The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-17 00:00:00

himself was involved in the issue of the fierce hostilities
commenced against him by the great European Powers.
The PACHA adhered to all his engagements,
with a rare regard for the spirit in which he had made them,
instead of falling back on the palpable degree in which his
adversaries had broken through the letter, as well as the
spirit of their contract, with him, which will ever attach a
lustre to his name, shared onlyby the greatest and therarest,
because the most honest and truthffil among the Princes of
enlightened and moral Christendom. The route he
had conceded, and all the commerce upon it, were
sacredly, promptly, uninterruptedly, protected. It
is known that Mr. WAGnom is entitled to the credit
of having been permitted to maka representations to
MEHEMET Au on this subject, which in no little degree
probably contributed to fix the final determination of the
PACHA. The deportment of the Prince in this affair may
look in vain to be mated with parallels in the history of
European treaties and the maintenance of European diplo-
matic relations.

But a time has now arrived—a crisis perhaps the most,
eventful, for good or for evil (and we conscientiously believe
the former), in the future destiny of India, and of its British
connexion—that has ever happened. Early and uninterrupted
intelligence from a country which is about to become, once
more, the theatre of stupendous events, in a renewed struggle
between the moral and physical energies of the European and
the Asiatic, becomes a necessity of more than ever impera
tive exigency with the British public—of mo:•s than ever in-
tense interest to the British Government. At such a time,
and with the recent exemplification before them of the spirit
and facility he has displayed in organising a new,
a shorter, and, in some respects, a preferable overland route,
available in the event of the existing one being interrupted,
whether from physical accidents or bad faith on the part of
foreign functionaries, Lieutenant WAGTIORN has established
new claims to the gratitude of this country, and to distinc-
tions of a solid as well as honourable nature at the hands of
her MAJESTY'S Ministers. We perceive with high gratifica-
tion the progress of the subscriptions towards the " WAG-
HORN Testimonial ;" but we earnestly hope that some pro-
motion in his professional rank, and some decoration or in-
signia of merit of a character as much beyond the ordinary
scale of such rewards, as his services to the empire have
been beyond the ordinary scale of simply professional ser-
vices, may be conferred upon him, with the approbation and
by the desire of his SOVEREIGN.

National gives the following abridged accounts of the state of
the-crops in the Continental States :—" In France this year
the harvest has been only middling, and even admitting that
it is adequate when considered by itself; it is certain that it
will not be sufficiently abundant to compensate for the defi-
ciency which the absence of other produce, such as potatoes,
&c., ought to cause. Consequently France will not export.
Italy and Spain have been neither favoured nor ill-treated,
but their exports are too insignificant to afford an efficient
aid to other nations. The Austrian States, with the eitoep-
tion of Hungary, are so poor in corn this year, that the po-
pulation is menaced with great privations. The quantity of
wheat in store at Trieste has never been so reduced as at
present. No news has been received from Fiume (west of
Hungary). In the lower provinces of the Danube and in
Moravia, the harvest is anything but abundant. Going
up higher, wheat is found in tolerably great quantities,
but there is a complete absence of the means of transport.
Western Russia, Poland, and a part of Silesia, usually so
rich in corn, are this year in a bad position, and, from having
generally an overplus, they must most probably borrow this
year from abroad. Consequently, the Prussian ports of the
Baltic, which, under ordinary circumstances, export the pro-
duce of Poland and Western Russia, will not furnish any-
thing to the rest of Europe. Neither Sweden nor Norway
can be looked to for anything. The little kingdom of Den-
mark alone has this year been extraordinary for its fertility,
and although what it will be able to export may appear
considerable when compared with the narrow extent of its
territory, it will in reality be but a trifle compared with the
mass of wants which require to be satisfied. The insuffi-
ciency of European agriculture is therefore demonstrated,
and we must turn our views towards the two Americas, and
particularly the United States." Accounts had been re-
ceived from Algiers to the 9th instant, but they bring
no . intelligence of interest, and not a word about the
Governor-General. It was generally believed at Paris,
that Mr. HAY, the British Consul-General in Morocco,
had declared to the EMPEROR the wish of England
that he should aid France in capturing or expelling
AHD-EL-FADER from Morocco. This has given great cause
of offence to M. THIERS'S journal, which will allow England
no influence whatever in a country with which it has been
so long on good terms. The article which refers to the sub-
ject is a curiosity. Nothing will please M. TIIIERS but ab-
solute and sole dominion. We give a few extracts :

" The active intervention of Mr. Drummond Hay, the repre-
sentative of England at Morocco, in our difficulties with Abder-
rhamann, has not been forgotten. Neither has it been forgotten
how unfruitful was this intervention, and the interpreta-
tions that were put upon it in France and Africa. To a cer-
tain degree, it was no doubt sincere. England really wished
Abderrhaman to accede to the terms of our ultimatum, which
were moderate to excess ; she wished to prevent a war be-
tween Morocco and France. She could not succeed, but, on
the contrary, the intervention of Mr. Drummond Hay pro-
duced an effect on the minds of the Arabs :directly opposite
to that which it was intended to have. They regarded it ra-
ther as a mark of protection than a menace. They believed,
and not without reason, that England would put impassable
barriers in the way of our military operations. The declara-
tions of the British agent, therefore, increased their confidence,
instead of putting upon it a wholesome constraint. It is now
announced that Mr. John Drummond Hay has succeeded to
the functions of his father In Morocco, and that he has re-
cently received orders from his Government to go to the Em-
peror, and recommend him to assist, as far as might be in
his power, our expedition against Abd-el-Kader, and decth-e
to him that Great Britain acknowledged our right to pursue
our implacable enemy on the territories of his empire. This
step has the same character as the first, is attended with the
same inconveniences, and will be followed by the same conse-
quences. To be better able to judge of this, our real position
with regard to the Emperor of Morocco must be taken into
consideration. Abderrhaman is bound to us by two solemn
treaties—that of Tangiers and that of Lalla Maghrina—
by which together he has engaged himself te reduce Abd-el-Kader
into a state to do us no injury, either by confining him to the
interior of Morocco, or by delivering him into our hands. The
Emperor has done nothing, has attempted nothing, towardc
carrying his engagements into execution, We hive a right
to punish this breach of promise, this flagrant violation of
the most express stipulations, and a fortiori we have a right
to insist upon a tardy concurrence, and to take all such
measures as are necessary for the security of our frontier.
This is so self-evident that the most unwilling are compelled to ac-
knowledge it What signifies then the officious interference of
England? What sense can there be in the declaration of Mr.
John Drummond Hay? In truth but one alone. That the most
formal treaties are obscure in the eyes of the Emperor of Morocco
until England has put her interpretation upon them ; that the as-
sent of England to his most solemn obligations is indispensable to
make him believe that he is bound by them ; that the protection of
England will, if need be, defend Morocco against the most incon-
testible rights of France. The step of Mr. Drummond Hay, per-
fectly useless in the enlightenment of the question, cannot have
any other effect than to weaken the force of the stipulations, and
render still more vain treaties already trampled upon."

The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers—