By the Levant mail, advices have been brought from Constantinople
to the 17th October, from Alexandria to the 21st. Although nothing had transpired as to the ultimate arrangements between the East India Company and Mehemet Ali, relative to the transit of merchandise through Egypt, it is understood that the Pasha has yielded to the prin- ciple of the measure, on payment of a certain duty. Accounts from Syria are adverse. The Maronite and Christian tribes, influenced by their Clergy, who are said to have received large sums from France, have shown decided hostility to England and her interests. The English agents in Syria have hence been led to lean to the rivals of the Ma- ronites in the country, that is, to the Druses ; and much ill-blood was the consequence. A correspondent at Tunis writes thus on the 20th to the Malta Times—" The French ships under Commodore Le Ray quitted Tunis on the 17th; and the English ships Revenge and Ganges sailed at eleven o'clock p. m, on the same day, after having outstaid the French for a few hours."
Pirates are said to have reappeared in the Archipelago.
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