The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-19 00:00:00

nny foreign countries I know of are so rapidly advancing as
airo and Alexandria. His Highness Mohamed Ali is
now at Candia, to which place he went for the purpose of
regulating certain improvements in agricultural pursuits.
His son, Ibrahim Pasha, is at present in Syria : and I am
sorry to say that the plague has appeared at Aleppo and
Damascus, though not to any very great extent.
The olive plantations about Cairo are rapidly thriving.
It bboultl be remembered that this fruit is a necessary of
life in this country, and was introduced by Ibrahim Pasha,
ho is now the greatest cultivator of it in the world. An
hgc,t has been sent to America to purchase apparatus, or
erns As' for extracting oil from the olives. The whole
of the pr,:ate revenues of Ibrahim Pasha goes to improve-
ments in Egt-p.f. and Syria, and his ideas towards agricul-
ith these countries are vast and compre-
tural pursuits in
hensive. Some year _hen"' if God spares his life, Egypt
will be fertilised to double :he eqent it is at present.
tr;,::-..a is none whatever
`vl7:tly respect to pla pie in L.—:Ypt,
beyond the limits of the Lazaio.:u AL.:"dria' where
there has not been a single case for tilt' last fifteen days. In
truth, the benefits conferred on Egypt 1)• the establishu,:^t
of sanitary laws are beyond those of all ot;:;rs under Mo-
hamed Ali's government. Similar establishments are now
in progress in Syria.
Omer Effendi. Ibrahim Pasha's seal-bearer, is gone to
England, on his way to the West Indies, to collect on the
,pot rvcry Liformation relative to the cultivation of sugar
and the distliation of rum. 'file sugar-cane is a thriving
plant in this country, the growth of which is rapidly on the
increase. A few months ago Mr. MacCullogli, the Pasha's
botanist. was sent to the East Indies, and ordered to visit
South America on his way back to Egypt. In fact, I
should occupy too much of your space were I to enumerate
all the branches of improvements practically in force by the
joint energies of the two Pashas of Egypt and Syria.
Colonel Campbell is now renovating the English Consu-
lar department of Cairo, which has long required it ; the
bite Trice-Consul, not being a British subject, has very pro-
perly becn displaced. This appointment remains with Lord
Palmerston to fill up.
With respec!, to mails by this route to India the present
month affords proof unparalleled. Letters were dispatched
between Falmouth and Suez in twenty-one days, and in
eighteen days more they most probably will arrive at Bom-
bay ; thus accomplishing the dispatch of mails between
England and India in thirty-nine days. Colonel Campbell
is now giving the the utmost assistance in this matter.

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The Opera closes this night. G:ist leaves town on
Sunday, for Hastings ; Tamburini and Alii.Prtazzi for Bir-
mingham.
HASTINGS.—Last Monday Mr. Planta, accompa-
nied by a parson and some young gentlemen, embarked
incog. in a small sailing-boat for the continent, on a visit
to the King of Hanover. So soon as the matter became
known, various were the motives assigned, but that which
obtained the most credence was that he was gone to ba-
lance the accounts relating to the expenses of the late
election for this borough with the Orange Ogre, who, it is
well known, found the " where-with-all" for his old chum.
The report created great consternation amongst his recent
supporters, who are generally now sorry for their votes,
and freely admit that, had they been aware they were sup-
porting a mere nominee of King Ernest, nothing should
have induced them to do so. Some folks fancy this visit
portends as many evils as were anticipated by the credu-
lous from Halley's comet ; whilst others think that Mr.
Planta is merely gone to be schooled in his part of the go-
between, and that no material damage will happen to the
world yet.
\Ye have the proud satisfaction of announcing this
day to the supporters of this journal, and to the friends of
education and charity generally, that her Most Gracious
Majesty has, in the most kind and condescending manner,
consented to becotoe the Patroness of that noble Institu-
tion, the Licensed Vjctuallers' School. Neither the kind
and liberal expressions need by her Majesty upon the oc-
casion, nor those which Lord Melbourne employed in re-
questing her Majesty to honour the Institution by her
patronage, do we consider ourselves at liberty to divulge ;
suffice it to say that they were most honourable in every
respect to our Gracious Sovereign, and most creditable to
the Noble Lord to whom she has so justly entrusted the
reins of government. In any case we should highly prize
the honour of her Majesty's patronage ; but in the present
instance we prize it the more highly, because we believe
it is not only the first patronage of the same kind which
her Majesty has bestowed, but because it is also an evi-
dunce that one main characteristic of her reign will be a
strenuous endeavour to promote the diffusion of knowledge
amongst her subjects. To the Queen, therefore, be health,
happiness, prosperity, and a long and successful reign ; and
to Lord Melbourne, who has evinced upon all occasions
the same benevolent wishes expressed by her Majesty,
there are no thanks to which the supporters of the noble
Institution referred to can by possibility give expression, to
which he is not justly entitled. His Lordship laid the
first stone of '•he splendid building, which now adorns the
borough of Lambeth, and in a state of health which in
every respect might have justified him in withholding his
presence ; but with that manliness which is the invariable
characteristic of his cocduct, he nobly obeyed, at great
personal risk, the comman,is of his Sovereign, and must
now feel doubly proud that la:3 name, along with that of his
Royal Mistress, will go down to posterity as the earliest
and best friends of a school of education, which is not only
an ornament to the metropolis, but which has not its com-
peer within the kingdom.—Morning Advertiser.
MONEY-MARKET.—One of the effects of the pre-
sent abundance of money, which might easily have been
anticipated, has been that of taking off nearly the whole
of the United States Bank bills sent to this country. At
first their reception was a doubtful one, and they fell after-
wards into discredit, but they are now sought for with avi-
dity, and are with difficulty to be obtained. This difficulty
will probably vanish with the arrival of the next packet
from New York, which is now hourly expected, but in the
meantime the Market for them is as stated. For some of
those which fall due in April, the price of 98 was given,
which is little more than 41 per cent. Nothing could be
more important to the interests of the United States Bank
than such a Market as this for their securities, especially at
a time when they are known to have formed the design of
anticipating all the other American Banks in the resump-
tion of cash payments, and may thus secure, under the
existing law, a large share of the Government deposits.
Some persons here go so far as to attribute to the Bank of
England a co-operation in this design for purposes of their
own, but we do not consider the statement as entitled to
the smallest credit. A participation in American financial
operations of the same kind as this would be, that is, in a
supply of specie, has been too recently fatal to render the
report at all probable. Mr. Biddle, the President of the
United States Bank, will acquire a high character for sa-
gacity', should he succeed in this project.

Yesterday, according to anntialcustom, Camberwell
Fair commenced on the Green. At an early hour a very
numerous assemblage of both sexes were to be seen gazing,
with wonder-looking eyes and extended mouths, at the various
nmusementf., which the itinerant showmen bad put forward
for the purpose of raising the supplies.
Thursday morning shortly after four o'clock, a ma-
niac, named William Miller, aged 41 years, hung himself in
the yard of Lambeth workhouse. The wretched man has
been in the poorhouse from his infancy, and, in consequence
.of his being at times very outrageous, Mr. Droit, the master,
employed him in the washing-rooms. The watchman saw
him ; but on account of its being his usual custom to be up
early to get the fires lighted, it was not thought necessary
to watch haw. In a quarter of an hour afterwards he
(the watchman) found him hanging from the handrail of a
staircase. The rope was upwards of ten feet long, lie
was instantly cut down, and Mr. Droit being informed of
the circumstance, sent for Mr. Osborn, the assistant of Mr.
Bryant, the parish surgeon, who was speedily in attendance,
and rendered every assistance, but without effect. It was
an extraordinary fact, that the unfortunate man was re-
marked to be in better spirits than over he was known be-
fore on the previous evening.
Yesterday afternoon a large dog of the lurcher breed,
and to all appearance in a rabid state, broke loose from the
harness by which it was attached to a baker's truck, and ran
foaming at the mouth, along Red Lion-street, biting in its
progress two children, one of whom, a little boy, about ten
years of age, was severely lacerated in the leg. The
animal, which was pursued by a great crowd of persons,
kept on through several streets, and was at length killed by
a labouring man, named Dayes, in a doorway, where he had
.taken refuge. Another dog, a terrier, also supposed to be
mAd, was is the early part of the day destroyed by a brick-
layeT at Paddington.
HYDROPHOBIA.—Thursday morning, between nine
and ten o'clock, death terminated the sufferings of Charles
Blanchard. a fine young man, a groom, residing in John-
street, Tottenfom-court-road, who was unfortunately bitten
el by a .ig in a rabid state ahout nine weeks since. It ap-
peared that the unfortunate young man was living near
Reading, in Berkshire, with a family. About nine weeks
since one of their dogs appeared to be ill. The animal
being a valuable one, the groom went into the stables for the
purpose of examining him immediately on approaching
the dog he snapped at the groom, and made a small incr-
in the thick part of the thumb with his teeth. The
wound was bound up, and shortly afterwards appeared to
heal ; and not any particular notice was taken of the cir-
cumstance. During the night the dog effected his escape
from out of the stables, and ran away, and bas not since
been heard of. On Monday the poor fellow arrived in
London for the purpose of seeing his sister, and appeared
112 his usual health end spirits. On Tuesdny morning,
@lasing the time he was sitting at his breakfast, he was.sud-
&My attacked with convulsions, medical aid was procured,
when it was immediately pronounced that the sufferer was
i
.leized with hydrophobia, which increased, be nduring dis-
.l4-essing sufferings, until death terminated them.