The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-17 00:00:00

SUIVr ARV OF NEWS

AND

idublic Opinion.

" Who runs may rcad."

FO7ZEIGN.

A letter from Alexandria of March 29 states that Mehemet
Ali still remained at Cairo, and that Ibrahim Pacha was
seriously ill. The result of the railway survey (from Cairo
to Suez) has been made public, and was deemed satisfactory.
The cost for the eighty-eight miles is estimated at 320,0001.
The surplus profit on the working is calculated at 27,500/.
per annum, and the general opinion was, the Padre would
at once carry out the work. There was a visible improve-
•ment in trade generally, but especially the export trade.
In the French Chamber of Deputies the proposition of M.
Larllandien fur putting an end to duelling was read, and the
26th fixed for taking it into consideration.
According to the records kept at the Paris Royal Observa-
tory, and the daily observations made during the last month,
it has been the severest March since the commencement of
the present century. On the 14th the thermometer was
8 deg. below zero Centigrade, 16 Fahrenheit, and the general
average of the temperature was 1 3-10 C. below zero, 30 Fah.
During twenty days the wind blew from the north.
The first French mackerel-boat of the present season
came into Fecal:TT on the 10th with about 30,000'fish, and
on the following day thirteen other boats came in, with about
the same quantity, making altogether a catch of about
500,000 fish, which are estimated as bringing nearly 100,000 f.
to the fishermen.

A journal having announced 212 as the number of officers
of the National Guard who have signed the petition against
the armament of the fortifications, the Commerce says :
" The officers who have affixed their signatures with their
rank annexed are much more numerous, as will be seen by
the petitions when presented to the Chamber; but all the
names have not., yet been published. The non-commissioned
officers are now signing."
About the beginning of the year a duel took place at Can-
nes between Captain L., of the Russian service, and ex-Cap-
tain de R., of the African Chasseurs, in which the latter was
wounded in the shoulder. The Tribunal de Premiere Instance
of Grasse condemned M. L., in default, to imprisonment for
six months, and his two seconds, who appeared and pleaded,
'to the same punishment for 15 days. On an appeal to the
Cour Royale of Draguignan, the sentence upon Captain L.
was fully confirmed, but that upon the two seconds was com-
muted into a fine of 500 f. each. Both these Courts admitted
that every duel was not absolutely an attempt to murder, but
that the result of the meeting, and the intentions of each of
the parties, are to be taken into consideration, in order to
ascertain whether both or either of the parties went out with
a decided purpose of killing his adversary.
A letter from Smyrna, of March 29, says :—" A second
case of plague, which proved fatal, has occurred among the
pilgrims from Beyrout. The population, however, need not
be alarmed, as the strictest precaution is taken at the Laza.
ret, as also among those recently arrived. Instead of placing
here travellers bound for Constantinople, they will have, by

the order of the iutendent, to take their qUarantine at the
Dardanelles."
Mustapha Bey, a pupil of the Egyptian School at Paris,
died two days ago from the consequences of an accident
which happened to him while riding on Sunday, the 6th inst.
He was the son of Kourchid Pacha, a brave old General of the
Vice-Roy, and, having been two years in Paris, spoke and
wrote the French language with remarkable correctness.
Mehemet Ali's son and his two grandsons, who are in the
school, attended the deceased constantly throughout his

illness.
The Patrie states that a letter has been received from a
gentleman attached to the embassy to China, which removes
all doubt of M. Maynard having been murdered by the
Malays. According to this letter Admiral Cecille has taken
vengeance on the offenders. The chief and a great number
of Malays are said to have been killed.