The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

EGYPT.

Our letters from Alexandria to the 22d ult., state that the
Pacha had relaxed nothing in his preparations for defence.
He had sent sixteen additional guns to strengthen the Pharil-
lon fort, which he had visited in state, with the French engi-
neer, Galise Bey, &c., on Louis Philippe's birth-day. 'I he
powder carriers were again busy at midnight, carrying
supplies from the magazines to the Pharillon, and to
the other fort near the gate of Rosetta. The promised
freedom of commerce has led to great loss and disap
pointment to the merchants, for just as they were, on
the 19th ultimo, on the point of shipping large quantities
of flax seed, an order was issued detaining it, and taking
it to the account at " Paella's" price. The explanation given
was, that it would be wanted for seed next harvest, but it was
known that the Pacha wanted to fulfil a linseed sale of his own
to a large ;mount, and could not find sufficient, as the mer-
chants had been first in the market with cash. The cotton
grown by Europeans is also impounded under a ruinously high
export duty. Nobody dared to complain, for the extent of
each man's business depended altogether on the goodwill of the
Pacha, who is still the sole salesman for exports. On the
same day that he laid hands on the linseed, he had received an
address from 200 of the merchants, bankers, and others of the
City of London, complimenting him on his highmindedness,
liberality, &c., praying that he may long continue to develops
the commercial energies of Egypt, unfolding in their fullest
extent the blessings of prosperity and civilization, &c.
The Pacha's reply was not expected by the Oriental.
Sir David Wilkie had completed the Pacha's portrait, which
he was bringing home in the Oriental to have engraved in
London. Ibrahim Pacha had left Cairo for Middle and Upper
Egypt to enforce his new regulations for the more effective
service of the Government in military, financial, and agricul-
tural matters. His father was urgent for supplies of men,
money, and produce. The ferocious Albanian mercenaries
stationed near Damietta had a serious quarrel with the regular
troops in their vicinity, and some blood was shed. These fo-
reigners were quartered in great numbers in the villages on the
banks of the Nile, and were universally feared and hated.
The plague continued in Alexandria and Rosetta. In the
latter the cases were 25 per day in a population of only 8,(;00.
The cases at Alexandria varied daily from 13 to 31. The
official returns since the plague began there in December 1840,
to 18th May, 1841, amount to 1,084 persons attacked; of these
530 are dead. Captain Cotton, son of Sir Willoughby, died
on the morning of the 21st ult., at Alexandria, of an illness
which he had been suffering under since he left Bombay.
'The Vizier of the Abyssinian Sultan Oubie had arrived at
Cairo to solicit the Copt Patriarch to send them an Abouna, or
missionary bishop, as usual.
As the Oriental was preparing to sail, intelligence arrived
that a regiment of artillery, stationed at El Arica, had deserted
into Syria ; that Mehemet Ali had sent to recall Ibrahim
Pacha down the Nile to Alexandria, and had also ordered down
two more regiments from Cairo. The National Guards of
that city were much dissatisfied at being drafted into regiments
I of the line (Nizam) per farce.