The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1841.

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ABROAD.
rOItE3GN-COLONIAL.

The riots at Totlouse continue to afford materials
for political discussiin in the French journals. Our
views of this affair hive already been expressed with suf-
ficient explicitness,
The Toulon Satiaelle draws an indifferent picture
of the boasted improsement of the Arabs under the tui-
tion of the li''rench conductors of razzias. " Inces-
sant robberies and murders," says this Journal,
" are still committed even in the vicinity
of Algiers. Scarcely a week passes without
some of our sentinels being killed, and it is impossible to
go a hundred yards from the camp without an escort
and outscouts." Sorely a better schoolmaster than
General Bugeaud is still wanted here, or his lessons
practically illustra:mg the horrors of indiscriminate
slaughter, rape, roblury, and burning, have been wofully
misinterpreted. Th 3 French Commander proposed to
teach the Arabs to abhor their barbarous system of
war, as the Spartans did their children to detest
drunkenness—by a practical exhibition of its effects—
but he was guilty of the egregious blunder of making
those he would tea2.l the subjects of his experiments.
Bugeaud is a good soldier, but he is neither a statesman
nor a philosopher.

If the weather continue as wet and stormy for the
next ten days as it has done for the last fortnight in
France, there is every prospect of a famine in that coun-
try. To deepen the gloom which hangs over the social
horizon, the American papers report that the crops have
entirely failed in the State of New York, the granary of
North America.

A letter from Constantinople of the 28th of June,
gives an amusing account.of the interview between.Me-
hemet Ali and the Turkish;Envoy, Sahii) Muhib Effendi,
relative to the arrears of tribute due to the Sublime
Porte. The dialogues which we give verbatim, is emi-
nently characteristic of the tact and talents of the wily
Albanian.: Sahib Muhib Effendi thus writes to the
Porte :

" Upon my cautiously acverting to the question of arrears,
and stating how agreeable it would be to the Sultan—whom
may God preserve—to receive the same, his Highness ex-
claimed, ' Allah ! Allah ! my memory is certainly failing me.
By the Sultan's breath, I lave forgotten. Ah ! The arrears !
How many years are due ?' I was about to insinuate the quan-
tum according to august ]nstruttions, when the Pacha cut
short my purport by saying, one, two, three years !' Mashal-
lah ! how can I remember such trifles ? Oof ! my dtefter
(registers) are at Cairo. Ah, ah, Sahib Muhib Effendi !
ou are a prudent man ; lam your friend! You do not calcu-
late upon impossibilities, like those Kaffirs who attempt to cir-
cumvent the Porte. May they go to an exceeding hot place!
lam the Sultan's footstool; all I have is his. I will send for
my registers some day. But I cannot convert onion peelings
into ingots ! By the Paditha's glory ! Hei ! Hei ! let more
salutes be fired. His Yiaers think that I possess the Senke
Fars (philosophers' stone), and that Egypt breeds dollars;
Arrears oof! You said two, three, perhaps less.' Where-
upon I was going to suggest that I had said no such thing, but
he nipped the thread of my speech by exclaiming, Allah
ahkbar !'—God is great !we shall see. My registers will soon
come. But that does not signify. Let more salutes be fired.
You are an exceedingly discreet and gifted man, 0 Sahib
Muhib Effendi ! We will settle accounts with the Porte in a
twinkling. I would not withhold the value of a hair from my
lord and master the Sultan, in whom be the blessings of in-
crease. My head is at his feet. Tell him so.' "

Some of the insurgent Cretans defeated by the
Turks recently, escaped in boats, and took shelter in
the Austrian territory. Will it be believed that the
Austrian Admiral Bandeira seized them, and delivered
them over to the Turkish authorities, to be dealt with at
their pleasure ? The fact seems incredible, but it is true.
It was reported at Constantinople, on the 28th
ult., that the Russian steamer from Alexandria had
broken the quarantine at the Dardanelles, and in spite of
the health officers landed her despatches at Therapsia.
Seventeen cases of plague were at the time in quaran-
tine, of which six proved fatal. The Porte was prepar-
ing a strong remonstrance to the Russiam Ambassador.
No one at Constantinople believes that Mehemet
Ali is sincere in his submission to the Porte. This
general incredulity is in itself fatal to lasting pacification
of the East. The less Mehemet Ali is to be trusted the
more it is the true policy of the Porte to appear on all
occasions to place implicit reliance upon his fidelity.
Reschid Pasha has been invested with the insignia
of the Prussian order of the Red Eagle. As the Porte
never grants the privilege of accepting such decorations
to disgraced Ministers, it is surmised that Redschid
Pasha will soon have his face whitened with the re-
splendent beams of the " world's magnificence," Abd-ul-
Medjth. The sooner the better.
The King of Hanover issued, on the 4th inst., a
justificatory proclamation of his act in dissolving the
Chambers, and setting forth his right to collect the taxes
without the consent of the Legislature. His Majesty
libels the Opposition. Did the laws of Hanover allow
him to indulge in the vengeance dictated by his royal
heart, there is not one of them that he would not hang
with as little compunction as a butcher would a dog. We
will give the proclamation on Monday.

AT HOME.
MISCELLANEOUS.

In the ecclesiastical code of Ireland an article is extant
which gives to the Bishop, or even to the inferior clergy,
the right of preventing any marriage where the female is
unable to read.