The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
We have received by express the Paris Journals o
Thursday, including the Moniteur, with the official ordore
nance convoking the Chambers, and which we published
yesterday in our Second Edition. All the Press, every
organ of party, express satisfaction at the speedy as-
sembling of the Chambers. The Ministry escapes
from the too great weight of responsibility. The King
escapes from the ever varying proposals of his Ministers
—at one time to seize Candia, at another to force the
blockade and send 20,000 men to Alexandria, and at
another to attack the Russian fleet if' it dare pass the
Bosphorus. The red-hot folk are satisfied, because
they hope to continue in the tribune the war-cry, which
was growing stale and flat in the columns of the
press. The Conservatives feel pretty certain that
they can prove M. Thiers to have wanted fore-
sight, prudence, and firmness, and that he is not
the miraculous statesman that his admirers declared.
M. Thiers has no doubt committed blunders ;
but his position, it must be admitted, was one of
great difficulty. He had to steer between the intricate
points of his own position as representative of the
more moderate ideas and interests of the Revolution,
and the well-known leanings of the King—between the
absurd Egyptiec mania of Parisian writers and his own
consciousness that France was but a second-rate naval
power, whose ambition was to be satisfied by extending
frontiers at home rather than grasping at colonies
abroad. Notwithstanding, however, all these difficul-
ties, which have paralyzed his efforts, and even baffled
his sagacity. M. Thiers is a statesman whose power
1 rises when in the midst of a popular assembly ; and es-
pecially if he be driven to assume the defence of a spi-
rited and national policy, we may reckon upon his voice
being most influential in the Chamber. By the first week
in November, however—that is, before the French
Chamber can enter upon debate—the Syrian ques-
tion will, we have no doubt, be already solved.
The French Press, and its allies in this coun-
try, have all along proceeded on the assump-
tion that the blockade, with operations merely on
the coast, could never seriously coerce or menace
Egyptian power in Syria, and that such means proving
insufficient, the dangerous ones of Russian armies
must Lave been had recourse to. The result has
proved how completely French statesmen, French
journals, and the Egypto-Gallicians here were mis-
' taken. All their prophecies and declamations on this
head have proved them to be the meerest noodles, as
ignorant of the East as incapable of common sense.
The French Deputies can no longer entertain this
blunder. The Puha can be driven from Syria with-
out the employment of any means calculated to alarm
the susceptibilities even of France. A handful of
English sailors :and marines may expel a tyrant, but
i cannot themselves. found a tyranny or an empire. By
the Ist of November there will be no longer anything
for the French to prevent in the Levant ; for Syria
will no longer be the Pacha's, and it will depend on
himself whether we leave him quiet in Egypt. War,
therefore, will, nay has already, become too great an
absurdity for any setious Frerchmen to abet, unless, in-
deed, he be one of those parties which want to change
1 the dynasty or the form of government, and would make
\ use of the fervour of patriotism to beget a revolution.
(From the Times.)
\The circulation of Lord Palmerston's despatch of
the 31st of August to Mr. Bulwer, which appeared in
the Times of last Saturday, and was noticed in a lead-
ing article on Wednesday, the 7th inst., has wrought a
' great benefit in the state of public opinion. The sup-
port, moreover, which was contributed to the same
cause by the ablest, most respectable, and most autho-
ritative members of the French press, has been of in-
finite service in opening men's eyes to the real merits of
1
the question as between France and the Allied Powers,
and has swept away like flies from off a wall the silly
and offensive extravagances which had previously passed
current with the uninformed portion of society as funda-
mental truths whereon the whole case was to rest, and
by virtue of which the treaty of July, with the proceed
ings of the Allied Powers, both antecedently to that
measure, and in the process of its execution, was to
have been condemned by the whole civilized world,
The intent of that state paper was not to assert,
but to demonstrate, that France had nothing what-
ever to complain of, but England and her allies much.
It W4B to prove that the first transaction of the five
Powers on record, with relation to thin quarrel between
the Porte and Mehemet Ali, had been a conimon agree.
inent in the one main proposition—viz., that the inte-
grity of the Turkish empire ought to he maintained,
with a view to the.restnred equilibrium of Europe ; and
that Mehemet Ali ought therefore to be called upon to
disgorge the provinces which he had plundered from
her. But, although France concurred in the admission
of the above truth, it wee the solitary point on which
she did not oppose the allied Powers. There were no
means suggested for enforcing the principle which all
apparently or professedly acknowledged, which was not
strenuously resisted by France, who at last gave
it to be clearly understood, that so far as depended
on her co-operation or approval, the doctrine
which was declared by all to be just and axiomatic
should remain for her a dead letter, or worse, inas.
much as whatever wrongs had been committed by
Mehemet Ali against Turkey, or whatever he might
hereafter perpetrate, either against her or the just equi-
poise of Europe, she (France) would never conntenaepe
the employment of coercion as a means of extorting
from hire that justice which it was plain that no ocher
instrument
would afford, and therefore that this char-
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