The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-30 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 25.—The general discussion of the
budget of the Minister of the Interior has been conti-
nued to-day in the Chamber of Representatives. Messrs.
Huffschmidt,Verhaegen, and the Ministers of Finance and
Public Works successively addressed the Chamber ; the
rest of the sitting was taken up with explanations re-
specting personal matters.
Their ltoy al Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Saxe Cobourg will leave the Royal Palace of Lacken on
Monday evening, at six o'clock, by a special train, fur
Valenciennes, and arrive at Paris the following day.
Letters from Vienna, of the 18th January, say that
his Highness Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Cobourg, brother
of the King of the Belgians, father of the King of Por-
tugal, &c., who resides in this capital, has been for some
days seriously ill, and that even fears were entertained
for his life. Expresses have been sent to the sons of the
august patient, at Paris and Lisbon ; Prince Leopold,
his youngest son, is the only member of his family now
with him.

It seems that the traffic on the railway, which is in-
terrupted by the falling cf the earth in the Tunnel of
Cnmpitch, will not be resumed so soon as expected.
Measures have been taken to convey goods and passen
gers by other means till the tunnel shall be cleared and
repaired.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. B.—The negotiations relative
to the transit of English letters and passengers through
Egypt are at length brought to a conclusion, by a con-
vention between Mehemet Ali and Mr. Bourne, which
has been sent to the London Post-office for ratification,
and it is to be in force for five years from May, 1845.
According to the conditions of this convention the con-
tracting parties being, on the one hand, the Egyptian
Transit Company, founded by Mehemet Ali, and the
English Post-office on the other, the English Mail bags
are to be sealed for the sake of security, and accom-
panied by an officer of the English Post-office, and to be
conveyed by the Egyptian Company, and at its expense,
from Alexandria to Suez, in 58 hours, and from Suez
to Alexandria in 52 hours. Forty Egyptian piastres
(about ten French francs) are to be paid for every pound
weight of English letters, and five paras fur every news-
paper. _ _

- 71:he Egyptian Post-office engages to forward tra-
vellers through as speedily and safely as the means at
its command shall permit. The latter to have the right,
if they do not wi.h to go by the Egyptian Post-office
steamers from Alexandria to Cairo, to take any other
conveyance they think proper ; but it is reserved to the
Egyptian Company to provide alone for the conveyance
between Cairo and Suez. This monopoly which con-
siderably increases the expense of the travellers, Me-
hemet Ali grants to his comnany only because he says
the travellers could not otherwise be duly protected
from the inconveniences they might meet with in the
desert. The transit dues on all goods, the conveyance
of which through Egypt is confided to the Post-office,
besides the freight, are reduced to one-half per cent. of the
value instead of 3 per cent. fixed by the English-Turkish
commercial treaty in 1843, a concession which shews
how desirous Mehemet Ali is to promote the advantage
of his post office, but which will be nearly counter-
balanced by increased charges for carriage.