The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-12 00:00:00

T URXEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 21.—Through the energetic re-
monstrances of Lord Ponsonby, Baron Sturmer, and their
colleagues, measures have been just adopted at the Porte,
which, if duly carried into effect, are fraught with the most
important and beneficial results, not only to the Christian, but
to the Jewish and Turkish populations of Syria. These mea-
sures or concessions have not been obtained without the most
zealous and judicious exertions on the part of the allied Pleni-
potentiaries, who, in urging the adoption of those measures,
have manifested their earnest solicitude for the welfare of the
Syrian Christians, and for the interest of the Sultan.
It is universally known that, from the period of the Syrian
provinces heirs. restored to the legitimate rule of the Sultan,
the most grievous exactions, the most flagrant irregularities,
and the most unauthorised system of oppression has been
practised upon all classes of Syrians, but more especially upon
the divers sect of Christians inhabiting both mountains and
plains. Pachas, Beys, Mouhassells (collectors of revenue),
and Desterdars (accountants) have more or less contributed to
this reprehensible work.
Among the most notorious and pertinacious of this band
of oppressors is Negib, Pacha of Damascus. This arbi-
trary and probably corrupt fanatic has proved deaf to the
voice of reason and supplication. He has been frequently
warned and exhorted to employ moderation—to administer the
laws impartially, and to see that the taxes and duties were
levied in conformity with the reforms emanating from the hatti
scheriff of Ghulhane. Imagining himself to be secure by dis-
tance, and shielded by his influence at the Porte, Negib has
disregarded all remonstrances, and carried his tyranny to such
lengths, that the peop'e, above all the Christian population,
have been wrought up to the utmost pitch of exasperation, and
have unhesitatingly declared that the iron rule of Mehemet Ali
was a bed of roses when compared with the conch of thorns
strewed for them by this merciless satrapand his venial agents.
Matters, however, assumed such a dangerous aspect that
the foreign ambassadors have peremptorily insisted upon a ces-
sation of these abuses, and demanded the immedate adoption of
such measures as would offer the safest guarantees not only for
the security of the whole body of Christians. but for the resto-
ration of tranquillity amongst all classes of the Sultan's Syrian
subjects.
The exact nature of the measures proposed to and adopted by
the Porte have not been made public, the negotiations
having only been concluded within the last four days ; but
;t appears. firstly, that the Christians of the mountains,
governed by Emir Besehir, in lieu of addressing tltem-
selves, as heretofore, to the Sultan, through the medium
of the Pacha, will ba empowered to appoint their own
Capou Kiaya (agent or representative), at the Porte. This
personage will be the direct intermediary channel of commu-
nication to and fro, and will have it in his power not only to
make known his grievances to the Sultan. brit to appeal, in
case of extreme need, to the mediation of the allied powers.
Secondly, the Patriarch of the Maronite Christians will enjoy
the same privi'eee. He also will appoint his own representa-
tive, and will be placed in the best position to communicate
the demands of his co-religionists, and to obtain investigation
and redress. Thirdly, the Christians of all denominations in-
habiting Jerusalem, Bethlem, and its vicinity, will receive pro-
tection. Heretofore they have been exclui very abandoned
to the capricious jurisdiction of the Pacha, who has
rarely attended to their complaints, unless bribed to so do.
In order to prevent misrule, to secure to the Christians an equal
distribution of justiee, end to the Sultan an immediate know-
ledge of facts, a ferik (Lieutenant-General) will be appointed
to reside at Jerusalem. 'venially charged with the government
of the districts of Djebel Khodot, lijebel Nablouz, and Gaza,
and the protection of Christians. It will be his sole duty to
attend to their representations, to accord their just demands,
to•redress their giievances, and to report upon them direct to
the Porte. Thus all arbitrary and vexatious proceedings upon
the part of Governors and subordinates, will be checked ; that
is, as far as it is possible to bridle arbitrary power in the East.
In addition to the foregoing individual measures, an equal
system of general legal taxation will be rigidly enforced, both
as regards Christians, Jews, and Moslems; no local or exclu-
sive contributions be permitted, nor any sums allowed to be
raised, than those authorised by Government warrants, duly
and publicly proclaimed, as necessary for the exigencies of the
State.

Another measure, perhaps one of the most necessary under
existing circumstances, remained to be proposed. This wac the
immediate removal end recal of Negib Pacha. This step, it is
affirmed, was earnestly urged by Lord Ponsooby, and suported
by Baron Sturmer, but was objected to by the Grand Vizier.
Reprimand was offered, and with it assurances that Negib
should be ordered to promise amendment. To reprimand such
a man, or to expect him adhere to premises was a mere
illusion. His dismissal has, therefore, been again strenuously
urged, and will, no doubt, be accorded.
By procuring the adoption and development of this amended
system, the British, Austrian, Russian, and Prussian Ambas-
ssdors are 'entitled to the utmost praise. Nothing else. per-
haps, would have saved Syria from falling a prey to the utmost
anarchy.
The troubles mentioned in a former communication as hav-
ing taken place in Anatolia have been appeased, and several
public officers, whose misconduct had produced these outbreaks
have been dimissed. The intelligence from candia is of a less
satisfactory nature. The insurrectionists still hold out, but. the
reinforcements recently sent to Tahir Paella will probably
en ible hi.si to take a more decided c•serse.

Arlviee,4 have been reef ived thit tie ADstriart Government
has abolished the quarantine et o,sova ; the-;up,card passage
of the Danube will thus b 2 relieved from its greatest ineonve..
nience. . . ,

The Russian steamer Polar Smr has just arrive,l, and brings
the unexpected intelligence of Mehemet Ali having accepted
the conditions submitted to him io the tirmans. This intelli7
gence has created a profound and moit satisfactory sensation at
the Porte, and throughout the population.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BISHOP'S WALTHAM RICES.—THURSDAY.
The Waltham Stakes of 13 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if de-
clared, with 50 added. Mile and a half heats. (10 Subs.)
Mr. Sadler na Variety, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (Gosling) 2 1 1
Mr. Delrne nt Stickler, aged, 83t 41b 1 2 2
Mr. King's Sultana, 3 yr 3, 63t
The Chase Cup, and a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, the winner
to be sold for 301., &c. Mile and a half heats.

Mr. Buckl's Adrian, aged,9st 21b ...(Barnet) 1 1
Mr. Hopkins' Viginti, late Pluto, 5 yrs, Sat 121 b 2 '4
Mr. Hatch's Rubens, aged, 9st 21b
A match for 50/. was won by M. Sanders Trinity beating
Mr. Wilson's Snuffbox.

LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-FRIDAY.

LIVERPOOL C P.
6 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth—taken.
7 to 1 agst Calypso—taken.
7 to 1 agst Orelia—taken.
12 to I agst Naworth—taken.
12 to 1 agst Milksop—taken.
12 to 1 agst Recorder—taken.
12 to 1 agst Ernest the First.
4 to I agst Sampson.
15 to 1 agst Maroon.
)6 to 1 agst Rodanthe.
25 to 1. agst Retriever.
25 to I azst The Dean.
30 to I agst Tubalcain—taken.
Tint GOODWOOD Cur.—Lanercost is declared not to start.

THE WEATHER.—NooN, JULY 10.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET
Barometer
Thermometer... 66 Highest 6B Lowest ...... 48
Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

DUNDEE AND ARBROATH RAILWAY.--
When the one o'clock train of wagons arrived from Arbroath,
Oil Wednesday week, a tremendous shower of rain fell, and, in
order to save the passengers as much as possible from its
effects, the engine continued at full speed until within a hun-
dred and fifty yards of the halting switch, where the engine
was disjoined from the train, and turned off the :me. The
rails being very wet, the drags had not power to stop the velo-
city ; and the train, in spite of all efforts, ran on with immense
force, and struck against several passenger-coaches behind,
until they came in contact with the buffers at the west end of
the building. The coaches were considerably damaged, and
some of them were thrown up to the beams of the roof of the
building. The concussion thus caused had the effect of stun-
ning, crippling, and bruising a number of the passengers ; but,
so far al we have been able to learn, none of them were clan.
gerou ly hurt. A number of the passengers, perceiving the
approaching danger, prepared themselves for it, and conse-
quently escaped without any harm.
CORN STATISTICS.—The following statistical
information relative to corn and wheat is from returns ju-t
published by order of the late house of Commons :—lt ap-
pears from these papers, that the total quantity of foreign and
colonial wheat, and wheat-flour, imported from January 1840
to April 1841 ( both inclusive), amounted to 2,621,366 quarters,
quarters wore entered for home consump-
of which 2,525,589
tion. The total amount of duty received on the above wheat.
and wheat-flour was 1,009,0251. The monthly average price
of wheat during the above period was 31. ss. 4d. per quarter.
It further appears. that the total quantity of wheat imported
into Great Britain from the ports of Prussia, Germany,
and Holland, during 1833-3940, altogether amounted to
1,118,160 quarters, being an average of 682,265 quarters per
annum. The total quantity of wheat imported from the same
countries from 1806 to 1813 (both inclusive) was only 147,054
quarters. The total amount of foreign wheat imported into
Great Britain from 1793 to 1814, from all the ports of Europe
and America, was 9.817,401 quarters ; and the quantity of
wheat-flour, 4,0:6,421 quarters. The total quantities of
foreign wheat imported and brought into home consumption
from the passine of the Act of 18.28 to 1340, inclusive,
was 11,249,347 quarters; and the quantity of wheat-flour,
3,724,852 quarters. •
ELEGTOItri I—REGISTER ! REGISTER !
The 20th of July is the last day for sending in countyclaims ; and for lel. voters paying poor-rates and assessed
takes in borough.%
County electors who are not already regis'ered for the same
property, or who have changed their places of abode since last
July, must, on or before the 20th of July instant, send to the
overseers of the parish in which their property is situated their
claims to vote, which must contain a description of their places
of residence, the nature of qualification, and its situation, or the
tenant's name; and they must send with each claim a shilling.
Borough electors who live in 101. howses will lose their votes
unless they pay, on or before the 20th of July instant, all poor-
rates and window taxes due prior to the 6th of April last,
whether demanded by the collector or not. Scot and lot
voters will be disfranchised unless they pay, on or before the
*oth of July instant, all the poor-rates which have been de-
manded sof them up to that day.
A GOOD COMPARISON.—" What do you
think of these partial reverses which the Liberals have expe-
rienced in certain parts of England?" said an elector of Dublin,
yesterday, to a friend. " I look upon them," replied the
friend, '• as upon the man who runs a little back to make a
better leap.—Dublin Pilot.
DEATH BY DROWNING*—A person named
Charles Jenes, aged 37, a journeyman tailor, residing in St.
J• din's, lost his life in the Severn, near to the Grand Stand, on
Sunday afternoon last, about four o'clock. It appeared from
the evidence taken before Sir. Hyde, the Coroner, at the
inquest held on the body at the Grand Stand, on the following
d-y, that the deceased was intoxicated when he got into the
water. He atteMpted to swim across, but when he was got
nearly to the other side he was observed to falter and two
watermen, directly they saw his head go under, started in a
boat after him, and in about six or seven minutes he was got
out, and at that time it was evident he was alive, as one of his
legs moved afterwards. 'I he usual restoratives were imrhe-
dtately applied, and in about a quarter of an hour Mr. Eudd,
surgeon, arrived, but all means proved ineffectual to reanimate
the body. Mr. Budd gave it as his opinion that the deceased
was seized with a fit while in the water, and that that was the
reason he was not able to proceed. although a good swimmer.
Verdict—" Found drowned."— Worcester Herald.
NOBLE CONVERSION FROM POPERY.—The
Leipsic Gazette states that the Prince of Lucca has recently
been converted to Pi otestantism, a circumstance which has
.s w._ created great sensation at Rome, and throughout Italy.
7.WAPIIERiII be interesting to mothers, and, 'Lucked, to
ais • Queen's loyal subjects, ano ,alsto know that the little
_ passed two important
, epochs of her
event took
oyt-coating end " wwwing ;"I'Vcir;
4, tl5 last set ace a short tune ago, and the i
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
CHRONICLE.—The state of the revenue is naturally
enough a sore subject to men who are about to take office
pledged to oppose the only measures by which it is possible to
make good the deficiency, without adding to the burdens of
the country. They are most acutely sensible that the exist-
ence of a Tory Government is staked upon being able to go
on without imposing new taxes. But how to go on without ,
new taxes, and at the same time without breaking up their
party, by adopting the measures of their predecessors, and
attacking monopoly—here is the dilemma. Plausible oratory,
dexterous trimming between opposing interests and parties can
do mach, but it cannot do all. It cannot, as Sir R. Peel will
shortly find to his cost, put money into the Exchequer ; it can-
not enable manufacturers, who are shut out of foreign markets, to
continue working at a profit ; it cannot enable the workmen,
who were employed by those manufacturers, to find work else-
where ; it cannot enable the labouring classes generally to
spepd in sugar, beer, coffee, tea, and other taxed commodities,
the money which is wrung from their earnings to psy the land-
lord's tax ; it cannot prevent the Governments of ite Brazils,
of the United States, and of the Prussian League, from making
good their threats of using reprisals against us, if we persist in
the war of prohibitions and exclusions; it cannot, in a word,
ward off the inevitable loss of the foreign trade, which is at once
the most productive source of revenue and the principal sup-
port of our commercial and manufacturing greatness, if we
persist in the suicidal policy of alienating our best customers,
encouraging our most formidable rivals, and imposing an enor-
mous burden on the industry of the country for the benefit of
a few bloated monopolists. Sir Robert Peel and the more
sagacious Tories know this, and they are therefore far from
participating in the exultation of the hungry crew of
subordinate partisans, to whom the prospect of making
a successful grapp at the good things of office is all-in all. They
feel that until monopoly, with its consequences, is fairly con-
trasted with free trade and the consequences of free trade, the
battle can hardly be said to have begun. They feel also, that
although they have partially succeeded in disguising the real
nature of the contest at the present elections, the state of the
revenue affords an insurmountable obstacle to their doing so
again; and that, unless Providence sends the first Tory Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer a couple of millions from some source
as. yet undiscovered, twelve months cannot elapse before they,
are compelled to break cover, and show themselves so the coun-
try without evasion or disguise. No wonder, therefore, that
the state of the revenue is a sore subject with the Tories. In
the mean time they naturally enough try to put the best face
they can on the matter, by imputing the deficiency to Whig,
mismanagerrient. This is soon disposed of. If it be misma-
nagement to have relieved the country from the house-tax,
the coal-tax, the candle-tax, the soap-tax, the high rates
of postage, and other oppressive taxes, to the amount of
8,000,000/: ' and upwards annually, the Liberal Govern-
ment must plead guilty, for there is no denying that they
have done this. If it be mismanagement to have reduced offi-
cial salaries, pensions, the cost of collecting the revenue, and
other civil expenses, to a million below the amount pronounced
the ne plus ultra of economy by the Duke of Wellington's
Administration ; to this also the Liberal Government must
plead guilty. If it be mismanagement to have expended money
for the purpose of effecting the emancipation of negro slaves in
the British dominions, once more the Liberal Government
must plead guilty: If it be mismanagement to have reduced
the naval and military establishments of the country during a
time 'of profound peace, and when the political horizon became
clouded to have raised them again by a judicious and moderate
increase, which, although much less than the amount clamoured
for by the opposition, has sufficed tomaintaic and extend British
influence in every quarter of the world, and to obtain results
more brilliant and more solidly advantageous than many a Tory
Government has had to show for an expenditure of hundreds of
millions—the Liberal Government stands convicted ; that they
have done so is notorious to every body.
TIMES.—That Sir Robert Peel will have in the new Par-
liament a majority exeeeding sixty, and probably not less than
seventy, appears to us to be by this time a matter of absolute
certainty. But we have no doubt whatever that even if the
majority were less, even if it were no greater than forty or
thirty, the Conservatire leader would still be able to govern
,he country, and to carry through Parliament those measures
which he might esteem necessary for the public welfare, so
long as he conducted his Government upon really Conserva-
tive principles. Upon any other principles we have no wish
to see himlevern; and it would be idle for him to make the at-
tempt, even if he were disposed to do se. Entertaining these
feelings, it has been with unaffected astonishment that we
have' seen a respectable evening contemporary, in his na-
tural anxiety to stimulate the county constituencies to
increased exertion, playing into the hands of the enemy
by vague expressions of doubt and apprehension, as un-
founded, in our judgment, as they are unseasonable. We
have been told, that if the majority do not exceed thirty,
the farmers may make bonfires of their ploughs," and that
the Whig-Radical Ministers will, in that case, soon find their
way back again to office by the favour of the 'Crown. This is
sheer nonsense. A majority of sixty can no • more secure a
Ministry against dismissal by the arbitrary exertion of the pre-
rogative of the Crown than one of thirty ; and without some
such intervention of prerogative, the Whigs could not succeed
in recovering office till the majority, whether of 60 or 30,
should be converted into an absolute minorty. We have no
fear of either of these contingencies. The Queen, we are sa-
tisfied, will never make any unbecoming use of her preroga-
tire; and Sir Robert Peel will not, by resorting to the vio-
lent measure (albeit, recommended by our evening contempo-
rary) of a second dissolution within the present year, or any
other similar insanity, give the Crown occasion for such a
clringe of Ministry as the country might be content to ac-
quiesce ins Stiil less (if anything could be less) probable would
be a diminution of Sir R. Peel's majority below the number
of those who may now be returned as his pledged supporters,
in any event except that of a departure, on his part, from Con-
servative principles. Does any man suppose that the agricul-
tural Whigs, for instance, however unwilling they may have
been to desert their party when in office, will be particularly
anxious to bring them back again for the express purpose of
repealing the Corn-laws? Nothing can be more obvious than
that there must be a considerable moderate party, consisting of
men now classified by the Ministerial prints under the
general title of Reformers, who may be depended upon as an
eventual reinforcement to the ranks of the Conservative Mi-
nistry.
ADVERTISER.—If the Tory journals really feel the full
confidence they profess of Sir Robert Peel immediately suc-
ceeding to the Premiership on the assembling of Parliament,
it might naturally be expected that they would make some sug-
gestions or surmises as to the ends to which may be shaped the
councils of that Right Hon. Baronet. But as the wily chief
has been studiously careful to evade any distinct enuncia-
tion of his intended policy, his echoing organs of the press
studiously avoid any more explicit declaration in this re-
gard, lest, on many other occasions, they might mistake
their cue, and give utterance to opinions different from
those which in a short time may be marked out for their
advocacy. Accordingly, instead of speculating on the measures
which may be proposed, the Tory press, true to the selfish sen-
timent which prefers faction to country, indulges in anticipa-
tive discussions with respect to the amount of the majority
necessary to maintain Sir R. l'bel in office, and argues the im-
propriety of his resigning, so long as a bare majority would
affo-d him a pretext for retaining the reins of Government,
•It is not, therefore, the measures to be proposed by either
party, to which the Tory press so much addresses its atten-
tion, as to the capability of its own party keeping in power.
Measures affect the country—the possession of office, apart
from measures, affects only the party seeking patronage ;
and therefore it is no wonder that the Tory re-
tainers should discuss that which concerns self rather than
that which concerns the State. In this regard the Standard
is peculiarly distinguished in calculating the lowest majority
with which Sir Robert Peel might remain in office for practical
purposes, which it considers must not be less than sixty or
seventy, " but," continues our Contemporary, " if the Eng-
lish counties give away any more seats to Whig-Radicals, the
majority will scarcely be more than twenty or thirty. But if
the majority be so small as this, the farmers of England may
make bonfires of their ploughs.. The Whig-Radical Ministers
will, whether in or out of office, be the real victors, as far as
results are concerned. If even compelled to retire for a time
from office, they will soon, by the aid of the Court, regain
their position with augmented strength and resources, will dis-
solve the Parliament once more, and re-kindle the agricultu-
ral agitation in ten-fold fury.
HERALD.—We adverted on Monday last to the " Job's
comfort" in which the Whig press were indulging, that
" another dissolution would in all probability follow, at no dis-
tant period, the nearly balanced state of parties in the new
Parliament, and that then"—vie should, of course, see what we
should see ! We never regirded this as anything more than
one of those puerile threats by which passionate weakness at-
tempts to wipe off the disgrace of a present drubbing by idle
vaunt§ of future revenge. " I eat, and eke I swear," quoth
Pistol. But alas 1 for their " nearly-balanced state of parties I"
Every day as the Whigs are weighed in the balance, they
are found more and more wanting ; and to talk of their
having weight enough in the new Parliament to turn the
scale in their favour becomes more palpably ridiculous. This
is at length confessed : but still the Ministerial press
will not abandon their absurd suggestion of another dissolution.
They cannot get on in the way of reasoning or retort, discus-
sion or denunciation, without it ; and the "nearly-balanced
state of parties," as a practical fact, being given up, we are yet
to have another general contest, on the metaphysical grounds
that, in the present, "the moral preponderance has failed of
carrying with it the numerical !" " Nor can any party," con-
tinues the Chronicle, " complain, should the appeal be thus
renewed ;" and, truly, the three reasons given for this strange
d ctum have such an effect upon our risibility as to put us
almost hors de combat fir argument. The first is, that no-
body imagined last summer that they should have this sum-
mer " to try the momentous question (the repeal of the Corn.
laws), which has since arisen," and " that we need a regis-
tration for that specific object." Why, Ministers stick
to
hebaaioter,t,i:t;ieats the
, ,they say at the Old Bailey, that they all along
momentous question" in their eye ; and how
es,itatsit reen,gnoi,rtratr,,n oilerteok placethecoun?try
Bhaevseidaesg, liifmwpseeaoref
to
have a new registration for every "specific object," it well, in-
deed, be as the Chronicle heads its leading columns, " Regis-
ter ! Register !" and nothing else but " Register !"
of We shall be-
come, to use a cant adverb the philosophic free-traders,
" essentially " a registering pe4le
consulting the sense of the country The second reason for
the fair faaigraai nn
is,and
Con-
servatives, "averted, bycompletethat the
sta+e
-ment of the question by Rh LegulvairtiaPtarliamentary discussion,"
and that "the fraud
they can claim." ' The trick herde
any victory which
sup-
pose, is the " old trick" which Lord John freonenadnta,t fourwe o'clocirone fine morning he had lost together with the stake he was
playing for—the confidence the House of Commons. But,
pa-
tience be with us and with all men. To say that.
thereas
has
been no Parliamentary discussion on the Corn-laws flf Mi-
Villiers were at this moment dead and buried at New Zealand,
his ghost would rise up through the centre of the earth to
he
oliroi:
test against such a monstrous misrepresentation; and, as
happily in the flesh, we trust that he will not allow it to
pass
uncontradicted. He owes this to a public whom has sore-
peatedly bored, as well as to his own labours, which are thus
cruelly made of no account
POST.—The speech of Lord Morpeth to the electors of
the West Riding of Yorkshire on the day of the nomination
of candidates for that immense district, demands some
additional attention to that which we have already given
it. It demands this attention, not on account of the
• tance or truth of what his Lordship said, but for the
importance
very opposite reason. His Lordship is
.a Cabinet Minister,
and has been looked to, we understand, as the rising hope
of the party in the event of anything happening to
that wonderful little man Lord John Russell. Consi-
dering, then, the importance of the occasion, we may conclude
that this Minister made out the very best case he could for
the company of the State managers to which he belongs, and
it is worth while to see how this case stands when examined
by the tests of truth and reasonableness. We have already
referred to his Lordship's philosophical indifference to the
political distinctions between Conservatives andat
that both
His statesmanlike vision only discerns the fact
Conservatives and Chartists are opposed to the existing
Administration. This one fact is so large an object
in his Lordship's contemplation that it quite ob-
scures and covers such small distinctions as that
one party is for overthrowing the British Constitution and the
rights of property, while the other is zealously, devoted to the
preservat on of both. But let us turn to the arguments of
this Minister upon the present state of the country and its
future prospects. He alludes to the disturbed state of our
relations with foreign countries. This disturbed state has been
referred to by the Conservative leaders, as furnishing at once
a clue to the existing commercial distress, and a hope of its
alleviation, by resorting to a better policy, which will
substitute tranquillity for 'disturbance. • But the itirmis.