The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-13 00:00:00

EGYPT.

The fresh Egyptian auxiliaries from Alexandria
will, as we understand from communications from
Varna, of the Ist, go direct to Balaklava, instead
of first proceeding to Constantinople, as has been
the case heretofore, and will thus be very much
earlier on the scene of action. 6,000 Egyptian
cavalry were expected to arrive at Balaklava on the
6th inst., and four steamers were to go from Varna
to Balaklava, to return with transport ships fur
the convey'tnce of provisions from Varna to the
allies. Meanwhile the four steamers set off to
Alexandria, to return with 4,000 Egyptian artil-
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lerymen. About 12,000 Egyptian auxiliaries,
mostly cavalry, have joined the expeditionary army
by this time.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Omer Pacha seems to have already commenced
operations against Bessarabia. He passed through
Galatz on the Ist inst., on his way to Ibraila. The
Turkish corps concentrated at Sehumla, according
to letters of the Ist of the mouth from Galatz, were
then on their way from thence to Trojan's Wall.
The Turkish Danubian flotilla is concentrated at
Hirsova. It will be made use of in the conveyance
of troops from thence to Galatz.
A letter from Copenhagen, Bth, states that the
President of the Volksthing in the sitting of the
previous day informed the Chamber that the pro-
positions made in the preceding session relative to
the modification of the Constitution had not been
accepted by the King.
A letter from Rome, of the 30th ult., in the
Parlamento of Turin, states that a few days before
the officer commanding the Papal gendarmes sta-
tioned at Marino, near Rome, was assassinated.
The crime was attributed to party spirit.
The Augsburg Gazette states that the Prussian
Jews are at present endeavouring to obtain the
revocation of the edict of 1492, isswed by Fer-
dinand and Isabella, which banished from Spain
all persons of their persuasion. They have ad-
dressed to the Cortes a memorial to that effect,
in which they endeavour to prove that Jewish
colonies existed in Spain long before that country
was inhabited by Garistians. They quote in sup-
port of their assertion Strabo, Philo, and the
Spanish historian Los Rios, who even declares that
the Jews rendered the greatest services to the
Christians when these latter reconquered Spain.
On the 28th ultimo the Court of Appeal at
Basle pronounced sentence on a refugee, named
Thury, who had given himself out for an emis-
sary of Kossuth ; the latter, however, had since
formally disclaimed any connexion with him, and
stated in a letter that he had only given him some
pecuniary aid. The Lower Court had condemned
him to two months' imprisonment and a fine of
300 f. ; but the Court of Appeal increased his
punishment to six months' imprisonment, 500 f.
fine, and the expenses, with 100 days' imprison-
ment more if the fine were not paid within three

months.
The Prussian, Geratte, of the 9th, says :
" Count Esterhazy, who is staying here on a mis-
sion extraordinary, had an audience last Friday of
the King in the Bellevue Palace, when he pre-
sented to his Majesty an autograph letter from the
Emperor of Austria. The conjecture that this
letter announced the recall of Count Esterhaaiziyd
from the court of Berlin is not correct.
The Emperor of Austria has pardoned two poli-
tical priso leis named Giovanni
Giovanni Noziezka, and remitted one-half of the
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punishment of a third, named Antonio Fodor.
A letter from Messina, 4th, says :—" It is now
several days that no case of cholera has occurred
here, and it is said that clean bills of health will
be issued in the course of the present week. At
Catania the disease still exists, and also in several
other' parts
fromtsof Tilsit
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mention that in consequence
of the reductions in the Prussian tariff, the smug-
gling trade along the frontier bad greatly dimi-
nished'; the smugglers had found their account
rather in availing themselves of the high'rates now

paid for laud transport from Russia to Prussia
than in driving their hazardous trade with dimi-
nished profits.
The Giornale di Roma publishes a text of a con-
vention concluded between. the King of the Two
Sicilies and the Holy See to regulate international
telegraphic correspondence.
The Monitenr says :—" Captain Sir Edward
Belcher, commander of the last expedition to the
Arctic ocean, has addressed to the Admiralty a re-
port, in which he bestows the highest praise on M.
Emile de Bray, a French officer who took part in
the expedition on board the English ship Resolute.
His Excellency Lord Cowley has been charged by
the Government of her Britannic Majesty to
transmit a copy of this report to his Excellency
the Minister of Foreign Affairs."

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAP.H.)

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.

By the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steam-ship Euxine, we have dates front
Gibraltar to the 4th inst., Cadiz 5, Lisbon 9, and
Vigo
.10.
The Euxine had on board 45 passengers, 65
packages of.specie, and the usual 'cargo.
Her Majesty's steam-ship Viper arrived at Lis-
bon .ou the 3d inst. with despatches for Constan-
tinople, and, after taking in coals, proceeded on her
voyage the following morning.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Sphtnx arrived in
Gibraltar Bay on the 2d inst.
The British steamer Bal bee, six days from Liver-
pool, arrived out at Gibraltar on the evening of
the 3d.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Stromboli passed on
the 3d for the Black Sea.

The despatch screw, grin-boat Lynx
,proceeded
from Gibraltar to the Black Sea on the same day.

THE BRAZILIAN MAIL.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, 9.30 A.M.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Severn
has just arrived with the above mailS. Her dates
are—Buenos Ayres Sept. 1, Monte Video 4, Rio
Janeiro 14, Bahia 18, Pernambuco 21, Madeira
Oct. 5, and Lisbon 9. She had on. board 56'pas-
sengers, 21 of whom landed at Lisbon.
The Severn has on freight 16,122 e. in specie,
10,0001. value in diamonds, and a very full cargo.
From Buenos Ayres there is little to notice of
importance. In political affairs all was tranquil.
The market for imports was dull, but an improve-
ment was expected at the commencement of the
spring trade. The produce market was bare of
stocks, and hides kept high. Tallow was flatter,
and wool entirely neglected, although the forth-
coming clip was pronounced better than usual.
Freights were dull. Exchange on London 60 6to
60 9 per ounce. .

At Rio the Legislative Chambers were prorogued.
A large business had been done in coffee. In dry
goods there was no improvement. Exchange at
sixty days 27, but some small transactions had
been effected at 27i to 27f. Freights continued
active. •

At Pernambuco business had been in a complete
state of apathy. In exchange little had been done
at 27k, cash. Freights dull.
At Monte Video there was a good demand for
imports, but prices had declined.
Exchange; 40s.
The coast of Brazil is reported as very healthy, -
no fev6r of any kind prevailing. -
At Lisbon the disease in the vine still existed.

CRYSTAL PALACE, OCT. 12 (ONE SHILLING DAY).—
Admission at the doors, 5,082 ; admission by season
tickets, 615 ; total, 5,697.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—At the Lawford-gate Petty
Sessions, held at Bristol yesterday (Thursday), Thomas
Eaglestaff, Isaa,cEaglestaff, Daniel Wills, George Brown,
and Charles Chapple, were charged with having assaulted -,
Mr. Watkins, a cattle dealer, and inflicted on him such
injuries that his life is now despaired of. The court was -
densely crowded, as the case excited much interest from
the position in life of the different persons.
THE IRISH MILITIA ENROLLED.—At the Privy
Council held in Dublin Castle on Thursday, the Lords
Justices made the order for enrolling the Irish militia. •
SUPPOSED MURDEE.—We understand that a woman
has been lodged in gaol here, on a charge of having
poisoned two of her ovn children. The authorities ars
engaged in investigating the case.—Stirling Journal.
THEFT OF BANK NOTES.—On Tuesday afternoon the
sum of 3561. was stolen from the person of a gentleman
at Falkirk Tryst. Some of • the notes were 501. Bank
of England notes, and their numbers are known.
THE LATE ATTEMPT AT ABDUCTION.—We can posi-
tively state that the gentleman who lately attempted
abduction in Northamptonshire is not, or ever was, an
officer in the army, He is an Irishman, the Hon. Mr.
C., nephew to an earl in Ulster.,-,
ASSESSED TAXES.—It is not. generally lnown that
a party served with a surveyor's schedule,
,and failing to,
make a return, may be refiked to be heard on appeal,
before the Court of Appeal, against a charge made on
him.

THE EARL or ENNISKILLEN.—The officers of the
Barnsley District Loyal Orange Society have forwarded ;
to the Right Hon. the Earl of Enniskillen, Grand Master
of the Orange Lodges of the United Kingdom, an address
of congratulation and sympathy on the providential -
escape of his lord,hip and 800 of their Protestant brethren
from the recent attempt to overthrow the railway train ;
in which they were travelling on the Enniskillen and
Derry Railway.
EPWORTH FAIR.—At this the principal fair in the Isle s,
of Aichol me, North Lincolnshire, the number of sheep
penned was unusually large, but the quality of the
animals was not of the most superior kind, they being
principally stock ewes, which sold at from 30s. to 40s.
each. Fat beasts were scarce, and realised from 7s. Gd.
to 7s. 9d. per stone of 141 b. There were few good
horses shown ; poi foals were in great demand, and
the small number in the fair were disposed of at high
prices.

THE CHOLERA AT MERTHYR, &c.—We regret that
this fearful disease has been very prevalent in the dis- •
tricts of Merthyr and Dowlais, in South Wales, and
that though every effort has been made to stop its
progress its ravages still continue. Since its first appear- ,
ance between 200 and 300 persons have been carried off.
The authorities are on the alert, and adopting the mea-
sures best calculated to stop the spread of the pestilence.
House-to-house visitation has been adopted by the
medical staff, who daily visit each dwelling. The streets
are being cleansed and well limed, and the boards of
health are active in carrying the provisions of the act
into operation. Yet much more remains to be done, as
slaughterhouses abound, open drains are allowed to pour
forth their miasma in volumes, and generally the drain-
age and sewerage of the towns are in the worst condi-
tion. These towns have acquired an unenviable
notoriety by their filth, and now they are among the
first to feel the presence of this dread scourge.
HEART WORK. - We are not sent into this world to
do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We
have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be
done strenuously ; other work to do for our delight, and
that is to be done heartily. Neither is it to be done by-
halves and shifts, but with a will ; and what is not worth
the effort is not to be done at all.
THE ALLEGED MURDER IN WESTRINSTER.—AD.
JOURNED INQUEST.—Yesterday, Mr. Bedford, the coro-
ner for the City of Westminster, resumed the inquiry'
into the cause of the death of Mary Ann Lever, aged,
36. Deceased died in the infirmary of St. John's Work-
house on the 6th inst., having been admitted on the 3d,
and it was stated by Dinah Reid, a nurse in the in-
firmary, that (according to a statement made by de-
ceased) her death arose from injuries received through'
the violence of a man unknown, who had thrown her
over the banisters of a house in Orchard-street, West-
minster. The inquiry previously held was adjourned
for the purpose of further investigation by the police ;
.but on the coroner and jury re assembling yesterday, the
only additional evidence adduced was that of two women
of the same unfortunate class as the deceased, who stated
that she had about three weeks ago fallen down stairs at
the house in Orchard-street, but they knew-nothing of
irjuries inflicted by any man. Mr. Levies, the surgeon
of the infirmary, repeated his former evidence, that in
his opinion the immediate cause of death was inflamma-
tion of the peritoneum, which latter might be occasioned
in a person leading the life of the deceased, independent
of the quries alleged to have been inflicted. The jury
accordingly returned a verdict that the deceased had
died from inflammation of the peritoneum.
A SOLDIER'S RECEIPT FOR, PROCURING SLEEP.—Th
following (says the Bath Journal) is an extract from
the letter of a youth, son of an ancient Wilts family, to
his parents As soon as our division (the Ist) was
formed on landing, and the fight division had marched
off, we started and marched five miles over a large fiat
plain, with a ridge of high rugged-looking hills facing
us, and encamped at half-past four p.m. in a large
ploughed field, with a quantity of bushy weeds on it,
winch luckily made very good bedding when pulled
up and heaped together, so a general rush took place
as soon as we had piled arms, and not a weed was left
in half an hour ! So we had our chip of cold pork and
biscuit and go-down of whi-ly, put our cloaks over us,
and with our bearskin caps for a pillow, lay down on
our bed of rushes,' and slept like atop, though it rained
a good part of the night rather sharpish. Now I will
tell you a receipt for sleeping under any circumstances.
Have all the excitement of landing on an enemy's shore,
epaulettes top of all. Lie dawn
°n
clad!. carry, porn,
a and pis-
tols, with as many haversacks
as cloaks,
a
bearskintols 1 Sec:pp easn,
d hatchets,cpau
with your conscience at, ea•ie from a sense of doing your
duty, and put the cape of your coat bang all over your
head, so that you can't feel the rain or dew fall, or be
dazzled by the moon or stars, and then commend your-
self to God. If you don't sleep then, there must be
something wrong in the inside."
A THOUSAND SINGING BIRDS FOR AMERICA.—
Amongst the " passengers" by the Washington steamer,
which left Southampton on Wednesday with the United
States mails, were upwards of 1,000 singing canary birds.
A cabin aas fisted up fur them. Almost every one of the
birds was in a separate cage. This cage is dome-shaped,
and is of basket-work. Canary birds are exported in
large numbers from Breinen to New York by the South-
ampton steamers, and they are collected frail all' ISalti
of Germany,

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