The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

EGYPT AND PALESTINE.

ALEXANDRIA, JAN 5.

Said Pasha, the Viceroy, has come down to
A.lexandria from Cairo, and is contemplating an-
other visit to the extremity of the Lake Mareotis,
where his Highness intends to erect a palace and
make gardens, which, as in all cases iu Egypt, will
be entirely neglected by his successor when his

time comes.
Owing to the scanty rise of the Nile this year, a
large tract of land which has not been watered will
be exempt from paying taxes, and to cover this
deficiency in his revenue the Viceroy will curtail
the salaries of the Government officials.
The engineers sent out to servey the Isthmus of
Suez have returned to Alexandria, and generally
report favourably on the practicability of the canal
to join the Mediterranean and Red Sea. The
Pasha is highly pleased that his favourite project
should he countenanced by the engineers, and their
report is to be sent to Constantinople, to obtain,
if possible, the adhesion of the Sublime Porte to
the scheme. Most of the engineers return to Eu-
rope to-day by the Austrian steamer.
Lord Canning, the new Governor-General of
India, is still in Upper Egypt, and the Feroze
which is to convey his Lordship to Bombay, is ex-
pected to arrive at Suez in a few days.
The railway between Gtiro and Alexandria is
now open to general traffic, and passengers come
down in seven hours, the only break on the line
being on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, where the
ferry is not yet completed.
Breadstuffs are rather dull. Freights, Gs. 6d.
por quarter.
Exchange on London, 981 piastres per pound
sterling.
-Letters from Jerusalem state that at present the
European Consuls in that city hoist their 'flags
regularly on Sundays and all feast days--a cere-
mony which has hitherto been jealously prohibited
by the Turkish officials throughout the Ottoman
empire, excepting at the seaport towns. It was
first done on the occasion of the capture of Sebas-
topol, when the English, French, Spanish, and
Austrian Consols displayed their flags, and the
Prussian Consul has since done the same.
It is now becoming a regular thing for travellers
to visit the interior of the Great Mosque, on the site
of the Temple. The Pasha of Jerusalem went so far
as to offer to the Jews to enter the mosque in order
to pray for rain, but they refused, for two reasons
—first, because they were all ceremonially unclean ;
secondly, because they might have put under their
feet the words of the law, which they believe to be
buried under this mosque. The Jews, however,
went to the tomb of Daniel to pray for rain, which
came next day, but unfortunately soon ceased.
Rain is very much wanted throughout Syria, and
the inhabitants are enduring great sufferings, as
prices of all provisions are very high.
The Austrian Consul at Jerusalem has received
from his Government a very large sum for the
erection within the walls of the town of consular
buildings, an hospice, and a palace- for the Arch-
bishop of Vienna. The Latin Patriarch is building
a palace for himself and a college at Beit Sala,
near Bethlehem.
The Greeks are in possession of about two-thirds
of the land within the walls of Jerusalem, gene-
rally supposed to have been bought with Russian
money.

THE MILITIA.
The following general order has been issued :
"Adjutant-General's-office, Dublin, Jan. 7.
STIOCIONG AFFAIR.—NORWICH, Jan. 12.—Mr. Edwin
" The exemplary conduct, order, and regularity of the
W. Cersbie, a young man respectably connected and a
regiments of Irish Militia on the occasion of their em-
clerk in the office of Messrs. Winter and Son, solicitors,
of this city, met his death yesterday morning under very barking lately at Kingstown and Cork for En,
and of the English regiments of Militia on their gland-
painful circumstances. The deceased entered the offi eof barking to replace them, have been mentioned in the
h
his employers at about half-past nine o'clock, and is
most favourable terms by Major-General Cochrane, com-
brother, Mr. Samuel Webster Corebie, asked him how
minding the Dublin district, and by Major-General
be was, as be had been suffering from erysipelas. He
Manse!, commanding the Cork district. The General
replied that he was better, and went to the fire to warm
Commanding has bad great satisfaction in receiving and
his hands. The elder brother went on writing, and
communicating to the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
almost immediately afterwards was alarmed by the re-
Chief the reports to which he refers, and which are so
pert of a pistol. Turning round, he saw that the young
creditable to the state of discipline of these corps, to the
man had fallen down, and that he was horribly muti-
exertions of the officers in command of them, and to the
fated about the moul. Mr. J. G. Johnson, Mayor of
departmental officers under whose immediate ouperia-
the city, was sent for, and came as soon as possible, but
tendence the arrangement for the departure and recap-
he was unable to render any surgical assistance to the
tion of 31 regiments were made, and this service carried
unfortunate young man, who had died immediately. Mr.
into effect.
Wilde, coroner for Norwich, held an inquest on the body
" By order of the General Commanding,
of the deceased in the course of the morning, and it ap- „
peered from the evidence that on Sunday evening he J. E. HILLIER, Major, iissistant-Adjutant-Gene.
ral, for the Deputy-Adjetant-General."
borrowed a pistol from a young man named Jarvis,
The following regiments of Militia have embarked for
with whom he was on friendly terms, and that a day or
England : The Antrim, Armagh, Cambridge, Cavan,
two since be told him that be bad got some powder for
Clare, Cork (North), Dublin (City), Galway, Kerry,
it. A lad employed by Messrs. Winter as errand-boy
Limerick (County), Northampton, Roscommon, Tyrone,
stated that on Thursday the deceased showed him the
and Westmeath.
pistol, loaded nearly to the muzzle, and, putting it to The regiments of Militia which have disembarked in
land,lreland
paerveo the Devon
i.
eo, K Bedford,ent
((West),
e Cambridge,t), La
his mouth, said that would be the way to blow his brainsds
nCeahselisihrisre4tChu),mLbaenr-.
out. As it appeared, however, that the deceased hs.
not exhibited any unusal depression of spirits, except ifn. cashire (sth), Lincoln (South), Middlesex (4th); Norfolk
reference to the erysipelas from which be had bteheant (West), Northampton, Nottingham, Somerset (2d),
faring, the jury returned a verdict to the effectidentaslublye
shot himself, but whether designedly Warwick (2d), York (Ist West), York (3d West).
The proceedings of the court-martial on Lieutenant A.
dreadful Con in the city, B. M'Causland, of the Armagh Light Infantry Militia,
there was no evidence to show. The oracc
occur-
rence has produced a considerable sensation
DEAFNESS AND were promulgated at Portsmouth on the 2d of January
[ADVERTISSMANT.I—
VISION RSLISS7I37.—ANMses!gr:.AS.. and B. Solomons, by Major. General Breton, Commanding the South-
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe—oppe. Western District. Lieutenant M'Causland was placed
opticitahnes, 3
York Hotel. Deafness—Now Discovery.—The under arrest at Armagh, on the 19th of June last, under
site
Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary powerful, small, newly- charges which it is not now necessary to detail ; and,
invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all the charges being submitted from the General Corn-
others, to surpass anything of the kind that has been, or mending the Belfast District, General Thomas
probably over can be, prof ,
Produced. . Being of the same colour to Lord
Seaton, the court-martial wile assembled at the Thomas, to
as the skin, is not percep Ableit enables deaf persons to directly after the arrival of the regiment there on the
hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies; the un-
pleasant sensation of singing in te ears is entirely re- 10th of September. The Court was again
the
ee-"dsighboe:dthbainedOdn
moved; and it affords all the resistance that possibly could the Court M now prz•••
be desired.—Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the great. the wording of the decision of t
by order on 12th o.f. November. The following is
est transparent power. The valuable advantage deliver' mulgated :
from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is "The court-martial, having attentivaediyduwrec
preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are reconsidered the whole of the evidence
enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occu-
pation- can see with these lenses of a much less magnify- bad due deference to her Majesty • gracio
ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes the part of the prosecution and the,defenc.e,
us commands
and having
and the observations of the legal adviser of the Crown,
to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance.
do hereb reverse their former finding of 'Not Guilty,'
By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and
extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and
aof the Armagh Militia, guilty of both
and do nowy find the prisoner, Lieutenant A. B. M.`Caus-
the charges
brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Fee- laud, .
him.
through ed against im- .
spective Glasses, to know the distances of objects viewed Pre-err .
martial, having thus found the prisoner
through them—of great importance to the army, navy, "The court
and others. These telescopes possess such extraordinary guilty of both the charges preferred against him, do son-
powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye- tence him, Lieutenant A. B. 11I`Causland, of the Armagh
piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons. Saturn's ring, Militia, to be cashiered.
and the double stars; with the same teleseope can be ~ Her Majesty has been pleased to approve and con-
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, firni the finding and sentence of the Court.
and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of larger and all "In consideration, however, of the recommendation
BOMBAY, DEC. Is' sizes, with increasing powers accordingly ; while their vary-
of the Court in the prisoner's thalf, and the grounds of
The overland mail of the 10th November reached ing from 4 to 6 inches enable us to discover more than tile
the recommendation, her Majesty was farther pleased to
Bombay on the evening of the 10th of December, per above, and the Georglan,:with his 6 satellites, &c.—The Royal
small, extend her most gracious clemency to Lieut. M`Causland
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Cadiz. Exhibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very
fortnight has Oar money market for thea been
daily
powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,the size of a walnut, by whi-h and to command that he be restored to the functions of
becoming tighter, and as anticipated the banks have can be seen and known 1 i miles distant;
they answer his commission in the Armagh Militia, being severely
raised their rates of interest 1 per cent. Government eavpserymn pm-pose on the race-course, and at the opera house*, reprimanded and admonished as to his future conduct."
and other securities have given way considerably in value countryand ships are clearly seen at Bto 10 miles. Lieut. M`Causland was placed under arrest at Ar-
scenery,.
sincelour last report. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, th mash on the 19th of June, 1855, and the finding and
sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and ionrists. Opera, sentence were not promulgated, as approved and oon-
Our import market continued to exhibit considerable
I
firmness, with a steady demand for most fabrics up to
the arrival of the overland mail, and the intelligence re- am York gaol.
race-course, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonierful
moiwer._3slo. Amauf.oltrut, riceaciiy. tyr.sm,e,....oliposito firmed ,by
,laer litajesty, until the 2d of Jan., 1.856
sza 0: 6 roommx
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