The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-20 00:00:00

8 Fill An if II NEWS

AND
itt Opinion.

" IT7o runs may read."

ABROAD.
PORMIGN-COLONIAL.

The New Treaty signed by the Five Powers, for the
pacification of the East, is condemned by the French op-
position Journals of Friday and Saturday. They are
displeased at a return to reason on the part of the
French Cabinet. The Lresse ably supports M. Guizot's
policy, which for ever extinguishes that flickering lumi-
nary of the war faction, M. Thiers.

The troubles in Toulouse do not yet appear to be
appeased. Should the disaffection extend to the French
capital more blood than wine would flow during the
celebration of the " three glorious days." The King is
greatly apprehensive of an emeute in Paris before the
fortifications are finished. s When the walla are up the
guns of the fortresses will treat discontented mobs to a
charivari, which will soon quiet the most noisy among
them.

Things are in a bad way at Constantinople. A
correspondent writing from that capital thus speaks of the
conduct of the Ministry :—" Beset with difficulties which
it is quite beyond their skill to overcome, they only think,
like seamen in extremity, of helping themselves to every-
thing within their reach. There now prevails in every
department the most desperate indifference to the public
service. Places and appointments of all sorts are sold
by auction. Malversation and oppression in the provinces
are the natural consequences ; but complaints, unless
backed by open insurrection, or strongly seconded
by the representatives of the European Consuls, are no
longer listened to." Government, thus bereft of public
virtue, cannot stand. Where all offices are purchaseable
with money, no institution is stable. Turkey totters to
her fall—a fall from which Islam can never rise. What-
ever the Urquhartites may say, the Koran is an insuper-
able bar to the regeneration of the Moslem empire in
Europe.

It has been signified to the Sultan that her Majesty
Queen Victoria cannot consistently with the rules of the
public service, allow Lords Palmerston and Ponsonby to
accept the splendid diamond decorations intended for
them in requital of their services in effecting the pacifi-
cation of the East. had her Majesty's Royal predeces-
sor given a hint of this sort to the late Earl of Durham,
before the decoration of Lambton Castle by the presents
of the Czar, the seizure of the Vixen might have led to
matters which would have worn a very different aspect
in the Black Sea, from those with which we are at pre-
sent familiar. The patriotism is indeed rare, which can
distinguish in a private benefactor a public enemy.
On the 20th ult. the Divan, at the instance of Baron
Sturmer, the Austrian Internuncio, adopted a proposal for
ameliorating the condition of the Syrian- Christians. It
matters little what the Divan resolves to do so long as
the Pachas contrive to evade giving effect to its resolu-
tions. Unless the Great Powers actively assume the
protectorate of the Christian subjects of the Porte, no
Divan can protect them from the brutal insults of the
fanatic Osmanlis.

Mehemet Ali is carrying every thing with a high
hand in Egypt. His promises to Commodore Sir
Charles Napier appear to have been forgotten as soon as
that Gallant Officer was clear of the port of Alexandria.
As yet the Pacha has neither released the Syrian pri-
soners nor removed the obstacles to the freedom of
trade granted by the Hatti ScherifE When Colonel
Napier demanded the release of the prisoners, he was told
that the Pacha had other business to attend to. • Is the
Pacha anxious for another interview with the Commo-
dore ? If he wishes, to retain the Government of Egypt
in his family, he ought to give over collecting materials
for a bonfire at Alexandria, which may consume his
title-deed to so fair a wing of the Turkish Empire.
Russia is showing great activity in her arsenals.
Several war-steamers are building of large size.
The inauguration of Moliere's monument, now
constructing, is expected to take place on the 17th of
February—the anniversary of his death.

AT HOME.
WZISCELL.A.NZOUS.

At a great dinner given at Bury, on Friday even-
ing, to Richard Walker, Esq., in honour of his return for
that town, Mr. G. W. Wood stated that Lord Spencer told
him a few days ago that any Administration, however
powerful, would commit an act of felo de se if it inter-
fered with the Corn-laws. The Ministers must have
been aware of that opinion, and could, therefore, have
brought forward their proposition only from a sense of
duty, as Mr. Wood said, and were determined not to
shrink from the consequences. We have before
stated that it was impossible to listen to Mr.
Labouchere, and not believe that he spoke from the
most complete and sincere conviction that if something
were not done our manufacturers would he ruined.

At the same dinner Mr. Cobden, though he ex-
pressed himself dissatisfied with the Whig measures,
said the manufacturers were immeasurably indebted to
the Queen's Ministers for bringing forward measures at
all to improve the Corn-laws. He also told the factory-
owners some home truths. The landlords rely, he said,
on the discord prevailing between the master manufac-
turers and their workmen. The tendency of the
bread-tax is to diminish the wages of labour,
and the factory masters are the agents for
levying that tax on the workmen. Thus they
are made the instruments of their own ruin, or, as Mr.
Cobden said, the cat's-paw of the landlords, by consent-
ing to impoverish and degrade their fellow-labourers.
The factory masters must prove to the workmen that
they are not to blame, and both must make common
cause against the common plunderer. At Manchester
they are late in discovering this important truth. The
factory masters have preferred imitating the landowners,
and have been ridiculously afraid of their workmen.
They now have their reward.
Twelve months and a severe winter have tested the
Oxford-street wood-paving. At a special meeting of the
Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday, a memorial was pre-
sented signed by 370 rate-payers of Oxford-street, in fa-
vour of a wooden pavement for the whole of the street.
Richard Lloyd, the person who secured Hatfield,
the lunatic, when in the act of firing a pistol at George
111., in Drury Lane Theatre, died last week in the
Salop Infirmary.

The preparations for the meeting of the British
Association, at Devonport, are nearly complete. It will
commence on Thursday, the 20th inst., and continue
until the 4th of August.

Richard Russell, a shoemaker, of Hereford, com-
mitted suicide on Wednesday last. He had voted for
Mr. Burr, and sworn that he retained the same qualifi-
cation as that for which he registered, though his house
had been taken down. The idea of having taken a false
oath so preyed on his mind that he could no longer
endure life.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Times and the Spectator yelp in one couple
against the proposed meeting of the Dissenting Minis-
ters at Manchester. The company in which our quasi
Liberal Contemporary finds himself, should frighten him
from hunting down such game. The Times fulfils its
vocation when it decries all attempts to improve the
Corn-laws, which may thwart Sir R Peel, but the pre-
sumed vocation of the Spectator is not that of the
Times. The only difference, however, in respect
to their attack on the purposed meeting of the Dissenting
Ministers is that one quests like a lady's spaniel, which
has strayed into forbidden cover, while the other goes
forward with the deep and loud-mouthed baying
of a blood-hound on the trace of a fugitive negro, con-
scious that he is backed and followed by an overpower-
ing force.

The Times points out to the Tories how Ireland is
to be ruled—not by good laws, and ranting her equal
justice with England—but by riding down the rebels—
meaning the Catholics, by the troops of their Royal mis-
tress. " Half Ireland," says that atrocious journal, "is
in a state of rebellion against the Constitution, in
Church and State, the ring-leaders of that rebellion being
the Popish priests," alias the " Surpliced Ruffians."
What is this but calling for civil war in Ireland ? . Per-
haps it will come sooner than even these blood-thirsty
persecutors expect.
The Post, in the same strain, and scoffing at
the Prayer of eight millions of her Majesty's faithful
subjects fur justice, savagely asserts that justice to Ire-
land requires that for the sake of example adequate
punishment shall be inflicted upon those who have sought
to defeat and annul the elective franchise, not of course
Lord Stanley and the riotous Orangmen, but O'Connell
and the priests.
The Bristol Mercury, after reciting the great mea-
sures which Reform has affected in every department
of the Administration, shows that mighty must be the
achievements of the " strong " Tory Government to
throw such actions into shade. "At present," says a
subsequent article, " the Liberal party recedes, like
the wave, more fearfully to return."
The Derbyshire Chronicle avouches that unless the
Tories considered themselves fully powerful enough to
put down Anti-Corn-law agitation by the strong hand
altogether, it was most unwise to oppose the Ministerial
proposal of a fixed duty. But a short time will elapse,
however, before the subject of dispute will be reduced
to the stern and naked measure of right.
The Somerset County Gazette asserts Sir Robert
Peel to be at heart a Liberal, and from various indica-
tions shows that.a large section of his own party mistrust

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him. He is too liberal for his party, and is not eimagh
of a Tory to please them.
The Hereford Times likens the ecstasies •of the
Tories, at the present moment, to the man who was
" dancing on the head of a barrel of gunpowder, when
the fire of a lighted train was slowly but surely pur-
suing its course to the explosive body." The invention
of new taxes, it expects to be the first act of the Tory
batch, for either borrowing or taxing they must adopt.
" The Radicals are not in such a bad plight," says
the Leeds Times, " as they are thought to be. Now is the
time for putting forth with good effect bold and honest
principles. Another such national movement as the Re-
p form Bill must dislodge the Tories, and the suffrage
question at once presents itself as that on which the most
successful rally may be made."
The Kelso Chronicle, commenting on the non-
return of Lord Howick, says, " That the son of Earl
Grey should have been rejected by the constituency of
his native county is matter of deep regret. Only seven
years ago the very same men who have been instru-
mental in his defeat flocked and tendered the father of
reform their thanks and gratulations."

Though Toryism, says the Devonport Independent,
be rampant for a time, yet the tide-wave of public opinion
will rise and roll on. " Sir Robert Peel may figure like
another Dame Partington in trying to mop out the sea,
but his endeavour will not be more wise or glorious."