The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-02 00:00:00

CORFU.

Ex.ract of letter dated Corfu, 20th of September,
851: _ _

" The Medusa which arrived on Tuesday from the
lonian Islands brought accounts of a most distressing
accident which occurred very lately at Zaute. A small
house, on the ground floor of which was a shop kept by
a Greek, accidentally caught fire. The major of the
41st:Itegiment turned out immediately with a party of
his, soldiers to aid in extinguishing
it. The townspeople
else) flocked to the place in great slumbers to reader
what assistance they could. But before the fire could
be c xiinguislied it had reached the second story, and
rel of a sudden a most awful explosion ensued. It
appear.' that two barrels of gunpowder bad been im-
prudetitly concealed in a closet adjoining one of the
rooms in the second story. At the very moment of the
~xplesion several persons were on the roof of the house,
and the result can easily be imagined. Eleven men
perished at once—and among these a drummer of the
41st Regiment. The nasjer of the same corps was
severely wounded, and equally so were no less than 150
of the ii:habitsnts. It is feared that several of the
wounded will lose their lives. We have not been able ho
ascertain what became of the owner of the building; ho
may hays perished under the ruins, but if he can be
laic hold of he will soon be brought to a very severe
account for his fully, carelessness, sand for breaking the
law, which justly and strictly forbids any one from kee
i p-
ing n a dwelling within the town at one time more than
three pounds weight of powder. This sad accident had
naturally thrown a deep gloom over all the residents in
Z.mte."

ALEXANDRIAI SEPT. 22.—The lion. East India
EGYPT.
COBair•
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y's steamer Ajdaba arrived at Suez on the
19th inst. with the Bombay mail of the Ist, which is
conveyed to Malta this day by her Majesty's steamer
Merlin. The intermediate Peninsular and Oriental
after the
Company's steamer Sultan arrived here on the 17th
with 40
passrsreirviagleras; and
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steamer Precursor, frotn Cilcutta, now hourly ex-
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pected. NW:en the Ajdf.ha left Aden the Precursor
was there, awaiting the arrival of the corn sponding
steamer from Bombay.
The Sublime Porte and ABBAS PASHA have not
yet come to an understanding with respect to the right
of the former to impose on Egypt its obnoxious tan-
zimut, and thus qualify the authority of the Viceroy.
KIIAIR.ZD-DEEM PASHA, one of the delegates of the
Viceroy to Constantinople, returned here same days
ago, t.ani there have since been several councils con-
vened at Cairo, and the European consuls, have also
been called into conference, but nothing has as yet
transpired to alter the determination of ABBAS PAsua
to resist the encroachments of the SULTAN.
A quarantine establishment and a lazaretto are to
be forted at Damietta, with a view of facilitating the
intercourse of that town with Syria.
The new crops of grain and pulse, which are very
abundant, are corning down from the interior in large
quantities, and the Government sells a portion by
auction twice weekly. In torso quence of these sales
our exchange on London bag fallen to 99i piastres
per pound sterling.

The Bavarian army, which, under the late King,
hardly numbered 40,000, has been raised to 72,000 men.