The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-21 00:00:00

THE LEVANT.

We have received by this mail intelligence from
Malta of the 12th of Sept., Athens the 6th, and Con-
stantinople the sth. The cholera had ceased at the
latter place. It had also broken out at Burma, and
generally raged in Syria, especially at Aleppo and
Damascus. The French consul Mr. Comb.., and
the English vice-consul Mr. Simeci, had died of it
at the latter city. At Constantinople another des-
tructive tire had taken place.
The following are the letters of our correspondents:

MALTA, finer. 12.
The arrival of the French steamer Pericles, from Naples
and Marina, on the morning of the 591, brought us the in-
telligence of the attack made by the Neapolitan squadron
end troop, from Reggio on the city of Menials, at day-
break on the 3rd., in which it appears that they were re-
pulsed with some lose. The Pericles brought from Genoa,
with an intention of landing them at Messina, the depute.
lion which went from Palermo to ffer the crown of Sicily to
the Duke of Genoa. The party came on to Malta in the
Pericles. They left yesterday at 4 p.m. in the same
steamer for Palermo, she having sailed eighteen
hours before her reviler time, on purpose to take
them there, when en route from Messina to Naples.
Her Majesty's steamer Merlin also came in on the 7th from
Naples, Messina, and Catania. Her Majesty's steamer
Meteor arrived on the 7th from Athena, having been re-
living by the Volcano. The Meteor bee brought 10,0001., it
is said, the interest of the Greek loan up to last Marsh. At
8, p.m., on the 7th, the pinnace of her Majesty's steamer
Oberon, which left Malta on the 2nd with the mails for
Parse and Corfu, arrived in port, having left the Volcano at
five in the morning, about 40 miles off Malta, usable to pre-
med, she having broken down on the 3rd, when about half-
way to Patna. The Merlin left at 10, p.m., to seek her,
and at six on the following morning towed her into port.
The Merlin left immediately with the mails for the lonian
Islands and Greece. A court of inquiry has sines been held
on the chief engineer, as to the cause of the accident. The
melt has not transpired.
In consequence of the news by the Pericles of the heavy
rains and gales in England our grain speculators were im-
mediately upon the alert. Wheat roes 20 per cent., vessels
were chartered for Constantinople and the Black Bea ; and
although we had 7.5,000 quarters in port and store,la rise of
9 per cent. took place in breed.
ATHENS Barr. 8.
The cholera, as yet, appears to have kept off the main
land of Greece, and confined itself ao the isle of Sklathoe.
Borne fifty have died there ; and some fifty remain ill. Many
of the provinces of continental Greece have suffered great
loss from intermittent Given, which still continue.
Another deed of peculation has been discovered at Ban-
torin. It appears, on examining the receipts of revenue at
Athens, that the sum of 420,000 drachmas appeared to be
due, in arrears, from the commune of the isle of Bantorin.
The government demanded it ; the people had paid all the
I due and tarn. The government, to investigate this
matter, sent Mr. Trieoupie, the Minister of Finance, to
Sentorin. He very soon discovered a lot of frauds in the
administration of the cashier, M. Bumf, who, fearing the
result of the inves went away to Athens, to see
what could be done by tigationbribery and corruption in certain
high quarters, so as to save him from his merited punish-
ment. What will be done with him no one knows.
General Mamouris has arrived in Athens from Landis,
where brigandage appears to be in full force. The Volume
steamer has arrived from Malta to relieve the Minnie
steamer, which sailed for Malta last week, with the interest
on the loan up to last March.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Barr. B.
This city appears to be doomed to calamity ; no sooner is
one conflagration stifled, than another breaks out. On the
28th, at three in the morning, another lire broke out in a
house at Foundonelb close to the grand Momuee of that
name. As the wind was strong from the north, it spread
rapidly, consuming in its proven the palace of Abmet Fethi
Pasha, and extending es fir as the village of Tophana, where
it was providentially stopped. During the eight hours that
it raged it entirraeiltitfie&eyed the quarters of Sali.Basar and
Fare now a heap of cinder. A mosqufe
ars:dua4lZl of two hundred homes and palaces belonging
to government office,, have been destroy s& Several tractive
have been discovered in the reins.

The Porte has taken another tack in the affairs of Wala-
chia. SoWyman Pacha has been recalled, his conduct being
disapproved of. He is snooeeded by Fnad Effendi, whose
instructions are to proceed to instal a regular government in
Wallachia ; and the Turkish government will then concert
with Russia as to the modifications to heated* in the internal
affairs of the principality.
Tluscholera has considerably diminished, there being not
more than ten or twelve cams a day. It has also dammed at
Emeroum and Adrianople. It edll continues its ravages in
Syria, especially at Aleppo and Damascus. The French
emu'. Mom. and the English Vles.osnsul, Mr.
Bimini, have died at Damascus. Beyrout is alto afflicted
with it so badly that the inhabitants are leaving the city in
crowds.
At &lonics the cholera still rages ; it averages from 46 to
60 deaths par day. People who can go are fleeing in all
direction. from the city. Since the 12th Avg. upwards of
30,000 have left. Those who cannot move for want of money
or other cause have constructed hut. outside the town ; even
there the scoarge does not spare them. The bazaars hays
been closed for some days. Trade is at a complete Mend.
Everything that could be done ham been effected by the
government dithers, consuls, doctor., and others, to mein
the hundreds who are left &tidies, fatherless, or air
therlem.
At Tama the cholera, which was very mild, has all at
once become most destructive; instead of half-rdosen
deaths a day, there are now twenty. The mother of the
governor ha. died of it.
Business is very dell; probably it may Improve now the

S. . :

feast is over. Little or notbing doles in c-73;,%
wheat is 19 to 21 plat the kilo; neutral,* 184 ,„ Tr,
Routtelia, 17 to 18; soft wheats from 121 to 15; hl!
cora, 10 to 11; barley, 12 to 13 ; oats, 6to 7. About ko:ep.
kilos in depot. Freights are the same, or lower, te,,
fish mauls me chartered to load is the Black Su for 0;
land at 10e. 6d., two to load here at os. 9il. per gum,
Exchange 110 piss the £.