The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-23 00:00:00

ALEXANDRIA.

JULY 10.—On the 30th of June the French war steamer
Gomer, having on board his Royal Highness the Duke de
Montpensier, arrived at this port from Algiers and Tunis, at
which place his Highness stopped to visit the chapel of St.
Louis. The ostensible object of the Prince in coming here is
to visit Mehemet Ali and Upper Egypt, but his Highness has
chosen the very worst season of the year for ascending the
Nile, as, besides the excessive heat, the river at present has
throughout its course the very unpicturesque appearance of a
dirty ditch between embankments 15 feet high.
During his stay at Alexandria the Prince resided at the
palace of Said Paella, called the Gabareh, and was the object
of the most assiduous attentions on the part of Mehemet Ali,
who had just received intelligence of the very gracious re-
ception recently given to his sons at Paris by Louis Philippe,
and therefore he appears to have been doubly anxious to re-
turn the co:npliyeent, by gratifying in every way the wish(
of the Duke de Moutpeusier.

The Pacha called on the Prince the day of his arrival
and on the morrow the Prince returned the visit, and was
r,ceived by Mehemet Ali at his palace at Ras El Teen with
avery mark of respect, the Viceroy corning out as far as the
ante-chamber to meet him. It was noticed that in the
courso of their conversation the Pacha expressed a wish
that the Prince should visit and give his opinion on the ex-
cis:vc line of forthications that. are being erected round
the town -by 1;,.y, French Colonel of Engineers.
On the 2ii the Prilice dined viith the Viceroy at his
Palace, where a most sumptuous repast, in the Euro-
pears style, was served ; and on the following day the
Princ2 entertained the several Consuls-General resi-
dent here. The Duke de Montpensier started for Cairo
and Upper Egypt on thi• 7th, in one of the Pacha's steamers,
accompanied by Said Pacha, the French Consul, and several
of Mehemet Ali's sarvants, who are to facilitate the Prince's
journey by every means in their power.
We have bad no recent intelligence from Syria, but some
English travellers who have arrived here by the desert de.-
he that country as being in a very disturbed state, and
they had been under considerable apprehensions from the
Druses, who were roving in quest of plunder and intent upon
pillaging all travellers who came N‘ t hin their reach.. The
accounts brought by these travellers are necessarily very
imPerfect, as all communication in the country had been,
stopp'ed, and they were not aware of the actual state of things.

The Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway
(Haoings, Rye, and Ashford Extension) Bill was read a third
time and passed, in the House of Commons, on Monday night.
SUNDEni.AND ELECTION. The Morning Post,
which may be considered a good authority on such a subject, an.
nounces that Mr. Joseph John Wright has declined being put in
nomination for Sunderland, and that the Conservatives do not in-
tend proposing any other candidate. The contest will, therefore,
be between Mr. Bagshaw and Colonel Thompson.
THE GREAT BRITAIN ST;ZAM-SHlP.—This magni-
ficent vessel, since her arrival at Liverpool, has been ♦isited by
upwards of twenty-five thousand persons. On Saturday week the
number was eleven thousand, and last week, though she was not
on view on one of the days, that number was ncreased by about
fourteen thousand. The vessel will have to b • got ready for her
first Transatlantic trip by Saturday.—Liverpool
PRESENT TO HER NAJESTY.—During the last few
days a number of distinguished persons have been attracted to the
London Docks, for the purpose of viewing the four thorough-bred
Arabian horses which have just arrived in this country per the
Caroline, being a present from the Imaum of Muscat to her
Majesty the Queen. The animals, notwithstanding the wildness
peculiar to their breed, have since their arrival in the docks exhi-
bited a wonderful degree of docility. They were accompanied
from Muscat by grooms in the service of the Imaum. Yesterday
the group were removed from the docks by four of the royal ser-
vants to the mews adjoining Buckingham Palace, Pimlico. We
believe that a similar present was made from Muscat tQ his
Majesty William the Fourth.