The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-15 00:00:00

SUMEIA.I7 1F NEWS

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ABROAD.
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Mehemet Ali's acceptance of the Imperial Firman
constituting him hereditary Governor of Egypt having
been officially communicated to the Ambassadors of the
Five Powers at Constantinople, and by them transmit-
ted to their respective Courts, the New Treaty for main-
taining the tranquillity of the East, was yesterday- signed
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, by the Plenipo-
tentiaries of Austria, France, Great Britain, Russia, and
Prussia. This resumption by France of her proper place
in the Councils of the leading States of Europe is hast-
ened by the near prospect of the accession of the Tories
to office, from whom M. Guizot now knows that France
has nothing good to expect. But for the morbid vanity
and insufferable self-conceit of M. Thiers, France would
have never affected an isolation, which has cost her
some hundred of millions of francs, and is now saturat-
ing with blood the streets of Toulouse and Montauban.
The Journal des Debats, the Court organ, rejoices
at the near accession of the Tories to office. According
to the Debats the Constitution of England is maintained
solely by the patriotism of the higher classes. It admits
that they bribe, but that once in Parliament they are not
a jot the worse patriots for it !
The Presse, M. Mole's journal, contends that a re-
peal of the Corn laws would give to England the empire
of the world, and that the accession of the Tories to
office may retard, but cannot long postpone this measure.
This is exactly our opinion.
The Commerce sees in the insurrections in Turkey
the seeds of the dissolution of that Power, and that the
may be profitable to France advises a close
alliance with Russia, and a separation from the costly
and sterile relations which bind her to England. M.
Mauguin's visit to St. Petersburgh has produced a sur-
prising change in the political views of the Commerce.
Acconnts from Constantinople of the 23d ult. state
that the Sultan is not expected to live. His Highness
falls a victim to unlimited indulgence in the pleasures of
the Harem.
Apprehensions were entertained in the Turkish
capital of the massacre by the Turks of the Christian
inhabitants of Albania.
Admiral Baudin has been appointed Marine Pre-
fect of Toulon.
A charivari, or concert of marrow-bones and
cleavers, was given by some hundreds of young men to
an unfortunate Benedict near Paris, who suffered himself
to be well thrashed by his wife. We trust for the peace
of Europe, that the authors of a precedent so alarming
to all docile married men, will be so punished as to serve
the world for a warning. Bedlam would be a paradise
in comparison with the gayest circles of Paris, London,
Berlin, and Vienna, were a charivari to await every hen-
pecked husband in the habit of making the acquaintance
of his wife's digits at the wrong end of a poker, once
or oftener in the course of twenty-four hours.
In a letter from Navalcarnero, in Spain, we find
the following account of a singular phenomenon which
had occurred there :—" About three o'clock in the after-
noon of Saturday last, the heat began to be insupport-
able, and continued increasing until past four, when a
horrible tempest arose, accompanied by a shower of
stones, which fell with great violence. The country is
now reduced to one scene of desolation ; nothing is to
be heard but sighs and lamentations. This shower
lasted for two hours, at the expiration of which time the
country around was thickly covered, and had the appear-
ance of being buried in snow. All the vineyards and
the corn crops are destroyed, and the roofs of the houses
beaten in. The misery of the inhabitants is beyond
description, and the prospect before them for the en-
, suing winter most disheartening."

AT HOME.
rtaxsCELLANEOUS.
—A splendid new entrance into Hyde Park is to be built
where the Bull public-hoitse now stands, at Knights-
bridge. It is to be called Albert's gate. The Marquis
of Abercorn has taken part of the ground where the
Cannon brew. house now stands, to erect a mansion
similar to Lord Sefton's, in Belgrave-square.
The pavement in front of Whitehall, which is
formed of thick wooden blocks, has, we understand, suc-
ceeded admirably. It would succeed still better if, by
any possibility, it could be formed of the wooden heads
of the Tory subalterns in the House of Commons.
Imagine, for instance, what a fine thick block, capable
of resisting the heaviest pressure; the Gallant Member
for Lincoln could furnish a Whitehall pavement with !
The head of Peter Borthwick, too, would be worth its
weight in lead.,
At the half-yearly meeting of the Humane Society
held on Tuesday, medallion medals were awarded to
Captain Edward Stanley, RN., for saving the life of a
boy by jumping into the Surrey Canal in last January ;
to Mr. William Downes, for rescuing a young gentleman
from a watery grave by jumping off Guildford-bridge, and
also for saving five other lives on other occasions ; to Mr.
Christopher, at present mate on board her Majesty's ship
Blonde, for saving the life of a seaman off the Cape of Good
Hope, who fell overboard, he and a few brave seamen
lowered the boat on a dark night and during a tempes-
tuous sea, but after saving the man one of the undaunted
crew was washed overboard and drowned ; to Dennis
Sinnett, a private in her Majesty's 50th Regiment, for
saving an infant off New Holland in December, 1839 ;
the mother being sea-sick was leaning over the side of
the vessel when the child fell out of her arms, Sinnett
instantly jumped into the sea and held up the infant in
one hand till the boat came to his assistance at half a
mile distance from the vessel.
About sixty influential Reformers of the parish of
Paddington celebrated the return of Mr. Benjamin Hall
and Sir Charles Napier at the Eagle and Vulture
Tavern, when the healths of the Liberal electors who
returned the Members were drank with great. applause.
A tradesman's wife at Peckham has, for a long
time, fancied that she has within her " a ravenous rat,"
and she has lately determined to starve this internal tor-
mentor to death, by starving herself.
Westminster is, at last, following the excellent
example of Marylebone, and forming a real Registration
Association. Had this been done a year ago Rous
would not have rode over this hitherto-independent
borough.