The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-22 00:00:00

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Accounts from Alexandria, of the 9th inst., state that
Mehemet Ali had been residing at Cairo for some weeks past,
and intended in a few days proceeding on a visit to the lowet
provinces, and thence tb Alexandria for the summer. On
the evening or the 3d it blew a terrific gale of wind at that
place.
Reports from Syria had been received of the plague having
broken out at Jerusalem, and that the number of deaths is
40 a day.
The following Is the distribution of the British vessels of
war In the Mediterranean :—At Malta—The Formidable 84,
bearing the flag of Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, the Commander-
in-Chief ; Ceylon 12, receiving-ship, bearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, second in command, and super-
intendent of Malta dock-yard; Amazon 26, Snake 16, Locust
war,steatter, Beacon and Bonetta surveying vessels. At Gib-
raltar, the Scout 18, Flamer and Medea war- steamers. On her
way from Malta to Barcelona, the Devastation war-steamer.
At Corfu, the Orestes !8. At the Picas of Athens—the
Tyne 28, and Geyser war-steamer. At Smyrna—L'Aigle
24. At. Constantinople—the Virago and Hecla war-steamers;
and at I3eyrout the Warspite 50.
The Courrier du Havre mentions that the French Govern-
ment intended to seize on the Sooloo Islands, situate be-
tween B6rneo and Mindanao, and to form in them an esta-
blishment similar to that of the Marquesas and Otaheite.
Lieutenant-General Count Gazan, Peer of France, died
last week at Grasse, in the Var.
The Paris journal, L'Univ,rse, boasts that the Society of
the Jesuits is, at the present moment, more flourishing than
at any former period, and that their number throughout
Europe, and especially in France, has increased within the
last year to an extraordinary extent. From a census taken
in March last, there were upwards of a thousand more Je-
suits in France, than at the corresponding period of the pre-
ceding year.
The programme for the public entertainments in celebra-
tion of the King's fete, on the Ist of May, have been approved
of by the Minister of the Interior. They are precisely the
same as those of last year.

The Gazette des Iribunavx states that a prosecution is
contemplated against the member of the Chamber of Peers
and the Deputy who lately fought a duel, and that permission
to this effect, as regards the Deputy, will probably be applied
for to the Chamber of Deputies, as without that no legal pro-
ceedings can be taken.
The Minister of Public Instruction, in compliance with the
recommendation of M. Charles Ledru, the Advocate, has
nominated the nephew of the late M. Armand Carrel to a
bursarship at the college of Henry IV.
The Sad of Marseilles states that the Duke and Duchess
of Silerno, parents of the Duchess d'Aumale, are expected to
arrive there shortly, on their way to Paris, accompanied by
the Count de Trapani, brother of the King of Naples.

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At the Brentford sessions, George Mathews, a young man,
was fully committed to take his trial on five charges of for •
gory. Ile had forged the names of several tradesmen of
Erentford, and obtained sums varying from 5/. to Cl. at
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., bankers, Charing-cross.
Thomas Marrs, the late secretary of a benefit society at
Bermondsey, was charged at Southwark Police-court, with,
breaking open the box containing a portion of the society's
funds,- with which he absconded. The prisoner denied the
charge, and in accounting for his sudden flight to Ireland
immediately after the robbery, he said that the steuards
lent him some of the funds of the society, and that being
unable to refund the same On the day he expected, he went
away, not wishing to meet the members of the society until
he was in a situation to repay the money.--He was remanded.
At Marylebone, John Thomas Potter, an omnibus driver,
in the employ of Mr. Brewer, proprietor of a Bayswater
omnibus. was charged by Alfred Norton, another omnibus
proprietor, upon two summonses, esch of diem for the offence
of furious driving. Both cases were proved, and the defendant
was in one case tined 40s. and in the other 20s.

At Lambeth Mr. Benjamin Myers. a tailor, carrying on
business at No. 72. Oxford-street. was charged before Mr.
Henry with furious driving, and running over George Jones,
a child of four years of age, by which the latter was so
seriously ii.jured that its life is at present in great danger.
From the evidence it appeared, that on Sunday afternoon,
about four o'clock, the prisoner, while driving along the New
Cut in a gig at a furious rate, knocked down the child, who
received serious injuries by the horse trampling upon him.
The prisoner said be should have pulled up the moment the
accident happened, but the fact was that his horse became
so alarmed at the noise made by the persons present, that he
became quite unmanageable. He was remanded for a week,
but at the same time admitted to bail fur his appearance on
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