23 JANUARY 1830, Page 2

The French journals state that a spirit of improvement is

at work in Egypt. A newspaper in the Turkish and Egyptian languages has been established. The Pacha is anxious to inoculate his subjects with a love of science ; and with that view, has been astonishing them with a gas illumination, which an English engineer was employed to pre- pare. It is proposed, moreover, to mitigate the severitysof the law— to inflict death only on political offenders.