The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-28 00:00:00

} UYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, Mar 6.—The plague at Alexandria has
rather increased ; the rep'rt reaches to twenty-six cases a day.
A good deal of excitement has been created by two or three
Flank inhabitants having been carried off by the plague. They
were eminent quarantine people ; and one of them was quite
an authority on that subject. _ _

A man who accompa-nied a party of passengers from Cairo
was taken unwell on the Nile, but continued with them till
they were embarked, and actually carried a child to the boat
at the embarkation. lie died of plague in the European hos-
pital next day. One sailor died on board. ship in the har-
bour, which alaomed the shippers, and about a dozen suspected
cases have been sent to the hospital, where there have been
also some real cases. The European hospital has the advan-
tage of an English surgeon of ability.
Those passengers who arrived in Alexandria too late for the
Liverpool are waiting for the Oriental, the French steamers
refusing to take them.

Mehemet Ali is preparing another State paper, of which
Aluhib Said Effendi (the Tuikish Envoy) is to be the b,arer,
ostensibly declaring his entire submission, and (it is believed)
with the private aim of di iving as hard a bargain as possible
respecting the amount of the tribute, and the appointment of
his own administrators of finance, commerce, agriculture, &c.
He visited the Gorgon steamer on the Ist inst. at ten minutes'
notice (on washing Saturday too), as if he wished to take
the English at the greatest disadvantage ; but though he
selected washing-day, and followed his messenger so quickly
that the officers had not time to dress to receive him, he
found ad ready in the way of work, and put them through
tileir exercise without much ceremony. He would not
btlieve that they could fire their 32-pounders thrice a
minute until he stood by and noted it. The 10-inch paixhans
were also fired with hollow shot a id shell, and the crew put
through every evolution in his presence, and a crowd of Turk-
ish and French officers whom he brought to " see what the
English could do." He was very sparing in his encomiums,
as if determined to proceed on the system of nil admirari,
but on entering the Captain's cabin he could not forbear ex-
claiming, " Ha, these Enj.lish Captains have always books on
their shelies ; mine have only pipes ! " The next morning he
inspected the Pharos and principal forts, in company with
Galise Bey and a numerous retinue, amidst salutes of artillery
to notify the honour. 1,000 men are employed in adding to
the fortifications at Marabout on the west of Alexandria, and
crowds of soldiers and labourers are daily occupied in raising
stones, even at the expense of the catacombs.
The plague varies in its attacks from 10 to 26 cases per day,
and from five to 15 deaths. Last month 174 persons; were at-
tacked and carried to the hospital ; '220 others have died before
they could be carried thither. Amongst the latter were four
Europeans--amongst the former, eight. The Pacha has put
his fleet in strict quarantine to-day, and issued orders that the
arsenal and all his public establishments shall follow the ex-
ample. The physician of the Pope's gun-boats had died of
plague at Rosetta, and 20 officers are ill there. To-day, not-
,ithstanding, he had a sale of cotton of 10,000 cantars at an
average of $l4 1-10 per cantar.
Amongst the late arrivals Sir Willoughby Cotton and Sir
David Wilkie have been presented to the Pacha, and the latter
has been invited to take his portrait.
The last news from Candia, brought by the French brig-of
war Bougainville, and which came up to the 2d, showed the
insurgents to be gaining ground. They had formed a Provi-
si..nal Government, and had chosen an administrative body
from am ng Deputies of the people.
MALTA.

MALTA, MAY Is.—Some of the line-of-battle ships at
Malta are preparing fur a cruise, but the public is uninformed as
to their destination.

On Tuesday evening last the Rear-Admirals, Captains, and
officers of the fleet gave a farewell ball to Admiral Stopford,
which was very splendid. Some appropriate addresses xere
delivered after supper. The Admiral is expected to leave for
Corfu on Tuesday next.
The Stromboli leaves to-morrow morning for the coast of
Syria.
The Alecto leaves on Monday fur Gibraltar, with the mails
for that place and England ; and the Prometheus for the lonian
Islands and Greece tomorrow, with the mails, in lieu of the
City of Dublin, which arrived thence thirmorning, and is again
in want of repairs.
The Medea steam-frigate arrived on the 13th instant from
Beyrout, whence she sailed the sth, and from Suda, in Candia,
which place she left on the Ath instant, bringing from the former
despatches for Lord Palmerston, from Colonel Rose•now senior
British officer there; and from the latter a despatch from the
British Consul for his Excellency the Admiral.
INDIA MAILS.—The Prometheus steam-packet arrived in
port on the 12th inst., at six a.m., in seventy hours from Mar-
seilles, with the London mails of the 4th inst., which reached
Malta in seven days and nine hours. The Oriental steamer
arrived on the 13th inst. at eight a.m., with the London mails,
via Falmouth, of the 30th ult. She proceeded with both
mails to Alexandria yesterday, at two P.M. The Oriental has
brought out afloating omnibus, 105 feet long, for the purpose
of conveying the mails and passengers on the Mahmoudie
Canal, between Alexandria and the Nile, where they will be
transferred to the Lotus iron steamer. The next mail from
India was to be despatched from Bombay to Suez on the Ist
ins:., and on its arrival here the Acheron will proceed to Mar-
seilles with the boxes addressed by this route.
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS OF WAR AND PACKETS.--March 7,
French Government steamer Mentor, Lieut. Le Goff, from
Marseilles, in six days ; Leghorn, four; Civitavecchia, three ;
Naples. two. 12, her Majesty's steam-packet Prometheus,
Lieut. T. Spark, from Marseilles, in three days ; 12, British
pleasure cutter Spree, W. Mushett, Esq., from Catania, in
two days; 13, her Majesty's steamer Medea, Fred. Warder,
Esq., from Beyrout, in eight days; Soda, five ; 13, the Ori-
ental and Peninsular Company's steamer Oriental, John Soy.
commander, from Falmouth, May 2 ; Gibraltar 8 ; Neapoli-
tan steamer Il Vesuvio, Captain R. Caffiero, from Naples, in
six days; Paola and Tropea, five; Messina, three ; Catania,
two, Syracuse, one; French Government steamer Seaman-
dre, Lieut. P. Dupares, from Constantinople, ill seven days ;
Smyrna, five ; Syra, three ; the Oriental and Peninsular
Company's steamer City of Dublin, Captain W. E. Evans.
from Corfu, in eight days; Patras and Zante, two; 14, the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Oriental, J. Soy,
Commander, for Alexandria.
DEPARTURE OF SHIPS OF WAR AND PACKETS.—Mareh 5,
her Majesty's ship Thunderer, Captain the Hon. M. F. F.
Berkeley, C.B. : Tunisian Government schooner Demfir,
Captain A. Danciati, for Tunis ; 6, French Government
steamer Dante, Lieut. F. Pouchett, for Italy and Marseilles ;
8, French Government steamer Seiostris, Lieut. P. Cosnier,
for the Levant.

IN Poar.—Princess Charlotte, 120 (bearing the flag of
Admiral Sir R. St opford, G. C, B. , G. C. NI. G. ) ; .Ceylon, 6
(bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir J. Louis, Bart.); Bri-
tannia, 120 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir J. Om-
maney, K.C.8.) ; Howe, 120 ; Powerful, 2i6 ; Benbow, 72;
Vanguard, 80; Revenge, 78; Calcutta, 84; Cambridge,
78; Rodney, 92 ; Castor, 36 ; Tyne, 26 ; Hazard, 18 ; steam
frigates Cyclops, Medea, Hecate, Hydra, and Stromboli ;
steamers. Confiance and Locust; steam_packets Prometheus,
Alecto, and Acheron; French steam-packets Mentor, Ly-
eurge, and Scamander ; Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-packet City of Dublin ; Neapolitan steam-packet
Vesuvius.

An incitiest
FELO-DE-SE, AT TWINSTED.
hieesd?ne:teahagesmedosB-: s
was held on Friday last, at the parish of jowrinsted, before
Wm. Codd, Esq., on the body of William
William Harrington stated that about four o'clock
in,' of the 18th instant, he was awoke by
ti.' immediately got up, and went to the deceased°in'nr
wornan,
,nroceeding from the deceased's premiseeZaadnj (1
,a
into the garden foundttl
a boubgeh.
released lumtr,eeb.y
reWmiothvinthge
tabs:.
his own ;
house, and on g:iag.
from his neck ; but he was
pended by the neck t:
n den,:ased many years, and had
sistance of Daniel Flowers
line, by which he was stispennC:i.
quite dead. Witness had know
seen him the day before, when he appearej to be quite right in
his mind. Daniel Flowers deposed to the same egect, as to the
finding of the deceased, and as to his state of m.!id. Susan
Horsley, widow of the deceased, stated that het late
husband appeared to her to be out of spirits. on Sun-
day, the 16th, and on 11onday, the 17th ; but slept well on
both nights. She could give no other reason for his depression
of spirits but that of being very poor, having only 9s. a week
to support their family. Witness never knew him deranged in
his mind, or ever heard that any of his family were so. The
deceased was called early in the morning of the 18th by a
young man named John Harrington, and answered his call;
they were going to work together, about four miles off. Har-
rington went away ; deceased not following him, but continuing
in the room down stairs. Witness went I!.wn and missed
him, and going into the garden discovered him hanging as
before described. Verdict, " Felo-de-se ;" and the Coroner
issued his warrant for the interment of the body in the church-
yard, between the hours o' nine and twelve o'clock at night, as
directed by the statute.--Esser Herald.
BRUSSELS, MAY 23.—His Majesty by a de-
cree of the 21st of May, grants the sum of 4,000 francs a-year
to Mr: J. J. Linden, a Belgian Botanist for the time, which
he will employ in the scientific expedition which he intends to
take in the equinoctial regions of the new world, and especially
in Columbia ; the duration of the grant is limited to three years.
Mr. Linden is to send to the Government collections of speci-
mens of natural history, which he may have collected, to the
- value of at least two-thirds of the sum which he shall have re-
ceived. In the month after his return, he is to make a report
which will be published in the Moniteur.