The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-06 00:00:00

PRINCE ALFRED AT BEFROUT.

The Euryalus, with Prince Alfred on board,
arrived here on Friday, the Bth of April, from Jaffa,
at which port she remained upwards of 10 days, so
as to enable her officers to visit Jerusalem and the
River Jordan. She left Beyrout early yesterday
morning for Sidon, and returns this forenoon, in
order that the captain, his officers, and the Prince
may be present •at a ball given this evening by Mr.
Moore, the• English Consul-Geueral, in honour
of their -arrival. Not that the invitations are
worded either for the invited to meet the
Prince or the officers of the Euryalus, for in this
Mr. Moore has shown good sense, and Beyrout is
the first place where his Royal Highness has been
received—although with all due respect—without
any :of that parade, and show, and fuss which he
has encountered elsewhere, but which is perfectly
incompatible with his position as a midshipman in
the navy. When the Bury alus anchored in the
Beyrout Roads, the Pasha, attended by all the civil
and military functionaries of the province, went on
board to pay their respects to the Prince. As a
matter of course, they could not understand how it
was that the son of a reining Sovereign could
possibly waive his rank while learning his profes-
sion. They were, however, received on board by
the captain, and, although introduced to the Prince,
were told that he was to be considered as a simple
midshipman of the frigate. The Pasha placed his
stud of horses at the disposal of his Highness, and
of this civility the latter has availed himself once or
twice during the week he has been here. The
Consul-General asked the Prince, as well as some
of the other officers, to his house, where they dined
and slept, returning next day to the frigate. This,
however, is not more than the usual attention
shown by our consuls to the officers of British men-
of-war. In short, there has been no more fuss
made about the Euryalus and Prince Alfred than
there would have been about any other large frigate
one of whose midshipmen was furnished with good
letters of introduction. The Euryalus leaves to-
morrow, either for Malta or Constantinople. As
regards our large fripiates, I wish they would
show themselves a little oftener on the coast
of Syria. In the last three years the
Euryalus . is the first ship of war of any mag-
nitude that has paid us a visit. It would be quite
as well if we were to keep up our influence, and
show our strength a little more in this country,
where we were once considered—what we are—as
the greatest naval Power in the world. The French,
Austrians, Sardinians, Americans, and even Rus-
sians, parade some of their very largest ships from
time to time in these waters, but with us it seems
enough to send a gunboat or a surveying vessel
now and again to Syria, leaving many large ships
idle almost the whole year in Malta harbour. In
making mention of the advent of Prince Alfred to
Beyrout, I ought to tell you how anxious all the
mountaineers of Lebanon have been for the last two
months about his coming. Like all Orientals they
would couple the event with some future political
event, and when told that such is not the case,
simply believe that you are trying to deceive them.
So soon as the guns of the Euryalus were heard in
the mountain all the emirs, sheiks, and peasants--
Christians
lay ansaas
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that surprised,the p rand Prince
couldstill
receive no one, being simply a young man learning
his duty as a naval officer. They can hardly under-
stand this, but yet they admire the stern discipline
which makes no distinction between the son of the
Sovereign and the son of a subject. They have
magnified Major Cowell's rank into that of a
general officer, and believe that the Prince is
attended by a general wherever he goes. Many
of the more wealthy chiefs brought down with them
horses, arms, and other valuables, which they in-
tended to beg his Royal Highness to accept of,
and cannot comprehend how it is that be would
not be allowed to receive them. They are shrewd,
too, in their generation, are these mountaineers.
" What a fine harvest," said one of them the other
day to me, " what a fine harvest the Turkish
authorities would reap from us were a son of the
Sultan to come to Syria—why, the very pipe-
bearers would make their fortunes."

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM
SHIP WRECK.

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A reward of £l3 was also voted to the crew of
the society's life boat stationed at Winterton, on the -
Norfolk coast, for saving the crew of nine men of
the Swedish barque Alecto, which during blowing
weather was wrecked off that place on the 24th ult.
The silver medal of the society and £1 was voted
to Alexander Bain, a mate of a vessel, in acknow-
ledgment of his very gallant conduct in conveying
at the peril of his life, a line on beard the Azaler,
of Nantes, which was wrecked off Skerries, near
Dublin, during the fearful gale which raged on the
Irish coast, on Friday last.

A reward of £l3 was also voted to two boats'
crews, and the thanks of the committee, inscribed
on vellum, to Capt. Humphreys, in testimony of
their very laudable conduct in rescuing, during a
thick fog, the crew of the flat Margaret, of Preston,
which had recently sunk in Cardigan Bay.
Payments amounting to about £BOO on life-boat
establishments having been made, the proceedings
closed.

MR. BERNAL OSBORNE.—The defeated of Dover
s about to try his luck in the county of Waterford.