The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-06 00:00:00

EVENING;

Wheat disckarged from the two vessels was sold at 17
Piastars the roubi, which equals 123 piasters the ard'cb.
This supply will not last above a week, for both :he
Mountain and the plain are unprovided. We are ob-
liged, from want of wheat, to make flour of barlzy.
This grain sells at Bto 84 piasters the roubi. If vv,•
do not receive additional supplies from you, we do not
know what will become of the country, or what the
Price may become. Rice is 175 the couffe (basket),
but as soon as the communication with Damascus shall
be thrown open the price will increase.
" Ibrahim Pacha is still at Damascus. From confi-
dential letters received yesterday, dated the 4th inst.,
We learn that he had taken the precaution to put his
troops lute winter quarters there, placing them in houses
throughout die city, which he had obliged the owners
to evacuate for their use. The Druzee Sheik, Jous-
,ouff Ahmed, with 600 men, had ventured to attack a
tdy of Egyptian troops encamped outside the city, but
t, e assailants were surrounded by a superior farce, and
neatly all destroyed. Eleven prisoners had their beads
.e It off before the gates, and suspended over the walls,
as a warning to the mountaineers, who will probably find
1,13 °Pportunity, before the Egyptians leave the country,
to retaliate with interest."
It appears that the retreat of Ibrahim to Damascus
('-Iter having quitted it subsequent to the period shove
eutioned) was influenced, not only by the fact of his
-t*o bad health, but by the vengeful opposition of the
;10entain tribes, through whose territories he would
',a to pass, encumbered, as he was, with immense
ALrabers of women and children, who followed the camp
I r safety and sustenance ; and, also it is said, by in-
-1( ?Illation which reached hint overland of • the negotia-
t ons in progress to procure him and his army a safe
pAssage borne by sea.
The opinion is not now merely general among the
I. ranks of Alexandria, but universal through the Le-
v+ nt, that the fact of the distribution of 30,000 stand
of arms amongst the mountaineers has rendered them
v anal!), independent of the Sultan, and that hence-
rth they must be allowed to govern themselves accord-
it giAto their own notions of right and wrong.
Samos,
from Candia say that Prince Vogorides, of
'`uus, 3 paying his court at Constantinople, and mak-
g every exertion to procure his nomination to a new
,-rincedom and Government of the island of Candia.
o-day Lord Exmouth's yacht," The Rover of Yarrow,"
to rived from that island in four days' sail.
The proceedings of Mehemet Ali in Alexandria stiil
,resent a riddle to the uninitiated. One day we have
ri
• Pt°lll3 of peace, concilirition, and goodwill to man ;
tie next
c_ we see evidences of obstinacy or tours d pow
r stage effect, or the ruling passion for warfare carried
t° a Pitch of monomania difficult to conceive. The
engineers are now busy with their platforms, sandbags,
arid breastworks in the Eastern harbour adjoining the
Parlamenta building, artd all this week the artillerymen
have been kept in practice, either firing the guns in their
butteries along shore, or pretending to fire them. One
11y we have a hot press for conscripts for the National
guard ; the next the most active recruiting agent is
bustinadoed, and all individuals in the service of the
Planks are formally exempted.

Recently 80 pilgrims ,(Turks and Arabs), on their
Way from Cairo to Mecca, were set upon by 250 of the
Bedouins well armed and mounted on dromedaries.
The pilgrims were also armed and fought stoutly, but
suffeted severely in the conflict. An were plundered,
some were wounded, and some were killed outright.
Speaking of the sinews of war required by the Pacha,
he has recently been offering to public sale quantities
of rice, saffron, flaxseed, senna, ccifee, gumarabic, lentils,
and beans ; but the sales effected have been very.trifling
4,291 ardebs of Rosetta rice, at 216 piasters
114" ardeb, one-half payable in two months, the other in
Jour month.; ; 79 cantors of senna, at 105 piasters per
cantar ; 500 canters of gumarabic, at 126 piasters per
Cdrit4r
; and a lot of flaxseed, at 25 piasters per canter ;
the three latter articles payable in ten days. A cargo
if beans was also sold ta-day, at 30 piasters the ardeb,
011ty life (164 ardebs of beans equal to 100 quarters
Brit ish).
The Paella seems to be aware that his finances do
do net receive. the most disinterested management, and
lleas been heard to say lately, " If I could find six
annest men to help me, I should be a rich and happy
~aeha. I stand alone, without any one but Boghos
Bay to second nie.” At present his attention is directed
' tO working profitably the land he has taken into his
b7nmanagement, and several individuals have already
appointed to oversee his different estates, with a
view to the establishment of a better system.
~ iro Messrs. Briggs and Co. received intelligence from
yesterday of the arrival of the steamer at Suez
on the 181 h, at 3 o'clock p. rn. The Indian mails, 18
l.assengers, immediately proceeded to Cairo, accompa-
wed across the desert by an escort of 20 of the Paella's
regular
cavalry,
and 40 irregular (Bedouin) horsemen.
'-`leY had arrived safely at Atte at half-past 9 o'clock
:his morning, and were embarking at the Mahmoudieh
"nal when we last heard of then], but they had not
airteed in Alexandria at sunset, their passage being
retarded by a strong northerly wind.

ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 24, Noort.i
Tile Great Liverpool is starting with the Indian mai
arni Passengers, and I have only time to mention that
the Paella has received intelligence (through the
Vrench Consulate at Damascus) that Ibraham Pacha
had a desperate engagement with the Druses on the
4th of this month, at little, in which he had defeated
them, With the loss of 5,000 men, and twenty of their
Tee latter were put to death after the battle.
•:!0
"rnillm's force is estimated at 70,000 men, with
,090 women and children. He had put his troops
.ti winter clothing, and was intent on resuming his
march southwards, to enter Egypt as soon as the wea-
...her permitted.
The mails and Passengers from Suez have crossed
the desert in safety under the Pacha s escort of horse,
a, rived here an hour after midnight, and were taken on
bot,rd without delay this morning.
Sir Charles Smith is else on board the Liverpool,
;,Ding certainly as far as Gibraltar, perhaps to England.
He leaves Colonel Mitchell in command on the coast
of Syria. Reinforcements are spoken of as absolutely
necessary to compensate for the sickness experienced
there by the British as well as Turkish troops.
The Cleopatra steamer left Bombay on the Ist of
December, and arrived at Suez on the 18th, at three
1..11, and at Alexandria on the 24th, at one A.m.

MALTA, DEC. NIEUEMET ALI'S SUBMISSION. 28.
Up to the moment of departure of the Acheron for
Marseill'es, the steamer expected from Marmorica, with
the result of Captain Faushawe's mission, has not ar-
-6110, but we may venture to anticipate it by stating
thsst we have strong reasons to believe that the Sultan
Kill ;sot receive the sübmission,
to reit.state Mehemet Ali, in which case the Pacha
will resist to the last, and will, if pressed, retire into
the interior, even as far as Sennaar, with Ibrahim Paeha
and his army ; but it appears doubtful whether the
troops will remain faithful ; in 'a
contrary case, Mehc-
Met Ali and his son will be obliged to surrender, should
they escape with their lives. Unfortunately for him,
his submission was only nominal, and not accompanied
by stets. Ile should have shown his sincerity by at
once sending' hack that Turkish Let, which he could
readily have done, as the Turkish seamen remaining
Were sufficient to navioste the ships, and, if not, he
had only to udd some of his own. Should the Sultan
refuse to reinstate him it will be highly interesting to
know whether France will interpose, or leave the obsti-
nate Paella to his fate.

114 e Messaaer (the Evening Official Journal of
the French Government) published on Monday
inght the following must important despatch, ad-
(Tessed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs by the
French Consul at Malta :

" TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.
" MARSEILLES, JAN. 2, SIX O'CLoCE IN THE
EVEN-
ING, RECEIVED IN THE AFTERNOON OF THE 4TH.
". MALTA, DEC. 28.
" THE CONSUL OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Kurruck Singh, King of Lahore, died on the sth
of INovember. During the funeral ceremony his sue-
nesstl, Nou-Nepal Singh, was kited by accident.
Sheri,. Singh was to mount the Throne.
" The affairs of China are on the point of being t-
tied. The English are to receive three millions ster-
ling as an indemnity.
" Dost Mahomed has definitively surrendered to the
English:

- -
AVYA lit or HONOUR.—A rather unpleasant
oA
ccurence took place on Wednesday at O'Grady's Hotel.
Mr. h valop, of Rahen, residing within a few miles of
thus town, ,and a Mr. Kane, had some misunderstanding
some few days since, when a challenge ensued, but in con-
quence of the police having received some intimation of
the Proceeding, they succeeded in arresting Mr. Hyslop,
and of course bound him over to keep the peace. Mr.
IlYslop stopped on Tuesday night at the hotel, and this
niurning after breakfast was waited upon by Mr. Kane,
attended by his brother, when, after some few words, Mr.
Kane raised a loaded whip, with which he came armed,
stud struck Mr. Hyslop a violent blow over the temple.
The latter was much stunned, and near falling when he
recovered himself, and struck Mr. Kane with his fist, which
" ring" phrase, floored him, The battle then conti-
nued, when Mr. Kane's brother, seeing him likely to come
off second-best lent his assistance. Mr. Young of the hotel,
hearing the noise, rushed into the room and endeavoured
to separate them ; but his peaceable intentions were un-
"'tiling, and I believe he was obliged himself to give and
44- The Messrs. Kane then decamped ; but I believe
one of them was arrusted and held to bail before the
Magistrates at the Petty Sessions; but the other, accom-
, pulled by Mr. Dillon O'Brien, of Fairfield, his brother-in-
it.wriiiodrvoevrye out of town on a jaunting car, the horse being
top of his pace. Some short time afterwards
111 Sweeny,
S. 1., attended by a mounted policeman,
14," °Ped off to Fairfield, and soon returned with the afore-
''Qui gentlemen, who, I understand, gave bail for their ap-
n, &ranee before Captain Warburton. Such are the eir-,
‘arnstances as they have reached me.—Correspondent of
an Irish Paper.
We understand there is no foundation for the
report the tour fleet in the Mediterranean is to be in-
ereued.