24 APRIL 1841, Page 2

By some fatality, or by some extraordinary luck for the

lover of open questions, every success in the East is sure to be accompanied by defeat. The Ministry opposed to MEHEMET Ail at Constan- tinople has been turned out, and a settlement of the Egyptian question does actually appear at hand. But the Anti-Egyptian Ministry is replaced by an Anti-European Ministry, imbued with Mussulman superstitions, national jealousies, and Turkish notions of finance. The quarrel about the liberalizing commercial hatti- scheriff, which was to have been waged on the quay of Alex- andria with the contumacious Viceroy, will now be carried on with greater bitterness at Constantinople.