According to the Paris correspondent of Tuesday's Times, M. Flourens
has put out a very softly worded circular, in which he impugns the authenticity of certain documents which have given to the French intervention in the matter of the Anglo-Turkish Convention an air of unfriendliness, and then goes on to state that France could not but find fault with that Convention,—first, because it would have divided the suzerainty of Egypt between the Commander of the Faithful and a Christian Power, and so would have wounded the feelings of the Mussulmans with whom France is connected in the Mediterranean ; and next, because it put no final and absolute limit to the intervention of England in Egypt. M. Flourens does not repeat the threat which the Due de Montebello is said to have uttered, that France would guarantee the Sultan against the dangers, whatever they might be, of ref using to ratify the Treaty ; but neither does he repudiate having uttered it. On the whole, except that M. Flonrens' words are softer than those imputed to the Dac de Montebello, his circular leaves the impression of unfriendliness to England very much where it was.
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