The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-07 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock.

The journey of the QUEEN through her northern
dominions naturally forms the great topic of con-
versation, not only among the Scotch people, but also
among her loyal subjects in the south ; and, whe-
ther we contrast her conduct on this occasion with
that of her predecessors towards a country from
which they derived their title to the throne of these
realms, or view it simply on its own merits,
it is entitled to the highest commendation.
The first three Sovereigns of the House of Bruns-
wick never could forget or forgive the ardent at-
tachment of the Scotch nation to the unfor-
tunate family of the STUARTS. They seemed always
afraid ofi some fresh outbreak, or some open insult to
their line; they heard of the ardour and enthusiasm
with which Jacobite songs were repeated in every
mansion and cottage in the north, and on the occasion
of any serious disturbance in England, looked with
fear and trembling to some more dangerous move-
ment among the Highland clans. This dislike, or
rather dread of the Scotch people, displayed itself in
various ways. They refrained from visiting the
country, and enforced the same rule on the different
branches of their families, for we are not aware that
• any member of the Royal family, up to the reign of
GEORGE IV., entered the country on a friendly visit.
One Royal Duke, it is true, was sent to the north,
but he was sent as a scourge, and his name will long
be remembered. The fourth GEORGE visited the
Capital only when he was old and infirm. The display
was magnificent ; everything that could give effect to
the scene was amply provided, and the people received
him with enthusiasm, but still it could not be con-
cealed that personal vanity and love of show
were mixed up with the whole proceedings. The
journey of the present SOVEREIGN is of a very diffe-
rent character. Her MAJESTY, on the first conve-
nient opportunity, and while in the bloom of youth,
departs for the North with as little display as the loy-
alty and attachment of her people would permit. It
was her wish that the visit should be conducted as
privately as possible, and she consented to imitate the
conduct of her uncle by a grand procession, rather to
gratify the inhabitants, and make amends for the hur-
t ried manner in which she entered the city, than for
any personal gratification. She does not limit her
journey to the capital, but proceeds to the interior,
to mix with her people, and visit scenes rendered
illustrious by deeds of former times. From this
Royal progress, as it has been called, the-best results
may be anticipated, both as regards the attachment of
the inhabitants to their youthful Sovereign, and the
respect and esteem of the QUEEN for their enthusiastic
loyalty and peaceable demeanour.

The appearance of a French squadron in conjunc-
tion with the British fleet on the coast of Syria, is the
subject .of long leading articles in most of the French
journals of Monday. "If Admiral LA Sussa's
squadron," says M. ODILON BARROT'S organ, the
Courrier Francais, " appeared on the coast of Syria
to support the Christian population, every person
would applaud the expedition; but our vessels are
only there in virtue of a convention with England,
and to satisfy British honour. To determine the
tribes of the Libanus to rise in insurrection against
MEHEMET ALI, Lord PALMERSTON'S agents made
them certain promises, and England took their local
interests under her protection. When the Porte, in

the intoxication of successes due to others, trampled
under foot the rights of the Tribes, manifested
an intention of forcing a Turkish ,Governor on
the Libanus, and let loose civil war on the
mountains, the English Government felt that
the excesses of the Turks would cast a
reproach on it, and accordingly addressed to the Di-
van exceedingly strong remonstrances. The Porte,
instigated by Russia, who advised it to withdraw
from the guardianship of the other Powers, has re-
sisted up to the present time all the intreaties and
even threats of England : and matters have arrived at
such a point that England ought to be tempted, in order
to fulfil the engagement she had entered into, to in-
terfere a second time, and act against the Turks as
she did before against the Egyptians. This would be
an enterprise altogether English in its character, as
far.as we are concerned, and in which we should have
to interfere merely to protect the independence of the
Ottoman empire, and to prevent any fresh encroach-
ment of England in the East."
The idea of leaving England alone to undertake
the tranquillity of Syria proves how pitiful politicians
some of our Gallic Contemporaries are. For what
would be the result ? Why just this. England
would protect the Syrians by force, if necessary, and
thus would become the rightful and only recognised
guardian of the Catholic Christians of the East. In
fact Syria would become virtually a British province,
as, in order to maintain the peace of the mountaineers,
it would be necessary to keep an English garrison at
Beyrout. But neither LOUIS PHILIPPE nor M.
GUIZOT are such fools as to follow M. ODILON
BARROT'S line of Oriental politics. They do not
want to make us a present of Syria after this
fashion. They are aware, also, that whatever
promises were made to the Syrians by Mr. Noon
and Commodore Sir CHARLES NAPIER, they were ex-
ceeded by the accredited Christian agents of France,
at that time travelling among the tribes in the moun-
tains.

The Constitutionnel attributes all the misfortunes in
the East to the fatal treaty of
,the Four Powers,
which exalted Russia at the expense of France.
Whose fault was it that France did not sign that
treaty, which in that case would not have led tb the
shedding of a drop of blood ? Why, her own. The
miserable vanity" of M. TRIERS alone prevented the
adoption of a policy, on her part, which would have
settled the Syrian question without one drop of blood.
But upon this question it is worth while to' attend to
the latiguage of the mouthpiece of thii
political
harlequin : -
In everything that is done at present in Syria,
,we
recognise, and so will every body, the hand of the
Muscovite. What is of importance to Russia is to
see the Turkish empire grow weaker and weaker, and
dwindle away. She wishes to see this Powei, which
has fallen so prodigiously within the last -century,
reach her last degree of degradation. The Turkish
empire, well constituted, full of life, and filled with a
population animated by a common patriotism, would
slip away from the grasp of the successors of the Great
Catherine, and that is not what they want. In order
that the great termination, so anxiously desired by
Russia, should arrive, there must he nothing
else in the old empire of the Sultans but dis-
order and anarchy ; and Russia desires that a con-
siderable portion of the subjects of the Porte, even
that part which has lived in opprwsion, should in-
vite and summon the Russians to come forward as
their deliverers. Then, almost without a blow being
struck, the intended usurpation would be accom-
plished. This will explain the conduct which the
Divan adopts with respect to Syria ; it is a sart of
suicide which Russia forces on her, and such is the
blindness and corruption of the men at the head of
Turkish affairs, that they obstinately assist as much
as they can in this work of destruction. England has