The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-30 00:00:00

CfPCASSIA.

According to the latest intitigenCe from Circassia, the
Russians had landed in i:onsiderahle wanbers in the neigh-
bourhood of Soudjouk Batch, and after a slight resistance
on the part of the natives, who had ;wrenched themselves
behind the ruins of this old fortress,• taken possession of that
spot. This fact, were further proof of the mendacity of the
assertion wanting, will best prove the degree of confidence
Lord Palmerston was entitled to when he unblushingly in-
formed the house, that at the time of the rapture of the Vixen,
in the bay of Soudjouk, this bay was in the possession of
Russia.

TURKEY AND EGYPT.
The Journal de Smyrne of the 3d and 10th instant brings
intelligence from Ales:an-16a of the 27th ult. Mehemet Ali
had arrived at Siouth, ou board a cange..!he steam-brat in
which he had embarked at Cairo having been stranded at the
distance of 15 leagues from that city. The Pasha was to re-
main ;.,t Siouth until the vessel could be again put afloat,
when he was to proceed on his journey. The first expedition,
which was to carry into execution the preliminary works of
the mines of I'azuglu, and to protect those works against the
Abyssinians, cousistesl of 10,000 men, part of whom had al-
ready commenced their march. The astonishment in Alex-
andria at the employment of so large a force in that hazard-
ous undertaking was extreme. Many thought that Mehemet
Ali entertained other views, which he disembled, in order nut
to awake the attention oi the people of the adjoining country,
whom he was determined to subdue. Independently of this
expedition, the Pasha contemplated another of a scieniilic
nature—namely, to search fur the sources of the Nile, which
arc unknown up to this day, and to ex plote the different
countries situate beyond Senuaar. A few days before the
departure of the Pasha for Upper Egypt, a strange event oc-
ccurred at Cairo, which gave rise to much conjectut.-e. An
individual, calling himself Sheriff of Mecca, presented
him-
self at the palace of Schoubrah, and demanded to be admit-
ted into the presence of the Viceroy. Ills request having
been complied with, he handed the Pasha a letter of which
he was the bearer. Mehemet Ali, however, had no sooner
read it, than he flew into a furious rage, and, drawing his
sword, gave the messenger several cuts in the lace. lie then
ordered bins to be arrested, sewn up in a bag, and thrown into
the Nile, directing in person the preparations of this frightful
execution, as if he were afraid that his victim should make some
disclosures. This tragic event was the subject of every
conversation in Cairo. Some pilgrims who had travelled
with the victim of Mehemet Alt's luty stated that they
had heard from hint that he was charged with an ener-
getic protest of the inhabitants of the
.11edjaz, against the
insatiable ambition of the Pasha, anti which, moreover,
they recapitulated all the evils he had entailed on their coun-
try, the Said, Kordovan, and Syria, and threatened. him with
a terrible vengeance if he did not forego his sanguma ry
jests. The police immediately set out in quest of the indi-
viduals who had. circulated these reports, but was unable to
discover them. '('hey had, it appears, escaped from the city
on hearing of the fate of their travelling companion.
The Ottoman squadron had left \Tondo. for Consiactmople.
and was met on the 9th (to the number of 19 sail) in the
Straits of the Dardanelles. Two ships of the line curl five
frigates had already entered the Sea of Martuora. The Bri-
tish ships of the line, a frigate, and a corvette, and two:1 urt-
ish frigates, were at anchor on the same day on the coast of
Troy, opposite Tenedos.