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London, England, 1841-06-24 00:00:00

the VICEROY, the whole agreement is at an end,
and th c 4,N may that moment remove him
from Now who is to decide
whether :lIEHEMET ALI has, or has not, violated
any condition of the Firman? Is a hostile
Vizier at the Divan, who hopes to be his suc-
cessor, to determine that MEHEMET Au has
conferred a rank upon an Egyptian above that
of a Colonel, and has therefore forfeited his
Pachalic ? Should . the coin now current in
Egypt be found in circulation in some remote
district five years hence, is it on such a pre-
text that an ambitious favourite at Con-
stantinople is to be permitted to advance
a charge of treason against the VICEROY ? We
admit the difficulty of framing such an instru-
ment in such a form as to present no difficulty ;
but as it is notorious that the VICEROY has
yielded rather to the Four Powers than to the
SULTAN, we suppose we may make our minds
easy, by taking it for granted that they, and
they only, arc to adjudicate upon the question of
the loyalty or disloyalty of the VICEROY. As
the Imperial finnan cannot fail to excite a lively-
interest among all who are anxious to learn the
result of the Treaty of July, we have great plea-
sure in submitting it to our readers :
" OFFICIAL COPY OF THE FIRMAN SENT BY
PACIIA,TIIESL BOLNI MIE, OHE 1 Rs
TT ER TN (El 11118E4H1. EMET ALI
" Your recent act of submission, the assurances of fide-
lity and devotedness you have given, and the upright and
sincere intentions which you have manifested, as well to-
wards me as towards my Government, have reached my
sovereign knowledge, and been a source of gratification
to me. In consequence thereof, and of the zeal and
ability which characterise you, as also of the know-
ledge and experience you have acquired of the affairs
of Egypt, during the long period you have governed
it, I have full reasons to believe that you are in
every respect worthy of the favour and confidence
I accord you. As I doubt not you will fully appreciate
my benevolence, and with gratitude so act as to trans-
mit these laudable qualities to descendants, I hereby
grant you the Government of Egypt, within its ancient
limits, as traced on the map now sent you by
my Grand Vizier, and duly sealed, together with the
further hereditary privileges, on the following condi-
tions :—Whenever the post becomes vacant, the Go-
vernment of Egypt shall pass from eldest son to eldest
son in the direct male line of your sons and descendants.
With respect to their nomination, it shall always emanate
from the Sublime Porte. If at any period it should hap-
pen that the male line become extinct, my Government
must necessarily appoint another individual to the Go-
vernment. In such case the male children of the
daughters of the Government of Egypt will have no
right or legal claim to the succession. Notwithstanding
that the Pachas of Egypt enjoyed the hereditary privi-
lege of Government, they are, as regards rank and pre-
cedence, to be considered on the same footing as other
Viziers, and will be treated as such by the Sublime Porte,
from which they will receive the same titles as are given
to any other governor of a province.
" The system (which is based on the second law) of
security of persons and property, of protection of indi-
vidual honour and character, principles consecrated by
the reformed institutions (Tanzimati Khayriye) of my
ha tti-scheriff promulgated at Gulkhane ; as further all
the treaties existing and which may be entered into be-
tween the Sublime Porte and friendly Powers, shall in
every respect receive their execution in the province of
Egypt also ; and all the regulations made and to be made
by the Sublime Porte, shall equally be put in practice in
Egypt, with such allowances as may be required by local
circumstances, justice, and equity.
" All taxes and revenues levied in Egypt shall be
raised in my Imperial naine As, however, the Egyptians
also are subjects of the Sublime Porte, in order to pro-
tect them from further vexation, the tithes, duties, and
other taxes to be raised, shall be levied according to the
equitable system pursued by my Government. ,And as
soon as the term of payment arrives, care shall be taken
that the proportion of the taxes, customs, tithes, with
other receipts and revenues of the province of Egypt,
whose amount is inserted in a special firman on the sub-
ject, shall be duly forthcoming.
" It being customary to send annually from Egypt
grain and pulse to the two, holy cities (Mecca and Me-
dina), the same quantity of these, as well as of other
articles which has been hitherto sent to those cities, shall
be continued to be sent them respectively.
"My Government having resolved to ameliorate its
specie currency, which is the soul of social transactions,
and also to do it in such a way that henceforward there
shall be an invariable standard as well in respect to the
alloy as to the nominal value of each coin, I hereby per-
mit money to be struck in Egypt, but the gold and silver
moneys you are allowed to coin shall bear my inscrip-
tion, and shall moreover be in every respect similar in
denomination, form, and value to the pieces coined in the
imperial Mint at Constantinople.
"As in the time of peace 18,000 men will be quite
sufficient for the local administration of the province of
Egypt, that number sitll on no account be exceeded.
But the military and naval forces of Egypt being essen-
tially for the service of the Sublime Porte, the number
may in times of war be augmented to the extent which
may be judged proper by: my Government.
" According to a rule in force soldiers enrolled in other
parts of my empire serve during five years, at the expi-
ration of which they are replaced by fresh levies. Such
being the case it would be necessary that the same rule
intact should be adopted in Egypt ; but with respect to
the duration of service the habits of the inhabitants of
Egypt will be consulted, perfect equity being in every
respect observed in their favour. Four hundred Egyp-
tian troops are to be annually sent to Constantinople.
There shall be no difference between the decorations
and the colours (flags) of the troops
and those of the other troops of my Government. The
officers of the Egyptian navy also shall use the same de-
corations of rank, and the ships the same colours as those
of the imperial navy. employed in Egypt
" The Pacha of Egypt may appoint his military and
naval officers up to the rank of colonel, but with respect
to the nomination of officers of a higher rank—viz., mir-
livas (generals of brigade), and feriks (Lieutenant-Ge-
nerals), it is absolutely necessary that you should de-
mand my permission and take my orders on that head.
" The Pachas of Egypt shall not hereafter build any
ships of war without having first asked permission of the
Sublime Porte, and obtained from it a clear and positive
authority to that effect.
" As every one of the preceding conditions is closely
attached to the hereditary privilege—should but one of
them at any time not be executed, the hereditary privi-
lege shall that instant be abrogated and cease to exist.
" Such being my sovereign pleasure on all the points
alluded to, and as you as well as your sons and descen-
dants will not fail to recognise the distinguished favour
conferred upon you, you will exert yourselves to execute
scrupulously the stipulations herein fixed, you will avoid
carefully everything like opposition, and be equally assi-
duous to ensure the welfare and tranquillity of the inha-
bitants of Egypt--shielding them from all injustice and
vexations, and will also report and apply for instructions
on all matters of importance concerning that country. It
is with this view that the present Imperial firman—
headed by my Royal autograph, has been transcribed
and sent.

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The Paris Journals of Tuesday have been received,
with an extraordinary Express from that capital, bring-
ing news of yesterday's date. The Commerce announces
that France and Austria has just concluded a conven-
tion, by which the ships of the two nations, forced by
stress or weather to take shelter in each other's ports,
are to be exempted from all harbour dues. From ex-
tracts which we have given from the French papers, in
another column, it appears that France is resolved to
make the various outbreaks in the Turkish provinces
subservient to the recovery of her influence in the East.
In Syria her emissaries have been actively at work since
the expulsion of the Egyptian troops from that province,
and it is notorious at Athens that the French Minister
gives every encouragement to the KING to countenance
the revolt of the Candiotes. On the other hand, Rus-
sian agents are scouring the provinces of Bulgaria, Ser-
via, Wallachia, Moldavia, and Anatolia, inciting the
Greeks to implore the protection of the Imperial Head of
their Church, the Czar' NICHOLAS. On all sides TUrkey
is beset with dangers more serious than ever before me-
naced
the continuance of her sway over any part of
Europe.
The follonlng is the news from Paris, brought by
Extraordinary Express :
It would appear that M. Lefebvre de Bacourt, the Chew
d'Affaires of France at Buenos Ayres, has written to the Minis-
try to demand his immediate recal, new difficulties having
arisen in La Plata, which could only be settled by an appeal

to arms.
An earthquake took place at St. Pierre, iu Martinique, at
half-past six o'clock on the 9th ult.
The Duke de Nemours returned to Paris from Aft ica on
Monday evening.
The Moniteur promulgates the law authorising the esta,
bilshment of a new line of steam packets in the Mediterranean.
The Courrier de Bordeaux publishes the speech delivered ,
by Espartero when elected Regent of Snain, which is nearly
word for word with that pronounced by Napoleon, in presence
of the Senate, after his anointment es Co mut for life.
The intelligence from luadrid of the 16th is unimportant.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 20th states, under date Con-
stantinople the 2d, that the Paellas of Bagdad, Bosnia, and
others, had revolted, and intended to declare themselves inde-
nendent of the Central Government. It was said that the
s?acha of Bagdad, not havirg having succeeded in his under-
trlcing, had sought refuge inrin Persce ia. Accordi
would not leave
ng to accounts
irom Vienna, ok the 15tn P
, Metternich
that capital before the 15th July.
The Servian Government had addressed to the neighbour-
ing powers an expose of the cruelties lately perpetrated by the
ArnautF in Bulgaria. Some of the Christians had returned to
t'leir homes, whilst others were determined to vat on the Ser-
vian territory, the arrival of the Turkish Commissioner,
coub Pacha.
It was stated on the Paris Bourse that M. Humann, the
Minister of Finance, would not require a loan of snore than
2:'5,000,00:,1. (9,0C:001.)
The Chamber of Peers approved on Wednesday of the
treaty of commerce lately concluded between France and
Holland.
The following extracts from Galignani of Tuesday,
and the other French papers of that date include all that
is of any interest in these Journals :
FRENCH DIPLOMACY.—The Constitutionnel observes :
" The following eleven Ambassadors are at present in Paris,
posts, or have finclly
M. Bres-
ie TurinomVienna ; ,
; M. de Bus-
ogs
onuni
teeßadey
retlhionefma;b:ts—he neAcAlei from their
Marquis
h.
deei r
Aulaire,Daim respectiveaftr
Bus-
sieres, Dresden ; M. de Varennes, Lisbon; M. de St. Priest,
Copenhagen : M. de Fontenay, Stuttgardt; M. d'Eyragues,
Carlsruhe ; M. de Serey, Ispahan ; M. de Bois-le-Comte, the
Hague; and M. de la Rochefoucault, Darmstadt. The Em-
bassies to London, Vienna, Berlin, awl Madrid, are vacant, and
Messrs. de Barante, de Pontois, de Bacourt, and de Tallenay,
are shortly expected in Faris. Is it not fair to suppose that I‘l.