26 MAY 1838, Page 15

The Minister for Public Instruction in Egypt has fallen into

dis- grace, in consequence of having bastinadoed a poor water carrier to death. The correspondent of a German paper notices, as a proof of advancing civilization in the country, the fact that so trifling an occur- rence should have been so seriously noticed.

Captain Alarryat has applied to the proper court in New York for an injunction to prevent the publication of some of his productions. He has obtained it ; and much of the argument of international copy- right, both pro. and cost., will, therefore, be brought before a legal tri- bunals—Correspondent of the Chronicle.

The French Government have it in contemplation to despatch the posts from Paris twice a day in future, morning and evening.—Globe.