The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-31 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The B mien insurrection is wormier! a serious
character. The numb. rof the rebels has been tepidly
ew. dto 11,000. I, is n.,t a C nrieti en m venal nt, nor,
althrugh headed by a Turk. exclusively a Tarkieh one ;
but a fraternization betwoen the Modems and Rayahs
fur the overthrow of a se.vernment which oppresses
b,'h. K. tk, leader of the rebid., is a Tait of,
liozim, whose private WlOtl;,R have driven him to arm
'n a public cause. List 3 ear his houre was burned
down, and his land and esttle seized by A-nantovieh,
the m,tsellim of Buie). Re-ich has bid.d his time;
and the adroitners with which be has vezed the
moment to avenge himself marks him as no e .mmon
man. The governors of tit c.pitannts had all gone
an to the Vizier Tahir Pacha'a divan, at Travnic; and,
when they came back to their several d s'riets, they
proclaimed the levy irg of a new tax. The Mnasul-
mans were to pay an extra tithe, and the Ray la, in
addition to this, were to pLy half of their hay and
warder-fruits. and a third t f their other precluee to
the spahi. On the 6th July, K, rich, then at C .stle
Vranograea, harangued the Tulsa es thy came out of
morgue, and incited them to resist this new burden.
Tee greater part wire Easily inflamed to join him :
t'-ey mounted the castle-waLs, hoisted their
fl ig, ran out the cannon, and set tile place at
once in a state of defence. Leasing a garrison here,
Kerich, at the head of a still increasing multhee,
visit• d in sure saion ca.t'es Peer, Cars.% Greet and
L ttle Madre., Jeeer.ko, Pose' sd, and other places,
rousing the populati• n everywhere to make common
cause with him, end meeting on all hands with zea-
lous adhesion, all who eml.raced the cense of the in-
surgente taking an oath not to abandon it till they
had grained their object. K. rich seated everywhere
the Rayaha as brothers and friend.; of the Turks, pro.
raised th-m his preection, and recommended them to
keep quiet and aw.it the issue with patience, pledg
irg himself if successful to mitigate their distressed
condition. Bat he besought them especially rot to
disturb the good underieending which prevailed
with the posts of the Croatian frontier. By the last
dates, 19;1, from Bosnia, Keller had left Posvisd on
the 11th for Katim and Maiden. Meanwhile the
muteellim Arnantovich, who farmed the new tax in his
district, had reported the state of thir Fs to the visier,
and was shut up in his castle at Brum. The corps
of the insurgents were strongly posted on the Una.

BRITANNIA TUBULAR IlitiDGE.—The preparitiors
at the Menai Straits for hoisting this enormous fabric to its
permanent position over the straits are on a vale of great
magi it .des. The total dead weight to be lilted 100 feet from
high wster-mark is upwards of 2,0'0 t :us, or guivalent to
the elevation to that height of upwards of 30,000 men. A
general but erroneous impression seemed to prevail that
when the tubular bridge wee floated the whole opera-ion was
completed. This floating was nothing more than the launch
of the great iron ferry to the precise sits from whenc • it has
now to be raised, by mechanical power specially con:traded
fortbe purpose. The stroke of the hydraulic process employed
for the purpose is six toot ; that is to ray, they arc only caps-
ble of raising it six feet at one lift. The tube of 2,000 tons
has consequently to be sultsinrd while the presses ar e lowered,
and a fresh hold obtained. Thiswill be effected by building
up succell•iTO layers of messy, at every six-feet lift, under
the tube, to support it securely in its upward ascent, during
which ansagements will be mado for grottier six. feet hoist,
until the whole 100 feet are }lois:zed. Were it not for this
process of building up, the operation would only occupy
about a day ; but, as it is, it will take a fortnight. To insure
security some contrivances are adopted by which the sup-
porting chains as they rise are to be continually followed up
by wedges of wool, so that in the event of any accident
arising to the lifting machinery, no injury, it is exp-ctod,
would happen to the tube, the Hist lift of which, should no
usforoseen &coldest aria*, will hake p:aw this day, or, if not
then on Thursday.