The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-11 00:00:00

RAILWAYS, &c.

Stafford and Rugby Railway Bill—" for making a Railway from
Stafford to Rugby, with a Branch therefrom "—presented and read
a first time, to be read a second time.
Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill—" for enabling the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway Company to raise a further sum of mo-
ney"—presented and read a first time, to be read a second time.
Northers and Eastern Railway Bill—" to enable the Northern
and Eastern Railway Company to make certain Deviations in the
line of their Railway, and to alter and amend the several Acts re-
lating to the said Railway"—presented and read a first time, to
be read a second time.

Northern and Eastern Railway (llertford and Ware Branch) Bill
—" to enable the Northern and Eastern Company to make a
Branch Line of Railway, and to alter and amend the several Acts
relating to the said railway"—presented and read a first time, to
be read a second time.

Glasgow and Dundyvan Junction Railway—Petition for Bill re.
ported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Lockhart,
Mr. Oswald, and Mr. Dennistoun.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER-TUESDAY EVENING.

There was no business done on the Cheater Cup this
forenoon worthy of remark. We therefore merely give
the prices as nearly as we can collect them. Several of
the horses, viz. The Potentate, Tubalcain, Retriever, Cow-
boy, Lugwardine, Cruiskeen, Prince Albert, Pm-not-
aware, the Plover, and the Humming Bird, had no admi-
rers, so as to bring them into popular notice. Thus run
the odds—

THE CHESTER CUP, P.P.
15 to 2 ages Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury
12 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Gibraltar—offered
12 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Gallipot
16 to 1 agst Lord Egliuton's The Young-un
16 to 1 agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee
17 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen
20 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's The Dean—offered
20 to 1 agst Mr. Hornby's Champagne—offered
25 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Prince Albert—offered
27 to 1 agst Col. Peel's I-am-not-aware
27 to 1 agst Mr. Flintoff's The Plover
3033 toto 1 agst Lordr cEoguleitntt,osnT'subTahiecaiPno_tetn.ta4toe
. Stanley's Rhodanthe—takteon 1
33 to 1 apt Lord
111000000 ttteao 656
aagg agst
:tt Mr.mbiari. 0
,Srstati.ii:Ptaan, ulsen'
y,E:estrrnci
Bedford—offered
it
Retriever
Calypso
50010 tt00304 sag: M Sir
r. T.
oSodtyme Painter's
11 to 1 bar a Tuley taken
Cowboy
First
er
400 to 18 agst Mr. Price
THE DERBY.—The friendol.4l74 take 8 v. the field.
The field V. 7 ;
to IpoOantfit n card easter races, imagined the
here), and either
they had Star, since Don-
ppretty (par-
ticularlyhand-
the Chester gentry and
by deputy, or otherwise, have nipbbrlateldtrulli
d no takers.
somely. To-day, however, 1,000
These odds were laid last night, by
repeat them, almost to any extent.—ls tolls willing to
v. Rosalie,
taken; 16 to 1 v. Eringo, taken; 17 to 1 v. Coronation,
offered ; 22 to 1 v. The Knight, offered ; 22 to 1 V .Souls,
offered ; 33 to 1 v. Mongolian, offered ; 800 was laid at
evens, on Palsernon v. Soult, the supporter of the former
desirous to double it ; 500 to 30 was accepted very will.
ingly on D ingo, and 500 offered in a good quarter Soult
beats any other of Scott's; i
4 to 1 offered v. any three.
THE RIDDLESWORTH.—At the close, 6 to 4 was laid and
taken, in a good quarter, on Eringo.
Tug DERBY.—A few words will
suffice. The wise
men from all quarters cannot, in the second week of
March, make out Scott's best. 15 to 1, at the close, was
taken on Rosalie ; 16 to 1 upon Eringo ; 18 to 1,
would
bays bten, we think, accepted on Coronation 20 to 1
was bid, in the be,t of quarters, against any one of the
dreaded stable. There was a great deal of chat about
several horses, but all passed over free from " slot," but
certainly with a little smoke!
The Oaks and St. Leger not named. The gentleman
wanting 1000 to 6 (or any part), about naming the three
winners, had it offered in one of the most starling quarters
in Laecashil e.

DUNCIIURCII STEEPLE CHASE.—YrsTraDAY.
Sweepstakes of 25 sous. each, and 100 added, 12 each--•four

miles. 7 subs.
Mr. Anderson's gr. g. Cigar A. M'Donogh)... I
Mr. Tibury's Goblin
Mr. Elmore's The Weaver
Mr. A. M'llonogh's Prince.
Mr. Higgins's Boy
Blue
Cigar and Boy Blue carried 71bs. extra.
Match for 1001. Mr. Robertson's Legacy (Mr. A. M‘Do-
nogh) beat Mr.:Maddock's Creole (Mr. Mason).

Colonel Henry Godwin and Captain G. Blake,
R. N., have been appointed Gentlemen Ushers to Prince

LONDON:
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1841.

The Lords, as usual on Wednesdays, did not
meet yesterday.
The Commons met, and the Sheriffs of Lon-
don appeared at the bar with a petition from the
Corporation, in favour of the Jews' Declaration
Bill.

A great many petitions were presented, and
amongst them one from the National Charter As-
sociation of Marylebone, pointing out that Lord
CARDIGAN was acquitted from a flaw in the
indictment, while FROST and his companions, in
the indictment against whom was, they said, a
similar flaw, were banished for life, and praying
for the pardon of FROST, as a proof that the Le-
gislature meant to do equal justice to all classes.
Mr. EASTHOPE, in presenting a petition for the
abolition of Church-rates, said that petitions, if
open at the ends, when sent to Members for pre-
sentation, were not liable to postage. Some con-
versation took place on the subject, when this
view was confirmed ; and the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER undertook to have all the Post-
masters informed that they were to transmit
petitions, open at the ends, to Members for pre-
sentation, if not of an unreasonable size, free
of charge.
Sir R. PEEL gave notice of his intention to
move in Committee, that the copyright of de-
signs be extended to nine months; and Mr. LA-
BOUCHERE gave notice that he should move that
it be only six months.
Mr. HODGES, in the absence of Mr. DIVETT,
the Member for Exeter, moved the second read-
ing of the Jews' Declaration Bill, and in doing
so drew most of his illustrations in support of the
measure from the well-known case of Mr. SALO-

MONS.

Sir R. INGLIS, steady in his bigotry, and tho-
roughly consistent in his hatred of everything
liberal, opposed the motion, and characterised
the Bill as only intended to enable Mr. SALO-
MONS to fill the office of Alderman of London.
He, most consistently with his own narrow
creed, condemned every man who in any
way contributes to the support of the re-
ligion of another of which he disap-
proves. Of course Sir ROBERT INGLIS will ex-
pect that Dissenters and Catholics should act on
that principle, and steadily refuse obedience to
any law intended to promote the welfare of the
Establishment. He is apparently convinced
that charity forms no part of Christianity, and,
on all subjects of religion, ought to be exiled
from the breast. According to him, though not
according to the doctrines of CHRIST, Heaven
has only one mansion, and there is only one road
to it, and all who attempt to reach it by any
other path must be rudely shoved aside by the
lucky few who are on the right road. He more
than once described the Bill as an attempt to un-
christianize England, as if Christianity had no
other foundation in England than a shabby Act
of b
y the
Judges. Parliament,
Woreabsehliaebvbeiteiriactutshteolunneeshtaarbiltiasbhleed,
unchristian Christianity of Sir R. INGLIS, has no.
other foundation than such a' shabby' Act,' and his
own selfish heart. If Christianityl were so hate-
ful to man's humanityßaust lei paints it, it would be
than that which he teaches,
is
separating him from
and the example a better
iCeliiirhi se-
speedily
tiani `Y
Iris that, even
his example,
palne,d,
stirring up strife in the land in of
its friends,ilame
will not suffice to make the people hate it. They
may come to hate him and the Church, but
,
even its pernicious example cannot sweep reli-
gion out of men's hearts.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, acting as consistently as
Sir H. INGLIS, for he has always been favourable
to removing restrictions on conscience, made a
good speech in support of the Bill, and expressed
his -stonisliment that a Jewish gentleman should
be accused of insincerity, because he gave a
contribution to promote the building of a
Ch istian church. The Noble Lord referred
r
to Baron RoTnscnir.n, the Messrs. MON-
TrEionr. and SA LOMONS, and others, as
examples of Jews perfornaing all the duties of

--J-_

good citizens. He also explained that the pre-
sent law did not actually exclude the Jews, for
they were admitted into the town councils with-
out taking any oath.
Two Tory gentlemen, Captain HAMILTON and
Mr. MILNES, to their honour, spoke in favour of
the Bill; and Captain HAMILTON declared that the
speech of Sir R. INoms would have decided him
to support the Bill had he heard no arguments
in its favour. Untaught, however, by this pro-
per rebuke, Sir ROBERT INGLIS resolved to keep
the land Christian by keeping the Jews out of
office, and he divided the House. The second
reading was carried, however, in spite of him, by
137 to 24.

The County Coroners' Bill was also read
a second time, after a short debate.

The Double Costs Bill, the Roughing of Cattle
(Ireland) Bill, and the Evidence Bill, were
severally read a second time.

In a Committee of Ways and Means, a sum of
8,000,0001. was voted out of the Consolidated Fund.
The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring
in a Bill for the better regulation of Municipal
Corporations in Scotland.
The House adjourned at Eight o'Clock.

We yesterday gave an outline of the pro-
ceedings of the meeting at Liverpool to
petition for the repeal of the Import Du-
ties ; we have since then received a com-
plete report, but we find nothing in it of
sufficient importance to induce us to publish it
entire. Believing that the national prosperity
can only be promoted by removing restrictions
from our trade, and contentment only be restored
by allowing the people to be prosperous, we, re-
joice at every attempt by such an influential
body as the merchants of Liverpool to knock the
fetters off our trade. It was not possible that
such an enlightened and intelligent body of men
should speak on a subject with which they must
be very familiar, without bringing before the
public a great deal of information. We yesterday
transcribed some of it, and we shall now
make some additional extracts, to illustrate
the practical workings of our present sys-
tem. The mischief of a high protecting duty to
the parties in whose behoof it is imposed was
made clear by Mr. AIKEN in the following
passage :

At the commencement of the present century the production
of sugar, for home consumption, was something less than
70,000 tons; but in the course of a shorter period it increased
to the enormous extent of 200,000 tons, until the late high
prices, the dearness of bread, and other causes, gave a check
to the consumption, which was now 10 per cent. below what
it was some few years ago, notwithstanding the increase which
had taken place in the population. But let them now look at
the effect produced by the treasure of protection. It must be
recollected that in the course of the period of which he had
been speaking, the net average price of sugar was up as high
as 80s., and aterwards fell demon to little more than 20s. Now,
only take from 80s. and 20s. the amount of freightage and ex-
penses of landing, and find the result to the planter and dealer.
The high price encouraged production to an extent beyond
what this country could consume. This stimulus was not
confined to the planters, who were content with getting good
prices fur two or three years, but many were induced to em-
bark their capital in the purchase of estates, to spend money
in fitting up establishments at the west end of London, the
expense of which they could not bear, and then down fell the
prices, and ruin overwhelmed the parties so protected.
When so ruined, let us add they clamoured for
still higher protection, for loans, for relief, and
not uufrcquently the people were taxed ad-
ditionally to remunerate the planters, and the
west-enders, for the consequences of their own
unjust folly in plundering the people. Mr.
AIKEN also gave this good advice to the
Ministers

lie might be permitted to say that he could easily fancy
the possibility of a Government existing without having the
means of carrying out all the measures which they might deem
beneficial to the country. Then he would say, I cannot blame
you if you are unable to carry on your measures, but I do
blame you exceedingly if you do not propose them.—(Cheers).
It you do feel that, fur the welfare of this great commercial
community, it is absolutely necessary to pass certain measures,
then you must propose and explain your measures, you must
enforce them to the utmost extent of your ability and power,
and if you were not seconded by Parliament and the people, the
blame is with them. But you have yourselves the glorious sa-
tisfaction, that, at all events, you have attempted to do your
duty.—(Cheers).
One more quotation from Mr. W. RATII-
BONE'S speech, describing the loss of a trade we
formerly carried on in furniture, caused by the
timber duties, must suffice. He said—
There was formerly in this country great manufacturing
of furniture carried on, and particularly in Lancaster, but
there it had been comparatively cut off; in Liverpool it had
been very much diminished ; and t'ow, instead of supplying
our own West India colonies with cabinet goods, manufactured
in our own country, they went to Hamburgh, and other places
on the Continent. In consequence of the competition from
abroad, the importation of Spanish mahogany had decreased
from 1,083,191 feet to 918,383 feet in the preceding year. The
export to the Continent had suffered a diminution within the
course of the past year. The manufacturer at Hamburgh gets
his mahogany for 451., whilst the British manufacturer paid
901., thus showing clearly that we were furnishing the means
of cutting our own throats.

We cannot, however, leave the subject with-
out expressing our regret that the meeting
should designedly have excluded from conside-
ration the worst of all import duties—the duty on
foreign corn. Tt was supposed that the question
might engender disputes, and therefore the re-
quisionists agreed beforehand to say nothing of
it. One honest fellow, who is described as an
operative, expressed his dissatisfaction at the ar-
rangement, but was appeased by the explana-
tions offered to him, and the implied disapproba-
tion of the meeting that the food of the labourer
should be made the subject of a tax. No men-
tion was made, either in the resolutions or in
the speeches, of the Corn-laws, except as they
were severely condemned by the general de-
nunciation of all laws as demoralizing which
limit the field of employment, and of all
imports as detrimental which are levied on
the necessaries of life. Many persons, ourselves
included, wish that the Corn-laws had been
denounced by name, believing that the righteous
principles of free trade will be best promoted by
never losing an opportunity of holding up to
odium the most flagrant violation of them now on
the statute-book.

We feel, however, that we have no right to
censure the merchants of Liverpool for studying
their own interest. It is very natural that they
should feel more on the discriminating duties on
coffee and sugar, which palpably hamper
their trade with the Brazils, than on the corn
duties, the abolition of which might divert
some of the corn trade, now carried on between
Liverpool and Ireland, from that port. One of
the speakers, Mr. J. B. MOORE, for example,
said—

Upwards of 30,000 tons of shipping from the port of Liver-
pool were engaged in the Brazilian trade, forty-eight or
fifty-two vessels went annually to one port, and yet he said it
would be hardly credited when he told the meeting that of the
forty-eight vessels leaving for the port of Brazil alluded to, not
ono one of them returned Mere, There must, therefore, be
something practically and radically wrong when this was the
case.—(Applause.) It might be said that cargoes could not
be got ; but the fact was, that the coffee crop of that port for
this year exceeded 60,000 tons, which would have loaded up-
wards of 300 vessels instead of 48.

A Mr. MELLOR also showed where the tight
shoe pinches the Liverpool merchants :
tonrntsaetpqeduraeyn tblye tsaoot
sold
dtohv
afeotrr tl
ohmwe
ofirprers
ittchecaons( t 22,
p:yeeerrt
tltbohn. i
There were in this port 3,000 tons of Brazilian sugar, which
%d.
sw,
ruhogueal
importerc roeuqlud irneo
tc2:t
would lose 10 per cent. Sugar of equal quality was 'selling at
from 481. to 521. per ton in bond. If they had been permitted
to sell this Brazilian sugar on the spot for consumption, in-
stead of refining it and sending it principally to our own colo-
nies, there would have been a saving to the public of 90,0001.
We dare not condemn the Liverpool mer-
chants for exclusively attending to their own
interests, and disregarding the general welfare,
but they must not blame the landlords who
uphold the Corn-laws, and the Chartists who de-
mand Universal Suffrage, for following their
selfish example. If the middle-classes seek
only their own advantage they must not be sur-
prised when they appeal to the multitude
that the multitude laugh their appeals to
scorn. The working classes have been
practically taught, unfortunately, to mis-
trust the middle classes when they agitate for
free trade or the repeal of the Corn-laws ; and
hence the cry, warranted by the conduct of the
capitalists, which argument cannot rebut, that
their object is to enrich themselves, to beat down
wages, and enslave the millions more than ever.
A long as the middle classes, however, are so
keei.ly alive to their own interests, and so dead
to those of others, shaking the empire to get rid
of a little personal inconvenience, and refusing
to move a little finger to redress the grievances
of the working millions, alienation and mistrust
will continue, and the landlords will continue, as
at present, to tax, oppress, and plunder both.
We deeply regret, if we may not blame,
every instance of such short-sighted selfishness;
for what is now needed more than the revision of
the tariff, even more than the repeal of the
Corn-laws,is to reconcile and re-unite the middle
and lower classes. Till they be again knitted to-

getlier by mutual services, and mutual kindness,
and confidence between them be restored, society
will continue to resemble, as at present, a sleep-
ing volcano.

The Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday has the
following paragraph :—" We understand that
Mr. CANDLISH announced to his Session on
Sunday, the circumstance of his having been
appointed by Royal Commission to the newly-
instituted Professorship of Biblical Criticism in
our University. A report was in circulation
yesterday, however, and confidently repeated,
that private letters have been received in town,
stating that Lord MELBOURNE had suspended
the appointment in the meantime. We give this
rumour as we have received it, without vouching
for its accuracy."
We have no doubt at all of its accuracy, nor
have we any doubt that the appointment would
have been speedily consummated but for the
timely notice taken of the disgraceful transaction
by two or three independent journals. The
Globe of last evening, in fact, defends the appoint-
ment, and comments on it thus—" If obedience
to ecclesiastical tribunals by clergymen who
have vowed obedience to them is to be made a
ground of exclusion from ecclesiastical appoint.
ments, it follows that they are punished for
taking vows they are compelled to take, and
keeping vows which they are bound to keep, by
both the ecclesiastical and the civil law. No
Government could act on any such rule." But
I Lord MELBOURNE'S Government does act on
such a rule, for Lord NORMANBY on Tuesday
evening admitted that her Majesty's Government
had been disposed to give Mr. CANDLISH the ap-
pointment, " but the moment they had heard he
had placed himself in opposition to the law, they
immediately put an end to all communication
with him on the subject." This was praiseworthy,
and we give Lord MELBOURNE and Lord NOR-
MANBY all due credit for upholding the law, but
we cannot acquit them, and especially the Home
Secretary, of negligence, in allowing the LORD
ADVOCATE and Mr. Fox MAULE to recommend
a person of this description to the patronage
of her MAJESTY, because he is an active agent
in promoting their wild notions about Non-in-
trusion, and in encouraging the people to
put the law of the land at defiance to gratify the
personal interests of ambitious and encroaching
priests. If the object of CHALTvIERS, CANDLISH,
and Co. were really the spiritual welfare of the
Church, we could sympathize with them, how-
ever mistaken in their views; but when we are
thoroughly convinced that they think only of
aggrandizing themselves at the expense of the
Christian people of Scotland, and know from
sad experience that, through their incendiary
means, the religious feelings of every parish
where there is a new settlement have been drowned
in party animosities, we should be guilty of a
great dereliction of duty if we failed to de-
nounce them, and the representatives of the
Government in Scotland, who abet their rebellious
acts. The Dissenters, the Tories, the Liberal
Whigs, and all but the purblind Non-intrusion-
ists, led, bound hand and foot, by these meddling
priests, will rejoice that Scotland has escaped
such a disgrace as the appointment of the Rev.
Mr. CANDLISH to the new chair of Biblical
Criticism.

We have received by express from Marseilles,
in anticipation of the overland mail from India,
letters and papers from Chusan to the 24th of No-
vember, from Macao to the 18th of December,
from Singapore to the 31st of the same month,
from Calcutta to the .22d of January, a day later
from Madras,—from Bombay to the 2d, Alexan-
dria 24th, and from Malta to the 26th ult. The
news from China, if not positively disastrous, is
exceedingly gloomy and unsatisfactory. After
the greater part of a year spent in doing next to
nothing, Admiral ELLIOT has been obliged, in
consequence of severe indisposition, to resign the
command of the expedition to Sir JAMES GORDON
BREMER, and to leave the luckless Captain EL-
LIOT sole Plenipotentiary of the British Govern-
ment for the settlement of all disputes with the
Celestial Empire ! It now appears for the first
time, that when the expedition was sent out
against China, the Government here, by way of
reward we suppose for past blunders, appointed
Captain ELLIOT joint Plenipotentiary with the
Admiral; and yet when at the mouth of the
Peiho the Admiral refused an interview
with the Envoy of the Emperor, as his
inferior in rank, Captain ELLIOT scrupled not to
meet him as an equal, and actually to negotiate
the return of the expedition without the firing of
a shot, on the receipt of an apology, to the un-
healthy swamps of Chusan ! How long is England
to be befooled and degraded by having her honour
committed to the representation of this officer? Is
theta overnment so powerful that it can brave public
opinion so long as it is sustained by the influence
of one Noble family ? But Captain ELLIOT'S
destiny appears to doom him to be spurned and
spat upon by the Chinese. On the 21st of No-
vember Captain ELLIOT, having returned from
Chusan, went on board the Queen steamer, and
having hoisted a flag oftruce approached the Bogue
forts for the purpose of sending a letter to the
new Commissioner, KESHEN, at Canton. The
forts fired upon the flag, and one ball struck the
steamer mid-ships. Captain ELLIOT returned
the fire by throwing some shells into the forts,
but immediately afterwards sheered off. Next
day a formidable British force appeared near
the forts ready for action, but on a mock
apology being made to Captain ELLIOT,
the different Commanders received orders not
to fire a single shot ! But what became of
the letter? Its fate was as undignified as that
of the Plenipotentiary himself. An obscure
native pilot on receiving a good reward
undertook to carry it to Canton ! Would
that the gallant Commodore NAPIER had
been on board the Queen steamer when the
flag of truce was fired upon ! He would have
vindicated the honour of the British nation by
tumbling the forts about the ears of the petti-
coated warriors of the " central flowery land."
Had we any more competent person to manage
our affairs in China than Captain ELLIOT, we
should observe that our military force at Chusan
is shamefully inadequate to the necessities of our
position. But of what avail would be a million
of soldiers, and an hundred sail of the line, under
the command of such a nincompoop as Captain
-ELLIOT? To the Chinese his name was deservedly
as terrible while a prisoner at Canton, as
now at the head of a large well-appointed
squadron at the mouth of the Canton river. If
the Government really wish to bring the Chinese
to their senses, one of its first acts must be to re-
move Captain ELLIOT from a post for which he
is as incompetent as the gallant moustachioed
Member for Lincoln himself.

With respect to the document purporting to
he a translation of the official letter of Lord
MINTO to the Emperor of CHINA, we need only
say that it would afford us pleasure to be able to
pronounce it a forgery. As it stands it is of a
piece with Captain ELLIOT'S ridiculous corre-
spondence with LIN subsequent to the destruc-
tion of the opium.

From the first the expedition was grossly mis-
managed; but whether the whole blame is to
be laid at the door of the British, or the
Indian Government, or the Plenipotentaries, we
profess our inability to determine. When the
Admiral appeared at the mouth of the Peiho
River, within ninety miles of Canton, he ought
to have been charged with certain fixed
and unalterable demands, which must be
complied with before his retirement from
that menacing position. In the language
of commerce he ought to have been prepared to
present his Bill to the EMPEROR, and to exact on
the spot prompt payment. The EMPEROR had
had time enough granted him for inquiry,
and if it appeared that none had been insti-
tuted, we should have taught him that when
such delays took place, where British inte-
rests were concerned, we were considerate
enough to save our enemies all trouble by
inquiring and computing for ourselves, and
that it only remained to pay the bill as
presented. Had the Admiral intimated to
the Imperial Commissioner that two mil-
lions sterling worth of property had been
destroyed at Canton, that a million of
expense had been incurred in fitting out the
expedition, and that this money must be paid
down without inquiry or deduction before the

disappearance of a single British ship from the
Peiho, the V olage which brings home the Gallant
ADMIRAL would now be returning freighted with
Sycee silver, with an account of the re-opening
of the trade not only with Canton but with all
the ports as high as Chusan. But the Admiral
temporized, and lost the fruits of the whole ex-
pedition.

The news from India and Egypt is interest-
ing. We are likely to have plenty to do to
keep the Shah SOOJAH on the Throne, in-
competent as he is for the discharge of
all the duties of Sovereignty. The resto-
ration of MEHEMET ALI to the hereditary
Pachalic of Egypt was officially notified to the
VICEROY on the 20th, but the firman for that
purpose, which we give at length, is clogged
with provisions which induced the PACHA to de-
cline its acceptance. The most offensive of these
is one reserving to the Porte the right of nam-
ing any of MEHEMET'S sons it pleases to the Pa-
chalic of Egypt. There can be no qu‘stion but
that MEHEMET ALI is perfectly right in refusing
to adopt such a regulation. This would be holding
out a premium to rebellion in his family, and
would destroy that salutary influence which
a parent ought to have over his own children.
It would likewise enable the Porte at any mo-
ment to kindle a civil war in Egypt by setting
the children of the PACHA against each other
and their father, by underhand promises of the
Pachalic to the successful incendiary. Commodore
NA PIER, who is at Alexandria, shares in the views
of the VICEROY, whom he considers as unfairly
dealt with. Rumours attribute the chief blame
to Lord PONSONBY, who is said to be as bitterly
bent as ever upon the destruction of MEHEMET
ALT and his family. As the PACHA relied so
much on British honour, we trust the Govern-
ment here will know how to afford him adequate
protection against the machinations at Constan-
tinople.

The French journals of Monday have been
duly received. They contain no news of inte-
rest, and we want space for any comments on
the little which we publish on to us unimportant
subjects. We can only quote the following ex-
tracts from them :

The number of men of war of all rates, which compose the
French navy, and which are now armed, is 199 ; 20 of the line
of which 4 are of 120 guns ; 2 of 100 ; 3 of 90 ; 4of 86 ; and
7 of 80 ; 22 frigates, of which sof 60 guns ; 1 of 58 ; 5 of 52;
3 of 50 ; 7 of 46 ; and 1 of 40 : 18 corvettes
of which 7 of 20 guns, and 11 from 20 to 28;
3 corvette avisos of 16 guns ; 21 brigs, of which 16 of 20
guns; 16 brig avisos of 10 guns; 9 gun brigs, with 4 pieces
of cannon ; 35 schooners, cutters, &c., of 8 guns and under ;
11 corvettes of burden; 12 lighters (gubares); 2 transport
brigs; 29 steam-boats.

'The Emancipator, a Toulouse Journal, of the sth says, " It
seems that the little Carlist bands in Catalonia are nearly ex-
terminated. Thirteen brigades have been taken about Iqua-
lada, of whom five were shot; among them is a priest of
Marana, named Miramon, who was one of the Lieutenants of
Casulleras, who will not long escape the search which is made
for him.—Le Commerce.

The Moniteur, of this morning (the Bth) announces in its
official part, that the King has received a letter from the Elec-
tor of Hesse Cassel, notifying the death of the Electress, on
which occasion the King will go into mourning for 11 days.
The official papers contain also a report of the Minister of
the interior on the execution during the year 1839 of the law
of 26 May, 1836, relative to the roads (chemines bicinaux).
The report fills 19 columns of tha Moniteur.—Le Constitu-
tionnel.