The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-25 00:00:00

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We also understand that means have been taken to
foment an insurrection in Egypt against the Viceroy,
and that the news of his being deposed, and possibly
strangled, is &lily expected in London.

From London then, where the news is expected,
means, it is insinuated, have been employed to
foment an insurrection against MEHEMET ALI,
and to take his life. This is not merely an ab-
surdity, it is a gross calumny, without the shadow
of a foundation.

We could not allow these statements of the Tic-
raid to go uncontradicted without being liable to
create a most unfavourable impression against Lord
PALMERSTON both here and abroad. In opposi-
tion to both the Ministerial Journals, and to the
Tory Journals, we l,.ave maintained all along
that Lord PALMERSTON was desirous of peace,
and was only driven to take an active part
against MEHEMET ALI by an overpowering
conviction that it was necessary to inter-
fere with the affairs of Turkey, in order to pre-
vent Russia from settling them single-handed.
That object attained, he will neglect nothing, we
are sure, to preserve peace with France, and re-
establish friendly relations with that great Power.
It has been, through his whole administration, his
darling policy to form with France and the Penin-
sula an alliance in the West to counteract the alli-
ance in the East, and he will not now be faithless to
himself. At this moment, too, when M. GUIZOT
has great difficulties to struggle with—when, for
the common interest of France and England,
it is Lord PALMERSTON'S duty to strengthen
M. GUIZOT all in his power, it is not credible that
he should take an arrogant, insulting course towards
that distinguished statesman or towards France,
and so render M. GUIZOT'S retention of office
as a Minister of Peace, impossible. The
Government of England, and the people and the
Press of England have, for the moment, no higher
duty to perform than to smooth the difficulties
—not exasperate them, by insulting notes and in-
sulting language—which lie in the way of M.
GUIZOT successfully accomplishing his noble

11l ISSIOII .

We seldom publish letters impugnin2 the manage-
ment of contemporary journals, but as we gave in-
sertion to the letter of Mr. SPOTTISWOODE on the
Bible Monopoly, and the letter of Mr. CIIILDS
addressed to the Times, is on the same subject, we
illingly, independent of other circumstances of
great importance, make it an exception to the gene-
ral rule. It shows what value the Scotch Tory Mo-
nopolists, the SPOTTISWOODES, the STRA 11ANs,
the BLAIlts, and the whole gang put upon the diffu-
_iion of the Gospel, and indeed the diffusion of any
knowledge, when they charged on Acts of Parlia-
ment one hundred per cent., and on the Word of
GOD, the book of the poor, fifty per cent. more
than they were entitled to. Since Parliament in-
terfered, Bibles can be had twenty-tive per cent,
cheaper than those distributed by the Bible So-
ciety, reckoned the cheapest ever published. The
Tory press cry out against this cheapnesss of the
sacred Writings, not because the Bible will do
harm, but because the reduction may affect some of
these overgrown monopolists who assist them in
getting up Associations, like that formed by the
SroTTISWOODE Gang, to put dow❑ a Liberal Go-
vernment. If Bibles were more diffused, and the
best way to diffuse them is to make them cheap,
readers would be increased tenfold ; but the good of
the people, and particularly of the poor people, this
patty never cared a rush about. What a pity it is

that LOUI JOHN RUSSELL has not done with re-
spect to other reforms what he has done for cheap
printing ! Honest men would then bare been
pleased to stand by him against an unprincipled
and hypocritical party.

FALL OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE.
We have received, with the Paris morning
papers of Monday, the Messager and the Moni•
teur .Parisien of Monday night. In the former,
which is now the official organ of the Cabinet, we
find the following important intelligence from the
East :