The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

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POIII.MIGAT
On the 24th ult. Sit Stratford Canning arrived at Constantinople,
and on the 27th had his first audience of the Sultan, to whom he
presented his credentials as Ambassador from the Court of London.
His Excellency's reception was very flattering.
The Porte has appointed Omar Pacha Governor of Lebanon, at
the joint request of the chiefs of the Maronites and the Druses.
This has restored tranquillity in Syria. Omar Pacha is a German
renegade, who ten years ago made a profession of Islamism.
The editors of the National and Gazette de France were found
guilty by a jury on Monday of exciting hatred and contempt of the
Government, and severally sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve
months and pay a fine of 4,000 francs. With juries so basely ser.
vile what can the French Government want with a Court of Peers ?
Several journals confirm the statement of the Corsrricr Francais,
that Government intends to support other railroad projects besides
those contained in the Bill already before the Chamber of Deputies.
The Commerce says that a supplementary Bill to this effect will be
presented to the Chamber immediately. " The Minister of Public
Works," says the Presse, "after having obtained the adhesion of
his colleagues, has just decided that the railroad from Paris to Tou-
louse shall be comprised in the lines to be undertaken by the Go-
vernment."

The Univers says:—" The object of M. de Bourqueney's note
to the Porte was to recall to the recollection of the Ottoman Go.
vernment the old treaties, in virtue of which France is the recog.
raised protectress of all the Catholics in the East, to urge the
Porte to use moderation towards the Syrian Maronites, to advise
it to employ more conciliating measures towards Greece, and to de.
dare that any attempt against Tunis would be considered as an act
of hostility against France."
PARLIAMENTARY.

In the House of Lords last night there was a little squabble be.
tween the Earl of Clancarty, an Ultra-Tory, and the Duke of Wel-
lington, about producing some returns connected with the appoint.
meat of chaplains to workhouses in Ireland. The object of the Noble
Earl was to throw discredit on the appointments of the Poor-
law Commissioners, because the chaplains are not of our
own Church. He was kindly countenanced by the Bishop
of Exeter, but repudiated by the Duke of Wellington, Lord
Brougham, and the Marquis of Normanby. The Noble Earl
withdrew his motion, as his Noble Friend the Duke of Wellington
would not grant it.

The House of Commons did not meet yesterday.
kiLTZULIC Orllu tON.

The Chronicle accuses Sir James Graham of deposing " to his
own dereliction of political principle" in his last speech ; and adds
"the world knows him. Even the Times declares he is not to be
trusted. The Lord Advocate did not desire him tor a defender,
and will not soon forget the defence he inflicted. But what we do
infer from his speech is, that he is so far gone in political depravity,
as to have lost the use of the language of patriotism. He cannot
talk public virtue with propriety."
'The Times says that the rejection of Lord John Russell's reso.
lution may be considered equivalent to the adoption of Sir Robert
Peel'i proposed Corn.law by the House of Commons; and that
"it is a vote which does not commit any individual who concurred
in it, to a preference for the principle of a sliding.scale over that of
a fixed duty; it offers no impediment to the future progress of le.
gislation on this subject."

The
herald is of opinion that the debate of Tuesday night
proved that a fixed duty is but a step to a completely free trade,
and that if any Corn.law is to be maintained, it must be one con.
raining a sliding-scale. "The great claim of agriculture on the
Legislature," says our Contempotary, "is not compensation. but
protection ; and the justice of that claim springs from as great an
independence for food on other countries as is possible, being as
much the primary duty of nations, as self protection is the fixed
duty of individuals."
The Cheltenham Examiner thus describes Sir Robert Peel's
Corn-law measure :—" A scheme less calculated to satisfy the
country, or to remedy the evils of the present system could not
have been devised; it is framed, according to Sir Robert's own ad.
mission, expressly to maintain the price of corn as it has been for
the last ten years, and, without grappling with one great principle
of commercial reform for which the country is panting, it may be
justly characterised as a miserable nibbling at details, such as a
statesman ought t be ashamed to propose, and the country cannot
for a moment accept."
We quote the following from the Dublin Evening Post :—" The
people of England are starving. In Bolton, Stockport, Rochdale—
Glasgow, Paisley, 'Manchester—everywhere—they are wast►ng
away through inanition—they are dying of hunger. It is main.
tained, that a Repeal of the Corn.laws would suspend, at least, if it
would not cure, this physical calamity, We are not called upon for
an opinion as to the soundness of this conclusion. But, there can
be no question at all, if the patient is destined to be saved, that you
must repeal the taxes on food in the first instance."
The York Courant says :—" The ultra supporters of what is
termed in a spirit of monopoly, the agricultural interest, have
quitted the camp, and those not so ultra in their views, look on
with ill disguised suspicion, whilst the storm is hurtling in the
great public political atmosphere, which will require, if we mistake
not, more policy than Sir Robert Peel is possessed of either to con-
trol or to withstand. The great struggle has still to come on."
MONEY—TnADZ—COIVINIE ACE.

In consequence of the nefarious system of plugging sovereigns va.
!ions experiments have been made to prevent the abstraction of the
gold taking place without immediate detection. The officers of the
Mint have at last agreed on a plan, and yesterday the workmen corn.
menced casting the new coinage, which will shortly be issued to the
public; the expense will be very great, but Government has bcen
obliged to incur it, in consequence of • the system above alluded to
having much injured the credit and confidence in the value of our
gold, not only at home but on the Continent.