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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

LATEST NEWS FROM THE EAST.
(From the Morning Herald of Yesterday.
FAL3IOUTiI, DEC. 11.— The Oriental steam-ship, Capt.
)y, arrived this afternoon from the Mediterranean. Her
Ltes of sailing arc, Alexandria, Nov. 26 ; Malta, Dec. 1;

and Gibraltar, Dec. 6. The ft
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ion of her Majesty's ships
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Charlotte, Belerophon, Edinbu

Zebra, and Vesuvius, steamer
Powerful, Vanguard
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Daphne,

, Ariadne (Mr

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Revenge,, _
knderson, her master, at Lazaretto, in Malta);
, Hastings, Cyclops, Gorgon, Hecate, Confian,-
steam•tender ; the Implacable was on her way to Syria and
Malta. At Sidon, the Thunderer ; at Scandaroon, the Ma-
gicienne and Benbow ; at Acre, the Pique and Wasp ; the
Castor on her voyage to Malta, and the Calcutta, bound to
Beyrout ; the Scorpion was passed off Cape de Gatt for the
coast of Spain.

the Asia

The Jasseur having been refitted had left Gibraltar on a
cruise, on the 7th instant.

The Chapman, a Swedish frigate, was refitting at Gibral-

Passengers per Oriental:—From Alexandria (originally
Bombay) to England, Messrs. R. Manley, R. Taynton,
Gibbard, Allan, Pugh, and Varnham ; Captain Tolland, Dr.
and Mrs. Stokes, Major Macneil, Mrs. Bettington, Mrs.
Ogle, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Forbes, with some servants and
children. From Alexandria to Malta; Count Walewsky, Mrs.
and Miss Mariotti, Messrs. Valbuzane and Langlais (origin-
ally from Bombay), Mr. Unwin. From Malta to England,
Lady Wallace, Mrs. and two Misses Dunlop, Dr. Bowe,
Baron Capellen, Mr. J. and Mrs. Strachan, Maudsley, and
Meesrs. Locke and Green.

The Oriental encountered a gale of contrary wind 60 miles
S.W. of Ushant, when she proved her wonderful power,
speed, and liveliness, to the astonishment of every nautical
person on board.

It is already known that this steamer was detained to bring
from Alexandria the despatches of Commodore Napier, of a
treaty of peace having been signed between Great Britain and
Egypt. The negotiation commenced on the 2-ith. Our in-
formant states "that after two or three puts off," the affair
was finally settled, to the commodore's satisfaction, at two
o'clock, on the 26th, when the despatches were immediately
drawn out. On the steamer's arrival at Alexandria, on the
18th, Lieutenant Tancock (who was in charge of the mails)
proceeded into the harbour with a flag'of truce, to ascertain
whether Mehemet Ali would permit him to land the mails,
and guarantee their safe conveyance across the country.
The reply is known, and what attention the Pacha paid to
their disembarkation, by sending one of his officers of state
to expedite the steamer's entering the harbour, to secure the
mails from molestation, and to promote their speedy trans-
mission. The steamer having taken a pilot on board, passed
up and anchored inside the lines of Turkish and Egyptian
fleets. On the 19th, Said Bey, Mehemet's youngest son,
with a considerable number of the chief officers of state, ad-
mirals, and others, paid visits on board the Orientai, and ex-
pressed themselves delighted with her capabilities.
It was the impression, from letters received at Bombay
from China, that the admiral purposed an immediate advance
on or towards Pekin. There is nothing new from Persia.
The accounts of the crops all over India are represented as
favourable.
(From the Private Correspondence of the Malta Times,

December 1)

ALEXANDRIA Nov. 16.—My Previous accounts of the
misgiving of Mehemet Ali, and the proceedings of the
French agents here, have in some degrre prepared you for
the disclosures this letter contains. The whole of the blood-
shed in Syria is owing to the malignant vanity and Satan
ambition of. M. Thiers. I can state as a positive fact that
Mehemet Ali rejected the terms of the treaty of July at the
express desire of M. Cochelet, acting under instructions
from the foreign minister of France. lam also positively
assured that about a fortnight ago Mehemet Ali was going
to throw himself on the four powers, when M. Cochelet, in
a two hours' conversation, dissuaded him from this step.
On the Bth, 10th, and 11th instant additional and strong
manifestations of the same tendency took place in public.
I entirely exonerate M. Cochelet personally from anything
like imprudence or double treaty. He has been in a most
false position, and the antagonist principles personated at
Paris by the King and M. Thiers, find their analogous re-
presentatives at Alexandria, in M. Cochelet and Count
Walewsky. The former gentleman has all the chivalric pride
of an ancien officier de l'ordonnance de l'Empereur, but he
has by far too much perspicuity of judgment to be carried
away by the seductive unreal dreams of the republic and the
empire. M. Cochelet has seen that the historian of the re-
volution has read and wrote history to no purpose. That
he has dashed off with the vigour and brilliancy of a Paul
Veronese the most vivid scenes of that awful tragedy, but
that the moral it inculcates has been lost on the delineator;
the internal violence and foreign aggression go hand in hand ;
and that all the misfortunes of France have arisen from the
delusion that she could dictate to Europe.
M. Thiers, aware of M. Cochelet's moderation of charac-
ter, coaxed him with honours and dignities, and sent his
friend M. de Walewsky, ex-proprietor of the Messager des
Chambres, to keep him up to the scratch. Count Walewsky
talks much, writes mighty fine despatches, and-has, upon the
whole, more sense than his cousin Louis Napoleon at Bou-
logne. It is certainly a safer speculation to deal in dead
goose quills than in live eagles. Wisdom is the better part
of valour, talk breaks no bones, and if talk could have ac-
cotnplished the ends of his Excellency the Count Walewsky,
Sir Robert Stopford and Commodore Napier would have
been sent to Davy's locker long ago.

On the 7th inst. three peculiarly-shaped vessels belonging
to the Pope approached the port. The look-out men took
them for fire-ships, and sent a warning shot which compelled
them to take a position at some distance ; when the truth
was known they were sdmitted. The object of their visit is
to fetch the six oriental alabaster columns which Mehemet
Ali is presenting to the Pope for the grand church of St.
Paul's extra ?nitro, which was burned down some years ago.
This is certainly what nobody could have predicted of a
Mussulman. 7'empora mutantur et nos mutanntr ab
Amusingly enough, we are crusading in Syria for the legiti-
mate chief of Mussulmans ; and the successor of St. Peter is
adorning the church of St. Paul with gifts from an aspirant
to the Klalifat Shades of Saladin and Richard Cceur de
Lion. What say you to this?

The officers were presented on the Bth by M. Cochelet,
and when the audience terminated Mehemet Ali told him, in
the presence of all there assembled, that France was the cause
of the present disastrous state of his affairs. M. Cochelet
attempted to soothe him, but without effect; and Mehemet
Ali said aloud, while playing trick-track with Moharrew
Bey, "I wanted either all war or all peace. To please
France I kept in my fleet, and I have had neither the fair
chances of war nor the certain benefits of peace."
On the 9th the Euphrate arrived with the news of the fall
of Acre, and the Pacha's disappointment knew no bounds.
He immediately despatched a courier overland to recall Ibra-
him Pacha fron4 Syria, as well as the 6,000 men he had sent
from Cairo with the Druse Sheiks.

Count Walewsky immediately considered it his duty to visit
the old man twice a day to keep others away. On the 11th
Mehemet Ali told one of his most intimate and devoted Frank
friends that he had fully made up his mind, in spite of the
French, to throw himself into the arms of England, and
trust, in the first instance, to Sir R. Stopford's suspending
hostilities, and then to Lord Palmerston arranging with the
other three powers. This having come to Walewsky's ears.
he went to Artim Bey, and asked angrily if this was the case.
Artim Bey, like an expert Levantine dragoman, shuffled out
an excuse, and next day the French party here positively
denied the circumstance. You may, however, depend on the
currently-rumoured report, that M. Walewsky said to Mehe-
met Ali that this would cause a European war ; on which
Mehemet Ali said, " I am old and must think of my chil-
dren."

The fleet have been disarmed of stores and even sails,
booms, and spars, and 60 of the crew are sent to the fortifi-
cations. Colonel Gulisse goes on with his preparations of
defence with furnaces for red hot shots, which, in the present
state of affairs, is quite ridiculous.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM.
The gross amount for conveyance of passengers,
parcels, mails, &c. for the week ending Dec.s. £9662 9 2
Merchandise for the same
Cattle

MIDLAND COUNTIES
Passengers for the week ending Dec. 5
Merchandise for the same

£12,162 18 3

545 16 7
430 6 1

MANCHESTER AND BOLTON.
[Length of line, 10 miles.]
Passengers and parcels for the week endingllec.lo 361 15 1
Goods and coals 172 17 5

£534 12 6

BRIGUTON RAILWAY.—On Thursday, the last arch of the
Ouse Viaduct, on the London and Brighton Railway, was
keyed by Mr. Maude, the resident engineer of the centre
district of the railway, in the presence of the parties engaged
on the work, together with a considerable number of visitors
from Brighton and Lewes. The viaduct is built for the pur-
pose of carrying the railway over the valley through which
flows the river Ouse, and near the spot where that river
becomes navigable. It is about two miles and a half from
Hayward's Heath, and twenty from Brighton. The viaduct
consists of two abutments and 37 semicircular arches, of a
40 feet span, and varying in height from 48 to 96 feet. The
entire length of the viaduct is 1475 feet, or rather more than
a quarter of a mile, and the width of the railway is 28 feet.
Upwards of 11,000,000 bricks, made from the soil of the
neighbourhood, have been used in the structure, indepen-.
dently of about 400,000 feet of masonry, in the foundation

and elsewhere. The first stone was laid in the middle of
May last year, so that this stupendous undertaking has been
completed in about 18 months. Most satisfactory accounts
continue to reach us of the progress of the works throughout
the line.—Brighton Gazette.

RAILWAY TALKINGMACIIINE.-=At the meeting held at
Blackburn last week, Mr. George Stephenson, the father of
railways, was present ; and, in a speech in support of the
railway, said that on the London and Blackwall line there
was a talking machine, constructed with galvanic wires, by
means of which conversation could be carried on between
London and Blackwall with the greatest ease and precision.
By way of illustrating the efficiency of this talking machine,
Mr. Stephenson said that he went to the station in London
one day to inquire for one of his assistants. He was not
there, but the attendant said he would inquire if he were at
the other end of the line ; he did so ; in a few seconds the
answer was, that he was not there. But about five minutes
afterwards, the talking machine informed him in London
that his assistant had arrived at the Blackwall terminus;
upon which he instructed the attendant to say, by the same
agency, " Tell him to come here directly." In ten minutes
from that time he arrived, the distance being nearly seven
miles. (Hear, hear.) If the distance were 100 miles, the
conversation could be carried on just as readily ; for the com-
munication travelled at the rate of twenty miles a second.—
Blackburn Standard.