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London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

one which shall justify the SULTAN in interfering
with the regular order of succession? The fol-
lowing remarks are still more obnoxious to cen-

sure :

" It is said," observes the Chronicle, with an air of peculiar
gravity, " that the conditions of the hatti scheriff are a vio-
lation of the conditions sanctioned by England, upon which
the Pacha made his submission to the Porte. In what does
this violation consist? The restriction proposed to be placed
on the hereditary' grant. Do those who urge this com-
plaint forget that in Admiral Stopford's Convention no mention
whatever was made of the ' hereditary' succession ? "
This is the low, quibbling equivocation of an
Old Bailey attorney. Why, in the Chronicle of
the 2d of February, it is distinctly stated that
the SULTAN had officially granted to MEHEMET
Am the hereditary Government of Egypt—
a grant of which England guaranteed the
performance, and upon the strength of Which
guarantee MEHEMET ALI, at once restored the
fleet, and withdrew his troops from Syria. In
Admiral STOPFORD'S letter to MEHEMET ALI,
dated the 6th of December, off Cyprus, and en-
closing the conditions upon which the Four
Powers engaged to obtain for the Viceroy from
the Porte the revocation of the decheance and
his " re-establishment in the Pachalic," the
word " hereditary" does not indeed occur ; but
will the Chronicle presume to tell us that the
omission was other than an opportunity held out
to the Porte to conciliate the Viceroy by being
more beneficent than Allies ? or will the
Chronicle dare to deny that Lord PALMER-
STON'S influence was not powerfully ex-
erted to compel the Porte to insert the
word " hereditary" in the Treaty which the SUL-
TAN addressed to the VICEROY ? England, then,
has guaranteed to MEHEMET ALI the hereditary
Government of Egypt, nor do we believe that
any Government would dare to permit the Porte
to fritter away a solemn engagement which binds
the honour of this country.
By granting to MEHEMET Am the bona fide
hereditary Government of Egypt, in. the sense
understood by EuroO and the Four Powers,
the SULTAN restricted his own authority over
that kingdom to the exaction of a certain amount
of tribute annually. The claims which he now
puts forth respecting a right to nominate Pachas
according to his caprice, to fix the naval and mi-
litary strength of the Pachalic, and to appoint all
officers above the rank of Lieutenant, are ini-
quitous and absurd. • The Divan at Constanti-
nople has no longer any right to control the en-
lightened policy of the More vigorous Govern-
ment at Alexandria.

But while we acquit Lord PALMERSTON not
only of all participation in the attempted humi-
liation of the VICEROY, but of the remotest in-
tention of sanctioning such a proceeding, we re-
gret that no inquiry which we have been able to
institute would justify any mitigation of the
severe censure which we passed upon the pro-
ceedings of Lord PONSONBY. That noted diplo-
matist is still said to leave no stone unturned
to effect the downfal of the VICEROY,
against whom he is reported to enter-
tain a grudge which has outlived all vicis-
situdes in his Lordship's public career. If
there be but half the truth in these reports
that the public suppose them to embody, it
is the duty of the Government to lose no time
in recalling him from a post where he is only
capable of being mischievous. In fact his Lord-
ship's recal ought to have been simultaneous
with the recal by the French Government of
his quarrelsome colleague in diplomacy, Ad-
miral RousslN.

Our Madrid Papers are of the 4th inst. At a
Council of Regency held on the 3d, the Minister
of Finance set forth the sad state of the Public
Treasury, and stated that no loan could be raised
before the conclusion of a commercial treaty with
England. M. MENDIZABAL supported this view,
but the .Council rose without coming to any reso-
lution. The Fives were at 28 at 60 days.

There was a report in the City on Saturday
that a Treaty had been concluded by the Great
Powers for maintaining the integrity of the
Ottoman Empire, signed by the Representatives
of England, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and
FRANCE ! Good news, if true.

The state of our relations with the United
States and the rejection of the Imperial firman
by MEHEMET ALI, occupy almost exclusively the
French journals of Thursday. With respect to
the American question there is nothing new in
the Paris journals. We have only room for a
summary of the opinions of the journals respect-
ing the events in the East, followed by a few
paragraphs of news :

The Constitutionnel deduces from the firman of the Sultan,
and the reported rejection of certain clauses by the Pacha of
Egypt, the necessity for the maintenance of the French arma-
ments and for the system of isolation, which is the favourite
theme of the Thiet s party, in order that France may be able
to exercise a proper degree of influence in the still unsettled
affair of the East. According to this Journal, Lord Ponsonby,
on the one hand, has been urging at Constantinople the adop-
tion of harsh measures against Mehemet Alt, whom he detests,
and Commodore Napier, who admit es him, has stimulated him to
reject the conditions of the Porte, which are really not only with-
out magninimity, but are so framed as to leave it open to the.
reigning or any future Sultan to revoke even the present
limited concession, the faculty of dictating new conditions at
a future period, which could not be accepted, being reserved,
and the revocation of the entire grant being conditional,
not merely upon the execution of the orders now imposed,
but also upon those which may be hereafter issued. The
Constitutionnel says the English Government is quite aware of
the course pursued by Lord Ponsonby and Commodore Napier,
and is availing itself of it so as to leave to Mehemet Ali no
other resource than that of throwing himself info the arms of
England. The National takes precisely the same view
of the position created for Mehemet Ali by the Sultan,
and of what it calls the double game of England, as the
Constitutionnel, adding to what that journal says of Lord
Ponsonby and Commodore Napier, it says that Russia has
surrounded Mehemet Ali with agents who secretly
counsel him to display firmness and independence.
The Commerce has a long and rather violent article, in
wLich it repeats all the arguments which it has brought for-
ward so repeatedly on the Eastern question. The Debats
says it. is not surprised at the news of the non-accept-
ance of the firman of the Porte ; for, with the condi-
tions imposed by the Porte, the hereditary Government
offered to the Pacha is a derision, and the authority
left to him is a niece juggle. The Presse ob.erves
that France has nothing to do with the dispute between the
Sultan and Mehemet Ali, as to the degree of authority which
the latter should possess, or with the form of government to be
prescribed for Egypt. The only question, adds the Presse,
with which the French have to du, is the integrity of the Otto-
man Empire. So long as the Powers make no attempt upon
this, to their own profit, the French Government must remain
aloof.

A Morning Journal publishes the following fact :
" Lieutenant-General Darriule has just signified to the
troops of all arms composing the garrison of Paris, that on in-
formation received by the authorities that journals are intro-
duced into the barracks and guard-houses, he invited the at-
tention of the officers to this serious infraction of discipline
and the spirit of the army.
" In consequence, every officer on duty ;s expressly forbidden
to suffer a single journal to be introduced into the guard-
houses, and in order to prevent the soldiers and themselves
from being shaken in their fidelity and their sentiments by the
ideas of disorder and the anarchical maxims which the enemies
of the Government employ, the commanders of posts will be
made personally responsible for the smallest fault which shall be
imputed to them in this respect."
It seems, that whi'e looking forward to the completion of
the citadels, it is intenclect-101solata -The army in the midst of
the nation. The good sense of the public, therefore, does not
err in saying that we are proceeding towards a military
despotism.
How shall he reconcile this order with the law which
says 'that Louis Philippe derives his right from the will of the
nation.—La Gazette de France, March 11.
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The Duke of Aumale, u we have stated, sets out for
Toulon to-day. The Prince, who has lately been appointed
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 24th Regiment of the Line, now
in garrison at Algiers, has received orders to join his regi-
ment.
Yesterday and the day before, the Duke of Aumale
at-
tendedheatndiaetd, twoand
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IV., of whom.he took leave.
The Duke of Nemours is to set out for Africa at the latter
end of the month.—Le Conetitutionnel.
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CORN-LAws.--In compliance with a requisi-
tion most numerously signed, the Mayor of
Manchester has called a public meeting of the
inhabitants of that borough, to be held in the
Town Hall on next Thursday. The requi-
sitionists say they 64 are strongly convinced
of the injustice of those laws which re-
duce the food of the people,
and which, if
not repealed, will overwhelm the country with
ruin." The men of Manchester well deserve the
gratitude of the country,. for the energetic and
persevering manner in which they have followed
up this all-important subject. May success
crown their exertions.