The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-27 00:00:00

EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, JUNII 6.—The only commercial novelty
dui h., the last ten drys has been the sale by public auction, by
the Government, of 10,01'0 crows cotton, on the 30th ult., at
Pad. per crore, or about bid. per pound, bought by the agents
who were e'redi, ors of the Government; while from the present
want of water in the ettelq•and lowness' of the Nile, this cotton
will not be deliverablefOr six, or eight weeks to come. Not-
withstanding the readiness' with which all parties here pur-
chased for cash the sessamum seed sold last month, deliverable
in December next, no more, has been put up for sale, and the
Treasury being thus kept without money, no measures can be
adopted to }my the whole or any part of the heavy arrears due
to the trote.s and all persons in the employ of the Government,
and several acts of mutiny, theft, and insubordination have
lately been the result of this abominable want of all system in
the Goverrment Financial Department.
The 'ridiculous tariff of Constantinople, for Custom-house
duties, so very inapplicable to this cotintry, has at length given
way to a more equitable mode of collecting these duties, more
in accordance with the spirit of the treaty, which evidently
intended that the import and export duties should be really ad
valorem 5 per cent. and 12 per cent., and not nearly double
these per-centages.
Nothing of any further political interest has occurred since
my last. Cases of plague still continue to be reported, a few
daily ; but otherwise the mortality of this town is below its
usual average.
A letter from Alexandria, June 6, in the Malta Times,
says :—" The Pacha, within the last ten days, gave orders that
hi; employes might receive the 25 months' pay due to them
either in grain, aquaritee, wine, or honey ; but on representa-
tion being made by the sycophants at Court, that in paying
them in grain he was causing great loss to the merchants who
lately brought such a large quantity of commestibili against
Government assignments, he instantly gave orders that they
might have as much aquavits' as they liked, at about 300 per
cent. above the market price, but that he could not allow them
to have grain, as in so doing he would be acting dishonourably
to the merchants. The Pacha is said to be in a very bad hu-
mour, owing to the disorganised state of his finances. An
Arab merchant was murdered a few days ago by some sailors
of the Pacha. The murderers have not been discovered.
'I hey stripped him of everything he had upon his person.
Colonel Barnett is beginning to put in order some of his pug-
nacious subjects, by informing them that unless they mend
the it ways and manners he will be forced to order them out of
the country. The Colonel dined with the Pacha on the 2d
inst. The following correspondence has taken place between
Col. Barnett, the English Consul-General and Boghos Bey :-
6' COLONEL BARNETT To BOGHOS BET.
" Alexandria, 24th May.
" Conformably to the wish expressed by the Pacha, the un-
dersigned has the honour to submit to his Excellency Boghos
Bey the arrangement on which he had the honour of convers-
ing this morning. The undersigned proposes that the duties
on imports and exports may be executed ad valorem, accord-
ing to the declared value of merchandise, and of the produce of
Egypt. hat in case the officers of the Custom-house should
have reason to suspect that the real value of an article, what-
ever it may be, exceeds the declared value by the merchants,
they may have the powers of demanding that the duty be paid
en nature. By this one arrangement one will facilitate the
execution of duties, and obviate, at the same time, difficulties
which might arise in fixing a just value between the money of
Constantinople and that of Egypt. Tne undersigned has
already made known his intention of proposing this arrarge-
ment of his Highness to the Austrian Consul- General, and to
the Vice-General of the French Consulate, for their considera-
tion, and the gentlemen approved perfectly of the plan that he
has just new exposed to E. H. Hoghos Bey, as a simple and
equitable means of avoiding the inconveniences which are pre-
sented in the ached state of thirgt.
( signed)

. C. J. BARNETT...

130GlIOS BEY TO COLONEL BARNETT.
" Alexandria, May 26. •
" The undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of the note that Colonel Barnett, her Britannic Majesty's
Consul-General, has addressed to him, under date of yester-
terday, on the subject of the arrangement to take place on the
manner of le7ing the duties of imports and exports. His
Highness the N iceroy has had laid before him a translation of
the note you sent, and has just anthoriaM the undersigned to
signify to Colonel Barnett, that the arrangement in question
has met his full approbation, and that orders have been given
to that effect to the Director of the Custom-house, to declare
ti him, at the same time, that the undersigned in stating in
his note of the 1 Ith instant, that the commerce of the next cot-
ton crop will be flee, so that everylody from that time is free
to make purchases of it in every part of Egypt.
(Signed) " BOG HOS JOUSSOFF."
" But as it results on another consideration, from the decla-
ration made by the undersigned, the 266:instant, that the
Viceroy has renounced, to date from the said day, to preserve
the monopoly, exclusive of the sale and purchase of cotton,
and that by the fart of these recent dispositions, the treaty of
IS2B is now in full execution, and the Ditector of the Cus-
tom-house has been authorised to exact the supplementary
duty of 2 per cent. on all the merchandise imported into
Egypt, from the 26th May, the undersigned is pleased to be-
lieve that the measures, which have been just exposed, will
completely satisfy the commerce, and will, without doubt, in
their adoption, see the definite solution of the question of Cus-
tom-house duties.

(Signed) . " BOGHOS JOSSOUFF."
Circular addressed to the Consuls-General of Alexandria, by
H. E. Boghos Joussouff Bey; dated 31st May:—
" The undersigned has received the order to make the fol-
lowing communication to the Consuls-General :—Circum-
stances having prevented cotton from being comprised in the
number of the products of the Egyptian sale, the monopoly of
which had been abandoned by the Government, under date of
the 23d of November, 1841, and the execution of the treaty re-
mainingfrom this account incomplete ; now some difficulties
have been raised to the additional duty of two per cent. by the
Egyptian Custom.house, the imports of which are affected by
this treaty. In order to put an end to contestations of this
nature, the Viceroy has ordered the director of the Custom-
hruse not to require the payment of the supplementary duty
of two per cent., for merchandise imported from Nov. 23, 1841,
to May 26, 1842."
The following, dated May 31, has been addressed to the
British merchants of Alexandria:—

I am instructed by her Brttarinic Majesty's Consul-
General to inform you that his Highness the Pacha has acceded
to his proposition that the import and export duties be for the
future levied upon valuation of merchandise, and in Fgyptian
currency, without. reference to the tariff of 1839.
I am directed also to inform you that the Pacha having
now declared free the trale in cotton, the five per cent. duty
upon the imports loco:nes payable from the 26th inst., but
that three per cent. duty is to be paid for goods passed during
the interval between the 33d November of last year and the
2bth day of this month. —I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) "J. L. STODDART."