The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, MAY 23 —Commercial matters are
brisker than they have been for some time past,
owing to the intelligence received by last mail from
England of an advance in cotton and cereal produce
generally. There is every reason to calculate on im-
proved prices for grain, as &demand has sprung up in
Algeria, whither considerable shipments have been
made. Exchanges have advanced to 97f piastres per
pound sterling for usance bills on London, and is
likely, as the stock of specie increases, to experience
a further improvement. The amount of British tonnage
in port is very small indeed, but the fact of numerous
high-classed foreign bottoms offering for England will
have a tendency to check any considerable enhance..
ment of the rates of freight, which are now for cotton
f to 9-16 per lb., and for grain, Etc., 5$ 6d to 6s per
quarter.—Herald.

TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN.
SlR,—Owing to my absence from England, I have
only just seen your paper of the 25th ult. In your lite-
rary article of that day there is a review of a book called
" Evenings at Sea," of which it is supposed that I am
the author. It is not the first time that the works of
others have been criticized as mine ; and if your critic
had noticed this work in the same spirit as the Spectator
criticized a former one, I should not have troubled you
with this communication. The high praise which is de-
servedly bestJwed in your paper on " Evenings at Sea,"
renders it incumbent on me to disclaim its authorship. I
never saw the work until I read its eloquent and iustruc-
live pages in print.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
ELIOT WARBURTON.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The steam-ship Canada,
Captain Hanson, sailed for Halifax and Boston to-day. She
had 60 passengers, and the usual mails for Canada and the
United States. The Niagara, from New York, is expected
to reach the Mersey on Monday.

RUSSIA.—The General Steam Navigation Company
having placed their fine steam-ship Trident on the London
and St. Petersburgh trade, that vessel left the river 1 hames
late on Saturday night, with a full cargo, consisting princi-
cipally of indigo, and a large number of passengers. Among
the latter was Mr. Buchanan, the Secretary of Legation at
the British Embassy at the Russian capital, several gentle-
men bound on a fishing excursion to the coast of Norway,
and a fair sprinkling of ladies. The Trident will regularly
ply between England and Russia during the summer, calling
at Copenhagen on her outward and homeward voyage; and
on this, her first trip, she had on board some waggon loads of
bullion, stated to be of the value of 120,0001.

Pride, purse-pride, is the besetting sin of England,
and, like most other sins, brings its own punishment, by
converting existence into a struggle. and envirouing it with
gloom and despondency. - Eliza Cook's Journal.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—The directors of this
company have just hit upon a new plan of issuing monthly
order-books for the first and second class, which we think very
likely largely to promote intermediate traffic. In the summer
months, at least, many men of business may feel disposed to
avail themselves of these monthly tickets, and semi their
families to Ivybridge, Torquay, or other 'places, which will
be now accessible to them at a discount of from 40 to 50 per
cent. below the regular charges. This plan cannot be too
extensively known. It will, doubtless, prove a great bless-
ing to all the towns on the line of railway, and tend much
to promote further tratEc..-Annouth Journal.