The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-29 00:00:00

ALEXANDRIA.

DEC. 6.—The Pacha is still at Mansourah, whither
Colonel Barnett proceeded some days since from Cairo,
without anything being known of the object of this
interview with his Highness. All the other Consuls-
General are at Alexandria. Nothing is yet known of
the further movements of the Pacha, who is naturally
seriously occupied with the fearful consequences of
the nearly total extinction of the race of cattle in this
country—a murrain frightful enough in itself, but
still more horribly promulgated by the reckless habits
of the natives and their Turkish masters. Healthy
cattle may be seen tethered at their food within 20
paces of the abominably fcetid unburied carcases of
their late companions, which may have died a day or
two previously, and having been thus dragged this
little distance frem the shed.; in which the yet healthy
cattle sleep and eat, are thus left to rot, after afford-
ing a surfeit to the Arab dogs, it being no person's
business to bury or destroy the bodies, which must,
in every probability, propagate the infection. After
seeing their race of cattle exterminated, their lands
sown without ploughing, and every prospect of a
famine in the land, they have at last thought it advis-
able to offer a premium for the importation of cattle fit
for agricultural purposes. 'The following proclama-
tion was issued to-day :
" His Highness the Pacha, in order to facilitate the
importation of cattle, authorises the undersigned to
inform the public that the same may be imported duty
free, until the 6th of December, 1843, empowering
him also to grant a premium of two dollars per head
on all oxen brought from Europe, fit for agricultural
or other labour. (Signed) "BOGHOS BEY."
Under these circumstances it is not to be expected
that the Government will be anxious to make sales at
present low prices in face of the prospect of short
crops next year ; and although last week they could
not sell wheat at 41 piastres, they yesterday made an
auction of wheat at 45 piastres, and beans at 32
piastres upset prices, which were of course retired
without a bid, tantamount, of course, to a continued
suspension of sales. One consequence of the mortality
of the cattle is the natural deficiency of butchers'
meat, connected with which is a story, just arrived
from Cairo; of course, like all Cairo stories, from the
very best authority ! worthy of a place in the " Thou-
sand and One Nights." On dit that a butcher has just
been hanged there for fattening up, and selling as
mutton, Arab dogs, of which a large stock, both alive
and slaughtered, were found upon his premises.
His Sardinian Majesty's steamer of war Tripoli,
arrived yesterday from Malta, bearer of a letter from
the Sardinian _Minister to his Excellency Boghos
Bey, moderately and quietly demanding satisfaction
fur the insult offered in Cairo to the Sardinian Con-
sulate there, and the violence Perpetrated on the Sar-
dinian Janissary. This most important dispatch must
await his Highness's reply -:rom Mansourah, and
there is little doubt that this communication will pro-
cure a proper inquiry into the real merits of the case ;
for, whatever may be the Pacha's love of justice, it is
equally true that, nine times out of ten, the whole
truth does not reach his ears, unless when an event
like this brings it forcibly to his attention. The
Tripoli was bearer of a dispatch from Malta, which
occasioned the immediate departure for Syria of the
Medea steamer. It is also worthy of notice that the
Pacha's steamer Hajji Baba, or, as now called, the
Reschid (or Rosetta), brought a dispatch, in conse-
quence of which the French brig of war Alcibiade
left on the 3d inst. for Syria, where evidently some-
thing of political importance is going on.
The Generoso brought news from Scio of the re-
cent discovery there by an English diving apparatus
of two immense pieces of brass ordnance, twenty-five
feet in length, and with two feet bore, but the metal
not sufficiently strong to have fired a solid shot of
that dimension. The Pacha has now, perhaps, the
same guns in existence—about thirteen feet in length,
and fifteen and a half inches in the bore, carrying for
five thousand yards a solid shot of nearly five hundred
pounds weight. They are to be mounted on battery
on the coast, and should they be found serviceable,
will prove a formidable weapon of defence.

LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S POLICY
The following letter from Bombay, though of an old
date, contains some interesting particulars respecting
affairs in India and Affghanistan :
" In my last I mentioned the regret I felt at being
obliged to quit the force at Caubul and return to
Bombay on sick certificate. What I then thought a
misfortune has in the end proved in all probability
my preservation, or I might have been numbered
with those who subsequently met their deaths by
treachery on their retreat from Caubul—a fearful
tragedy ; but it is passed, and as far as British valour
could effect, all has been repaired. But no thanks to
Ellenborough for it. It will, however, be a long
time, if ever, before our discomfiture will be got over
in the eyes of the Native Powers; and to aggravate
the matter, Lord Ellenbcrough's proclamation has
tended to lower us still more in their opinion ; for he
tells them we had no business ever to have entered
the country, or interfered with them— a pitiful cut at
Whig policy, but pregnant with ultimate injury to
the service, as our whole system here rests entirely
on opinion. Teach the natives only that Unity is
strength, and our power would soon crumble to pieces.
He also lets them into the secret that we are riot
powerful enough to retain our conquests in the
country, because it is 500 miles from our resources—
a pretty tale to tell the Native Powers. He orders
the troops to withdraw a second time, before the cap-
tives are released, and like a bully tells he Affghans they
may now choose their own Sovereign, which they will do
on our retreat without asking his leave or consent to
their choice, having been told by him, we cannot send
a force to coerce you, because it is 500 miles off.
What a pretty Governor-General! The best of the
joke is, he takes all the merit of our late successes to
himself, whereas, if Pollock and Co. had withdrawn,
when ordered, we should never have seen Caubul or
Ghuznee again ; and as for the poor captives, both
Europeans and natives, they might, for all
he cared, have been left in captivity. Not
a company, troop, or any supplies have entered
the country but what was, previously to his arrival,
ordered by Lord Auckland. So much for the Tory
boaster. Pollock, since the second order to withdraw,
has taken and knocked about their ears the two
strongholds of Istalif and Chareekar, and recovered
in theal, not only the guns and other plundered pro-
perty, muskets, drums, colours, &c., but taken pri-
soners some families belonging to chiefs of the highest
rank. These, I hear, he intends to hold in bondage
till Akbar Khan is delivered up. The battle of
Te€zan, also, caused our captives to be restored.
" A native brought me, a few days ago, a copy of the
Governor-General's pi oclamation, and asked me the
meaning of the words Conservative policy, as he
could not understand them. I told him it was to
preserve things as they were. "Then,' says he, why
don't you keep Affghanistan ; or, if you quit the
country, why don't you make them pay a yearly
tribute as an acknowledgment of subjection,
as Runjeet Singh did the Cashmiriars? I suppose
now, (be added,) as Lord Ellenborough in this pro-
clamation says you ought not to have gone there,
or interfered with them, that he will of course relea e
Dost Mahomed, and give him twenty lacs of vagodas
as an indemnification for his urjust captivity and
knocking his forts to pieces.' I advised him to see
his Lordship on the subject. It is nevertheless a
pretty general opinion amongst the natives, that his
Lordship ought so to do to be consistent, and cer-
tainly, as he says we had no business to enter the
country or interfere in their concerns, I cannot see
on what principle of equity or justice he can any
longer detain in captivity Dost Mahomed.
" On the 14th his Lordship issued another procla-
mation on the strength of' the peace with China.
Here again is nothing but vain boasting, and
another sly cut at the Whigs. He says in it—
' Two months after the arrival of reinforcements from
England and India, and the troops being ordered (of
course by himself) to the true point of attack, has
compelled the Emperor to submit to all her Majesty's
just demands.'
"In the first place before his arrival here the attack
was not only directed, but had actually
.long com-
menced at this true point ; and secondly, since his ar-
rival not a man from India has joined General Gough
but-what was previously ordered by Lord Auckland, and
not one of the regiments from England had, when the
peace was signed, joined Gough's force, but the Em-
peror has been compelled to submit to all our just
demands. Bravo, Conservative Ellenborougb! 'Yet
this is the same individual who in Parliament was
most loud in condemning the Whig policy of the war,
who declared over and over again it was a most
unjust and unholy war, an opium war,
&c., and prognosticated all sorts of reverses ; but now
our just demands are complied with ! How wonder-
fully office opens a man's eyes. Depend upon it, if
the-Tories had been in office, there would have been
no China war, because it was 500 miles from our re-
sources. So the Chinese might have continued to in-
sult us with impunity, instead of, as now, paying the
piper and submitting to our just demands.
" It is currently reported that the gates taken from
the tomb or rather temple of Sacunauth, at Ghuznee,
are intended to adorn the new House of Lords as a
memorial of the prowess of the Conservative Lord
Ellenborough in A ffghanistan. Depend upon it, ere
long, you will hear of some strange freaks of this im-
becile Governor, if not speedily recalled. Both civil
and military would heartily rejoice to see him safe
over the surf.
" Bombay, Oct. 28, 1842."

The Marquis of Douglas arrived at the Duke of
Hamilton's, in Portman-square, on Sunday, from
Mannheim, in the Grand Ducy of Baden. 'We hear
that his Lordship's marriage to her Serene Highness
the Princess Mary Amelia Elizabeth Caroline of
Baden, the fair and accomplished neice of the reigning
Grand Duke, will be solemnised in Germany, where
the illustrious fiancee, who is one of the most distin
guished beauties of the Continent, resides with btr.
mother, the Grand Duchess Dowager Stephanie.