The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-10 00:00:00

EGYPT.

Accounts have been received at Toulon by the last
packet from the Levant, stating that Mehemet Ali had
found, in the events of Candia a pretext for refusing to
disarm his fleet, and that he bad despatched seven
vessels of war to that island, though everything there
was tranquil. According to the last news from Canea
Mustapha Pasha was in the village of Acropoli, with
1,000 soldiers, and the Turks and Greeks of the island
entertained some apprehensions as to the plans of Go-
vernment, as they harboured the rebels and facili-
tated their. escape. The English Consul at Alexan•
dretta had removed the British flag from his hotel, and
had ceased all communication with the Governor of the
town, in consequence of the insult recently offered to the
Vice-Consul (not the Corisul himself, as first stated.) It
was supposed that some vessels would be despatched from
Malta to obtain satisfaction for the affront offered to a
consular agent of Great Britain, and that matters would
be carried even still further. The Governor of Tripoli, in
Barbary, had at length concluded a treaty of peace with
the Bey of Fezzan and the other Arab chiefs of the inte-
rior. The vessels of Admiral Sir R. Stopford's squadron,
which had returned to Malta, had been ordered to take
in four months' provisions. Their ultimate destination
was not positively known, but it was supposed they were
to sail for the mouth of the Dardanelles, to be at the
Capitan Pasha's disposal, in the event of the Russian fleet
from the Black Sea making a movement to approach
Constantinople.
The National publishes a letter of the 17th ult. from
Alexandria, announcing the arrival there of General Ven-
ture (in the service of the King of Lahore) on the 14th,
with his suite. His departure for India was to be post-
poned for a few days, because the East India Company,
requiring all its steamers for the transport of troops to the
Persian Gulf, had for the month of November sent only
one sailing vessel for the service between Bombay and
Suez. A case of plague having been established at Alex-
andria on the 10th, ships leaving that place no longer re-
ceis, ed clean bills of health, and it was thought that all
vessels arriving from Egypt would be subject to quaran-
tine on their arrival in Turkey, and to a still longer qua-
rantine in Greece. According to the last letters the Vice-
roy was continuing his journey to Sennaar, and had already
passed the second cataract of the Nile.
A letter from Constantinople, of recent date, quoted by
the Augsburgh Gazelle, says—" We are positively assured
that the advances towards a reconciliation between Russia
and England have been attended with complete success. It
is rumoured that the English Envoy to Persia is about to
be recalled from Teheran, because all the misunderstanding
which has arisen is attributed to his excessive zeal. He is
to be replaced by a man of a more moderate character.
According to the accounts from Trebisond, M. Duhamel,
the new Russian Envoy, is arrived at Teheran."

STATUE OF THE LATE DR. VALPT.—We have
been favoured by Mr. Nixon with a private view of the
statue of the late Dr. Valpy, of Reading School, which he
has just completed, under the direction of the Committee
of the Gentlemen who received their educatio❑ under this
celebrated man, and who, greatly to their credit, have sub-
scribed most liberally towards this memorial of their own
gratitude, and the high reputation of their instructor. The
late Dr. Valpy for more than fifty years presided over the
Corporation Grammar School of the Borough of Reading.
No man was more highly respected in the town of Read-
ing, or in the counties of Berkshire and Oxford-
shire than he was : a pious yet liberal divine,
a " ripe" scholar, an eloquent preacher, a man of
affable manners, of unwearied benevolence, and most
extensive charity ; and lastly, a temperate but an unflinch-
ing and uncomprising Reformer. Of the statue which Mr.
S. Nixon has just completed, we cannot say that the like-
ness is so correct as we could have desired. The sculptor,
unfortunately, never saw the deceased, and modelled the
features from a bust executed some years back by Mr.
Westmacott, brother of the celebrated sculptor, and from
a painting by Ople. He has, under the circumstances,
done all he could do in producing a likeness. As a work
of art, the statue leaves nothing to be desired. It is cut
from a solid block of Yorkshire free-stone, and is in the
details exceedingly classical and chaste. It is to be placed
in the Church of St. Lawrence at Reading, an edifice from
the pulpit of which the eloquence of the deceased, has, on
numerous occasions, aroused the apathy and excited the
Christian feelings of many an admiring congregation.

MORTALITY IN THE TOWER.--A writer in the
Morning Chronicle says—" I live within half a mile of that
mud-begirdled sink, and I will make oath that. I have my-
self seen, within the last ten weeks, five funerals pass of
men belonging to the Rifle corps, and one occurred when
I was absent. Further, at the time of the last funeral, I
stopped one of the Rifles, and asked him the cause of so
many deaths occurring in his regiment ; he replied that it
was owing to dampness, bad air, and the general unhealthi-
nr ss of the Tower. There is evidently some motive for
concealing these facts, for the inhabitants of the neighbour-
hood have noticed the mortality, and been surprised at its
non-appearance in any of the public papers. I have been
told by inhabitants of the Tower, that occasionally they
cannot open their windows on account of the stench pro-
ceeding from the ditch."
QUEEN'S STAG-HOUNDS IN SURREY.—A nu-
merous field of well-mounted horsemen, with a superior
turn-out of carriages filled with a fair sprinkle of beauty and
fashion, graced the meet on Thursday morning on Ep urn
Downs. At the appointed hour a noble stag was uncarted,
and made for Walton-heath, followed, as usual, by a lot of
dear hunters ; but it was only' for a minute, they were soon
in their proper places, as much behind as they had been
before, and at Walton-heath the field had few forward
riders, and on descending the hill by the Chalk-pits, by Mar-
gery-grove, and Gatton, the view of the country was mag-
nificent, as the hounds kept stealing over a fine deep
fencing country, by Reigate, and bending on by the wind-
mill towards Red-hill, not half-a-dozen with the hounds,
until the deer took soil in May-pond, on the common ; this
enabled a few stragglers to get up. Davis let the hounds
slip, and over they went, as if for Horley, but the country
was so deep, that few could keep the pace, and when they
did a stopper, in the shape of an overflowing river, let the
hounds have it all to themselves, after that few could live
with them. The take was at Godstone, after one of the
most severe chases, and from the deep state of the country,
the most difficult to keep up with the hounds we ever re-
membered.
A paragraph taken from a Limerick paper, is now
going the rounds of the press, stating that the eldest son
of the Earl of Fitzwilliam has become a Conservative. Of
course the individual alluded to can be no other than Lord
Milton, the present expected Liberal Member for the bo-
rough of Melton ; and should the rumour prove to be well
founded, we are quite sure that this will prove a source of
regret to many of his constituents. Wt• trust, however, ,
that it way turn out to he " (me of the hes of the day."—
York Courant.