The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-27 00:00:00

SYICIA.

LETTER ADDRESSED BY THE INHABIT-
ANTS OF MOUNT LEBANON TO HIS EX.
CELLENCY THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
r• TRANSLATION FROM 7" ARABIC.

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After the usual compZenis :
The painful news that have reached us by the news-
papers have struck a terrible blow to Syria—they have
torn the hearts of men, women, and children, now
menaced to be exterminated by Mehemet AU, to
whom France has deigned to grant her powerful pro-
tection. Can she possibly be ignorant of the evils this
mate has made us suffer since fortune has made him
master of Syria ? They are innumerable ;—sufEce it
to say that the roost distressing vexations and the most
cruel oppressions hate driven us to despair, and have
renewed in us the ardent desire of returning to the pa-
ternal government of our august sovereign Abdul
Medjid. is not this a legitimate desire from a loyal
people ? France, a nation so great, so magnanimous
—that has extended liberty everywhere, that has for
ages spilled so much blood to establish it in her own
government—refuses us to-day her powerful influence
to obtain the enjoyment of the same good.
The French press says, " that France will not admit
of any arrangement that has for basis the restitution of
Syria to its legitimate Sovereign." Can it be so ? The
Syrians cannot believe it ? The French nation, [so
generous, so civilised, cannot desire to see us crushed by
a systematic oppression which alone distinguishes the
Egyptian Government from others.
We wish but to be allowed to return to the protec-
tion of our legitimate Sovereign, whom! we have not
sensed to obey for the last 400 years. We demand but
to participate :A the privileges and rights of the Hatti
Scherig w;:ich our gracaus Sovereign has granted to alibis
faithful subjects without exoption—without distinction.
We appeal to the justice of the French Government.
We supplicate the French nation at large to assist us
to obtain our demand. The most atrocious tyranny has
compelled us to take up arms for the defence of our
lives and the honour of our families from the brutality
of the Egyptian soldiery, or to bury ourselves in the
ruins of our country. Our cause is a just one, and as
such we sincerely trust that the French Government
will not abandon us in a moment so dangerous.
It is with this hope we submit to your Excellency
this our prayer, begging that you will be pleased to lay
it at the foot of the Throne of your august master, the
ally of our gracious Sovereign Abdul Medjid.
Signed—(L S) Prince Faris Shehab, (L S) Prince
Jooseff Shehab, (L S) Emir Haidar, (L S)
Sheik Francis el Hazen Leratkier (L S)
Sheik Faris Habeish.
Nations.—The Maronite—The Druse—The Mu-

tuwalie,

LETTER ADDRESSED BY THE INHABI-
TANTS OF MOUNT LEBANON TO HIS EX-
• CELLENCY THE ENGLISH AMBASSADOR.
(TRANSLATION.)

After usual compliments :
The humanity which so eminently distingujles the
acts of the British Government—the readiness vrith
which it steps forward to the assistance of the op-
pressed—the anxiety that it displays to make the people
of the East share in the benefits enjoyed by that portion
of their fellow-creatures that are blessed with happier
Governments—embolden the Syrians to appeal to
England for her mediation to rescue them from the de-
struction with which Mehemet Ali threatens them now.

Since the invasion of Syria by Mehemet Ali, he has
trampled us under foot by an oppression which knows
no bounds, and by a tyranny the most atrocious and

cruel.
For the last eighi years we have acceded to all his
demands, and because he has left Ili nothing more to
give him, he menaces us with extetrninatiou ; nor will
his unbounded rapacity be satisfied until he drill:0 the
very blood of our children, and satiates the licetitious-
ness of his soldiers with the honour of our families.
Driven to despair, we have taken up arms for the de-
fence of our lives, and to guard our dwellings from fire,
and ourselves from the sword, with which he threatens
td erase us from among nations.

Abandoned by the world, we implore the protection
of Great Britain. In the humanity of her government,
and in the generosity of one of the greatest and most
powerful of nations, rest all our hopes in this cruel
crisis. All that we demand is to be allowed to return
to our legitimate Sovereign, Abdul Mecljid—a natural
desire coming from loyal subjects. Why should two
millions and a half of his Highness's subjects be sacri.
ficed to the personal ambition of one man, who, him-
self forgetful of the benefits conferred upon him, has
turned his sword against the bosom of his own Sove-

reign ?
We have but one prayer—we seek but to be allowed
to enjoy, in common with the rest of his Highness's
subjects, the rights and privileges secured to them by
the " Hatti-Scheriff ;" and it is in this hope that we
submit our petition to your Excellency, praying that you
chill, be pleased to lay it before the " Divan" of Great
Britain, the ally of our august sovereign Abdul Medjid,
with a request that we may be honoured with speedy
glad tidings before. we are utterly destroyed by the Go-
vernor of Egypt.
May the Almighty prolong the days of your Excel-
lency with happiness to the end of time.
Signed—(LS) Prince Faris Sheehab, (L S) Prince
Jooseff Shebab,(L S) Emir Haider, (L S)
Sheik Francis el Hazen Lcratkier, (L S)
Sheik Faris Habeisch,
Nations—The Maronite,—The Druse,—The
Mu tu walis.

THE PARISH CHURCH OF Sr. GEORGE,
flAtvovEß-sQuAae.—The above edifice being about to un-
dergo a repair, an appeal has been made to the parishioners
for the purchase of some ancient painted glass, which it is
intended to fix up at the east window of the church. For
this object the Dean of Carlisle, the Rector, the Earl de
la \Varr, and the Right Hon. George Robert Dawson, the
Churchwardens, have commenced rt subscription, the cost
of the glass being estimated at about 1,0001. It formerly
belonged to the cathedral of Mecklin. The subject is the
genealogy of Christ, usually termed the root of Jesse.
Among the subscribers already announced, in addition to
the Rector and the Churchwardens, are the Duchess of
Gloucester, the Marquises of Westminster and Down-
shire' the Lord Bishop of Durham, the Earls of Harewood,
Wilton, Grosvenor, Darlington, Eldon, Howe, Maccles-
field, and Amherst; Lords Cowley, G. Quin, R. Gros-
venor, &c., &c. The glass, which has been universally
admired, es at Mr. Willement's, Green-street, Gros-
venor-square.

FOUNDLING HOSPITALS.—Now is it not a mis-
taken principle of philanthropy—is it not a most immoral
act of charity to offer in this way a public encouragement,
not only to unmarried, but also to married parents, to enter
upon a career of sin ?—to throw upon the others a dut3
imposed by nature, and to blunt the heart against all the
impulses of parental affection? The ostensible motive is
to prevent the murder of children ; but can any one
imagine that there would be, under any other system, as
many children murdered as now die of neglect in the found.
ling hospitals ? Is it to be supposed that in the Venetian
rural districts 10,62 b women could be found to part with
their children if the wheel of the foundling hospital did
not present itself to them as a wheel of fortune ? Let
the whole execrable institution be abolished at once, and
rely on the experience of other nations, that man has not
yet sunk below the level of the beast, which feeds and
cherishes its young 1 When we say. " The child is an
orphan," we intend to express a condition of the deepest
misfortune; yet how happy must the orphan feel, in reflect-
ing on its deceased parents, compared with the deserted
foundling, whose parents, if it have any, must be criminal
ones ! How can a child grow up in a feeling of gratitud,
to laws that enticed his parents to abandon him? How
can he confide in social institutions that have torn from
his heart all confidence in the simplest and most natural
tics of nature ?—Raumer's Italy and the Italians.

THE THAMES TUNNEL.—The process of what
is termed " driving the piles" in this undertaking is pro- '
ceeding rapidly. The total number of feet from the en-
trance at Wapping to that on the Rotherhithe shore will
be exactly 1,300, when the tunnel is completed. The
workmen, having reached the Middlesex side of the river
are now engaged in carrying the extent of the tunnel as far
as the Wharf-wall at Wapping, to reach which only 35 ft.
more are required, and then the whole distance will be ac-
complished. The average number of feet which the men
are able to finish in a week is three ; there is every proba.
bility, therefore, of the tunnel being completed in between
three and four months from this period. The whole of the
premises which it was requisite to remove for the purposti
of forming the entrance at Wapping have been pulled down,
and the expenses attached to purchasing the property,
which was very valuable, and remunerating the occupiers
of the houses, will form no small item in the Company's
accounts; as it is, however, the tunnel will be completed
at a cost of less than half a million of money.
SUPPOSED INCENDIARISNI.—AII inquisition
was taken at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, which lasted
about three hours, before Mr. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, on the body of Mary Campbell, aged 40. It
peared from the evidence that the deceased jumped out of
the second floor back room of the house No. 6, Field-lan
pbroenme
iss
on Monday fortnight, in consequence of an alarm of firee
o
eet,dv out dtel:l
pnilintio7theaotf tit]:
being raised. She was taken up andthe caonneviee.y
witnesses were
gave a n
above hospital, and it was found
aot
t:leanyleoftf
the
et
es
were wilfully set fire to. Tne Jury found that
de-
ceased died by jumping out of a window, fl the
bug there was no evidence as to w was ho through fright,
the cause of the
fire.

PROJECTED GRAND STEEPLE..CI-IASE.
The grandest steeple-chase ever yet proposed was set can
foot at the late great Horncz.ql,-2 horse fair. The Lincoln
men, who last season gave extraordinary evidence of their
taste for steeple-chasing, being necessarily brought in con-
tact with the two greatest promoters of steeple-chasing
in the vicinity of London, Mr. J. Anderson and Mr. J.
Elmore, led to a discussion of the merits of the different
horses that had appeared in public, and a stake was imme-
diately opened, in order to test the opinion of each party,
of 100 soya, each, 25 forfeit, for any horse in the world
;
(bar the renowed Lottery), to carry 12st.
over four
Marketnk-
ri
of a fair hunting country, within twenty miles of
Harborough, to be subject to the usual steeri)ilne;chasieconA-
ditions; the ground to be chosen by J. T
sum of money will be added, contributedis
by
would promote such sport. The stake closemtothose g. w
E on t
neoxntt._j3eav
,handthelave.ce. to take place on th 3
226dtohfatlio Novembersame
month.--Bell'sLfa.

EVENING EDITE`

STATE OF TRADE.

(From
Our
market ket the
yesterday
Manchesterws i u pretty Guardian.)
nearly
the sinestate as on the preceding Tuesday—a fair amount of
business being done, though
at very moderate price.'.
The lower counts and inferior qualities of yarn are im
good demand, and sell freely at previous rates ; whilst.
tuperior qtolities of 40's are worse to sell, and in some
easel a alight reduction has been submitted to. In the
goods market thetzl is an improved demand for very
slight and thin calicoes;but other articles remain with-
out alteration.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MAR;: ET, MONDAY', AUG.
—We have had a decided improvement in the ,lernand
for flannels to-day, and considerably more business has
been done ; but there is no material Advance in the
prices. There is another failure this week of a small
manufacturer, and, as usual, the chief sufferers are the
woolstaplers. The wool market is much the same
that of last Monday.
HUDDERSFIELDMARKET, TUESDAY, AUG. 25.
There is little or no change to note in the state of this
market this week, unless it be that there was Dot that
appearance of activity which has obtained for some
weeks of late. Perhaps this may be accounted for on
the ground, that great caution _marks the conduct of
the manufacturers, who are mostly working to orde...i
so that very few new goods are brought into the mart et..
Prices remain steady, unless it be a partial rise in some
sorts of wools. In the warehouses, a fair business is
doing ; but in no department of trade is there any
cause of exultation. Middle and low-priced p;ain and.
fancy woollens are most in request ; and in light fancy
roods the demand is pretty good ; but in superfines
there is little doing.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURN.4I

I FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY..
(From the Globe.)
Amongst nations, as amongst individuals, it is cu-
ions to mark the modes of expression which teelitails of
pique ,:uggest for the annoyance of the parties who ,lx-
cite them. Now that the horizon looks more like fa it
weather hew: en France and England, there is, sorne•
ii,iituement in rejewing the sort of civilities lately ex-
changed with our nr.l;slibours. On the one side, the
Journal des Debats to:' the nonce turns English
Tory, embarrasses the " m'derate'and goveromental
party of Conservatives" with its praises, and marvels at-
the ingratitude of the Whig Ministerialists, who won't
s•-2e that the tolerance of the Tories alone permits them
to govern! [We may perhaps have a word or tw oto
say upon this text presently.] On the other ha ud,
a Contemporary twits the Orleans dynasty and juste
milieu party in France with the assurance that they cao-
not and dare not make war ! All this must be taketr
with some grains of allowance. The party that
inspires the Debats will desist from their efforts to
oust the Whigs, and coax the Tories in hopes
of finding softer negotiators 1 On the other hand,
:iio somewhat dangerous taunts on our side
will be discontinued, which are just the most I:LeIY to
goad the present ruling classes in Franee to rash m=a-
sures. Let bygones be bygones ; we can forgive. as
easily the assaults on Lord Palmerston, which ha .'O
i)e,2n made by the Constitutionnel, and the war on the,
kVhigs waded by the Debats, as our neighbours may
forgive the detrh:tions from the warlike powers of their
present government. We arc not at all afraid that the
press of Paris can effect our part,v-overthrow ; and our
neighbours need not fear detriincit to their national
honour from that of London.

(From the Standard.)
The Globe, following the lead of the &corning al."'
isle, criticises the few observations with which we ac-
companied Mr. Handley's letter in Monday's
.Standard.
We have but one objection to supporting the' contro-
versy tt; which our Contemporaries thus challenge us,
and that is, a conviction that the country is pretty well
wearied of it ; the minds of nearly all, as the failure of
tiw late attempted agitation proves, being made up es
to the equal interest of all in maintaining the protection.'
of British agriculture. Nevertheless, while fully aware,
of this objection, we think it right to expose, though in
few words, still more clearly the fallacy of the Anti-
Corn-law Journal's reasoning
The Standard, in an article designed to advoclNte the
Corn-laws, employs facts and arguments subversive ot. their
claims by demonstrating the temptation they hold ou t to
capitalists to speculate in corn, as they do in other articles
of trade."
This is what the Globe says for us, but this is not
what the Standard said for itself. We were not so ig-
norant of the principles of trade as to doubt that capi-
talists would, if they could, " speculate in corm as they
lo in other articles of trade," or as to suppose that capi-
.alists want the'` temptation" of the Corn-laws to urge•
:hem in the direction of their natural tendency. On
the other hand we argued that the effect of the Coro-laws
is to impose restraint upon this disposition to specula-
tion in corn as in other articles of trade, and we
think ,that we employed an irresistible argament
in showing that even the qualified relaxation
of the laws in question lets loose at once the:whole spirit
of rapacious gambling, which certaisly has slun.,e
hered while the blessings of favourable harvests
permitted to the laws their full operation. Nothing,
indeed, can more strongly illustrate the contrast between
the safety of the home supply, and the danger of ad.-
witting the supply from abroad than the new and ex-
traordinary impetus given to the gambling 'spirit by the
even partial opening of the latter. Farther on; the.
Globe tells us, that " the purchases made in foreign
markets are evidently made in anticipation of a deficielit
harvest." This we take leave to deny. They ate:
made in the hope of anticipating the produce of the-
! British harvest, in which, thanks to the Giver of all.
good, there is as yet not the least reason to apprehend.
a deficiency. The purchases are made becauze capital
must be employed, and made in the hope of realising a
profit on successful gambling.
(From the Courier.)
A pamphlet has made its appearance, entitled " An
Appeal to the Government and People of Great Britain,
against the proposed Niger Expedition ; a Letter ad-
dressed to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell,
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, &c., &c
by Robert Jamieson, Esq.," a respectable Liverm;l
merchant, which, rather late in the season as it may be,.
is well worthy consideration, if viewed only as a record
of sound opinions, and a formal protest against what we
cannot but consider a very heedless outlay of the pub-
lic money, for an undertaking of more than problema-
tical success and based upon principles entirely un-
tenable and unjustifiable in a government. We can
well understand the application and allow even far too
liberal an allocation of public funds for the purposes o_
colonization and the encouragement of emigration on a
large scale, by which, economically and politically, the
mother country would be benefited in the corresponding
extent of territory planted, of commerce enlarged, and
of surplus population provided for, whilst the advan-
tages in which the colony would participate need not be
enumerated. But in a scheme such as that of the.
Niger expedition, to be carried on at the public expense,
we can discern the symptoms of no such profitable re-
turns, in the national sense, present or prospective. If
the enterprise were one purely of a joint-stock character,.
embarked in by an association of private individuals with
the intent of carrying out the philanthropic objects said
alone to he contemplated in the Government scheme, we
should be far from desiring to interpose objections or
to create discouragement ; for the conjunction of trading
pursuits then would have nothing in it incongruous
with the grand aim sought to be accomplished ; but on
the contrary such an alliance and coadjutorship might
be rendered beneficially auxiliary to the great primary
purpose, however unproductive in the profit a,lceptation
of commercial speculation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL,

EXTE:NSIVE ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON IN A
HOUSE OF ILL FAME.—Mary Stephens, a forbidding-
looking woman was placed at the bar, charged by
Thomas James, a Cornish drover, with having picked
his pocket of bank notes to the value of °OW.
From the prosecutor's statement it appeared that Ire
had arrived in town from Norwich on Tuesday, where,
he had received the money in question. That about
nine o'clock he met the prisoner on Ludgate-hill, who
induced him to accompany her to a house of ill
lame, and where the robbery had been com-
mitted. The notes were in his purse, and in the other
end of the purse there were some sovereigns. The
notes were for 10/. and .51., the number of each he
could not tell, but they were either of the Norwich, the
Banbury, or the Dorset and Wilts Banks. After he
had been in the house ten minutes, on putting his hand
into his pocket he discovered that the purse and sove-
reigns were safe, but the notes were gorse. He immedi-
ately accused the prisoner of havingtaken them, which she
denied ; he, however, told her he should not lose sight.
of her until he met with a policeman. 6he left the
house, the prosecutor following her. They vent into a
public-house, and had a pot of porter, and ale prose-
cutor told the landlady he had been robbed by the pri-
soner, and desired her to send for a policeman, which
she refused to do. They then left the public-hou.,e,
and the prosecutor who had never lost sight of her, gave
her in custody to the first policeman he met.
• to custody in Shoe-lane, last evening. Sire
prisoner in
City Police Constable Thomas Harris, took tkle:
stopped and said she would fetch the woman of the
house. She then leant forward in a manner which
be gave her a slight push, and
at her feet, he took thtra up,
Ilnisnpgector at the station-house.
ta;oxnucdni tgde
adali,
rolle
i them suspicion s :to) iocttiheoesn
Inspector Lloyd produced the notes given him, by
the last witness. There were twelve 10/. notes Rua
sixteen 51. of the banks mentioned by the prosecutor.
The prosecutor, in answer to a question from prisoner's
somer e cei ved
commit fromthe
prisoner solicitor, said he had (10 marks on the notes by which
to identify them. He had received them all in Norwich
Marketasllolnre.r forStepitreinasi:
and in the meantime you must endeavour to find Mr.
identify Stephens, to see if he canthe
fir
j. ;
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N he
i. had
shall
notes.

MANSION-ROUSE.
A young woman, of respectable appearance, the Wit
of an industrious young man, a clerk, was brought bt