The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-09 00:00:00

istice and good faith. Neither
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r-•r surrendering the Porte to the in-
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the ally to vrhorn Great Britain is

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s of having real y
difficu:ty and danger.
cannot see how the dao!ers of

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.1-Iced by the pres,:at

Tile Porte itaelf, an,! A

ussia too, are equrilly blind it we are
no matter for that ; justice requires tro:li
7 to protect the Sultan front Mehemet Ali ;

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justice is

from good purity, which
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edeject we caecot have any regerd to the displeaeure
of i.l.rance.. We wish sincerely to be et peace wed on
gotell terms with the French people, but we cannot
allow• the ccprice of any party in France to govern
-the British empire to the extent of compelling us
to' eeierve • from the line of justice end good faith.
What right hes France to stipulate in behalf oh
Mehemet Ali ?- He is no Sovereign, has never been
-ach,now,leelg-ed es the representative of the supreme
pewee of any. State, he does net eves hiniself arrogate
theetitle of Sovereignty—he is known to be, and he :lc-
.; keowledges himself to be, the subject of the Porte.
What right, then, has France to stipulate in his beheli?
In.the intercourse of nations, the representatives of the
supreme power of each State, and these only, are known
to one another, diplonmey recognises no subordinntf s ;
and the, rigid observance of this rule is necessary to. the
peace of the world, because upon it rests the reciprocal
independence of nations. Admit, to-day, the right of
France to make terms for Mehemet Ali, and you cannot
to-morrow complain of the exercise -of that right .in
behalf of .Papineau, O'Connell, Mackenzie, or any
.other traitor. We repeat it, France has no more right
to take. part with a rebel subject of the Porte
.than
she has to take part with a rebel subject of our
Queen. Bat, although one nation has no right to
ally itself to the rebels of another nation against the
Government of
.that other, save where interests higher
than the interests of civil Government, save where the
interests of religion arc concerned--the necessity of
preeerving public order, peace, and the balance of power,
require.; that the converse proposition be not accepted
without large qualification. Where the preservation of
a State it essential to the security of order and tran-
quillity, and of a due proportion among its neighbours,
its neighbours and allies have the same right to protect
it from annihilation by rebellion, that they have to pro-
tect it froth annihilation by the aggression of foreigners ;
and they are more particularly bound to exercise this
right, when their own acts have brought on the danger.
Thus we see that though France has no right to ally
itself with Mehemet , Ali, the Allies; who for peace
sake, rent from the Turkish empire the most valuable
part of its European dominions, are entitled and bound
to guarantee to the power thus despoiled the peaceful
and secure enjoyment of the remainder of its territo-
ries. So much for France at present.
(From the Fourier.)
We are no alarmists, but we cannot view without
apprehension the new phasis the Eastern question has
sullied, and the impulse imparted to the war party in
ce- by the recent intelligence from Syria. It may
as our Ministerial Contemporaries, echoing the
ge of the .lournal des Debuts, affirm, that the
rdarent of Beyrout was but the pure and simple
exQcuticn of the Treaty of London ; but its effect on the
French people and Government was no less alarmingly
exciting on that account. All know with what rapidity
excitement spreads, and how instantaneous is its action
on the public mind, as well as how prone those labour-
ing under it are to commit themselves irrevocably
1 3 the adoption of rash and violent measures.
N'othieg excitement so much delights in as in hasty de-
termination ; it selects some object on which its fery
may be expended, and, mistaking impulse for decision,
it hopes by precipitancy to create if not to find one.
pears to us to be the state of the public mind of
at this moment, a state which requires those
wiv.:se duty it is to check, control, and direct it, the
t exercise of prudence, caution, and calm delibera-
But if we, are to found our judgment regarding
the competency of French statesmen to grapple with
diflicelties of their tiresent position, either from the
the Journals understood to convey their send-
meats to the public, or from the nature of the advice
-they have tendered to their Sovereign, then must we
conclude theta to be themselves completely under the
iefietnice of that excitement which it was their duty to •
nave suppressed in others. For what can be more ob-
jectionahle than the course proposed by M. Thiers,
l
ere understand' finally adopted by the Cabinet,
.mely, to a (!lress en ullintatum to the Four Powers,
.te,,c'inuta4l
cri tfu:.,l and precise definition of what Fiance
t once the casuS bells Such a step would be
provoking and menacing, and consequently likely
'col to the commission by the Allied Powers of those
eery acts eillieb it announces as the certain forerunner
c.:±' a declaratiort of war.

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AWFUL DEATH
BY riHE.—On Thursday, the
wife of Mr. Joseph Greenwa' owner, residing in
circ
7:leadow-row, in the illockhYo'nemba%trgamee met with a premature
had
been
; —lt seems that
leath under the following
1-‘,• iio6and of the deceased
use the previous evening, and on coming drinkingca at a pub..
..:er. eleven and twelve o'cleek, he fell
asraing home, be--
chen from thc effects of the drink he had tak:n. in
this kit-
who was also overcome with liquor, was lying His wife
asleep with
1:„.r bead reclining upon a table, on which was a liebte4
..nd the husband states that ha was awoke 41, ,ut
o'clock by the screams of his wife, whom be found co-
in dames. These, with some difficulty, ho tee.
ce,:aea in quenching; and assistance being procured, the
unfortunate woman was conveyed to the Infirmary, where
she lingered in extreme agony until six o'clock the same
ening, when death put a period to her sufferings. On
Satnrday afternoon Mr. Hyde held an inquest on the body,
~,,hich prevT.ted a most eopallin,,,,, specmcle ; scarcely a
feature of the countenance was diFrernible, and both the
.),
. c;,,ts were litei-ally burnt to a cinder 1 The jury re-
, ,ned 1 verdict of +'Ace:dental death."— Worcester
Chronicle.
l'he Lail .
(~,4,_c. . and Countess of _Ripon and Viscount
arrivedc`-',:yunetncLiyt. at their mansion, at North Mims, ll:rts,
xeat of r,lri. evening, from Studley Park, the magnific,.Lt
lends to re-let hzence, in Yorkshire, His Lordship in- i
Trhich 'sunder ]sass mansion in Carlton-gardeo,:,
Icon to the lit of a); to the ill, fated Prince Louis N3po. I
twelvemonth. The Nacoernber, he having taken it for a
ready taken pcslession, bi.,1:4 Earl's agent has, however, r!..
a:Tient being. broken up, the Prince's est,blish
tfita7 banker., in St. Jame , paid off by Messrs. 1-LrrieF,
a s-street _

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