The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-20 00:00:00

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EVENING EDITION

cf holding his enemy in contempt. His plan of attaci
was most injudicious : he admits the pass might have
been turned from the left, but gives as a reason for his
not having attempted it, that it would have required to
detach 400 infantry. The Court entirely differ with.
Major Clibborn on this point : if two flank companies
were considered by him sufficient to make a direct
attack on the whole concentrated force of the enemy in
front, with every description of artificial, as well as
natural obstacles to overcome, the same number of men
would have been capable of turning the position ; and
had Major Clibborn adopted this plan, making, et the
same time, a false attack in front, to be converted into
a real one, when he saw our troops crowning the hcight!7,..
there can be no doubt
..the pass of Nufoosk would have
been carried with comparatively little loss on our sid,‘.
The Court is also of opinion, that Major Clibborn did
not sufficiently reconnoitre in search of water, but
trusted too much to reports. There were trees and
herbage within 300 yards of his position, which in such
a desolate region ought to have attracted his notice,
and had he searched, it is now known he would hava
found water on the spot. •
Having performed a painful duty in emit-nod% etting ea.
the conduct of various individuals, we have increased
pleasure in recording our opinion of the patient endur-
ing fortitude, and determined gallantry of every indivi-
dual of this brave, but unfortunate detachment, whict
is above all prai e.
.it is true our arms !WV° nlr t with .
a reve.he,•hut the honour of the Bombay troops remains
untarnished.

' (Signed)
Major-Gen. G. B. BROOKES, Presitlent.
Brig. T. VALIANT, H.M. 40th Refit.
Lieut.-Col. G. WYMER, 30th Bengal N. I
Major F. G. FARRELL, Gth N. I.
Major J. LLOYD, Artillery.

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 27.—M. Cechelet, Consul.
General of France, will return thither in about a fort-
night, and- a new diplomatist is expected here. Cet-
tainly, his position is changed very much of late, and ho
cannetevoid feeling it. It is perceptible to all, that French •
influence is now no longer paramount in the Divan, and
to render it still more striking, an English engineea has
been called in to pronounce sentence on the plap of
a dry dock which the French have, been premising to
COrrstitratin -the mud of a western harbour. -- They
have already sunk an immense caisson filled stritis
masonry, and nobody can find it. The Pacha had pre-
viously several honest English opinions given him re-
specting the impossibility • of building anything
there without a foundation, and of keeping out springaa
&c. ; but he hated to hear of the impossibility of Gs
projects, and found French engineers ready to take his
money, and humour him in everything. Now, he has
no more money to spare, no more occasion for naval
armaments and -dry docks for three-deckers, and, is
fine, no further confidence in French engineering.
The Pacha has pensioned off his Turkish officers as
follows :—To Fezzi Ahmed, the Kapoudan
who brought the Sultan's fleet here, he has given '2,000
feddans of land, nearly as many acres, on the banks
of the Mahmoudich Canal, to cultivate, and 75,000
dollars per annum. (This man had only 5,000
dollars a year salary at Constantinople.) Sheriff Ave,
bis Kiaya, has been given 1,000 feddans on the 'same
canal, -and 5,750 dollars a year. Lastly, the son of
Sheriff Aga, who also receives proportionate pay. These
three traitors are all that remain to Mehemet Ali
of the Turkish fleet, after all his labours, losses,
and disappointments ; and he scorns to make
make much of films accordingly. Their sole claim -
to celebrity aad consideration consists in the
base betrayal of their trust. Au resle, naval
ambition is extinguished in Egypt. Hassan Bey, the
Egyptian Vice-Admiral, svho had hoisted his flag for
the last four months •in a lint-of-battle ship, has
quietly hauled it down, and returned yesterday to
shore, where he may resume his previous depart-
ment of Administrator of the Marine, with aburl,
ance of leisure, and little chance of interruption by
another blast of war blown in his cars. Yesterday also
the Arab sailors who bad Lees employed in the
batteries ashore were sent back to their vessels to
assist in the preparations making for the fulfilment of
three objects :-Ist, to despatch a division of the
Egyptian fleet, consisting of four frigates and three
corvettes, to the hie of Candle to bring home the 16th
Regiment of Infantry from their garriSon duty there
(according to a recent arrangement with the Turkicis
commissioner, 11inzlouin Hey) ; 2d, to prepare tran:-...-
ports, to bring the Syrian troops from Gaza, if the weasher
should permit ; and 3d, to dismantle the remainder of
the vessels, and lay them up in the wet dock, end
rarely store their equipage in the arsenal. The
return of the Nile steamer, with Ibrahim Paella, is
anxiously looked for. It left this on the morning of
the 22d instant, bearing Kosrouff Effendi (the 2d
dragoman of Mehemet Ali).on that mission, immediately
after hiving assisted the Stromboli to tow cat the
Turkish fleet. To-day the French corvette Diligento
was to lac.'sailed for Statyrne, but her sailing master
died yesterday, it was said of the plague, and his clothes
were thrown overboard, the ship fumigated, &e., but
now it is declared to be some other disease.
Letters from Cairo announce that Soliman Pacha had.
catered Egypt by the east ner horn of the Rsd Sea (the
• Gulf of Akabab) ; and bad arrived with his army at Suez.
i They were qu;te ckstitut a and the Governor had sent to
demand provisions of Abbas Pacha, thcGoverner of Cairo.
Ihraharn Pacha had net yet arrived at G.:za, but Abroad
Menikli Pacha had. Sheriff Pacha, of Damascus, rode
with the division of Ibrahim Pacha, guarded by 400
horse, as a state prisoner—not, as they politely de-
clare, for any treason committed, but simply lest ho
should' take it into his head to turn his rein and ride
back to his harem at Damascus.

Yesterday two fresh caws of plague occurred here ;
cno on board the frigate Damietta ; the other in the
3d Regiment. This, among other subjects of interegi..c.
formed a topic of serious conversation between Com-
modore Napier and the Pacha, and • I believe lit was
mainly owing to the earnest representations „Of the
former, that the latter has decided on sweeping away
the masses of filth to be seen in all the open spaces of
the city, in the shape of thousands of huts, iniwhich
human beings pig together in dirt and degrada-
tion indiscribable, but sufficient to keep..-up a
perennial plague in the heart of Aleigndria.
Dr. Grasso, the plagle physician, had also:', mad z,
a similar remonstrance, and the order is gond' forth
that the Arab sties be shovelled away by one Her-
culean labour. The numerous garrison in Alexandria
must, however, first be disposed of, and sent to their
villages in the country ; for the said sties belong ,
to their wives and families, who accompany the
soldiers wherever they go, and squat beside their camp
in these extemporaneous huts, built too low to stand
iu, two short to lie straight in, and with doors only to
be crept through. When it is considered that each.
soldier has one, two, or three wives, and at least as
many children, following him, it may be easily imagined
what clusters, of dens, miscalled villages, spring up,
wherever a few regiments arc encamped together.
Great changes arc contemplated by the Pacha in the
employment both of soldiers and fellahs, in agriculture,
in commerce, and in his own administration of the va-
rious departments of State. He is intent on distribut-
ing the lauds among his grandees, with the hope that
they will elicit more produce (to be taxed) than he ,
yet been able to accomplish, though the wretched
fellahs' backs have not been spared in the es. ,
say. The chief douanier is to be Boghos Bey..
All the present mudirs (administrators) and =lra
(inspectors) of provinces and districts are to be dis-
carded, and to be replaced byt he Pachas and Bey',
among whom the laud of Egypt is to be divided, and
who are to be allowed to make as much as they can
for themselves, after securing 8() much to the
Meantime money is wanted, and great exertions aro
made to obtain it. Said Bey has come bick. from his-)
chiftlik in despair without any, though' be ap-
plied the bastinado liberally ; and after having eon- -
suited his father, has set out again for the coml..
try. The produce of late commercial sales has been .
collected, amounting to 800,000 dollars, and these
are appropriated to pay the army returning from Syria.
The Pacha consoles himself in a great degree for Sy
ria.
The
of Syria, Candia, and Arabia by considerations of
economy.
The first mentioned
.Pachalic yielded only .
2,200,000 dollars, while the expense was 4,000,0c0
dollars. So, here is a saving at once of 1,800,000 dollars.-
In Candia the saving is reckoned at more than 1,000,000
d6liars. In Arabia the Pacha expended 3,000,000
dolla-s, and did not receive a farthing in return. Here
is a saving of nearly 6,00Q,000 dollars per annum for
Egypt! The Pacha ought to be most grateful, and,
if he pleases, may put his house in order, and bury him-
a in gold.

The Earl of Cardigan is not expected to join':
his regiment titl about the end of the month, when he ail -
r. turn tu the barracks, and ratutc.r the troops as usual on
the Ist of Mareh.—Brighton Gazette.

We regret to announce the death of an indivi-
dual in humble life who has fallen a victim to the zealous
discharge of his duty. David Hewitt, who had bean for
some time connected with the police force, and was about
to be appointed to a situation of trust in that establishment,
was marked by the Superintendent as a man of ability and
shrewdness, and was accordingly employed by him to
make an invesiiga.ion into the state of wynds and closes
of the city, in order that due discrimination might be ob-
served in the distribution of the relief that was to be given. -
In these Places fev,r, poverty, and filth ever find an abiding
place, and after the poor man had fulfilled his commission
with great efficiency for four or five days, be also was
stricken %WI fever, and sank under it two days ago. The
deceased had been 23 years in the 32d and 30th regiments,
in which he had attained the rank of Quartermaster- Ser-
geant, and was discharged with 2s. per day of pension.
Upon leaving the latter regiment lie was presented by the
non-col sur; 1. 'sloped officers vi,h a richly-chased silver cup,
as a mark of their esteem; and it is painful to think that
one who had braved all the perils of the " White Man's
Grave," Sierra Leone, should be cut off in the midst of his
friends from the pestilence of the wynds of Glasgow.
Hewitt has lcfc two orphans, happily, from the foresight
of their parent, not altlgether unprovided far. This case
is not a singular one, but it is sufficient to instruct as to the
ricks which the members of thia force run in the perform-
ance of their duty. —Scots Times.