The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-05 00:00:00

(From the Morning Part.)

Now that the Turco4gyptiari affair - seems-not un-
likely to settle itself, Without. that esbnira, ta w:specific of
a European war, for which the revelutroraiy French
doctors have been so anxious, we may begin to con-
sider what useful lessons should be drawn from all
that has occurred on this subject -sittee'' tho Treaty
of the 15th. July. In the first place, well-informed
persons seem to be of opinion that the fever into
which it pleased France to put herself upon the
instigation of M. Thiers, and the warlike prepa-
rations consequent thereupon, have cost the French
nation not far short of twenty millions of pounds
sterling. We suppose the Chamber of Deputies
will think it necessary to inquire with consider-
able strictness whether the honour and glory of
France could not have been as well maintained at
rather a cheaper rate. The question will naturally
occur, " What substantial good has been gained at
all this cost ?' We belong to that school in politics
which holds that national honour and national glory are
to be accounted a substantial good, and therefore, if
the outlay was necessary to the former, we admit the
latter to have been attained. But still the question of
the necessity recurs. We think that the Allies would
not have done more than they have done, and could
scarcely have done less, had France not gone to the
expense of a single franc in warlike preparations.
What, then, has France gained by the expense ? .No-
thing but the loss of so much wealth,
which, if she
be bursting with riches, she may perhaps thinkk a
good thing. The same outlay of money, however,
would have made a railway from Havre
to Lyons,'
and have left plenty to spare for contingencies.
(From the Morning Adverager.)
By the recent success and rapid progress of the
Anglo-Turkish arms in Syria, which have already
rescued nearly the whole of the disputed territory
from the gripe of Mehemet Ali, and deprived his son
Ibrahim of all means of prolonging the contest with
e
the slightest chance of success, the vital question of
Peace or War may be regarded as satisfactorily solved.
That France has not now the shadow of a pretext for
taking arms against England or Europe, we have the
evidence of an authority no less conclusive than that
l
of M. Thiers himself. The main, if not the only mo-
tive assigned by M. Thiers for France refusing to co-
trtehaetymoefanLso
pnrdoopno, w e
This motive can now no longer exist. The treaty is
andoperadtaen in
eet'h oef
already all but executed without the occurrence of any
of the contingencies against which M. Thiers expressed
g
so much apprehension. Mehemet
, flushed with
success, is not rushing upon Constantinople, nor is M
Rus-
sia pouring down her hordes for its plundering protec-
sd as
for the
its' ‘ inadequacy
execution,
tion. In his last note to Lord Palmerston, M.
M. Thiers
distinctly stated that the Syrian question " might safely
be left to the chances of war," and these chances
having now decided against the usurpation of Mehemet
Ali, it would be nothing less than an act of wanton
and shameless incendiarism on the part of France to
recal her own professions, and to appeal to arms from
the arbitrement of that chance by which she stated her
willingness to abide, or to hurl a firebrand amongst
the
Cabinets of Europe by ro.opening the question of a
treaty, to which her objection to be a party the in..
adequacy and danger of the means proposed for its exe.
cution—is already removed.