The Sun. — 1845-04-18 (London, England)

FOREIGN.  A letter from Alexandria of March 29 states that Mehemet Ali still remained at Cairo, and that Ibrahim Pacha was seriously ill. The result of the railway survey (from Cairo to Suez) has been made public, and was deemed satisfactory. The cost for the eighty-eight miles is estimated at 320,0001. The surplus profit on the working is calculated at 27,500/. per annum, and the general opinion was, the Pacha would at once carry out the work. There was a visible improvement in trade generally, but especially the export trade. In the French Chamber of Deputies the proposition of M. Larllandien for putting an end to duelling was read, and the 26th fixed for taking it into consideration. According to the records kept at the Paris Royal Observatory, and the daily observations made during the last month, it has been the severest March since the commencement of the present century. On the 14th the thermometer was 8 deg. below zero Centigrade, 16 Fahrenheit, and the general average of the temperature was 1 3-10 C. below zero, 30 Fah. During twenty days the wind blew from the north. The first French mackerel-boat of the present season came into F6cartp on the 10th with about 30,000 fish, and on the following day thirteen other boats came in, with about the same quantity, making altogether a catch of about 500,000 fish, which are estimated as bringing nearly 100,000 f.  to the fishermen. A journal having announced 212 as the number of officers of the National Guard who have signed the petition against the armament of the fortifications, the Cominfrrce says : " The officers who have affixed their signatures with their rank annexed are much more numerous, as will be seen by the petitions when presented to the Chamber; but all the names have not;yet been, published. The non-commissioned officers are now signing.' About the beginning of the year a duel took place at Cannes between Captain L., of the Russian service, and ex-Captain de R., of the African Chasseurs, in which the latter was wounded in the shoulder. The Tribunal de Premiere Instance of Grasse condemned M. L., in default, to imprisonment for six months, and his two seconds, who appeared and pleaded, to the same punishment for 15 days. On an appeal to the Cour Royale of Draguignan, the sentence upon Captain L. was fully confirmed, but that upon the two seconds was commuted into a rine of 500 f. each. Both these Courts admitted that every duel was not absolutely an attempt to murder, but that the result of the meeting, and the intentions of each of the parties, are to be taken into consideration, in order to ascerttzin whether both or either of the parties went out with a decided purpose of killing his adversary. A letter from Smyrna, of March 29, says :—" A.second case of plague, which proved fatal, has occurred among the pilgrims from Beyrout. The population, however, need not be alarmed, as the strictest precaution is taken at the Lazaret, as also among those recently arrived. Instead of placing here travellers bound for Constantinople, they will have, by the order of the iutendent, to take their quarantine at the Dardanelles." Mustapha Bey, a pupil of the Egyptian School at Paris, died two days ago from the consequences of an accident which happened to him while riding on Sunday, the 6th inst. He was the son of Kourchid Pacha, a brave old Genera of the Vice-Roy, and, having been two years in Paris, spokel and wrote the French language with remarkable correctness. Mehemet Ali's son and his two grandsons, who are in the school, attended the deceased constantly throughout his  illness. The Patrie states that a letter has been received from a gentleman attached to the embassy to China, which removes all doubt of M. Maynard having been murdered by the Malays. According to this letter Admiral Cecille has taken vengeance on the offenders. The chief and a great number of Malays are said to have been killed.