The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-31 00:00:00

a person in authority, or another Court is con-
cerned, against one of the people, it cannot be ex-
pected that justice should be done. SARAH
YOUNG and her friends have, therefore, acted ra-
tionally, and we hope they will be successful, in
bringing her case before the public rather than
carrying it into Court. If that makes a scandal—
if that serves to bring the Courts and the law into
further disrepute—the Courts and the law, which
have failed to provide any proper and easy mode of
obtaining redress for injury, must bear the blame.

Our communication from Walsall is important.
A Deputation from the Anti-Corn-law League has at
once succeeded in convincing the electors that they
ought to have no representative in place of Mr.
FINCH who will not vote for the abolition of the
Corn-laws, and the Hon. Mr. LYTTLETON has
retired from the field. The candidate recommended
by the League is Mr. FOSTER, the son of the
former Member,who is a staunch free trader. By such
exertions the League will make itself and its princi-
ples respected throughout the empire. As soon as
the town representatives feel their seats insecure,
unless they declare-in favour of abolishing the Corn-
laws, they will all become abolitionists. The suc-
cess of Mr. FOSTER, at Walsall, will be a heavy
blow for the Corn-laws, which will be felt at every
Corn-law landlord's seat in every part of the country.

After the evidence furnished by the Royal Com-
missioners and Parliament of the highly pernicious
nature of the water new supplied to the people of
London, no Metropolitan Journal ought to be in-
different or silent as to the efforts being made by
many scientific and patriotic public men to obtain
a purer and a larger supply. For this reason we
give the Report of Mr. ROBERT STEPHENSON,
which, as a document of great value, we recom-
mend to the careful perusal of our readers in the
metropolis generally, and to all men of science par-
ticularly.

A German Journal received this morning con.
tains the following :

VIENNA, DEC. Ill.—Accounts from Constantinople of
the ith of this month, which have been received here by
express, conta:n a frightful description of the tempests
which, with few interruptions, had raged ever since the
first of the month in the Euxinc and the Sea of Marmora,
and had done great damage. Among other terrible de-
tails it is stated that the steam•boat the Nerve, with its
whole crew, was swallowed up by the waves ; that several
ships were wrecked, and more or less damaged. Among
those that arc lost, the Seri- Pervas steamer is mentioned,
which belongs to the Danube Steam Navigation Company,
and plies between Constantinople, Smyrna, and the coast
of Syria. It was overtaken by the storm in the Sea of
M armors.

The French Journals of Tuesday have all
reached us. The following is the official account
given by the i%loniteur of the recent events at
Alexandria :
On the ith, Mehemet Ali had received from Admiral
Stopford a letter, in which that officer declared that Com-
modore Napier not having been authorised to treat, the
Convention concluded with him must be considered null.

The Bth, an English steamer entered the port of Alex-
andria, having on board the Flag-Captain of the Admi-
ral's ship, Captain Fanshawe, nephew of Sir Robert Stop-
ford. Ile delivered to the Viceroy a new letter, which
signified to him " the official authorization of the Bri-
tannic Government, in the name of the Four Powers, to
maintain Mehemet Ali in the Pachalic of Egypt, on
the condition that, in the space of three days, he would
consent to restore the Turkish feet to the Sultan, and de-
finitively evacuate Syria." To this letter was joined an
explanatory note from Captain Fanshawe, stating that he
was commissioned to transmit to Constantinople the reso-
lutions of Mehemet Ali, that he would wait for them three
days, and that he had orders to demand that the written
documents of these resolutions should be remitted to him
open, in order that he might assure himself of the contents.
After two days' delay, Mehemet Ali delivered to Captain
Fanshawe a letter for the Admiral, in which he announced
his determination, and another for the G rand Vizier, where he
says, " that always ready to sacrifice all he possesses, even that
of his life, to conciliate the favour of the Sultan, and grateful
that, by the intervention of powerful Allies, the favour of
his So•ereign has been restored to him, he has taken mea-
sures that the Ottoman fleet should be given up to such
person and in such a manner as it shall please his High-
ness to order ; that the troops which occupy Candia, Ara-
bia, and the Holy Cities arc ready to retire ; that the evacu-
ation shall take place without delay, so soon as he shall
receive his Sovereign's order; that as for Syria, Ibrahim
Pacha must have already quitted Damascus with the whole
army to return to Egypt."
Such is the news from Alexandria. It explains itself
naturally by the simple comparison of dates. At the
moment that Admiral Stopford annulled the Convention
concluded by Commodore Napi•zr, not only must he have
been ignorant of the approbation that this Convention
received from the British Cabinet, but the fact even
that the Convention was then unknown in London. The
instructions which guided the conduct of the Admiral, and
to which this last step with the Viceroy refers, had been
sent long before the English Government could have been
informed of the engagements entered into by Commodore
Napier.
In the letter which the Admiral addressed to Mehemet
Ali, there is no mention of hereditary right in Egypt. lie
had nut, in fact, the power to offer it ; but, in case the
Paella should claim it, Admiral Stopford was authorised
to promise to support his claim with the Porte. In all
which has passed at Alexandria there has merely been con-
fusion produced from the unexpected act of Commodore
Napier, and the ignorance of Admiral Stopford of what
was passing in London. Things will come definitively to
the same conclusion—that is to say, the concession of the
hereditary Pachalic of Egypt, made by the Sultan to Me-
hemet Ali at the desire of the powerful Allies,

The tone and spirit of this account arc alike
moderate, and, but for some sinister hints thrown
out by the Courrier Francais and the Presse,
would incline us to believe that the French Go-
vernment was at last disposed to co-operate with

the other Great Powers in finally settling the
Eastern question. The following important para-
graph appeared in the first-named of these Journals
on Monday evening :
A despatch from Count Nesselrode to M. de Pahlcn
had been officially communicated to M. Guizot. It is said
to be very amicable towards France. It is twelve years
since the two Governments have exchanged such evident
preliminaries of a coalition.
Upon this announcement the Presse remarks,—
We are enabled to confirm the above details. It is
not in wrAten despatches only that the Russian Govern-
ment shows its desire of being on friendly terms with
France. M. de Barrante, our Ambassador at St. Peters-
burgh, congratulates himself on the amicable and unusually
kind reception _he had experienced for some time back
from the Emperor Nicholas.. It-is evident that Russia
forms no illusion respecting her present relations with
England, and seeks but a good opportunity for breaking
them oil. Should this rupture take place, it would be a
most important event that would place England precisely
in the position in which she placed us by the London
Treaty. We believe that it depends at present on the
skill of the French Government to take, in this respect,
a striking and durable revenge. But the first condition
that must be fulfilled in order to attain this end is to have
nothing whatever to do with the policy of the last Cabinet,
a policy likely to create isolation where it does not exist,
and to lead irom isolation to war by a tendency as rapid
as inevitable."
" We do not advise the French Government to give it-
self up blindly to the advances of Russia, but we recom-
mend it to study attentively and seriously the new situation
in which it is placed. Without doubt, on learning the
proceedings of Muscovite policy, Lord Palmerston will
moderato the pride with which he has hitherto enjoyed his
victory, and wil! return to his former attentions. That
Fiance, which has been represented so lowered, will per-
ceive that it has, in reality, remained the umpire of
Europe, and that it is in her power to resume all her in-
fluence on the destinies of nations. But her Government
must employ tact, prudence, and address. It must, above
all, employ resolution to get out of the false and fatal
trammels with which M. Thiers has clogged our policy,
and in which the Opposition is endeavouring to detain us.
By means of the Continent, the malevolence of England
may be rendered impotent for ever. We must, therefore,
avoid giving anxiety to the Continent. The great military
demonstrations to which we are urged, and which threaten
the northern Powers only, would be a fatal error, which
would serve at this moment but to promote the designs of
Lord Palmerston."
We never placed the slightest reliance upon the
friendship of Russia, nor did we desire that the
relations arising out of the Treaty of London
should continue an instant longer than the final
adjustment of the Easton question. We were
_ perfectly aware that the Emperor NicifoLAs
in signing the Treaty of July hoped to make it
the instrument of an European war which would
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toils ; but eN -en as matters have turned out, Russia
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