The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-28 00:00:00

THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE IN TEE MEDI-
TERRANEAN.

Letters from Sicily and the Levant, announce that
the earthquake which caused &mars to buildings at Malta,
et 10 minutes to 2 a.m., on the 12th of October, to the

amount of 40,0001. sterling, had been very g Ily felt
throughout the shores of the Mediterranean, and even on
the high seas.
At Fondle, in Sicily, at 2 use., the churches suffered
very much from its effects, but there waa no loss of life.
At Syracuse it was felt at 1.46 a.m., but, although the
shook was strong, buildings were net seriously damaged;
sad so likewise at Catania, at about the lame hour. Mount
.toss, which had been quiet for the past two moathe, was
observed to be emitting.voluses of dense smoke immedi-
ately after the earthquake.
In the town of Canoe' in tke island of Candia, between
240 and 3 a.m., several minarets and houses were shaken
down into ruins, killing hie or six people and wounding
and maiming many. At a village on the *whore a mill
fell and crushed eight people, and at Suds, in the same
island, the walls of a salt store had fallen in. The
steamer Empress, Captain William Frond, in making for
Canes, eneountered at the time so heavy and mom a us tt at
they had to lay the vseael'e head to the eastward, end while
in this position a severe shock was assetained. The
brigantine Youth, Captain Scarborough, from Alexandria,
bound for Cork or Falmouth. likewise felt the shock while
lying to in a gale of wind some 200 miles southeast of
Malta, and was soon afterwards thrown on her beam ends,
which badly shifted her eargo, for the rightnning of which
she pat into Malta. Captain Orfeur, of the Arcadia steamer,
reports • slight shock at Smyrna at 11 30 p.m on the 11th
of October, which lasted 60 seconds, and the British consul
at Smyrna mentions its having been very ly felt there
at shoat 3 cm. on the 12th, in duration being 40 seconds.
• The I-rustles steam corvette Dust, from Smyrna, and
the French steans•nackst &mole, from Coutes tinople, also
felt the shock, and their machinery was almost stopped
throughout its duration ; but we bear of no vessels having
°burred it westward of Malta.

At Messina it was very slight, but a report h current that
1 the town of One bliehipll, in the volley of Palermo, bad suf-
fered greatly, with some loos of life. At Csrigo It mu alu
very sensibly felt.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

General Bir John Burgoyne, G.C.8., inspector-
General of Fertilisations, has intimated his Intention of
pging a visit to Chatham garrison tomorrow, for the per-
pose of making the half-yearly inspection of the corps of
Royal Engineers (Royal Happen and Miners), stationed at
Becmpton Barracks, together with the Royal Engineers
occupying the hots at Brompton, and the Eut India Com-
piers Sappers and Milton. Should the weather permit
the inspectios will rake plain on Chatham lines.

A garrison order was leaned from Woolwich on the
24th, granting permhaion for a voluntary transfer from the
battalions to the Horse Artillery Corpe ; and it wise= NW
that numbers would have jobied the mousted branch of the

establishment. the eapeMation was, however, not realised.
It appeals that not a single man presented himself as a CU-
didate for the exchange.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 27. APTOINTMENTB.—Lien-
tenant W. lisassatd (1838), to be spat of mails on the
Boathan3pton pteket station.
Master E. Morel (1860), to the Centurion, BC, screw steam
ship, at Deionport.
Mate 0. Y. R. Rattrap, to the Monarch, 84, Bog ship,
Pacific station. _ .

Naval Instinotor W. H. Plow, to the Shannon, 51, 'crew
steam frigate, at Portsmouth.
Second Muter H Bond, to the Ac'wsn, 26, at Porta-

Le Nord of yesterday says :—" To-morrow we shall
publish a ukase brought us by the Russian journals, provi-
ding for the free entry into Ramis, with a few szceptione,
of all foreign merchants and traders. The numerous forma-
lities, amounting often to prohibitive', which foreigners
have hitherto been required to surmour t before osnetrating
the empire, are well known. For the future the Ranieri
legations upon the Continent will base nothing to do but to
follow out this ukase, and grant passports to all who ask
for them, unless they be people of doubtful morality.••

. .
The Greek Ministry is taking an active part in the
itemises, presenting candidates in every inquiet. At
Athens t►e editor of the Esperance, a violent enemy of the
Western Powers, figures at the head of the mioisterial list.
A letter from Boma, in the Venice Gazette, in
allusion to 13 1 All de )Montreal's retirement,
say. :—" Under the first empire he visited Rome es a pri-
vets soldier, and when be arrived here again four years
ago as a general sod commandant of the city, the first thing
he did was to visit the Minerva, where he had been
quartered and stood sentinel. Rome is sorry to lose him."
This day terminates the period of six months
flied by the Tnwy of Paris for the flail evacuation of the
Turkish territories, and for the closing of the Straits of the
Dardanelles to ships of war with the exceptions stipulated
for in the test of the treaty. _ .

A letter from Dresden, of the 21st, nays:—" Prince
Corsini has just arrived here as envoy extraordinary of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany, to formally demand the hand of
the Privets, Anne (horn January 4, 1836) for Prince Fer-
dinand, heir presumptive of the Grand Duel,' (born
January 10, 1825), and to make the necessary arrangements
for the marriage."
The Empress Dowager of Russia, while on her
way to Arose on the 22nd, received an invitation from the
Countess of Borromeo to honour the islands of the Logo
Maggiore, Deering that name, with her presence. It may
not be generally known that the 'ninety of the Borromeo
family lying in Lombardy is now under teguestration, but
that these islands, being on the Piedmoateoe side, are under
the owner's control. Her Majesty lieu pleased to consult,
and partook of a collation in the pilule of the count, after
which she continued her route to Aroma (Piedmont), where
she was complimented on her arrival by the Prince of
Savoy•Carinan aid the local authorities.
Louis PHILIPPE AND FERDINAND OP NAPLES.—•
The French paper Lo ;Perste' tubli,ltts a correspondence
said to have passed between the late Louis Phillips and the
present King of Naples, shortly after the accession of the
former to the throne of France. Louis Philippe is made to
praise the energy and talent of Ferdinsnd, but at the same
time to declare how much he should like to see hint " put
an end to the system of repression and violence" which
marked his government, and approace the new French
system. His Sicilian Majesty is repreeente ias replying
withthe utmost candour:—" I should like much to adopt
your system, whieb must of course be moderate and legal;
but lam bt.and by treaties and in all'accs which I must
remain faithful to; the more that in days of adversity that
silence was always friendly and favourable to as. In Grier
to adopt the ideas of France, if ear r they can be • principle
at all, I should he obliged to plunge into those Jacobin poli-
ties which my rut jeets always hated and abhorred. Liberty
IS fatal to the B nation.. and I SID quite d.,te mined Oct to
incur the fate of Louis XVI. and Mier:to X. My subjects
obey force, sad eubmit to it. I mart mires to your Ma-
jesty that I terry out the ideas which experience proved to
Pilate Metternich to be dared. us and rural. My sub-
!led, depot want to think or reflect. I take open myself
I. preserve their happiness and dignity, amt this I shall
only be able to do by listening to the c,uncils of Austria,
without submitting myself to her orders and studies. Ws
do not belong to this century; the Bout bons are ancient;
and if they wished to adopt any omit,. ,}stem or notions
they sreuld be perfeetly ridiculous. We eh al imitate the
Hapsburg—if fortune betrays us we stall never betray
I ourselves."
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the Sultan and Prince Prosilo, says the Curti:re fealinrio of
Vienna, have come to a resolution to euhost the affair to
the arbitration of such of the great powers as are interested
in the matter. The military movements have been sue-
peeded, end conferences have taken place st C.irst,.ntinople
between the Divan and the French and Austrian Ambas-
enders in order to bring at out a definitive as U. mem of the
differences.
TUB FRENCH VINTAGE.—The Gautte de Lyon
says The ',sults of the vintage are now more and more
easy to be judged of. It is not in this neighbourhood alone
that this remark has been made. The Gsiiinne informs us
that in the vineyards near 'Pules's: the hop a at first en-
tertained tram the sate of the vines have not been in general
realised, as in very many lccalitiea the retain has been
less than was two, med. In fact, the B, tritium country has
given hat a small reld. In L^wer M Sec the result is •
little better than that of 1855 ; ti e quality is superior, the
wine having both colon. soil body. In Upper Medcc the
failure is general. In the Blayais the witty is good, bat
the yield is small. Both in the nail/Moorhead of Lyons
and of Bordeaux the result is lea than the appearance of the
growing vines promised."
OXFORD WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL NMI•
rorlow,—The committee of this excellent Institution have
announced that the classes for the pr seat term will all cow-
, mence this week, and that persons desirous of joining either
clouts can do so by ticket, which will to supilied on the
night of meeting. Mr. M. H N. Suory.slaskelyne, M.A.,
of Wadham Coliego, and deputy reader in mineralogy to
the nniver.ity, het not only kindly consented to instilled the
chemistry etas', bat will do ro st the laboratory of the Ash-
m-,lean Museum, which will foe most advaericarese to those
who join that class. Mr. K. J. S. Smith, M.A , fellow and
mithematieel lecturer of Balliol College, has also Warily
s contented to teach the mathematical class the Town-ball.
Mr. heaves, reporrer of the Ox PM Chronicle, will teach
the short-band clees. Mr. Taylor, a gentleman well genii-
', I fled, will superintend the elementary drawing clue • and
Mr. Andrews, schoolmaster, will coeduct the adult mimed.