The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-25 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.

'• Toulon, Nov. 22, Three, r. m.
(This despatch only reached this day on account of the
Eau, of the atmosphere.)

" THE MARITIME I•REFECT TO THE MINISTER OF MARINE.

'• The English steamer Phoenix, arrived at Dlalta on the
12i1), has announced the taking of St. Jean d'Acre.
This news is given by the captain of the Eurotas."

St. Jean d'Acre was the strongest fortress of
MEHEMET ALI in Syria, and before the ap-
proach of the Allies, was pronounced by several
French military officers in the service of IBR.Anim
PACHA to be impregnable. We await the arrival
of the details of the capture of this fortress with
some impatience. The attack itself appears, from
the following extract from a letter in the Presse of
Monday, to have been anticipated in Paris. The
letter purports to be written by a Frenchman in
Syria, but we have no doubt that it was manufac-
tured in the French capital by some opponent of
the pacific policy of the SouLT-GulzoT Cabinet.
The conclusion of it is a barefaced fabrication, but
still plausible enough to suit the purposes of the
National and the Commercs, who will not fail to
trumpet it forth as an unquestionable proof of
English perfidy. We verily believe, that were it
gravely set forth in the French Journals that England
had entered into a conspiracy for depriving France of
a sight of the sun, moon, and stars, there is a party
in France so blindly credulous in their silly hos-
tility to this country, to whom it would appear as
undeniable as the fact of its own existence. The
following is a paragraph in this pccious concoction
of malevolence :

A portion of the British vessels left Bcyrout on the
19th of October; it is generally thought that they are
going to St. Jean d'Acre. If the latter place can only
hold cut for one month, there is reason to believe that in
that case the English will be compelled to abandon the
siege, on account of the bad weather, which is beginning
to be felt.

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out very far from the coast. They do not reckon on the
Turkish garrisons which they have installed in the towns
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The first part of the following despatch, bring-
ing the latest news from French Africa, appears in
the Moniteur of Monday morning, but being in-
terrupted by night the conclusion is given in the
Messager of the same evening

" Toulon, Nov. 20.
" TIIE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE

M RIFE.

" Two Razias, one from the 2d till the 4th, and the
other from the 8:11 till the 10th, undertaken against the
Beni limners, have procured tia 2,000 metrical quintals- of
barley and a heat. We had ten wounded and four killed.
The Marshal has thrown into consternation the Arabs of
the province of Oran, who in the environs of Medeah and
Miliana have lost a great number of men. A great many
belonging to the moat 'narked families have been carried
to Mascara either dead or wounded. The tribes of the
west have been left without provisions, and hopeless of
being able to sow their lands. The plundering, burning,
or carrying off their Silos are the most frightful disasters
that can befal them, and they loudly declare that they must
abandon the cause, if they continue to be thus baraiwo.
On the 10th and 11th a considerable body of Arabs made
an ineffectual attack upon Cherchtl, Tho Marshal's ex-