18 JULY 1840, Page 8

Dr. Bowring has written a letter to Mr. Disraeli, denying

the accu- racy of some assertions made by that gentleman in the House of Com- mons. Mr. Disraeli had accused Dr. Bowring of charging expenses for a passage to Egypt which he performed in a Queen's ship : the Doctor, however, went and returned by German and French packets. Mr. Disraeli said the cost of travelling in the deserts of Syria was small : on the contrary, writes the Doctor, "I beg to assure you that the Government allowance by no means covered the expenses of a journey through a country covered with quarantines, in consequence of the presence of the plague, where a civil war was raging, and all com- munications difficult and dangerous."