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

0 UFA aunv OF M EWS

AND
abltr Optuton.

" Who runs may read."

POREIGN.
The Levant Mail has arrived, bringing news from
Constantinople of the 7th, from Alexandria of the Gth,
from I3eyrout of the Bd, from Smyrna of the 9th, and
from Malta of the 15th inst.

The Sultan's health is suite restored. His Highness
has appointed Said; the Viceroy's Envoy, a Vice-Ad
miral, and his Secretary, Sami Bey, a Lieutenant-Ge-
neral. These promotions entitle them to rank as
Pachas of the Empire.
Lord Ponsonby was preparing to leave Constantinople
for England by way of Italy.
The Porte had issued a Firman, commanding all the
authorities throughout the Empire to treat the trading
subjects of the Sultan as favourably as merchants living
under the protection of Foreiem Powers. " All the
authorities," says the Ministerial circular, " addressed
to the Pachas as well in Constantinople as in the
provinces, have been instructed to encourage,
by every means in their power, the commereita'_
operations of the subjects of the Porte, to grant
them the same facilities as are accorded to the
Frank merchants, to defend their legal rights by
the application of a system of just equality, to protect
them under all circumstances from violence and injus-
tice, and by these means to secure to them prosperity
and contentment. You will publish the present docu-
ment in the district under your charge, and exert your-
self to realise the wishes of his Highness in this respect."
—This circular confers a real boon upon the Turkish
merchants, who, to escape from being periodically plun-
dered by the Pachas, were hitherto compelled to obtain
the protection of foreign Powers. Thus the wealthiest
merchants were glad to hold some nominal office in the
kitchen of a Foreign Ambassador.
Mr. Colquhoun, Charge d'Affaires of the Hanseatic
Republic, was preparing to sign a commercial treaty with
the Porte.

The Sultan has ratified the treaty of London of the
13th of July.
On the 7th Tali ir Pacha, the Pacificator of Candia, landed
at Smyrna, where his flab was saluted by all the foreign
vessels in the roads. The salute was returned gun for
gun. The Paella wore the diamond-hilted sword pre-
sented to him by the Sultan, valued at a thousand
pounds sterling. The next day he sailed from Constan-
tinople, after leaving two hundred pounds for the suf-
ferers by the late fire.
The Christian sects are persecuting one another like
fiends in Syria. If the principle of the Christian re-
ligion was hatred instead of love, they could not more
rancorously malign each other. All the native sects
conspire against Protestantism in every form.
From Egypt the news is of little political interest.
Mehemet Ali has turned the sword into a ploughshare.
Under his careful management it is expected that, in a
few years, Egypt will be a fine agricultural country.
From Lisbon the news is far from satisfactory. The
Algarve is overrun with Minaielite brigands, who rob and
murder the inliabitan,s with comparative impunity.
General Macdonell was found guilty of being in
Portugal without a passport, and ordered to quit the
country in eight days. The General was very ill, in
consequence of his confinement in a damp cell in the
castle of St. George.
The National was tried on Thursday, and acquitted,
for a libel on the King of the French, written in Decem-
ber last. The observations made by the National in
Friday's number upon its trial provoked a fresh seizure.
The Constitutionnd would have it believed that Eng.
land meditates the permanent occupation of Syria. Why
not charge us with a design upon Paris?

Punzac OPINXON.
The Morning Post devotes nearly two columns of a
leading article to the consideration of the Earl of Shrews-
bury's pamphlet on the Corn-laws, with which our Con-
temporary is highly gratified, observing :—" Most justly
does the Noble Lord maintain that religious principle and
sentiment, so far as they bear upon the question, are
against the changes proposed by the agitators, and that
the idea qf sacrificing the wiz& landed property of the
country to satisfy the mania for commercial specu •
lation is indeed anti-Catlutc and anti-Christian."—
The drift of this remark is obvious to the most obtuse
capacity. It is anti-Catholic and anti-Christian to in-
terfere in any way with the monopoly of the wealthy,
influential landowners; but perfectly right and proper to
sacrifice the welfare—nay, the very existence—of thou-
sands of the labouring classes to that monopoly! The
essence of true Christianity consists in passing lightly
over the rich, in order to fall with a more crushing
weight on the poor; and as the Corn-laws admirably
work out this principle, it follows, as a necessary conse-
quence, that those who oppose them are anti-Catholic
and-anti-Christian. Such is the only inference that can
be drawn from our Contemporary's remark in the above
passae.e.
The Timee congratulates its readers on the symptoms
of returning tranquillity throughout Ireland, as will be
seen by the following passage :—" The reverend persons
who lead the Roman Catholic worship of Ireland, feel-
ing, probably, that their past political interferences have
but served to prolong the now tottering ascendancy of
their country's evil genius, are, in general, maintain-
ing at present the most orderly and dutiful demean-
our. At the great Tipperary meeting in favour of
Repeal, only two—Roman Catholic Clergymen at-
tended ; and the consequence was that the muster,
which had been expected to number 30,000, comprised
only 2,000 people. The example and advice of the Rev.
Mr. Bermingham, the priest of Borrisokane, were thus
not thrown away. Quietness and general contentment
seem to be common throughout Ireland. Indeed, all
that is wanted to restore that country to the most sound
and healthful condition, is merely a little patience and
reasonable moderation on the part of her generous
people. If the Roman Catholic community will only be
temperate in their behaviour, not preposterously ex-
travagant in their demands, and exercise a becoming
confidence in their present rulers, we may fairly anti-
cipate, at no distant day, the most happy and successful
results."
The Advertiser thus defines the general character of
Lord Stanley's late speech on his re-election for North
Lancashire t—" If there could ever have been a doubt on
the nature of the Premier's policy, there can be none
now, since Sir JAWS Graham and Lord Stanley have
'Token out. It Is, then, determined that the country is
to continue to groan Wider the Corn laws ; that the ma-
nufacturing interest is to be victimised to the monster-
prerogatives of the lords of the soil, and, consequently,
that the most pregioile right's of the nation, which
arising out A are inseparable from, the freedom of the
commercial principle; are to be the immolation at the
shrine of oligarchical treeity and oppression. Lord
Stanley's speech is a model at iindYsilled arrogance. Its
insolence and audacity are without bounetC-e-its positions
are positively stale to rottenness—its arguizents tlre re-
futed tritisms—and Its Whole purport and bean::: as.
foreign to the taste as to the conviction Of llnglialimen.-
The Chronicle says t-‘‘ The danger to the peace of
the country is great I anti eve cull tiVdn the middle classes
and all who have yet something to hide, id ItIA tliitt
danger manfully in the face. Should the people bretift
out, the eon3equenees in a country like this, in which
so much depends Oil the gooration of order, may be
serious indeed: It iS quite clear that the Government
Will tin htitiliiig if tilt ottipelltfl:,' fit the middle ranks
compel the Governtnellt todu tikitiAthink to tippettle
the people, who are convinced that they are ihe Vietttia ttf
injustice; if they will only put their shoulders to the
wheel; it is yet thre to avert the mischief. Opportunity
ought tb he ilitiOn Jilt forelock: Should the flame burst
forth; nd than knows lidtV. Al.' it Intl' Weal It has
often been said that the instinct of self-pfeaervatleti
is strong property. We trust that instinct will
guide it aright: But if the occasion be neglect:
ed;, repentance rtfa came when it is too late."—
It is 'MUM 1311 i idB,e:leitf, itl b* Ochatemporary observes,
that Government will ao tote' i tiff edinpuision.
ti etileet remedial measures &in theni if el of
eilde; it ,Nittieat an impossibility. They must be
frightened.:=l4lfied--4iiiti esOtessions by threats of the
1 is "fPa Aid ttittsi tie made to feel_
tIMIF 3til 3 til6 id dditg6 tattle the'` doPiatice to
the people. There is no oilier ii;!.l4' #.6 kir*); tit to
make thorn act like honest men. To a certain elfoif, the
pedlith nee thit remedy in their own hands. Let them
threaten to kieti out migthoiory and call in Doctor
Whig, and the pidsdittio'ii liiiitiestiy forthcoming.
The of ,t4ttiiont CIA the tio'lverittoefft Avoid
ids;; n 8 O.& 6.ittlre reniotieliing of
the New Poor-law. 'This appeafi t-la WrW Olg%6l,iteniaao-
rtiry'S panacea for all grievances, past, present, ltiel to
crime! Tlie folleiring are his observations on this sub-
by manifesting
ject Lei ti t;ofige'r'4,oo# Aftnisq,
not merely a Wren iiltefilidii; hirt i/gofOus preparation
to retifiklei the 6firthirdifiCtef to its
fb'rfiperefi lit' 1*(11; Otntiess
modified by beneVCltiliA eilagfened by
derice;eedrionty in managing red-writ:derided hyoinitiathy
iii ailifildisteilfig 4114 t ftindqblie6tecl for time relief
of pauperiSm tie fief'
ts• of the poor,
the attachments c of those Which lAtliff iti sdfrbty•
and reap iti radurififig '••=tliat fdm4, in short; of st&f.:
littrudiiith 6eck m'o'ral a well as political
sense, has the strongest claims dila thii 6#1.0r
consideration—in bonds of inalienable respeci ail' ttfieb=
titan:,Never did a Government, in this country, stand
cy Olitit her yajesty's present Ministers, for
the ciPptirtilnity of seeuring the gratitude and confidence
of that class of the people whose confidence and grati-
tilde it is At fill tig!es among the most incessant, the
?lit. till ofijaig of tout thy,
verntnent to obtain."
In reffnllVO to the late general election, the Bristol
Mercury observes :—" There can be no doubt that the
late general election was marked by the most enormous
bribery, end that the Tories effected a real triumph
over the Liberals in breaking down their principles, and
in driving them to meet corruption by corruption. True,
we believe, that the Liberals were the little sinners,'
and that where they expended shillings the Tories ex-
pended pounds, but it is not to be the less regretted that
the former have followed tin evil example, and attempted
to fight the Ceaservatim with their weapons."
The following is from the Limerick Reporter :
" Neither in Peel nor his party can confidence ever be
reposed. Peel is a mere actor, destitute of one ingredient
of sincerity. The open foe is more easily avoided than
the double-faced trickster. Irishmen ! therefore, be-
ware of Peel!"
The Scotsman observes of Lord Stanley's speech at
North Lancashire that—" His whole harangue was no-
thing more than an elaborate plea for suffering the Tory
Government to draw their salaries in peace."
The Liverpool Chronicle insists that Sir R. Peel has
fairly duped the people by his conduct since his acces-
sion to office The man has positively forced himself
, into office under false pretences. The attieitutilel,
the address which lie and his partisans carried, pledged
them t a consideration of the Corn-laws and other com-