The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-19 00:00:00

M OF NEWS

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Vtt Optrtion.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The Levant mail brings advices from Constanti-
nople of the 27th of July, from Alexandria of the 2Gth,
from Smyrna of the 30th, from Beyrout of the 16th, and
from Candia of the 24th of the same month.

Said Bey. and Sami Bey, the Egyptian Envoys,
were publicly presented to the Sultan on the 26th. His
Highness gave them a most flattering reception.
Sir John British Ambassador to the Court
of Teheran, and Colonel Barnell, British Consul at
Alexandria, arrived at Constantinople on the 22d of
July. On the 29th the Ambassador was to proceed to
Trebisonde.

There was a rumour at Constantinople that the
Sultan entertained thoughts of bestowing the Pachalic
of Syria upon Mehemet Ali ! Surely there can be no
truth in this.

Syria is in a most disturbed state. In all the
mountainous districts the inhabitants have set the power
of the Porte at defiance. French emissaries instigate
them to the commission of these acts of rebellion.
The riots at Bourdeaux broke out a second time on
the 14th inst. The National Guards suppressed them,
but with manifest reluctance. On the 15th the town
was tranquil.
The taking the census was not resumed in Tou-
louse on the 16th, in consequence of riots at Calais on
the 12th.

The people of Lilbourne barred their doors, and re-
fused to admit the officers appointed to take the census.

The Spanish Government was on the 10th con-
centrating a strong military force in the immediate
vicinity of Madrid. Espartero's manifesto had rendered
the priests so unpopular that they could not appear in
the streets without being insulted. If the superstitious
mob of Madrid join Espartero against the Pope he

is safe.

France is about to abandon the military hospital
at Mahon, rather than allow England to establish a si-
milar institution in one, of the Balearic Isles.

The. Queen of Portugal has appointed the Mar-
quis of Saldanha Ambassador to the Court of Lisbon.

PITELIC

The Chronicle contains some interesting comments
on a cheap penny tract that has lately been published by
a working man, entitled " Oppression, or the effects of
Monopoly on Expenditure," the object of which is to
show, that where one shilling is taken from the widow
and her orphans by the State, nine are taken by the Buck -
inghamites and Peelites
In another article,-speaking of the present condition
of Ireland, our Contemporary remarks :—" Sir Robert
Peel, as Irish Secretary, had put it utterly beyond the
power of the people of Ireland to place any trust in
him as a Minister. This was only two short years
ago ; but now it seems to Sir Robert, if not
to others, that the difficulty has vanished. Is
such, in it-nifty, the fact ? If it be so, it must be that
either the man that was detested, or the people
that detested him, have undergone a marvellous
change. We know something of Ireland, and per-
haps a little more of Sir Robert, and we can fearlessly
assert that in him no visible signs of a change for the
better have appeared. For Ireland and for the empire
he continues to this hour the same frigid, mechanical
small-souled, circumlocutory politician that he has ever
been." Unless Sir R. Peel change the whole spirit of his
policy towards Ireland—and by so doing he will be com-
pelled to admit that it has been wrong throughout—he
will never satisfy that country. But we doubt whether
he can so change his system ; 'and if he ens, whether he
will be allowed to do so. The Stanleyitcs, and those
who, like Sir R. Inglis, belong to the High Church party,
are united in their dislike of Ireland ; and unaided by
these, he cannot stir a step. Under a Tory Cabinet, the
sister-country will over continue to be a thorn in the side
of England.
The Herald, reverting to the question of the Corn-
laws, says:—" To suppose, as the Morning Chronicle as-
serts, that there is only one cause for our existing embar-
rassments, and that the Corn-laws, is perfectly childish.
All that is alleged by the manufacturers against these
laws is, that, under their operation, they cannot compete
in a few articles of hosiery and coarse cotton goods,
against foreign producers." The manufacturers regard
the Corn-laws in no such partial and ridiculous light. On
the contrary, they boldly and broadly declare that this
grinding impost affects more or less the entire domestic
trade of the country, and even reacts on its foreign com-
merce; that it palsies the right arm of iniustry and en-
taart)rizot and 3lowly but
,
prosperity.

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The Post, notwithstanding the direct announcement
that Dr. Lococit has interposed his veto against her Ma-
jesty opening Parliament in person, observes --
" The truth is, and all the Queen's subjects will re-
joice to hear it, that her Majesty is in such excellent
health at present that she would not have had any-
thing to apprehend' from the anxiety or fatigue inci-
dent to opening the Session of Parliament in person ;
but the good taste and Constitutional feelings of the
Sovereign revolted from the task which her worthless
Ministers would have imposed upon her Majesty, of sanc-
tioning the questionable principles which they have de-
terniirted to propound in the Queen's Speech, by permit-
ting that speech to pass through the lioyal lips." This
is indirectly asserting that her Majesty's medical adriser
—who may be presumed to know more about her state
of health than the Post—has officiously and impertinently
ititetpdsed Leto, where there was not the slightest oc-
casion for it !

The Advertiser states, with reference to the present
position of. Sir R. Pecl—" The clamorous applications by
whi©h he is hourly beset from all quarters for situation
iii itiic~ Under hie embryo government, would o
themselves be sufficient to Akiffy the Btrcnigeet and
most philosophic mind. We verily believe that from
this cause alone the Right Honourable Gentle-
man's existence is embittered beyond endurance."
Tories 'We ell Itnow, are ravenous from long absti-
nence from office, and ife lihtly ttand on ceremony
with orie.so completely at their mercy as Sir Peel: tHr
Francis Burdett was with him the other day—no doubt
worrying him to death for a Peerage; and when he was
got rid of, down wont Oroker—a perfect cormorant, and
the i;ePY rad et tthl dtlsefs to take "No" for a denial.
Then there are the Goulburns, the DaiVgotis, the &Latch
bulls, 81-,c., to be provided for; and with these, and adozefi
More such, tugging constantly at his skirts, Sir R. Peel's
esistenee—‘as our Contemporary observes—must be em-
bittefed be#end endurdrice::

The limes is quite facetious at tlio gm that thit To•
rics intended to govern Ireland on the iron principle Of
conquest. If they do not do so, it is.simply because they
lack the power, not because they are deficient in (he in-
The fl üblin Pilot tiiiis addfegett,o itv?it to the ex.
pectant Premier Who can believe anything yoii
swear, or predict ? Either your present boasts of all
you will effect in power are fallacious, or your predic-
tions tif evil were absttrd and nowt to finish your be-
stitted ydit tithe didd (is did tiirifidfter of mono-
poly; *hilt emery drop df fain pattering at your window
ic.113 that one Of s'Otii first acts Of power must be to falsify
till alb Pfeteii&zi &Mei; witielt it was obtained ! But you
shall be ejected from ogiee lii &MA,: 4oit,lc time i"
The Cambridge Advertiser handles rathdf
the Tory landholders and monopolists:—" These men, TI
)1; " 64,1,itHv of the soil, the monopolist majo-
rity Of the kotise d 6difididilg; Aft tiftitted N resist to
the tltnldst titeif dicti fittter
lAt i*.eatj the
commerce and trade ; and to sacrifice to their own sel-
flihnetS the prOspetitxof Otv.empire, and the demands
kisti.ds; gitY liqf Mitt the will of
these rentLtYratits, Shitll hate its WitY; kit* Steady; old
in its degiee ho the dplittslllofi oftefeti td j
IR the Rouse where they have the niajdfiiii Of
the five hundrect lancfed proprietors in the House of
0011imbils; alt ate Hot of "tile gaitit kfitstingi rapacious,
haitife we }fare des6fitied:4

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The aeceiltits fe6ocet
ing the depression of teade; are most painful. No town
possesses greater advantages fit the Carrying on of busi-
nest which let diee§ ittittitchig66.tit 4teii Sikh as the it4on,
Pottery, and glass trades t yet k all these, nevertheless,
there is almost absolute stagriatiOii;
•--- The Newcastle te;
eolvrd, at their atiettal nieciiiig on Frilly las 4 liar
dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the paid-
up capital of the Company, which is now 75,0001. It
appears that the losses of the Bank, during the five years
it has been in business, have not exceeded 155/. Bs.
The Paisley operatives, unemployed and in dis-
tress, held a meeting at the Philosophical Hall, Paisley,
on the 10th of August, when they passed a series of
resolutions proposing that an appeal he made to the
Queen and Government, and in which they state their
intention of emigrating to Port Philip or Sydney, sup-
plicating at the same time her Majesty to forward their
aim by supplying them with clothes, as a local appeal
on the subject would he vain. They compute that at 41.
a head, and counting 250 as the complement of one ship,
1,0001. would be required.

AGRICULTURAL.
The Galway, Derry, and Tuani papers state that
rain has fallen, for the last week, at least, in torrents.
Great alarm prevails among the farmers.

—We understand, from the British Mirror, that the
crops of potatoes were never known to be more abundant
than they are at present.
On Monday and Tuesday two large fields of wheat
were reaped at Brentford.
"In Dublin," says the Pilot, " the weather has been
most unpropitious of late, every day wearing at its outset a
bright promising brow, but the noon and evening bring-
ing, for the.most part, rain and storm."