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Projects ot .Wehenet .A!i, Vicerog Of E. gypt.-Egypt, the cradle of the sciences and the arts, is emerging from long night of Cimmerian darkness. Mehemet Aii, now the independent Sovereign of Egypt and Syria, and some of the Grecian lsl- ands, is resolved to regenerate those coun- tries. He has founded colleges. created manufacturies, introduced the arts of Eu- rope, and sent young Egyptians to Eng land, France, and Germany, to be educa- ted. He proposes to augment his navy to 20 ships of the line; to make good road between Cairo and Alexandria; a canal from Suez to the Nile, to transport all his manufactures to Syria, and encourage agri- culture alone in Egypt. He proposes to open a communication between the 0ron- tes, which empties itself into the Mediterra- mean, and the Eupfrates, which falls into the Persian Gulf, and to drain the marshes of Alexandretta. He also intends to make the city of Candia, in the Island of that name, free port, and to establish in Judea naval arsenal for the large vessels When peace Is completely re-established, he intends making a voyage to Candid and Syria, to personally examine the state of those countries. The Coiisuls of France and England are to accompany him, each in a frigate of his own nation.

 Journal of Smyraa.