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

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. B.—The market has been rather
heavy, and the business done shows a decline—
Threes, for the Account, being now at 69f. 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 k oncior 1420

Italian Loan 74 05
Do. end month 74 10
New ditto 74
Do. end month 74 05
Russian

Austrian
Spanh,h Threes 53
Home Debt

RAIL'

'AlrB.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1045 .. 1040 --
Northern ....
~,. ..
Now. ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 50 .. 1040
GPnqva 495 .. 497 50
Southern 745 .. 742 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 430 .. 435
Austrian
Lowbard
North of Spain .. .. 562 50 .. 565
Saragossa.
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, and lately by Captains Speke and Grant,
to the infamous practices of the white traders.
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, and
making a short mare, 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.
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 on 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 possessions, and greater revenue
than Egypt itself. a yield
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 White Nile, 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 Com-
pany, 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 too high, by directing the surplus
water into the Birket-al-Fayoum, an artificial lake
formed by the ancients for this very purpose.
Lower Egypt is exposed to inundation in two ways.
The one is an unusually high Nile rolling down
waterfro suddenly
from
the
ely 'Tropics; the other is from irrigation
turned back into the river. The
a llandsiow allowed to
of Upperfi ow er them, and remain a given time ; Egypt are fertilized by the Nile being
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 much-
lower than where it was turned on to the lands.
The rush of such a vast body of water, often at
many points together, causes a sudden and great
addition to the volume of the stream, and hence
reaching Lower Egypt it occasionally bursts the
dykes, and pouring over the country sweeps every-
thing before it, and rots the newly-sown grain in
the ground.

Your racing readers may be interested in hearing
that the much-vexed point as to the merits of Eng

lish and Arab horses has just again been tried i❑
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 hare, 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. What 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.

THE EGYPTIAN HALL.

Mr. J. K. Lord's descriptive and pictorial entertainment
may now be said to have taken the position of ono of the
established and favourite places of rteort in London. A
very agreeable, pleasant, and withal most instructive even-
ing may be spent with Mr. Lord in his Piccadilly wilder-
ness ; now, listening to his wonderful travels, history, and
hair-breadth 'seapes by
flood and field ; and again, to the
wild songs of the trapper, with which his narrative is in-
terspersed. Mr. Lord's very eloquent descriptions of the
wonders of Oregon, Vancouver's Island, British Columbia,
and the Rocky Mountains are rendered highly interesting
by the exquisite panoramic views with which he accompanies
them. So appropriate are the decorations, so striking the
pictures, added to the hunter-like costume and accoutre.
ments and the earnestness of the lecturer, that the visitor
is occasionally liable to forget the fact that he is comfortably
seated in a hall in Piccadilly and not actually on the trail
of a trapper in the far West.

The Lord Mayor, who is a Freemason, has been
frequently passed the sign by prisoners brought before him.
11,s lordship latterly, in consequence of this, made as in
dignaat roramtrance to a priseaer—and a k)rother,