The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1846.

[From the Daily News.)
IF the Daily News could fail in the achievement of
those more important benefits which it has been the
intention of its new scheme to confer, it would yet
take some consolation to itself, from the visible effect
which its attempt has had upon the disposition of the
Times. Rarely have the amenities and humanities of
the " leading journal " been so fully called into action
as by a rivalry which fights with the weapon of low
prices. Adversity, or the apprehension of it, is a
great softener of human pride. It is pleasant to see
the Times taking an interest in the akin, and lend-
ing itself benignantly to promote the objects, of news-
papers, whose existence in the days when it was
" proud of heart," it would scarcely have recog-
nized. And it displays at once its humility, ee
well as rancour, by introducing to the Londe*
public as a great authority—the Sherborne Jou"
nal. Of course, the affections of the Times are
not wantonly bestowed. There is a virtue in the
Sherborne Journal which has won upon the super-
cilious spirit of its great contemporary ; and its mere
detection of a Dorsetshire paper, by any sense more
personal than that of its reporters, shows how fine
an ear the Times has for the ring of monopoly. The
means by which the Sherborne Journal has gone right
to the heart of the Times is by adding one halfpenny
to the price of its paper.
The price of the Sherborne Journal, thus enhanced,
furnishes the Times with the general and significant
heading, PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS. Under that head-
ing, we have the following :
The Slryborne Journal, in announcing an advance in price,
says: "We have felt it necessary to add one-herpenny to the
price ; it will, in future, he Id. per copy, which is the cost
of our contemporaries, the Salisbury Journal, Dorset Chroaicle,
and Poole Herald. Some may exclaim, ' Why, this is the age for
cheap newspapers! On this subject we crave to be heard. Experi-
ments have born made to reduce the price of newspapers; but bow
has the reduction been effected 1 By very materially diminishing
the value of the article. The public for a time may be pleased with
the cheapness, but they will wan cease to be amused with their bar-
gain ; and it has already been discovered that cheap newspapers
mak poor proprietors. The Doily News attempted to mall TAe
Tonee svery, by offering ft at half-price ; but, as far as Its mechanical and
literary branches are concerned, it boo turned out an utter tenure :
and what would bare been the consequence if it had succeeded in
pulling the daily Journal down to its own level! Why, that the public
must have been rived of the advantage of the expresses, by which
foreign events are so speedily _conveyed throughout all the corners of
this country. France would anticipate our Indian news, and we
should sacrifice, nationally, one of the greatest achievements of winch,
as Englifthen, we can boast. Our periodical literature ia the asto-
nishment of the world, and we will not lend a helping hand to destroy
Its efficiency.
Before we proceed to deal with the arguments
assumed to lie beneath this conversion to hi 411 prices
in Dorsetehire, and adopted by the Times as convin-
cing here, we may question whether the Times has
not made a mistake as to the very fact of the conver-
sion itself? It is very questionable if the advance of
price, which has so softened the Times, be an advance
at all. The announcement in the Sherborne Journal
has a different heading, which the Times seems to
have fondly overlooked, while composing its own;
and that furnishes a reason which takes out of the
circumstance of increase in price all the events for
which the Tones so complacently quotes it.
ENLAIM-31ENT or THE SHERBURNE JOULNAL:—We have the satis-
faction of fulfilling a promise that we made to our readers at the com-
mencement of the present year, and which we bad contemplated and
announced to many private friends sometime before. The. enlarge-
ment of thnjournel has been required by the calls which its Increased
connexions have made on its space.
As merely supplementary to this leading change—
and as its natural consequence with a view of main-
taining the old proportion—comes, then, the increase
of a halfpenny to cover the increase of size. As we
have not at the moment the Sherborne Journal before
us to refer to, we know not what is the amount
of enlargement which the paper has undergone ; but
it is probable that any increase, for which it would be
thought desirable to alter the established relations of
a journal would make the new publication cheaper at
sd. than the smaller sheet was at 4d. Nay, we
might, if as readily led away by our impulses as the
Times, claim this change as a reduction of price, and
head an article of our own in that sense—as a FALL
IN THE PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS! For, while the
extra paper is boldly given, the extra halfpenny is not
insisted on. The Times is a ready-money paper—
which there is reason to suppose the Sherborne Jew-
nal is not—but would like to be. There seems strong
reason for suspecting that the whole affair resolves
itself into a bonus advertised by the latter for cash :
the proprietors informing the public—by the very
same announcement which, seen through the medium
of its own sensibilities, has so captivated the Times,
that all who will send a Post-office order for 11.,
shall continue to receive the new and enlarged paper
at the old and impossible price!
The Sherborne Journal has some other assertions
which, in spite of the imprimatur of the Times, we
must contradict. The Daily News, it is said, attempted
to assail the Times by offering its paper at half price.
The Daily News never meddled with the Times till
the Times meddled with it. The Daily News no
more assailed the Times than any or all the other
journals, and, in truth, it assailed none. So far from
doing any thing of the kind, it had one of these for
its ally in matters of detail, while working out its own
independent principle. The Daily News sought, on
terms which it knew were sufficient for its own pro-
tection, to do a public benefit : and if they who
would deal fairly by the public must necessarily, in
doing so, tread on the heels of monopoly, that is the
accident of the case for which the monopolists are to
blame, not they. If the Times and other journals
eventually suffer by the course which the Daily News
is pursuing, they will suffer less because of that
course than of their own adherence to monopoly.
The grand argument of the Times and Sherborne
Journal is that only fivepenny newspapers can meet
the expense of foreign expresses. We should have
taken small pains to contradict this assertion while
confined to the pages of the provincial journal in
question; but when reproduced and given currency
to by the Times, it is requisite that the subterfuge
should be at once and plainly exposed. The Times
when it lent its columns to the borrowed fallacy,
which it had abandoned in its own name, knew
that the Daily News had, from the first hoar
of its existence, run expresses in conjunction
with the Herald, paying one-half the expellee
while the Times was running them in COM
junction with the Chronicle and Post—and, therefore,
paying but one-third. The Times knew—at any rate
it knows now—that, so far as the Daily News is con-
cerned, that treaty of amity and alliance with the
Herald would have continued to this hour, but for its
selfish interference. Had the expenses been equally
shared, and the community of advantages made
complete, as they should have been, we were
prepared, in the matter of early intelligence, lc
fight these rivals ei foutrance. But we were
determined—and said so—that it should be a
fair stand-up fight, in which each of the allies
should take his share of the spoil, as he bore that of
the burden ; and, above all, that there should be no
treating with the enemy but in concert. This the
Times knew : and it was the Times that put the drag
on competition, and stopped all rival expressing. It
was the high-priced Times that so managed matters
that when the new system shall come fully into
operation it will have to pay only one-fourth
of those expenses, of which heretofore the Daily
News paid half—and was content to pay it. It
needs no Sherborne ghost to tell the public that one-
fourth is less than the whole—or the half—that
the expense of expresses, like all other expenses, may
be more easily borne by co-operation—that the high-
priced journals have therefore, for the moment, an
advantage over us.
But, in all probability, it will not be long ere our
former ally will find out that he has made a serious
mistake. Oar alliance with him for practical pur-
poses, was a safeguard to himself, which one day he
may miss. The political principles of the Daily News
and Herald were so widely different, that the one had
little to fear from the other, while working their
machinery in concert. Bat there may, and must be,
ere long, a cheap Conservative paper. Then, other
facilities for combination will arise ; and we, who
are ready now to fight them single-handed in that
good cause, will have natural allies of our own,
whose ' will help our unaided perseve.

If in the presence of statements so significant and
irresistible, the public will suffer itself to be talked
out of its rights, or have a monopoly thrust down its
throat; if they can be beguiled into taking a fivcpcnny
paper by !the absurd assurance of the enemy that
they cannot have a threepenny one—then they are
just such subjects as the Times and its allies desire.
The present combination once triumphant, the pro-
prietors of the morning journals may, when they
please, raise the price to sixpence—nay, a shilling—
and justify the larger sum by all the arguments that
have been found reasonable in defence of the five-
pence, with the added one of the pronounced acqui-
escence of the public in favour of dear newspapere.

The despatches of our Paris correspondent, and
the French journals of Tuesday, received by the ordi-
nary express, inform us that notwithstanding the
heavy ram of Saturday and Sunday, no further in-
crease of the disasters of the innundatiou was re-
ported. The waters of the Loire and the other rivers
which had overflowed were gradually subsiding.
The festivities which were in preparation at St.
Cloud and Versailles, in celebration of the Spanish
marriage, and which were to have been on a scale of
extraordinary magnificence, have been, with great
propriety, given up, in consequence of the calamity
which has afflicted the country. Royal ordonnanccs,
signed at the late Cabinet Councils, appeared in the
Moniteur of Tuesday, by which an extraordinary
credit of a million of francs was ordered to supply
immediate aid to the sufferers from the recent in-
undations; 400,000 francs for the hospices, bureaux
de chariti., and institutions de bienfaisance ;
2,000,000 for repairing the damages produced by the
inundation; and 1,000,000 to be employed generally
on the public ways.
The Conatitutionnel says :
"The intelligence which reached us to-day from the
theatre of the inundations does not confirm the rumours of
the disasters which were said to have befallen Saumur, and
we learn with pleasure, that at Briare none of the houses
were destroyed. All apprehension of a fresh swell in the
Loire had subsided.
"We place the two following letters before the eyes of
our readers :
" ' Blois, Sunday, 6 o'clock p.m.
" The new rise in the river, announced by the couriers,
has sot been felt. The froth which covered the Loire
during several hours, ant which is the ordinary precursor of
some catastrophe, has nearly disappeared, and no further
fears are entertained. The incessant rains, which fell
during the entire night, had for a moment alarmed the popu-
lation, but the waters having ceased to rise, the people
expect to escape with merely a fright. I have just returned
from an excursion down the Loire as far as Amboise. The
hospital of Blois-en-Vienne was reached by the inundation,
but fortunately the waters only eptered the kitchen ; the
dormitories, as well as the halls of the infirmary, were
spared. At Orleans the embankments resisted the violence
of the swell, but Suevea and /der were nevertheless sub.
merged, in consequence of the water rushing over the em-
bankments. At Amboise, however, the latter having Riven
way, the lower town suffered considerably. The Tours
Railroad is there covered with water to an extent of four or
five kilometres; but the report of the falling in of the bridge
of Mount Lewis was unfounded. That viaduct is very solidly
built, and is one of those that resisted best. The company
cannot yet fix a day for the resumption of the circulation on
the entire line."
" ' Orleane, Monday, 10 o'clock, am.
"' The exhaustion of the waters in the Val is proyeessing
rapidly. The houses are now nearly all accessible, but many
fell is after the retreat of the waters, which, surrounding
them both interiorly and exteriorly, supported the walls by
keeping them in a state of equilibrium. To-morrow the Val
may he traversed in every direction. The population looks
up to Paris and the government for relief. I have been told
that the Administration of the Civil List intends to place at
the disposal of the victims of the inundation all the timber
cut down this year in the Royal Forest of Orleans, which
would be a most valuable gift, inasmuch as it would enable
them to reconstruct their houses. Iu compliance with a
ministerial decision, the bridge of Vierzon is being repaired.
in spite of the wish expressed by the municipal body of
Orleans, who recommended that it be demolished and re-
built on a new plan. This decision has caused the utmost
irritation among the people, and the peasants of the Val
declare that they will pull down the causeway which nar.
rows the channel of the river, and increases its devastating
flay.
The apprehensions caused by the swell in the Rhone
had been fortunately dispelled. By the last accounts the
river had re-entered its banks, after rising to the height of
17 feet. The Durance, which had suddenly risen 10 feet,
had resumed its usual level without causing any material
injury, beyond the interruption of the works of the viaduct
of the Avignon and Marseilles Railway.' "
The Epoque quotes the following extract from a letter
dated Lyons, the 24th inst. :—" We have just learned a dis.
graceful fact for our civilization, which occurred during the
inundation of the Loire. We have been asiured that bands
of marauders had descended from the mountains and plun-
dered the goods and furniture rescued from the floods and
exposed on the public square of ltoanne. The armed force
was obliged to interfere, and even to fire on these banditti."
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A report of the imports during the month of Sep-
tember also appeared in the ..ifoniteur, which shows
an increase as compared with last year. The total
amount of duty is 13,800,000 francs, being two mil-
lions more than in 1845, and one million and a half
more than in 1844. The import of corn alone has
given, in September, 1846, a duty of 1,400,000 francs,
being 400,000 francs more than 1845. The quantity
of corn imported in September, 1846, was 357,000
cwt. • in 1845 it was only 192,000 cwt.
The question of subsistence continues to attract
serious attention in France, and has acquired in-
creased interest in consequence of the devastations
produced by the recent floods. It is certain that the
insufficiency of the harvest of the present year will
render it indispensable for France to obtain one
month's subsistence from abroad. The agronome
authorities contend that this deficiency in the supply
of food is not exclusively to be ascribed to the bad-
ness of the season, but in part arises from the injurious
operation of the protective duties on textile vegetable
productions, and in general on those products of the

co-operation

It is, at this moment, of some importance that the tended, re-acts fatally on the production of alimen-
pubthlic should
and has contributed also to
in
increase the general cost of farming and
the market price of land. Whatever, meanwhile,
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may be done to remedy these evils, it is certain that
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theanwnhootthmakthee
the support of the population for the year will impe-
ratively require the purchase of about 17 millions of
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against
the
bushels of corn in the foreign market. This supply
powerful combination now directed against us, with is confidently expected at reasonable prices from the
the trifling addition which we have demanded from ports of America, the Baltic, and the Black Sea. The
public support—are not evidence sufficiently con- corn harvests in the provinces of the Danube and
wincing,
must have that evidence reinforced by a body southern Russia, as well as in America, are said to
of unanswerable facts which were the grounds of our
have been good. In spits of the increased demand,
the sale price appeared not to have been considerably
own original confidence, and which our own case now raised. At Konigsberg, the 12th October, the price
confirms. of wheat was 48s. a quarter, rye was 325., barley 245.,
and oats 16s. a quarter. At l)antzic, on the
The following statistical particulars, furnished to
us by a friend, are of course familiar to the Times ; 10th October, the prices were nearly the same.
who on the strength of them must have been certain The market of Odessa continues to be well
from the outset that we should succeed if wo were in supplied, and the supplies from Bessarabia increase
earnest, and could persuade the public to be so. Had from day to day. New wheat fetches, according
to its quality, from 325. to 40s. a quarter. A great
rye harvest has been sold at the rate of
we laid them sooner before the world, the Times
world IPaass thotan.th2e4s. a quarter. These facts are stated as
ld scarcely have ventured upon that ingenious
arithmetical exercise with which it amused its readers
grounds for allaying all apprehensions in France of
some weeks ago• any excessive advance in the price of subsistence.
In Paris, until within the last few years, the price of the principal The Liberal party in Switzerland, and those who
journals MIS 80 francs per annum, being at the rate of 2 I-sth of a
penthe ~ pee day, very nearly. Within a few years all. the thief papers, sympathise with them elsewhere, exult with much ap-
Journal da llfbatS excepted, reduced their price one-half, and parent reason in the tranquillity with which the elec-
•ue now forty francs a year, being at the rate of 1 I-10th of a penny tions roceed at Geneva, and in their result, by
per day. The stamp on the Paris journals of the ordinary sire is four p wlh
iic
egetames, but on the larger ones six. A CaltirllC is equal to 1-10th of an immense majority will be obtained in favour
is= take r anexample the Cons fititliinusel. The annual sub- of the party which overturned the late Can-
=to this paper IS 52 franca. This is at the rate of 14 t.iots tonal Government. Never on any former occasion
vs fur- - Tio fflarhP being 0 eenthho's there remain, 88 the did so great a number of citizens of that canton deliver
their suffrages • 6,617 persons voted. In the Colle
ass owe the papa 4 4-loth Celltilrlefl, equal to eight-tenths of a
na droardri of the Clinsfitagioariel, by an official Fe
rril of 900 votes. In the College of Carouge the
inagibia, is Olesteeting tractions) 25,000 'copies daily, Zff:lit of Geneva 44 radical deputies were elected by a majo-
ors
wpm on Sundays) will give a gross annual resit.
meat Die advertisements-of the Carutibitiorinel are fanned
W • at a rent or 12,0001. a-year : this raises the annual radical part also triumphed; 15 radical members
reersa las 42,6 pf. Such is the return, of
I ae
rill': g Weer,
faublt,hed the small College of Saconez, where the population
had a majority at the departure of the last mail. In
ii: Peril atigehthual litel,ths osficssa penny .
have always been swayed by the conservative party,
the
"La
ant.eription
is
only
sporotr.fit with:
eithrseiilll7.oiitir2iatigoorin.el,lbsuist
seven radical members have been elected, and six
Ina balm that of these paper= are conducted by the most
asellumit literary ability which the country can supply, an
liberally to their contributors of every clam. The Journal di rPsalii= liberals of different shades. In fine, of the total num-
has maintained its price at no felines per annum, or 24. I-sth per bee of 93 deputies, of which the constituent council
day. Its circulation amounts to little more than B,oon, being a little
above one-third of that of is cheap competitors. Yet the Journal is to consist, from 60 to 55 votes will be radical, the
des Debate has the advantage of being the recognised organ of the remainder consisting of a mixed opposition,
government, which is supported by a large majority in the Chambers among which not above half-a-dozen wi opposition,
favour
and in the country.
In America the journals published in the larger cities were, until the ultra-montane league. Nothing could exceed
within the last ten years, published at eight dollars per annum, being the tranquillity which marked these proceed-
at the rate of I id. per day, very nearly. About that time, or soon .
after, sestral papers appeared in each of the principal cities published luaus Instead of raising a corps of volunteers selected
at a cent, which Is equal to a halfpenny. Most of these aeon became from their own partisans, the provisional government
entrusted the city to the guard of the common mili-
esbeisiosigicoalvd.,chtlax,6o:r
abiliiinisitc.tdihmii.llloretainingor less.proachar.t. Ste.rver,
roc,t them
ability and integrity, have Geo=e the best newspaper property in the tia—the troops which, in the recent emeute, had been
Union. A. examples of these, we may mention the New fork Sas employed against them.
resolutiontlie r nec t
i n
and the Philadelphia Leek:T. These papers have each smeared a . .
trgeuissedeapi.talsidtheeriiirbispropprori;Mrirsy.arenzsllarcoon-dniiamto hassiveihalgrseldsesacepisitt
themselves
iseslrevesporpassedted thaat
that,of in the
having their examen% their corps of reporters, and the other regal-
sites for good morning papers. The Sun is a single sheet, as larger situation,.
of the Canton, they
, prayed the grand man-
tilla of the London morning papers. The Ledger is a Mall sheet. ell to proceed b/ the aid of a constituent council to
Their reputed circulation ia 30,000. They arc enabled, by their sheen- the revision oft a present constitution. This address
lotion, to exact from advertisers higher prices than other journals.
The old paper at lid, still continue, but with less commercial pros- was signed by almost all the members present at the
verity than the cheap papers, and infinitely legs public influence, meeting, and being submitted to the approbation of
There ia no stamp on the American paper,. and no advertisement duty. • •
The wages of labour (and especially of skilled labour) are notoriously the citizens generally, the Radicals gave their adhe-
higher in America than in Englana. The rate of interest from Ail to sion to it. me grind council was accordingly sum-
seven per cent, and the profit on capital invented in commerce at moned for the 29th inst., to consider the best means
least double its rate in England. If these halfpenny parer. did not
return the average rate of profit on the capital invested in them, they to form a constituent council.
would not be continued. _ The new government of Geneva continued to re-
.

ceive from the different foreign legations and diplo-
matic agents assurances of the continuation of their
pacific relations with the Canton.
The correspondents of that portion of the Paris
press which represents more especially the interests
of the church, continue to supply most gratifying in-
telligence of the liberal spirt in which the papal
administration is conducted, and of the unbounded
enthusiasm of all classes of people in favour :of the
person and government of the Pontiff. Letters pub-
lished by L'Unirers, dated the 15th and 18th inst.,
supply interesting accounts of excursions made by his
Holiness to Tivoli and other places in the vicinity. of
Rome. The interest manifested by the sovercign
pontiff, in the advancement of the arts more especialy,
is noted. At the college of the Jesuits he caused
numerous experiments in physics to be made in
his presence, and was minute in his enquiries re
spccting steam machinery, and its application to
the arts, the application of electricity to the transmis-
sion of intelligence, and various other machinery used
in the arts and manufactures. He expressed an
earnest hope that the Roman states would not remain
behind other countries in the application of these new
means of civilisation and advancement to which Pro-
vidence in its wisdom has directed human invention
and discovery.
In passing along the route to and from the capital,
it is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the
fervour of affection which is manifested towards
him by tha multitudes assembled on his route. In
returning from Tivoli, in the evening, his
course was one continued triumph. For more
than six miles from Rome, carriages were
ranged two deep on either side of the road, to the very
gates of the city. It was night when he arrived at
the Quirinal. On the extensive place in front of that
palace, fifty thousand persons were waiting to
welcome him. A most interesting spectacle was pre-
sented in the same place on the evening of the am-
nesty. The assembled multitude implored his bless-
ing. The Holy Father appeared on the balcony, his
person being visible by the splendour of the surround-
ing illuminations prepared by his people ; and when
he was seen raising his hands to Heaven, in sign of
the benediction, he was answered by one accordant
response of AMEN from sixty thousand voices!
At the time our Paris correspondent closed his
despatches of Tuesday, no intelligence later than the
20th had arrived from Madrid. Two mails, those
of the 21st and the 22nd, were then due. The
Iferaldo of the 20th states, that Don Enrique
had written a letter to the Duke of Victory, abandon-
ing his attachment to the liberals. The Nationalstated
Ifrom its private correspondence that the Marquis of
Saldanha and the King had assembled about 2,500
men, when they learned that the parties who had
risen in the north against the coup d'etat were likely
to attack Lisbon. Nevertheless, the fidelity of this
troop, thus collected in haste, was suspected. A
bounty of 200 francs was offered, with menaces of
severe punishment against deserters; still a small
number only could be enlisted. The authorities were
obliged to organise a corps of chasseurs, to call regi-
ments out of Lisbon, and to weaken the garrison of
that city, in order to resist the insurrection of the
north, which had spread over the most important and
richest provinces of the kingdom.

ALEXANDRIA, Ocr. 11.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Pottinger arrived in our port on the morning of the 7th
inst., with 88 passengers. The Austrian Lloyd have opened
their direct line of steam communication between Trieste
and Alexandria; we had an arrival here on the morning of
the 3rd inst. of one of their steamers, the Imperatore, which
had left Trieste on the morning of the 27th ult., having thus
accomplished a fair passage of little more than six days. We
have since beard that the Ardent reached her destination
in five days and ten hours. In anticipation of the views ex-
pressed in my last, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Arid has come out purposely to run in opposition
to Mr. Waghorn. She will start from our port at the same
time as the Ardent, which is daily expected from Trieste,
on the arrival of the next Bombay mail. It will be recol-
lected that the Arid, in a former voyage, with a heavy
cargo on board, was only 121 days under steam from Eng-
land. In this last voyage of hers she accomplished the dis-
tancein the same time, with this great difference in her favour,
that all stoppages (23 hours) are included in the time specified.
We have had news of late from Cairo and other quarters of
a very sudden rise of the Nile. It had overflown its banks
in several districts, and considerable damage and loss of pro-
perty was the consequence of this unlooked for inundation.
The Transit Wharf at Cairo (Boolac), which stands con-
siderably higher than the ordinary level of high Nile, was
completely under water.
A nephew of the Pacha, and brother of Ahmet Pacha,
Minister of War, named Ibrahim Pacha Koochook (small,
to distinguish him from the Pacha's son), fell a victim to the
liver complaint about a fortnight ago.
The Pacha is in negotiation with the Peinaular and Ori-
ental Company for the sale of their canal and Nile steam-
boats, an event we regret to learn, inasmuch as the last
vestige of British interests in connexion with the transit
through Egypt thus falls into the hands of the local govern-
ment, at 'whose hands we can only expect a most stringent
and grinding monopoly.
The Hon. C. A. Murray, our present Consul-General in
Egypt, arrived here from Malta on the 9th instant, in the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Arid. The day
following he had a private audience of the Paella, prepara-
tory to the official and public presentation which will most
likely be at Cairo, as it is reported that the Pasha's depar-
ture will likely take place on the 13th instant. Arun
Bey, Minister of Foreign Affairs, aad Khosreff Bey,
Chief Interpreter, called on Mr. Murray in the morning
after his arrival. This step being quite new, seems to be either
some novel custom introduced into Turkish etiquette, or else
intended as an honour due to our consul-general, as the
?ache seems to attach a great deal of importance to his being
a member of one of our noblest tamilies. Mr Murray seem,
to be already aware of the low standing of British interests
in this country, and it is to be hoped that a friendly, but, at
the same time, a firm line of policy will be adopted for the
restoration of the same.—The Bentinck arrived at Suez on
the evening of the 9th inst, with 96 passengers, bringing Cal-