The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

object of his ambition than he was

Mr. Rathbone's furious charge against the parish

like other chargeS in which the Radicals are
so prone to indulge, is entirely groundless. His threat-
ened vengeance will turn out to be nothing more than
the angry ebullition of a weak-minded and disap-
pointed man. Mr. Rathbone will have no chance at
the next municipal election. His seat for Pitt-street
ward is in imminent danger. Hinc ill lachrymffl !
Hence his grievous lamentations over the state of the

officers,

registration lists

We perfectly agree with Mr. Rathbone that we are
" upon the eve of one of the most important struggles
in which this town was ever engaged—a struggle not
merely affecting. our municipal relations, but the Par-
liamentary election also." This language is but an
echo of what we have insisted upon for many-weeks
past. Upn the issue of the approaching municipal
election will most materially depend the result of the
next parliamentary struggle. Let our conservative
friends bear this important fact in mind, and let it
operate as a fresh stimulus to their zeal and activity.
Mr. Sawpit Rathbone's sneers at Lord Sandon and
Mr. Cresswell are only calculated to provoke our
mirth. It is truly laughable to witness an individual
of such very small pretensions as. Mr. Rathbone ven-
turing to criticise the abilities of such a man as Mr.
Cresswell.

It would be a matter of surprise, indeed, if a reform
gathering were to pass over without affording an op-
portunity for the Mayor's " man Friday" to make a fool
of himself. This he did on Wednesday last, when he
said that "mushroom voters had been created with a
rapidity unparalleled in the history of party," within
the last few weeks! 'We thank thee, Jew, for teaching
us that word " mushroom," as applicable to the rabble
put on the register by the Protector Society. W
with Mr. Atkinson in the hope that these "funguses

(query fungi?) may be cut down in the registration
courts." We trust that measures are in progress
which will afford ample gratification on this score to
the ex-secretary of the Reform Association. Nothing
could better please us than to see so patriotic a wish
carried into execution.

After Mr. Tinpot Atkinson had blustered his short
and fretful hour on the platform, we are informed by
the report of the Mercury that there were " loud calls
for Mr. Spence," which Mr. Spence responded to by
declaring that he had " renounced and relinquished

everything appertaining to political interference"
" his political career was closed"—and that he had
"come to the determination of abandoning everything
connected with politics." We know nothing about
Mr. Spence's motives for taking a step which occa-
sioned so much surprise in the meeting ; but we pre-
sume that his secession from the ranks of his reform-
ing friends was occasioned by sheer disgust at their
outrageous proceedings. We know that this feeling
has led hundreds to desert the banner of reform—
stained, begrimed, and disfigured as that banner has
been by the most profligate bribery and corruption:
We hope that they will soon enrol themselves under
the standard—the pure and spotless standard, of Con-
servatism.

—that

We cannot conclude these cursory remarks without
observing, that the Radicals seem now to be heartily
ashamed of their reckless tampering with the registry,
and that they have now no resource left to cover their
disgrace than that of abusing the Tories for out-ma-
noeuvering them. We are not sorry to see them writh-
ing under the agonies of disappointment and vexation.
They have brought their troubles on their own heads.

The Morning Herald of yesterday furnishes us with
an authentic copy of the Quadruple Treaty of the 15th
of July, and of the additional articles connected with
that convention. We are sorry that we cannot find
room for the whole of these important-documents.
The following is a summary of their contents :

The first article of the convention states that, in con-
sequence of the agreement of the Sultan with the four
powers of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia,
on the conditions of the arrangement with reference
to Mehemet Ali, the four contracting powers " engage
themselves to act with perfect accord, and to unite
their efforts to determine Mehemet Ali to conform to
this arrangement, each of the high contracting partieS

reserving to itself to co-operate to this end with the
means of action which each of them can dispose of."
The second article stipulates that in case of the re-
fusal of the Pacha of Egypt to adhere to the said ar-

rangement, the four powers engage to take, at the re-
quisition of the Sultan, the measures concerted and
agreed on by them, for the end of putting the arrange-
ment into execution. In the meantime the Sultan having
invited his allies " to join him to assist in interrupting
the communication by sea between Egypt and Syria,
and to prevent the expedition of troops, horses, arms,
&c.," from one part of these provinces to another, the
allied powers pledge themselves to give immediately to
this effect the necessary orders to the commanders of
the naval forces in the Mediterranean.

The third article stipulates that if Mehemet Ali, after
such refusal, should direct his forces either by land or
sea towards Constantinople, the high contracting parties,
on the requisition of the Sultan, "agree to answer the
invitation of that Sovereign, and to provide for the
defence of his throne, by means of a co-operation con-
certed in common, for the purpose of putting the two
straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, as well as
the capital of the Ottoman Empire, secure against all
aggression." The forces requisite for this purpose are
to remain at the disposal of the Sultan, as long as their
presence shall be required, after which they are to re-
tire simultaneously, and enter into the Black Sea and
the Mediterranean.

The fourth article states, that the co-operation of the
allied powers shall not be considered but as a measure
"exceptional," adopted "at the express desire of the
Sultan, and solely for his defence." This article then
proceeds to state, that "it is agreed that this measure
will derogate in nothing to the ancient law of the Otto-
man Empire, in virtue of which it has been in all times
prohibited to vessels of war of foreign powers to enter
into the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus;
and the Sultan, on his part, declares by the present
act, that, with the exception of the eventuality above-
mentioned, he has the firm resolve to maintain, for the
future, the principle invariably established as the ancient
regulation of his empire, and as long as the Porte is at
peace, not to admit any foreign vessel of war into the
straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles." The con-
tracting parties engage to respect this determination of
the Sultan.
An Additional Act annexed to the Convention em-
bodies the conditions of the arrangement with reference
to Mehemet Ali. According to 'the first article of this

We have no space left for an analysis of the remain-
der of, these documents. These, with our own com-
ments thereupon, we must defer until Friday.

" His Highness (the Sultan) promises to accord to Me-
hemet Ali. for him and for his descendants in line direct, the
administration of the Pachalic of Egypt; and his Highness
promises, moreover, to accord to Mehemet Ali during his
lite, with the title of Pacha of Acre and the command of the
fortress of St. Jean d'Acre, the administration of the southern
part of Syria, of which the limits are designed by the follow.
ing line of demarcation :

This line drawn from the Cape Ras-el-Nakhora, on the
shores of the Mediterranean, extending from thence directly
to the mouth of the river Seisaban, northern extremity of the
Tiberias, along the western coast of the said lake, following
the right bank of the river Jordan and the western coast of
the Dead Sea, extending from thence in a right line as far as
the Red Sea, and resting on the northern point of the Gulf
d'Akaber, and following the western coast of the Gulf
d'Akaber and the eastern coast of the Gulf of Suez, as far as
Snez."

The article then states that the Sultan attaches to
these offers the condition that Mehemet Ali accepts
them within the space of ten days after they are com-
municated to him, and that at the same time he de-
posits in the hands of the Sultan's agent the necessary
orders to the commanders of his forces to retire from
Arabia, from Candia; the district of Adana, and ail
other parts of the Ottoman empire not comprised in the
limits of Egypt and the pachalic of Acre.
According to the second article of the Additional
Act, if the ten days should pass without the compliance
of Mehemet Ali, the offer of the pachalic of Acre is to
be withdrawn.

The third and fourth articles relate to the payment
of tribute on the part of Mehemet Ali. The remaining
articles describe the future relations in which he is to
stand with reference to the Ottoman empire.