The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA.Y, SEPTEMBER 22. 1840.

To the ALDERMEN, the COMMON COUNCIL, and I
LIVERY of LONDON, &c., &c., &c.
FELLOW-CITIZENS,
N the eve of ciferrig, myself to you as a Can-
didate for the highest honour that a member of a free
community can receive—the honour of the Chief Magistracy
of the Metropolis of the British Empire, and virtually the
emporium and metropolis of the world ; my election is op-
posed by a public journal from the most unworthy of
motives, and on grounds entirely false, and many of which, if
true, have been supported by the most illustrious of our coun-
trymen. This prostitution of a public journal to private
malice, party purposes, and the rivalry of business, will never
induce a great and intelligent constituency to violate its In-
stitutions, in order to deprive an individual of honours which,
like others, he has aspired to through the medium of long
and arduous public services, the faithful performtnce of which
are acknowledged by his bitterest adversaries. Kaovvn to my
fellow-citizens from my earliest youth by the intercourse of
friendly society, and by public business, my principles are the
same as they were when I had the honour of being elected a
Common Councilman, a Sheriff, and an Alderman of the most
populous and influential ward of my native city.
I am, as I ever have been, a warm friend to the Esta-
blished Church, but an equally zealous advocate fur the
sacredness of conscience and the -rights of opinion, of dis-
cussion, and of personal respect, with the integrity of
property to all classes. lam a friend to the Throne, to
the Constitution, to the laws and institutions of our
country, but I ever will be favourable so an examina-
tion and di. cussion of these subjects, and an advocate for
those reforms which are consistent with tranquillity, and which
being essential to the progress of society are the best and
only security for the Constitution, and all the benefits that
may emanate from it. The great feature of the age is
dis-aisoaiation of public functions from private convic-
tions of conscience, or that principle of granting all social
rights and eligibility to all offices without distinction of sect—a
principle which Sir Robt. Peel and the Duke of Wellington have
the immortal honour of establishing as the law and the basis
of our Constitution. The integi ity of my private life and the
zeal, uprightness, and utility of my public career are left un-
disputed.
Attempts are made to identify me with opinions set forth
for tree discussion in a paper of which I am a part proprietor,
and which by its candour and equal justice to all sects and par-
ties has become the most popular of public engines. A reverse
course, a system of prostituting all principles and opinions,
political, religious, and moral. to the state of factions, and to
temporary interests, has ruined the character, and has
otherwise seriously injur,d a rival journal, which now
hopes, by opposing my election, to stigmatize a tri-
umphant competitor in the market. An opposition in trade
ought not to invade the public rights of a city like London. If
a part proprietor is to be identified n ith ail the opinions which
a journal may throw out for discussion, either all tne pro-
prietors, however numerous, must agree on all subjects, or
otherwise copartnerships must be disallowed even in journals,
the nature of which implies the necessity of an union of
capital.
The Times disclaims Personal notices, and yet, haring
perpetually assailed me will; every epithet of the most coal se
abuse, calls upon you to visit the opinions of the Dispatch
"in the person of the chief and reponsible proprietor,"
whom in the same article it designates as "an encourager of
atrocities." Polnical motives are equally disclaimed, and yet
political doctrines are (falsely) attributed to me, which
would, if true, render it au imperative duty in every
Journal to oppose me on political grounds. The trick
of misquoting passages of garbled extracts, of giving
sentences without the co itext, and without mentioning them
scope and intention of the general argument, has too often been
played to be longer serviceable to any party. The religious
opinions attributed to me are absurdly false, and cannot be sup-
ported
Fellow-citizens, were this a personal question, I should
not thus address you, but the election involves the Corporate
principle in general, and especially the rights and privi-
leges of the City of London. Within the last few years
great, and sorry am I say, successful inroads have been
made on the Civic Corporate rights of our country, but the
City of London has successfully resisted the innovation, and
I am proud to say that the Paper, of which I am a part
proprietor, lent all its force to this righteous cause. Hay-
ing thus secured its charter, the citizens of London will
not prostrate to a faction, the rights which they have re-
cently defended against the Crown and Houses of Par:iament.
If the established rotation is thus disturbed, that which is now
an innovation will soon become a practice, and the character
of these elections will be totally and disadvantageously
changed. I atn, &c ,
Fellow-Citizens, your faithful Servant,
JAMES HARMER.

THE « Tlillus" AND THE
DISPATCH."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slit,—ln a very powerful leading article of Monday
evening I,st, on the sabject of the attacks made by the
Times on the Weekly hispa:cli, in order to defeat the
election of one of its proprietors to the mayoralty of
London, you are pleased to say, " //ere is a violent
personal enmity between a conspicuous writer in the
Dispatch and a conductor of the Tunes." If this, Sir,
alludes to me, permit me to experience your usual can-
dour by inserting this contradiction. I have not,
and never have had, any violent personal enmity, or any
enmity whatever, against any conductor or conductors
-of the Times. I have abhorred the morale of its
private management, and I have denounced the
prostitutions of a paper which, in seven years, sup-
ported five opposite parties, using in all cases
the same course of private slander and of public vitu-
peration. I have always quoted chapter and verse for
the basis of my attacks on the Tin-es, but I never
made the slightest allusion to the private habits or do—
mestic affairs of any person connected with that paper,
until it assailed me on private grounds, under the pre-
tences of
.religion and morals, and by means of most
shamefully talsifying reports of law proceedings. It
was the Times that reduced me to the most unpleasant
necessity of adopting its style of both attack and de-
fence, with respect to introducing private affairs into a
newspaper. I remain, Sir,

Your obedient servant,
PUBLICOLA.

REGISTRATIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY OF LONDON.

Mr. Mylnc this morning went through the lists of
householders of the parishes of Allhallows, Honey-lane,
St. Benet Fink, St. Botolph Bill;ngsgate, St. Botolph
Without Aldersgate, St. Botoloph Without Aldgate,
St. Botolph Without Biehopsgate, Bridewell Precinct,
and St. Bride.

Several cases of objections and claims, in which the
parties were not prepared with evidence, were ordered
to stand over to one o'clock to-morrow.

Mr. MYLNE said that the parish officers of St. Bo-
tolph Without, Aldersgate, bad not only handed him
the lists for the city of London, but also the lists from
Glasshouse-yard, for the borough of Finsbury, and that
for the county of Middlesex. Now the revision for the
borough of Finsbury was over, he wished to kn,,w
whether these lists had been presented to the R:vising
Barrister ?

The parish officer said they had ; that several lists
had been prepared.
Mr. MYLNE then handed back the lists for Finsbury
and Middlesex to the parish officer.
Mr. Trott, the agent for the Liberal party, asked the
Revisirg Barrister if he had on his list of objections cer-
tain names which he read.
Mr. MYLNE said he had not.

Mr. Trutt then called a witness, who proved that be
had served the objections in question on Mr. Wood,
120, Aldersgate-street, and that. he had asked that
gentleman if he was the overseer, and that Mr. Wood
had replied he was, upon which he had served the ob-
jection on him. As they had not been posted on the
church door, Mr. Mylne refused to go into them.
. _

In the parish -lof St. Botoiph Without Bishopote,
William Buck, Thomas Buck, and Charles Buck,
were objected to by the agent for the Conservatives.
Mr. W. Buck, who appeared in Court, complained of
the great hardship of being dragged year after year
before the Court to support his vote. It had been
objected to two years ago and allowed, and he was
now in precisely the same situation as to the
qualification as he was then. He and his sons
were joint tenants of a house in Devonshire.strect, at a
rent of 301. per annum ; his sons had been objected to
last year, and had been struck off because the joint te-
nancy had not continued for a sufficient period, but it
had now lasted for upwards of two years.
Mr. Trott was about to address the Court in support
of the votes, when
Mr. MYLNE said he should like to hear wbat could
be urged in objection to them.
Mr Quin contended that there was not sufficient
proof of joint tenancy, inasmuch as there was no proof
that the landlord was at all aware of the alteration in
the tenancy from Wm. Buck alone to Wm. Buck,
Thos. Buck, and Chas. Buck.
Mr. MYLNE, however, was of a different opinion, and
directed that the names should be retained.

EAST LONDON CHARTIST TEMPERANCE
ASSOCIATION —We have receiv-..d a letter f.on: a member
of this Society, with a short account of a rnee:ing held
on We, nesday last, together with the rules and o jf,ct- of
the Association. The Chartists ought to know that cele-
rity is a matter of the very first importance in business, and
tnsoicoui
score,
nrh,Ci
toghar:ritenst
hispht the
enyhdatretpuenpirtee
,sias
ra,t4thhodti
cerbhti!eifvordeer
rregaeudwl
ririoebi isi,y)ptewy;
special
licmgrnod:
good
drii
et. ieso,ennNfv;ener t
and
tneeiders
judgment for such an institution. The following is the
ll'aicnhtoxnlite•ant'ibnegr lxuenetpatr i Ipyr
ecsoc nr
isbeendt
tPokadbgs tea it 't
kfer on 11' by each
by a medical person ; and as temperance applies to al;
things, I renounce the use of tobacco as a common habit,
injurious alike to health and good mora's,
and pledge
myself not to use it, except as a medicine; and do fur-
ther declare that I will use all moral and lawful u cans to
cause the People's Charter to become the law of the land."
THE ELEVENTH HUSsARS.—A good many
strangers came into Brighton on Monday, curious to wit-
ness the opening of the Court martial on Capt. Reynolds,
but they have been disappointed, for the proceedin4s, not-
withstanding the announcement made in the local papers
last week, were not intended to conitn,.rice )esterday, but
are fixed for Monday next. The President of the Court
will be General Sir Hercules Pakenham, Commandant
at Portsmouth. He will be ascistcd by rfficers from
Woolwich, Chatham, and London. Lord Cardigan's
legal adviser is already with his noble client, preparing
their side of the case. Captain Reynolds is now freed
from arrest. He lives in Brighton. lie has never had his
quarters in the regimental barracks, which are about a
mile off, on the road to Lewes.
A L
—AnTh Irish paper, addressing
its correspondents,
The last Day' has merit as a
ONG D A
says,Y 7
poem, but is totally inadmissible from its great length "
The Lincoln Standard says, " The wild, yet
melodious tunes of the Highland bagpipe" (played through
the streets of ti.at town f) two ,t,cotehmeri) " transport
our imagivatioo to the rugged scenery of our sister isle I"

rrHE EDINBURGH REVIEW,
No. CXLV.
ADVEiITISF.MENTS intended for insertion in this forth-
cornin,..; Number of the EDINBURGH REVIEW are re-
quested' to be sent to the Publishers on or before TUESDAY,
Sept. 29; and BILLS on or before FRIDAY, Oct. 2.
39, Paternoster-row.

ERECIITHEIUM CLUB.
THE COMMITTEE having taken the
MANSION in ST. JAMES'S-SQUARE, corner
of YORK-STREET, lately in the occupation of the Earl of
Romney, for the CLUB-HOUSE of this Society, it will be
opened for the use of the Members as soon as the necessary
alterations are completed, of which due notice will be given.
(Signed) JOHN DEAN PAUL, Chairman.
London, Sept. 18,1840.

THE NEW NOVEL.
NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.
In 3 vols. post
THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE
A Story of the Present Day.
By MISS ELLEN WALLACE.
Richard Bentley, N?w Burlington-street.

if IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of
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HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH,
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Persons desirous to purchase for the next Distribution, may re-
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7,500 300 50 0 37 0
3,800 200 42 36 0
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1.200 100 39 0
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pl,:ce in the world.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VEiTRIS.
TIII EVENING, SEPT. 22,
NV,II be repeated the New Play, in rive Acts, written by James
Sheridan Knowles, Esq.. entitled
'HE BRIDE OF 11ESSINA.

John di Pracida, Mr. Moore; Fernando, Mr. Anderson;
Guiscardo, Mr. Cooper; Isoline, Miss Ellen Tree.
To conclude with av Original Comic, Romantic, Operatic,
Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitle('
rnd founded on that popular Nursery Tale,
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD.

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The Principal Characters by Mr: Harley, Mr. J. Vining,
Alr. J. Band, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C
ones, &c.

Dres,. llaxes., is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
Circli,, ; Second Price, 2s. Gd. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
7,11. ; Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
ommenec at Seven o'Clock.
Tickets and place.; for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Second NightWtfittl‘SieiiianVespeis," a New Tragedy in Five
Acts, written by J. Kenney, Esq. Tenth Week of Haines'
"Jane of the Hatchet," with its grand Tableaux d'action,
and the military evolutions of the hundred Female Warriors.
Second Week of " The Italian Hu-band," and Second Night
of Mr. Elton's Engagement.
THIS EVENING. SEPT. 22.
Will be acted a New Tragedy, entitled
THE SICILIAN VESPERS.

Supported by Messrs. Elton, Saville, Hughes, Neville, Hes.
lop, and Johnson, Miss Grant, and Mrs. Vining.
After which the Grand Historical Spectacle, of unequalled
. .

splendour, entitled
JANE OF THE HATCHET.

Supported by the entire strength of the Company,
and One Hundred Female Warriors.
To conclude with
THE ITALIAN HUSBAND.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY.
GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET
CHAMPETRES,
By Gotlfrey's unrivalled Band.
Programme of the Concert fur Sept. 21, 22, and 24.
FIRST PART.

Overtures—Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendessolm. Qua-
drille—Le Damois, Musard. Pot Pourri on Russian National
Airs, with Solos, Labitzky. Waltz—Die Bergeister, Strauss.
Introduction, Child ef the Air, Barnet. New Austrian March,
Lanzeubrechen, Ilaslinger. Overture—Waverley, Berlioz.

SECOND PART.
BEETHOVEN'S GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA,

By the augmented Band, with instruments of novel construc-
tion, and 340 rounds of artillery and musketry, giving the
most vivid realization of the events of the Battle of Vittoria.
Terzetto, Che fai que con questo, Ricci. Pot Pourri sur des
Motifs de Fra Diavolo, Autwr. Waltz—Souvenirs de la Pa-
lais de St. Petersburg, Labitzky. Quadrille avec chceurs, Les
Gondoliers Nenitiens, Musard.
I he vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by
Danson—Breakine up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows—
Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship.
Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light.
Eruption of Mount Hecla, with increased magnificence.
ADMISSION ONE SHILLING.
Feeding Hour of the Carnivora, Five o'Clock.
Concert at Five. Eruption at Eight.

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unjust and unwarrantable conduct of the
aristocracy and the priesthood, and the Dis-
patch was one of the Journals which took the head
of the current and continued there. At present it
is the organ of an immense multitude of persons
scattered through every part of the kingdom. Each
of the sixty thousand copies it is said to circulate
weekly is, on an average, probably read by five per-
sons, so that its sentiments, whatever they may be,
are in accordance with those of a larger number of
persons than any other Journal. Mr. Alderman
HARMER has had little to do, we believe, in either
promoting such sentiments in the public, or minis-
tering to them. He found the Dispatch a Radical
and Anti-Church Journal, and it is not to be ex•
petted that he should sacrifice his property and de-
stroy the character of his Journal for consistency by
advocating, when he had the prospect of attaining
the civic chair, the principles of the aristocracy and
the priesthood.

Whether the opinions expounded by the Dispatch
be true or false, we know of no proved example
that it has incited to a single crime. It 'my, in
fact, be asserted, that those who can find excite-
ment from strong political writing, can have no
stomach for those vulgar crimes which are the pest •
of society. We infer that it has had a moral rather
than an immoral tendency, from the well known fact
that ordinary crimes always diminish when any
strong political sentiment seizes hold of the people•
At the same time it expresses opinions that are
in many respects opposed to those commonly
adopted; but if we are to punish novel opinions, we
place a ban on improvement. The Catholic priest-
hood did no worse when they imprisoned GA LILEo,
not for what was false, but for expounding what

was uew.

If it could be said of the Dispatch that it had
begun by being a thorough Radical, and ended by
being a Tory ; if it had at one time eloquently de-
nounced the Church, and at another as elcquently
denounced all who opposed it ; if it had at one
tine stigmatised the Tories as the duck-
legged drummers of politics, and at another,
described them as our only safe guides ; if it had at
one time laid bare the vices of the Monarchy, and,
by a startling exposure of a Pension List, held it
up to contumely and scorn, and at another told us
to look to it for safety ; if it had at one time ex-
horted the people to violence, and at another up-
braided them with a decent exertion of an indepen-
dent spirit ; if it had by the most outrageous abuse
excited sedition, and then mocked those it had
roused ; if, on the vital question of feeding the
people, it was known to entertain a very strong opi-
nion, and when the question was agitating the
country, had preserved an almost religious silence
to please its party ;—if the Dispatch had done all
these things, it might indeed have been called a
teacher of immorality, a pander to the worst of ins-
, sions, a base ticne-serving Journal, which corrupted
the public both by its writings and example.
If, in addition to all these changes, each one
could be traced to some personal motive,
the hope of a seat in Parliament, the disap•
pointment of a Baronetcy, the refusal of a Comis-
sionership, the desire to merit the approbation of the
landed Squirarchy, into the nominal ranks of which
a man may force himself, by abusing them through
the Press, without being admitted confidentially
into their socisty ; and if the person to please
whom all these changes had been made, and by
whom they were dictated, should offer himself to
public approbation, without any other merit than
being the proprietor and dictator of such a base
Journal, we should hold the public to be fully jus-
tified in declaring against such a man, and in care-
fully shutting him out from every public office. It
nothing can be said against Mr. Alderman LIAR-
:4ER but what can be traced to the spleen and dis-
appointment of such a man and such a Journal, we
shall think the Livery eternally disgraced if they begin
an odious system of political persecution at its in-
stigation. Bit every one knows that in these re-
marks we have indicated the Times, and the Livery
scarcely require to be informed that the scheme of
punishing Alderman HARMER for the opinions of
the Dispatch originated with the Times.
We reveal no secrets, for the facts have been
stated over and over again in both papers, when we
further say that there is a violent personal enmity
between a conspicuous writer in the Dispatch and
a conductor of the Times. They have in print re-
ciprocally accused each other of great offences.
They have long carried on a paper war, and while
these writers have a personal quarrel, the Journals
are rivals in trade as well as in politics. The Dispatch
is not without political influence, and the particular
turn taken by the Southwark election sharpened
the asperity of the Times. We hint reluctantly
at these private motives for the vile attack wh'.cla.
the Times has made on free discussion through
the side of Mr. Alderman HA RM ER ; but we
feel bound to do what lies in our power to prevent
the Livery from lending themselves to a gross act
of persecution, which would disgrace the tri-
umphant days of the Inquisition. We care no-
thing about what are the opinions of the Dispech
though we may remark that they are backed by no
power or influence to make them weigh a single
grain more than they are worth. We care, how-
ever, very much about cherishing the right, and
enforcing the duty, of public writers openly and
honestly stating their opinions ; and that right is
attacked, and that duty is disparaged, by the base
attempt of a base Journal to inflict a civic disgrace
on Mr. Alderman HARMER for the opinions ex-
pressed ill the Dispatch.

The singular coincidence of one Captain R EY-
Not,Ds being about to be tried by a court-martial
for challenging the Earl of CARDIGAN, while the
case of another Captain REYNOLDS, who
has quarrelled with the Earl of CARDIGAN
is filling the public papers, has given rise to
much confusion. Our observations yesterday, and
the paragraph we copy from the Hampshire Tele-
graph; will set the public right on the subject, and
inform it, that the Noble Earl, after wounding one
officer in a duel, has still two affai-s, with two
distinct Captain It Evit,Ds, on his hands. As
the materials for judging of one of these are I efore
the public, and as the approaching Court-martial
will supply materials for forming an opinion on the
other, we shall, like our Contemporaries, abstain,
at present, from saying a single word about the
Earl of CARDIGAN. His time to be publicly
tried and publicly judged will speedily Come; et
present our business is with the Horse Guards.

There is one port of the REYNO L D S correspon-
dence which calls loudly for explanation or denial.
If the Horse Chards wish t 9 stand weld with the
public—if it wish the public to believe that die
government of the Army i 3 honestly, fairly, and
justly conducted, it shouted not have allowed an
hour to Elapse withutit giting that part of Captain
REYNOLDS' statement an indignant denial. As
it has not done so, we are compelled to believe
that it is true ; and, believing it to be true, we shad
hold the conduct of the Horse Guards up to the
reprobation we think it deserves.

It has long been stated that there is kept both at
the Horse Guards and the Admiralty what is called
a Black Book, in which the names of officers who
may have chanced to give offence are inscribed; and
that such officers, however meritorious their con.
duct, continually find obstacks thrown in the way
of their promotion. It has long been stated, teo,
that peraons of influence privately lodge complaints,

or carry tales to both places ; and many an officer
has experienced, without knowing why, that thcre
was a prejudice against him at head-quarters. No
explanation is ever to be got, but let him do what
he may, or ask vs hat he may, he always receives cold-
blooded neglect, bordering on insult. N ow this state-
ment is countenanced by the information which Cap-
tain REYNOLDS has laid be:ore the public, and which
goes to fix on the Horse Guards the disgrace of
listening to the tattle of one officer against another,
and of gratifying a favourite at the expense of justice.

On the 22d of May Captain REYNOLDS was
officially informed that the matter was not reported
to the Horse Guards, but that the Earl of CAR-
DIGAN was going to London that night, and
would lay everything before Lord HILL. On
a subsequent day Captain REYNOLDS had
a memorandum read to him by the Earl
Of CARDIGAN, his accuser, which begins
by stating familiarly that " Lord CARDI-
GAN, having rAmtioned to the Adjutant-
General the circumstances which caused the placing
Captain JOHN REYNOLDS under arrest," &c.,
and then the memorandum goes on to condeam
Captain REYNOLDS. Here then we have it proved
that it is customary at the Horse Guards
to pass sentence on officers on the unsupported
statements of those who can obtain the ear of the
Adjutant-General, or may perchance be an old
crony of the Secretary to the Commander-in-
Chief. Without calling on Captain REYNOLDS
for an explanation, or without requiring a
mitten statement from his accuser by which
he might be bound, without bringing the ac-
cused and the accuser face to face, the Adjutant-
General and Lord HILL, on the mere verbal, ex
parte statement of Lord CARDIGAN, pronounced
sentence against Captain REYNOLDS. After that
we can believe anything of the Horse Guards.
We believe that it is a common practice for favour-
ites, like the Earl of CARDIGAN, to whisper away
the character and reputation of deserving men, and
we believe that by such a disgraceful, backbiting,
abominable practice many an officer has been driven
from a service he was calculated to honour. If
such be the principle on which the Army
is habitually governed, it cannot be too
soon corrected ; if it be the practice
only of the present heads of the Army, they cannot
he too soon removed. If Lord HILL and the Adju-
tant-General be not dismissed, the public will
justly conclude that such practices are of long
standing, and the government of the Army is and
has long been most partial, unjust, and dis-
honourable.

There is not much interesting news in the Paris
Journals of Sunday. The Coustitutionnel quotes
from the Courrier, Francais the ultimatum of
MEHEMET ALI, delivered to RIFAT BEY, who
left Alexandria for Constantinople on the 9th inst.
In that ultimatum the PACHA says that he will
accept the sovereignty of Syria for life, and submit
the rest to the magnanimity of his Sovereign. Both
the Constitutionnel and the Journal des Debals
assert that this is the utmost concession to be ex-
pected from the Viceroy ; while we believe it to be
still more certain that the Four Powers, to whom
this ultimatum must be submitted by the Porte,
will not accept it. Before the signing of the Treaty
of London, such a proposition would have been
admissible ; but it is so no longer. Nor ought
its rejection to give France any uneasiness. The
duration of the PACHA'S life can hardly exceed
five years, so that the rejection of his Highness's
proposal takes nothing from his family, and very
little from himself. The Four Powers did not
enter into a solemn treaty as a mere preliminary
step to a niggling negotiation with a rebellious
vassal. We are aware that M. TRIERS is doing
all in his power to detach Austria and Prus-
sia from the other Powers, on the plea of pre-
serving the peace of Europe. The President
of the Council is not able to persuade Prince
METTERNICH that Austria has not a greai in-
terest in the conservation of the Ottoman empire,
but he points to Italy, Poland, and the Danubian
Provinces, and asks what would be the fate of
Austria if France were compelled to raise the stan-
dard of sans-culottism in Lombardy and on the
Rhine ? But does M. THIERS seriously con-
template defeating the policy of the Four Power's
by diplomacy ? Or is he resolved, in the event of
failing, to have recourse to war ? We hold a nega-
tive opinion. All this blustering is meant to pre-
vent the noise of the fortifications of Paris from
reaching the ears of the French people. While
the President of the Council invokes their earnest
attention to what is going on at Alexandria, Con-
stantinople, and London, and now and then tells
them boastingly of the strength of his fleets, the
prowess of his armies, and the inexhaustibility of
his purse, credit, and offensive and defensive re-
sources, Paris is suddenly environed with strong
fortifications, and wide-mouthed ordnance, from the
battlements of inaccessible towers, impose silent
submission to despotism upon the far-famed but
short-sighted heroes of July. How the world will
hereafter laugh at the folly of these French pa-
triots, In their eagerness for war with the most
truly liberal Government and people in the world,
they suffer unheeded a Citizen-Sovereign and an
ex journalist to reimpose chains upon them, which
it cost them the horrors of the most direful revolu-
tion that the world ever witnessed to cast from
them. That the descendants of the populace who
announced the knell of despotism in the noise of
the falling battlements of the Bastile, should suffer
twenty Bastiles to rise around them under the
auspices of a Bourbon King, would be inexplicable
did we not know that thoughtless inconsistency
forms one of the leading characteristics of the
French people. To-day the French people
are omnipotent. But let the chain of Bass-
tiles be raised and garrisoned, and there
will be but one sovereign power in France
—that of the Monarch. If it be the wish
of other nations to maintain peace, they will only
have to invoke the personal inclinations of the
K LNG ; and to provoke war they must not only
hurl defiance at France, but insult the Royal dig-
nity. The KING will then be everything at home
and abroad, and the people nothing. The erection
of these fortifications leaves us without a word to
say in layour of the boasted capacity of the French
people for the duties of self-government. For to
talk about defending Paris against a foreign enemy
iti so glaring an absurdity, that only fools could
swallow it,

The memorandum of M. GLIL.7,OT in answer to
Lotd PALMERSTON's note of the 1:it'll of July, is
seterely criticised in the PreSSC and the Conzznerce.
We need not repeat our opinion of it. One fact
concerning it is oulyof importance, and that is,
that it fully establidies tie charges brought against
the prmnt Government of Prance. Except the
flute tools of the President of the Council, the
journals all admit that they were shatnef'ully duped
documentin
ht:h-ig in authoris,ed to appeal tiiumpliantl) to that
justification of the hostdc atii.ude as-
sumed by France.
GuizoT AND TI lET{S.--Tho Univers states
that serious differences exist between M. Thicrs and
M. Guiznt. The latter maintains that the present dif-
ficulties have arisen solely from M. Tbiers not paying
any attention to the Ambassador's despatches from
London, hat amusing himself with subaltern intrigues.
Very warm explanations
thcro hi.td not licen open
bad taken place between the
INlinister and M. Guizot,ni,d if
collision, it Walt; only on acconht of the nheeAsities of the
state of rzfhirs; but ether dillerences, adds the Univers,
must lead to a Apeody rupture before the Chambers

EVENING ED I/ lON-,

meet, when M. Guizot will leave his post, not to re-
turn. The Univers concludes by saving, that a
terial modification will become inevitable. On the one,
hand, M. Guizot and the members of the former majo-
rity (the 221) will demand a change, to have a larger
share for the Conservatives in the Cabinet ; and, on the
other band, the Ltft (o.lilon Barrot), finding that M.
'niers ought not to be alone, will ask also to be intro-
Cuced into his Ministry.
INSURGENTS.—The Tribunal of Correctional Police
on Saturday condemned twenty individuals to terms of
imprisonment from fifteen to eight days, for not imme-
diately dispersing, after the second summons from the
authorities, in the assemblages of the 6th inst.
CABRERA.—The Mode announces that, in conse-
quence of Cabrera's state of health, which daily becomes
more alarming, the French Government had agreed that
he should be transferred from Lille to a town in the
south of France.
The King arrived at the Tuileries yesterday at
noon, at one o'clock ; he bad a conference with the
President of the Council, and at half-past one the ether
Ministers arrived to attend the Council, at which tks
King presided.
The Council of Ministers sat till a quarter past five.
A great many persons were heard at the Council.
First, Messrs. De Broglie, Gerard, and Montalivet,
then M. Dade de la Bruncrio and the principal Mem-
bers of the Committee of Fortification ; and then
C la
om-
stly
the Duke of Orleans, to whose residence the
mittee of Fortifications went in the first instance.-
Le Constitutionnel.
We extract the following from the Toulon journals
of the 16th ;
The Fulton, steamer, has just received orders to
put to sea immediately on a secret mission. This yes d
sel, which is doubtless going to Alexandria, departe
this evening. the
The Circe corvette left the basin yesterday, and
Plia3ton entered it. The supply of provisions for the
Ocean and Marengo are preparing with all possible el'
pedition.
A letter from Corsica says that an English ship of SO
guns, bound for the Levant, passed the whole of last
Friday and part of Saturday in s'ght of the port °,
Bastia. What had this ship to do before a French
town, and why did it stay there so long ? Does the
English Government mean to watch our coasts and oue,.
colonies; taking advantage, with its usual dexterity, et
the last moments of its alliance with France ?-"Le
Commerce.

vsn,
The Madrid Journals received are of the 14th
inst. The following extract from the surViernLent
to the Madrid Gazette of that date shows ill what
way the Junta thought proper to deal with the lir
pointment of the new Cabinet. We reserve all OP'
went upon this affair for another occasion :--
"PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT Or
MADRID.

[OFFICIAL.]
" Last night, at half-past eight o'clock, the posttnesil
of this city delivered to this Junta five sealed' commentr
cations, conveyed from Valencia by express, and ad-
cations,
dressed to the following individuals :—Don Vincente
Sancho, Don Alvarez Gomez Becerra' Don Dionisto
Capaz, Don Fecund° Infante, and Don Doming° Zt.
menes.
" All communicatian with the active Government
Valencia being prohibited by the 2d article of the Pl:°-
elamation issued by this Junta on the 12th instant, tP6
above individuals were summoned officially to aPPear
before the Junta ; and having arrived, and in the pre
sauce of Generals the Mar us of Rodil, Don go"
Lore
with Lorenzo, and Don Narcisso Lopez, the aforesaid corn--
the request'
munications were delivered to them,
that they would open them before the Junta and the
preceding officers, or that they would state the coat a•
" The communications being opened as requested,
It
appeared from them that her Majesty, by Royal dec.l
rae
had been pleased to appoint Den Vincente Sancho,
ter of Foreign Affairs, with the Presidency of the Cade.ci
Don Alvarez Gomez Beceria, of Grace and Jastice
In
Don Dionisio Capaz, of Marine • Don Facu
nce ,
ndo
fante, of war ; and Don Domino Zimenes, of Tina
with Don Francisco Cabello, of the Interior.
" The Junta resolved not to lay down their anew_
till they see the national will satisfied by such guB",is
tees as render any reaction for ever impossible, rub"
in all its force and conditions the programme
the exposition of the 4th instant, addresseLd, to the
and insist anew upon their unalter.aL"cL.,l
munition of that programme being carried into 1";01n.
feet : upon which the Junta, having riceivel. "i IC.
muoieation whatever, the above-nam individua s
• h had been
tired, taking with themeachthe
letters wive
delivered to them.
" FERANDO CORRADI, SeCretarY.
" Madrid, Sept. 14, 1840." insertedtble