The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-12 00:00:00

and unbounded ambition—he may carry fire and sword
into Asia Minor, desolation among the Mussulman
people, threaten the integrity of the Ottoman Empire,
and thus provoke the intervention of the European troops
ready to sustain It. He may make his son march upon
Constantinople, but this will not be suffered to be done
with impunity. Should Ibrahim Paella dare to advance,
his retreat will be for ever cut off. He will meet in Natolia
a certain defeat, perhaps his grave, and will involve in his
fall that of Mehemet Ali and his whole family. Europe
will not enter a war but with repugnance and regret, and
from imperious necessity, The Powers who have signed
the Treaty of London are too highly placed to be acces-
sible to either hatred or vengeance. The convention is
based only on equity, suitableness, and stability for the
future ; its only end was the consolidation of the Otto-
man empire ; it demands of Mehemet Ali nothing but
what is just, conformable to his own interests, and com-
patible with his dignity ; but in return it demands what
is adapted to the wants of a general peace ; this is a
truth which the Viceroy cannot but perceive. Let him
yield, then, to the empire of necessity, and accept with
gratitude from the hands of his young and magnanimous
Sovereign, and from all Europe, the glory of having
founded under their tutelary aegis a new succession ; he
will thus transmit his works to posterity, will be blessed
by his descendants, and will see his name honourably
magnified in the pages history.
" LAURIN.
" HODGES.
" Alexandria, 19th August."

WAGNER.
COMTE MEDEM.

STATE OF PARIS.

(From the Moniteur Parisien.) •
At six in the evening a crowd began to form in the
Rue de Petit Carreau, and moved towards the Rue
Mauconseil. It amounted to about fifty people, who
with knives or poignards in their hands attacked the
post of troops of the line in the last named street, near
the Rue Saint Denis, and by the suddenness of the
onset succeeded in disarming the sentinel and in obtain-
ing another musket. But the soldiers immediately
afterwards came out of the guard-house, dispersed the
assailants, and retook the arms. The authorities were
aware of some such intended attempt, and several
detachments of Municipal Guards were kept in
readiness to act. They arrived as the rioters were
flying, and having caught several of them, soon
dispersed the rest. About the same time two Na-
tional Guards of the 7th legion were disarmed, as they
were going along the Rue Brisemiche by another
band, evidently acting in concert with the first.
Several persons were seen traversing the streets, armed
with fowling-pieces. These disorders, however, being
thus repressed at the outset, were not renewed., Nume-
rous detachments of Municipal and National Guards
and troops of the line paraded the Boulevards St. Denis
and Saint Martin, and the adjacent quarters, and by
half-past nine all was perfectly quiet. Several of the
most prominent actors and exciters in the disturbance
were arrested in the course of the night and yesterday
morning. A man on horseback, who was distinguished
as a leader of the attack on the post in the Rue Mau-
conseil, was pursued by four of the light cavalry, but he
made good his escape.
(From Galignasi's Messenger.)
This account from the Moniteur is followed by the
report of the sergeant named Arcez, who commanded
the post in the Rue Mauconseil. He evidently behaved
with great courage and coolness. His men did not fire
when they attacked the rioters, but used their bayonets,
and wounded several. The Ministerial journals state
that in consequence of his conduct on this occasion
Sergeant Arcez has received the decoration of the
Legion of Honour.
The Correctional Tribunal of Paris continued yes-
terday to judge several workmen brought before it on
charges of coalition. Forty-six men were condemned
to various terms of imprisonment, from a fortnight
to three years, with subsequent surveillance of the
police of from two to five years. The men corn-
prised house carpenters, saddlers, weavers, cabinet-
makers, coach-smiths, and mechanicians.
Nineteen persons were yesterday brought before the
Tribunal of Simple Police for not having dispersed
after the usual summons made by the Commissaries of
Police to the crowds collected at the Porte St. Martin
and Porte St. Denuis, on Saturday last. Four were
acquitted, and the rest were condemned only to the
fines prescribed by law in such cases.
Two men who, from their suspicious appearance and
violent gesticulations, had attracted the observation of
the Police, were arrested on Tuesday afternoon in the
court of the Sainte Chapelle at the moment when one
of them was giving to the other a poignard•knife. On
being searched, three of these weapons were found
upon them.
A partial strike has been commenced by the journey-
men jewellers and stamped ornament makers.
(From the Messager.)

be equally ready to act in a body against their Govern- •
nent, if involved in distress, as they doubtless will be, in
-he event of a declaration of war with Great Britain
and consequent blockade of the coast—knowing, as they
will, that the cause of their distress is the quarrel of
their rulers with the English. The fear of such a contin-
;ency as the population siding with foreigners will pro-
bably have some weight with the Government. The in-
feriority of the naval forces of China, compared with those
of European nations, must he evident to every one who
has given the subject a moment's consideration ; and
the hopelessness of any attempt at resistance on the
part of a Chinese naval force, when opposed by a
European one, has lately been sufficiently proved by
the result of the engagement in November last between
aer Majesty's ships Volage and Hyacinth and a large
fleet of Chinese junks, besides which, many instances
in addition might .be noticed, wherein clippers on the
,:oast, manned only by Lascars, have beaten off an im-
nensely superior force of Chinese war-junks. In many of
the coast instances the odds against the clippers have
oeen, in point of vessels, guns, and men, ten to one but in
all instances the Chinese have bad the worst of it. If such
le the case when the Chinese are opposed to imperfectly
disciplined Lascars on board a merchant-ship, what must
be expected when the Chinese have to measure their
strength with well-appointed British men-of-war ? The
Bogue is generally believed to be the strongest and
most extensive fortification in China, and is boasted of
sy the Chinese as such ; but its inefficiency to with-
itand a European force has been frequently proved. I
need only cite the last occasion upon which its force
was successfully combated by two British frigates, the
Andromache and Imogene, on the 17th of Septem-
ber, 1834. The assailability of the empire in a most
vital part, viz, at Nankin, by threatening that import-
int and wealthy city, and by blockading the Keang
and Great Canal, would cause an almost incredible
Amount of distress to the Government and people gene-
rally. Tue blockade of Keang River and Great
Canal, which flows into it a little below Nankin, would
liatress the Government and people much, cutting off,
as it does, the supplies to the interior of salt and grain,
which find their way into the interior by that way
(almost solely), for the supply, not only of the popu-
lation, but as forming a most material item of the im-
perial revenue. In conclusion I would remark, that
owing to the mass of evidence detailed above, as to the
weakness of the Chinese Government to resist any
foreign aggression, and influenced also by the opinion
that the Chinese Government dare not, for the sake of
its own stability, engage in any protracted struggle,
which would be certain to involve the whole empire
in a greater or less degree of distress, the more espe-
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conclusion that the struggle will not be a protracted
one, but that the Chinese Government will see that
they are opposed to an enemy such as they never have
had before, and who possess means of annoying them
and distressing tht.m of which they never before had
an idea ; and they will thus be led to see that the only
means by which they can save themselves from further
foreign aggression will be, to come to such terms as the
enemy will listen to.
The terms proposed by the English Government are
likely to be moderate, as the trade is of such vast im-
portance, that too much time must not be thrown away
by attempting to gain too much ; but contenting her-
self in the mean time with fair terms, will leave acqui-
sitions of greater value to follow in the train of a pre-
sent arrangement for a more liberal system of commer-
cial intercourse. I fancy that the terms proposed to
the Chinese will be something of the following sort :-
Ist. An apology for the insult offered to the English
through their representative, Captain Elliot. 2d. Com-
pensation for the property (opium) forcibly seized last
year. On this point I think it likely the British Go-
vernment will be easy with the Chinese ; and being of
opinion that the Chinese cannot pay in money for the
opium, I think that Great Britain will take compensa-
tion in the shape of commercial advantages, which, I
think, the fears of the Chinese will induce them readily
to grant. 3d. The granting of a treaty of commerce,
securing a trade more extended, and not liable to the
sudden and violent fluctuations which have hitherto
marked the history of our commercial intercourse
with China.
The Chinese will, I think, not be greatly adverse to
grant such a treaty, as it will likely lead them to believe

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further extension of trade ; and, in reply to all com-
plaints of foreigners, they will be able to say, " the
terms are of your own making, and must be attended
to without allowing further alteration of any kind."
This would afford the Chinese, I think;,the satisfaction
of supposing that foreigners, having bound themselves
to terms of their own making, would manifest no further
turbulence, and thus the Emperor would be freed of the
fear of foreign aggression.
Whiist I do not, on the one hand, think the struggle
will be protracted, on the other, I do not imagine that
the present troubles are to be quieted without striking
a blow. I have not such a poor opinion of the Chi-
nese as to imagine that they will give in at once on the
appearance of the British force ; but I do think that
the destruction of the Bogue forts, the blockade of the
coasts and principal ports of China, and the forays of
the troops which are coming in fro= India, will in a
few months frighten the Chinese so much, that they
will tie willing to listen to our terms.
Suppose that the force arrived there so as to begio
active operations in June ; I am quite of opinion that
by December of this year our relations with the
Chinese will have assumed such a form as will admit
of the resumption of trade, pending the anal settle-
ment of the question by the arranging of a treaty of

port, at terms averaging about ,5400 to $450-1
said prices will fluctuate as the supplies come in
in greater or less quantities, at Rs. 400 to Rs. 500 per
chest. In India there is little fear but that handsome
profits will be made in opium for a long time to come.
At lower rates it is hardly worth the trouble and anxiety
attending dealings in it, and the profit ought to be great
to make up for the same. The prospects for opium
speculations ought not, therefore, to be overlooked by
those contemplating the best means of placing funds in
China, for the purpose of operating on produce to En -
gland. It remains to be noticed, that the supplies
here this year, of tea suited to the English market,
have been very short, which has been caused, no doubt,
as follows :
Tne teamen and Hong merchants have been in the
habit of sending large orders, about the months of
May and June annually, for quantities of teas suited to
the English market to the interior, but did not do so to
the same extent last year ; owing, no doubt, to the
equivocal state of the English relations with the Chi-
nese ; and it may also be expected that the same causes
will operate this season, in preventing the same
amount of teas for supply of season 1840 and 1841
being ordered by the dealers and Hong merchants. It
must also be borne in mind that the system of European
houses making contracts with the Hong merchants for a
certain number of chops of tea, for the preparation 01
which tie European houses were wont to advance large
sums of money to the Hongs, is now, owing to existing
state of matters, knocked on the head ; and therefore
the Hongs, even were we to suppose them willing,
have not really the power to bring forward the usual
amount of teas suited to the English market in season
IS4O and 1841. So confident am I as to the correct-
ness of the foregoing observations as to the prospects of
supply of tea for 1841, that I feel justified in assert-
ing that nothing but an earlier resumption of the trade
than I look for will throw it out ; and of such contin-
gency I see little prospect, and even if I did I would
still argue for a short supply of tea for season 1840 and
1841. It must also be borne in mind that the supply
for season 1839 and 1840 was considerably short of the
annual average supply. I have now placed before you
fully my views as to the China question, the formation
of which has, I assure you, cost me much attentive study
and thought.
Matters at Canton are still in a queer state, and al-
though the trade has been opened, none of the Manilla
ships which have arrived lately have been secured.
The Alabama, alluded to in the inclosed, has been pe-
remptorily refused admittance (by Lin, it is said), and
her master has gone up to try to get her in, by telling,
the Hong merchants that unless they admit him ho can-
not pay them what he owes them. as all his means to
pay them arc on board the ship. There are still seve-
ral vessels from Manilla expected, but it is doubtful if
they now go inside. I do not alter my estimate
of maximum of Tea export for this season, being
25,000,000 lbs.

PORTSMOUTH.

SUBMARINE OPERATIONS.

Spithead has been within the present week a scene of
diversified exertion in sub-marine work.

Colonel Pasley has been prosecuting his operations on
the Royal George and the Edgar, Mr. Abbinett his on
the Boyne, and Mr. Deane and Mr. Edwards their most
interesting works on the wreck of the Mary Rose, sunk
in the reign of Henry the Eighth.
The Mary Rose lies in about eight fathoms of water,
and not very far from the Royal George. Mr. Steele, of
the County Clare, in the prosecution of his new princi-
ple of sub-marine illumination of objects in dark and
muddy water, has been this week down on the wreck in
Mr. Deane's water-tight dress and diving helmet,
making some observations and experiments.
A. di ling bell is, we understand, :preparing under Co-
lonel Paslcy's orders, to be used in his operations on the
Royal George.

TEMPERANCE.---Let it be recorded, to the
honour of the captors, that though Ghuznee was carried
by storm, after a resistance stout enough to have roused
the angry passions of the assailants, the Affghans were
everywhere spared when they ceased to fight; and it is
itself a moral triumph, exceeding in value and duration
the praise of the martial achievement of the troops, that,
in a fortress captured by assault, not the slightest insult
was offered to one of the females found in the zunanu
within the walls of the citadel. This forbearance, and
these substantive proofs of excellent discipline, reflect
more credit on officers and men than the indisputable skill
and valour displayed in the operation. But let me not be
accused of foisting in unfairly a favourite topic, or attempt-
ing to detract from the merit of the troops, when I re-
mark in how great a degree the self-denial, mercy, and
generosity of the hour may be attributed to the fact of the
European soldiers having received no spirit ration since the
Bth of July [the place was captured on the 234 and having
found no intoxicating liquor amongst the plunder of Ghuz-
nee. No candid man of aay military experience will dens
that the character of the scene in the fortress and citadel
would have been far different if individual soldiers had en-
tered the town primed with a:rack, or if spirituous liquors
had been discovered in the Affghan depots. Since, then,
it has been proved that troops can make forced marches of
forty miles, and storm a fortress in seventy-five minutes,
without the aid of rum, behaving after success with a for-
bearance and humanity unparalleled in history, let it not
henceforth be argued that distilled spirits are an indispen-
sable portion of a soldier's ration. The medical officers of
this army have distinctly attributed, to their previous absti-
nence from strong drink, the rapid recovery of the wounded
at Ghusnee.— Captain Havelock's Narrative.

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