The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-26 00:00:00

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LONDON :
THIJRSDAY,, NOVEMBER 26, 1840.

The
Itoci . waters, it would seem, begin to rise in Eng-
t as in France, but here the stream is men, there,
till is melted snow. Which of the inundations will be
4:38t dangerous we know not, but a torrent of angry
,en, mining against the Government, seem to us
ire to be dreaded as a torrent from the Alps.
teland is already overflowed, and in England there
are symptoms of a flood.
The bulk of the people, regarding the constitu-
tlo,l •
mu of the House of Commoms and our present
oe nicipal Institutions with indifference, if not with
, trr.°n, have cared nothing about registration, and
at m 115 account, the Tories who pay an organised
a/' (31 lawyers to do their dirty work, boast of
1,11341 e Prodigious success ; but while they have been
°Urillg most heartily to shut up a window and a
01,.
rrj,,ell7 two, so as to keep the building more exclu-
-11, - and comfortably to themselves, the foundations
theel,_
been sapped, and it is doubtful whether all
l
*exertions will be able to save it from falling.
-.4e,, •
fo in China, a Government which is not
114de,,
ititet " on tire affections of the people is felt to be
tier are, and, whatever the aristocracy and the
144 may suppose, there is now amongst the.
sties
~. ,
tiltio,s ci (Jeep, inbred, and just hatred of our insti-
-04 "8, which will make the task of preserving them
of infinite peril.
dre„s another part of The Sun we publish an ad-
tion of the Leeds Parliamentary Reform Associa-
Ittnd t° Mr. O'CONNELL and the Repealers of Ire-
After ably and temperately setting forth
NI of the evils which our present institutions in
withrell and State inflict on the English in common
eo,ii the Irish, it asks whether the two " cannot make
whieLcml cause in resistance to the great tyranny
they" is alike rolling over us all ?" . It alleges that
the Can, and that Reform in the representation of
the People, giving equal justice to all portions of
Of liii-npire, may unite the hearts and the exertions
word,,, " Justice for each and all is its watch-
,' txt, and the immediate objects proposed are
Rh ld -nsion of the Parliamentary Suffrage to house-
_.!rs, Vote by Ballot, Triennial Parliaments,
the
distribution of the electoral districts throughout
*embers
United Empire, and no property qualification for
1": etnbers of Parliament." How far these objects
4Y unite all classes may be a question, but there
can be none whether such meetings, sending forth
Nell propositions, taken in conjunction with other
things—the existence of Chartists on the one hand,
Ind the monstrous injustice of the aristocracy on
the other—do not betoken a complete falling away ',
of the people from the Constitution, which will 1
BPeedily leave it a deserted and soulless wreck
ashore. Some gentlemen we see complain, through the
public press, of the destruction of foxes in Surrey.
,3,1211 t before this address can have reached Mr. '
"It must be bad polio it was said in the Times
moreuoNNELL he has met the Leeds Association
yesterday, " in the farni..rs of Surrey to put an end
than half way. Some time ago it sent an ad-
to an amusement in w hid' they may all share, and
wags to the Ulster Association, a copy of which
-48
orforwarded to him, and his reply to the receipt
many expensive studs, conduces so much to the
tt lishat, dated Nov. 16, is published in the Pilot.
High many
they receive for their produce." The
it a 4 addressed to HAMER STANIFIELD, Esq , paragraph' may be quoted as a specimen of the
lint agistrate of Leeds, who might have been at beautiful morality of the fox-hunting aristocracy.
bet Bent Mayor, had he not declined the honour, They require vermin to be cherished, to afford them
i apse he could better serve the cause of Reform
a the pleasure of the chase. The farmers are en-
N- Private station. Mr. O'CONNELL states couraged to petition for the Corn-laws which kill
tlYt Lord GREY'S Reform has been a total failure; the people, and they are admonished to spare the
'i /it iSI as Lord FRANCIS EGERTON said, all a lives and increase the number of foxes. They
4c
k 111 141indel ;" that the English are still divided into have been so pertinaciously killed of late by the
are aster class and a slave class ; that the majority farmers, whose pcioliry are worth something, whose
m 0• Practically. slaves, some of them willing slaves, hedges are br:.;l:4 ii doe.n by sportsmen, and whose
veli.shame to them ; that there is servility and
young wheat is t,
.L
r:iirt,i;,l,d into the mire by the hun-
in,a IY in the master class, and abject apathy or tens' hoofs, that ei.r E. ANTROBUS, a descendant,
"e turbulence in the slave class, which, we presume, of the tea. dealer, " has frequently met
ri
Iles. ng to him, prevent political amelioration.
itles these . tills season with a blank day." To give him and
veotiim circumstances, he points out, as pre-
h , .
.t. a cordial union with the Irish, a national r'ileanreartehesofoexaegser for the chase,
still. . hisAfsollot:e•esr: •:::,..,'ltli:
peaceable Yin the English, though the Irish, lly ~-,:r o starve all the weak and ailing
by their anti equa . 0
gress. a7itation, have done much for the pro- • ,o' of existence, we should venture
Allothin England of civil and religious liberty. ! might hunt the o e-
to suggest to them that they p
e • er obstacle, he saes, in the way of comfit- ; ation ,; of the masset. ~..
rat.ves instead ot fo,i.es. There are amongst the
tolin ''' is the spirit of fanatical bigotry whichpoisoned masses" of Manchester
I.ates ..
to; . . .0 many classes in England against the long-legged fellow, im
'glop i
an(i "fermentingßirthiil i :11,,,,i,
4,4,►' of the Irish. Mr. O'CoNNELL, too, is !I encumbered b.,•
,ate, fat. who avvould afford them an ex-
the " at the Anti-Corn-law Societis, because cellent run. It would he as humane certainly—that
Y wili
11 confine their exertions to the repeal of the opinion—to
Park •
Pa.1.1;.‘ , instead of first aiming at a Reform in lit would be as safe we venture on no
chase as to starve them to death. /a such a sport they
le.i.i. 'merit. Notwithstanding the obstacles to a would have many auxiliaries. All the Yeomanry,
'4.1 c°mhination between the English and Irish I:eavy and light,with their illustrious Colonels, being

TH E SUN. LONDON, THURSDAN , NOVEMBER 26, 1840.

Spain, and if she consult what her
glory," she will learn to forget the ra i, :nal, so
far as she can, make the world forget it ten. The
throne of her august daughter will suffer nothing
from any lack of her endeavours to support it.

The capture of St. Jean d'Acre and the proposed
Address of the Deputies, in answer to the Speech
from the throne, occupy exclusively the editorial
columns of the Paris papers of Tuesday. We
have given, in another part of The Sun, the opinions
of the journals upon the proposed Address, which
it appears, does not meet with the entire approba-
tion of any party. The debate Upon it was fixed
for Wednesday, when it was expected that various
amendments upon it would be carried. But
But though it may be rendered a little more war-
like, or to speak more properly, blustering in its
tone, we have no longer a fear that any language
will be employed which can compromise the peace
of the two countries. Even the war party will be
content with swaggering about the dignity of
France, which no person calls in question, and
with giving expression to menaces as foolish and as
undignified as they are unnecessary to the recogni-
tion by Europe of French irresistibility in arms.

THE INUNDATIONS.--The southern papers, the Sema-
phore de Marseilles in particular, continue to present a
frightful picture of the ravages and disasters occasioned by
the inundations. During several days the rain fell in tor-
rents in the mountains adjoining Grenoble, and the burn-
ing southern and south- west winds, which prevailed during
three weeks in the Upper Alps, had melted immense
ma!ses of snow, and caused the rivers to overflow a second
time. So intense was the heat in the country of Gex, that
the soldiers shut up in the fort of the Ecluse would have
been suffocated, if allowed to remain in it any longer.
At Aigues Mortes one hundred and sixty custom-
officers, stationed here and there through the country,
had been surprised by the waters, and obliged to take
refuge on the tops of their houses, where they would
have perished but for the courageous and indefatigable ex-
ertions of M. Gonet, their chief, who, mounted in a boat,
saved them all at the risk of his own life. Round Arles
the whole country was still under water on the 15th.
At Barbautane the united waters of the Rhone and Du-
rance had ravaged the plain, carrying with them houses,
trees, and cattle. The Rhone had in many places broken
its dikes, and continued to pour its waters through the
apertures it had made in those of Boulbon, Tarascon, and
Lauriscct, into the districts of Trebon, Coustieres de CI au,
Plan de Bourg, and the Camargue. The Journal de
l'Ain of the 20th, states that 455 houses had been com-
pletely destroyed in the districts of Pont de Veyle and
Bage, and 620 in the arrondissement of Trevoux, along
the banks of the Saone. The Coto Tier de Lyons an-
nounces that the floods in that city had diminished.
CAPTURE OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE.
(From the Journal des Debats.) _ _ _

" The despatch which announces the taking of St. Jean
d'Acre by the A.iies does not inform us whether it was by
capitulation, treason, or a resort to force that that place
fell into their hands. That fresh reverse is a very serious
affair for the Viceroy. Morally, the taking of that town,
which had stood out against Napoleon, will exercise great
influence in the country, and it materially deprives Ibra-
him Pacha of his most precious resources, for he had
made that town a place of arms, a depot for provisions and
ammunition, and for the materiel of his army. Pending
the fresh letters which will inform us how the Allies obtained
that important success, we shall only observe that the news
has reached us by an indirect channel, on the verbal com-
munication of the Captain of the British steamer Fheenix.
It is therefore possible that the advices that we may receive
from the Levant by the mail-packet Eurotas will contain
nothing on that score. Letters f-orn Alexandria and Con-
stantinople, which have been brought by that packet, are
dated on the 6th and 7th of this month, at the latest,
whilst it is possible that the Phoanix, strictly speaking, may
have left St. Jean d'Acre, or the coast of Syriaat the said
dates, if not even later. In short, why did the Eurotas,
which is one of the ten mail-packets for the Levant mails,
and whose usual station is at Marseilles, put into Toulon,
from whence the despatch is dated? We are still with-
out direct news from Ibrahim Pacha and his army, that
is to say, deprived of every means of understanding how
it is that, from no part yet, in all the engagements be-
tween his troops and those of the Allies, he only opposed
to the latter (save at Saida) but bodies of from 1,200
to 1,500 men at the outside—how it is that in each of
those engagements he was always unprovided with artil-
lery
Allies ; fo r
have
i t may be
obtainedsai d w i with
their the
success strictest
upcortre theectn presentess,tbat
the
time without experiencing the effect of a single cannon-
shot. Shall we soon have the key to all those mysteries ?
(From the Courricr Francais.)
This afflicting news completes the disasters which have
befallen the Paca ; it now only remains for him to yield.
English gold has done more than their cannon. The ab-
sence of French forces has paralyzed, moreover, the cou-
rage of those who relied in the East on our protection.
We shall not be the last to suffer from it. The Eastern

population must believe us to be quite degenerated, and
will no longer recognise us as the conquerors of Egypt.
Perhaps one of these days it will be necessary to send upon
that coast to revenge some injury received the vessels
which might have, and ought to have, protected our
allies. This affront is greater than that of the London
Treaty, for we have voluntarily accepted it. Let us,
then, hide our tricoloured flag ; the abandonment of an
ally is much more disgraceful than a Jost battle. But the
Ministry must believe itself saved ; for the success of our
enemies dispenses It fur the future from all precaution and
energy.

(From the National.)
A telegraphic dispatch, published by the Ministerial
Journals, announces the capture of St. Jean d'Acre. Thus
the last rampart between English usurpation and Egypt
no longer exists. Commodore Napier's pounds sterling
have opened those gates against which the army of Na-
poleon, victorious at Aboukir and at the Pyramids, could
not prevail. English gold insolently pursues its con-
quests. We have it no longer in our power to
offer even our good wishes for the success of the
Pacha. We arrested
his progress in the midst of his
triumphs by feeding him with the expectation that
we would interfere between him and the Sultan.
Our mediation
y served to afford time to the
Englisht
Syria, and for treason to effect
s ePacha called on us to fulfil our
i po
rposs e
h.i p
a t
n When
w arrivee only n
tl
h at
promise, we withdrew our fleet, whose presence would
have protected him, and which would have prevented the
fall of that Oriental Power which was capable of replacing
the Ottoman Empire in the general balance of the world.
Wc have, or rather our Government has, failed in good
faith to Mehemet Ali. It has failed at the same time in
the duty which the interest of France imposed upon it.
Beyro. ut was bombarded, and the French Government was
silent. Our national flag was insulted, and our Go-
vernment was satisfied with saying that perhaps the
Allies had forgotten the respect that was due to us,
and now the English have taken possession of St.
gives its possessor the sovereig
Jean d'Acre, the key of
n Joe
a n longerd,
A ear
en
Egyptn
danodminthinen pnofintthewhLiceh-
PolY of the passage to India.
Le-
vant, and the mono
eastern empire. We lel'a:rgnyptht.e fianlTishoyefrriesS.is_t.
oTnh There i
day
no
our longer
Government
a vaenr)o•
who are called our representatives that France will
not draw her sword unless the Allies come to attack
ment dares to propose to those
Bevrout, and in purchasing St. Jean d'Acre, the
You know that in bombarding
until
her
rlicisn altitearcktetrlriiattoryw.hich wss formerly the great na-
tion—the nation which protected the world. You
6ln
know it ; for otherwise, why should the progress of the
English and Austrians in Syria induce you to raise
walls round Paris? Why should you say, when
at threat
you
repelled that
heard of Mehemet Ali's deposition, that you would
defend yourselves at home, like those timid ani_
mthaelyshold
yourselves that
°f
fighting for our territory, you confess , that
awrheopnuersvneerdtuirnntnagthaienirst
lastthose widho, huntl them
It was, there-
fore,
months
and insult. At present, by
the
of Admiral ao
St. -can d' Acre
for we ar
the insult has arrived at its utmost, e no longer of
fnre, Francein wsaysriiaustuhlattedynaundnuagtthatcktacdhave
any consequence
since, according to the opinion . -.oussin him-
self, we could have dictated orders, and swept the seas of
our fl
act other vessels. At present c.!et has returned
into port, and Mehemet Ali no longer exists. You
permitted the English to capture St. ,
in that Mediterranean
'eau d'Acre
which will become in their hands another Gibral:
capture
where,
tar. You have conceded the island Cy f r
and the Red Sea to the English ; You hoeo ‘v it h clpr a uwsn,
from the Mediterranean without even endeavouring to ob-
tain possession of Mahos by pacific negotiations, although
this island is of the greatest importance_e to
-- You on account
of your A lgerine possessin E assured the Allies will
not disturb you in your paci_n . s• Sleep in peace,
• M. uuizot, to rec •
M. Scutt. Continue, i
Mad receive the conratu-
lations of Lord andGranville.t re Lieven. if ever
the Allies invade our territoreyvaeni t wt) I
be i
al order to main-
tale you in power, and tof Pate mi/i:ance from being cured
of this hideous wound o J,, as which is consuming
and enervating the nation.
Gazette de r
(From the
d'A 'ranee')
of St. Jon cre, and the reading of the
The capture
have entirely chdraft of the Address,
of these arged the face of
affairs. The coincidence of
takentw° events renders the
false direction which
in East, more striking. Par-
tition is advancing inand isolation is realising

empire, that fiction on
in France. )
two events are immense.
On the one hand we
see the
on the eve of partition
the integrity of the .
other hand, a Govern-
ved for
which people have 11
s who so
many years, virtually
destroyed, and the Powers
to ggrandized themselves at
The consequences
our expense in 1815, readydismemberPolandTurkey without her under
that the Government, that is to
On the
remain
and a stranger to
all that Pail" in
the
li 1 1 world,
but in which, in its zeal for
peace, ..,;ena no casus „e. t an attack upon Strasburg,
and answers the measures of aggrandisement of the Four
Powers by fortifying
say, the Ministry and the Parliament,
is not equal to the
importance and the exigency of the situation.
France then sees its existence as a nation endangered, its
honour affected, its share of
_influence annihilated. Such
It is evident,
a situation is intolerable. It .is absolutely necessary that
the instruments should be suited to the work which is to
be performed. Now, the present instruments are insuffi-
cient. M. Guizot gives us a peace of isolation and dis-
M. Thiers and M. Bai-rot would give us the war
grace. therefore, Paris.t..h..
of propagandism, and, consequently, of weakness ; it is,
therefore, absolutely necessary to convoke the nation that
France may againt appear in Europe, for the past Minis-
try, the present Ministry, and the future Ministry, which
should proceed from the Parliament,
the present Chamber,
the pail Ch:.mber, and the future Chamber, with the
Election law, do not represent it.