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LONDON, JrLYC. WAR IN THE EAST. ON the authority of letters from Constantinople of the 12th ulf., we have to announce the impor- tant news, that the Sultan has not only declared war against Mehemet Ali, but as supreme Caliph of the Faithful, and Representative of the Prophet, pro- nounced sentence of excommunication against the Pacha and his son Ibrahim, deposing them from the Government of Esrvpt and Syria. This sentence was pronounced by his Highness, on the 9th, the fetvah or bull of malediction being prepared by the Grand Mufti, after a grave consultation of the most learned doctors of the Nlussa'man law. The Turkish fleet left the Golden Horn in two divisions. The first sailed on the 8th. and the second on the 9th ultimo. Thev were to rendezvous at Gallipoli, where 10,009 marines were "Waiting to be taken on board, with large quantities of military and other supplies. The fleet consists of 34 sail of all sizes, well equipped, and the crews were in high spirits Previous to the sailing of the second division, the Sultan, though in extremely bad health, '■vent on board the Mahmoudie, the Admiral's ship, to say a fewr words of encouragement to the officers and men, and to give them the benediction of the Prophet. The reception of his highness was most enthusiastic. Among the Englishmen on board were, Captains Walker, Oonolly. and Lee, the first of whom the Sultan raised to the rank of Rear- Admiral. When the cheering had subsided, the Sultan addressed the following brief harangue to the assembled onicers In all civilised fictions, East and West, rebellion issummarily punished. It is my duty, therefore, to chastise traitors to my au- thority—it is yours to go where your Sovereign sends you, and to act, as you will, as if his eye—that of the Representative of the Prophet—was upon you." Loud ^cdamnmtions followed, and the Sultan having taken leave o( the officers, withdrew amid the roar of artiilerv. The destination of the fleet was Alexandria, which, it Was reported in Constantinople, Mehemet Ali had left In a defenceless condition. The Sultan's final resolu- t'on being communicated to the European Ambassadors, an Imperial Firman was prepared, which was to be despatched on the 13th ult. by the Stamboul steamer, to Hafiz Pacha, in which that General is invested with the Pachalics of Syria and Egypt. What excited most s,prise in connection with these events in Constanti- nople was the sudden overflowing of the Imperial coffers previously believed to be almost as empty as those of Spain. All arrears were at once, and as if by magic, paid up, and the Ministers seemed to court facilities for scattering around the immense treasures at their disposal. The question, Has Russia betrayed the other powers, by secretly advancing this money to fo- ment a war, by which she is sure to profit?" was be- ginniug to be generally asked among calm observers. The German papers, of the same date as the above, announce that the Egyptian army in Arabia, under Kirschid Pacha, has entered Bassorah; that Lord Pon- sOiiby declared that the time for tergiversation was Past, and that for acting was come at last; and that Admiral Ronssin was in the greatest distress, France having assumed something like the protectorship of -'•leheniet Ali. On the 24lh ult. news reached Vienna from Alexandria to the effect that war had commenced *n good earnest in Syria, and that the troops of Ibra- him Pacha fell back from all their positions, fighting as they retreated,—so that the Turkish army was en- camped 111 the territory of Mehemet Ali. They like- wise state that 5000 Egyptians deserted to Hafiz Pacha the first onset. It appears that Ibrahim was not himself present at this engagement, being at the time at Aleppo; for the instant the news reached him he commanded the division stationed there to advance and fiieet the enemy in the field. To have allowed Hafiz to approach Aleppo undisturbed would have been to permit him to be joined bv the divisions commanded hv tiie Pachas of Bagdud and Mossul— an error which Ibrahim is too goad a general to commit, llie Paris papers of Wednesday confirm to the fullest extent the intelligence respecting the declaration of war against Mehemet Ali by the Sultan, but they furnish no details I'Yotid those already given. The Chamber uf Depu- ties has taken up with great vigour, and with not less hlent, the affairs of the East. Marshal Soult, as President of the Council, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs, opened the debate on Monday, on the project Of law for the grant of 16,000,000 francs, to increase the fleet in the Levant, by a written but decisive speech. The policy of the Government is, not to alJolV Turkey be invaded by Egypt, and not to suffer Egypt to he invaded by Turkey. Marshal Soult is for the stutu quo of all existing treaties. He requires the Paeha to acknowledge Mahmoud as his sovereign. lie requires him likewise to pay the tribute money wlllch is due. He requires the Sultan to acknowledge 11 Mehemet as his vassal, and insists that Syria shall be placed on the same footing as Egypt, that is to say, that neither by force nor by stratagem shall the Pacha be deprived of the advantages he secured to himself, hy the convention of Kutahia. On Wednesday the debate concluded, when the project was voted by a Majority of 161, the numbers being—Ayes, 187 Noes, ~6. The debate throughout was highly interesting; but we regret at the same time to observe that it dis- played throughout a jealousy of England as unfounded as it is unworthy of French statesmen.—Private letters state that the account of the sailing of the Turkish fleet became known in the French capital in the course of Tuesday, but had not occasioned much sensation. Great reliance was placed on the joint efforts of the British and French fleets to prevent a collision between those of the Sultan and of the Viceroy. Madrid papers to the 27th ult. have been received, hut they contain little matter of interest.-M. Ximenes had at last consented to accept the Ministry of Finance, and his appointment was gazetted on the 27th.—The General in Chief of the Army of the Centre had not yet been named. The three candidates for that com- mand were Generals Francisco Narvaez, Sanz, and Leopold O'Donnell. The government had been offici- ally informed of the arrival of General Valdez in Barcelona on the 19th. The Madrid journals contain 110 intelligence from the armies. A Carlist officer, an Aide-de-Camp of Cabrera, was sentenced to death by court-martial, and shot at Badajoz on the 20th.

THE REVENUE.

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