The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-04 00:00:00

HAMBURG MAIL.

BaussELs, JAN. I.—The average price of wheat
during the week. ending the 23d of December, was
221. 51c. per hectolitre, and that of Rye. 131.8.1 c.
Wheat, therefore, is free of duty on importation, R, e
is liable to an import duty of 211. 50c. per 1,000
kilogrammes. The exportation of wheat, flour, pot,.-
toes, and of the flour made of them, is prohibited.—Mb-
niteur Beige, Jan. 1.
The Moniteur contains some Royal Ordinance s
signed by the Minister of Public Works, relative to his
department, and also a part of the debates in the Se-
nate on the 31st of October. In the sitting of the 3lst
the Senate adopted successively the project of law
fixing the amount of the army (that granting a provin-
cial credit to the War Department), the budget of
Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Justice, and another law
authorising certain transfers to the Department of
Justice.

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ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 26.—The Viceroy has just
given permission to M. Stephen Gizinia, a merchant
here, to purchase 60,000 ardebs of Maize, and to ex-
port it on payment of a duty of 15 piastres per ardeb.
Till these 60,000 ardebs are embarked mid sent to
foreign countries, all other persons shall be forbidden to
export their article without M. Gizinia's consent.
This affair has occasioned the more surprise, as the
Pacha bad official information of the treaty of tht
15th August, 1838, by which every kind of
monopoly is prohibited. A great deal has lately
been said of protests, which the Consuls-Ge-
neral of France and England intend to make against
this unlawful measure. But as the Pacha has allowed
the English and French merchants who have become
owners or farmers of many thousand acres of land in
Egypt, to export the Durrah (dearge) and other kinds
of corn that grow on their own land, the Consuls
are satisfied, and have taken no further notice of the
affair. Hebron was again in a state of insurrection.
The position of the army was unchanged.

" For some months past," says a letter from
Alexandria of the 9th December, in the Semaphore,
each packet has brought us numerous visitors, many
of them persons of distinction, going to India by way
of Suez, or coming to visit Egypt. Among other dig-
tirguished travellers is Lord Alvanley, who fought a
duel with a son of Mr. O'Connell, and, by a singular
coincidence, Colonel Hodges, who was second to O'Con-
nell, and Colonel Darner, who attended as the friend of
his Lordship, are all here at the same time."
We are authorised to say that there is not the
slightest foundation for the statements which have ap-
peared in the French papers, that Lord Ponsonby is
about to be recalled from his post as Ambassador at
Constantinople. Lord Ponsonby, we have reason to
believe, enjoys the full confidence of his Government,
and has, by
his able conduct in the performance of ar-
duous duties in difficult circumstances, earned its entire
approbation.—Ecening Paper.
We (earn from a gentleman connected with the
Liverpool steamer, that owing to an alteration which
had been considered advisable by the Company, that it
is very probable the Liverpool would not leave New
York until the 20th ult., in which case she will not be
due until to-morrow or the next day.—Evening Paper.