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

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

PORZION.

On Saturday evening their Majesties the King and
Citueen of the French received the President of the
Chamber of Peers, the Chargé d'Affaires of Spain, the
Swedish, Danish, and Dutch Ministers, and Generals
Berthois and de Dampierre.
The King and Queen ;of the Belgians left Paris on
Monday for Brussels.
The France says it is informed that Prince Louis
Bonaparte has received at Ham letters announcing that
his father, the Count de Saint. Leu, who is at Florence,
is in a state of health which excites some uneasiness.
A Frankfort letter states that Mr. Fox Strangeways,
the English Minister to the German Diet, was to leave
Frankfort for six months, but that he was not to be re-
placed, his absence being partly for the purpose of his
receiving new instructions concerning the negotiations
to be opened with the German Customs Union.
Letters from Constantinople of the 17th ult. state that
full satisfaction will be given to the British Consul at
Trebizond for the insult offered him by the Pacha.
Other measures were about being taken by Sir Stratford
Canning, in conjunction with the Ambassadors of France
and Russia, to obtain redress and compensation for the
cruelty inflicted on a Greek at Trebizond.
Dr. Wolff was on his way from Teheran to Erzeroum,
according to the latest accounts.
Mr. John Kerr, her Majesty's Consul at Adrianople,
died on the 7th of December.
Letters from Athens, of the 20th ult., state that the
Chambers were still engaged in verifying the elections.
By a manceuvre the Deputies, partisans of Coletti, were
favoured and admitted in such numbers as to constitute
for him a vast majority. The Post office convention be-
tween France and Greece had been agreed to.
Very severe weather has prevailed on the coast of
Syria since the latter end of November, and a great
number of country vessels have been lost on the
coast. Fresh supplies of troops were constantly
pouring into Syria from Turkey, and Ali Pasha had
arrived at Jerusalem t• re-implace the former Pasha,
on account of his inactive conduct during the
late di.turbances, caused by Sheikh Aboo Ghosh,
in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The new system
of petty Christian governors, under the Druse Emeer in
the Lebanon, is being carried into operation, but it is
not expected that much good will be derived from it.
The old Turkish coinage lately called in by the Govern-
ment is again perfectly current in every town in Syria.
The ships of war lying at Beyrout on the 11th ult., were
two Turkish steamers and a frigate, an Austrian and a
French corvette, without any English vessel.
Lady Hardinge and family arrived at Alexandria on
the 17th ult., in her Majesty's steamer Hec4s, Com-
mander Duffil.

M. Bourne's Postal Convention with the Nsha of
Eg) 0, ties been terminated as tar as that gentleman is
concerned, and it is to be sent to England by the
steamer Oriental to be ratified. The conditions are
not so satisfactory as expected. Although the par •
ticulars of the agreement have not been made
public it is believed that it is based on the same
principles as the one made with the French Government
for the India Mails proceeding through France, and that
Mehemet Ali will receive an amount of postage on the
mails passing through Egypt to and from India at the rate
of 6s. per lb. on letters, and ls. per lb. on newspapers.
The term is for five years. The mails will be conveyed
through the country by the Viceroy at his own expense,
and will be accompanied by an English messenger.
The Egyptian Transit Company is still in a state of
discomfiture, the real Directors not being yet
known. In the meantime, the Government continues
to take measures to make a monopoly of the transit
through Egypt. The British and several European
Consuls at Cairo have received instructions from the
Egyptian Government to prohibit travellers from cross-
ing the Desert between Cairo and Suez by their own
conveyances, as the weans of proceeding between those
two places are to be strictly confined to the Egyptian
Transit Company.
One of the Pacha's Nilo steamers, of fifty-horse
power, was lost a few days ago near Aboukir Bay, on
her way from Rosetta to Alexandria. The fault is
entirely ascribable to the captain, for not taking pre-
cautionary measures.
A considerable leak has formed itself in the dock of
Alexandria, which was opened with so much ceremony
last month, and the engineer will have much difficulty
in efficiently stopping it. His present intention is to
remove entirely the paving of the dock in the vici-
nity of the leak, and reconstruct it. Alexandria has
now been free from plague since the 10th of October;
one or two cases have occurred at Cairo during the past
aenth, and at Damietta an occasional case is reported.
A fire broke out at Ibrahim Pacha's sugar manufac-
tory at Cairo on the 13th ult., and property to a consi-
derable amount was destroyed.