Thiers to Mons.
Guizot which was communicated to him yesterday by Mons.

Guizot, and which seems to open a prospect of an amicable and satisfactory understanding between France and the Four Powers.
Viscount Palmerston also submits a note from Mr Bulwer intimating that the French Government would be contented with an arrangement which should leave Mehemet Ali in possession of Egypt alone, without any part of Syria, and Viscount Palmerston submits that such is the arrangement which it would on all accounts be desirable to accomplish.
There seems reason to think that the bombardment of Beyrout[47] and the deposal of Mehemet Ali by the Sultan have greatly contributed to render the French more reasonable on this question, by exciting in their minds an apprehension that unless some arrangement be speedily effected, the operations now going on in the Levant will end in the entire overthrow of Mehemet Ali.
[Footnote 47: On 10th October Ibrahim was defeated by the Allies, and next day Beyrout was occupied by British, Austrian, and Turkish troops.] [Pageheading: GUIZOT AND THIERS] _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ SOUTH STREET, _11th October 1840._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty.

He has not written before to-day, because he had nothing new to lay before your Majesty.

Lord Melbourne anxiously hopes she feels some confidence that the present state of the Eastern affairs is such as may lead to a speedy, amicable termination--at the same time, with a nation so irritable as the French, and with the Constitution which they have and which they are unused to exercise, it is impossible to feel secure for a moment.

Guizot, when he gave the despatch of Thiers to Lord Palmerston, said that he had nothing to do with the reasonings of that despatch, and would not enter into any argument upon them.
He delivered them only in his official capacity as the Ambassador of the King of France.