The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-02 00:00:00

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA. JULY IG.—Colonel Napier is still here,
and his mission _ appears to await the decisions of the
Porte.
Troops are now under orders for the Hedgas, the
military occupation of which it has been found necessary
to entrust to Mehemet Ali, every species of disorder and
anarchy having resulted from the short period in which
those countries had been under the direct dominion of
the Porte.
Much excitement was occasioned last Week by an at-
tack by a party of the Pacha's soldiers on the country
house of a French gentleman here ; but the delinquents
have been apprehended, and full satisfaction promised by
the Pacha in reply to the remonstrances of the French
Consul : as yet, however, punishment has been limited
to the degradation of the officer who was in command
of the party, who also received fifty blows of the stick—
a punishment no novelty to officers of all grades in his
Highness's service.
The Pacha has just sold the remainder of his cotton
crop at $l3. A portion has again been resold as high
as $l3l. The sale of the new grain crop is to be de-
ferred for another six weeks. As the old grain crops
might be considered as very nearly closed, I annex a
note of the exportations of the past season :-320,000
ard. of barley, 315,000 wheat, 17,000 Indian corn,
13,000 chick peas, 415,000 beans, and 70,000 bales of
cotton, of which about 15,000 bales are yet for shipment.
juLY
further thanl9.—i)tiring the last three days nothing has
transpired the publication of the sentence
hady and received
stopped one
on the soldiers who broke into M. Pastre's country-
house. The officer in command of the party has been
dfiefptyribyled
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enmonth's pa
have
month's pay, and received three hundred blows each ;
and the Bey, by whose orders the arty left Alexandria
without proper authority for so doing, has been placed
• in fifteen days' arrest, and ordered a hundred and fifty

blows.
The Oriental arrived on Saturday, bringing London
letters up to the sth instant. A naval commander and
two surgeons, for the Syrian establishment, passengers
by the steamer, left yesterday for Beyrout by, the Em-
metyce packet.
Ibrahim Pacha went yesteriay to visit the Oriental.
This steamer takes home Boghos Bey's reply to the East
India and China address. •
Mr. Waghoru revisits England by this conveyance
on taking leave of the Pacha last night he obtained a
firmanas a personal favour, to put another steamer on
the Nile. The Pacha expressed himself much pleased
g he intended to bring the machinery only frOm
England, and build the boat at Cairo, on a plan properly
andapet
or the Nile ; in fact, boats for the Nile can be
oh ar
f
better built in this country. Hill's little steamer, With
its new machinery, is infinitely better than the Lotus ;
_vtihaotiabo3:towed boats do not answer in a river so full of

We hear nothing more said about free trade. Those
who have been fortunate in getting produce to Alexan-
dria are allowed to export it without romark on payment
of twelve per cent. export duty, but the same difficulty
in finding transport for produce from the interior, or
allowing it to be taken from the interior, still exists.
Colonel Napier remains here. Nothing official has yet
come from Constantinople. Colonel Barnett, our new
Consul, arrived at Malta, by the Oriental, whence ho de-
parted to deliver his credentials at Constantinople, and is
expected here in another month.
The Indian mail arrived here last night. The news is
devoid of general interest. From China they had received
in Bombay, up to the 19th ult., no later news than the 31st
March'. Sir G. G. Bremer had departed from Calcutta for
Canton, and a portion of the new expedition, including
the 55th and 49th regiments, a detachment of artillery,
sappers, and a company of native rifles, had already de-
parted. From Bombay no troops had been sent, but to
complete the expedition they were waiting the arrival of
Admiral Sir W. Parker and Sir Henry Pottinger. In
the new expedition are included many armed small craft
for river service. Opinions appeared divided in India
as to whether the re-possession of Chusan, or an imme-
diate advance on Pekin were the first objects of this ex-
pedition. In the Punjaub things still remained in a
most distracted state. The Governor of Cashmere had
been murdered. In Scinde affairs appeared as far as
ever from a settlement. The Nepaulese had become
troublesome, and appeared to require a severe lesson. In
Affghanistan things were comparatively quiet ; Dost
Mahommed was amusing himself in Calcutta, where he
was treated with marked attention and respect. In He-
rat things were again quiet, and Yar Mahommed was
likely to give no further trouble.