The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-16 00:00:00

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en t, under Colonel Benson, arrived this morn-
te
ins at Mhow, together .pith the 6th troop Royal
Suns Artillery. Theyttrooeed towards Gooneh to-q
morrow.
fif AANDEIBH.
Metaram, the leader of the rebel Bheels in /Can-
dlish, was killed on the Bth of October by a party
of Holkar's cavalry, under the orders of Captain
Beating.
Her Majesty'. 6th Inniskillen Dragoons arrived
in Bombay, per steamship Oneida, on the 18th inst.
H. L. ANDERSON,
Secretary to Government.
Bombay Castle, Oct. 26, 1868.
VINCENT G. MONTANARO.
Malta, Nov. 14, 1868.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(rzox out owx 0012.111.0NDIN2.)

AND Rams .171,10ZAPH.)

YALTA, Nov. 16.

Data from Bombay to the 23th OotobSr. Import
market improved. Exports fair. Business at ad-
vanced rates. Exchange at sight, ls. Hid.

TURKEY.

craox ova evaciaL

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 3.

The untimely end of Ali Ohalib Packs, of which
my telegram of Saturday has long Mao* apprised you,
isTor the moment the appernicat topic of every tongue.
That it is so, however, is entirely owing to the mere
rank of the victim, and not in the least to his per-
sonal importance or respectability. Contemptible
alike in intellect and moral character, his death oc-
casions neither public nor private regrets outside the
circle of his own family, and, if general report

speaks truly, not much even there—destitute at; he
was of nearly every quality that could win either
affection or respect. He was, however, the son of
the great Reschid, and husband of the Sovereign's
eldest daughter ; and in these adventitious relations
lay his only claims to honour whilst living or to remain-
brance when dead. Literally forced into the public
service, first by the influence and power of his father
and afterwards by the natural consequence of his
marriage, he filled successively the posts of Member
of the Grand Council, Minister of Finance, of
Commerce, of Pious Foundations, and of Foreign
Affairs, without evincing in any one of them a tittle
of aptitude for office ; and, as in turn he abandoned
each, he left behind him only the memory of abili-
ties as contemptible as his principles were corrupt.
The circumstances of his death, however, were
tragical enough. On Friday afternoon he had gone
by laud from his palace at Balta.Liman, on the
Bosphorus, to an open-air dinner party in the Valley
of Roses, behind Buyukdere. To afford him a
choice of means of conveyance back, a three-oared
calque was sent after him to the landing-place at the
latter village, and there, after the carouse, he em-
barked to return home, about nine o'clock in the
evening. A second smaller caique followed witk
the minor members of his suite : and as the two skiffs
shot out from the quay into the watery dark-
MO the vinous exhilaration of his highness
found vent in the monotonous discord of an anacreontic
ball►d. The sound of this delicate refrain borne
over the waters denoted the progress of the party
till their arrival off Yeni-Keni, when the dull splash-
ing noise of an upcoming steamer, whose bow and
masthead light' became speedily visible round the
point, checked this hilarity, and pat the revellers on
their guard. The captain of the steamer—which
belonged to Mr. Hanson, and was conveying a pio-
nio party from the Princes Islands to Therapia—saw
the foremost calque in good time, and called out
to give its occupants further warning of hie ap-
proach. This was seemingly taken, and the caique
directed in shore between the steamer and the land,
when suddenly its head was turned out, and an at-
tempt made to shoot across the steamer's bows into
the mid stream. The engine was immediately
stopped and reversed, but too late to save the frail
boat from its fate. In their mad effort, the
rowers broke their thole-pins, and the calque was
swung round by the current under the steamer's
paddle-wheel. From this point reports differ as to
the details of what followed. One account says that
the smashed boat at once went down, carrying with
it the Pacha, wrapped in the thick folds of his far
pelisse ; another, that he flung off this last, and
jumped into the water, where he was for a time sup-
ported by one of the caiquejees. Be the fact as it
may, as soon as the steamer', boat amid be let down
to the rescue, together with others which speedily
put off from the shore, Ali Ghalib and two of his
party had disappeared. The kiaya (secretary) and
three others were picked up, but the great man him-
self was nowhere to be found.

The tragic news was at once communicated to the
widowed Prisms and the Sultan. Ali Ohalib was
never a great favourite with the latter, and, on being
informed of hie untimely fate, his Majesty is said to
have uttered an ejaculation which bespoke but little
sorrow for the event. The Ministers of Marine and
Police, were, however, immediately summoned to the
scene of the calamity, and throughout the night con-
stant efforts were made to recover the body of the
lost Packs, but without *nooses. Up till a few hours
ago similar exertions have proved equally fruitless,
though the high reward of 200,000 piastres has been
offered to stimulate the divers employed. At the
time of his death the Pacha wore, amongst other
jewels of value, a very costly diamond ring, which
will in all likelihood be con est when the recovered
body shall be delivered op by its leaky finder.

THE VIOLENT
The metropolis and country for miles around were
yesterday and the previous night visited by violent winds,
which occasioned a vast amount of damage to progeny'
and were attended with loss of life. The wind w 4
principally north east, but it frequently veered round to the
south west. So violent was the wind on the river Met it
was considered dangerous for small boats to mg through
Chelarerrels, and_aora of the schooners ri gat rusher
down the 'leer wereirtven from their moorings, whiter irks craft were seriously injured by being forced aphid
each other during the night. The trees andplmts in the
different royal and peeved* perks were also meetly
I In mar poets of London, chimney-pots, sates, sears;
were hurled down by During the height of the
fna lighterman Wird, about 28 years of age, wed
he act of ea ell beep off to the Horne Reads at
Backside, when a resides gut of wind blew him off the
gunwale of the vessel, end he fell into the river. The dregs
were used, bat without effect, and the body was not ford
until some boars after the melancholy event.
The despatches received at Lloyd's yesterday from inlay
of the principal outporta announce the prevalence of a ern
gale from the seat, and, as a natursl consequence, the 0,,
curers of casualties to shipping. A telegram from Ded
states that the French brig 01A110111, Captain Bonnet, *ter
Catania for Dunkirk, wee riding heavily, with both anchors
ahead and Moues dying for assiatanoe, having drove on-
iiderably during Sunday night. Assistance had been sent
to bar. At Liverpool, yesterday, the steamer Enterm%s.
from Dundalk, went ashore on the Snail Bank. Fn.;
Dublin a telegram mentions that a laden foreign meal was
riding in a very dangerous position in Lanibay Sound, with
masts cut away. In the vicinity cd Belfast the ship Stanley,
Captain Coulli, of and from Glasgow to the Mediterraxes
had gone rebore, and wee likely to become a total
wreck, being full of water. The Claremoat of
New York, and the Luigi, of Venice, were driven
on the Herd Sand (Shields) by the violence of
the gale, but were related off and brought into the har-
bour. In Yarmouth Reeds the screw steamer Huntwick,
Captain Weetheriey, with a cargo of °aide, sprang a leek end
sank; the crew were saved. The steamer Dublin, which
arrived at Falmouth on Saturday, from Waterford for Lon-
don, bad bad a portion of her cargo washed overboard. At
Scaly the full force of the gale was experienced, but the
whole of the vessels in port, about 60, rode it out well. The
brig Portia, of Colchester, Captain Cole, from Caleb. to the
north, in ballast, drove on shore on the north beach, Lowe&
toft, and wee expected to go to pieces. The Princess Royal,
of Scarborough, Captain Edmond went down 74 miles erg
of Flamborough Head ; crew saved. In the vicinity of Sear-
borough the Felicity, Captain Shallow, from Hartlepool for
Lynn, wee blown oa More, and it wasthought would break
up. A despatch from Malaga states that strong gale, from
the east bed prevailed since the 9th ; the Dutch brigantine
Liturgist* Captain Frey, from Newport to Valencia, foun-
dered as the 10th, one mile east of Torenolino ; only one Mai
wag reed. _ _ _

The Channel Islands mall pocket was unable to leave Weyy.
mouth yesterday morning on socount of the weather, and the
mail was sent vid Southampton last night.
Nstrafevine, MONDAY, 4 r...—The Oatand mail packet,
which left that port fur Dover at 6.30 last evening, en-
, muttered the full force of the terrific gals which bas
Fended during the last twenty-four hour., and after
valaly endeavouring to make head against the weather, was
I beating about is the channel until 3 p.m. to-day, when she
ran into the harbour at this place and landed her wearied
who came on to Loudon by the South Coast
=sr The Bright°. Company's steam packet Orleans,
which left Dieppe at 8 o'clock this morning, arrived hire at
her usual hour, after making • fair average passage. The
Orleans is the ship which last year made the run between
Newhaven and Dieppe in four hours and ten minute.. She
le • splendid easel, and must have done wonders to get
WON an well 10-day.
STORM IN rite BAT or BISCAY.—The weather has
bean frightful within the Let few days along the Patin-
ruler oast. The Teriot, which brought home the Atolls.
Ilan mail on Friday night, shipped at times tons of water,
and pa angers were washed out of their berths. The Sults',
whkk brought home the Bombay mail on Saturday, mei
with a timepiece gale and terrific sea in croesing the Bay ed
Biscay and lost a lifeboat and several sails. The Tagus,
which ant sal yesterday with the Peninsular malls, met with
bad weather also, so much so that she was forty hours in
reaching Southampton from T.TaheitL