The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

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• half. At ten we melee& la She town, and that
Illehummed Bey's hams In the Arsenal was cracked from top
to bottom ; • alias* ia a SWIM state ; the earner et a
large hewn down; meet of the delis ; *lures and
earthswwire beams end dentegel, but hoomoook no lives
were lost. The whels wegalatitm had lashed to the squares
many undressed. This morning we have gmeinsts
from Cairo that a principal mosque has fallen, SOMIII hews
were thrown down, and some lives lost; but the greatest
anxiety prevails respecting Syria, as the best-inhemed per-
sons are convinced the shock came from that dlrestion. At
11, I went on board the Ripon, and learned that about
eight o'clock they fancied the ship had Wank the
ground, or something had come in Wiliam with her,
but they had not experienced any nanswel meties. The in.
habitants are gradually recovering his their fright ; and I
hope a to witness a similar scene. The Ripon arrived
here at noon on Thursday last, after a very fins
The Indian mails are not yet reported at Sues. passage
shall
consequently be very late in England.

ASCENSION, JOLT 4.
We have had refreshing showers during the last
two or three days. They did not come before they were
needed ; so many vessels have spoke in here of late, that our
tanks were almost drained ; and fears were arising that man
and beast would have to be pieced on short allowance.
The Wanderer. 16, Commander Montresor, having ar-
rived a few hours before the despatch of my last letter, I had
not been made aware of &misunderstanding which has arisen
between the captain of that vessel and the French admiral,
the nature of which is very similar to that which brought
Lisist.-Colutnander Edwd. E. 0 ray, of the Bonetta, to a court-
merthd, and got him dismissed his ship, howj ustly or unjustly
I will not say. It appears that on the pmage from Sierra limns
to the Cape de Verde Wands, the Wanderer, on March 4,
fell in with a French brig, which duly heisted her colour,.
Commander Montneor, however, having suspicions of the
vessel, chased her, occasionally firing a gun in the direction
of her, to bring her to; the brig, however, nothing daunted,
stood on, and it was only after a chase of fourteen hours that
the Wanderer was enabled to fire so close as to bring her to
a sense of her duty to a British cruiser. On boarding her, it
would appear that she wee found to be a bona fide French
merchant vessel ; but un the boarding officer returning to
the Wanderer, Commander Montreeor expressed his doubts
on that point, and ordered the officer again to board, to exa-
mine the hold of the French brig. On beingrequested to open
his hatches the Frenchman declined, stating that his
easel was laden with gunpowder. The boarding offi-
cer then, by Captain Montreeoe'e express authority, pro-
ceeded toopen the hatches with his party of seamen, and
thus, it is alleged, violated the very principle which the
French and British governments had in view in framing the
late convention for the suppression of the traffic in shins.
Gunpowder was found to be the real cargo. A very imper-
fect knowledge of the said convention, it is also alleged,
would have sufficed to show that the duty deftiving on the
boarding officers consisted in identifying her nationahty, and
baring satisfied themselves that she was French, the object
of her voyage or her cargo would be no longer of the slightest
importance to them. The admiral commanding the forces
of the King of the French has officially appealed to our
commodore, Sir Charles Hotham, against the "illegal
deed," and the question has now been referred to
her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
How the matter will end you in England will pro-
bably learn before we shall. The Wanderer, in the mean-
time, has gone to Cabenda, with provisions for the squadron
on the south coast. She sailed hence on the 24th ult.
Should her ship's company recruit their health there, she
will remain on that coast. Of the 22 men she gent to the
hospital here, five repined, seventeen remain, one at present
dangerously ill. The best conne to follow would be for the
Admiralty to order her home, for she has a most sickly
crew, almost every man of them having suffered, and being
now debilitated from fever or some other diseases peculiar to
the climate. The Kingfisher came in from Sierra Leone on
the 2nd inst.; the crew rather sickly (a slight fever with
catarrhal symptoms), one man having died on the passage.

GERMANY.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, Auo. 18.—
The trial of the Poles made no great progress to•day. Only
one ease was under consideration, that of If osscsenski, a
landowner, accused of having contributed money to pro-
mote the designs of the insurgents.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE.—A ommuni-
amiss hole this city, published in the PreussiselseAllgemeine
Lilly, Miasmas that the talk about the projected bank
at Sena Garay is not likely to be realised. The writer
mkt kie negiaion se the tea that no steps have been taken
to amen the reeetaities et Its now u legal tender in the
serious Booth Gam sides.

RUSSlA.—Lettres from St. Petersburg in the Ber-
lin journals, dated the 12th of August, state :—The expedi
tionary mrp of demean having beta &abed from Oulont-
chous by Komooka, arrived on the Seth June on the
heights of TouroMidegh. The maples of the troops in
this vicinity, so melmady mbandem, has produced the
most hesi*fel egret epee the Wdien in general;
this great dm ems seabed, the sematmedwin-chief, on
the Bth of July, ins may whin te see the end of the
cholera to nouns his operations whit the rebels. In
the camp of Dagheetan, and at Teak Khan, Moues and
Tchiryout, no new case of the opidomie had appeared for
some days, but the scourge had brakes out is the plain of
the Koumyks, and in Tchete.hinn. All wee perfectly calm
to the right of the line of the Caucasus, and on the eastern
side of the Black Sea. The cholera had not reached those
parte.

TURKEY.—CONSTANTINOPLE. AUO. 4.—The ap-
pearance of Grins and his party at Present has given rue
to some remarks against the English. Mr. Bourqueney
accuses them, if not of actual enmity against Greece, yet, at
all events, of a certain connivance with those disturbers of
the public tranquillity, and demands of the Porte that it
shall inlet upon the seizure of Grim and his party, and
then transport them to Janina or Adrianople, as was com-
manded some weeks since. Lord Cowley does as if he con-
sidered every apology on the part of the Eogluh agent at
Present as a humiliation for England, and is either silent or
sneers at the credulity of Bourqueney, who seems to take
the exaggerated cry at Athens for current coin. Lord
Cowley li said to take the part of drives, and this seems the
store probable since otherwise the Porte, which is convinced
of his good understanding with the Albanian rayahs would
long stnse have arrested him, and placed him under safe
custody. The fact of this not having been done is looked
upon as a consideration for the English agent at Presera.—
Hamburg papers of 20th inst.

PERNAMBUCO.—By the Mary Queen of Scots,
which arrived at Liverpool yesterday, 'striate have been re.
rived from Pernambuco to July 4 ; the intelligence, how-
ever, is unimportant. Exchange ruled from 26 to 261.
WEST COAST OF AFRlCA.—FuLhotrea, Atm.
22.—The Claudine, of and for Hamburg, km arrived of
hers from Sierra Leone, in 46 days, and landed passenger':
Mr. Oldfield who, it will be remembered, aeoesopenied
Messrs. Lauder 's upedidem, and is now the only survivor—
this !condemn, at mass; Els an appointment in the Vies-
Admiralty Court at Siena Leans), Mx. Carr, Mn. Eder,
and Mrs. Kock. From whims, it is karat that the slave-
trade on the coast is es Welk ea ever ; that 1,316 slaves had
been leaded from deumwele at Sierra Leone from May
4 to Jess 26 of this , and that the last slaver taken was
a Bredlian brig for deception, called the Buelah,
of Portland, U.S. ; was sent in by the Waterwitclt, Capt.
Birch, la sharp el Mr. M'Lure ; this vowel had 610 slaves
ea bank end was Mien in with on June 10, lat. 2.27 8.,
keg. 416 R. The okay was healthy. The Comte des
Fierires, fume Gambia, in 44 days, has landed Capt. Howell,
of 16i W. I. Regimat, and Mr. Barrel. The schooner
Harrhane, from V-alperaiso, in 112 days, has arrived, hay-
Mg an height 71,000 dollars.