The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1848.

Twig., of one houme that had been burnt, though he wan.
dared rive every portion of it. la about • dozen cams he
found that the doors had been formed or broken into by the
hatchet, and such is the amount of the tragedy of Piss,.
Thera was no probability of any farther outbreak, and from
the' Dart of Sicily ,:here was not the slightest expectation of
hottile incursions. indeed about Reggio the report was
rife that the royalist party was much on the increase
near Syracuse. At Messina there had been an attempt
to get up a demonstration In favour of Ferdinand. which
failed miserably some say but which produced here the
report that Messina had declared in favour of the King.
The ministerial journals still speak of the expedition to Sicily
as being near. The manceuvres of the fleet in the Gulf
still continue; indeed, everything is ready, and why the
King should delay, except that by delay he hopes still
further to weaken the Sicilian:, I cannot explain, At Pa-
lermo some effirts have been made to form an army with •
view to resist the landing of the royal troops. By private
letter I hear that a report having been spread some nights
since at Catania that the Neapolitan fleet was off the coast,
the whole city ran to arm', and the houses were all
illuminated.

every act of treachery. Welden had crossed the Po,
and evact wed the legation.
A letter from Path, of August 13th, says: The
Hungarians have taken the strongly fortified position
of the Servians, near Verlssz, by storm. According
to Hungarian accounts, from 2,000 to 3,000 Serviane,
and about as many Hungarians, were killed.
SAXONY.—A letter from Dresden, of August 19,
says : The King of Prussia arrived in this city on the
18th, in a special train from Leipaic. He was re-
ceived at the railway station by Prince John, and
proceeded immediately to Pillnitz, where the Queen
of Prussia had been for some days. In the same
number of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeilung which
announces his Majesty's arrival in Dresden appre-
hensions are expressed of the approaching resigns-
lion of the liberal minister Oberlander.

HANOVER.—From Gottingen we learn that,emong
other recent professorial appointments in the univer-
sity is that of Dr. Webber, one of " the Gottingen
seven," who were unconstitutionally and arbitrarily
deposed some years ago by the King.
PRUSSIA.—We have received Berlin newspapers
to the 21st of August. It would appear that " the
pure Prussian blood" is not only averse to "Prussia
resolving itself into Germany," but to the admission of
the Neo- Prussians of the Rhine provinces to admin's-
trative offices in Prussia itself. On this how it is re-
marked in the Berlinisthe Alsehrichten:
I. Aid complaints are made breau e the Ministers of
Finance and the Interior have brought (Adele from the
Rhine and given them appointments here. Were the report
true we could not blame ministers for taaing such a step;
for the re organisation of our ',stem of government re-
quires an additional force. Nothing more natural in etch
eircumsta ices than for ministers to employ cfficers whose
ability and political soundness are experimentally known to
them. But the report it false ; it is a weak invention of the
re-action. Hitherto we have been accustomed to hear the
Rhinelanders grumbling, on account of their being deluged
with officials from the old provinces.

MALTA, Aro. 12.
By the French steamer Leonidas, on tie 6th, we
were favoured with the arrival of Cardinal Ferretti, from
Civita Vecchia, under the name of Cr.O. Ferretti, Abbate
dell' tre Fontane. He fled from Rome, in consequence of
the outbreak of the
_people, demanding a declaration or war
against Austria. *He has taken up his quarters at the
refuge for the destitute in Florian. The new French contul
for Malta, a Col. Fellesaier, came by the same steamer.
People here are curious to know if he is the hero of the
African tragedy, in roasting and smo ,ing the Arabs at
Djounedey, being o' the same name as that worthy per-
sonage. On the 7th a Sicilian aperonera brought over eleven
Jesuits from Noto; they had been :pelted that city by vir-
tue of a telegraphic despatch from Palermo. There is a report
extant that the government intends to send all foreigners
from Malta who are not guaranteed by their cousuls.
The weather has been, and continues, dreadfully hot.
Many old Indies', and others who have served on chi
'coot of Africa, have declared that they never felt the
heat so oppressive. Notwithstanding this heat, from 90
to 96 in the shade, the English soldiers mount guard and go
06 sentry with the same dress and accoutrements as in the
depth of winter; the only difference it a pair of white duck
trowsete, instead of cloth. After sunset, they put on a great
grey coat over-all, probably upon the Spaniels principle that
what keeps out the cold will keep out beat, It is really
pitiable to see the really fine lads of the 44th and 69th, for
they are but boys—standing sentinels in such • dress, ex-
posed to the glare of a sun at 160 deg. It is killing the men,
as the general will discover before the summer is over. Surely
the duty can be as we'l done in a shell-jacket and a foraging
cap; it has been so done, and during the Dommand of some
of the smartest generals in the British army.
A Mr. Phocion Roeque has been appointed consul in
Malta, for the King of Greece. The French steamer of yes-
terday, from Constantinople, brings us the news that cholera
had entirely disappeared from Constantinople, but was on the
increase at Smyrna. The new dock is nearly finished. The
Ardent steamer will be the first to enter after her return
from Alexandria. The shells and coral on her bottom are
several inches thick. Count Castigbone son of the ex-Duke
of Parma, 4 still here, awaiting the arnial of the Hecate (so ),
ordered to Eng!and, for a passage in her. The exchange
has fallen to 31 premium, but English money is still scarce.
Moat of the English metchant vessels here have been char-
tered for Constattinople and the Black Sea. Some at 9s.
per qr. from the former for England, and the latter at 12a. for
same.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Auo. 5.
The cholera may be said to be almost gone ; only a
few isolated cases ere now heard of. At Galata and Thralls
it has ceased in toto. it still existed at Odessa, hug in a
minor degree, on V e 21st ult. Rifest Pacha has en-
tered Galata with 4,500 Turkish troops. Ia consequence
of despatches from St. Petersburg we hear, by a
courier arrived this morning, that the Russian troops have
retired from Moldavia and re-entered Bessarabia. The
Ramaxan commenced on the 31st alt. with the usual cere-
monies and salutes ; in the evening a fire broke out which
consumed about 30 houses—it formed an immense bonfire in
the midst of the surrounding illuminated mosques, palaces,
and houses.
An ambassador from the King of the Affghans has arrived
here to congratulate the Sultan. lie is accompanied by a
numerous suite, and has bad an audience of the Sultan, at'
his palace of Tcheragan. The Persian rullsessador extraor-
dinary, Mires Mehemet-Ali Khan, who came here charged
with the ratification of the treaty between Persia and the
Porte, left yesterday in the 'learner for Trebisoode, on return
to Teheran. The English steamer Tartarus has returned
from Athens and &denies. The cholera has appeared at
the latter place.
Wheat is a sheds higher :—Hard, 19 to 20 pies. the kilo. •
soft, 14 to 15. Freights for England are 9s. the qr., to load
in the Danube for England, 60e. per ton. Exchange on
London: 3 months, 110 piss. the pound sterling.