The Eastern question is once more finally concluded. There are
two or three curious points in the manner of this last settle- ment. Commodore NAPIER, the framer of the "hasty and unau- thorized convention," who had received a public rebuke in writing from Admiral STOPFORD, is again employed by his rebuker to con- duct the business in a still more delicate stage. Then the agree- ment between Admiral Sroprono and the Pasha of Egypt, in its final shape, assumes an appearance remarkably like that of the " un- authorized convention" itself, especially in the particular that ves- sels are to be furnished to transport some of IBRAHIM Pasha's army. And lastly, a little bit of stage-effect seems to have been managed by the rough British sailors : the Sultan has been induced to give MEHEMET Arc the hereditary Pashalic, while the other has been persuaded to make an absolute submission ; and, to give the better effect to these large mutual concessions, it was contrived that they should be made simultaneously, as if each party was unaware of what the other was doing. The cue has been taken in Paris, and the astute politicians of that suspicious people are charmed with the generous conduct of Turkey and Egypt. This is one of the best effects of the whole manceuvre.
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