The Sun. — 1842-09-07 (London, England)

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 concealed that personal vanity and love of show were mixed up with the whole proceedings. The journey of the present SOVEREIGN is of a very different character. Her MAJESTY, on the first convenient opportunity, and while in the bloom of youth, departs for the North with as little display as the loyalty 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 hurt 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 conjunction 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 Divan exceedingly strong remonstrances. The Porte, instigated by Russia, who advised it to withdraw from the guardianship of the other Powers, has resisted 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 interfere 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 encroachment 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 exceeded by the accredited Christian agents of France, at that time travelling among the tribes in the mountains.  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 disorder and anarchy ; and Russia desires that a considerable portion of the subjects of the Porte, even that part which has lived in opprwsion, should invite and summon the Russians to come forward as their deliverers. Then, almost without a blow being struck, the intended usurpation would be accomplished. 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