The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-14 00:00:00

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LONDON
MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1840.

By extraordinary express from Paris the French
Journals of Sunday, together with Friday and Sa-
turday's papers, have been all received. They bring
the correspondence between Commodore Sir C.
NAPIER and his Excellency BOGHOS BEY, re-
lative to the submission of MEHEMET ALIT a
copy of which will be found in anothcr part of
The Sun. The Mohiteur of Sunday likewise
published the annexed copy of the convention,
signed at Alexandria the 27th of November, be-
tween Commodore NAPIER and his Excellency
BOGHOS BEY, Egyptian Minister for Foreign
Affairs, which amounts to a virtual settlement
of the Eastern question. We cannot express
in sufficiently strong terms how much we ap-
prove of the admirable tone of our gallant
countryman NAPIER'S correspondence with the
Egyptian Government. Nothing could be better
timed, or in better taste than the amicable,
cordial frankness with which he modestly pointed
out to the VICEROY the danger of longer resisting
the will of the Four Powers. Were diplomatists
like NAPIEP. more plentiful, we should have fewer
wars ; for in the long run honesty will ever be
found the most humane and the best policy. The
following are the articles of this Convention :
Art. I, Commodore Napier, in his above-named qua-
lity, having communicated to his Highness Mehemet Ali
that the Allied Powers bad recommended the Sublime
Porte to reinstate him in the hereditary government of
Egypt, and his Highness seeing in this communication a
favourable circumstance to put an end to the calamities of
war, his Highness engages himself to order his son Ibra-
him Paeha to proceed to the immediate evacuation of Sy-
ria ; his Highness engages himself besides to restore the
Ottoman fleet as soon as he shall have received the official
notification that the Sublime Porte grants to him the he-
reditary government of Egypt, which concession is and re-
ma;ns guaranteed by the Powers.

Art.—. Commodore Napier will place at the disposal
of the Egyptian Government a steamer to conduct to
Syria the officer designated by his Highness to bear to
the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian army the order
to evacuate Syria. The Commander-in- Chief of the
Britannic torce, Sir Robert Stopford, wiil, on his side,
name an officer to watch the execution of this measure.

Art. 3. In consideration of what precedes, Com-
modore Napier engages himself to suspend on the
part of the Britannic forces hostilities against Alexandria,
or any other port of the iEgyptian country. He will
authorise, at the same time, the free navigation of the
vessels destined for the transport of the wounded, of the
sick, or otherwise, from every other portion of the Egyp-
tian army which the Government of Egypt might desire
to have to return to this country by sea.
Art. 4. It is well understood that the Egyptian army
shall have the facility to retire from Syria with its artillery,
arms, horses, munitions, b.,kgage, and esptcially with all
that constitutes the materiel of the army.

This Convention, and the success obtained by
the English on the coast of China, have ex-
cited a good deal of ill-natured jealousy in
France. The journals insist upon the humiliation
of their country, and persist, with self-mortifying
pertinacity, in parading the indignities to which
they contend France has been exposed. No effort
is wanting on their part to keep green the wounds
inflicted upon the national vanity.

The remains of NAPOLEON arrived at Poissy on
Saturday. On the same day the Court of Cassa-
tion rejected the appeal of Madame LAFFAItGE
for a new trial, and confirmed the sentence of the
Inferior Court.

The KING, the Royal family, and the Chambers,
were to assist at the ceremony of depositing the
remains of NAPOLEON in the tomb provided for him
by France. The Journal des Debals, of Sunday,
expresses a hope that the peace of the capital
may not be disturbed on so memorable an occasion•

Copious extracts from the French journals, with
a summary of all the naws they contain, will be
found in another part of The Sun.

We are glad to see that the economical condition
of France, and the misgovernment of that country
for several years, as causes of war, and as in-
fluencing the happiness of her neighbours, are be-
ginning, a month after we first directed attention
to the subject, to occupy the attention of our Con-
temporaries. Thus the Spectator of Saturday has
an article entitled Frauce, in which it traces back
the comparative want of a staid manufacturing and
commercial population to the abominable conduct
of Lours XIV., in trying to extirpate Protestant-
ism. After some sensible, but brief observations,
on the Revolution, NAPOLEON, and the elder
Boußnorrs, " who were criminal for pandering to
the wish for foreigireopquest, and contemptible in
their puny aping or: is;fl POLEON," it says—
The Revolution of July 1830 furnished a clear stage
for true statesmen ; but the opportunity
has been thrown
away. Louis Philippe. who seeks to restrain the head-
long precipitancy with which some French statesmen
seem to seek war, more from selfish fear of its conse-
quences to himself than any more elevated considera-