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things as they are. This feeling," it adds, in the passage
alreaolkquAted, " is pretty generally the feeling of the
country."'"

iti‘lf the 'people generally are contented with things
as.they are, for what purpose does the Standard
and the rest of the Tories labour day after day to
blacken the character of the Ministers, and involve
the country in all the difficulties mid perplexities
of a change ? Is it merely to gratify the Carlton
Club, and the few people who are panting to ex-
change newspaper wages for official salaries? What
a motive for a Ministerial revolution

A German Journal received yesterday con
tains the following :

The French Journals of Tuesday have al
reached us. The following is the official account
given by the Moniteur of the recent events at
Alexandria:—
On the 7th, Mehemet Ali had received from Admiral
Stopford a letter, in which that officer declared that Com-
modore Napier not having been authorised to trent, the
Convention concluded with him must be considered null.
The Bth, an English steamer entered the port of Alex-
andria, having on board the Flag-Captain of the Admi-
ral's ship, Captain Fanshawe, nephew of Sir Robert Stop-
ford. He delivered to the Viceroy a new letter, which
signified to him "the official authorization of the Bri-
tannic Government, in the namo of the Four Powers, to
maintain Mehemet Ali in the Pachalic of Egypt, on
the condition that, in the space of three days, he would
consent to restore the Turkish fleet to the Sultan, and de-
finitively evacuate Syria." To this letter was joined an
explanatory note from Captain Fanshawe, stating that he
was commissioned to transmit to Constantinople the reso-
lutions of Mehemet Ali, that he would wait for them three
days, and that he bad orders to demand that the written
documents of these resolutions should be remitted to him
open, in order that he might assure himself of the contents.
After two days' delay, Mehemet Ali delivered to Captain
Fanshawe a letter for the Admiral, in which he announced
his determination, and another for the G rand Vizier, where he
says, " that always ready to sacrifice all he possesses, even that
of his life, to conciliate the favour of the Sultan, and grateful
that, by the intervention of powerful Allies, the favour of
his Sovereign has been restored to him, he has taken mea-
sures that the Ottoman fleet should be given up to such
person and in such a manner as it shall please his High-
ness to order ; that the troops which occupy Candia, Ara-
bia, and the Holy Cities aro ready to retire ; that the evacu-
ation shall take place without delay, so soon as he shall
receive his Sovereign's order; that as for Syria, Ibrahim
Pacha must have already quitted Damascus with the whole
army to return to Egypt."
Such is the news from Alexandria. It explains itself
naturally by the simple comparison of dates. At the
moment that Admiral Stopford annulled the Convention
concluded by Commodore Napier, not only must he have
been ignorant of the approbation that this Convention
received from the British Cabinet, but the fact even
that the Convention was they unknown in London. The
instructions which guided the conduct of the Admiral, and
to which this last step with the Viceroy refers, had been
sent long before the English Government could have been
informed of the engagements entered into by Commodore
Napier.
In the letter which the Admiral addressed to Mehemet
Ali, there is no mention of hereditary right in Egypt. He
had not, in fact, the power to offer it ; but, in case the
Pacha should claim it, Admiral Stopford was authorised
to promise to support his claim with the Porte. In all
which has passed at Alexandria there has merely been con-
fusion produced from the unexpected act of Commodore
Napier, and the ignorance of Admiral Stopford of what
was passing in London. Things will come definitively to
the same conclusion—that is to say, the concession of the
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The tone and spirit of this account are alike
moderate, and, but for some sinister hints thrown
out by the C'ourrier Francais and the Presse,
would incline us to believe that the French Go-
vernment was at last disposed to co-operate with
the other Great Powers in finally settling the
Eastern question. The following important para-
graph appeared in the first-named of these Journals
on Monday evening :
A despatch from Count Nesselrode to M. de Pablen
had been officially communicated to M. Guizot. It is said
to be very amicable towards France. It is twelve years
since the two Governments have exchanged such evident
preliminaries of a coalition.

Upon this announcement the Presse remarks,—
"We arc enabled to confirm the above details. It is
not in written despatches only that the Russian Govern-
ment shows its desire of being on friendly terms with
France. M. de Barrante, our Ambassador at St. Peters-
burgh, congratulates himself on the amicable and unusually
kind reception he had experienced for some time back
from the Emperor Nicholas. It is evident that Russia
forms no illusion respecting her present relations with
England, and seeks but a good opportunity for breaking
them off. Should this rupture take place, it would be a
most important event that would place England precisely
in the position in which she placed us by the London
Treaty. We believe that it depends at present on the
skill of the French Government to take, in this respect,
a striking and durable revenge. But the first condition
that must be fulfilled in order to attain this end is to have
nothing whatever to do with the policy of the last Cabinet,
a policy likely to create isolation where it does not exist.
and to lead :rum isolation to war by a tendency as rapid
as inevitable."
" We do not advise the French Government to give it-
self up blindly to the advances of Russia, but we recom-
mend it to study attentively and seriously the new situation
in which it is piaced. Without doubt, on learning the
proceedings of Muscovite policy, Lord Palmerston will
moderato the pride with which he has hitherto enjoyed his
victory, and will return to his former attentions. That
Fiance, which has boen represented so lowered, will per-
ceive that it has, in reality, remained the umpire of
Europe, and that it is in her power to resume all her in-
fluence on the destinies of nations. But her Government
must employ tact, prudence, and address. It must, above
all, employ resolution to get out of the false and fatal
trammels with which M. Thiers has clogged our policy,
and in which the Opposition is endeavouring to detain us.
By means of the Continent, the malevolence cf England
may be rendered impotent for ever. We must, therefore,
avoid giving anxiety to the Continent. The great military
demonstrations to which we arc urged, and which threaten
the northern Powers only, would be a fatal error, which
would serve at this moment but to promote the designs of
Lord Palmerston."
We never placed the slightest reliance upon the
friendship of Russia, nor did we desire that the
relations arising out of the Treaty of London
should continue an instant longer than the final
adjustment of the Eastern question. We were
perfectly aware that the Emperor NICHOLAS
in signing the Treaty of July hoped to make it
the instrument of an European war which would
terminate in the total destruction of the Turkish
sway in Europe. Had France had the wisdom to
unite cordially with Lord PALAIERSTON, the hu-

miliation of Russia would have been complete—

the hunter would have been caught in his own

toils ; but even as matters have turned out, Russia
has been painfully disappointed. She anticipated
the certainty of a war between France and Eng-
land, and the consequent necessity of applying
to her to cover Constantinople with a swarm of
Russians. The success of the English and Aus-

mans on the coast of Syria, the timely surrender
of MEll EMET A Li, and the neutrality of France,
upset the deep-laid plot of the Cabinet of St. Pe-
tersburgh.

It was also stated that on Monday afternoon the
Cabinet of Vienna had communicated to M.

GUIZOT a note in terms as flattering and as con

ciliatory as those employed by Count NESSEL RODE

This would seem as if the Northern Courts were

acting in concert, and that in reality Russia was

merely humbugging France, in order to plant with

greater security the despot's hoof upon expiring
Poland. Austria, we know, is proud of the

English alliance, and would not sacrifice it for

any boon that France has it in her power to
offer. Prussia dreads equally Russia and France,

•so that we can calculate with the utmost confi.

After the evidence furnished by the Royal Com-
missioners and Parliament of the highly pernicious
nature of the water now supplied to the people of
London, no Metropolitan Journal ought to be in-
different or silent as to the efforts being made by
many scientific and patriotic public men to obtain
a purer and a larger supply. For this reason we
give the Report of Mr. ROBERT STEPHENSON,
which, as a document of great value, we recom-
mend to the careful perusal of our readers in the
metropolis generally, and to all men of science par-
ticularly.

VIENNA, DEC. 21.—Accounts from Constantinople of
the 7th of this month, which have been received here by
express, contain a frightful description of the tempests
which, with few interruptions, had raged ever since the
first of the month in the Euxine and the Sea of Marmora,
and had done great damage. Among other terrible de-
tails it is stated that the steam-boat the Nerva, with its
whole crew, was swallowed up by the waves ; that se✓eral
ships were wrecked, and more or less damaged. Among
those that are lost, the Seri•Pervas steamer is mentioned,
which belongs to the Danube Steam Navigation Company,
and plies between Constantinople, Smyrna, and the coast
of Syria. It was overtaken by the storm in the Sea o'
Marmora.