The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-27 00:00:00

I have,
PALMERSTON.

(Signed)
London, Oct. 15.
To his Excellency Lord Ponsonby, at
Contantinople."

The resignation of the French Cabinet occu-
pies a prominent place in the Paris Journals of
Sunday. But so contradictory are the rumours in
circulation among the organs of the several parties
into which France is now divided, so unimportant
in themselves are many of these rumours, and so
brief is the time to elapse before all the details are
made known officially, that it would be wasting the
time of our readers to give them a place in oar
columns. The war faction is noisy and violent as
ever ; and as M. THIERS will have to justify to the
Chambers the expense to which he has put the
country, his first appeal must necessarily be
made to the sympathies of that faction. Neverthe-
less, we are under no apprehension that he will be
found the zealous advocate of their intemperate
views. When the storm has blown over, he will be
found as ready to resume office as he was on the
resignation of SOULT'S Administration.
While we are writing the Times has published
in a second edition the summary of the news con-
tained in the Paris journals of yesterday, received
by extraordinary express. Though the substance
of some part of the intelligence from Syria ap-
peared in yesterday's impression of The Sun, the
whole is so interesting that we quote it with some
trifling curtailment

We have received by extraordinary express the
Paris papers of yesterday. The Moniteur contains a
Royal ordinance proroguing the Chambers to the sth of
No. ember.
Another Royal ordinance appoints General Sebes-
tiani a Marshal of France, in the room of Marshal
M'Donald, deceased.

Ministers persevered in their resignation. M. Guizot
was said to hate arrived in Paris yesterday.
Our Constantinople letters are of the 7th inst. They
state that an Austrian steamer had arrived with des-
patches, which the friends of the Divan represented as
most menacing for Mehemet Ali. According to those
statements, Soliman Paella had taken refuge in Beyrout
after his late defeat, with only 1,500 men. The Allies
had closely invested the place. Ibrahim Pecha was
equally said to have thrown himself into St. Jean
d'Acre with 2,500 men. These assertions, if well
founded, would show (says our correspondent) that the
military force of Mehemet Ali, stated at 60,000 men,
was composed of a comparatively trifling number.
This was not all, however. The defection of the
troops, and the revolt of the people against Mehemet
Ali, was general. Every means were resorted to by the
Allies to bring over the regular soldiers of Mehemet
AU, and to raise the people in insurrection. The en-
tire force of the Allies with which these matters had
been effected is estimated at only 5,000 Albanians,
2,000 English, and 500 Austrians.
The mission of Count Walleweki to the Porte had
nevertheless partly succeeded. The mediation of
France was accepted as respected Egypt, but refused
in respect of Syria.
The following is from the Smyrna Gazette
1 SYRIA.
" CAMP OP DJOUNI, SEPT. 29.
" From all appearances the affairs of Syria will be
soon terminated. The insurrection makes the greatest
progress ; already 14,000 mountaineers have joined the
insurgents. The Turks behave nobly, and Admiral
Walker leads them nobly on.
" The desertion of Egyptian troops is very consider-
able, which has greatly weakened Soliman Pasha.
" The Allies have their camp at Djouni, which con-
tains about 8,000 men, independent of the insurgents.
" The Stromboli has disembarked the few marines
which she brought from England.
ALL THE COAST IS IN THE POWER OF
THE ALLIES. _

" Tyre and Tripoli have been taken ; Sidon was
taken after a battle of 10 hours. It was defended by
3,000 men, who capitulated, the greater' part of whom
have enrolled at the camp to fight in favour of the Sul-
tan. The Turkish naval officers sent from Alexandria
by Mehemet Ali have also been enrolled.
" The Allies have established an hospital at Cyprus."
" EGYPT, OCT. 6.
" The British squadron at Alexandria, consisting of
the Asia, Implacable, and Daphne, has been reinforced
by the Dido and Ganges.
" 'The French Consul bas informed his protege that
the blockade will commence on the 16th inst."

" INDIA MAILS.
" Advices received to-day from Alexandria state
that Mehemet Ali will allow the mails to pass through
Egypt, and send them himself if the English are afraid
to take them.
" A private letter, dated Athens, the 9th inst., states,
that the French fleet of eleven sail of the line was then
anchored in Salamis Bay.
" A Russian fleet of eighteen sail of the line, to be
placed under Sir Robert Stopford's orders, was daily
exp. ctcd."
The prorogation of the French Chambers until
the sth of November, so indignantly denied in the
Ministerial Constitutionnel of Thursday last, is
another triumph of the peace party. France can
take no final resolution before the meeting of the
Chambers, and every day gained by their proroga-
tion gives a fresh accession of moral strength to the
Allies in Syria and Egypt. The adjournment is,
moreover, signally important, as taking place after
France was made fully aware of the rapid decline
of MEHEMET ALI'S power in Syria.
In stating above that we declined to publish the
Ministerial rumours pro and con in the French
Journals of Sunday, we intended to have excepted,
which we do now, an account of the Ministerial
crisis from the Journal du Havre, and an apology
for M. THIERS in the Conslilutionnel, from the
pen, most. probably, of that statesman, which will
be found in another column. These articles appear
to us to possess an interest apart from the mere cir-
cumstances under which they were written.
A letter from Toulon of the 20th says that it was
considered as certain that Admiral Duperre, having
obtained a promise that the Levant fleet should be in-
creased to 15 sail of the line and 12 frigates, had con-
sented to take command of it, with Admiral Lalande
for chief of the staff. Admiral Duperre is to hoist his
fig on board the Ocean, and to have, besides the Ma-
rengo, the Genereux and the Trident, which, added to
the 11 ships of the line under Admiral Hugon, will
make up the number of 15. As for the frigates, there
I are the Iphigenie, the Uranie, the Didon, and the
Medee, besides the frigates that have sailed from the
ports on the ocean, and are every moment expected at
Toulon, without reckoning those the equipment of which
is proceed ng with all expedition. It remains to be
seen whether Admiral Duperre would leave Toulon
with the additional vessels to join the Levant squadron,
and winter in the vicinity of Candia, or whether the
fleet would return to Toulon, so that the Admiral would
not take the command till the whole fleet would be
united.—Le Commerce.
The Queen Regent of Spain arrived at Narbonne on
the 20th ; the garrison was under arms, and paid her
military honours.
The Queen conversed for a long time in a very affable
manner with the Commandant of the place, as well as
with the Prefect. The latter not having received any
instruction, was not in his official dress. Though the
weather was very stormy, a great number of persons
want to meet her.
Maria Christina was perfectly calm, and her face bore
no marks of the sufferings which she has undergone.
She was to sleep on the 20th At Montpellier, and go on