The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-31 00:00:00

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received a telegram, stating that the
steam-ship Vectis, pith the Calcutta and China
mails, arrived at Marseilles at 9 this morning.
The mails left for London at 10. The ship will be
in quarantine until to-morrow morning.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS•

(NY SDBYLEINN AND BRIT= TILIGILATIL.)
MALTA, TUNIDAY.

Australian mails leaves to-clay With dates :
Sydney, July 11 ; Melbourne, 16th; Odle, the 7th
inst. ; Aden, August 16.
Munocanz.—Evans, Merry, and Co.'s tender
for the Geelong and Ballarat Railway is supposed
to have been accepted. _

Import market dull ; flour and oats have fluctu-
ated. Gold returns falling off. Suffaly (P Suffolk)
sailed July, with 79,992 ounces of gold.
Lincolnshire arrived on the 6th.
Money market not very easy.
The Victoria, with May mail, not arrived.
An extensive houso in grocery trade suspended
payments.
Wool, one and a half per cent. cheaper. Tulton
(? tallow) unaltered.
Exchange from 1 per cent. discount to par.
Sydney Electoral Reform Bill remains undecided;
the distribution of the electorates not being yet
determined.
Trade exceedingly dull.
Money abundant.
Production of gold fields on the increase.
Wool scarce at higher prices.
Freights, id. to id. per lb. for wool. Exchange, I
to 1 per cent. prem.

TURKEY.

(mom (ma RPECIAL 0011121RONDIN7.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, Avoorr 21.

A haffi-howswayeturs, addreseed, three days ago, by
the Sultan to the Grand Vizier, on the subject of the
civil list, was published yesterday. In it his
Majesty expresses his regret and dissatisfaction at
the reckless extravagance of the Imperial house-
hold, and orders strict inquiry into the
abuses which have crept into the expendi-
ture of the palace, and into that of the various,
members of the imperial family generally. All the'
outstanding debts of the civil list, now amounting to
nearly 10,000,0001. sterling, are to be audited, and a
rigorous surgery applied to those that may be found
exorbitant. Seeing that the creditors of the list are
now offering their claims for sale at 60 per cent, dis-
count, this healthy nee of the pruning-knife will
probably reduce tee maim to two-thirds of its pre-
sent amount ; but even then, 1 fear, payment
will remain a very remote contingency. The Sens-
kier, the Minister of Finance, and the Comptroller of
the Civil List, are the three functionaries charged
with the execution of the decree.

Though the last news from Ilengazi reports a
falling-off in the virulence of the epidemio raging
there, the sapient Council of Health here has greatly
increased the stringency of the quarantine. All
vessels arriving at the Dardanelles from Malta are
now sent back to Smyrna, and compelled to unload'
their entire cargo, besides doing the 16 days'
quarantiuo previously enforced. The inconvenience
and expense of such an arrangement will probably
operate to prevent the Liverpool and Loudon steamers
from calling at the island at all.
Exchange on London, 176 p.

TRANSLATION OF THE HATTI HOUMATOI7II
OF AUGUST 6 (18), ADDRESSED TO TILE
GRAND VIZIER.

"My illustrious Vizier,—Apart from the debts
neceesarily incurred by the celebration of the mar-
riages of various members of our imperial family, I
learn that, by the thoughtlessness and want of eco-
nomy on the pert of members of our imperial house-
hold, various purchases are still made, contrary to
our will. The regular allowances granted to the
members of oar imperial family ought to suffice
them, and it would be against our imperial will
should their expenditure exceed their income. And
although, by another imperial decree, it will be made
known to all persons, natives and fornero, that
they are not to consider themselves bound to deliver
articles demanded of them with the idea that sooner
or later they will be paid, nevertheless, as my above
orders are to be issued to all functionaries and em-
ployes, that measures may be taken to prevent the
tendency towards their infraction, and that they
who infringe them be, if necessary, imprisoned and

punished, and that a strict watch be constantly kept
in that respect, we have thought it expedient to
charge the &resider Rise Pasha with that duty,
and, seeing the proximity of the Arsenal to our im-
perial palace, we have added to the fieraskeriat be
now holds the office of Muchir of Tophant (Grand
Master of the Artillery). And as the Muchir of
Tophane, Mehemed Ruandi Packs, is one of our dis-
tinguished Ministers, we have judged it fitting to
make him a member of the Council of Ministers.

Thus, having appointed both, we have charged
them with the above functions, and send them to our
Sublime Porto. The Seraskier Pasha, the Minister
of Finances, and the Minister of the Civil List, ate to
assemble immediately and are to agree on the steps to
be taken in this matter. They are to ascertain which

among the existing debts are just ones, and which,
from different causes, are exorbitant in character
my firm imperial will being, that such abases shall
not take place henceforward, the discussion of the
measures necessary for obtaining that end shall be
commenced without delay."
This intimation is followed by the appointment of
Tezet Pacha, member of the Council of Justice, to be

Governor-General of Trebizond; and of Mehemet
Pacha, formerly Governor of Bosnia, to the like
office at Aleppo. Huai Pacha, Governor of Tricela,
is promoted to the rank of vizier, and made Go-
vernor-General cf Janina, being replaced at 'Meals,
by Aziz Pacha.
It is announced that rigorous instructions as to
their duties and responsibilities have been issued to
the above and to other high functionaries, with a
view to pat an end to the mal-administration and in-
justice existing heretofore.