The Sun. — 1850-01-01 (London, England)

PRICE SD.  NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,  - TILE STEAM-FRIGATE SIIARRIE, &C. PORTSMOUTII. DEC. 31, 1849. —lt appears by letters from Egypt that the retrograde movement which set in with the reign of Abbas Pasha is still going on. We are inform-d that ihtfuz Bey, the commodore of the Shlrkie, has been sent to the White Nile—i. e., to banishment; which was speedily followed by his murder, as custo,nary in such cases. The alleged ground of this, and of Mohammed Bey's degradation, is the long time that the Sharkie was detained in England to have her engines fitted, the expense consequent thereon, &c. The punishment is most unjust, for neither the Egyptians nor the engineers who fitted the engines were able to dispatch the work in the time required, owing to the great pressure of engineering work in England at the time the ship was here. The whole seems to have been instigated by French intrigue—Frenchmen who hold offices under the Government and Egyptians who have been educated in France being the movers. The result of the liberal policy on which the late Mehemet Ali proceeded, in having young men educated in England and in France to fill places of trust in Egypt, is now being abused to stir up a general hostility on national partialities against all who hare been educated in Europe. It is clear that the late far-seeing Pasha considered he should by such an arrangement accumulate skill from the different countries, and it appears that the skill obtained from England has preponderated. lie was, as is well known, an acute discriminator of indixidual merit, and 'obsttried &is ;'and daring his reign an intrigue was formed- ,to discredit in his regard the persons who had been in. England; but he saw through the attempt, and the effort failed. It does not seem that Abbas is yet aware of the motives in which the hostile feelings towards some of his servants who have been in England have originated, nor of the danger ofacting on those feelings. National jealousy lies at the bottom, and the result is the loss of talent and worth, which he has not the means of realising elsewhere. The Devastation steam-frigate, after passing about fifteen months in dock, was taken out to•day, after incurring expenses for repairs to the tune of something approaching 14,0001. " But then," said our informant, " she is a new ship again now." She was only launched in 1841, and has served the time of only one good commission since. The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Hope, arrived at Spithead this morning from the river, much improved in appearance since she was last here. The " reduction" of the stack of chimneys, and the substitution of one sensible looking funnel, is a feature more in accordance with " shipshape" ideas.— Times. The Adventure transport, Master Commander Wellington, arrived from the river this afternoon. She will sail to-morrow for Plymouth, and ship stores for the Coast of Africa squadron. The Bungalore convict ship, for Leveton Bay, embarked convicts for that penal colony from the Stirling Castle and other hulks this morning. The Comet steam surveying vessel, Commander Otter, arrived in the night from the Irish coast to refit.  PLYMOUTH, Dac. 29.—Her Majesty's brig Britomart, Commander Chamberlayne, was on Wednesday towed alongside the jetty, preparatory to her being paid off on Monday next. Her masts are unshipped and sent into the yard for examination. It is reported that her Second Lieutenant will shortly be tried by court-martial on board her Majesty's ship Impregnable for disobedience of orders. It was intended that her Majesty's ship Indefatigable, Captain Smart, should have been this day towed out of llamoaze, and her bridles were slipped, and the Confiance steam tug lashed alongside, when a report was brought that the moorings in Barn pool were not fit to receive her, and she,then was re-moored in Hamoaze.  By letters from Port Royal, dated November 18, it appears that her Majesty's Frigate Alarm had arrived there all safe, after a passage of forty-eight days, from Plymouth. The Arethusa will b,4 taken out of dock on Tuesday, and be masted f.or commission. The Octavia, hating refitted fur ordinary, has been towed to her mcorings by the Confiance. Wind—NoT.th-west ; fine weather. WooLwlca,