The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-21 00:00:00

TURKISH NEWS.

We copy the following from the Smyrna Manzari
Shark of the 29th ult.:—
" CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 22.

" On the lith instant the British stean-.-frigate Strom-
boli arrived here, and brought from Mehemet Ali a letter
of nominal submission, couched in terms most unexcep-
tionable. Since then diplomacy has had a busy time of
it. The day following the Ambassadors of the Four
Powers had a conference on the subject at the English
palace at Thcrapia.
" On the 20th they went in a body to the house of his
Excellency Reshid Pacha, Minister for Foreign Affairs,
where a very warm discussion took place. According to the
express stipulations of the memorandum drawn up and
signed in London on the 14th November, it is evident
that Mehemet Ali must not only submit truly, but has no
right whatever to claim the good etlices of the Four
Powers until he st,ll have restored the fleet, and evacuated
certain places. If' the present question therefore ho, who.
titer he has done this or not, the answer is :imple—he has
not, and therefore is not in a position to demand the inter-
vention of the Powers, or to expect the rayon- of his injured
Sovereign. But public report says the Ambassadors do
not exactly agree on this head, though on what grounds
any of them can differ from his colleagues we cannot
con-
ceive. In the mean time nothing whatever has been de-
cided on that we can learn. It is evident that the Porte
cannot accept the empty assurances of a Pacha still armed
to the teeth, and making the most extensive means of de-
fence his resources will admit of, as a bona file submission;
and supposing that he were unarmed, and at the feet of the
Sultan, even all the Four Powers could then do would be
only to ask fur the rebel's pardon Whether it were
granted or not would depend upon the Ottoman Govern-
ment, whom no one has a right to compel. This is, we be-
lieve, the present state of the affair.
" Any arrangement made upon such a basis could only
be a truce, and war with all its horrors would return, as
certain as the sun will rise to-morrow. Deprive 'Mehemet
Ali of all future power to be disobedient, and his submis-
sion will be complete, not otherwise. A wolf in a lamb's-
skin is still a wolf, and he will ever seize the first oppor-
tunity of bursting through his disguise to repeat, in his
proper form, the depredations which are natural to hint,
" The wish of the Four Powers to calm the apparent
ire of self-irritated France is of course sincere, but it
is impossible that they should desire to do it at the
expense of probity and justice, nor can the respect-
able portion of the French public expect it. If France is
really injured by Mehemet Ali's being deprived of the
power to renew his designs against the Oaoman empire,
nothing can be more evident than that she herself' must
have views which, were they known, would be little to the
taste of the Sultan and his true friends. Her firm deter-
mination to use all her influence to preserve the Egyptian
scourge must proceed from some plan fixed, and which she
cannot consent to renounce even at the greatest possible
risk of ultimate injury to herself.
It would be highly ridiculous to imagine, that for the
mere sake of the tyrant himself, she would lay herself open
to so much obloquy, put herself to so much expense, and,
at such hazards, oppose the wishes of all Europe as she
has done. This cannot be. She has views for her own
advantage. Should they be legitimate, they should be
first discussed, and not the rights of the Pacha, which
cannot possibly exist.
" The Stromboli remains here until it is quite decided
whether the Egyptian affair is to assume a new form, or
to remain as it was. This will depend in a great measure
upon the conduct of the Four Powerr3. No attention can
surely be paid to the unmeaning assurances of Mehemet
Ali.

" The Porte has received official intelFgence, dated the
9th instant, of the entrance into Aleppo, of Zecheriait
Paella and Esaad Pacha. The former was about to pro-
ceed to occupy Damascus, which had been completely
evacuated by the Egyptians, who were in full retreat by
the Mecca road. Ibrahim Pacha, since the fall of Acre,
appears to be exceedingly confused in the head—he orders
into his presence officers who have long been dead, and
others he should know to have abandoned him, besides
which he gives directions so directly contradictory that the
people about him are often completely puzzled how to act.
Suleiman Pacha, on the contrary, it is added, is as col-
lected and cheerful as if nothing had gone wrong.
" Five thousand more troops are going off to Syria as
a reinforcement. The steamer 'rahiri Babel proceeds to-
day, and takes a detachment, besides Hussein Pacha, pre-
sident of the military council, who goes on a special mis-
sion to organize the re-conquered Sandjaks, and will re-
turn shortly, Reshid Pacha, late of Topkhanc, Eyub
Pacha, and Abdi Pacha, who arc to serve on the staff of
Zecherich Pacha, the new seraskier, who had not yet re-
ceived news of his appointment, when he prepared to set
out from Aleppo for Damascus.
" The newly-fitted out steamer the Iscudar (Scutari,
formerly Orient) is now ready for sea, and yesterday the
Sultan took a trip in her to the mouth of the Black Sea.
His Majesty was accompanied by Riza Pacha and several
gentlemen of his court, and was delighted with his excur-
sion, for which the weather was favourable. She is a very
beautiful craft, is as swift as an arrow, carries a good cargo,
and will do exactly to run between Stamboul and Trebisonde
as intended. She belongs to a Turkish company, composed
chiefly of persons very highly placed, among whom the
Sultan himself figures. Ahmed Fethi Pacha, who has
managed the whole affair with the highest credit to him-
self, gave yesterday a grand banquet on board. Captain
Lambert, commander of the Iscudar, was in a very hand-
some uniform, with epaulettes and a fess.
" The Persian Ambassador, Mit za Djiaffer, is in a few
days to be admitted to an audience of the Sultan.
" Mr. Churchill, editor of the Dtjeridei I3aeadis, has
received from his Highness the decoration called Nishani
Millar, in brilliants. _ _

On the 20:h there was a grand conference, attended
by the Ambassadors of the Four Powers, at the house of
Iteshid Pacha. The Sultan's steam yacht was placed at
the disposal of Lord Ponsonby (who still resides at The-
rapia) on the occasion. The subject of discussion was,
of course, the Egyptian question. Afterwards a council
was held at the Porte, on the same momentous affair, and
in the evening another took place at the residence of
Rcshid Pacha,