The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-17 00:00:00

dinian territory for its troops in case of any political
change in France, and also demands some fortresses
as a guarantee.

EGYPT:

2iLEXANDRIA, Aram 6.—The Peninsular and 1
Oriental Company's steamer Oriental, with the Cal-
cutta Mail of the Bth of March, arrived at Suez in
the night of the Ist inst., with 147 passengers. The
Indus, with the London Mail of 24th March, arrived
here only yesterday afternoon, and starts on her
return voyage this day. The Austrian steamer
left for Trieste direct yesterday, and took nearly
sixty passengers from India; she arrived here
from Trieste direct on the Ist, and brought the new
Governor of Java, his Excellency A. J. Duynraer
van Twist, and suite, who proceeded on the following
day to Cairo, in a special steamer, placed at their dis-
posal by the Viceroy, Abbas Pacha and who will
embark at Suez on board the Oriental, for. Ceylon.
The families of Kamil Pacha and Artin Bey, ex-
Prime Minister of Egypt, left last week for Con-
stantinople.
Intelligence has been receivedthfreoyroymices Envoy,
.Constantinople
to the effect that K anee Pacha,
had been well received by the Sultan, and the expla-
nations he had given relative to the present condition
of Egypt had proved satisfactory.
No doubt is entertained here that the works for a
railroad between Cairo and Alexandria will be com-
menced in the course of the present year, an event
which is contemplated with great interest, owing to
the incalculable advantages that a railroad between
the two principal towns of Egypt will confer upon the
country.
His Highness Said Pacha, successor to the Pachalic,
a few days ago gave a grand dinner at his garden on
the canal, to the European Consuls and most of the
European merchants resident here. His Highness,
supported by one of his younger brothers, Haleem
Bey, and his nephew, Ismael Bey, son of the late
Ibrahim Pacha, treated his guests in the most affable
and courteous manner.

Oa the 29th March, a large party of ladies and
gentlemen, composed of most of the British residents
in Alexandria, repaired to Aboukir Bey, to comme-
morate the 50th anniversary of the landing at that
place of their guest, Mr. Samuel Briggs, merchant,
of Alexandria, who came to Egypt with the British
army under Sir Ralph Abercrombie in 1801.
Trade is brisk, and prices on the rise. The scar-
city of British shipping has been much felt through-
out the winter.
The Government continue their bi-weekly sales by
auction of grain and pulse, and in another week
Abbas Pacha will have paid off all his creditors.
,Exchange on London, 97i piastres per pound
sterling.

TILE CASE OF POISONING AT MARCH.
We gave last week the leading features of a singular
case of poisoning which occurred at March on Tuesday,
the Bth instant, in which three servant girls conspired
together to put an end to their existence by taking
laudanum. Two of these girls were servants to Mr.
Miller, brewer, &c., of March, and the other servant to
Air. Jones, of the same place, whose house adjoins that
of Mr. Miller. One of the unfortunate creatures, Mary
Ann Sutton, died under the influence of the drug, and
the other two very nearly shared her fate. A maniacal
sort of attachment existed between the deceased and
Mr. Jones's servant, Roberts, and they used to meet
and kiss each other in the yard every night before going
to bed. The deceased was only 17 years old, and Ro-
berts was of the same age. The other girl, Archer,
was somewhat older; she is unmarried, but has had two
children.
On Saturday last the adjourned inquest was holden
before Mr. Pratt, at the Griffin Inn, at ten o'clock.
After some further evidence.

The CORONER cautioned the girls in the usual way,
and told them ►hey were at liberty to make any state-
ment, which might, however, be used against them here-
after, to the prejudice of their lives or liberty.
Archer said the reason why she took the laudanum
was that she did not like to b© laughed and scorned at
in the streets.

Roberts had nothing to say, except that deceased and
she were " partners " and she loved her so that she
thought she would like to die with her.
The CORONER explained to the jury that if any one
encouraged another to commit suicide, the person so en-
couraging was in the eye of the law guilty of mur-
der. He also explained the nature of the crime of felo
de se, and then went through the evidence, comment-
ing upon it as he went on. He left the jury to say,
whether deceased was in a sound state of mind when
she took the laudanum ; and whether the others were
aiding and abetting, and encouraging each other to
commit suicide, and being then in a sound state of
mind, in which case the law held them to be guilty of
murder.

The jury, after a consultation of about half an hour,
returned a •erdict of felo de se in the case of Mary
Ann Sutton, and of aiding and abetting in the crime of
murder in the case of Sarah Archer and Sarah Ann
Roberts.

The two prisoners were subsequently committed to
Cambridge on a charge of wilful murder.