The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-24 00:00:00

EGYPT.

ALExANDRIA, Nov. 7.—The Pacha is still at Cairo, where
he received, on the 25th ult., the portrait of her Majesty Queen
Victoria from the hands of Col. Barnet, the British -Consul-
General. His Higuess's reception of the beautiful and costly
present was marked by much enthusiasm, and he frequently
and warmly expressed to those around him how much and
deeply he felt the attention of her Britannic Majesty. The
picture was exhibited in the reception room of the palate at
the citadel for some days, and afterwards was removed to
the harem at Shubra. The Paella entertained Col. Barnett
and some British officers and residents on the subsequent day
at dinner in the city palace.;
By the French steamer from Marseilles, which reached this
on the 31st ult.% an officer from the French Government ar-
rived, bearing the highest decoratien of the Legion of Ho-
nour to the Paella from the King of France.
Mr. Rimlour, a highly respectable member of the British
commercial community of this city, died from rapid liver
disease on the Ist instant. _

Measures are at length being taken by this Government
with a view towards the final adjustment of the transit of
mails and passengers through Egypt. The details of the
schemes have not so far been allowed to transpire, but it is
expected they will soon be published.
The Pacha has 'issued an edict forbidding the export of
corn from his territory for a period of three months, appre-
hending the past harvest may barely meet the consumption
of the country.

Trade is brisk here, especially the import operations, which,
until lately, were exceedingly languid. Merchants look for-
ward to improved consumption, and better prices for both
Manchester and Birmingham manufactures.
Exchanges rate on England by this packet at 95/ to 96i
for good commercial paper at three months date.

COWES, ISLE. OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ISLE OF WIGHT RAILWAY.— The promoters of Mr. Punch's
pretty plaything not having succeeded in obtaining the levels of
the Hot-cross-bun, have decided on deferring the undertaking
for the present. It may not be generally known how exten-
sive the work was they had to accomplish : they had actually
to obtain levels for a line of rails 15 miles in length !
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Thursday next is said to be
the day fixed for the marriage of Mr. Oglander, son and heir
of Sir William Oglander, Bart., of Nunwell, Isle of Wight, to
241iFs Leeds, sister of Sir Joseph Leeds, Bart., and of the lady
of Rear-Admiral Sir Wm. Montagu.
The Ajax, 72, one of the tough ones of Trafalgar and Tou-
lon, was towed into this harbour on Monday. She is to have
her upper deck taken off by the Messrs. White, and con-
verted into a 50-gun steam-frigate, fitted with a screw-pro-
peller, and is one of :a new and much improved description of
guardships, which are to be jury-rigged and stationed at our
principal ports, to be ready to act as occasion may require
them. She is to be taken into the Medina dock next spring
tide.

Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to com-
mand the College of Chymists to assume the title of the Royal
College of Chymistry. His Royal Highness Prince Albert
has accepted the office of President of that institution, and
presented it with a donation of 1013.
DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR BURGES CAMAC.
—We have to notice the demise of the above gallant Major-

General, a Peninsular officer, who died after a short illness,
at Duffryn Park, the seat of Mr. Bruce Pryce, in Glamor-
ganshire, on Monday last.
ANOTHER (RUMOURED) VACANCY AT WINDSOR
—WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING.—There appears now to be

very little doubt that another vacancy in ilia representation
of Windsor is on the eve of taking place, by the appointment
of Mr. Neville to a commissionership—said to be of the
Customs. It is not expected, however, that Mr. Neville will
again offer himself to represent the borough in Parliament,
but that his future labours will be exclusively devoted to the
performance of the duties appertaining to his new appoint-
ment. It was reported this morning, that under these cir-
cumstances, the Hon. Mr. Lawley, an officer in the 2d
regiment of Life Guards, will offer himself as soon as the
vacancy has been declared by the acceptance of a Govern-
ment appointment by Mr. Neville. This rumour, whatever
foundation it may have in fact, has been pretty generally

circulated in tI4 town sir.ce the morning. The Ron. M.
Tollemache, likewise of the same regiment, has also been

spoken of as one of the candidate'', in the event of a vacancy.
RAILROAD SURVEYING IN WINDSOR PAEK.-A
short time 'since a person, who was engaged in surveying one
of the projected lines of railway' (said to be from Great
Grimsby to London ), which will (if permitted) intersect some
portion of the royal domain at Windsor, was observed by her
Majesty in her drive through the Long Walk into the Great
Park, industriously pursuing his labours. The fact was in-
stanced by some three or four red flags, which had been stuck
in the ground close to the carriage drive. Her Majesty, who
immediately commanded the carriage in which she was riding
to stop, sent one of the equerries in attendance to order the
surveyor to desist. The royal command, at the time, was of
course strictly attended to. The next morning, however,
(but little more surveying over the royal property being re-
quired for the purposes of the projected company) the work
was again commenced, and completed within one hour after
sunrise.

We understand that Mr. John Dickenson, Assistant
Comptroller of the Customs, and brother of the gentleman
lately deceased, who formerly held the important post of
Comptroller-General, has been appointed to that office by the
Lords of the Treasury. The salary of the Comptroller is
8001. f:a•year. Several promotions in that particular branch
of the establishment will take place in consequence of Mr.
Dickenson's promotion.
Governor's Island, in Boston harbour, says the
Journal, has been purchased by the United States Govern
ment, of Henry G. Andrews, of Boston. The commanding
position of Fort Winthrop, upon its summit, when repaired
and fortified, will, with the other fort, make Boston as safe
from foreign attack as any city in the Union.
HORRIBLE 'MURDER NEAR KNOWLN.—A murder
under circumstances of a peculiarly atrocious character, has
been committed upon the person of a respectable old man,
named Treater, a farmer, residing in a lone house, situate in
the parish of Berkeswell, midway between the Coventry and
Hampton Railway stet:ions. The old man appears to have
been of a most ecerslntrie character, so much so, that he would
not allow a;,y person to sleep in the house with him. He
breakfaSced last Monday morning with a boy named Satch-
well, whom he employed about his grounds, and afterwards
went with hum into a field, to point out the work he wished
to be done in the course of the day; a short time after-
wards the old man returned to his house, and eves not
again seen alive. At ten o'clock the boy obsorved that
the shutters of the house were closed. Thin circumstance
does not, however, seem to have excites any particular
ateention in his mind, it being customary for the old
man to do this whenever he left the house. About one
o'clock the lad went to the ho we to obtain his dinner, and
finding the doors closed, he. mocked loudly several times,
but received no answer. lie then went away, but returned
in the evening, and fige following morning, the house still
remaining shut tip, this circumstance gave rise to suspi-
cion, and on Wednesday morning the door was broken
open, and on searching the house the body of the old man
was d;4covered in a closet, covered with blood, and on examin-
ir4 the corpse an immense cut was observed on the back
part of the head. A carpenter's axe and a bill-hook lay
near the body, both of those having quantities of blood and
hair clotted round the edges. The state of the house made
it evident that the main object of the villains was plunder,
every drawer and cupboard having been ransacked, and it is
generally believed that the old man kept a considerable sum
•f money in the house. An inquest was held yesterday (Fri-
day), but no new facts were elicited.
rRB AMAZING CARELESSNESS OF COLLIERS.—
It was Professor Faraday, we think, who amused the
British Association by stating that when he was in the Has-
well pit. observing the preparations fur a blast, and holding a
candle in his hand, he inquired, " Where is your gunpower?"
when a collier answered, "You are sitting upon it, sir." A
still grosser act of incaution, and, unhappily, disastrous in its
consequencies, may now be recorded. Two pitmen, named
Dickenson and Crozer were last week " decanting" some
gunpowder, and one of them was smoking his pipe at the
time. The powder exploded, the men were blown up by the
blast, and they are now totally blind.—Gateshead Observer.
DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Tues-
day morning about one o'clock, a gang of about ten or twelve
poachers were discovered at their vocation in Sandridge
cover, Melksham, by Bell and Punting, Mr. Bruges' keepers,
who in trying to take two of them into custody, were set
upon by the whole gang and very roughly handled. Two
shots were fired at Wells, which fortunately missed their
aim, though one of them carried away the skirt of his coat.
The poachers lost the barrel of a gun, some bludgeons, &c.,
in the affray. Eleven men have. been taken into custody by
the police on suspicion of being engetoct .this afair, and
are awaitiog their examinatiou.—Friltshire Independent.