The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-07 00:00:00

THE PETITION FROM MAIZA.

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MALTA, Barr. 1.

This is usually a very dull time of tie year in
Malta. But the last week the town boa bees quite is estate
of excitement occasioned by the efforts made to obtais ig-
=tune to the petition addressed to the Duke of Newoutle
praying that for the future • civilise may be appointed sa
I governor, and also that a reform may be made is the coat
a The advocates and the opponesta rif the petition
have bees very active in porting placards about the,
town, 'giving the most disinterested advice, warning their
countrymen to beware of bypoeritee—••deceitful
hypo-
ettes "—and inviting each other to unmark, sad show thrix,
selves. No sooner was • placard out time the oppoei-
doe posted are of their's over it, so that the
public had great difficulty in regaling either. In
sue particular instaein this was avoided by the
bill-sticker peeling up at the same time, sod ►longside of
each other, a very urgent warning wallet signing the pe.
titian, and soother equally as strong urging all lovers of
their country to sign it. There has bees a great deal of
=chasm% but only oat polies came arising out of it
hitherto.

The council orgoverannot it sot now sitting, so that those
olds members who sign the petition, do so as ordinary indi-
viduals. The council is composed of IT rcAmbers, nine of
whom are official and eight elected. Of these latter, four
ere in favour of the petition, four against it. Counting. the
nine official members, there me thirteen opposed to the
polities and four in its favour. It is the time official mem-
bee; who always give the government a majority, that the
petitioners complain of.
Her Majesty's ship Queue arrived from Athens yesterday
monaing (31st August). to take up provider to the Aeon.
Commander Brook, iavalided from the robins, ease arms
pisseess in her.
Her Majesty's ship Malian left Is. Athens yesterday
moenieg (SUM, mitt theme& for the lest. The How. Sir
Victor sad Lady Roubbra rook a wow to bor.

FONCID TABOUR IN EGITPT. OW sketch
fortnight ago of the cosaproinias come to Wilms the BIOS
and the Sues Canal Company, we erred ia stating that the
Turldsh government had consented to a ageoiatammtiam
being glade ia !avow cif the scheme to the law abolishing
forced labour throughout Bo pt. We are glad to bora
from an authoritative mauve that this is act so. Carve'« are

absolutely abolished thtougbout the province, without
exception in favour even of the Viceroy's private fans.
But, inasmuch ea the immediate application of this reform
would necerarily and seriously affect the prosecution of
the easel works, the present arrangement is permitted to
remain in force for six months from the date of what we
may again term the Porte's ultimatum, at the end of which
teem for company must find free labour by paying for it on
the beet terms it can ; and in the interval the wages of the
men employed are, as before stated, to be largely merrier!.
—Lawn( Herald, August 26.

THE RI7MOUMILD MEXICAN LOAII.Tbe Gazette j
dc France gives the following particulars of the rumoured I
Mexican loss. It is to coolest of 700 millions of hews,
whereof 900 will be appropriated to indeenoify France for ;
the costa of the intervention, and the remoiniog 5011 will
provide for the neceesitses of the new government to be ia•
atalld ia Mexico. The loan is to be charged upon the
Sonora Mines and gement/ad by Fresco, and it will be
negotiated with Getlll.l%. English, sad Fieech bankers.
AGITATION IN MA DAGASCAI. —The ilfortiteur of
yesterday publishes a eurrespoedenoe from Teasnarivo
which states, under date of Jose 10, that cousiderable
agitation still prevailed in Madagascar, on account of the
samminatiem of King Kaduna, sad that rymptorns of in-
surrection are manifesting themselves. "The suckles
transition from a state of Omen illimitable liberty," adds
the correspondent of the Moniker, "to a situation which
betrays all the rigour of a thorough despotism, could not
fail to excite popular reeentmeot, sad it will not be sur-
prising if we are called open shortly to depict its results."
Several of the Madrid journals of the 2ud inst.
affirm that a statement made by the Coruatestionnel to the
effect that M. Olozsga had declared against abstention is
incorrect. In the speech delivered by that gentleman be
recommends abstention en masse, sod that opinion will, it Is
thought, prevail. The subscription in Spain for the sufferers
by the late earthquake at Manilla amanita to 1,500,000
reds. An Ausk-Spaeish company proposes to rebuild that
city in wont and iron only.
ULTRAMONTINE TEACHING. —By a decree of M.
Duey, the Minister of Public Instruction, the um of the
work entitled " Abrege de PHistotre de Millie ruaage
des rcoles primairee de la Sociiti de Marie," is provisionally
forbidden in the public and free schools of France. The
Temps quotes some fragments of the book, in which Ultra-
comities ideas are strongly set forth. In it is declared that
"Lather, the apostle of protestantirn, died miserably,
after a repast, iu which, as was his custom, he had gorged
himself with wine and meats ;" that "Calvin, a man of
• perildieue heart and infamous habits, canted on a despe-
rate war against the catholic doctrines and worship, and
died of a shameful disease in 1563," and that " England
has fallen by schism into heresy sad the vice' which are
the coanwpwiticee of it."
THE OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL.—The royal
mail steamer Arabia arrived at Quermetown at two p.m.
yesterday, embarked mails, passengers, and telegrams, and
proceeded for Halifax and Boston at four p.m. All well.
Tau OUTWARD CAPE MAIL..—Tba Union Coin-
may 's steamer Raman left Plymouth yesterday evening for
the Cape of Good Hops with about 40 passengers and the
monthly moil, which comprised 15 sacks of letters, 13 sacks
of books, sod 89 sacks of newspapers.
Despitchee were received on Saturday at the
Colonial-ofilon from the governor of Malta. Hapatches
were sent to the govensris of the Cape of Good
Natal, St. Helena, the North Anieriona metro:es, anti
Denmark.

TaS Jl4 DIAN Dlr•Plcit tislinclit —We under-

staid that the loam tallied of medical atnalpmatioo *restage-
meat will spot tab plies altar all. Tbe authorities at the
Hone Clouds seer to have set their face egainst it. In its
stead it is proposed to have a staff corps, which is tab, re-
gulated on much the same principle, is the geoenl line as
repuds promotion ; that is to say, promotion to go by length
of service. The Mega of service from the rook of assistant.
surgeon to that of surgeoo is fixed at twelve year,. The
higher appointments are to be filled by selection. Peoeinis
ow retirement on account of ill-bealtb, it is said, will be
considerably improved, but pentium see full pay will be
much the minas before. Oaken is the prompt arteries
will be eligible for the stiff mops. Salaries are so be con-
solidated. VI• just jot down these I:noontide as the beads
of the gossip that has reached us. If these airoogementa
are earned into strict sissy essistant.surgeons—pei bap, an
overage of twenty—s7l obtain promotion &Übe several
presidencies. —4 /Ides Julian Mail.