The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.

(From the onstitutionnel.)
At the news of what took place at Beyrout on the ;
14th of August, the Journal des Debats has raised the \
cry of alarm, and has seen in the event the commence-
ment of a general war. The news bad its gravity, and
the opinion of the Journal des Debats gave it more
weight at the Bourse. We endeavoured in our last to
appreciate the nature of these events with calmness,
and without dissimulating all that they inspire of me-
nacing for peace, we still do not take them to be the
infallible signal of war. The inevitable lacier:ism of
the telegraphic dispatch has given rise to several con-
jectures, many of them sombre. The .journal
Debats took the most gloomy view, and imagined that
Commodore Napier, after his summons, was repelled
by force. We did not comprehend it thus. We saw
in the act of Commodore Napier merely an attempt to
arouse the insurrection in Syria, an attempt which bed
not succeeded. This bad success—the firm attitude of
the Egyptian authorities—the fildity of the Emir
Bcsehir—these are good and pacific news.
We shall be reproached, without doubt, for not hav-
ing attached sufficient importance to the extraordinary
act of the English Commodore, in calling upon the
authorities of Beyrout on the 14th to evacuate that
Wale, whereas the notifications were not made to the
Pacha before the 16th, and according to the conditions
of the Treaty itself, the Pacha was authorised to
occupy Syria till the 26th, the term of the first day
allowed to him for his answer. In fact, the conduct of
Commodore Napier was not the execution of the Treaty,
but a violation of it, which would indicate an intention
to act with the greatest vigour, and against all the rules
of the laws of nations. Now, we cannot suppose that
the Four Powers have signed a Treaty for the purpose
of violating it at their first step. The town, however,
has been summoned ; this is a fact. Yes, but we be- '
lieve it to have been entirely the personal act of
Commodore Napier. We believe that this officer,
who is a very bold and rash man, and who takes a
great deal upon himself, may have acted without or-
ders. We believe that this act was simply an attempt
to excite revolt, and that he had no intention of resort-
ing to force against the authorities of Beyrout ; indeed
we know now that he did not attempt any. We be-
lieve that this summons was only intended to figure
, among the proclamations which he spread on the coast.
It can easily be conceived that nothing was more cal-
culated to propagate ideas of revolt in the Libanus,
than the announcement that the Egyptians had been
galled upon to evacuate the territory. We are not
sorry that he has failed. The Powers have always
reckoned on the insurrcctiou of the Libanus as a means
of compelling the Pacha to yield. It was for them the
least compromising and most easy coercive means. If
this should fail, we shall consider the failure as good
news.
It is said that if these means should fail, the Powers
will have recourse to others. That is possible, and we
have never denied it. But other means would be far
more dangerous, and might easily give rise to discord
among the allies. Supposing them to succeed in re-
viving the revolt against the Pacha, this success
would facilitate the execution of more serious mea-
sures. They would, for instance, be able to land
troops with greater security in Syria, when in a
state of insurrection against Mehemet Ali, than
in Syria, in a state of submission, and disposing
of all het forces against external attacks. It does
not follow that, because direct means of intervention
present more obstacles they will not be employed, but
the last accounts from Beyrout do not appear to us in
this respect to render the eventualities more menacing.
In judging events thus we speak according to our own
impressions, and do not pretend to do so in the name of
the Cabinet ; but we see by an article in the official
journals that the Ministry bas appreciated the circum-
stances nearly in the same way as ourselves. This ar-
ticle says The news which has transpired shows
that the adversaries of Mehemet Ali have attempted
the only well-foreseen coercive means, viz., the insurrec-
tion of S 3 ria, and that hitherto it has not succeeded.
There is nothing in that which diminishes the gravity
of the situation of things, but there is nothing to add to
its urgency."

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(From the Commerce.)
Wa have frequently had occasion to expose-the part
played by the Ministerial Left in this deplorable and
immoral imbroglio. The journals which represent it
will neither see nor understand ; they shut their ears to
all disclosures, all acts which do not come directly from
31. Thiers, and the few independent organs which do
not follow their example, are accused of systematic and
exaggerated distrust. And why, we would ask, should
we place confiuence in the Cabinet ? Has it kept one
of its promises ? It promised us fi,mn.2ss ; has it kept
its word ? As to moral order, is it not more compro-
mised than ever ? Can we discover it in the corruption
of the Press, in the scandalous jobbing at the Bourse,
in the tardy or garbled communication of important
news, and in the contradictions and lies which arc
at every instant evident in the Ministerial assertions?
Is it possible to place faith in the Ministry ? Have
not all its declarations been belied? Have not all the
hopes which it held out respecting the treaty of Lon-
dea Lees disappointed ? Attar having assumed a war-
like attituee, does it not now show itself more docile
and yielding towards the Holy Alliance? After having
spoken of the convocation of the Chambers, does it not
hesitate at that measure? After having denied the
authenticity of the Memorandum, has it not been forced
to acknowledge its correctness ? After having been
urged by its own journals to publish its diplomatic acts,
has it not been afraid to publish them ? And yet the
journals of the Ministerial Left do not cease to prod
claim that the Cabinet is entitled to the confidence and
sympathy of the country !
(From the Courrier Francais )
The proceedings of Commodore Napier alarm us little
for the Pacha or for ourselves, for Ibrahim has sent along
the coast of Syria a sufficient force to keep down in-
surrection, and to repel any foreign aggression. But we
take the fact as an instance of what English agents can
venture to do with a minister who lets loose the rein of
their bad passions ; and we will say that this act of
piracy of Commodore Napier will be a stain upon the
British name, if no reparation be offered. The London
journals comment in strong terms upon the rigours exer-
cised by the officers of the Pacha towards the population
of the Libanus. They call him a barbarian ! What an
idea will Mehemet Ali now have of the probity of a
civilized Government, which before a declaration of war
seizes the vessels which he sent to sea en the faith of
peace ? We protest against what has taken place at
Beyrout. But it is England which should be most in-
dignant, for it is her name which has been compromised
by Commodore Napier. If his proceedings be not
condemned by the English nation, there will be a per-
petual stain upon their history.
The Quotidienne does not attach much importance
to the proceedings of the Four Powers as regards Syria,
so far as the question of European peace is concerned.
The casus belli (says this Journal), if we are to believe
what the Augsburg Gazette has said of the note of M.
Pontois, would be the appearance of a Russian fleet in
the Bosphorus and a Russian army at Constantinople ;
but what could bring either of these eventa about ?
Only the passage of the Taurus by Ibrahim Pasha, and
the French Government has obtained from the Viceroy
an assurance that the Taurus shall not be passed. Thus
the news from Beyrout has lost, as regards the Ministry,
all character of menace.

(From Galignanrs Messenger )

A Malta correspendc;:t states that Afehermt Ali had
sent word to Adm'ral Stopford that ho was willing to
give him an official notification of his intention not to
abide by the ultimatum of the Four Powers, and that
the Almiral might consider himself at liberty to carry
into ,frect the instroc;ions he had received in that case,
without waiting for the expiration of the delay granted
by the Powers.

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The Ccnsta:..enople correspondent of the Constitu-
tionnel, in a letter of the 19th u!t., confirms the ac-
count that a strong body of Turkish troops :s to be sta
tioned in Cyprus, to take advantage of the course of
events in Syria. M. de Pontois is stated to have re-
candy made a very strong and explicit representation to
Reschid Pacha on the existing position of affairs, and to
have declared that the French Government was deter-
mined to act in an energetic manner, and to oppose, by
all means in its power, the employment of coercive mea-
sures against the Pacha. This produced great sensa-
tion in the D van.
The dates from Constantinople, given us by the
German journals, c.re not later than the 19th ult.
The Augsburg Gazette says, that "the last notes" of
M. de Pontois (it does not specify the date) had pro
dueed a painful sensation upon the Sultan, which,
however, had been rAnoved by the rep: esentatons of
Lord Ponsonby. The Count d'Honiroy, who re-
cently headed the Syrians in their revolt, is stated by
the Leipsic Gazelle to have arrived at Constantinople,
and to have been promised by Lord Ponsonhy, on the
part of the Turkish Government, a supply of guns and
cartridges, with which he was to return to Syria. His
Excellency had also informed him that 5,000 muskets
for the insurgents had been sent from Malta. M.
Christides, the new Greek envoy, had taken down the
arms_ of King Otho from the Greek embassy, and bad
demanded a categorical reply within forty-night hours
to his protest against the measure recently adopted
against Greek trader?. A rupture with Greece was

THE WAR IN FRENCH AFRICA.
The Minister of War has received reports from
Africa, dated the 30th ult , to the following effect :
General Duvivier writes from Medeah :—" On the
3d of July, whilst carrying on the works of the rock, I
had a severe affair. It began at half-past four in the
morning, and ended at eleven. I bad not 1,000 men.
The enemy, led on by Abcl-el-Kader and El Berkani,
bad four battalions of regulars, a numerous cavalry,
and all the neighbouring tribes, amounting in the whole
to more than 5,000 men. He was defeated, although
he made the attach with unusual vigour. I terminated
the affair by a bayonet charge from my reserve. I now
know that the enemy buried more than 500 dead.-
M a°l
visited us, but they were long shots. We had killed,
Every shot was fired at a very short distance. The
so
a:itiy. Some four-pound they did at theu-prhoeuignka its
balls o
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Charpenay of the 23d, Captain Combas-
sive, of the 23d, Lieutenant Billen, of the 23d, and
Captain Bernard of the same regiment, supposed to be
dead, but not, however, clearly proved. Lieutenant
Altoise, of the 2d regiment of Engineers, was also
killed. There were 57 others killed and 86 wounded."
General Duvivier never for an instant despaired of suc-
cess in this affair, in which every French soldier had to
contend against five Arabs. A ball struck the left
sleeve of the General as he was giving orders, but he
has received no wound. Several of the officers of the
regular battalions of the Emir were killed on the field
of battle. The African decorations which Abd.el-
Kader had conferred upon them are in our possession,
and will be forwarded to France. The institution of
honorary rewards among the Arabs is a sort of
homage which the barbarians themselves pay to
our legion of honour. When the conflict was
over our soldiers put every thing in order, laid
down their muskets, and resumed their working
tools. The 23d and the Engineers conducted
themselves well. General Duvivier is satisfied
with the Zouaitna, and particularly with the
Belidicins, wh—n he sent forward with the reserve. All
have merited the thanks of the country. The detailed
report of this combat had not reached Algiers at the
time of the departure of the despatches of the 30th ult.
Another report just received communicates the informa-
tion that Bou Azzou, of the province of Coastantia,
who was defeated at Sselsons some time ago, by the
Scheick el Arab, had tried to penetrate again into vhe
desert, but had been repelled and killed by the °tiled
Djradji, partisans of the Scheick el Arab. General
Galbois, Governor of Const ntia, hrid taken measures to
drive the Arabs out of the Medjanah, and had collected
a force of 2,000 infantry, several squadrons of cavalry,
and four mountain howitzers, at Setif. Upwards of
70,000 boudjous had been received by him as part
of the tribute of the friendly and subjected tribes.
The Shticks of the district, named Tuggurth,
had come to General Galbois to assure him of
their friendly intentions towards France, and of their
willingness to march with the French troops against
Abd-el. Kader. Some horsemen of the Sanenjahs, in the
Bona district, having assassinated the chief of a tribe
allied to Frence, a corps of 1,000 men, under General
' Guingret, had been sent to take vengeance on them.
The Sanenj ihs occupied a strong position, and a sharp
action ensued. The Sanenjahs retired after a loss of
ten men, and the French had six wounded. The Rud-
jettas, an auxiliary tribe, emptied the silos of all the corn
belonging to the Sanenjahs, and next day the chiefs of
that tribe came in and wade their submission.
THE LATE DISTURBANCES IN PARIS.

(From Galignanes Messfliger.)
The following are some additional particulars of the
occurrences of Monday :
From ten to twelve at night, the President of the
Council, the Ministers of the Interior and War, the
Prefect of Police, and Colonel of the Municipal Guards,
and some officers of the staff, escorted by a piquet
of the Municipal Guard, went out on horseback
and visited the quays, the Place de la Bastille,
and Boulevards. While the people in the Fau-
bourg St. Antoine were endeavouring to make
barricades, a tumultuous meeting took place at the
Barriere du Maine, where the patrols were pelted
with stones, and an unsuccessful attempt was made to
disarm a post of troops of the line. Public tranquil.
lity being threatened at several other points, measures
on a large scale became highly necessary, and the ar-
rangements made by Marshal Gerard were immediately
carried into execution. The Courtier states that it was
not only one barricade, but four, that were almost si-
multaneously raised at different points. One stopped
up the Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, about thirty yards
above the Rue Traversiere. It was formed of an om-
nibus overturned, some barrels, and other materials.
The men who constructed it fled on the approach of
the municipal guards. Another completely barred up
the Rue Traversiere, but this also was soon thrown
down. Another was formed near the Hospice des Or-
phelins, and the rioters had begun to take up the pave-
ment when the troops arrived. The fourth was raised
at the entrance of the Rue Lenoir, with the aid of a
waggon loaded with lime, and the materials of a house
building on the spot. But this barricade, like the rest,
was immedi itely destroyed.
Yesterday passed off pretty quiet, for, although there
were during the day several assemblages in different
parts, yet the strong demonstratioas of force which had
been made by Government on the previous day checked
anything like a disposition to tumult. During the
morning, about fifty men went to the workshops of
Gerard, a wheelwright, and Barrier, a blacksmith, in
the sth arrondissement, to endeavour to seduce their
journeymen away, but they did not succeed. A man
who distinguished himself by his violence was arrested
by the soldiers of the guard-house at the Barriere
du Combat. Other attempts were made in diffe-
rent quarters, but equally failed. Several journey-
men wheelwrights and blacksmiths assembled at
the Barriere des Trois Couronnies between twelve
and one o'clock, and were marching towards
the Barriere du Combat, the general place of
meeting, when they were dispersed by the Municipal
Guards. Numerous journeymen of different trades re-
turned to their work in the course of the day. Some
groups of idle men having. towards night, assembled in
the Rues St. Denis and St. Martin, it was found ne-
cessary to make a few arrests, and the crowds immedi-
ately dispersed. The Boulevards, and the above-named
streets, with the neighbouring ones, were patrolled by
strong parties of cavalry and foot Municipal Guards,
but the National Guards were not called out, although
their usual posts were considerably strengthened.
Throughout the day an extra number were on duty at
the several mairies. At midnight all was quiet, and no
renewal of disturbance anticipated.
The Correctional Tribunal was yesterday engaged
on the trials of numerous tailors, hosiers, joiners,
and other journeymen, for engaging in coalitions,
and attempting to induce their comrades to strike.
Collin and Fortin, ' tailors, were sentenced for
these offences, committed in July last, to two years'
imprisonment and two years' surveillance. Vasseur
and Farget, hosiers, for the like conduct, on the
Ist inst. Bellonay to three years, and Jollive to two
years' imprisonment, and both to two years' surveillance ;
and Hate to three months' imprisonment. These three
were tailors. Delarue, a tailor, to three years' imprison-
ment and three years' surveillance. Muller, Deroy,
and Desan, to three months' imprisonment. Chardenot
and Coudran to two years', and Lion to three years'
imprisonment and two years' surveillance, for engaging
in a coalition of joiners, on the 31st ult. ; Bachot to
one month, and Graven to two years, for a coalition of
saddlers ; and Croupsal, Houlet, and Bimblaud, mecha-
nicians, to a fortnight's imprisonment.
Government has taken care to provide for the wants
of the families of Petit, the sergent-de-ville, who is just
dead of his wounds, and of the other two sergeants, who
are still in a precarious state.