The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-06 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock.

The New Tariff Bill was read a second time in the
House of Lords last night. The number of Non-Con-
tents, notwithstanding the dire menaces of the Dukes of
RICHMOND and BUCKINGHAM, was only four ! Had the
Bill been brought in by Lord MELBOURNE'S Administra-
tion, more than two hundred Peers would have voted
against it. It is not measures but men that
sway the judgment of their Lordships. Loud and me-
nacing in their tone towards the Whig Premier, they
whine out an humble assent to the slightest command-
ing gesture of their dread master, Sir ROBERT PEEL.
For such an assembly it is impossible for the country to
entertain the shadow of respect.

Advices from Constantinople of the 17th ult. state that
three of the five great Powers, namely, Austria
France, and England, have resolved to adopt force to
compel Turkey to remove the present Governor of
Syria, and to afford adequate proteaion to the Chris-
tian inhabitants of Lebanon. ale Conference at which
this resolution was adopted was held at the French
Ambassador's Palace at Therapia, at which the Repre-
sentatives of the live Powers were present. The Eng-
lish, French, and Austrian Ministers, represented suc-
cessively that they had exhausted all dignified and be-
coming means of remonstrance—that the Divan treated
their complaints with silent contempt, or only replied to
them by prevaricating evasions, and that nothing re-
mained but either to desert the Syrian Christians to the
cruellest brutalities, and thus cast a stain upon the
Christian name, or effect their deliverance by force. The
former alternative could not be entertained for an
instant by the Sovereigns of Austria, France, and
England, and therefore nothing remained but to
coerce the Porte into the performance of its engage-
ments respecting its Syrian subjects. The Russian and
Prussian Ambassadors disapproved of this course, with-
out direct and positive instructions from their respective
Courts. They were prepared to go all lengths with their
colleagues in the way of remonstrance, but coercive mea-
sure involved serious consequences, which they were not
prepared to encounter. Russia has two motives for
deelinin: to co-operate with England, France, and Austria.
By remaining neutral she secures to herself the gratitude
of the Porte. She contrives to have it believed that she
is sincere in her guardianship of the Turkish empire, and
thus throws the Turkish authorities off their guard.
Trusting to the great influence of her co-religionists in
Turkey and Syria, she hopes to benefit by every hostile
step taken by the other Powers. Her next reason for not
interfering is her dread of establishing a precedent which
at some future day Europe might deem applicable to the
case of Poland. The great Powers are not more bound
by conventions to maintain the liberties of Syria, than
all Europe is bound by the Treaty of Vienna to preserve
the nationality of Poland. Be these matters as they
may, the Representatives of Austria, France, and
England were not deterred from their purpose, and on
the 10th ult. secret instructions were sent to Malta,
ordering, as is supposed, a strong naval force to proceed
forthwith to Beyrout. The present Grand Vizier, IzzET
PACIIA, has lost the oonfidence of the Foreign Ministers,
and the worst measures are anticipated from his con-
tinuance in office. The following character of this
Minister is from the Constantinopolitan correspondence

of the Morning Post, dated the 17th ult.:—
Improving on the traditional maxims which heretofore go-
verned the diplomacy of the Porte, and which tended to banish,
from its intercourse with other nations, all confidence and
Itindly feeling, and, in short, everything that cements the union
of man and man, or nation and nation, Izzet Pacha has, in
all his relations with them, displayed a bad faith, to which
the Porte, from motives of self-respect, was hitherto a stranger ;
while, from the native malignity of his disposition, he has siggested
an exhibition of ingratitude which has lowered beyond redemption
the character of his' Government, and which could only have been
'prompted by a man like himself, who (the fact is well known) had,
among other atrocities, waitonly murdered a personal bene-
factor. And yet this man has his admirers among Christians
and Europeans. Their admiration must have its source in a
feeling somewhat akin to the morbid sympathy now so gene-
rally betrayed towards criminals in England, and which, in their
case is the more sublime, that certainly no felon, who ever
darkened the threshold of Newgate, or whose deeds have
blackened the pages of its calendar, could for a moment have
compared, for the number, variety, and enormity of his of-
fences, with the miscreant who is now Grand Vizier.
According to the latest accounts from Syria the whole
Country was overrun with the Albanians, whom the
GRIND VtztEu pledged himself to the English Ambas-
sador, were not to be allowed to pass beyond the walls
of Acre. Murder, rapine, and outrages, too shocking

to name, are said to be daily perpetrated by them with

impunity. There is no protection in the country for
life or property beyond the walls of the Consular esta-
blishments. We fear it will not be otherwise while the
sovereignty of Syria is in the hands of the Porte. There
is no disguising the fact that the Ottoman power seems
absolutely'vforn out. White the rest of the world is pro-
gressing,' ,rarke}- stand's still, resting one hand upon the
sword, and the:other upon the Koran. The promulga-
tion of the Hatti,Scheriff promised a 'great reform in the
government of Turkey, but the movement was rather
tha.result- of -electric shock than the action of a body
abounding hi'good health and spirits.
The following extracts from a letter from Constants
ople,. ,dated flip 17th ult., contain the latest miscella-
neous news from the Turkish capital
:
Sir J. SI'N ell,- G. C. 8., arrived from Teheran, via Trebi-
send on the 13th. His Excellency was accompanied by i‘lr.
Todd, attache, proceeding home on leave and by Mr. Bon-
ham, her Majesty's Consul at Tahreez. It is understood that
Sir John will leave this on the 20th to return home via the
Danube and Vienna, by' which quarantine is avoided. At
the departure of the Mission from Teheran, where Colonel
Shiel remains as Charge d'Affaires, with Colonel Far-
• rant and Dr. Bell,' no direct accounts had been
received from Colonel Stoddart and Color.el Conolly.
Private, reports had,' however,. been brought, stating that
these gallant officers were detained in strict confinement, and
qot peimitted the .use of pens _and paper.. It it hoped that the
_fewsof suciesies, which have undoubtedly crowned our arms
se, Caubnl, will coatribufe to their release from the hands of
the capricious and tyrannical Khan, whose ingratitude to these
officers is upon a par with his barbarity. At the present
moment, various cases containing valuable presents, consisting
of useful articles, are now waiting at Teheran to be conveyed
to Bukhara. Mr. Shakespeare has succeeded at Khiva in
obtaining the freedom of all the Russian slaves, and it is
hoped that Mr. Abbot will be equally successful in procuring
the release of the Persians.

There is very little news in the French papers of
Monday, apart from the extraordinary despatch intelli-
gence, published in The Sun of yesterday. That little
relates, for the most part, to the elections, with the ex-
ception of the following telegraphic despatch from
Africa, which appears in the official columns of the
~onitenr :

" THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE FRENCH POSSESSIONS

IN AFRICA TO THE MINISTER OF WAR.
" Alwaits, *NNE 30.—The column from Medeah has
a second time destroyed the fortifications, partly rebuilt,
of the fort of Boghar. All the tribes .n the route,
and even at a distance, have submitted. This division
has brought back one piece of cannon and a number of
deserters from the regular troops of Bakani, which were
completely destroyed. Our troops return because they have
no more enemies to combat. All the chiefs of the tribe of
Beni Moussa made their submission yesterday at Algiers. The
entire East appears disposed to follow the Same course. Com-
mercial relations are being established rapidly.'
As the election struggles draw nearer, the violence
of the different- organs of parties increase. They at-
tack the partisans or each other tooth and nail. The
3.linisterialists are taunted as the tools of England ; the
partisans sif the Opposition are branded as the enemies
of all order, regi,:idei, revolutionists, and terrorists.
These are hard names, equally undeserved on both sides.
• ORAN, JUNK 23.—The Etna steamer, which arrived on the
20th from Algiers, brought orders for the 2d regiment of the
line immediately to embark far Bona. The first battalion of
•Ihat regiment embarked 'accordingly on board the Etaa 4nd the
Tartars steamers, which left during the night.
The most complete tranquillity prevails in the provinces,
and the communications between Oran, Mascara, Mostaganem,
and Tlemcen, are
perfectly
free.
men are going to cut the hay in the valley of the Tlelat, to
which a cons pany of infantry has been sent.
The Volsge brig, which arrived in the road yesterday, from
Cadiz, Gibraltar,
and Matte, announces that the Jena of the
Ana and the Africaine frigate
continue. to "cruise on nisthe coast of
Ainrocoo.
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