The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-20 00:00:00

of her authority. Queen CHRISTINA is expected
in Paris, and a rumour prevails that the Palais
Bourbon has been for some time undergoing re-
pairs for the reception of her MAJESTY. But
whether she fly to France or to Naples, imports
little at present. What really interests Europe is
the aspect of the new events now developing them-
selves in Spain. So far as we may be allowed to
infer the future from the past, the Cortes, which
will be immediately convoked, will appoint a new
Regency, composed of three or four members, which
measure, if violently opposed by France, will be
followed by the abolition of Royalty in Spain.
France has, therefore, need of more than ordinary
caution in further intermeddling in the affairs of
Spain. There is no longer an Army of the Faith
to cross the Pyrenees; and a Republic in the vi-
cinitv of the Monarchy of July will be little to the
taste of King Louts PHILIPPE. Better, there-
fore, leave the Spaniards undisturbed to settle as
they may think hest this troublesome Regency

evil. To talk, then, of the right of the Porte to
depose the VICEROY at its pleasure, as some
journals, and, we regret to find, statesmen, do, is
preposterous. We may shock these persons by
stating that such of the political rights of a State
as exceed its inherent power to assert them unaided
by others, are hardly worth considerati9n ; yet
such is the opinion of the ablest interpreters of
the law of nationF. In the language of diplomacy
—seeing that MEHEMET ALI proclaims himself
the vassal of the SULTAN—it is quite allowable to
speak of him as a vassal of the empire ; but his
real power forbids that he should be treated as the
mere creation of the sovereign will of the Porte in
any acts aticcting his claims resolved upon by
Foreign Powers.

This proper consideration of the actual rank of
MEHEMET ALI will prevent the British public
from confounding the adjustment of the Syrian
question in any way with the Vice-regal sway of
MEHEMET ALI over Egypt. As for the act of
deposition, it is a mere farce, to which it was as
dangerous as absurd to have had recourse. For
what does it proclaim to the world but the folly of
a conqueror who halts mid-way in his course?
What must MEn Est ET Au infer from it, but that
his moderation, after the battles of Koniah and
Nezib, ruined him ? Besides it is too late to en-
deavour to pervert the moral sense of the people of
Europe by giving them to understand that the
usurpation of a crown sanctifies the usurpation of
a kingdom—or that the sword is not as legitimate
a tale to plead to the undisturbed possession of ter-
ritory acquired by violence as the diadem, whether
regal or imperial.
The SULTAN and the Four Powers have re-
solved to take Syria from MEHEMET ALI, on the
ground that the possession of Syria, or rather its
separation from the Pachalic of Egypt, is essential
to the supremacy of the Ottoman sway and the in-
tegrity of the Ottoman empire. To this resolution
no rational objection can be offered. Let them
take Syria then ; but let them not do so by means
of an attack upon Egypt, and particularly upon
Alexandria. If the SULTAN'S hands are likely to
be strengthened by the absolute possession of
Syria—if the PORTE, when in actual occupation of
the country be able to keep it—if it require
nat the constant intervention of the Great Powers
to prevent MEHEMET ALI, even after the loss of
Syria, from over-running Asia Minor with his
victorious troops, the Turkish army, aided by the
blockading squadrons of England and Austria, can
have no difficulty in expelling IBRAHIM and his
Egyptian hordes from a country in which, we are
told, they are regarded with hatred by all tribes
and classes of the people. The greater the
moderation of the Four Powers with respect to
Egypt, the speedier will be the unqualified submis-
sion of MEHEMET ALI. When the VICEROY
becomes sensible that no individual influences
direct the Councils of the Four Powers—that they
are guided by the landmarks of a sound policy, and
not led away by blind passions—that they under-
take but what is just, and are not to be diverted
from their purpose, he will quickly yield all
that is demanded with all the suavity of a Sovereign
conferring an obligation. Already we have heard
that he has signified to the French Consul-Ge-
neral at Alexandria an inclination to give up Syria
rather than uselessly spill the blood of his subjects.
For this supposed humane and noble concession to
the barbarous necessity of Force, the Tory Stand-
ard denominates him a " wily old barbarian l" We
can tell the Standard that such a concession would
deservedly and assuredly obtain for theVICEROY from
civilized and enlightened Europe an appellation so
honourable than even the sycophancy of courtiers
often fails to obtain it for Kings, even in Court
circles. We may, moreover, remind the Standard
that Syria voluntarily given up by the PACHA, and
Syria conquered by the swords of the Turks and
the guns of the Allies, will constitute very different
bulwarks of the Ottoman throne. Conquered
Syria would hardly be worth .the cost. of conquest;
nor would we accept the fee-simple of the country
as an adequate remuneration for the consequences
of a rupture with France.
We consider it the more necessary to state our
views clearly, as we observe that, under the plea of
supporting Lord PALMERSTON, the Tory Jour-
ials are labouring with might and main to plunge
he country into war. This is their last card, and
they are playing it adroitly. Lord PALMERSTON
is now their idol. PEEL, and STANLEY, and
GRAIIAM, and the whole of the Conservative
clique, are flung overboard and forgotten.
Whenever the French Government manifests
a disposition for peace, they slap the Noble
Foreign Secretary on the back, protest that he is
he pink of diplomatists, and promise him their
asting friendship if he will not flinch an inch from
the high ground which they feign to believe he
has taken. A war would overthrow the Cabinet, and
to accomplish this the Tories would witness unmoved
the convulsion of Europe. Now, the sensible peo-
ple of England allhor war, and assuredly would not
voluntarily go to war with France about the adjust.
merit of a boundary line between a Sovereign and a
dependent State in Syria, or upon its confines. The
Tories know this, and are therefore eager to divert
the quarrel to Egypt. They expect that the irri-
tation produced by a close blockade of Alexandria
may lead to some outrage upon British subjects,
only to be revenged by a bombardment of that city.
This of course would provoke a French demonstra-
tion, and so the war would begin in good earnest.
Their machinations are obvious ; we trust the Go-
vernment will have the wisdom, the firmness, and
the virtue to counteract them by moderation, and
by such concessions as are not incompatible with
the integrity of Turkey. England has enough of
glory—enough of military and naval fame, to make
concessions in any part of the world, without
awakening a suspicion either of a want of courage
or a deficiency of offensive resources.

question.
The Moniteur Parbien, in addition to the above
intelligence, has the following eflicial news from

Africa:—
TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.
" ALGIERS, OCT. 12.

" MARSHAL VALLEE TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.
" The column which 1 sent into the valley of (Melt ff
entered B:eda on the 7th, after a fortunate expedition.
" A combat, mlyantagecus to our arms, has taken
place at Oran."
The Oran victory does not appear to us to have
been a very iailliant affair. But the careful absence
of all details leaves us nothing to offer but a conjec-
ture. Oran is a strong city, and has been so long
in the occupation of the French, that we are sur-
prised to find the Arabs dating to appeal
at its gates. But Marshal VALLEE has suc-
ceeding in restoring tranquillity to the provinces of
Algiers and Constantine, which is a proof that the
expedition has not been entirely unsuccessful.
The British and American residents in Paris
held a public meeting, on Saturday, at the Bedfo►d
Hotel, which was well attended, to prepare a con-
giatulatory address to King LOUIS PH !LIPPE on
his sixth providential escape from assassination.
In consequence of the inclemency of the weather
last night, the ordinary mails of Sunday from
Paris have tot yet arrived. \Vc arc therefore
without any intelligence as to the state of public
feeling in Paris on Sunday. The Three pc!
Cents. at Tortoni's were at 67f. 75c.

The hop-growers, not satisfied with one rebuff
'rom the Treasury, have again held meetings at

different places in Kent and Sussex, and propose
to memoralise a second time for the remission of

the hop duty. The ground on which they make
the claim is the failure of this year's crop, but that,
though extensive, is not universal, and those whose
crops have succeeded have no claim to be exempted.
In some districts about Canterbury and Maidstone

hie crops area full average, and in consequence of
he failure in other districts those who have decent

crops are receiving a very high price. Are these fortu-
nate men to be relieved with the mass, or must there

be an inquiry into whose clops have failed
and whose have succeeded ? Without that, on the

showing of the claimants, justice will not be done,
and that implies a rigorous investigation into pri-
vate circumstances which the hop-glowers must be

mad to require.
We have already pioved that those who have sold
their hops, amounting to nine out of ten, have
levied the duty on the publiz in the price, and can
have no claim to retain it in their pockets. Those
who have not sold their last year's growth are the

only parties who hare even a feasible pretext
for withholding the payment, and they, fortunate
men ! now sell their stock at a price, which will

enrich them for their lives. We have heard of one
grower, Hilo, having retained his growth in his
own hands, will net 6,0001. more by it than if he
had sold it about the tronth of May. To have the
remission of the duty properly adjusted it must be
ascertained who has sold and who has not sold his
hops, which would be another topic of investiga-
tion into private business, which ought not to be

tolerated.
Why should not Mr. HODGES, M.P., and Mr.
DARBY, M.P., who are active in promoting this
hop.duty agitation, undeceive their constituents on
these points, instead of ministering to their delu-
sions and promoting their remonstrances ? We
believe that those gentlemen are afraid lest the
almost general insolvency of the tenantry in
their parts of Kentand Sussex, under the Corn laws,
should become apparent. We know that the
hop districts are in a very bad condition, which
may be partly traced to the Corn-laws. They en-
hance very much the expenses of cultivation, and
they increase—in the shape of rent, commutation of
tithes, &c.—the sums for which the farmers make
themselves responsible, and which they generally
have to pay at Michaelmas. The Corn-laws, to a
certainty, enhance all the outgoings and all the pe-
cuniary responsibilities of the tenantry, to the ex-
tent of at least thirty per cent, while all their ex-
pected increase of profits anal price is contingent,
and is never actually realised. In nine cases out oi
ten the farmer 771115 i sell at Michaelmas, and that
obligation, let the laws be what they will, will al-
ways place him at the mercy of those who will only
buy when they can buy to advantage ; and thus to
enhance his expenses and his pecuniary responsibi-
bilities, without. its being possible to release him
from the control of the capitalist, is cruelly to doom
him to ruin. That is the effect of the Corn-laws,
and to conceal the effect from the public is, we be-
lieve, the main object of those who are acquainted
with the bearings of the hop-duty, and, at the same
ime, encourage the deluded farmers to memorialize
or the postponement of the payment.

We entirely disapprove of the haughty and

suiting tone in which several of our Contemporaries
treat the claims of the present Ruler of Egypt to
the dominion of that country. It would be of.little
account to ring the changes upon the appellations
" old barbarian," " rebel," " mere vassal of the
Porte," " slave of the SULTAN," and sundry other
epithets, bestowed by the organs of the unmixed
monarchical principle upon the VICEROY, were
they not calculated to cool the zeal with which that
wonderful man, even amidst the din of arms, pur-
sues the accomplishment of a scheme of civilization
borrowed from Western Europe.

It is a remarkable feature in the present con-
troversy, between England and France, that the
Tory leaders take no part whatever in it. They
are as mute as mice. No public meetings are
called ; no Conservative dinnors are given ; no
gatherings of interest supposed to be hostile to the
present Cabinet are convoked, with a view to
afford the Tory chiefs an opportunity of express-
ing their opinions as to what course ought to be

We like to speak the truth, and when we can we
set others the example of speaking it. Now what
is the real truth with respect to MEIIEMET ALI ?
That he is the slave of the SULTAN ? Oh no !
If he were, there would be no necessity for an

taken, or what measures avoided. This silence of
the Tory faction is as ominous as it has hitherto
been unusual. It indicates that the old Tories are
satisfied with the prospect of war now presented
between France and England ; and that while they

European league to fetter his ambition. That he I aspire to the conduct of it, they carefully eschew
is a rebel in Egypt ? Just so far as he admits the odium of having had any share in provoking
himself to he one, but no farther. His title to it. Their silence is not misunderstood by the
Egypt is the only title recognised in the East— . nation. This is a time when every voice not up-
that cf the sword. He won Egypt, not from the l lifted in favour of peace is for war. There can be
SULTAN, but from the Mameluke Boys, as no neutrality where the question is one of national
MA HMOUD virtually did the Ottoman throne from amity or hatred one of peace or carnage.
the Janissaries. MAIIMOUD'S dominion over The Tories, if compelled to speak, will
Egypt was never more than nominal ; that of
MEHE- plead their unwillingness to embarrass the Gov-
..rn-
MEHEMET ALI is real, and based upon such meta. Did they manifest any such delicacy
popular affections as go to the support of Oriental
when the question merely related to the passing of
dynasties.
an Irish Corporation Bill? To preserve the ascend-
We are no apologists of the crimes of
ancy of an intolerant faction in Ireland they had no
MET ALL As an organ of political opinion, we delicacy in flying in the face of our young and most
have only to deal with political facts as they exist. gracious SOVEREIGN, and in filling Europe with
We find MEHEMET ALI virtually Suvettign of ' clamours which were disgraceful to our national
Egypt we find the so-called slave stronger than character in every part of the world. When Minis-
his master ; and discretion teaches us the folly of tens exposed the country to the sovereign displea-
mailing him with vulgar abuse, potent only for ', 51.1 V%, Of that Royal nowlle and traitor Don