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

BE SITN, LONDON, SATURDA 1:1,OCTOBER 10. 1840‘

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France. Hitherto everything has been compromised oppressed, and power to aid them against their enemies. 1
by hesitation and weakness. With boldness, frankness, " Since we obtained from the Viceroy flit; order for I Now ready
ed to
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overcome obstacles, the discharge of the prisoners, we have present 1
AuthOr of " The King's Page," " Almack's lleYsitecl," &c,
and determination, we shall easily
dangers, and resistance. Let the Government rells-on him a letter of thanks. Ie this letter we pray that is
,
the nation, and adopt whilst it directs its generous in- will abolish torture in judicial investigations, and thus .. The best of Mr. White's_produetions "—John Bull.
stinets, tempered by a moderation of which it has given follow the example set to him by those States who have i
their country this instru- , "We welcome the relgearanee of-t.his highly gifted author
sufficient proofs for the last ten y..ars. Therein is our blotted from the records o.
l:
is the literary ranke,prOTt a great qccess for thiS
strength, therein is our salvation. `Will the Chambers, meat of a savage and barbarous age._ ..Full of talent, variety,and entertainment,
"—New
Cashmere Shawl'—thf ladies. espeei
f Damascus, I, lairy should envelffe }heir
leaving in isolation a few tremblers and intrigans full of "On the arrival of the news . fromhis Hi h.. ' minds for some hours with this visionary and.
magnificent art',
gall and rancour, set the example of calm and unity of with Mr. Wire and Dr. Lowe, waited upon g I
- , cle of gorgeous adornment. In these yolutogs the reader will
Cairo), to
design from which great results arise ?We think so. If ness (Monsieur Cremieux being gone to j find iti variety as charming as it is abundant; he will be re-.
it were otherwise, and if the wicked babbling of those express to him the lively satisfaction and joy experi- minded by their .humour of Rabelais, and by their poetry of
Thomas Moore with a troop of Pews
who have already failed in action were to be listened to enced in Damascus at the deliverance of the prison"7in kis imagination."—
in the Parliament with more attention than the almost His Highness was much gratified, spoke much antk Metropolitan.i
h Publisher, lfe r: /it it. L 1
Henry Col burn, -, -reat Marlborough-stree..
unanimous voice of the country, we should despair of familiarly with me, and I left his Highness under fa- 1
that representative Government, to obtain which we vourable impressions towards the mission and towards
shed so much blood, and made so many efforts for half a the Jews.
century." " I cannot conclude this letter without saying
that,
The Currier Francais, which for some days past has notwithstanding all my privations, anxieties, and pains,
been urging the Government to immediate action, ex- lam more than repaid by the success of our labours ;
presses its alarm lest, in the short period that is to and that I shall never hesitate, when the cause of my
, elapse before the Chambers meet, Ministers should brethren demands my aid, nor think any sacrifices too
abstain from acts which would render all chance of main- great, if lam in any degree honoured in forwarding the
taining the peace of Europe hopeless. This journal purity of our holy faith—in defending its precepts—in
says, " The Ministry must be free to act up to the vindicating its pure humanity—in asserting its horror of
time of the meetinh of the Chambers. We must not blood, or in upholding its divinity.
add to the time which we have lost. England has, in " I have the honour to remain, &c.
"
the machinery of its Government, a great advantage (Signed) MOSES MONTEFIORE."
over us. There, what a Ministry desires to do it can
do. Nothing is allowed to interfere between it and its
duties. When it has the confidence of the nation, it
disposes of all its forces until it is overthrown by a
vote of the Parliament. Lord Palmerston can treat
with Russia, change the alliances of Great Britain.
send fleets, and bombard the towns of Syria, and all
that, almost without asking for the concurrence of the
Cabinet, for he has the approbation of the Queen."
The Courriei proceeds as follows :
" For two months past France ought to have de-
clared her ultimatum as to the treaty of London. This
we are still waiting for, and public opinion in the mean
time is deceived by the falsehoods of Lord Palmerston.
If M. Thiers has not made his conditions, and at the
critical moment is without the power of action, he alone
will be responsible. The responsibility of events will,
unless he be relieved of it by the Chambers, lie upon
him only. The Government must not remain with its
arms folded until the Chambers meet. There are acts
which admit of no postponement. The Chambers will
judge of the system—the executive must begin from the
day when the system is decided upon. We make these
observations with a severity which we are not in the
• habit of using, but a deplorable series of errors has ren-
dered us suspicious. The intentions of the Ministers
are now known to us ; the future will enable us to judge
of their firmness."
The Commerce is as warlike as ever, but still doubts
the energy of M. Tbiers, and appeals to the extreme
left of the Chamber to insist upon his asserting what it
calls the dignity and interests of the nation, or, in :he
event of his hesitating, placing
the power in the hands
of a man who will obey the voice of the country. The
Debats and the Presse are without leaders on the con-
vocation of the Chambers. The National does not
believe that the Chambers have been called together for
the purpose of ratifying any plan of action laid down by
the Cabinet, and insinuates that it is a mere trick to
gain time.

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRIS,
THIS EVENING. OCT. 10.
Will be repeated the New Play. in rive Acts, written by James
Sheridan Knowles, Esq., entitled
"HE BRIDE OF MESSINA.
John di Procida, Mr. Moore ; Fermndo, Mr. Anderson ;
Guiscardo, Mr. Cooper ; Isoline, Miss Ellen Tree.
The Interval between the Play and the Afterpiece will be oc-
cupied by
A COMIC SCENE between Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS
and Mr. KEELEY, entitled
TWO IN THE MORNING.
After which will be repeated a New Musical Drama, entitled
THE GREEK BOY.
Hylas, Madame Vestris ; Doge of Venice, M. S Jones ;
Count Nlalveggio, Mr. Diddear ; Silvio, Mr. Keeley; Claudio,
Mr. Binge; Bernardo, Mr. F. Matthews; Benedetto., Miss
Cooper ; Constanza, Miss A. Taylor.
The Three New Pieces of the Bride of Messina, Two in
the Morning, and the Greek Boy, every Evening.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3t. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price,
2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven e'Clock.
Tickets and plat 03 for the Boxes to be taken of Mr.' Grogan,
at the Box-ofßee, from Ten till Four, where .Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr.- Andrews, bookseller,
:67, New Bond.street. A ,

EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS
FROM PARIS.

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(From the Second Edition of the Morning Post.)
We have received by special courier the il4oniteur
Parisien, the illessager, and Gazette de France of
Thursday night, as also the Debats, Constitutionnel,
and remaining Paris papers of yesterday (Friday).
We give below the important news from Spain and
Holland.
The Paris press is unanimous in approving of the
convocation of the Chambers. The Ministerial papers
still breathe war and the Court organs peace.
At Tortoni's on Thursday night the funds were im-
proving.
Marshal Gerard, as Commandant of the National
Guard of Paris, has issued the following order of the
day, dated Wednesday :
" A journal of this morning announcer that, relying on
sentiments of patriotism by which they are misled, some
National Guards intended to assemble and come in a
body to their superior Commandant to express openly an
opinion on the policy followed by the Government under
present circumstances, and to demand the adoption of
measures, the initiative of which belongs neither to him
nor to them. This step, these manifestations, these dis-
cussions, by citizens armed for the defence of public
order and liberty, and for the protection of her laws, would
be not only a high illegality on their part, but also an at-
tack on the Commonwealth, the Constitution, and all
those interests which are vainly given as the pretext.
The National Guard of the Seine has, during the ten last
years, given immense pledges of its patriotism, its
.•cou-
rageous devot::.‘l3 to the institutions which the Charter
placed under its mots ; its superior Commandant has
always been proud in proclaiming the great services it
has rendered to the country, and to declare the confi-
dence which he has placed in it, het these services and
this confidence would be much changed if the National
Guard were to think of substituting its force for the
action of government, and its wishes for law. In that
case the country, and the honour of the nation, would
be really in danger, and its superior Commandant would
repel with energy every manifestation which, after having
violated the law, must produce such disastrous conse-
quences. In great political crises the country ought to
rely on the strength of the Government, and the Go-
vernment should count on the concurrence of all the
powers, and on the patriotic union of all citizens. If
the latter have a desire to express any wishes, or have
any rights to cl dm, they must do so through the chan-
nels pointed out by the laws, but it is not in their uni-
form or in a body that National Guards should come
to address their chiefs, who, by thus receiving them,
would misconceive their duty, and the Marshal, supe-
rior Commandant, will never sanction such acts by his
example. "COUNT GERARD."
(From the Paris papers of Friday.)
The Toulouse papers state that the Royal cannon-
foundry of that town has been ordered to cast 600
pieces of artillery.
By a decision of the Minister of War, the sehn-
braque, or housings, of the cavalry of the line and
light cavalry, which have hitherto been in woollen
cloth, shall henceforth be made of sheep-skin.
A letter from Hagenue, in the Alsace of Strasburg
says :—" A number of horses purchased in Germany
have been presented for the examination of the Com-
missioners appointed to receive them. On the first day
they were not so strict, but on the second day out of
thirty twenty-six were rejected. We highly approved
of this just rigour, as it will put an end to the false
but commonly accredited assertions, that by giving a
douceur of 25f. a horse, the dealers can always insure
the reception of any animals they may present."
Five journeymen carpenters were yesterday brought
before the tribunal of correctional- Police,: on, charges
connected wien the late:ll44w, “Ec,,TopOscnrke4,
some to a Weel,64s and some to. iini)sisournent..

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATR&,
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Mr. BUTLER.
During the recess the Theatre has been re-painted and re
derpreed, and every attention paid to the comfort of the au.
dieauo.

THIS EVENING, OCT. 10,
Will be acted, a Burletta from the French, entitled
31AISON A VENDRE,

Versac, Mr. St. John Horton ; Madame Dorval, Mrs. H,
Cumming; Lisa, Miss Crisp. •

A Musical Piece will succeed, entitled
MY IHREE BROTHERS.

Pertinax Single, Mr. Balls; Peregrine Single, Mr. Balls
Percival Single, Mr. Bang; Humphrey Grizzle, Mr. S. Roxby
'redline, Miss Sheersmith ; Emily, Miss Seymour.
After which will be reyeaterl a New Piece, entitled the
WRITINGS OF MY GRANDMOTHER'S ESTATE.

Lady-Emily Bouchier, Miss J. Mordaunt.
A Pas Saul by the youthful Zetella.
To which will be added,
A WIFE'S FIRST LESSON.

:In which Miss M. Glover will make her third appearance,
The whole to conclude with a New Burletta, named
RAILROAD STATION.

Mr. Sampson Jones, Air. Samuci Roxby ; Mrs. W. Smith,
Mrs. Garrick.

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Olympian Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s.
Half-price—Dress Circle, 2s. ; Olympian Boxes, h. 6d
Pit, J.

(From the Tempt of Thursday.)

A letter from Boulogne, dated the sth, says

" For these two days past the chief conversation
is the order which has just been given to put our port
in a state of defence. An officer of engineers has ar-
rived here to superintend the works, which are to he
begun this very day.
" It is intended to erect some batteries along the
coast, to arts the forts, and to place some howitzers on
the jetty to the west."
The Armoricain of Brest publishes the following
statement :

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

The combinod attraction of Mr. Kenney's New Tragedy, en
titled " The Sicilian Vespers," and Ainsworth's Original
0 Jack Sheppard," nightly fills this Theatre to an overflow,
and audiences literally crammed to the ceiling loudly demand
the repetition of these popular pieces.
THIS EVENING OCT. 10,
Will be acted a New Tragedy, entitled
111!E SICILIAN VESPERS.

Supported by Messrs. Elton, Saville, Hughes, Neville, lies•
lop, and Johnson, Miss Grant, and Mrs. Vining.
To conclude with
JACK SHEPPARD.
Realizing all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivans.

"'lle Journal du Havre, and some Parisian journals,
have disfigured the facts which gave occasion to the
order, no longer to grant to strangers permission to visit
our port. Among the strangers who• went thither,'
say they, it was thought that there were many Et glish
whu attentively examined all the details carefully, made
the most minute inquiries, and manifested a degree of
curiosity which is not common.' "

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
OPEN DAILY, from Ten till Dusk, with the Unequalled
Menagerie in their commodious and elegant habitations. The
recent additions include a rare species of Leopard entirely
black, Le Mignon Elephant, the smallest ever imported, the.
Monster Boa, the Bush Cow, The Wombat, &c.
Admission One Shilling. Feeding Hour of the Carnivora
and Pelicans. Four o'Clock.

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It was not these circumstances, which are mere fic-
tions, that gave occasion to the prohibition in question,
but the facts which we are going to relate :
The premission t 3 enter the arsenal was previously
granted to strangers on a request addressed by their
respective Consuls, not to the Director of the Port but
to the Major-General, who sent is person to accompany
the visitors or not, as he thought proper. About a
fortnight ago, Captain Gordon, of the English Navy,
who had applied for this permission, but had not yet
received it, having in the meantime visited the bagne,
was indebted to the civility of some of the officers for
liberty to enter the arsenal. A report was soon spread
that an English Commodore had penetrated into the
port without permission, and there arose numberless
comments, which induced Admiral Grivel to forbid the
entrance of torcigners, a prohibition which the Minister
of Marine appears to have extended to all the mili-
tary posts. _

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1840

Captain Gordon, however, is an honourable man,
who, if we were at war, would fight bravely
for his country against ours, but who, in time
of peace, is incapable of committing a mean
and base action. He lost no time in making
an excuse to Admiral Grivel for his involun-
tary imprudence, which was in a great measure owing
to French politeness. As for the pretended number of
English remarked before and after the affair, there were
only two or three merchants, one of whom is settled at
St. Malo, and a visit of one of those pleasure yachts,
which the trades-people of the town would probably be
very glad to see more frequently in our roads.
One more correction—it is not true that the English
prohibited foreigners from visiting their arsenals ; they
could visit them (as with us) by permission, accompa-
nied, the bourgeois by a keeper, and the officers by an
officer.

(From the Moniteur Parisien of Thursday night.)
A courier arrived from Valencia at Madrid on the
morning of the sth, has brought the decrees signed by
the Queen, which appoint the Ministers proposed by
General &porter°.
" The above intelligence," writes our Paris cor-
respondent, " reached the French Government by
telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, where it was i!
received by courier from Madrid. It is curious that I
no mention is made of the French Ambassador, who I
must have transmitted the news to the President of
the Council. It appears, then, that the Queen Re-
gent has been compelled to accept the list made
out by Esparterci—a list in which figured the
names of her mortal enemies Members of the Pro-
vincial Junta formed after the insurrection of Sept. 1.
It now remains to be seen whether the Regency of
Maria Christina has been crippled in any manner, or
whether she is to return to Madrid a free agent. The
next event will he the Convocation of the new Cortes,
and the proclamation of a Manifesto explanatory of the
system to be adopted by the successful Exaltados."
The Debate of Friday denies that Espartero's Ministry
will put an end to the intestine troubles, as there will
still be a violent struggle for the suppression of the
Juntas and the Regency.

M. GUIZOT AND LORD PA

MERSTON.

(From a Second Edition of the Morning Herald.)
We understand, from a very good authority, that
11 a note from the French Government has just been
delivered to Lord PALMERTON. It is firm in its
tone, but still conciliatory, and leaves the door open
to an arrangement, if sorne concessions are made to
the French Government.

The Revenue Accounts, which are to be made
up this evening, are not, we regret to state, so
s
satisfactory as we could wish them. We under-
sptralicide,
and deficient
dthefieoCustoms, offing chiefly, to the high
of
ugar, causing a defici-
ency in the sugar duties this quarter, when
they ought to be most productive, are not so
favourable as they were expected to be.
From a particular circumstance too, the Excise
duties, we have heard, present a nominal falling off,
while there is no actual deflcieney. As compared
to the corresponding quarter of 1838 there is, we
believe, a considerable increase h
; (Alt as compared
of 1839 there is no
increase.withthe corresponding quarter

ABDICATION of the KING of HOLLAND.
We have received by express from the Hague the in-
telligence that the abdication of the King took place at
the Chateau of Loo, the day before yesterday, Bth inst.,
with great solemnity, in the presence of the Prince of
Orange, now William 11., the other members of the
Royal Family, the Great Functionaries of State, &c.
The Proclamation issued by the ex-King on this occa-
sion appears in another column.
By another Proclamation, of the same date, the new
Sovereign inaugurated his reign. In this he says that
he will march in the footsteps of his father.
By another Proclamation the new King confirms all
the ratifications, civil, military, and naval.
William 11. was expected et the Halr. ue on Thursday.
To-morrow (Sunday) public prayers will be offered
up, to beg the Most High to afford strength and wisdom
to the new Sovereign to rule over the destinies of the
Netherlands.

The convocation of the French Chambers on
the 28th inst., which was announced in the After-
noon Edition of The Sun of yesterday, has only
increased the clamour for war so mischievously
raised by the French Ministerial Press. Even the
Constilutionnel, the avowed organ of the President
of the Council, all but recommends anticipating
the moderation of the Legislative body by some
mad act on the part of the Cabinet, which shall
render war inevitable. We believe the real fact to
be that M. Tuinns does not want to meet the
Chambers, and seeing that he cannot avoid meet-
mg them,
after he would not scruple to bequeath to his
successor in office the legacy of a war which herr_
might supply him with a ladder for re-scaling
the walls which will•shortly exclude him from office.
Possibly M. THEI RS imagines that were the war but
begun under his auspices, no other Minister would
be found to take the conducting of it out of his
hands. His game is at present a desperate one.
If peace be preserved till the meeting of the Cham-
bers, we have little doubt that he .will be forced to
retire from office, and that France will abandon the
hostile line of policy which she is now pursuing, to
the absolute ruin of her commercial industry, and
the terror of her peaceably disposed neighbours.
But even if peace be preserved M. TRIERS will
remain responsible for the immense expense to
which he has put France—for the revival of long-
forgotten jealousies, and fears, and hatreds between
two great friendly nations, of themselves disposed
to live together in the closest bonds of affection—
for unsettling and brutalizing the minds of the
working-classes by appeals to the worst passions
and instincts of their nature. These are crimes of
the deepest dye—acts of social and international
sacrilege, if we may be permitted so to express our-
selves, which are unpardonable in the Fresent ad-
vanced state of European civilization. Steam has
all bit annihilated the channel which formerly se-
parated England from France. The educated
classes in both countries speak a common language;
intermarriages are frequent ; and to the mercantile
world idea tile
world of England Paris no more presents
of a foreign capital than Dublin or Edin-
burgh. The statesmen, time men of letters,
the chief officers in both services, all ti e distin-
guished parsons in the faculties of law and physic
in England and France, are respectively and indi-
vidually known to each other ; so that a war be-
tween the two countries would partake more of the

BOULOGNE, OCT. 7.—lt is now no Imager a
matter of report as to arming here. They are now putting
all the coast in a state of defence, and that which has
given a complete finish in the way of alarm is th
into
convert-
ing the Etablissement des Bains a fort. Workmen
were engaged all this day in carting earth for a breast.
work in front, preparatory to the planting of cannon; the
consequence is that the City of Boulogne, which leaves to-
night, is crowded with families (old residents chiefly)
taking their departure. The cry for war is universal, and
must take place, or—revolution.
DOVER, OCT. B.—Reports reached here to-day
by the Boulogne steamer, which state that embankments
are in progress at the sands to the right of the harbour
(Boulogne), and that the National Guares had received
orders to hold themselves in readiness to protect the fron.
tier on a moment's notice. It is also current at Boulogne
that 15,000 troops have been sent off to the theatre of
war in the East. We have these reports from a respect-
able gentleman who left Boulogne this morning by the
Dover packet ; but how far they are correct we cannot say.
BEYROUT.—It stands on a rising ground close
to the sea shore, and originally named Berytus. It is
enclosed with walls, and supplied with water by rivulets
from the neighbouring hills. Taken from the Saracens by
Baldwin, 1111, and recaptured in 1317. Ten years after-
wards the Christians took it, and it was frequently
ravaged during the crusades, when it was a large for-
tified town, and depot for the costly merchandize of
Damascus. It WAS distinguished by art institution for
the study of jurisprudence, and had the honour of
calling into public life sonic of the most distin-
guished civilians, whence it was named the mother and
isi Itot
sadde
wasnvu ftemoehunl
among
idcoie ctinansohtptueortni
captured
rfrtat
esyhm.de handsaeebTssyThe
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ft
oheogempernar onuTnfi
Regenerator
assrnttil liosna,re,
meoanDxnfu:tdrEseus ;eget
eyn:
xp'ooa,twfnr. from
otodhrAmdie,ti undernidowa ernhdy laws.cimpn theeators
are calculated at 100,000, their language pure Arabic. and
they keep close together about Mount Lebanon. No Ma-
hometan is permitted to reside in their district. I saw
theirt
faces,of
t
se-
verala walking about here. In the dress of females, many
are distinguished with a large tantoura or horn, placed in
ht position. and fixed
over on
er a cushion
many
veilto it
passageso their
forehead, e huepar di 4,
with la scarf thrown
gireda volume.strlktng commentary
aenrtem involved
inon their temples, beforelved in the grossest
cEdgywithpt ; for the repre-
gilding, ~ the
work of man's hands," is elevated rieeridinstpt
idolatry, and it is a fact there exists among them a
sreenliteatoiot
n of a
the ancca tilet.it v mythology ofe r
wood,covered
which they prostrate themselves, and offer up solemn acts
of adoration, thus changing the Glory of God into an image
like to four-footed beasts, and robbing him of that homage
due from his dependent creatures. At a small distance
from Beyrout the field is pointed out where St. George, it
i 3 fabled, fought the dragon; and this Sair,t or hero is fe-
rn ,us in the Holy Hand, and represented on horseback
tilting a dragon at his feet.—Travels in the Holy Land,
by W. Rae Wilson.

horrible and revolting features of a civil war, than
of a contest between conflicting Governments.
Viewing the question in this light, we cannot too
strongly express our condemnation of the acts of
the French Minister, and the language of the war
Journals. They are aware of the mischief they ar,,•
doing, and yet they basely sacrifice the intereP:ts of
France to the gratification of a miserable i,,dividual
ambition, or some other passion stilt more detest-
able,

Were the mischief confine(
to France it would
be bad enough, but the tn!sfortune is that it ex-
tends to all the States in Europe. While .France
resounds with threats and preparations for war, it
is impossible for other nations to remain un-
concerned spectators of her fury. She occu-
pies too high a rank in the family of nations to
have her acts, of whatever nature, regarded with
ind fference. By arming herself she imposes upon
her neighbours a necessity of arming in self-de-
fence ; and from the fears and jealousies of armed
nations soon spring plenty of pretexts for employ-
ing their weapons in the accursed work of mutual
destruction. Moreover, the French Republican
organs, and especially the National, affect no con-
cealment of the system of warfare which France
would employ in a conflict with Austria, Russia,
and Prussia. On this important question our
readers have only to refer to the long article from
the National, which appeared in our columns of
yesterday. They will there find that the mitre and
crown of sans culottism—the red cap of the first
Revolution, is to be borne on the bayonets of King
Lours PHILIPPE'S army. England laughs, as
well she may, at absurdities swept away by the giant
genius of NAPOLEON, and which can never be re-
vived ; but it is nevertheless quite natural that the
bare threat of their resuscitation should create an
alarm at Berlin, Vienna, and St. Petersburgh.

But the success of the Allies on the coast of
Syria inspires us with fresh hopes of the preserva-
tion of European tranquillity. We do not believe
that King LOUIS PHILIPPE will suffer a blow to
be struck before the meeting of the Chambers, and
by that time the Syrian question will be settled by
the triumph of the Allies ; M. Tx' zus will not
venture to renew the pledges which he so foolishly
made the PACHA ; and the latter, abandoned by
France, will not surely be mad enough to risk the
ruin of his family in a contest so unequal and so
hopeless. Besides, the Chambers will not be car-
ried away by the declamation of Journalists nor
the verbal misrepresentations of a Minister. They
will call for documents and weigh testimonies before
coming to a decision. The negotiations of the
Great Powers on the Eastern Question, long before
the Treaty of London was proposed, will be in-
quired into, and M. TIIIERS will be called upon to
explain upon what grounds he abandoned the policy
of Marshal SOULT—why the pledge given by
France in the diplomatic note signed by Admiral
ROUSSIN, in conjunction with the other Ambas-
sadors at Constantinople, was not redeemed—and
above all what induced him to make a breach of
faith on the part of France a pretext for quarrelling
with the other Powers. The Chambers must see
that it is the Four Powers that have a right to com-
plain, and not France. It is to them and not to her
that an- insult has been offered, and it is they, and
not her that have a right to complain of the con-
temptuous indifference with which they have been
treated. The KING sees and knows this, and it is
impOssible that it can escape the penetration of the
Chambers. In fact, nothing could exceed the ar-
rogant and insulting bearing of France upon the
Eastern question since the forrnation of the present
Cabinet. 'She not only abandoned the most solemn
engagetnents, but threatened with military exter-
mination the Powers refusing to join in her apos-
!icy. She would neither keep faith herself, nor
suffer others to keep theirs. This tyranny could
not be borne, and we trust to the justice and the
patriotism of the Chambers to mark, with their
heaviest censure, the conduct of a Minister who
would seek to impose it upon Europe.

The Gazette of last night contains despatches
from Admiral STOPFORD with official accounts of
the landing of the Allied Forces at Beyrout, the
capture of that town, and the occupation of some
strong positions adjoining. On reading the diffe-
rent letters, we expected to find some satisfactory
reason for reducing the town to ashes, as we had
been led to believe by the French telegraphic des-
patch that it had been utterly destroyed, but not a
word is communicated on the subject, and we must
therefore infer that the reported conflagation was a
pure fiction of some party or another, to create a
prejudice in the minds of the French people against
the English, and incite them to cry out for war
against this country. The French telegraphic
despatch stated that, " after a bombardment of
nine days, which reduced the town to ashes, it
was evacuated by the Egyptians in the night, and
the-Allies took possession of it." Admiral STOP-
FORD, on the contrary, declares that he opened a
fire upon the Egyptains, " taking care to avoid
injuring the town ;" and after receiving an
unsatisfactory answer from SoLIMAN PACHA,
he continued it in another quarter, directing
it against the forts only, and principally " against
one having mounted guns." We will leave
the Captain of the Prometheus and the director of
the French telegraph to account for the story of a
bombardment of nine days, and the reduction of
Beyrout to ashes. It appears from the despatches
that the landing was effected in the most admirable
manner, that all parties conducted themselves with
skill and bravery, and that the inhabitants of the
town and the mountaineers were enthusiastic in the
cause. The steam-boats were found to be of
the greatest service. The total number of troops
landed was about 7,000 Turks and Allies, and
the Egyptian army in the neighbourhood was said
to be 15,000 strong. The return of killed and
wounded, on the part of the Allies, has not. been
forwarded yet, but from all accounts the loss was
very trifling.

We were in hopes last night that we should be
spared the necessity of again adverting to the late
election, and might spare our readers any further
remarks on a subject which is now getting stale.
But the Times yesterday made a severe personal
attack on Mr. HARMER, indulging in the foulest
insinuations as to his early life, and in scandalous
charges against his subsequent career, which com-
pels us once more to direct attention to the unprin-
cipled conduct of the Times. While the contest was
going on, and for some weeks before, nothing was
whispered against Mr. HARMER'S private charac-
ter. The only offence with which he was then
charged by the Times, the. only circumstance which
was then said to incapacitate him for the office of
Lord Mayor, was his connection with the Dispatch.
The head and front of his offence was the making
a profit by the opinions of that Journal. The de-
claration of the Livery and the leaders in the Times
said nothing about Mr. HARMER having been an
attorney, and having chiefly practised at the
Old Bailey ; they were wholly taken up
with extracts from the Dispatch, and comments
on them, and the Liverymen were induced to re-
ject Mr. HARMER on the express ground of the
disloyalty and irreligion of the Dispatch. Yester-
day the tactics were changed, and after the contest is
over, when it might be supposed that the defeat would
have been considered penalty enough to satisfy the
most virulent enemy, the Times published a most
bitter, a most venomous, a most unrelenting perso-

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nal attack on Mr. HARMER. We arc not about
to defend hire,--..we think it quite unnecessary ; for
this attack, wholly uncalled-for on public grounds,
—tire election being over, and no other purpose to
serve by it but to wound the individual—is for us
an unanswerable proof that the whole of the bitter
animosity of the Times has originated in private
and personal malice. The public press has been
prostituted, then, by that clever, but unprincipled
Journal, and the Livery have been beguiled in or-
der to gratify its unchristian vindictiveness.
Let the reader mark its cunning. While the elec-
tion was pending, it dwelt solely on the public
grounds—the connection with the Dispatch, and the
making.a profit by certain opinions, because it knew
that if it made personal attacks its motives would be
seen through, and the Livery would then have pro-
tected Mr. HARMER from its malice. Amongst
the traders of the metropolis, the standard of mo-
rality is somewhat different from that laid down in
novels, and sometimes said to prevail at Courts ; it
is not an ideal, but a practical standard, formed
from the conduct of the general run of prosperous
men in the City, and the personal attack which may
now be so injurious to Mr. HARMER, might have
. .
received a practical refutation by his triumphant
return. It would have been favourable to Mr.
HARMER. Success in his business as an attor-
ney—(we do not defend the business;and still less
the defective state of the law, which makes it one
. . .
of the most lucrative)—would have recommended
him to the Livery; and had they been then re-
minded that Mr. HA um ER had risen from low
beginnings, and that he had, at the commence-
ment of his career, many difficulties and misfor-
tunes to struggle with, would have . probably en-
sured his election. The very soul of City great-
ness is wealth acquired by industry. The
Times waited till the election was over
before it dealt this blow, when it could
serve no public purpose, and when the indignant
L very could not shield, by their votes, Mr. HAR-
MER from the attack. It was sure to go unre-
riled over the whole empire. The hustings were
down, and the Alderman could not reply publicly
to the public accusation. The malice of the assault
is fully equalled by its cunning and its cowardice.
It would be charitable to the Times to suppose
that it has become ashamed of the manner in
which it lately pandered to low and disgraceful pre-
judices, which it is not known to share ; and that it
now seeks to hide its own disgrace behind the
blackened character and distorted figure of Mr.
HARMER. The personal attack is to enable it to
retreat from the untenable position . it occupied
when it joined the hypocrites in excluding a man
from a civic office on account of the opinion of a
Journal. It seated itself on a barrel of gunpowder
which might blow, not only the Times, but the
whole press into shreds, when it denounced
as unrighteous the profit that is made
by the sale of published opinions. The
opinions it now denounces, it knows from
experience may hereafter become profitable and
fashionable, and it was treading on dangerous
grounds to appeal to vulgar prejudice to destroy
the property of a Journal, or exclude a man from
civic offices, on account of the presumed tendency
of its opinions. It might, perchance, reflect that
there is one Journal which has continually laboured
to excite the poor against a law which, by the
majority of the electors, both in boroughs and
counties, is considered most beneficial ; and it might
discover that, by an appeal to certain mischievous
opinions of the Times, its proprietor might be as
effectually barred from a seat in Parliament—for
what constituency would elect the anti-Poor-law
incendiary ?—as Mr. HARMER has been excluded
from the civic chair. It would be charitable to
the Times chits to account for its cowardly and
malignant personal attack, but that, without
abating one jot of the malignancy or the cowardice,
would brand it with insufferable meanness. Mr.
HARMER, we presume, will defend himself—we
make no pretensions to undertake such a work—we
only condemn the mean, malignant, virulent, and
cowardly conduct of the Times.

At the present moment, it is said, the cost of four
pounds weight of bread, of the same quality, is
six pence in Paris, and tenpence in London. The
people are now obliged, therefore, on four pounds
weight of bread, to pay fourpence to thel andlords
for their super-eminent services in owning the land.
More than a third of the whole price of a loaf is on
this showing paid to the landowners. Their pay,
out of the taxes, and independent of their just
rent, which is a great sum, must be at least four
times as much as is paid to the nary and
army for the protection they afford us, and the con-
quests they achieve. The services of the land-
owners ought therefore to be four times as useful to
the community as the services of the army and
navy. We were not before fully aware of the
immense and costly benefits conferred on us by
preserving and killing game, by administering the
Game-laws, by dining well and drinking hard in
the country, and by keeping splendid equipages
and gay houses, and giving parties in town. The virtue
which resides in landowning, we are ashamed to say,
had hitherto wholly escaped our observation ; we
shall hereafter be sensible of it, and, seeing that the
community is obliged by the undoubted wisdom of
Parliament, to pay such an enormous price for it,
we shall treat it with becoming reverence.
On reflection, however, we doubt very much
whether the four-pence in four pounds of bread, a
penny a pound, represents the whole tax laid on us
for the benefit of the landowners. We are of opi-
nion that bread ought to be, and would be cheaper,
in London than in Paris, but for the Corn-law ;
and to ascertain exactly how much each loaf is
taxed to reward the angelic landowners, we must
know how much lower, without a Coin-law, the
price would be in London than in Paris. Let us
look, then, at some of the circumstances which
may be supposed to influence the price of bread in
the two countries.
In England we have a gold, in France they
have a silver, standard, and, according to the most
approved calculations,' that circumstance should
make the cost of bread, measured in money, about
5 per cent. less in London than in Paris. In ten-
pence that would amount to one halfpenny, and on
that ground we say that the sum now paid to the
landowners on a four-pound loaf is fourpence half-
penny.

But the whole of the cost of any commodity is
reducible to the labour required to bring it to mar-
ket. Now, considering the comparatively little labour
employed in making agricultural tools in England,
the goodness of our roads, the great skill of our peo-
ple, their steady habits, and the facility England
possesses of water conveyance, we hazard nothing
in saying that, bushel for bushel, bread corn can be
obtained in London by one-third less labour than
at Paris. We shall do no injustice, we believe, if
we say that this would amount to one penny per four-
pound loaf, which, therefore, but for the Coin•laws,
would sell for fourhence•halfpenny in London in-
stead of tenpence.
On the principle, however, of cost being exclu-
sively measured by labour, we must estimate the
cost of bread to the manufacturers by their own

labour, not by the labour of our agriculturists, and
what it would purchase in all the markets of the

world.

" The trade of Lancashire," says the Anti-Corn-law
Circular, " under the stimulus of universal foreign com-
petition, is the most perfect in the world. Enter our
mills; and you sec machinery and skill brought to the