The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-20 00:00:00

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 10.
The Hindostan, from Calcutta, arrived at Suez
only on the 7th, in consequence of having to give
assistance to transports with troops from Bombay,
and having to retrace her way to Aden to urge the
authorities there to send steamers to help them
through the straits of Bab el Mandeb.
The 10th Hussars are now, with the exception of
70 men, in Egypt, awaiting further orders to pro-
ceed to the Crimea. They have been comfortably
locatedat Cairo for some weeks, and are now on their
way dawn to Alexandria, probably intending to
grace with their presence the great fetes Said Pasha
intends to give during the next three days on the
site where he intends to form a new town, at the
fork of the Nile. Four steamers and four large
sailing vessels were necessary to bring this regi-
ment, consisting of 650 sabres, to Suez. The ex-
penses attending their passage through Egypt will
all be borne by the Viceroy ; and the value of the
water alone consumed on crossing the desert is
enormous, as the whole of it has to be conveyed on
camels' backs from Cairo, and the troops used it
without discretion, and wasted it as if they were
marching on the banks of a river instead of through
an arid desert of 84 miles.

The Viceroy is at the barrage, making great pre-
parations for his public festivities, at which all who
wish to attend will be welcome and gratuitously
entertained. Most of the population are flocking
there, and it is expected that great confusion will
prevail where there are so many thousands brought
together.
Prices of produce are falling fast, and there will
be heavy losses sustained by speculators. Wheat is
now at 38s. per quarter ; beans, 28s.
Exchange on London keeps up at 99 piastres per
pound sterling in consequence of the rarity of good
bills.

Private accounts from Odessa lead to the belief
that Prince Gortschakoff is preparing for a grand
attack on Omer Paella's position at Eupatoria.
Orders have been sent from St. Petersburg to take
the place at any cost. General Pawloff 's corps,
standing between Eupatoria and Simpheropol, has
been reinforced by an entire cavalry division sent
by way of Perekop, a park of artillery has followed
it, and heavy convoys of provisions are daily
moving along the same route. General Read,
lately acting as Commander-in-Chief at Georgia, is
to take the command of this special army.

BRAZILS AND THE PLATE.

The Royal Mail packet Great Western, Captain
Bevis—Admiralty agent, Lieut. E. P. Fuge, R.N.
—arrived at Southampton yesterday with the
South American mails.
Intelligence had been received at Rio by the
United States steam-frigate Susquehannah, that
Lieutenant Farmer, marine officer of her Ma-
jesty's ship Dido, bad been stabbed by one of
the crew of that ship and since died of the wound.
The Susquehannah also reports that a largo armed
Russian ship had eluded the blockading squadron,
and made its escape from Petropaulovski. The
frigates Diana and Aurora were still there, dis-
mantled.
Rio DE JANEIRO, Feb. 14.—8 y the Rifleman,
just arrived from Monte Video, we learn that the
dispute between the Brazilian and Paraguayan Go-
vernments had not been adjusted.