The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF SATUADAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle..)
It is with questions of religious liberty as with those of civil
liberty. If the people be driven back a single step, as by Lord
Stanley's invasion of the Irish suffrage, other encroachmenes
will promptly follow. Should the Church-rate discussion end
in wresting from a vestry majority its right of resisting a rate,
a signal will have been given for other abridgments of reli-
gious freedom. We quoted lately the Puseyite dictum,
that " dissent ought not to exist." The expression is a
pithy one of the feelings of those who, like Professor Sewell,
look back regretfully to the good old times of intolerance,
and remind their juvenile disciples that the State
" recommends, and till lately it would even compel you to
take the Church for your instructor, and would prohibit
others from drawing you away elsewhere, and would punish
them for leading, and you for following." A Tory journal
adopts this " Church principle, that dissent ought not to ex-
ist ;', and defends it as analogous to the assertion that " crime
ought not to exist." We hope Dissenters perceive the beauty
of the parallel, and the quantum of inevitable toleration to
which they would be reduced, should power be ever in the
hands of the advocates of this " Church principle." The na-
tional Church of Great Britain cannot hold any such prin-
ciple, whatever may be the wishes of a bissoted and sordid
section of the priesthood, which has lent itself to the tempo-
rary purposes of a political faction. Nor is hostility to the
Church-rate imp tsitien merely a dissenting question.
Is not a Churchman interested, and deeply interested,
in the restoration of peace and kindliness in his neigh-
bourimod, and the deliverance of socisl intercourse from
an annual infuslon of strife and bitterness ?—in the cessation of
legal contests, carried ffom Court to Court at enormous ex-
pense of money and good feeling, and threatening to become
interminable?—in the change of a system which, fur its gre A pre-
fessed purpose of lei cp;ng in comely order the ancient edifices of
religion, has never worked well even from the time of the Refor-
mation ?—in the abolition of jobbery and negligence, and in-
efficiency, and partiality, as well as of desecration?—and in the
revive! of a sr oral power over the community, which no
Church can retain that is perpetually in a struggle for the en-
forcement of a pitiful exaction upon unwilling contributors,
and even upon hostile majorities? These are considerations
that go for something with a really religious Churchman.
(From the Times.)
In the present sta e of our relations, not with Europe only,
but with the United States of America, when a European
rupture has hardly yet been warded off, and one with the
Transatlantic Republicans is, if not begun, at least impend-
ing, that man must have had his facilites choked with more
than human ma ice who could fiercely and recklessly, under
one blind impulse of revenge, have wilfully obstructed a final
settlement of fends, from prolonging whicli would arise a cer-
tain:), for England of war in both hemispheres at the
sane moment. Lord Ponsonby, if not utterly stupefied
by rancour towards the Pacha, must have seen at a
glance, that, with a re opening of the question between
Turkey and Mehemet Ali, through the imposition upon the
latter of terms which any brave man would rather perish than
submit to, every dispute by which the nations of Europe have
been agitated for twelve months back, embracing interests far
dearer and more extensive than any affecting the Mahometan
world only, would be unavoidably revived and aggravated, and
the peace of earth and ocean once more imperilled. Words,
therefore, can scarcely describe the opprobrium which ought to
be affixed to the name of that narrow-minded, perverse,
troublesome, and incapable being, who, from motives on the
part of the British Government which none can fathom,
and for the production of evils which none have ever desired,
has, du ins so many of the most anxious and dangerous years
that the present generation of Englishmen have witnessed,
been left ire a seemingly uncontrolled exercise of more power
that could rightfully fall to the share of any diplomatic func-
tionary under the Crown of England—on that sp ,t where the
m saeplication of power might prove more set ious, the access
of clinger more formidable, and the fruits of ignorance, or
ras'iness, or ob tinacy, nioce irreparable than at any other post
in the service of the British Government.
(From the ?!furring Post.)
Nothing can be more absurd and contemptible than the re-
marks which the Whig-Radical coteries and newspapers have
been making about Sir R. Peel's speech of Thursday evening
P.eraute the Eight lion. Baronet spoke in a benevolent and
kindly tone about the recreations and amusements of the com-
mon people, an attempt is made to separate him in this respect
from hi; party. 0, how wonderful ! they cry, that all this
should proceed from the leader of -the Tory party ! How un-
like the rest of the Tories ! Why, who is there beyond the
sulgare t axing the vulgar that doe, not know the opinions
of e-ir l:obert Fed upon these matters to be shared by
*.he great bu of tlte nobility and gentry of England,
and theref re by the Tory party ? Sir Robert. Peel expressed
no mere than that which the Tory nobility and gentry through-
out the land ate continually carrying into practice. Tee
spe. ch of the Right Hon. Bat on. t was a very good speech, as
his speeches generally are, but no one knows be ter than h'in-
self that there was nothing new in it. No one knows bett r
than he does that the good let 1 ng towards the common people,
and the de-.re to improve their condition in every respect—to
make tin m more com'ortable, more happy, more intelligent,
more religious—preval among his political fiends, and form
the business of the lives of a great many of them.
(From the Morning .11( raid.)
Whatever may he the limiest differences of men's opinions, in
Europe, t n the subject of Mehemet Ali's dernesAic government,
there can be no doubt that the foreign policy which he has
steadily pursued for so many years has advanced Egypt two
centuries in the march of civilisation, and been of n ore effect
in renewin and permanently establishing her relations with
Asia and Europe than any efforts which have been made in
that quarter since the most prosperous reigns of the most mag •
nifieent of the Saracenic Caliphs. 'thank: to Mehemet Ali,
the passage of a desert has been Macadamised to European
communittations ; and the modern traveller moves from Europe
into Asia, or crosses into Africa, and again reache.. Asia—or re-
turns from Asia or from Africa into Europe, with a celerity, a
safety, a degree of precision, which leave little to be desired in in-
crease of practical speed and safety, or little, at any rate, that
the enterprise and j erseverance of Mr. Waghorn, under the
continued auspices of the Sultan, would not effect fur us. The
Pacha has entered into the organization of these noble aids to
commerce, civilisation, and improvement, with a constancy of
purpose, as well as an ardour of enterprise that would re-
flect unrivalled honour on his genius and his spirit, had
he not Lot exceeded the merit even of the=e exertions by
a-steady adherence to his engagements—a liberal and truly
philosophic sac ifice of personal resentments to the public
good, which European princes have seldom exhibited, and
might always be prowl to imitate. When the Paella's
forces were worsted in Syria—when his life and his
throne had been alreatiy_alisposed of at Constantinople
—wh-n disaffection raged among his troops at home, and fo-
reign countries despatched hostile armaments to invest the
coasts of his dominions, he never violated his personal pledges
to the European merchant or traveller, but kept open the com-
munications he had once established, and continued to respect
the lives, property, and comforts (even of British travellers),
while he comp'ained of personal indignities put upon him by
British authorities in his own chamber. 'This is not a man
whom the Allied Powers, in honour, or in bare justice, can
permit to be subjected to so heartless, vindictive, and san-
guinary (for such it would eventuate) a stipulation as Abdul
Medschid would force upon him. Mehemet Ali has earned a
title to better treatment in the gratitude of European huma-
nity and civilisation.
(From the Globe.)
Lord Palmerston prol.erly and distinctly stated last
night, in reply to Sir It. Peet, that the intention of
the allied Powers bad been to offer Nlchemet Ali a
bona fide hereditary Pachal c, not subject to any trou-
blesome or unusual molestation whatsoever?' And the
conduct of Lord Ponsonby, as the representative of the
B. itish Government at Constantinople, has been, so far
as is known respecting it, in perfect keeping with the
expressed intention of the Allied Powers. No " harsh
or ungenerous terms"—no" treublesoine or unusual ate-
lestations" have been attempted to be thrust upon the
Pacha. From the vel first I.e w..is expressly tel i, both
by Commodore N spier and C iptain th A the
question of hereditary stiecesion in the Pachalic was en-
tirely for the decision of the Sultan—that to him it would
be conceded for life, subject to certain conditions.
only point on which the Allied Powers insist id was the
ev tcuation of Syria by Lis troops ; which, if not im-
mediately acceded to, the expedition wool" proceed to
Alexandria. Even the surrender of the Tu hish fl!ct was
a matter entirely Letween Nl,Lem2t and the Sultan. It
is true that •t was intimated that the friendly offices of
the Al led Courts would be employed tai It the
Sultan to induce him to confer upon
All the Pachalic as an Leredit icy possession, if
the 11 ,et were immediately surrendere I. But it would
be monstrous to suppose that the Allied Powers would
interfere in the way of dictation and compulsion with
an independent Sovereign, such as the Sultan is, and
as such must be recogni6el by them, as to the
way in which he shoul 1 deal with a refractory and re-
bellious Viceroy, who bad rendered hiin,ei formidable
in his rebellion, and whose seizure and occupation of a
province, part of the dominions of his Sovereign, had
become perilous to the peace of Europe, and induced
the European Powers, with the exception of France, to
co-operate for his expulsion from a territory which Le
could not hold with safqty to themselves. The ap-
prov.il of the Sultan is necessary to clothe the Paella
with the requisite power. lie must proce:d to Con-
stantinople to b(
(Fso
minvested.
ro the Standard.)
We believe that there is no f.e.;ond opinion in t?..e
country as to the unfairness of the terms w le the
and all will
Porte has imposed upon M hemet Ali,
be gratified to find that the esubleet_hase.bseeraget:
Egerton.
up by Sir Robert Peel and Lord trin I
No matter what Mehemet Ali may
-e be—and we be-
lieve it difficult to describe him wors
—but no matter what he may be, faith than
mu sthe is
be
kept with him, and the British honour must
not be tarnished even in a transaction with t. he worst of
men. We say the British honour, because itis idle to
speak of the Porte as any substantive agent in this
affair. It was Great Britain and her Allies who sub•
duel the Pacha ; swept his troops from Syria, and sent
back the Turkish fleet upon their conditions. Now one
of these conditions notoriously was, that the beredita.y
Pachalic of Egypt should be secured to Mehemet
and his family. Whether this particular condition
was or was net reduced to writing, does not avail a
feather. Good faith does not depend upon written
characters—a promise is the same whether spoken
merely or engrossed on parchment ; and there never
was a doubt, nor is there now a doubt, of the pro-
mise of the hereditary Pachalic having been male
by the British negotiators. The promise is, in-
deed, admit ed, but it is attempted to evade
just performance by an tvbitrary and most unrea-
sonable interpretation. The Porte claims* to se •
ect in succession the several members of the
Paella's family, upon whom from time to time the
office that Mehemet now holds shall be conferred.
Why, this is turning an expected benefit into a real and
a severe injury. The Porte will he always jealous of
the Pacha of Egypt, and the proposed arrangement
would give to the Porte the sure means of raising up a
'rebel to parental authority in the family of the vassal
whom it must ever regard with suspicion and hostility.
Let the Porte have the power to name the heir, and
the sous and brother of the Paella will always be more
desirous to stand well at Constantinople than at
Alexandria.

(From the Courier.)
The recent narrow escape from a European war on
tle Turco-Egyptian question must necessarily render
he public mind peculiarly sensitive in respect of any