The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-09 00:00:00

EGYPT.

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nothing beyond the payment of a fixed yearly
tribute, and to allow no interference in the de-
tails of his Government. As if in defiance of
the hatti-scheriff of the 22d of January, he had
ordered the army to be increased to 70,000,
was daily bringing in conscripts in fetters to
Cairo, had stopped the supplies of corn shipped
at Suez for the Holy Cities, which form
their yearly tribute from Egypt, and had raised
the French Colonel of Engineers, M. Galise,
who recently fortified Alexandria, and was now
strengthening Cairo, to the rank of a Bey on full
pay, 150 purses (7500 per annum. Three regi-
ments had been ordered from Cairo to garrison
Alexandria, and none of the Pacha's sailors were
permitted to leave the city for a moment. The
frontiers of Egypt were much disturbed. Melik
Nimr was said to have beaten Ahmed, the
Pacha's Governor of Kartoom. The two great
Bedouin tribes on 'the west of the Nile were en-
gaged in warfare on their own account, and the
peaceable inhabitants engaged in the collection of
natron at the lakes south of Alexandria had been
extensively plundered. The Pacha had fbrmed
an alliance with the Bedouins of the desert, on
the borders of Syria, exempting them from tri-
bute, &c:, and was preparing them to fortify
Gaza. His present force is said to be 55,000 men.
Dr. Grassi had returned to Alexandria, leav-
ing 800 men to purify or burn the infected vil-
lages in the Delta, where only the plague now
exhibited itself. This year the small-pox had
also spread its ravages at the same season. In
the villages infected by plague, the inhabitants
had been compelled by military force to wash
themselves, clothes, and furniture. Hardly one
of those attacked by the disease recovered. All
one household, at Jahn Jallech, of 28 persons,
were carried out dead, and lastly the owner, an
old Bey, who governed the village. At Alex-
andria the plague was now nearly restricted to
the sailors anesoldiers, whose barracks arc the
ordinary filthy family huts; the cases from 10 to
13 per day; 88 are under treatment in the hos-
pital, but the majority die before they can be
removed there.
Although the merchants of Liverpool had sent
a very complimentary address to the Paella,
nothing real or practical had as yet been done
by him to open the trade of Egypt according to
the treaty of commerce and navigation of Balti
Liman, and great dissatisfaction was felt amongst
the Syrians still detained in Egypt. Numbers
were to be seen in the regiment of cavalry en-
camped outside Alexandria. These two points,
but chiefly the latter, had given rise to the cool-
ness and dissatisfaction observed between the
Pacha and Commodore Napier previous to the
departure of the latter. The Maronite Emirs
and Druse Sheiks had, however, arrived safely
at Beyrout.
The French steamer Acheron, which brought
eiosnugl
and and
Count Rohan Chabot on the 15th ult., to Alex-
andria, and sailed thence for Beyrout, had re-
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fore theat repeated
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private interviews with the Paella before his de-
parture.
:'he Indian mail arrived .at Suez on the 22d
ult., and at Alexandria on tl,e
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.ALEXANDRTA, MARCH.
Mehemet Ali patiently awaits the reply from
Constantinople, on which so much of good and