The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-26 00:00:00

EASTERN NEWS.

CONSTA NTINOPLE, APRIL 7.—By an Imperial decree of the
6th inst., Nedj.b Pasha, Governor-General of Syria, was su-
perseded in his post by Ali Pasha of Bagdad, who was replaced
by Nedjib Pasha.
Mazloum Bey, former Member of the Grand Council of Jus-
tice, bad been accredited Capou•Kiaia, or agent of Mehemet
Ali at the Porte.
On the 2d, Sarni Pasha, the envoy of Mehemet Ali, had an
audience of the Sultan, who received him with much kindness
and distinction.

Letters from Canea, of the 28th ult., announce that Candia
continued to enjoy undisturbed tranquillity.
According to accounts from Nalunica of the 25th ult., the
Albanian troops intended for Syria were on the point of sailing
for that destination, Abbas Aga, who was appointed their
Commander-in-Chief, was to embark in a few days, at Volo,
with the first cols mu, consisting of '2,000 men, and his brother
was shortly to follow him with another corps of 1,000.
The accounts frcin Smyrna are dated the 9th instant. The
French squadron, under Rear-Admiral Lasuse, was to put to
sea in a few days, either for the coast of Syria or Greece,

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SUSPECTED MURDER.
MERTHYR, APRIL 2.4.—The manufacturing town of Merthyr
(in the Welch hills) was thrown into much excitement yester-
day afternoon, in consequence of the discovery of the body of
an old woman, of the name of Edwards, hid under a bedstead
in her own house, a wretched hovel, in Plymouth-street, near
the tramroad. It appears that the deceased, who was 70 or
73 years of age, resided as above, her son and his wife living
wiih her, and sleeping on the bed underneath which the body
was found. The old woman having been missed by her
neighbours for some days past, inquiries were made et her
son as to where she was, in answer to which the son stated,
that she had gone a few miles into the country. On his
leaving the house yesterday morning he told his wife that he
was goirg to Dowlais to get his pav, and particularly ordered
her not to look under the bed. After he had left, the wife,
excited by, curiosity to know what it was her husband was so
anxious to conceal from her, went to a neighbour's house, and
told two women of it, who agreed that the wife ought to see
what it was. The three women then returned to the house,
and raising the foot valiance of the bedstead, were horror-
struck at observing the body of the poor old woman under the
bed, partially wrapped up in a sheet, and quite dead. The
alarm having been given, the superintendent of police was sent
for, and from the information obtained by him suspicion pointed
instantly to the son as the murderer, and the more readily so
from the sort being the person who was two years since com-
mitted for the murder of a poor Irish girl, an unfortunate
woman of the town. In that case, the evidence nut being
deemed conclusive, Edwards was acquitted on his trial at the
assizes. Information was immediately given to the Coroner,
Mr. T. Davis, and at five o'clock last evening the Coroner
and a respectable Jury assembled ; having viewed the body, the
inquest was adjourned until six o'clock, Monday evening, in
order to allow time for the post mortem examination of the
body. The police are in active pursuit of Edwards, but hare
not as yet succeeded in capturing him.

Lieut.-Colonel Thompson, Commanding Royal
Engineers in the Dover district, having completed his tour of
home service, has been ordered to hold himself in readiness to
proceed to Corfu, to assume the command of the engineer de-
partment, in the lonian Islands. He will be succeeded in the
command of the Dover district by Lieut.-Colonel Wells.—
Dover Telegraph.

On the motion of Mr. Wilson Patten a return has
been made of the amount of fees and expenses paid by Mr.
Blake, the Member for Mayo, on his discharge from the cus-
tody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. It appears that the Hon. Mem-
ber had thought fit to visit his native isle, instead of attending
to his duty in the Cardigan Election Committee, whereupon a
messenger was despatched to Mayo, who brought over the run-
away Member, and Mr. Blake, on his discharge, had to pay
8/. 16s. Bd. in fees for being taken into custody, and 221. 18s.
for messengers' charges, in all 31/. 14s. Bd.