The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-30 00:00:00

STATE OF EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 20.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ripon arrived here yesterday morning, and, after land-
ing her cargo, passengers, and about half a million ster-
ling of specie, for India and China, has taken in her
cargo from India, for England, and starts to-day, with
only about 25 passengers, for Southampton.
In consequence of the Viceroy's changes in his orders
regarding the prohibition of the exportation of the four
articles of wheat, beans, barley, and Indian corn, prices
have undergone great fluctuations in this market during
the last 10 days. Between the Bth and 15th inst., when
the prohibition was rigorously enforced, the wheat of
the new crop receded from 38s. to 31s. per quarter, free
on board, while the wheat of last year's crop, which the
prohibition was never intended to affect, was eagerly
purchased at from 40s. to 41s. per quarter, free on
board. Since the 15th inst. new wheat has risen again
to 38s. per quarter ; but the last advices from England
have somewhat damped the spirit of speculation. Beans
are at 325. per quarter, and in demand ; barley, 20s.
per quarter, very firm. The Indian corn crop is not
yet taken in.
The stocks of wheat, beans, and barley, new and old,
in the bands of the merchants in Alexandria, and which

alone are allowed to be exported, are reckoned to amount
to about 170,000 quarters. There are about 30 vessels
loading in port, which may take off a third of this quan-
tity, thus leaving about 114,000 quarters, which will fill
about 60 vessels, and about 50 vessels are known to be
on their way to Alexandria chartered.
Freights are at present from 13s. 6d. to 14s. per
quarter for beans, and other grain in proportion, but
vessels are not much sought after.
In the ninth article of a treaty of commerce between
Russia and the Sublime Porte, concluded at Constanti-
nople on the 18th (30th) April, 1846, it is stated that,
in the event of the Sublime Porte being obliged to pro-
hibit the exportation of any produce of Turkey, a proper
term shall be fixed for the enforcement of the prohibition,
as also the extent of its duration, so that it may be pub-
lished in all necessary ports.
As the treaties between Turkey and England and
most European nations specially stipulate that all rights
and privileges which the Sublime Ports grants to any
one Power shall be equally granted to all, the English,
French, Austrian, and other Consuls have been protest-
ing against the illegal act of Abbas Pasha, and there is
little doubt that his Highness would have to pay
damages for all claims that might be made upon him for
having done so much injury to the trade.
Abbas Pasha, in lieu of giving proper notice, and
specifying the duration of the prohibition, at first ordered
it to be put in force in 12 days' time from this issue of
the notice, and afterwards wished to fix the quantity to
be exported at 250,000 quarters, and with reference to
this last resolution, which was notified to the Consuls
on the 12th of October, the Government most unjustifi-
ably gave out that this quantity was to be reckoned
from the Bth of July, or the commencement of the new
crop.

The broad basis on which the Consuls protested was,
that the Viceroy did not act in accordance with the
clearly specified article in the treaty.
The French Consul. General, M. Sabatier, showed
much determination in the matter, and informed the
Pasha that unless the prohibition was taken off by the
15th he would leave the country.
Abbas Pasha has felt much annoyed at being thvtarted
in his plans, and attributes all the blame to his Minister
for Foreign Affaiti,- Stephan Bey, who hal accorflinily-
been dismissed from his post.
Owing to his wayward and arbitriry disposition, Abbas
Pasha has no one about him who would venture to re-
commend any useful or necessary measure, and, if con-
tradicted, his Highness is very apt to vent his rancour
upon his subordinates.
The only active Minister the Viceroy has is Khaired-
deen Pasha, Minister of Commerce, now engaged in
seizing men in the upper country, and sending them
bound hand and foot to swell the army. The aversion
of the natives to military service may be conceived when
it is known that their pay is 3s. a month, which they
receive only every two or three years, and then with a
deduction of about one quarter of their due !
The new cotton is beginning to arrive freely from the
interior, and this staple, as well as flax, linseed, gum
arabic, sesame seed, lentils, and other articles the pro-
duce Of Egypt, will be for exportation.
The amount of goods passing through Egypt to and
from India, brought by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamers, is steadily increasing, and the
revenue accruing to the Viceroy from this source
amounts yearly to a very large sum, as the freight
charged is very high. The provisions made by the
Viceroy to meet this increasing traffic are not propor-
tionate to its wants, as the steamers employed are not
sufficient, many are getting quite worn out, and a tio-
vernment official may have the use of a steamer for his
own purpose at any time without reference to the re-
quirements of the transit, which often gives rise to great
inconvenience and delay to the passengers. One of the
anomalies of the transit administration is, that they
will not admit of any wear and tear of machinery, boats,
carriages, horses, or any other of their means of convey-
ance, but if an employe be once put in charge of any
article, he is made responsible for it unreservedly. The
present director of the transit, Abdallah Bey, an English.
man, is, however, doing his utmost to keep the transit
in efficient working order.
Lake Mmotis, the southern extremity of which is
crossed by the railway, has been rising rapidly during
the past few weeks, and has caused some apprehensions
that the embankments raised are not sufficiently high to
protect the line from inundation. There is no direct
stream running into Lake Mmotis, and it rises only two
or three months after the Nile has attained its highest
point, as the water filtrates through the soil to the lake,
and reaches its greatest height only in January, so that
until then there is no certainty that the railway will not
be overflooded.
Said Pasha, heir apparent to the governorship of
Egypt, 35 years of age, having hitherto been childless,
is shortly expecting tobecome a father by a Circassian
slave, whom he bought at Constantinople at a great
price ; and it is remarkable that his Highness has over-
come the prejudiced and contracted notions of Eastern
women, and has brought out from England an English
nurse to rear his expected child. Ismail Pasha, one of
the sons of Ibrahim Pasha, has also a French nurse for
his children.—Times.

ADULTERATIONS OF FOOD.—It is very satisfactory to
observe, that Mr. Slaney's Aot " for legalising the
formation of Industrial and Providential Societies" has
not been allowed to become a dead letter. In nearly all
the manufacturing towns in the north of England com-
panies have been started for the purpose of providing
the consumer with household articles free from adultera-
tion. The efforts of Mr. Wakley, in the Lancet, have
tended very much to promote these undertakings, by
exposing the frightful extent to which retail dealers had
carried their adulterating practices. By the constitution
of these societies a safe guarantee is given for the purity
of all articles sold by them. This method of business is
no longer confined to the country :—" The Central Co-
operative Agency," established under trusteeship, in
Oxford-street, near the Pantheon, is founded on the
same bases, enrolled under the same law, and gives to
the consumer like guarantees for the purity of the
articles it sells. We have no doubt but that these
Institutions must spread, inasmuch as they supply a
want seriously felt by the public, which cannot much
longer submit to such frauds as those which have been
so ably exposed in the Lancet.
REMARKABLE SAGACITY OF A DOG.—A gentleman of
this town paid a visit to a friend, a farmer, residing
in the parish of Loddiswell, near Kingsbridge, a fort-
night since, and took with him a small dog, which he
made a present of to one of the family. After he had left,
the dog not approving of new quarters, obtained his
liberty by jumping through a pane of glass. The poor
animal found its way back, a distance of 23 miles,
to its home in Stonehouse on' Wednesday last, and in-
stantly fell fainting on the floor, it being reduced to a
mere skeleton. The sagacity is the more surprising as
the dog was taken up by rail, and, of course, could not
see the road by which to return.—P/2/mouth, Mail.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Sunday, about mid-
night, as old man, 84 years of age, named John Beauty-
man, residing in New George-street, Hull, committed
suicide by throwing himself out of his bed-room, a
distance of about 50 feet from the ground. It is an ex-
traordinary fact that, to complete his purpose, the old
man had forced himself through a square of glass in his
bed-room window, about 10 inches wide and 14 inches
long. In jumping, some of the glass fell on the pro-
jecting stone of the window below, and aroused the old
man's attendant, who immediately ran up stairs, but too
late to render assistance. At an inquest held on the
body on Monday, a verdict was returned in accordance
with these facts.