The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-28 00:00:00

S I HIT of the PUBLIC JOUR

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
In the Morning Chronicle of the 15th we stated, on
the faith of a letter from Constantinople, that the
Porte, after ten days' deliberation, had refused to re-
cal the act of decheance against the Pacha of Egyot.
We stated at the same time that the submission of the
Pacha could net have been known at Constantinople
at the period of this alleged decision, and expressed
our belief that when it was known the decision
of the Porte would be mitigated. The au-
thenticity of our information has been doubted.
A Sunday journal indeed, goes so far as to
contradict it, because the intelligence has not been re-
ceived by itself. We confess we cannot regard this
reason as altogether satisfactory. What is known upon
the matter is, that Izzet Pacha was originally appointed
to succeed Mehemet Ali in the Pachalics of Acre
and Egypt , that about the 20th of No-
vember, in consequence of strong representa-
tions, he was recalled, and a successor appointed to
Egypt as well as to Acre. Notwithstanding that no
further intelligence has been received upon the subject,
we see not the slightest reason to doubt the information
of our correspondent, that the Porte had confirmed the
act of decheance. We have no doubt, however, since
the Four Powers approve of leaving Mehemet Ali in
Egypt, that he will be left ; but desirable as it may
be that the Porte should adopt this resolution, it seems
equally desirable that it should adopt it not hastily
nor unconditionally. This is required by the very
principle upon which the Pacha was driven out of Syria.
The Porte and its Allies felt that the establishment
of such a power as that to which the Pacha aspired,
was incompatible with the existence of the Ottoman
Empire. Within the short space of eight years
Mehemet Ali had overrun the whole of Syria ;
had organised a fleet and an army, so large and dis-
proportioned to the resources of the country he ruled
as to render further aggression a necessity of their very
existence ; he had, according to the statement of his
own Ministers, concentrated 100,000 men upon dad'
'Turkish frontier, and then intimated to the European
Consuls his determination to declare his independence.
It is quite true that he recently abated these pretensions,
demanding Syria for life, and Egypt en heredite. The
danger to be apprehended from his absolute independ-
ence, was hardly greater than what would be sure to
arise from granting him the title which he claimed. Tile
demand for the hereditary possession of Syria would
have speedily followed its grant for life, and the de-
claration of independence would have succeeded that.
The apprehension of both, or of either, would have
kept a Turkish force continually upon the frontier,
and Europe in constant apprehension of a collision, by
which the general peace would have been certainly com-
promised. The Allies interfered in order to reduce the
power of the Pacha within such limits as might enable
the Porte to defend itself against attack without seek-
ing the exclusive protection of any one Power. It
might happen—it happened before—that the Porte
would find itself involvedwou ld be iin a contestnconvenient with thfore Paella
at a moment when it only
one Power to give assistance. If such were the prin-
ciple upon which the policy of the dies was founded,