The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-16 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

e&Tent, M. de Brunow, whose arrival in this country we
have more than once denounced as a public calamity.
We had thought that the publication of the
celebrated Herat and Affghanistan correspondence
would have put an end to tl►e repetition of the

falsehood that Lord PA LMERSTON has no " eyes

or ears for aright
but Russian lures." If we re-
member rightly, we likewise read in the Times
since then something about the ignominious dis-
missal of a certain Greek patriarch at Constanti-
nople, and the discovery of a Russian conspiracy
in Greece and the lonian Islands, which satisfied
the bulk of sober Englishmen at least that Lord
PALMERSTON does occasionally employ his eyes
and ears in a way never suggested by M. DE
BRUNOw or Count NESSELRODE, and far from
agreeable to the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, the
assertion of the Times to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. But this is. a trifle. Proceed we then to the
graver charge.
The Times accuses Lord PALMERSTON with
concluding his speech " with a sarcasm on the
reiterated protests of the French Chamber in favour
of Poland." If the expressions of Lord PALMER-
sTON that deeds, and not vain words, are only
worthy of a great nation, and that he would not
recommend the barren example of the French •
Chamber, be sarcastic, they lack originality, being
a mere translation of the rebuke administered by M. -
TRIERS, on Friday, to an official predecessor,
whom exclusion from office seemed to fire with a
sudden zeal for Polish independence. In reality,
except. the paragraphs about commerce, and the
alarm created among the protecting powers by the
revolutions in Belgium, France, Portugal, and
Spain; the speech of Lord PALMERSTON, so far
a 3 regarded the violation of the independence of Cra-
cow, and the determination of the Government to lose
no opportunit‘ of seeking redress for the Cracovians,
was little else than a literal translation of the
speech of the French Minister. Where his Lord-
ship differed with M. TITTERS, it was in holding
out to the Poles and Cracovians more definite
hopes of strong exertions on behalf of their liber-
ties. M. THIERS promised nothing but reMon-
strances; indicating at the same time that they
might prove unavailing. Lord PALMERSTON, ou
the contrary, refused to entertain a doubt of his re-
monstrances proving efficacious—thus leaving the
way open for the adoption of any course that might
promise to be more effectual in the eveut
of his present hopes being disappointed. Both
Ministers promised to profit all they could
by the chapter of accidents, the meaning
of which we take to be that, were the Poles to
attempt once more to throw off the Russian yoke,
they would not be deserted as they were by England
and France in 1772 and 1830.
`Whatever merit them is due-teeM. Turgbo. or
his; frank ,expressions 7. o,,..iinpattly, kr the Poles
and, the- eratoviani; erirtally- due tb Lord-PAP'
MERSTON. Upon this question there is not an
atom of difference in the opinions of the two Minis
ters. They hold the same language, and are pre-
pared to go equal lengths to give it effect. 10
fact, never were two Cabinets more entirely agreed
upon any question than are the Cabinets of London
and Paris respecting the Cracow, or, in a larger and
correcter sense, the Polish question.
We cannot conclude these remarks without ob'
serving that there was a time when the lying Oracle
of Printing House-square would have remembered
that there was no House of Peers in England 0
compel Ministers to give such an explanation re'
specting Cracow as the French Chamber of Peen;
exacted from M. TRIERS. The fall of Poland,
and the violation of the independence of Cracow,
affect not the indolent composure of a British House
of Lords. The prostration of free States, under
the cloven hoof of despotism is less important in di&
eyes than the punishment of some miserable Chartist,
who calls in question the divine right of the aristo'
cracy to starve and transport the poor at their
pleasure. While, therefore, we claim for Lord,
PALNIERSTON an equal devotion to the cause 0L
Poland with M. TRIERS, we cannot for a morneol
assume for our House of Lords the merit of par'
ticipating with the Peers of France, in the detests'
Lion with which all honest statesmen and patriots
must regard the cruelties which Russian tyran°l
has inflicted on all the inhabitan:s of that once
great and chivalrous nation.

Letters from Constantinople of the 24th ult.
nounce the arrival of the Egyptian steamer liadji Bpt
at that port on the 22d, in four days from Alexandr'lh
having on board SAMI BEY, Private Secretary of gs:
lIEMET ALI, ostensibly with congratulatory letters Iv
the SULTAN on the birth of his daughter, but really
charged with authority to offer the surrender of the
Turkish fleet to his Highness on condition of recogl
ing the sovereignty of the VICEROY over Egypt 1111,„
Syria. The SULTAN, however, had been previoun
made acquainted with the revolt in Syria, and appearr,
in no hurry to grant the VICEROY'S Secretary an nu 'of
ence. The authorities enforced tho observance
quarantine, and as SAMI BEY refused to place his lette•
ir
in any hand but that of the SULTAN, they were not ue";
livered on the 24th of June. The following paraeT°Puti
from the Courrier Francais of Tuesday would lead
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to suppose that MEHEMET ALI, becoming serious'',
alarmed, made a communication to the French Goer;
ment similar to that which he has since determined
of
communicate directly to the SULTAN, in the haP°
securing the friendly mediation of M. 11HrEes
We are assured that the Pacha of Egypt has infr,tniet
M. Thiers that he is ready to send back the Turk:,sh fleet,
to Constantinople, if France will formally guarar.itee,---lh9e.
security of person and property in Turkey for all svb°:od
long to it ; 2d, the .hereditary government of EgYPt "iv
Syria, the limits of whose frontiers to be fled by Cornin'be
sinners of the Five Powers, and with the obligation on the
part of the Viceroy to pay an annual tribute, also t°
fixed by the same Commissioners. These propositions !cc
said to have induced M. Thiers to send M. Eugene Pert
to Alexandria with rather extensive powers.
The revolt in Syria has, in fact, completely disci
certed all the plans of MEHEMET ALL The whole
the Druses have risen, and with them the bulk of the
inhabitants in the cities and plains, as well as in i
mountains. This rising was not unprovoked, as, °,A.
dition to the most rigorous exactions, IBRAHIM PAck
had ordered them to pay four years' taxes in advaae.
00
and to send him, besides the regular militia, 14,1330
conscripts. When the extent of the danger was 11°,1,0
known to the VICEROY he sent instant orders to .to
authorities to suspend the exaction of the impost' j.
stop the conscription, and to promise a free pardon,a,n4
the abandonment of the measures p7oposed, previ('
the people laid down their arms, and peaceably returned.
to their homes. This they unanimously rcf°,se.o
unless the Hatti Scheriff of Glsulne was proclaimed
D,
they were the faithful subjects of the Sultan, Ill3ls
UL-MEDJID, and entitled to a participation 10 "0,
benefits of the new Constitution of the EalPijoe
That they might not be betrayed, they fnrther
mended the guarantees of France and England, °be
that the Hatti Scheriff when proclaimed would not to
revoked under any pretext whatsoever. In this 5°A,
affairs stood on the 12th ult., when IBRAHIM PACI.I
having raised his camp at Marasch, was marcllll
against the victorious insurgents. „
Thus at the instant when the Sultan apPbLe
wholly in the power of his Viceroy---4!"),
the Russian army, which covered his caPiie
was unexpectedly ordered to the coast of e the
cassia—when, from the seeming apathy 0' h
id
Five Powers, it looked as if • MEHEMET ALI
only to will it to seat himself on the throne of • 1
Osmanlis ; an event has taken place which no! °,"
arrests the headlong career of the ‘ictorious Alual-inry
favourite of fortune, but threatens to sap the v-
foundation of all his greatness. That the SuLlhAis
will take advantage of the returning allegiance °I -'r
Syrian subjects so far as to encourage theirs in thei.
ha
resistance to the VICEROY, is what may naturallY
expected ; and, without Syria, no Governor of EgYitt;
Can hope to establish an independent kingdom. ;a,
the meantime the Reforms which the SULTAN is t
troducing in Isis dominions arc taking deep Ile
wherever any part of the population is Christian.
Albania they have already changed the face of t 0
country, and in Syria they are generally called for by
classes and denominations of people ? Even the F•11°„
of Egypt, poor, miserable, and oppressed as they 11:4
have acquired sufficient intelligence to be strarc tt!'"
the little finger of the PACHA has become thicker
the loins of the SULTAN-411M instead of the chastishy„
ment of rods inflicted in Turkey, they endure the punts
ment of scorpions.

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With the Paris Journals of Tuesday, we iltiVit 11, .0
wise received Madrid Journals of the 7th inst., butte.
none of them do we find any news of engrAsing° 0, r
rest, with the exception of a paragraph from the
r 4
'vier 'vier Francais, quoted in our article on the Egs,"i
question. In the leading French Journals, the
which appeared in 7he Sun and ehrorliele, on the l'o
port of the Peers' Committee on the Paris and 13101
Klilway Bill, are gaoled with expressions of eertely
approbation of the amicable sentiments which °cis,
breathe, and the truly liberal views which they emb°,:;i:
CaalmtA found it difficult to obtain a lodging c:se
in Paris. One hotel -keeper refused to have Wu
contaminated by the presence of such a monster. cc
The Conslitialtmnel defends the Prefect of P°,eo
for refusing to allow more than a thousand Referl-b-1,4
to dine together in a month so fraught with exci,"„al
re.-!olleztions es July. Two Captains of the National
Guard and a Lieutenant have published in the IVaiwlro.
a protest against such conduct on the part of the Ge've 04
u this
lent. We cannot say that, we feel very strongly 1140
GV9Eirs',7l either way. For the enjoyment ofa

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