDET TS and their MAIDSTON ES
—who went from town to town, getting up ex-
hibitions at every place they visited, infinitely
to the annoyance of the legitimate showmen whose
Province they invaded, and whose profits they
most unjustifiably diminished ? Not a Tory stirs—
not'a Tory tongue wags. All is silence, and gloom,
and hopeless lethargy. Tory dinners—Tory socie-
ties—Tory itinerant orators ;—in vain we search the
records of the Provincial Journals for some faint traces
of their existence ; days, weeks pass, and we hear
nothing of them ! Are there no signs of the times
here ? Is this universal Tory lethargy a thing of no
impart ? Not so ; it is proof positive that the fac-
tion has at length come to a knowledge of its true
position ; that it feels the game is up—or all
but up ; and that the " glory hath departed
from its house ?" Had Toryism the slightest
prospect of being able to resume its old ascen-
dancy ; did it dream, even for an instant, that
the loaves and fishes of office were again within its
grasp ; the rampant monster would be more astir than
ever ; but it is awake to a just and befitting sense of
its condition, and no longer thinks it worth while to
maintain even the appearance of a struggle. That
our estimate of the present state of Toryism is by no
means an overcharged one, but that it is really and
trully in the hopeless situation which we have just en-
deavoured to describe, is evident from a remark let
drop by one of the speakers at the Hinchford Agri-
cultural Association, the annual meeting of which
took place on Friday last. Alluding cursorily to
the proceedings of the last session, Mr. ROUND
observed, " the greater part of the questions which
have lately come before Parliament, do not afford
much consolation to the friends of the Conservative
cause." This remark, slight and accidental as it may
appear, is important at the present crisis, as furnish-
ing us with a clue to the otherwise unaccountable
lethargy of the Tories. It is but a sentence, yet it
speaks volumes. The faction, it is clear, has nothing
to say in favour of itself; it cannot boast of the pro-
ceedings of the last Session ; it cannot look forward
with any confidence to the coming one ; hence its re- j
serve—its sullenness—its despair.

The Paris Journals of Monday have all been re-
ceived. Their contents are rather interesting, par-
ticularly as regards the progress of the Swiss question,
relative to which sonic extracts will he found in another
column. We copy the following important notifica-
tion from the Journal des Debals :
" Wt, are assured that Government has received the
news of the acceptation of the Turkish treaty of commerce
by the Pacha of Egypt, and that he signified the same to
the French and English Consuls. Mehemet Ali appears
to have found means of doing without his monopolies. It
was at the moment of his departure for Sennaar with his
son, Said Bey, to whom he has confided the command of
his marine, that the Pacha made this declaration to the
two Powers; and it. is added that orders had been given to
disarm a portion of the Egyptian fleet."
This statement is confirmed by the following article
from another French Journal :
The Dublin Pilot of Monday contains the report of " A letter of the 16th nit., from Alexandria, confirms a
statement to which we have already alluded, that the
a great meeting held at Ballinasloe, on Saturday last, Pacha of Egypt had consented to a negotiation for the
for the purpose of taking into consideration such pot- payment of the tribute due to the Porte. An arrange-
tions of the Report of the Irish Railway Commission-
niwhich undertook to furnish the sum required for thatght had been concleded with the house of Anastaby,
ers as relate to the intersection of the Province of Con- purpose, on condition of receiving 26,000 bales of cotton,
naught. The meeting was very numerously attended, at the price of 16 talaris (not 15 talaris, as was stated)
st hiel i e q,u i
an tnadl . t h
ell::
hf , trhheaself ct-o,ttLotivsewrpe(r)eelto bTehs.e ipltaetohaMha rd-
and the chair taken by Mr. BODKIN, M.P. Professor
BUTT and Mr. JAMES DWYER, of Dublin, attended,
aband"oned the right of forwarding directly or indirectly
and both gentlemen laboured hard to prove that the Com- to either of those ports any portion of his cottons, tither
missioners had not done justice to the West of Ireland, of this or last year's crop. ile had, however, reserved to
the trade of which was fully adequate 'to the support himself the privilege of continuing to send cottons to
Trieste. The cotton crop for the present year was ex-
of a line of road between Dublin and Galway. We are pectcd to exceed 90,000 hales. On the 15th the Pacha
so thorough), convinced of the honest zeal with which had embarked on board a steamer, and joined the squadron
the Commi , briers have executed the task entrusted to cruising off the port. He was expected in a few days to
them Iry the Government, with a view to benefit Ire-
proceed into the Delta, and to land at Rosetta, whence he
was to proceed to Cairo. Oa his arrival in that capital
land, that there is not a gentleman who attended the his plan was still to undertake al expedition to Sennaar.
meeting on Saturday would rejoice more sincerely than The grand caravan of Darfour, consisting of 6,000 or
Part
was expected immediately at Alexandria.
.
they would at learning that the commerce of the sister §,OO 0 persons,
of it had already arrived at Stout. Syria was tran-
country would support twice as many lines of railway as quil. Accounts from Bevrout say that Ibrahim Pasha has
they have recommended for immediate construction. If recently contracted a secret marriage with a young Turkish
they have erred in this respect, they did so unwittingly; female belonging to, one of the first famides of Damascus.
for to the interests of no part of Ireland have they A caravan had arrived from Bagdad, bringing 100 packets
o pear
shown themselves regardless or inattentive. While 35,0004"15, the total value of which was estimated at
all the speakers protested, more or less, against the The Constitutionnel is the only paper which throws
conclusions arrived at by the Commissioners, as regarded a doubt upon this intelligence, by the publication of
the West of Ireland,-we must do the:: the justice to the following letter, purporting to be the answer o f
state that they all protested against imputing MEHEMET ALI to the European Consuls at Cairo.
to the,- Commissioners individually,
other than the It bears no date, and, in our opinion, is an arrant
best and purest motives. Their attacks on the forgery :
Report of the Commissioners were, however, far from " Gentlemen—The Sovereians of Europe are very en-
lightened, and have long clared that they desire the
being happy. To prove to the satisfaction of the tranquillity of nations, and,, in general, the prosperity of
gentlemen assembled that the Report was full of con- mankind. But, ;hen ,
t iey refuse to acknowledge my
tradictions, Mr. JAMES DWYER, who stated, some- rights to independence, they are inconsistent, as I shall
what unnecessarily, that he was an Irishman, and felt as show. So long as lem not independent, being richer,
stronger, more powcrfal than the Sultan, his states arid
one, read two Passages from that document, which he mine are in presence and in arms. All Epirus Anatolia,
judged quiteconclusive upon that point. The first occurs Cat-mania, Syria, Egypt, the islands, in short, all Turkey
at page 6 of the Report, and is as
follows :--" Look- and Arabia, are a prey to anxiety, political commotions,
expenses and inconveniences of all descriptions, which ruin
ling then to the numbers, condition, and habits of the unfortunate people of those countries, owing to the fear
within the. four great divisions we have I cause the Sultan, who quakes before me, and baffles all
the people
their relative capabilities of ben,. his snares. The Sultan's strength is well known, and has long
filing and to
impreved system of communi-
and apprehended. Should the Pacha of Bagdad declare war
fiting by a new
cation, we cannot have an hesitation against him he could not reduce him. As for myself, if I set my
y in
ex- foot on the Sultan's territory, all his subjects, all Turkey would
pressing our opinion, that. the first efforts should receive me with open ems, and the Sultan's soldiers would
themselves la down their arms at my feet. Thus the
Dublin from Kin r y - -
be directed towards carrying lines of railway
Europe seem, in :his circumstance, to wish rather
for the'
shoul not be the
unhappiness of n moils than for their good and tran-
Dublin through the northern and southern districts.
. . ittiaotraoeft
We conceive that the population of the western district euillity ; for
if they suffered me to secure my independence,
same, and a Mussulman, as by the past ?
is not in a condition to avail themselves of the advan-
They are not '
athat ari Geese,%vhcn theshe erxntseen, t
succeeded o f whi c which
did not exeed
tagea to be derived from works of this description, but
among them by in six yeers, in spite f ''
that greater good would be promoted . . .
of nume • o N iziers and Pashas at the head
roads, of which, in rpus armies, in keeping tl, S I '
opening and constructing common , • and that if 1 had not sided with I' 'e u tan in check;
in want." Tills they am. against the Greeks
some districts, they are completely
been for the intervention passage Mr. DWYER stigmatized as a " libel upon not . 4.tott of the three powers, I should
subjected all Greece, Nau lia
the people of the west of Ireland"—a libel, too, calcu- have
On the other hand, e !
,- a-us7e I not done f• • • *
hated to defraud them of a fair proportion of railroads • ~r the civilize-
ti,,,, of Ee.ypt ? H,. i. t conferred upon her l regular
through their extensive district. To rebut it he went .
, troops acrd a navy or,- , .P: : , • 'r the Eur
opean system ?
,
on to say :—" But hear what the Commissioners : Have I not introduced
I',,ierk: arts and industry, tnanu.,
tintnselves say at page 4-ti, forgetting, perleps, what ' factures of silk and cotton, end copper, and a thousand