The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-04 00:00:00

EGYPT.

AttXANnatA, Jt7LV 11.—. Among the.noveities of thot
last few days are two proclamations issued by the British'
Consulate and published in Italian in the Alexandt iu
Commercial Gazettes of the Ist inst.: and this date, of
which I annex translations. The first is founded on an
ordinance of the Local Government as far back as No-
vember, 1835, which, I believe, has never. until now.been
officially published by the British Consular, and certainly
during the last. seven years has been so .lute acted upon,
that it was unknown to or forgotten by every. one here.
Its revival is owing, probably, to its late application to
- some Maltese, who were punished apparently for not
having complied with a regulation of which they never
heard, or at least that reason is assigned as one of the
motives for a very harsh sentence against them ; an-
other being that other Maltese have latterly disturbed
the public , peace, and the parties alluded to are thus
made to pay for the sins of flier countrymen, a distinetion
which I presume would not be recognised in an English
tribunal, which would only judge the case before it, with.
out reference to the country of the. offender, or to the
fault of .v) hich his countrymen mi,,ht have been guilty!
It was only the other day we had an instance of a
similar stretch of authority, in the cafe of an English-
man, who, for abusing a man fur allowing his son to
destroy and steal the plants from his garden, the person
alluded to bung on other grounds confessedly obnoxious
t.) the British Consul, was obliged to find sureties in the
sum of. 1001. to keep the peace, and obliged also to make
a degrading apolrgy to the Austrian Consul-General,
because the man he abused was in the Consul's employ ;
while only a few days. afterwards another Englishman,
who more fortunately basked in the sunshine-of consular
favour, for beating a man, on less provocation, was ac-
quitted on payment of-the fees of Court. Both instances
without any form of trial, but in the first case many of
the party's friends remonstrated on the subject, and were
told by Cdlonel Barnett that he should either execute,
the sentence or have the country in 24 hours.
The India steamer arrived at Suez on the 25th ult.,
without, of course, by several days so late news from
Calcutta as we received by the last Overland Mail. By
this time she will have called . again for Calcutta, being
expected to leave about the 4th inst. Selim Pacha,
Commander-in-Chief of the Paella's army, died four
days ago from a coup de soh and was buried here with
military honours.
The Cyclops steamer is cruising off the port under
,_canvass only. The commercial news of the last ten days
is of little interest. The cotton offered by the Govern-
ment for sale at 84 dolls. has not found purchasers, and
an auction sale is advertised for the day after to-morrow,
of 10,000 c., as also-Of linseed and sessainum seed. The
Government has yet to consign 40,000 e. cotton sold at the
last four auctions, of which the want of' water prevents
the transport to Alexandria. The old crops of grain are
all disposed of, atid another month will probably bring
the new- crops to market. British shipping is much
wanted, and freights will rule high. There is not adis-
engaged English vessel in port. , There are great com-
plaints from all the commercial agents dispatched into
the interior to effect purchases of produce, and they re-
port thd country one entire chiflik,and that they can buy
nothing.... • Said Pacha is daily expected here. Ibrahim
Pacha is in Cairo at present.
" We, John Lawrence Stoddart, her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Consul 'in Alexandria, in Egypt,
"Instigated by the considerations on which were based
the regulations of his Highness the Pacha of Egypt, in
date of 9th of November, 1835, decree as follows

" 1. That any individual British subject who shall
come to Egypt, with the intention of establiShing him-
self, shall proVe during the first day •of his arrival his
means of subsistence, and present to his Consulate a
guarantee among the respectable inhabitants of the
country, who shall answer fur the integrity of his moral
conduct.

"2. Every individual, already established in Egypt,
shall fulfil the prescribed conditions of the preceding
article.

" 3. Any captain, who shall have brought passengers
incapable of procuring.the prescribed qualifications, shall
be obliged to take them back to Europe at his own risk
and peril. (Signed) " J. L. STODDART.

" -Alexandria., jtinc-30, 1842."
" On hAalf of the British Consulate in Alexandria,
the Maltese subjects of her Britannic Majesty and the
lonian subjects resident in this country, are desired to
present themselves at this office, .to inscriLe their names
in the register of thin office, and that within the period
of the month of July, betneen the hours of nine A.M..and
two P.M., and half-past four o'clock. This is also made
known, that those who do not conform to the above,
must ascribe to themselves all the consequences which
may result therefrom.
(Signed) "G. CHASSEAUD, Vice-Consul.
" Alexandria, 30th June, 1842."

DR. REID'S CONCLUDING LEC-
TURE.

ON THE VENTILATION' OF SHIPS AND

STEAM-BOAT 8:

Dr. Reid delivered the concluding lecture of this
course, which was corninented on the Oth of March
last, at Exeter-hall, on Wednesday'evening.
Keep-
ing before the view of his audience the grand princi-
ple of ventilation, that of an exit being invariably
required for impure or used air Hs well as an en-
trance for the pure, he proceeded to show that
ships, steam-boats, and- transports, owing to their
necessary construction, were deficient in this most
absolute demand. A ship, as diagrams of the lower
deck demonstrated, had no exit for its once-admitted
air, and the entire hold of the vessel below the water-
line, was exactly in the same position. On shore,
the only. buildings-similarly situated were cellars—
those subterranean cavities in which nothing of human
shape ought ever to dwell, but the habitation of man
on the ocean was remedilessly so. It was a
this cause—that of sailors sleeping close-packed in
their . hammocks on the second deck at those seasons,
especially when the untowardness of the atmosphere
excluded the ports from being open—that the lecturer
attributed that intense perspiration and perpetually
febrile state of body to which the sailor
was nightly subjected, which often produced
virulent fevers among the crews, and invariably
was the cause of that premature old age which
visited all classes of mariners. Various methods
for the due ventilations of vessels were then dilated
upon by Dr. Reid, and the uses of those ventilative in-
struments known as the carbonometer, the screw, and
the fanner, practically illustrated.
Dr. Reid has, we believe, been now engaged up-
wards of twelve years in furthering the particular
branch of scientific education which he professes,
among the youth and children of the day. At Edin-
burgh, in the schools of art, Heriot's Hospital, and
other places in that locale—at Dublin--at Manchester,
and lastly in London, in various rooms, schools, and
institutions, and finally at Exeter Hall, he. has ad-
vocated the importance of the general introduc-
tion of the elementary lessons of science as a
means of improving health, and widening that know-
ledge, which it is incumbent on every man to
know as regards the materials, uses, and adapta•
tion of those instruments and purposes -which 'oc-
cupy himself, in common with the great mass of
mankind, either in agriculture, architecture, raedi-
eine) engineerin6e., manufactures, or that round of mul-
tifarious circumstance which encircles every-
, dual in his daily action, movement, and mode of life.
Throughout that period, and in all those places, expe-
rience has, we fully believe, led him to find his system
productive of the utmost practical good, a fact which
every mind will be ready to confirm which has deli-
vered itself up with ordinary attention to the series
just concluded. The course has been lucid and simple
in the extreme—the eiperiments illustrative of the
highest truths and chemical facts have all been such as
could be performed with a few slips of glazier's glass, a
phial or two of acid and alkali, with a small quantity
of chemical preparations—and the elementary truths
so ably and familiarly explained by Dr. Reid, as to
leave nothing further to be desired. Dr. Reid's in-
crease of schools and pupils cannot, from th,s, import •
Luxe of this branch of education or from the excellent
facility with which he conveys it, be larger than he
deserves. .

FASIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, in Bolgrave.square,
from a Continental tour ; the Earl of Aberdeen, at Argyll
House, accompanied by Lord Claude Hamilton, froth a visit to
the Marquis and Marehionese of Abettorn, at the Priory,
Stanmore ; the Earl and Countess of Jersey. in Berkeley..
Square, ocomparded by Lady Clementina Villiers, from visit-
ing the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, at Mount Pena,
Walton-on-Thames ; Count Ceaarovvith, at Alivairt's Hotel,
from a tour of visits ; Mr. and Mrs. R. Brinsley Sheridans gt
ditto, from their seat in Dorsetshire ; the Bet% AD. and Mrs:
Lilleson, at Marshall Thompsetes Hotel ; Lieutenant Allevne,
at ditto; Mr. and Aire, W. Farrer, at Batt's Hotel, from
Naples.

Misses Hood, DEPARTURE S%
His Grace the Archbishop u( Cariterbitry-, frenn Lambeth
Palace, for Eseex ; Lord and Lady Bridport,. and Hoebill-eird
from Wimpok-street, I.o°l' Cricket Lodge, near
Chard; Lord and Lady Wrasley and family, from Arlington-
street, for Bruckleshy Park, Lincolnshire ; Lord and Lady
Colville, from Portland-place, for a tour in %Man,
and Lady Elizabeth Bulteel, front tit-MBA-street, for their
seat in Devonshire; Sir George Clerk, Bart., M.P., from
Cavendish-square, for Scotland; Sir John Beckett, Bart., Brent
Stratford-place, on a tour; the Earl of Roseherry, from Plc_
cadilly, for his seat in Scotland; the Duke de Staekpole and
family, for his Peat in Westmoreland ; Lord and Lady Stanley
(of Alderley ) and family, from Dover-street, for Aldertey
Park, near Knutsford, Cheshire; Dowager Lady De Clifford,
froni Carlton House-terrace, for King's Weston, near Bristol;
the Earl of Selkirk, from Richmond-terrace, for St. Mary's
Isle, Kireudbright ; Colonel and Lady Harriet Lane, for their
seat in Yorkshire ; Lady Caroline Thynne, for Scotland ' . Lady
and Miss Trotter, from Grosvenor-square, for Brighton ;
Colonel and Mrs. Colston, from their house in P-erkeley-street,
for Malvern Wells, Worcestershire; Lieutenant-Colonel and
Mrs. Dunn, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, for Hungerford ;
the Bev. Mr. and Miss Drake, from ditto, for Somerset ; H.
Tuckfield, Esq., and Mrs. Tuckfield, from ditto, for Devon;
Lady King, from ditto, for Winkfielcl; Campbell, Esq., from
ditto; the Hon. Mr. Petre, from ditto ; H. Collingwood, Esq.,
and the Misses Collingsvod, front ditto.

The Judicial COmmittee of the. Privy Council meet
on Monday next, to give several. judgments, after which
their Lordships adjourn until the close of November
Term.

Lady Peel and family left town yesterday afternoon
at three o'clock, and proceeded to lirayten Manor, Staf-
fordshire, for the season.

There was not a single cdmmittee of the House Of
Commons, either private, or public, sitting to-day-.•
HOW TO CARVE MUTTON.—" Shall I cut this loin
of mutton saddlewise 2" said a gentleman. "No," said
one of his guests, "cut it bridlewise, 54 then I may
chance to get a bit in my mouth."