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THE SUN,- LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH ii, 1841

died, and this month, up to the 19th inst., 52 have fallen vic-
tims. This week the mortality is serious. Yesterday five
died; the day before five, agtil the previous day nine. At Da.
mietta at present it is equally alarming, and during the last six
months of 1840 was truly destructive, for 248 died in a popula-
tion only one-third that of Alexandria. _ .

ALMANDRIA, FEB. 24.
The Great Liverpool has been detained until this day at
noon, to carry the despatches of Commodore Napier, at this
eventful crisis of the affairs of Egypt. The Pacha will not
submit to the conditions attempted to be imposed on him by
the Porte, and declares that he looks to England (on
whose good faith he had always relied) to save him from
the disgrace and danger involved in them. There can be
no doubt, that if they are permitted to be enforced, and sub.
sequently acted upon by his enemies in the Divan, Egypt would
in a short !time be thrown back into such a state of disorder,
that neither Mehemet Ali, nor any Englishman, could live in
it. Negib Said, having received the Pacha's refusal, is about
to leave Alexandria, and return to Constantinople, with Ford
Bey, in the Turkish steamer, which is already getting up its
steam. He has not declared the negotiation at an end, which
looks so far so well. The Commodore still remains here in the
hope of assisting to terminate it amicably. lam happy to be
able to send you a copy of the conditions brought by this ex-
traordinary envoy. The Articles No. 1 and No. 6 are the
only ones rejected altogether by the Pacha.
FIRMAN OF THE SULTAN, INVESTING MEHEMET
ALI WITH THE HEREDITARY GOVERNMENT OF
EGYPT.

" Vizier,—l have beheld with satisfaction the proofs of sub-
mission which you have just given, as well as your protesta-
tationa of fidelity and your assurances of devotedness towards
my august person, and for the interests of my Sublime
Porte. Your long experience and your knowledge of the
affairs of the country so long placed under your adminis-
tration, do not permit to doubt of your ability, by the zeal
and prudenee you will display in this same Government, to
acquire fresh titles to my kindness and confidence in you ;
and that at the same time, grateful for my benefits, you
will endeavour to transmit the qualities which distinguish
you to your descendants. On this consideration I have de-
termined on confirming you in the Government of Egypt,
according to the limits traced on the map which is sent you by
my Grand Vizier; and on conferring on you, in addition, the
prerogative of the heirship of the Government on the following
conditions :

"1. When the Government of Egypt shall become vacant, it
shall be confided to such one of your sons as I shall select, and
the same mode of succession shall be applied to his male chil-
dren, and so on. In case your male line shall become ex-
tinct, the male issue of your feminine branch shall have no
right to the succession The son appointed to succeed you
in the Government of Egypt shall come to Constanti-
nople to receive investiture there. The prerogative of inhe-
ritance conferred on the Governors of Egypt shall not
give them any rank or title superior to that of other viziers, nor
any claim to precedency, and they shall be treated on the very
same footing as their colleagues.
"2. The provisions of my hatti-scheriff, of Gulhane, as well
as the administrative laws now in force, or hereafter to be
made within my empire, and all treaties concluded, or to be
concluded, with friendly powers, shall be equally executed in
Egypt. . .

‘‘‘l.3. All the taxes which shall be imposed in this province shall
be collected in my name, and in order that the inhabitants of
Egypt, who form part of the subjects of my Sublime Porte,
may not be exposed to extortions and irregular exactions,
the tenth duties and other impositions shall be regulated
upon the same system as is followed in the rest of the empire.
One-fourth of the revenues to be derived from the customs,
duties, tenths, and other impositions in Egypt, shall be paid,
without any deductions, into the treasury of my Sublime Porte
—the remaining three-fourths shall serve to cover the expenses
of collecting the civil and military administration, the mamte-
nance of the Governor, and also to make payment for the corn to
be sent annually to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The tri-
bute above made payable by the Governor of Egypt, and the mode
of payment, shall continue for five years, dating from the year 1257
(22d Feb., 1841). They may afterwards be regulated in a man-
ner suited to the future state of Egpyt, and the nature of new cir-
cumstances. As it is due to my Sublime Porte to be made
acquainted with the annual amount of the revenues, and the
manner of collecting the impositions, and as this object re-
quires a commission of superintendence in the province, this
shall be ulteriorly provided for according to my imperial will.
"4. The very important regulation of the coinage having to
be settled by my Sublime Porte in a way to admit of no more
variation, either as to the intrinsic or the current value,the gold
and silver coinage, which it will continue to permit in Egypt,
in my name, is to be equal to that of the Imperial mint of eon-
,
staininople, as to value, forgo, and model.
"5. In time of peace, 18,000 troops sufficing for the inter-
nal guard of Egypt, this number cannot be exceeded; but as
the Egyptian forces are no less destined for the service of
the Sublime Porte than the other forces of the empire, they
;nay be augrnente,l in time of war in the proportion which
may be considered proper. According to the new system of
military service, which has been adopted for the whole of my
mpire, the soldiers, after having served five years, are to be
rei laced by new soldiers, and this system will also be fol-
lowed in Egypt. Thus, out of the last recruits of the Egyptian
troops now serving, 20,000 men will be chosen to commence
the new service, of whom 18,000 shall be kept for Egypt,
and 2,000 to be sent here to serve their time. The fifth of these
tO,OOO men having been replaced each year, there shall be
cipeen annually in Egypt 4,000 recruits, according to the
mode prescribed by the military regulation cy lot, and ob-
serving all necessary humanity, impartiality, and diligence;
3 600 of these recruits shall remain in Egypt, and 400 be
sent here. The soldiers, who shall have served their time,
eith-r in Egypt or here, shall return to their homes, and
cannot be called out a second time. Although the climate
of Egypt may require a different military clothing,
a; to the cloth of which it may be composed, the uni-
fo -iris, distinctive emblems, and colours of the Egyptian
troops shall not differ from those of the other troops of the
empire. This also shall be the case with the costume and
,I::;,iiietive emblems of the officers, sailors, and soldiers of the
Egyptian navy, and the colours of the vessel shall be the
same as these here.

6. 'i he nomination of offccra by sea and Litid, up to the,
rank of lieutenant inclusively, shall belong to the Govern-
ment of Egypt, that of the superior officers shall depend on
the Imperial pleasure. In future the Governor of Egypt shall
not be allowed to build any vessels of war without my express
permission. _ _

" The grant of the hereditary government of Egypt being
subjected to the above conditions, the inexecution of either
of them 'shall warrant the immediate revocation of this grant.
The present hatti.scheriff is therefore addressed to you, in
order that you and your descendants, recognising the impe-
rial favour, which I have just granted to you, may direct
your attention to the careful fulfilment of the conditions
therein laid down, to protect the inhabitants of Egypt against
all k nds of violence, providing for their safety and welfare, and
taking care not to infringe my orders ; and, finally, that, you
may communicate to the Sublime Porte the important affairs of
the country confided to your Government.
" The 21 Zilhidje, 1256 (13th Feb., 1841)."
The Great Liverpool is starting.
The Commodore remains in hope of arranging this business.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Timei this morning opens its columns, with
tardy compassion, to a vindication of Sir R. Peel from
the Tamworth philippics of " Catholicus." The corre-
spondent who plays the fair-weather part in this Dutch
barometer, and calls himself a " Member of Parlia-
ment," defends Sir R. Peel's book-club harangue on
the ground that " there was nothing extraordinary,
nothing perhaps not common-place" in it. This is an
admirable Tory imprimatur, and speaks the sense of the
party—that portion of the party, we mean, who are not
stark-staring mad. Sir R. Peel has transgressectin nothing
the boundsof circumspect mediocrity. He has ehovrn him-
self as safe a man as ever. He will not set the Trent on
fire. " In all this," to pursue our citation from the
" Member of Parliament," " there was nothing extra-
ordinary, nothing perhaps not common-place—nothing
that looked for any wider fame than the county news-
paper. Indeed, anything more than this would
have been intolerable to that fine sense of
propriety, that feeling of the fitness of things,
which characterise the slightest action of Sir R. Peel."
Philosopher Square had a fine feeling of the fitness
of things ; but was not thereby exempted from some
human weakness. We do not doubt that Sir Robert
Peel is more consistent in acting on that feeling ; but
with reference to the extent of the fame looked for,
on this occasion, by, or for the Right Hon. Baronet,
we have only to say that we hear from a Tamworth cor-
respondent that a reporter was sent for express to take
down the effusions of Sir R. Peel's wisdom and elo-
quence, and the speech has been carefully corrected and
published in pamphlet form. We agree entirely with the
" Member of Parliament," that there was nothing but
common-place in the whole affair : but we suspect
there is nothing in Sir Robert Peel's ideas of " the
fitness of things," that will ever prevent him parading
common-place for the many common-place folks
who like it. We shall be more surprised when we find
him sporting anything else on the like occasion. There
was a most amusing contrast between Sir R. Peel's
avowed common-place, and the fine frenzy into which it
threw Catholicus. The Right Hon. Baronet may
thence learn how vain the attempt to flatten liberal
views into common-place, sufficiently to please bigots.
His fate, indeed, in this business, has been that of the
miller, with his son and his ass. He has sought to
please everybody, and, it would seem, has succeeded
in phasing nobody.
(From the Standard.)
As the attempt is made to perplex and obscure the
question of the San Sulpice incorporation by appeals
to the faith of engagements, and to natural justice, it
is proper that the matter be made plaits. In the first
place; then, it is to be remembered that the act
of incorporation is an act without precedent since
the Reformation. Nothing of the kind has been
done in the British Empire for three hundred years.
Secondly, it is.to be remembered that this is the act
of a merely provisional legislator. These two conside-
rations must satisfy every reasonable man, that not
merely a very strong case of policy and justice, but a
NIA.), urgent case, too, is required to justify the act in
question. We are nct aware, however, that any at-
tempt has been made to prove the case so urgent as
command that the provisional legislator of the
Canadas must anticipate the decision in the
matter of the permanent constitutional Legislature
about to come into existence. We must, therefore,
deal with questions of pokey and justice alone,
merely protesting, that though Lord Syden-
ham's proceeiing might be patic and just
as an Act of the Canadian Parliament, it does
not follow that it is either the one or the other on
the part of a Governor armed with legislative auC.o7
rity for a lairitel time ald for a spec;al purpose. This
protest till be thought of more weight, whets it
is borne in mind that what Lord Sydenhain has
dime had been lift undone without exciting any com-
plaint of the neglect during seventy years, aid
tl at, as we have intimat.d, no particular motive
for hurrying the Act at present is suggested. The
property which Lord Sydenham would alienate for
ever by his ordinance is of immense value, corn-
prising the fee of ti.e whole islanl and city of
Montreal, that, fee of the lordsh;p of the Lae
of the Two Mouatains, and the fee of the lord-
sl ip cf San Sulpice. We have no means of esti-
mat cg the value of the lordships of the Lake of
the Two Mountains and Sin Sulpice; but we
know that the island of Montreal is 30 miles long,
and en the average 12 miles wide, generally du-
shit land, the richest in North America, and that
ti.e city of Montreal is a thriving commercial city,
of between 20 and 30,000 inhabitants, with every
'air prospect of a rapid and great increase in wealth.
Such (the island and its city) is a part of the property,
the fee of which . Lord Sydenh.im's ordinance would
alienate for ever—a part, we need scarcely say,
worth balf-a-dozen German principalities. To speak
of less or more in a question of right is, however, as
Mr. Burke has said; to commit treason against property.
If the fraternity of San Sulpice have the right to this
immense territorial wealth, let them enjoy it ; but if
they have not the right, then the question naturally
reeuri, ought so much to be given away without some
good reason shown for the gift ? That the fraternity of
San Sulpice have no legal right, is plain upon the sur-
face of the transaction ; for if they have such a 'right,
the ordinance is unnecessary,

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THR MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
POST.—Amidst all the excitement that exists on American
affairs, which has abated but little since yesterday, the home
securities maintain their value with much steadiness.
The, news from the United States has thrown a gloom over
the Linking, manufacturing, and general business affairs of
Lanca.shire, and which seems to have been increased by one or
two failures in Liverpool and Manchester. One house, a con-
nexion of an issuing bank, has been obliged to suspend its pay-
ments, and its obligations to the bank are reported to be very
large. Some have placed them at 100,0001. ; but we believe
it will be found on investigation that this amount is an exag-
gerated one, although there cannot be a doubt that the bank in
question must be considerable sufferers.
Great complaints are made of the depression which exists in
certain walks of our produce market. The late extensive ar-
rival% of foreign coffee, by the way of the Cape of Good Hope,
have produced a marked decline iu the value of that commo-
dity, while sugar is almost equally difficult of sale at anything
like the recent quotations. To add to the embarrassments of
the trade, an expectation prevails of an early alteration in the
duties, nor has their position been improved by the failures
which have just occurred among the wholesale houses.

HERALD.—The state of the produce market is exciting
a good deal of uneasiness on account of the ruinous fall in
prices both in sugar and coffee, but particularly in the latter.
The fall in prices moreover is accompanied with almost a com-
plete prostration of all business, so that at the public sales to-
day scarcely a bidder was to be found on any terms. Such
was the depression in the prices of coffee that a parcel of Java,
for which a sale was effected, fetched only 393. 6d., which
twelvemonths ago would have been worth more than double
the money. Some cargoes have it seems arrived from Ba-
tavia, the values of which as per prices ruling there were drawn
against upon parties here, who, however, as reported, in conse-
quence of the great depreciation in prices, found it necessary
to decline acceptance or take the consignment to account.
Two or three failures were mentioned, but fortunately none of
any importance. Altogether the state of business may be said
to be anything but satisfactory at the present moment, and it
would now seem tolerably clear that prices had been forced up
far beyond any adequate cause by over-eager speculators in
the earlier part of the year just ended.

TIIE HON. E. S. PLUNKETT

AGAIN.

It will be recollected that this sprig of nobility, who
has now become almost as noted as the equally worthy
Marquis of Waterford, was sentenced at the last
March Assizes, by Mr. Justice Coleridge. to eighteen
months'imprisonment, for an assault and attempt t'
rescue at Wigan. By some means or other, Which will
doubtless lead poor men to believe that there is one law
for the rich and another for themselves, the sentence
was commuted, or, rather, the prisoner Was liberated at
the end of six months. Just at the time he was about to
leave the Castle at Lancaster he assaulted one of the
jailers, for which he was sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment ; this period terminated on Wednesday, the
day of the steeple chase, when the honourable young man
was liberated ; but before yesterday -morning's sun
bad made his appearance in the east, the Honour-
able Edward Sydney Plunkett was again in durance
vile. It appears-that, about a quarter-past two yester-
day morning, the young nobleman and two friends
went to the Stork Hotel, Queen-square, and asked
for a Mr. Heys. The waiter told them that Mr.
Heys had gone to bed two or three hours before,
and, of course, they could not then see him. They
then desired to go up stairs, but were, of course, pre-
vented ; and, subsequently, they walked into the
hotel, and wished for a bottle of champagne. Fail-
ing in this object, Mr. Plunkett insulted a Mr. Ho-
garth, who happened to be in the room, and struck
him in the face. Mr. Hogarth seized the poker in his
own defence, when Piunkett took up the castors and
threw them at his head. This somewhat alarmed Mr.
Hogarth who immediately left the room, leaving Mr.
Plunkett alone. A noise was subsequently beard by
the waiter:, and on their looking into the room they
found the newly-liberated dealing, destruction to esory
thing around him. He had the poker in his hand
smashing all the "cruets and decanters ; he broke
the sideboard and door, and almost everithing
that was in the room he instantly destroyed. The
assistance of the
police was speedily obtained, but it
required five of them to take the depredator into ens.
tody. Yesterday morning
before Mr. Rushton, at the l prisoner was brought
'olicethe Court. Mr. Davao-
port appeared for him, and after the case had been
gone into (the damage to the glasses, furniture, &c.,
was stated to be to the amount of 300, Mr. Rushton
stated that the question of damages was placed out of
his jurisdiefon, which extended only to cases under .5/.
value. After strongly alluding to the e wanton outrage
committed by the prisoner, he said it was hisduty to
prei,ent persons in the garb of gentlemen from commit-
tiny such effe.nees with impunity, and tor tne destruc-
tion he had made be must
pay 51. and costs, or be
prisoncd two mouths ; and further, that he must find
!ill, himself in 100/., and two sureties in 50/. each, to
Keep the peace, and that he should give twenty-lour

hours' notice of his bail. Mr. Davenport applied for
the release of the prisoner on his finding sureties this •
night, but Mr. Rushton said the case was one which
would admit of no relaxation.—Liverpool Mercury.