The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-28 00:00:00

NEW YORK EXHIBITION.

The following is a copy of the circular issued by the
Department of State at Washington :
" Department of State, Washington,
March 31, 1853.

" Sir,—lnquiries having been addressed to this de-
partment on the subject of the admission of such articles
as may be contributed by the Sovereigns of Europe and
other friendly powers to the New York Crystal Palace
Exhibition, I deem it proper to acquaint you with the
views and intentions of the Treasury department in rela-
tion to the matter.

" You are aware, doubtless, that in ordinary cases the
revenue laws require, that if goods are not accompanied
by invoices, importers shall give bond -to produce in-
voices, which must be sworn to by the actual owner. It
is believed that no difficulty will arise on the part of in-
dividual owners in complying with these requisitions ;
and the Treasury department has issued regulations upon
the subject, with special reference to the Crystal Palace
Exhibition, which are based upon this assumption.
" It cannot be required, however, nor indeed expected,
that those Sovereigns who have taken or may take an
interest in this Exhibition, would conform to the minor
details and technicalities imposed upon private indivi-
duals. To avoid, therefore, the tedious, and in such
cases unnecessary, formalities of furnishing invoices,
swearing to the actual cost of articles, &c., it is proposed
by the Treasury department, as due to the comity and
good-will so happily subsisting between the United
States and other nations, to make exceptions to the
usual course in favour of such powers as contribute to
the New York Exhibition.
" You will, therefore, embrace an early opportunity
to inform the Government of Great Britain that such an
arrangement will be made in their favour. At the same
time it will be understood that this exception governs
those cases in which articles are entered for exhibition
solely. Should any articles placed on exhibition remain
in the United States for consumption, it will be expected
that a statement of their cost will be sent to the Custom-
. MARCY."
house for its appraisement.—(signed) I an‘,l.
&vc.L,

_EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 19.

The Hon. East India Company's steamer Acbar,
with the Bombay mail of the 29th of March and 40
passengers, arrived at Suez on the 13th inst. ; the
Oriental, with the Calcutta mail of the 19th of

March, and 106 passengers, arrived at Suez on the
15th, and the whole proceed to England this day
by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw-
steamer Bengal. A French steamer, for Marseilles,
and an Austrian steamer, for Trieste, will leave at
the same time.

General Sir W. Gilbert leaves Alexandria in the
Bengal, accompanied by his son, Mr. F. H. Gil-
bert, the ex-Consul of this place. The new Con-
sul, Mr. John Green, has been presented to the
Viceroy Abbas Pasha, at Cairo, by whom he was
very favourably received. The Hon. C. A. Mur-
ray is still at Cairo, for the appointment of his suc-
cessor as Consul-General in Egypt.
Abbas Pasha is to obtain a fresh proof of the
Sultan's favour by being officially acknowledged
as the chief or head of the Viceregal family, by
which all the princes, eons, and grandsons of the
late Mehemet Ali will be bound to acknowledge
the Viceroy's authority. This is considered a very
judicious act, as these younng men have hitherto
been acting very independently towards Abbas
Pasha, and, from the vast amount of landed pro-
perty they individually possess, might bring the
country into a state of anarchy.
In the event of the Sublime Porte going to war,
the Sultan can expect but little or no assistance
from the Egyptian fleet, which is now in a very
inefficient state. The only ships at all seaworthy
are one line-of-battle ship, two frigates, and six
steamers of all sizes, and the former have been
out of the harbour only three times, for very
short cruises, ever since the termination of the
Syrian war in 1841. At that time the Egyptian
fleet consisted of 11 line-of-battle ships, 5 frigates,
5 corvettes, 6 brigs, and 3 steamers, but, as one of
the conditions then imposed upon Mehemet Ali was
that he should not build any more vessels, they
have been gradually decaying, and are being broken
up one by one.

-Trade continues dull, and prices of produce ai to
again on the decline. Freights are also a little
lower. Exchange on London 98 piastres per 1/.
sterling.