Advices from Alexandria are to the 16th August. The Austrian
Consul-General returned on the 12th, and set up his flag at the Con- sulate. On the 15th, arrived the British and Russian Consuls-General. On the 14th, Mustapha Bey, Colonel of the Sultan's Infantry, arrived from Constantinople, bringing orders to the Pasha to send the Syrians inlisted in his army back to their country. The Pasha caused Boghos Bey to write to Colonel Napier, that he was ready to deliver them to the Turkish Colonel, and would send them to Syria by his own trans-. ports.
The Augsburg Gazette contains a letter dated Constantinople, August 11th, which says that Mehemet Ali had proposed his abdication to the Divan, in favour of his son Ibrahim Pasha, on condition that the Sultan invested him with the Grand Viziership; promising to devote his efforts to the regeneration of the Turkish empire. The Divan had latterly holden several conferences to deliberate upon the proposition, which was ultimately rejected.
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