The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-02 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Jbur o'clock.

Accounts from Lisbon to the 21st ult. state that
the ministerial crisis still continued, Senor Rodrigo
Msgalhaens having abandoned the formation of a go-
vernment in despair. Sir C. Napier's squadron was
looked for with anxiety. The Dragon steamer had left
it off Oporto, is order to secure pilots to carry the ships
into the Tagus. The finaccial difficulties of the
government were as ggrreeaat as ever. The employes
were unpaid, and diaaffeetion was becoming general.
No one would pay taxes. The custom-houses and
tobacco contract alone yield any revenue, and these 50
Per cent. leas than the accustomed amount.

We have received files of theCourrierdAtisines,

with news from Greece to 20th ult. The disturbances
at Malaga were scarcely a pe&sed when intelligenta
reached the espial of a isle issurreeticai in
another quarter of the kingdom, headed by General
Grizziotti, a popular leader, who had made his escape
from the prison at Chalcis, and at the bead of a large
body of insurgents had taken posseesion of the island
of Euboea. Grizziotti, who was confined on a charge
trumped up against him by M. Coletti, because he
had offered himself a candidate during the
late election for Chalcis, appears to have
endured imprisonment with patience, till he found
that his case was to be tried by a court-martial,
when he resolved to effect his escape. This he
succeeded indoing on the nightof the 12th or 13th alt.
with the connivance of the functionary who had
charge of the guard. Scarcely had be regained his
liberty than, accompanied
. by many of his friends, he
proceeded to Va 'like, situated about two leagues
south-east of Chalcis, where he established him-
self. and commenced the formation of entrench-
ments; in the meantime, the number of his
adherents increasing by arrivals of armed pea-
sants from a 1 quarters. On the receipt of the news of
Grizziours escape at Athens, M. Coletti was absent,
having proceeded to Nauplie to attend the obsequies
of his mother. The ministry immediately despatched&
courier to hasten his return, and at the same time
took measures suitable to the emergency. They dis-
patched to Chalcis, by a steamer of the Austrian
Lloyd's, two field-pieces, fourteen artillerymen, and
other t roops. amounting in all to about 270 men, under
the order of Colonel Vim. To this force was added a
company of infantry of the line and some 5.5 light
troops, under Col. Yanni-Costs, which were forwarded
to Chalcis by the French steamer Rebut At the head
tithe government forces was placed General Gardikioti
Gribas, who, on reaching Chalcis, summoned General
Grizziotti to dismiss his followers and re-enter his
prison. This summons produced no effect; on the
contrary, the royal messengers were treated with in-
dignity, and shots were exchanged. The following
day General Gardikioti had an interview with Griz-
ziotti, at which he endeavoured in vain to persuade
the latter to abandon his enterprise. The Siecle says
that Grizziotti replied that it was not he who opposed
the ministry, but the people; and he then demanded the
restoration of the charter and the laws which the
ministry had trampled under foot, and the maintenance
of the religion for which the people had bled ; and,
having expressed his loyalty to the king, he proposed
on behalf of the people—first, that the king should
dissolve the chamber, as being illegally elected;
secondly, that he should dismiss the ministry ;
and thirdly, that he should publish an am-
• Having heard these terms and declared
thous inadmissible, General Gardikioti retired to
Chalcis, from where his demands for reinforcement

were incessant. Some eighty volunteers had
been forwarded to Chaleis, but the efforts of the
government to recruit the old soldier were unsuc-
cessful, notwithstanding the high rate of pay that
was offered. They refuse, stating that they could
not act against Grizziotti, under whose orders they
fought during the war of independence. When the
lest accounts left, Grizziotti still held out, and the state
of the provinces was as bad as that of Buboes, which
had been declared by the government in a state of
lege. Colonel Climaca, deputy of Thebes, who had
been sent in all haste to his province, and had pro-
mised the King to raise a thousand recruits, had col-
lected only thirty. But, on the other hand, Colonel
Seourtaniotis, who was recruiting clandestinely for
Grizzioti, had succeeded in raising two hundred men,
wbo had already reached the camp of the insurgents.
"In the midst of the many falsehoods which they
utter on the one side and on the other," says the
Cburrier d'Aihines, " mita the situation of the two
amps at Chalcia, it is difficult to discover the truth. One
fact, which is alone sufficient to maintain the in-
quietude of the friends of order, is, that the govern-
ment, who receive the reports of General Gardikioti
three or four times daily, maintain the most profound
silence as to their contents." The same paper adds,
that the news from Continental Greece is most afflict-
ing. The brigands were in such force, that commu-
nications in most places were interrupted.

Papers from the Mauritius state that the markets
there were rather flat, owing to the near close of the
shipping season. Cp to the end of May the quan-
tity of sugar exported amounted to 129,443,3811b5.
The nominal quotation for the article ranged
from 5 dole. to 6 dole. 50c., according to quality.
Freights were called 31. 10s. to 4!. The rate of ex-
change for Treasury bills at 30 days' sight was 2 per
cent. premium ; private bills at six months were
selling at 3 per cent. discount. Sovereigns com-
manded 3 to 6 per cent. premium ; and British silver,
11 to 2 per cent. premium.

THE LATE CASE OF (QUASI) ABDUCTION
_ AT MALTA.

CANNON AND CANNON v.acitiis.—We have already
announced the decision of the Civil Court, under date of the
llth of August, 1647, condemning Mrs. Curtis to restore and
deliver up to the Misses Cannon, the minor, Miss Ellen Cur-
tis, and declaring it to be lawful for the Mimes Cannon to re-
conduct the young lady to their own house, where she had
been left (at school) by her father, George. Savage Curtis,
Eq., until his further orders; and that against this decision
an appeal had been lodged by Mrs. Curtis.
On the 16th of August the ease came on for bellying in
the Court of Appeal, before Sir Ignatius Gavino Bonarits,
Kt St M. and St. Geo., president, and her Majesty's
judges, Dr. Paolo Dingli and Dr. Francesco Chapelle. On
Use part of the plaintiffs, Dr. Adriano Dingli, with whom
wss Mr. Solicitor W. J. Stevens, demanded the con-
firmation of the sentence of the lower noun, which
Agos'ino Spitcri, with Mr. W. Stevens, solicitor,
for the defendant, opposed, on the grounds that the action,
though instituted against the mother, was in reality in inter-
est of the daughter, who was of age. according to the statute
law of Malta ; that howsoever indifferent she, the mother,
mien be, as to with whom the daughter remained, yet• never-
theless, it was not (or her, the mother, nor would she drive out
the daughter from her natural parental protection ; that the
mother had, according to the law of Malta, an undoubted
right to see bandit* the education other daughter, whatever
dispositions or arrangements the father might have made on
thin head ; and finally, Mies Ellen Curtis, who was present in
Peron, haring a direct interest in the suit, prayed that the
Nun would receive and put upon the record a written paper,
containing some observations which she was desirous of
submitting. The court, although the president stated, in
Which the other two members concurred, that the young
lady, being a minor, could have no will of her own, admitted
the production of the address, the contents of which were ns
follows
„M 7 Lords,— Feeling that I have not power to express by
wsad.o(mcuth all I would wish to communicate to your
I trust you will receive this note as a respectful
earamary of my anxious wishes and determination with
"lard to the present subject in dispute ; also to state ear-
Nitil a few particulate which have been falsely represented
awl armed to be facts.
Pint. I distinctly deny the assertion that has been
11• d• by Mimi Sarah Anne Cannon, as well as by some of
PaPils, that I was forced by Captain Baker to leave her
I ',Mt to mamma of my own free will—no com-
ttwas used; and, indeed, when I asked Miss
Anne Cannon what I should do, she said, 'Do as
Inge,' and I followed her directions, and went to my
fttber. It is my firm wish and determination always to
Iff.ein with her. I have long had in contemplation the step
4 I're sow taken and I am of an age to judge for myself in
1..."21",_ • Mamma. for many pan, has been deeply and
oilred, deprived of the greaten comfort a mother