The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-01 00:00:00

EGYPT.

Advices have been received from Alexandria of the
24th ultimo.

The PACHA, who is residing at Muttaria, near Cairo,
is much occupied now with the railroad, and has sent
levies to the extent of 7,000 or 8,000 men to press on
the labour on the earth work. The country being quite
level, the road has to be formed by the earth thrown out
of ditches cut on either side, which will afterwards suit
for the conveyance of water for irrigation. When this
is done, and the road sufficiently elevated to be beyond
the reach of overflow during the inundation. a
of brick or atones is formed to give stability to the rails
and permanent way. There being no. rock to out, and
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The Tanzimat affair also embarrasses him much. In-
stead of concession ea the part of the SULTAN, there
appears to be daily increasing obstinacy, and it is now
pretty certain that the " Kisas" (or withdrawal of the
power of life and death from the PACHA) will be insisted
on. It is seriously feared this will have the effect of dis-
turbing the tranquillity of the country, and affording a
pretext for foreign intervention by France, or some
European nation, under colour of supporting the
SULTAN'S authority.
Ten thousand troops are at present employed between
Mecca and Akaba, clearing the great Iladj road of
marauders by which it has of late been infested, and
forts along the line are being built for the protection of
caravans.

An Eng traveller named WATSJN, who had visited
Thebes with a boat party, unfortunately became involved
in the quarrels of some of the boatmen, and being
threatened with an attack on his boat, fired upon the
assailants, and shot one min dead, and it is said
wounded another. The facts are now undergoing in-
vestigation at Cairo, and we hope the result will exone-
rate Mr. WATSON from what now seems very culpable
hastiness. _ _

The American flag, which has been struck for some
time pending the satiafdction of a claim made upon the
Egyptian euvernment for damage to property of a
United States subject, was rehoisted cn the llth
under a s Jute from the batteries of twenty-one guns.

The English Consul•Guneral, the Hon. CHARLES
AUGUSTUS MURRAY, 0.13., quits Egypt in May on leave
of absence, during which his office will be filled by Co-
lonel ROSE, late Consul-General at Beyrout.
The European Society of this place (Alexandria) is
becoming fearful►y disturbed and reckless. A youth
employed in an English counting•house was stabbed in
the public street, about seven o'clock in the evening;
and two nights before, an English subject was shot
dead also in the public streets, and but a few hours
more advanced in the evening. There have been ten
or eleven eases of murder among the Europeans since
1852 commenced. _ The consuls cannot control

their subjects, and the powers of the local
authorities are paralyzed by the consular rights
prevailing in the Levant. In a community a great
part of which is made up of the scum of Italy,
Greece, Austria, Hungary, and other places, this is a
pretty prospect for the peaceably disposed. A gang of
thieves, made up of some refugees, perhaps escaped con-
victs, has lately been discovered, and in their possession
were found arms and instruments of the most terrible
kind. The chief of police has addressed a circular to
the consuls, begging their co-operation in checking
the prevailing habit of carrying concealed arms.
The Arab population are inoffensive generally, and if
any European suffers from them a prompt example is
made, and the fullest satisfaction rendered.
The British mail steamer Oriental left Suez for Cal-
cutta, all well, oa the Bth inst. She took with her the
passengers of the previous month, detained at Suez by
the delay of the Haddingtoo, and had nearly 2bo in all.
The Eist India Company's packet Akbar reached
Suez at midnight of the 18th inst., with the homeward
Bombay mails, and about forty passengers, among whom
is Sir JOHN GREY, late Commander-in-Chief at the
Bombay Presidency.