The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

TIII4I SUN. LONDON. PRITTAY,.3IILY I, 1841.

vidual to blame rather than he who stood revealed be-
fore him, for if the truth must be told, it was none other
than his own landlord, he of whom he rented a very
profitable farm for that part of the country. Rustic and
illiterate as many farmers are (or rather used to be) most
of them have sense enough to keep an eye towards their
own interest ; and we shall see how Scrubbins acquitted
himself in the peculiar difficulty he found himself in.
Affecting not to recognise the person of the intruder
(for his was a landlord that did not care to keep up any
intimate correspondence between 'himself and his
tenantry), he called out to him as loud as his Stentorian
lungs would allow him—" What the d—l are you after ?
Don't you see that you and your infernal dogs are tramp-
ling down my wheat ? If you don't take yourself on;
I'll see if I can make you." The Sportsman stood
aghast : he was perfectly aware that he was upon his
own territories, and never before, I presume, bad he re-
ceived such a point-blank broadside from any one whom
he considered in the light of a dependant. Conscious
probably that there might be something a little irregular
in ranging the growing corn-fields, he seemed willing to
enter into an explanation respecting the why and the
wherefore he .had departed from the usual custom ; but
Scrubbins well knew that such .a proceeding would not
serve .his purpose ; so, rather uncourteously, he in-
formed the man "as carried the fowling-piece,"
(making use of his own words), that he would hear no-
thing be had got to say ; and if he (Scrubbins) got over
the hedge, and brought away a hedge stake with him,
why he wouldn't be answerable for consequences. This
rather provoked the ire of the doughty Squire, and
thinking it would be as well to crush his opponent's au-
dacity bfore it proceeded to greater lengths, he put the
following question to the redoubtable Scrubbins—see-
ing that he had reached the hedge and had commenced
the extraction of a stout stake—" Don't you know who I
am ?" Nothing "could have been more unsatisfactory
than Scrubbins' reply, for instead of desisting from his
belligerent preparations, he answered, " I neither know
nor care, but I. know one thing, whosumever you be,
you be no gentleman !"—" I am John George Lambton,
of Lambton Hall," retorted the haughty owner of this
lordly mansion, imagining that now he had " capped the
climax," ,and put a stopper on Scrubbins' mouth for
ever. But not so ; he mistook his man,who indignantly
retorted—" Nay, nay, now, I know better than that,
and I like ye the war for trying to forge my landlord's
name ; for Mr. Lambton's every inch on him a gentle-
man, and ye, 'Aare say, are nought but some bit of a
proud' conceited 'torney clerk, or sununut quite as bad."
Any further altercation seemed clearly out of the
question; it was evident to the sportsman that this boor
did not recognise in him the person of his aristocratic
landlord; and, moreover, it was certain that of that
landlord,' said Scrubbins entertained a high opinion.
Human nature is but human nature, Mr. Editor, where-
ever we find it; and who is there among the magnates of
the land that do not find it agreeable, or at least are not
willing to apply the flattering unction to their souls,
whether they may deserve it or not? But J. G. Lamb-
' ton, Esq„ was neither " dolt " nor " idiot," notwith-
withstanding the "strong insinuation" in a speech of the
late -Mr. Canning in the House of Commons, for which
the embryo Earl called him to account; he therefore
shouldered his Manton, called off his dogs, and took the
nearest cut which would enable him to quit, not only the
standinr, corn, but the farce of honest Scrubbins;. won-
dering, I presume (but, observe' this is apocryphal),
how_in the world it was possible for any one, residing
within the distance of four miles of Lambton Castle,
not at once intuitively or otherwise to recognise its
lordly owner.—Old Sporting Magazine for July.

EASTERN NEWS.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 9.—On Saturday, the Bth
instant, contrary to all precedent, all the Government
offices, without exception, were closed; and all the persons
connected with them assembled at Topliana, in long and
Secret Council. ' It is strongly suspected that ill news
has been received from Arabia, and that the authority of
the Caliph Abdul Medschid had received some very
deadly wounds in the Holy Cities themselves. The Wa-
habites, whose chiefs Mehemet Ali had subdued at the
sacrifice of immense sums, and of an army of from 15,000
to 20,000 men, and imprisoned in the citadel of Cairo,
but after Wards, in compliance with the late treaties, let
loose (as ./Eolus the stormy winds) upon the coasts of
Arabia, are said to have filled every thing with anarchy
and confusion. The only force to be opposed to the tor-
rent bf these fanatics is.that of the undisciplined and un-
paid hordes of Arnauts, left like an evil legacy by the
Pacha to the Porte, under the direction of the grey-
bearded superintendent of pilgrimages—Osman Pacha,
and his coadjutor, Shekir Beg, who has been lately pro-
moted from the rank of turnspit in the kitchen to that of
Colonel, and who. in spite of his recent elevation, served
his patron. its of bldnpon his late journey to Mecca. Is
it then, to be suppOsed that, under such circumstances,
the modern . Pharaoh, with all his advantages of armed
forces, European: patronage, and a Numidian conscience,
is at all likely to pay, with any regularity, the yearly tri-
bute bf 80,000 purses (40,000,000 piastres, or 4,000,000 f.)
to which the Porte, witt-' the advice of its allies and pro-
tectors, has lately condemned him, or to perform with
any especial fidelity and. punctuality, the„ ordinances of
his sovereign lord ?' ' • Despite of all' foreign ccfunsel and
foreign patchwork artifice, the whole Othman edifice is
•
inking to the ground; Without any exterior impulse, un-
der the weight of the colossal incapacity of its guardians
and defenders. There appears no doubt that it is scarcely
possible for .all the combined wisdom and state policy of
our times to put off the cwing bankruptcy and dissolu-
tion even yet a few •years. - Destruction is evidently ap-
proaching with rapid steps ;' on the'teatern side anarchy
prevails in all the provinces, with the(exception of Aidin,
where that terrible Tahirhas established upon solid foun-
dations, after his own fashion, the spirit of subjection and
blindfold 'devotion. • Even in the central point of Ana-
tolia, the Dere Beg (hereditary magnates) refuse to bear
their part in the burden of the State, and in their autho-
rity of tax-gatherers of the district, instead of exacting
the tenth part, exact no more than the sixtieth or seven-
tieth part of the produce of the land, in order not to drive
the peopleirom despair into rebellion against the Govern-
ment at Constantinople.•'- • •
In consequence of •the incredible ignorance, utter want
of ideas, and brutality of the more iistinguished as well
as of the common Turks, the present that has
.been
made then).
.of Christian maxims of state and govern-
ment policy, for which they were, so little prepared, has
had the effect of the robe of Itjanira, or the farrier's
drugs in Virgil's Georgics. Neither the Sultan hiniself
nor any of his Ministers. has the least conception of the
size of the empire, cr of the extent
posi-
tion, -configuration, population,- produce, and adminis-
trative condition of the respective rainces Even in
, geographical p
matters ofthe very•greatest importance ignorance and
carelessness have reached a pitch which elsewhere would
appear perfectly fabulonS. • Not even the Minister of
War, or the Comitander-in-Chief of the land forces
(and much less anyone else), has any knowledge of the
condition of the defensive resources of the monarchy.
No one (I give an example) has any idea of how many
cannon the Government possesses, or where they are to
be found. • Even the number of regiments is unknown
at CoUrt, or in a subordinate situation. Raouf Pasha,
the Grand Vizier, was not long ago quarrelling with his
mustechar• as to whether there were thirty-six or only

thirty-one effective regiments. After a long contest the
latter put an end to the dispute with the remark that for-
merly in the Ottoman Empire there were none at all,
and that it was victorious for all that. After the insur-
rection in Diarbekir it was considered advisable on the
part of the Porte c.o place the citadel of Aleppo in a state
of defence, and cannon were conveyed over there from
Consiantinople at a great expense, when more than twelve
admirable pieces, left behind by the,Egyptians 'in the.
passes of the Taurus, were allowed to rust, forgotten
and unheeded, not far from Aleppo. When the remFl
was made;and the" question asked, why these ready
stores had not been made use of, the answer -returned
was, that these pieces of cannon had been, quite forgot-
ten. And yet, in the face of the powerless and miser-
able condition before them, the pride of the Mahometans,
and their 'blind confidence in the maintenance of the
empire, and their 'everlasting superiority over the king-
doms of the infidels; are unshaken and untouched.
Abdul Medschid . is about as much as nobody here ;
and from t'he Church of Islam, which now rules in Tur-
key, neither concession or conversion is to be expected.
The Turks'. laugh in their sleeves at the lecture given,
them by the Giaourt The Egyptians, in the very ex-
treme of their tyranny, extracted from the Emir Bechir
annually 25,000 purses (12,500,000 piastres, or somewhat,
more than 3,000,000 francs). The deputies of the Sul-
tan now demand of his successor 42,000 purses (21,000,000
piastres) yearly contribution, of which sum the new
Prince' declares himself ready to levy 35,000 purses
(1,750;000 piastres, Cr 437,500 francs), as reasonable and
just. The people, however, have good English muskets
and written promises in their hands, and refuse even to
give these 35,000, as the new duty of 12 per cent. upon
the etport. of silks alone brings in.a . yearly revenue of
52,000 purses, with which, according to their opinion,
the Government ought to content itself. You may rely
implicitly upon these statements ; and, alas ! I coqld
find even worse to tell, if I would, of the people em-
'loyed by the Sublime Porte.---411gemeine Zeitung.

MALTA: .
ADMIRAL STOPFORD AND COMMODORE NAPIER.
The following important letter, in answer to Commodore
Napier, had been published by Sir Robert Stopford in the
Malta Times :

I, Princess Charlotte, Malta, June 14.
" Dear Sir,—Although the speeches ascribed to you at Li-
verpool and Manchester have also gone the rounds of thoiews.
papers, I did not consider it necessary to call upon you for ex-
planation upon potnts therein mentioned, which might bear the
g, with whom I had the
long standing,
time upon the most
inference of excluding see from any share in the operations on
the coast of Syria. I could not but doubt whether it was pos-
e so extraordinary a lhoanave m
isa)ilmbela
siec
autbhr
leaet
footing,
tsieonrffigv
,icne
gcr
us aflotdr
state-
ment. But, even if it had been made, no newspaper contro-
versy could ever have settled it- Tile and circumstances
could alone elicit the facts.- I hare seen different versions of
the few words I said at the entertainment given 1114 at Malta,
to which you refer in your letter of the 31st of May, received
on the I:2th instant. As your name was mentioned you have
a right to know exactly what I did say, which was this, That,
however gladly I availed myself of your skill and intrepidity,
I trusted that the service would not have suffered if you had
net been there, having full reliance on several officers in the
squadron to execute any orders that might have been confided
to them ;' but I utterly deny having accused you of arrogating
to yourself the whole merit of the S;rian campaign.
4, Your obedient servant,

" R. STOPFORD.
•
"P. S. Since writing the above, I have seen your letter to
me of the 31st of May in one of the public papers. I take it
for granted that you will make this equally public.
" To Commodore Sir Charles Napier."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
MALTA, JUNE 23.—Admiral Sir Robert Stopford trans-
ferred the command of the Mediterranean fleet on Saturday,
the 19th instant, to Rear-Admiral Sir John Ackworth Om-
manney, and left on the same afternoon for England, in her
Majesty's ship Pri.ncess Charlotte (towed as far as Gozo by the
Cyclops), in company with the Castor.
The Powerful sailed at the same time for 13eyrout, and the
Talbot and Locust steamer for Palermo, where the two' last-
mentioned vessels will shortly be joined by the Hecate steaipen