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 levelling
of brick or stones is formed to give stability to the rails
and permanent way. There being no rock to cut, and
no excavations, the progress is rapid and the work
simple. It is expected that in twelve months great
advancement towards completion will have been made.

The Tanzimat affair also embarrasses him much. In-
stead of concession on the part of the SULTAN, there
appears to be daily increasing obstinacy, and it is now
pretty certain that the " Ki•as" (or withdrawal of the
power of life and death from the PAcRA) 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 Aksha, clearing the great Hadj road of
marauders by which it has of late been infested, and
forti along the line are being built for the protection of
caravans.

An English traveller named WATSON, 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 man 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
hasaness,

The American flag, which has been struck for some
time pending the satisfaction of a claim DX le upon the
Egyptian Government fur damage to property of a
United States subjec*, was rehoisted on the 11th inst.,
under a salute from the batteries of twenty-one guns.
The English Consul-General, the Hon. CHARLES
AUGUSTUS MURRAY, C. 8., quit 3 Egypt in May on leave
of aroenu., due-.g which his office will be filled by Co-
lonel ROSE, late Consul-General at Beyrout.
The European Society of this plt:::e (Alexandria) is
becoming fearfully disturt3d 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, 01 English subject was shot
dead also in the public stree' -3, and but a few hours
more advanced in the evening. There have baen ten
or eleven cases of murder among the Europeans since
1852 ci mmenced. The consuls cannot control
their subject'', 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 peae-ably disposed. A gang of
thieves, naLle up of some re.agees, perhaps escaped con-
victs, has lately been discover. d, and in their possessi.di
were found arms and instruments of the most terrible
kind. The chief of polka has aidrz'ssed a circular to
the consuls, begging their co-op ration in checking
the prevailing habit of carrying concealed arms.
The Arab p)pulaoon are inoffensive generally, and it
any European suffers from them a prompt example is
made, and the fullest satisfaction rendered.
The British mail st-itimer Oriental left Suez for Cal-
cutta, all well, on the Bth ins'. She took with her the
passengers of the previous month, detained at Suez by
the delay of the Haddington, and had nearly 200 in all.
The East India Company's packet Akbar reached
Suez at midnight of the 18th ins*, with the homewerd
Bombay mails, and about forty passengers, among whom
is Sir JOHN GREY, late Commander-in-Chief at the
Bombay Presidency.