The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-17 00:00:00

a very distressing manner, more than thirty thousand
are already dead. His Highness, on his journey to
Cairo, intends to remain on the Delta to make a per-
sonal investigation into the cause of such a mortality.
Before his departure, he ordered that the sale of pulse
should be suspended, that Egypt may not remain
without food in case, should the mortality continue
amongst the cattle, it may turn out to be impossible to
cultivate the land this year.

This Government has ordered that all goods which
shall be imported on account of Russian subjects shall
pay the same duties as any other nation. Russian
subjects, previously, had a privilege much to the pre-
judice of other nations.

The British Consul here has ordered the proprietors
of coffee and liquor shops to shut them up at 11 P.M.
Such an order, given in the month of Ramazan, a
period during which the sale is only in the course of
the night, in consequence of the Arabs neither eating
nor drinking during the day, will be an incalculable
injury to the,proprietors.
We cannot imagine what can have induced the
Consul to give any such order, not having heard that
there has been any complaint on the part of the local
Government against the occupiers of such shops, and
seeing that those of other subjects remain open all
night—now that such a difference should exist, to
the injury of the Maltese is too cruel a deed.
We hear from Cairo that the Nile has risen above
the standard, andinundated the village of Bolacco—
the damage is not exactly ascertained, it is thought it
will be found to amount to a considerable sum.

OCT. 25.—The French brig of war Surprise ar-
rived on the 23d at five r.ss., from Beyrout, and will,
in •a-few days, return again to that place.
Yesterday (24th) the French steamer Chameleon
quitted the port at four P.M, direct for Marseilles,
with dispatches relating to the occurrences, which we
give below; which have taken place in Syria. His
Excellency Said Pasha, who arrived on the 23d, paid
a visit to this steamer, and on leaving received a salute.
Ahmed Pacha, the rebel Capidan, has been se-
riously ill.
His Highness MehmetAli is at Kafer Mange, where
,be has been joined by R. Thnrburn, formerly British
) Consul in this city.
Colonel Barnett had no sooner received his dis-
patches from India, than he started for Cairo, to which
place he will be followed by M. de Kramer, the Rus-
sian Ambassador.

The India (a steamer from Calcutta) was expected
to arrive at Suez on the 23d or 25th instant.

SYRIA.

BETROUT, OCT. 19.—Our correspondent at Alex-
andria has kindly obliged us with the following news
from Beyrout, which he assures us may be relied on.
Our own letters from that country are only to the
Bth, and contain nothing which the public is not al-
ready acquainted with :
This country, says our letter, seems doomed to con-
stant change, and no reliance nor dependence can be
placed-on the calm which ever and anon shows itself.
Unless the Powers, who united to remove Mehemet
Ali and the old Emir Beschir from the seat of Go-
vernment, and in lieu thereof to place the Sultan, who
has never yet been able to govern it; take upon them-
selves to,quell the ferment which now agitates the
country, there will be no end to rapine or to bloodshed.
It is not the Christians alone who have taken up
arms on this occasion, but the Druses also. These two
sects, formerly at enmity together, have now united
in one common cause and formed a close alliance.

The Albanians have succeeded. in arousing all the
worst passions of the Syrian people, and on the 12th
instant they were attacked, as was the Turkish bri-
gade quartered at Tripoli. At Ehden, a place a little
above the town, a pitched battle was fought, and the
Druses and the Maronites beat off their enemies, with
a loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, of 500 men,
including many Arnauts.
The Turks, accompanied by the Albanians, are fe-
rocious-looking fellows, but showed the white feather
when brought to the point against the mountaineers,
hardy in every sense, and more than a match in the
art of war for their more northern rulers.

On the 17th instant a party of regular Turkish
troops on their way to this place from Damascus,
about fifty in number, were attacked at a Khan called
Ilussien by the Druses and beaten,, the Turks throw-
ing down their arms, and taking to a precipitate flight.
The whole population along the coast is actuated
but.by one resolutien—that of throwing off the yoke
of their new rulers and every preparation possible for
a coming struggle is. showing itself.
The 17prks are also preparing, but to the Syrians
,t hely effurts appear .fu tile.
The English and American families living in the
mountain, reached Beyrout with the greatest difficulty,
and fhat after having obtained the favour of the Druse
chiefs:

BARBARY.
TUNIS, OCT. 25.—A perfect calm note prevails,
there being nothing worth notice in Tunisian politics;
a case of ordinary occurrence here in autumn, owing
to the few arrivals
of maritime messengers. :Mean-
while, our arsenal has been for a long time, and is still,
shut up, although the motives are unknown.
At the opening of the Ramazan, the' .Pacha,_. our
Governor, promised leave to the most part ofhiStfoops
to repair to their respective homes, to pfirlfy them-
selves and spend those days in the bosom of their
families, and then return to their military duties.
This indulgence to the troops proved, hoWever, Very
prejudicial to, the poor travellers, inasmuch as, among
the soldiers, some are to be found who do not even
spare the life of a traveller for the few miserable coins
he may carry
.about him ; and of these horrible cases
the following is a recent instance
Last week, at about 40 miles S.E. from Tunis, as a
Tunisian Jew merchant was proceeding from Dalha
to Nebel on business, ten of these brave soldiers on
leave, who had left before him, seized and struck him
with a stick on his head, which made him fall on the
ground senseless, and after robbing him of 300 Tuni-
sian piastres, they left him there by the side of his
donkey- in agony. Two Bedouins passed by him
shortly after, who, finding him thus situated, placed
him on his donkey to convey him to his home, but the
unfortunate man expired on the road, and the two
merciful attendants had the mortification of witnessing
his death, after having, however, learned from his lips
who his assassins were.

To describe the heart-rending cries, mixed with a
most copious flood of tears, of his wife, nine tender
children, and all his countrymen, would be a narra-
tion too painful to the reader, which I therefore dis-
pense with ; but I cannot conclude without stating
that many most wicked natives are among the troops,
who are the very dregs of this licentious militia.
dolw:nhe,and pulse are daily falling
season promises a good crop.
and prices
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