The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-11 00:00:00

EGYPT.

We have received, by the way of Marseilles, several
letters from Alexandria, of late dates. They contain long
accouets of the reception of Colonel Hodges, as British
Consul. The new Consul had interviews with tha Vice-
roy on the 15th and 16th, but the grand audience did not
take place until the 18th, when he presented his creden-
tials. On that he proceeded from the Consulate to the
Palace, accompanied by Colonel Campbell, the late Con-
sul, and all the English in Alexandria.
The Viceroy seemed much pleased with the compli-
mentary. address of colonel Hodges, especially when he
said his Highness was celebrated all over Europe, not only
for his warlike achievements but on account of his great
talents for administration. The Russian Consul watched
all the proceedings very anxiously. The presents given
to Colonel Hodges by the Pacha, are :-1. A horse, value
15 purses, a sabre, 10 purses, and a pelisse worth 15 purses
The baznadar, or treasurer, presented the pelisse and the
sabre. The horse, which was superbly caparisoned in the
Turkish style, was wetting for him at the palace gate when
he took leave.
The English and French fleets were, by the last ac-
counts at Ourlac and Smyrna. Admiral Stopford, who
applied to be allowed to winter, had received orders to re-
main with his twelve ships in the Levant.
A vessel loaded with valuable gums has been wrecked
in the channel of Malimudie, by which a mercantile house
will sustain a loss of 50,000 talaris. The Government had
just made a sale of saltpetre to the amount of 32,000 talaris,
most of which was to be shipped for Greece.
ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 21. —The Envoy Extraordinary
from the Sultan ( Kiamil Pacha) departed yesterday at nine
o'clock, in company with Habib Effendi, for Cairo, where
a divan will be assembled ad hoc, composed of ulemas and
grandees, for the solemn reading of the hatti scheriff of the
2d of November. After it is registered in the Mehkemi,
authentic copies will be despatched to Alexandria, and the
other towns dependent on Egypt.
It is worthy of remark that when, on the 18th, Kiamil
Pacha presented to the Viceroy the above.enentioned hatti
sheriff, they both stood, Kiamil bowed, and placed the hatti
scheriff on his head. The Viceroy did the same. After-
wards they sat down to smoke and drink coffee.
When the overflow of the Nile is abundant, as it has
been this year, experience proves that no rain falls in
Egypt. Accordingly, we have here the finest weather
imaginable, and the thermometer marks only 15 degrees.
A company of French players are performing here.
sod in very good style. They have been here about a
month, and they have already collected subscriptions
amounting to upwards olthree talaris.
It is reported that Admiral Stopford has resigned his
command, and will shortly proceed to England.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN SAINT

JAMES'S PARK.

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the COLA
and Horses, Flood-street, Dean-yard, before Mr. Gell, the
Coroner for Westminster, and a respectable Jury, touching
the death of Christopher Braithwaite, a fine boy aged
eleven years and nine months, who was drowned, together
with three other boys, on Thursday last, in the orna-
mental water in the enclosure of St. James's Park, in con-
sequence of the ice on which they were sliding breaking.
G. Bishop, No. 17, of the Royal Humane Society's men,
deposed, that on Thursday afternoon, about four o'clock,
he was on duty at the Palace end of the park, and having
head a cry of " boat," from the south-east end, he imme-
diately ran down by the side of the water till he reached
the spot, when he saw the deueased struggling, and sur-
rounded by the broken ice, and in his endeavour to re-
scue him, the ice gave way, and he fell into the water him.
self. He, however, catuht hold of the deceased, and ore
of the Society's men having thrown him the life line, they
were pulled to the shore. The deceased did not appear to
be quite dead, and he heard that he was conveyed to the
Westminster Hospital. Witness was informed that the
deceased, together with three other boys, had been sliding
on the spot, when two of them fell into the water in con-
sequence of the ice breaking, and the deceased and another
boy took off their jackets and endeavoured to save their
companions, but unfortunately they went too close to the
hole, the ice gave way, and they fell in also. The ice
boat was then brought from the Palace end on a man's
back, the ice being too weak to bear it, and he dragged
for toe bodie,, which he soon found, and they were con-
veyed to St. Mutiti's parish, but quite dead. He was all
this time in his wet clothes.

By the Jury—He bad frequently cautioned these very
same boys not to go on the ice, but they would not mind
him. The Society's men were much interrupted by the
crowd of persons who flocked around the spot, and it would
have been much better if a greater number of police bad
been in attendance, for they might have kept, to a certain
extent, boys off the ice.
After some further evidence,
Mr. Tucker (one of the jury) said that every exertion
ought to be used to keep persons off the ice when in such
a dangerous state.
Mr. Williams (Superintendent of the Humane Society)
said that would be impossible unless the place was barri-
caded in all round, for as soon as the men turned their
backs people would venture on again.
Verdict, Accidental death; and the Jury recommended
that the Commissioners of Police would allow an efficient
number of their men to attend during the present weather,
in the Parks, in order to help the men of the Royal Hu.
mane Society.

It is rumo----.—ured in the musical circles that a
wealthy individual has offered advantageous terms to
rent the Italian Opera House for three years, and that
he has applied to Mr. Bunn, the ex•le.ssee of Drury-lane,
to undertake the office of manager of the theatre.
A N TI•CO R N•LA PETITION.—we understand
that up to Tuesday night the number of signatures to
Glasgow Argus.
this petition amounted to 22,000.--