The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-24 00:00:00

TURKEY AND EGYPT.

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(From the Messager.)
That we may not wander at random in the midst
of contradictoly reports which oppose each other
relative to the affairs of the East, it is necessary that
we should come to a distinct understanding in re-
spect to the positions, views, and interests of the

parties.
Three Powers occupy the scene as actors ; the
others fill only accessory and subordinate pasts. - -
Of these three Powers, one alone proceeds in an
open and independent manner, with a view to an
end which has been publicly avowed : we mean
Mehemet Ali. He has fixed upon the part which
he has determined on under all circumstances ; he
has done better; he has made himself master of-this
part, and it is evident from the nature of the places,
of the things, and of the peopleohat it is impassible
to dispossess him of it. All might be finished with
respect to him, if a simple formality of authentic
admis.ion were to proclaim as a right what exists
irrevocably as a fact. The delay of this acknow-
ledgment does not prejudice him who awaits it. He
continues to accumulate new pledges in his hands,
saving his right either to retain them, or to make a
favour of their relinquishment as future circum-
stances shall one day render advisable.
Another of these three Powers has appeared in
the arena, with a similar intention of taking part in
the affair; but unlike the Egyptian, the Autocrat
dares neither to avow nor to define, nor to seize
openly the objects of his desire.
The obstacles to the accomplishment of his de-
signs arise from four quarters:-Ist, from the
Sul an, who, iu accepting assis ante, had not con-
sented to the price which is demanded for it; 2dly,
from his people, who have not been consulted, and
who do not cease to see in the Russians, who are
insinuating themselves as friends on the banks of
the Bosphorus, the eternal enemies of the Crescent;
3,11 y, from the maritime nations• interested in the
affairs of the East, s' ho still hesitate to interfere, but
who do not the less signify their opposition to any
new aggrandisement on the part of Russia in this
part of the globe; 4thly, from Ibrahim, who, having
it in his power to effect from day to day a reconci-
liation with the Sultan, by means of a treaty ac-
cording to his views, would become the day after
the signature the most effective of the auxiliaries of
his former master against the Muscovite. The third
of the Powers engaged in this grand drama, is poor
Mahmoud, the sport of events, and destined to sup-
port alone, whatever may be the issue, the expense
of the drama.

The part of this Prince does not depend on his
own will. He must submit to times and circum-
stances. Self-love, pique, the feeling of a wounded
dignity, inflame him against his vassal, and cause
him to seek for the assistance of the most inveterate
adversary of his house; but this position cannot be
continued for a long time; it is too much in oppo-
sition to the prejudices of his people to prevent the
antipathy which they entertain against the Russians
from breaking the apparent harmony which unites
them momentarily under the same tents.
Fancy an army formed of so incoherent an amal-
gam, marching through Asia Minor, to meet Ibrahim.
Can it be doubted that, once in the presence of one
another, there would be a sudden reunion of the
Mu,sulmen from the two shores against an abhorred
race ? What would become of this Russian corps,
attacked by the victorious troops of Ibrahim, be-
trayed by the Turks, who, a moment before, made
common cause with it, and harassed by all the indi-
genuous population, animated by the same feelings
and the same hatred ? And all tuis taking place in
countries, ruined, deprived of communications, and
affording no town in which they might hope to de-
fend themselves. When the news of it came to
Constantinople, wculd it not be the signal for a ge-
neral movement against all the posts of the Russians?
One must be vet), little acquainted with the coun-
tries and the nations in the midst of which is the
theatre of these events, to doubt for one moment of
such an issne ; besides, it is so much the more pro-
bable, as the Court of St. Petersburg!) is too distaut
to be able to aliment this remote straggle with
troops proportionate in number to their enemies.
Hence it is to be presumed that the Russians will
not quit the shores of the Bosphorus : they could
not do it without imminent danger.
The conduct of the European Powers should be
governed by these considerations; they must desire,
in any case, the settlement of the political state of
Mehemet Ali. Let them employ their influence in
his favour ; this point gained, the question is sim-
plified. They have nothing more to do than to keep
a strict watch on the pretensions of the Russians;
if there is the least agreement between them, nothing
will be more easy ter them than to bring them to
terms which may allay the inquietudes which they
have crea ed. France should put itself at the head
of such a combination. This character would be
more rational and more honourable than the unfor-
tunate attitude which Admiral Roussin has been
forced to assume.

All the accounts agree in stating that the
apple trees earoughnut Somerset and Devon afford a flatter-
ing prospect ef an abundant crop. The price of cider in
the Sauth Hams has fallen to about 354. per Ipigsbead.

STATE OF OHIO.—In April, 1788, forty-
seven adventurers from New England settled the town of
Marietta. Its November of the same season a settlement
was made six miles from Cincinnati, under the auspices of
JOHN CLEVES SvststEs, of New Jersey. Cincinnati was set-
tled the Dec. following ; the courses of the streets being
blazed on the trees which composed the dense forest that
then waved, where now stands the beautiful tt Queen of
the West." The whole cost of the section in which Cin-
cinnati is laid out was torty.ninedollar-' worth of land
warrants. The population in 1795 was 500 ; in 1813,
4,000; and in 1832, 31,000. Another instance where
individual agency and enterprise alone has built up a city
thus rapidly, cannot be found in the history of the world.
It was some years after settlements were commenced on
the Ohio river, before a lodgement was made in the north
part of the State. But once effected, the whole State was
rapidly populated. Soon were the chasms and notches
cut out of the forest in every direction. The deep wil-
derness and flowering prairies were doted with thousands
of log cabins, intermixed in many places with the bark
wigwams of the Indian. There rose the stately brick edi
flee, the pride and boast of some village that looked out to
heaven front the midst of an embowering wood, the child
of yesterday, while around it a hundred rude hamlets of
the hardy pioneers of the west sent up their cheering
smokes, amid a thousand dead trees that surrounded the
incipient settlement. In 1790, the population of the ter-
ritory which now constitutes the State of Ohio, was
3,000 ; but such has been the resistless tide of emigration
that the population has multiplied i self ten times the first
ten years ; in the second ten years, seven times ; in the
third ten years, twice and a half ; and in-the fourth ten
years, nearly thrice ; m iking the population in 1830,
937,000. Ohio Atlas.