have come from Constantinople.

The Ministers of the Porte held the last proposition of Mehemet Ali as a positive refusal of the terms of the Convention, and proceeded by the advice of Lord Ponsonby[39] at once to divest Mehemet Ali of the Pashalik of Egypt; to direct a blockade of the coasts both of Syria and Egypt, and to recall the four Consuls from Alexandria.

These are serious measures, and there are despatches from Lord Beauvale[40] stating that Prince Metternich is much alarmed at them, and thinks that measures should be immediately taken to diminish and guard against the effect which they may have in France.

Lord Melbourne humbly begs your Majesty's pardon for this hurried scrawl upon matters of such importance, but Lord Melbourne will have the opportunity of speaking to your Majesty more fully upon them to-morrow.
[Footnote 38: The peace party in the Cabinet were defeated and Palmerston triumphant.] [Footnote 39: British Ambassador at Constantinople.] [Footnote 40: Frederick James Lamb, younger brother of Lord Melbourne, and his successor in the title (1782-1853).

He was at this time Ambassador at Vienna, having previously been Ambassador at Lisbon.] [Pageheading: PALMERSTON AND FRANCE] [Pageheading: VIEWS OF LOUIS PHILIPPE] _The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria._ WIESBADEN, _2nd October 1840._ ...