The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-07 00:00:00

TURKEY AND EGYPT.

The Constitutional Journal of Bohemia has the
following from Alexandria, 16th uit.:—" The con-
suls-general of France and England have had com-
municated to them from their respective ambassadors
at Constantinople the customs' convention recently
entered into between their Governments and the Ot-
toman Porte with the tariffs connected with it,
which are to remain in force until the 13th of May,
1855. This treaty gives to foreign merchan'ts the
power of deducting 16 per cent. from the current
price of articles exported, and 20 per cent. on those
imported. ABBAS PACIIA has, it is said, accepted the
transimat with the modifications consented to by the
Ottoman Porte. One question alone still remains in
dispute. ABBAS PACHA considers he has the right
to pronounce the sentence of death and to carry
it into execution. The Porte contests this; pre-
rogative."

DESTRUCTION OF THE RESIDENCE OF
THE BRITISH CONSUL AT CONSTAN-
TINOPLE BY FIRE.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 23.—The residence of the
British Consul General (Mr. CUMBERBATCH) was
burnt to the ground on the night of the 18th. The
fire broke out in one of the inner apartments,
and the preservation of the lives of the family and
household of the Consul, who were wrapped in deep
sleep, is attributed to the explosion of a small case of
gunpowder, which aroused the inmates. Pro viden-
tially no lives were lost. The consular resideni:.ewas
reduced to ashes. There were no other dwellings
near to it.

THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
The journey of the Lord Mayor and the Royal Com-
missioners, with their friends, to Paris, at the invitation
of the Prefect of the Seine and Municipality of that
city is worthy of notiee, as showing the improvements
which human intellect and ingenuity have effected in the
means of international communication. In the short
space of thirty-five minutes, namely, between nine o'clock
and thirty-five minutes past nine, nearly 1,000 rassen-
gers, with about 3,000 packages of luggage, were dis-
patched from the London-bridge terminus of the lriouth-
Eastern Railway for Paris.
A splendid dejeuner was prepared for the disting aished
party at Boulogne, in doing justice to which nearly two
hours were occupied ; and again, at Amiens, the hospi-
tality of our French neighbours still further delayed the
travellers, who, notwithstanding, arrived in Paris b y nine
o'clock in the evening—the travelling., embarkinl., sea
passage, disembarking, partaking of the good things sot
before them, and speechifying—till occupying ON LY 12
Howls ! ! !

ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY IN TOWN FROM THE
ISLE OF WIGHT, TO PROROGUE PARLIAMENT IN PIESOE--
(THIS DAY.)—The Queen and Prince Albert, attended b y the
Countess of esart, Lady in Waiting,
the Hon. Flora Mac-
donald, Maid of Honour, Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry,. the
Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel A. Gordon, Equerry to die J ince,
and Alajor Myddleton Biddulp, Master of the Housu hold,
left Osborne House this morning, and embarked on b oard
the Fairy royal steam yacht, for Portsmouth. The y acht
entered the harbour under salutes from the platform batteries,
and the Victory, Blenheim, and Excellent, and also from the
ships-of-war at Spithead. The Royal party were re. eivet I, as
usual, at the Clarence-yard by the military and naval au-
thorities, and left for the Nine Elms-station, by special train,
on the South-Western Railway, whence they were escorted
to the Palace by a party of the Bth Hussars. Her Ma jesty,
soon after her arrival, held a Privy Council, which wi.s .at.,
tended by the Ministers, and at which the Roy4l Spet,ch on
closing the session of Parliament was arranged.