The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

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LONDON :
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1840.

We have received most extraordinary news from
Constantinople, dated the 27th ult. It was af-
firmed there that the Porte persisted in carrying
cut the sentence of deposition pronounced against
MEnEmET ALI, and that on no conditions what-
ever would the SULTAN permit him to retain the
administration of Egypt. This is the more extra-
ordinary, as the Porte had received the news of the
fall of St. Jean d'Acre, and the probable submis-
sion of the VICEROY. The remonstrance of Lord
PALMERSTON against the deposition of MEHEMET
ALI, had occupied the Divan for several days ;
but instead of paying any other regard to it, the
Porte after removing IZZET PACHA from the
nominal government of Acre anti Egypt, appointed
in his stead ZEKERIA PACHA Commander of
the Turkish forces in Asia Minor. This obstinacy,
on the part of the SULTAN, if persisted in, cannot
but prove embarrassing to Lord PALMERSTON.
The hostility of the Porte to the VICEROY was at-
tributed, in Constantinople, to the personal in-
trigues of Lord PONSONBY ; but it is much more
likely to be owing to the crooked policy of the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh. But to whatever cause
the resolution of the Porte to depose the VICEROY
be attributable, we need hardly apprise,our readers
that England will never consent to such a measure.
We have guaranteed the hereditary government
of Egypt to MEHEMET ALI, and shall certainly
not co-operate with the SULTAN in any
attempt to deprive him of it. And were the Porte
mad enough, now that peace _has been restored,
to take advantage of the restoration of the fleet to
carry war into Egypt, it might oecome a question
with the Great Powers who have already done so
much for Turkey, whether the maintenance of the
integrity of the Ottoman Empire was not perfectly
compatible with a very diffetent state of things at
Constantinople. But a change of Ministry was
much talked of, and the appearance of new faces in
the Divan will afford the SULTAN a sufficient pretext
for acceding with a good grace to Lord PALMER-
STON'S recommendation of the VICEROY.

Several cases have, of late, been brought before
the public, of tyrannical conduct in landowners,
who have used their right of property to coerce the
votes and the consciences of their tenants, and

those by whose labours they obtain their rent, and
everything else they enjoy. That they have thereby
converted that right into a nuisance to others, and
have weakened it, or even endangered its existence,
is more their look-out than ours, though we must.

remind them it is established for the advantage of
the whole community ; and if they so use it as
to make it a public injury, they will bring it into
question, and, perhaps, cause it to be abrogated.

There is no longer a single part of society tabooed
against public investigation ; Church, religion,
Government, are all exposed to the prying glances
of the multitude ; the rights of the landowners can-
not escape, and if, by a tyrannical course of pro-
ceedings, they make it publicly evident that their
rights ate hostile to civil and religious freedom, they
will soon have to defend their property from the
attacks they provoke. Some persons are pleased
with broils ; ease secured by the labour of others,
and opulence conferred without toil, have, probably,

become distasteful to the landowners, and tlic)
wish, like their ancestors, to fight for their pos.

sessions.

Having given them this hint, we shall now refer
.o the individual cases which have been lately,

that is, within the last fortnight, brought under
the public notice. The first is that of Lord MoN-
TAGUE, the uncle to the Duke of BUCCLEUGII,
and the owner of some property in Beaulieu, Hamp-
shire. lie has addressed a manifesto, so styled,
to his serfs or tenants, and after professing a great

respect for the rights of conscience, as all those pro-
fess who mean to violate them, he declares " that he
will not allow any building belonging to him, to be
used for instruction in any form of religion different
from that of the Established Church, as taught in
his own schools." But by any building he means
a budding not in his own occupation, for he goes
on to tell his tenants in plain words, that if they
wish to continue in the occupation of these build-
ings, w hich they hire of him for an adequate con-
sideration, they must discontinue their schools, if
different from those of the established priesthood.
Hera then, we find a landowner using his light of
property to promote what his dissenting tenants
consider a false religion, a remnant of superstition--
a religion which they regard as endangering their
after life, and rendering their present life vicious
and unhappy. Surely the right of property is not
established for any such purpose.
Lord MONTAGUE lives in England. We next
turn to Ireland. For a long time the Orangemen
have called the soil of that country Protestant, and
have claimed a right of using it to starve the Ca-
, tholics, if they can. Our Teaders know that in