The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-04 00:00:00

the cabinet. Letters from Peeress ay that Grivss, on
'being ordered by the Turkish government to retire
to Janina, replied that he was an lonian sub-
ject, and under the protection of the British
consuL Such is the report given in the French
ministerial correspondence, for the correctness of
which we do not vouch. In the same letters it is
said that he had enrolled 500 or 600 partisans.
The official news of the death of Coletti had not
been received at Constantinople on the 17th, but it
was known that his malady was mortal. The inent-
rection in Albania was considerel as virtually quelled
by the lately% gained victory. The fire at Pero, men-
tioned in our letters of the 14th, caused the destruc-
tion of property to the estimated value of twenty
millions of piastres.
The approach of the cholera created the greatest
alarm. It raged at Trebisonde. Tiflis was almost
deserted by its inhabitants. A portion of the people
betook themselves to the fields. The epidemic raged
with great violence within a radius of about one
hundred miles around that city. One of the cooks of
the steamer from Trebisonde to Constantinople died
of cholera in the lazaretto on the 15th, but no new
case had appeared among the passengers, who were in
quarantine on the 17th.
The relations of the governments of Turkey and
Greece remained unchanged. The authorities of
Greek consuls were everywhere suspended. The
expiration of the month's notice given by the Porte
was approaching, when the Greek coasting trade
would be stopped. Notwithstanding the majority
obtained by the Greek cabinet in the late elections,
revolts were everywhere breaking out in the pro-
vinces. Beset with difficulties at home and abroad,
the situation of the government at Athens was becom-
ing more and more precarious.

Letters from various parts of Switzerland continue
to bring intelligence which excites lively apprehen-
sions respecting the internal peace of the confedera-
tion. The cantonal governments of the Sonderbund
have begun to assume a position of obstinate antago-
nism to the Diet. The Landsgemeinde, of Schwyz, the
largest of the cantons of the league, was assembled on
the 27th ult., and passed votes against obeying the
resolutions of the Diet for the dissolution of the sepa-
rate league and the exclusion of the Jesuits,by.an Im-
mense majority ; only 360 out of 7.000 voterifxnve
their voices for submission to the federal legislature.
The Landsgemeindes of the cantons of Uri,tnterwald,
and Zug, were to have assembledon Sunday last for the
same purpose, and no doubt was entertained that they
would come to a like vote. Votes were•also passed at
the meeting in Schwyz, giving, unlimited powers to
the government of the-canton to make warlike prepa-
rations, and appointing the Landamman Abyberg com-
mander-in-chief of the cantonal troops, and Lieut.-
Col. Abyberg commandant of the Landsturm.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 17.
The exequaturs have now been withdrawn from all
the Greek consuls in Turkey, and in a few days the coasting
trade will be suppressed. Yesterday a cabinet council was
held at the Porte, at,whieh Reschid Pacha, the grand vizier,
presided. The principal subject of discussion was the Tux°.
Greek question. It is said that the Turkish ministry have
determined on the measures to be employed after the sup-
pression of the coasting trade, and that they are to be of the
most stringent kind. Coletti's illness has produced a cer-
tain sensation here; but it is not at all supp3sed that, even
though he should die, the relations between Turkey and
Greece will improve. Matters have now proceeded too far,
and the old hereditary hatred of the Greeks to their former
oppressors has been roused to an extent not easily appeased.
Tho Turks are too calm and dignified to express noisily their
opinion on the subject; but they are not • whit the less
decided to exact retribution for the insults and indignities to
which, during the last eight months, they have been sub-
jected by the Athenian cabinet.
The fast news from Albania gives the account of fresh
successes which the Sultan's troops obtained over the
rebels in that province. Rappo, the lieutenant of
Dpuleike, the chief of the revolt, is now • fugi-
tive in the woods near Beret. The whole of the
army of 3,000 men which he had under his orders has
been dispersed. The battle in which Rappo was over-
thrown was fought at Beret. Rsppo took up a posi-
tion at the foot of the mountain, facing Malacastro, and in
front of the Turkish camp. Ris head-quarters were at the
village of Signs, in the centre of the celebrated pass of the
same name. The imperial army under Darbhor Pacha, con-
sisted of six battalions of infantry, eight pieces of mountain
artillery, a squadron of cavalry, and three thousand irregu-
lar troops. A battalion of infantry, two squadrons of ca-
valry, and three thousand irregulars, formed a corps of re-
serve, and were placed close to the pass of Signs ; and a bat-
talion of infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, two pieces of ar-
tillery, and a thousand irregular troops were kept to defend
the camp. At half-past three in the afternoon the attack
commenced. A body of Turkish light troops advanced
against the extreme left of the insurgent army which rested
upon the village of Sadroitzka. Notwithstanding the diffi-
cult nature of the ground, which was rocky and broken,
and a severe fire from the enemy, the Sultan's troops carried
the village at the point of the bayonet. The rebels then
began to retire, and they were driven from hill to hill,
and ravine to ravine, as far as Pricks, which is situated
at the gorge of the terrible pass of Signe. This was Rappo's
stronghold, and here he made a gallant defence. Numbers
of the Turkish soldiers fell, and, for a moment, the chances
of the day were doubtful, bat a body of irregular troops,
composed of mountaineers, in the pay of the Sultan, gained
the heights above the pass, from whence they opened a mur-
derma fire upon the insurgents. This produced the greitest
disorder amongst the rebels, and the corps of reserve, which
had hitherto remained inactive, being ordered up at thin
crisis by Darbhor Pacha, completed the confusion amongst
the enemy. In their panic they blocked up the only plane
open for their retreat, so that great slaughter was committed
amongst them by the imperial troops. Rappo, his adopted
son, his harem and the rest of the household, took ad-
vantage of the darkness which had now come on and fled Into
the woods in the neighbourhood. The pursuit was con-
tinned throughout the night, and was only discontinued
when the total rout of the rebels was assured. Darbhor
Pacha, a few days afterwards, marched his forces to Antonia
for the purpose of communicating with the blockading
squadron, and from thence proceeded to Argyrocastre to
form a junction with the troops under Ishmael Pasha. Thus,
has the rebellion terminated in Albania, and a wholesome
lesson been given not only to the inhabitants of the pro-
vince, but to those foreign agents by whom principally the
insurrection was excited.