The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. B.—Th© market has been rather
heavy, and the business done shows a decline—
Threes, for the Account, being now at 60f. 10c.
The Railway Share Market also heavy, and some
lines rather lower. The market continued weak to
the close, and left off as follows :
it per Cents 95 75
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 95
Credit Mobilier 1210
Do. end month 1210
Bank Shares 3100
Credit 11°1:Icier 1420

Italian Loan 74 05
Do. end month 74 10
New ditto 74
Do. end month 74 05
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes.,, 53
Rome Debt .. 5l 75
IVAYB.

RA IL'

Cash. Account.
Orleans -
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 .. 1040
Geneva .. 495 .. 497 50
Southern 745 .. 742 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 430 .. 435
Austrian
Lon.bard
North of Spain
Saragossa 660 .. 660
Ditto to Barcelona

EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 1.
Intelligence has just been received from the
White Nile of the slaughter of several boats' full of
so-called ivory traders. The blacks surprised the
boats, killed everyone on board, and carried off the
cargoes. The loss has been so severely felt at
Khartoum, the centre of the trade in slaves and
elephants' teeth, as to have caused some failures, an
almost unprecedented event there. No commisera-
tion can be felt for the fate of these men, for it was
only an act of wild justice on the part of the blacks.
Attention has been frequently called by travel-
lers,
to the infamous practices of the white traders.
and lately by Captains Speke and Grant,
Armed bands are despatched in large boats from
Khartoum ; they surprise unoffending villagers,
kill the men, make slaves of the women and
children, and drive away the cattle to be bar-
tered against elephants' teeth. A person who
has made several excursions on the White and
Blue Niles tells me the traders have made
the name of the " pale race" eo odious that the
features of the natives alter and assume an ex-
pression of hatred when they utter it. It is time
that the Government of Egypt should take vigorous
steps to curb the piratical expeditions from Khar-
toum, and to stop the trade in black slaves. The
boats are, it is true, visited at certain appointed
stations along the river from Khartoum to Cairo,
and if any slaves are found they are confiscated.
But they never are found, for they are simply dis-
embarked a mile or two above each station, anti
making a short march on foot of three or four miles
are re embarked a little lower down. This could
not be done without the connivance of the autho
rities, and were the Government to take up the
matter seriously the traffic might be stopped imme.
diately. Swift
police boats moving up and down
the river, and inspecting boats at pleasure,
together with a proper supervision over the land
caravans, would very soon render the trade impos-
sible. It is hopeless to expect any improvement
in the condition of the countries bordering en the
Upper Nile while such atrocities are permitted, and
the sale of slaves connived at. Yet they are tracts
of exceeding fertility, and might one day if properly
matured by the Egyptian Government form most
valuable posssssions, and yield a greater revenue
than Egypt itself.
It is to be hoped that the massacre which has just
occurred may rouse this Government into adopting
stringent measures to put a stop to the piracy on
the 11( hite Nilo, and to the trade in blacks. The
Egyptian Trading and Commercial Company has
just appointed a superior agent on the White Nile—
one thoroughly acquainted with those countries, and
who has gained a high reputation for never having
joined in any act of aggression against the natives.
His presence, and the action of so powerful a Cern•
piny, will greatly tend to repress the lawless acts
of the ivory traders, by exposing their deeds, and
bringing those countries more directly under the
notice of the European public, and instituting
friendly relations and fair traffic with the black
population.
One of the principal objects of the Viceroy's
visit to Assouan is to see personally what measures
might be adopted towards lessening the danger of
the Nile's rising tan high, by directing the surplus
water into the Birket-at-Fayourn, an artificial lake

inundation in two ways.
formed by the ancients for this very purpose,
Lower Egypt
i„xposed to
The one is au unusually high Nile rolling down
from the Tropics; the other is from irrigation
water suddenly turned back into the river. The
lands of Upper Egypt are fertilized by the Nile being
allowed to flow over them, and remain a given time ;
as the land is in:terraces, the water is transmitted

from the higher to the lower levels by cutting the
intervening dykes, and finally it is discharged
back into the river at a point necessarily muci
lower than where it was turned on to the lands.
The
rushpoin oft s
g such
a vast body of water, often at
many together, causes a sudden and great
tso
addition to the volume of the stream, and here,
reaching Lower Egypt it occasionally bursts the
dykes, and pouring over the country sweeps every-
the newly-sown grain in
tthheing
before it , and rots
ground.

may be interested in hearing
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s just again been tried in
Cairo. Ali Pacha, who has the finest stud of Arabs
in Egypt, maintained that no English horse could
run against an Arab for four miles. His Highness
Halim Pacha offered to run Companion, a well.
known racer here, against him for any sum he liked.
The match was run from the first station on the
Suez desert to Cairo. The English horse, which
was bred, I believe, by Lord Ribblesdale, won in a
canter by more than half a mile. Such a crushing
defeat has taken all courage out of the partisans of
Arab horses. %%That astonished the natives most
was that Companion, beating his adversary by so
great a distance, was perfectly fresh, and quite
ready to turn round and run the distance over again,
while the Arab was quite exhausted and blown.
The Ambassadors from Cochin China are here ;
they are lodged in one of the Viceroy's Palaces,
and are attended by a French officer, who escorts
them about Alexandria, pointing out objects of
interest to them, about which they do not seem
to care at all. They leave in a French frigate,
which has come to take them to France.