The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1841.

THE L E VANT MAIL.

The Levant Mail has ari:ved, with letters from Con-
stantinople of the 7th inst., from Alexandria of the 6th,
Malta of the 15th, and Smyrna of the 9th.
The accounts from Constantinople announce the arrival
of the British steam-boat Acheron there on the 3d inst.,
to be placed at the disposrl of Lord Ponsonhe, who, it
was said, would go to Venice. The day of his departure
was not fixed. It was said that the personnel of the
British Embassy at Constantinople would be completely
changed.
Samy Bey continued to have frequent interviews with
the Sultan.
'The Sultan had ratified the Treaty signed in London
on the 13th of July by the Five Great Powers.
His Highness visited the powder magazine at San
Stefano on the 2d inst., after which he accepted a dinner
from the Director, and returned in the evening to his
Palace on board the Turkish steamer Iskudar, belceging
to a private Company.
The Smyrna journals of the 9th inst. announce the ar-
rival of the Turkish Grand Admiral, Tahir Pasha, in
that port on the 7th inst., having under his command a
line-of-battle ship, two corvettes, and a cutter. On his
entrance into the harbour the French brig of war Alci-
biade, and the Austrian corvette Clemenza, the only
foreign ships of war on the station, gave him the usual
salute, which was returned shot fur shot. The Governor
and all the city authorities immediately went on board
to compliment the Admiral on his glorious termination
of his expedition against Candia.
Our private correspondence from Beyrout, dated the
2d instant, states that everything wears a peaceful
appearance in Syria. The Sultan had agreed to the
petition of the mountaineers of Libation, and reduced
the tribute to 3,500 purses (17,5001. sterling) yearly.
The Emir Kassirn • Beshir and the Patriarch of
Mount Libanon, are to be independent of the other
Paellas of Syria, whilst they are to be allowed to
appoint Ministers to represent them at Constantinople in
the same manner as the other Michas of. the empire.
The Turks are not to interfere with the Christians of
Libanon, except through the Porte. It was said that the
Sultan had published a firman in Syria, announcing that
the English were • not to enjoy any exclusive privileges
more than the other European nations. This appeared
the more extraordinary, as it was understood that all
nations should enjoy equal privileges : it was, therefore,
unnecessary to publish such a firman. It was likewise
said that several British travellers, fearing that the
Turkish fanaticism might be excited by this finnan, had
withdrawn from Syria, and assembled at Bilegik on the
Euphrates. At the same time a steam-boat arrived from
Malta at Beyrout with orders to the British officers there
to return to that island. The British ships of war
Rodney and Calcutta, which left Alexandria on the 22d
ult., arrived at Djoune on the 27th.
The French and Russians in Syria were exciting the
population throughout Syria against Protestantism,
through the medium of the convents and priests. Even
the Nestorians were preaching against the reformed reli-
gion. At no period was Russia so devout an attendant
at the holy sepulchre of Jerusalem as at present. The
report of Palestine being about to be constituted into an
independent Christian State atilt prevailed.
The caravan from Bagdad had arrived at Damascus,
composed of 1,500 camels laden with galls, tobacco, and
Indian corn.

The navigation of the Euphrates had experienced fresh
difficulties, and two boats had been lost in the shallows.
The English had landed their provisions, and intrenched
themselves against the Arabs, who intercepted their com-
munications. • •

There remained at Bey rout four British ships. of war,
one cutter, and two steam-boats.

From Alexandria, under date of the 6th instant, our
correspondent states that the Nile had risen to the
height of 22 15-24 cubits, and caused the irrigation of
the lands to be complete. It was considered that if the
Nile did not rise higher, the crops would be most abut'•
dant this year ; but if the contrary were the case, that
destruction and ruin would ensue. Agriculture was at
present attended to with the same zeal by Mehemet Ali
which he formerly displayed fur war and conquest. All
the superior officers of the army and the navy, together
with a number of soldiers and seamen, were placed along
the Nile, in Upper Egypt, and the Delta, to attend to
agriculture, and a great emulation existed amongst
them to become good cultivators. All Mehemet Ali's
nephews, Ibrahim, Achmet, &c., were pursuing the
same occupation : even Ibrahim Pacha, the General-in-
Chief, was vying with his father in producing better
corn, and he had already succeeded in selling his crops
at 23- piastres per ardeb more then Mehemet Ali, in con-
sequence of their superior quality. He was heard to
say, a few days since, that in three years he would ren-
der Egypt the richest agricultural country in the world.
Menikli Ahmet Pacha, who was appointed to direct the
canals and agriculture of Upper Egypt, wrote to the
Pacha some time since, saying that he was always dis-
posed to serve him as formerly in his military capacity,
but he knew nothing of agriculture, and begged of him
to dispense with his services in that pursuit. The Pacha
for answer deprived him of his Nishan, in other words,
cashiered him. He is, nevertheless, as much as ever at-
tached to the Pacha. He is the only cavalry General in
the east. He distinguished himself in the battles of
Koniah, Konis, Nezib, Koulelc, Bagaz, and with the army
in the north of Syria, which he conducted, almost unin-
jured, to Damascus, and thence to Egypt. He is, in fine,
a species of Eastern Murat.

• Mehemet Ali was anxiously waiting the arrival of
Said Bey, who had asked permission of the Sultan to
return, and who was expected at Alexandria in a
few days.
The Egyptian transport cutter No. 20, laden with
4,000 ardebs of wheat, for the Pacha's account, sailed
from Alexandria, for Falmouth, on the 30th ult. Free-
dom of commerce was no longer mentioned in Egypt,
although an English ship took in a cargo of Egyptian
wheat at Suez, on paying a duty of 12 per cent., as fixed
by the treaty of the 16th of August, 1839.
A zuerchant'at Alexandria., who wished to ship a cargo
of wheat on the sth instant, was prevented by the Pacha,
who said it was necessary to wait until the result of the,
rising of the Nile should be ascertained. The Govern-
ment had raised the price of wheat from 51 piastres the
ardeb to 61, barley from 36, and beans from 29 to 41
piastres. 7,000 ardebs had been sold at that price.
Colonel Napier and Mustapha Bey, the colonel from
Constantinople, still remained at Alexandria, waiting the
surrender of he Syrian soldiers. According to the
Sultan's order, those . soldiers were to be conveyed to
Syria on board Egyptian transports. Mr. Barnett, the
Consul-General, had written to the Paella on the subject,
and Colonel Napier visited at the Palace in full uniform
on the 27th ult. Lists of the Syrians were being pre-
pared, and the transports to convey them were getting
ready for sea.

in order to • embarrass that of Portugal; • whom it-has
I viewed with suspicious fear ever since the reconciliation
of the letter to the see of Rome..
It appears from statements made in the Cortes, as,
well as in the public, journals, • that the contraband
trade in English cotton goods from . Gibraltar. up the
river Guadiana, has increased to a prodigious extent, the
smugglers mustering in .such numbers, and in so formid-
able an array, as •to put the revenue officers and their
military escorts to flight whenever they appear. They
(the smugglers) have likewise a regular squadron of
armed boats, by means of which they have made them-
selves completely masters of the r;ver and neighbouring
coast. This is an almost necessary consequence of the
exorbitancy of the tariff. duties ; but. these people are so
infatuated on that point as not to evince the least
• disposition to give up their mistaken system of commer-
cial policy.
The Marquis of Saldanha will proceeds
next week, to
Madrid, via Cadiz, on a special mission to the Spanish
Goyernment; respecting the object .of which there are a
variety of conjectures.
The Government have sent to Oporto for the 28th
Light Infantry, which, together with the 27th, quar-
tered at Mafra, are to be sent on to Algarve with all
despatch.

The Queen and Court • have come from Cintra for the
season, as well as the diplomatic corps and all the rest of
the hula ton of Lisbon.
• The English steam-vessel Ipswich, 86 tons, 60 horse
power, bound from London to Jamaica, has put in here
in a very damaged state, and will have to undergo exten-
sive repairs.

After the Marquis of Saldanha has fulfilled his mission
to the Spanish Government, he will continue his rout to
Vienna, where he is going as Envoy Extraordinary.

FLANDERS -AN-D DUTCH
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 23.—A salute of twenty-one guns
has announced the fetes .of the eleventh anniversary of
the Four Days.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24.—The King left St. Clou'l yes-
terday morning. He passed the night at Amiens, and
will reach Courtray to-day about four o'clock. A spe-
cial train will be ready to receive him and bring him in
the evening to the capital.
On Saturday there will be :a grand dinner at Court on
the occasion of the arrival .of the Duchess of Kent,
Orders have been received at the Palace immediately to
prepare her apartmpts.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg, his Majesty's elder bro-
ther, who is now at Paris with :his daughter, the Duchess
of Nemours, is expected very shortly at Brussels.
A letter from Luxembourg .aays :—" The news that
King William 11. has refused to ratify the treaty incor-
porating the Grand Duchy with Germany arrived here
on Saturday evening, and carried universal joy. Every-
body was glad that the King had been made to under-
stand the true situation and the wishes of the country.
Addresses have been sent by all the Commercial
Councils of the Grand Duchy to his Majesty to thank
him for the firmness he has shown on this occasion, and
to ask a commercial arrangement with Belgium. The
King, in fact, appears to be much inclined to this, for in
announcing to the Commission his refusal of the ratifica-
tion he gives them to understand that the Belgian Go-
vernment had made overtures to him, and that he hoped
the Grand Duchy would find a vent for its manufactures
on that side. A brillian reception is preparing at Lux-
embourg for the Commissioners.

The 'Addresses above-mentioned were sent to the
Hague on Monday ldst. The merchants of Luxembourg
ask merely an assmi:ation to the Belgian tariff of Cus-
toms. -The inhabitants of the Belgian portion of the
Luxembourg are equally rejoiced at this circumstance.
There, as well as in the Grand Duchy, the inhabitants
are sensible that the rupture of the negotiations with
Germany was a step towards ~..the commercial fusion of
the two countries, which have so much need of each other.
BATAVIA, AUG. 30.—We leant from Amborna that on
the Ist of November last year t.h3re was an earthquake
at Gelelo, which destroyed all the brick buildings. From
the 3d to the 15th of September tin, shocks returned with
increasing violence. They seemed .to have no connexion
with the mountain of Tunale.
TRIEST, SEPT. 14.—The French steamer Acheron
arrived to-day from Athens and Corf, x, with 11. Pisca-
tory, the French Deputy, returning frok n his mission to
Greede.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AstBTERDAN, Stan. 2g.
bloi 'es. Bill,
.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A in.,* t Syndic, 4 6 per cent 92 92;6
Ditto, ditto, 36 per cent 7t) 6 :6%
Commercial Company, 4,4 ?er cent ' 154% 155%
Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. .....
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97% LB
Exchange on London, One month ...,.., 12 016
Two months
Hamburgh, One month 35 75 .
Two months 35 69
Dutch Papers, Sept. 25.
8E.L.01A1,1 .11.1 t4DB—lssussai.s. SEPT. f 3
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Retlischild's Loan, 5 per Ca1t.......... ......
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93
----- 3 per Cent. —
---d.Thirty.seven-------- .•...
0 t_.,..p 9 _„,„ 1(2
Loan of City, 1.12, 4 per Cent ..... 0034
Society of Commerce, 434 per Cent .... 1,3%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........ .............. 74
NationalSeciety. .... ,
Exchange on London (short)

Brussels Paper:, Sept: 24.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vissixa, SEPT. 16
fire per Coats. Metalliques ............... If6j
Four per Cent 5...„.......„ ....... .................. 91,4
Three pt. r Cents• ....... " .................... .•••••••••••••• 75
Rank Shares ........ .• ...... ............ )574
—Allgemeine Zahn's. Sept. 21

THE CORN LAWS
AND COMMERCIAL REFORM.

UXBRIDGE.

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Uxbri lge and
its vicinity was convened in the Assembly-room, on
Friday evening last, to take into consideration the pro-
priety of memorialising her Majesty to keep Parliament
assembled till the Corn-laws had bem discussed by the
Le,l,2islature, and to hear a lecture from Mr. S. Smith.
The Rev. P. NEWLAND, of Chalfont, was unani-
mously called upon to preside. The Rev. Gentleman,
on taking the chair, stated that be considered the work
in which they were about to engage was the discharge
of a solemn and Christian duty, and that they could not
comma:um the proceedings of the evening ws'h greater
propriety than by lifting up their voices to that great and
good !Icing who gave them not only the bread of life,
but dispensed liberally the bread that perisheth. The
Re Y. Gentleman then gave out two verses of the 40th
Psalm, and the entire assembly rose, and with the
deepest fervour joined in the religious service, The
impression produced by this solemn commencement was
exceedingly striking, and forcibly recalled to the reader,
of English history, that passage of it in which in the
last great struggle between the aristocracy and the
people, the soldiers of the Commonwealth mingled reli-
gion with all their proceedings.
Mr. SIDNEY SMITH then addressed the meeting on
the political bearings of the question. He dwelt strongly
upon the recent declaration of their venerable county
Member, Mr. Byng, who had in effect declared that he
had fondly hoped not only to have lived but to have died
under the constitution of Crown, Lords, and Commons,
but it was his fate in his old age to find his country de-
graded to the despicable condition of living under an
absolute aristocracy, the very worst form of all govern-
ments.

A resolution was then proposed and seconded in con-
formity with the object of the meeting.
An address was then read and agreed to. which re-
ceived numerous signatures on the spot. Arrangements
are being made to form anti-Corn-law associations at
Chalfont, Chesham, High Wycombe, and Beaconsfield,
and the dissenting ministers of BUckinghamshire are ra-
pidly giving in their adhesion to the movement, not
only from their own sense of duty, but from the urgent
requisitions of their hearers.