The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-04 00:00:00

THE LEVANT.

MALTA, Dr c 27
The Prince Regent and Thetis arrived frem
fleet on the 14th, to refit, and go to Lisbon, tor which
port the Tne•t•s 'tiled on the 22nd. The Prince Re-
gent
will go to-morrow if she can get oar, far the
wind is now blowing in strong from the N.E., with a
heavy sea.
11. M. steamer Mci.ina arrived on the 16:h from
Marseilles, with the overland mail, and brotqlit us
the accom.t of the death of the Dowager Quits n Ade-
laide. The governor issued a minute to the inhabit-
ants informing them of the fact, and riqueeting
them to put c n decent mourning. The public effi•;/ a
were closed for two days, and all places of public
entertainment for three. The royal standarja and
union jacks were kept flying half-roast for six dat s,
as were also that consular flags; ut the expira-
tion of which time Fort St. Angelo, and the men-
of-war in the port, fired a salute of sixty
minute guns. 'the protestant church of St. Paul.
buil: at the expense of Queen Adelaide, was clothed
in mourning, and a most impressive tune ral sermo•
was preached on the 23:d' by the Very Rer.
deacon Le Mesurier. In fact nothing was omitted to
testify the respect of the English habitants or
Malta fur the most cxcel.tnt and illustrious deceits d
prince*s. _ .

ILNI. steamer Triton returned from the 10-jan
Islands on the 15ih. The weather was so lass: t..at
else was unable to touch at Patna, consign( nt.y tie
brought no Greek mill. St.e left on her reiura on the
16th. 1131. id. Oberon came in on the 16th, fr ti.c
fleet, with letters. r second-master, Milinar, was
tried by a court-martial, on charges bro•tght aga'n,t
him by L cut. Gardiner, her commander, and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for six months, and then d:s-
missed the service. Mr. Millman is now on board
the Ceylon, awaiting a passage to England, there to
undergo his imprisonment.
Letters from Constantirop!c, by Sultan, state that
everything is quiet in the political world, and that
only some secondary points remain to settle the Hun-
garian ques:ion. Three thousand Hungarians tiLco
accepted the amnesty ; fifteen hundred are to remain
in Turkey, and some eighty are to be sent away to
Greece, if Greece will receive them. Constantinople
is full of troops, more than the barracks can accom
mudote; consequently, many aro billrtted upon the
inhabitants. Strong reinforcements have been stn:
to Varna, Selestris, and Schumla. On the 16th the
Sultan presided at a grand cabinet council, the par-
port of which is wholly unknown.

eTTINPftIr. TM C t LIFORNTA.—We are so (cohost(' as
to be located in a section of the tow& where large lumbers
of Chinere have pitch. i their tents, and we have remseked
with much interest the character and habits of these people.
From early morn until late in the nosing shies lan an
enztt,tel in their occupation of houee-builues, of wl,i-dt a
great many have been exported from China ; and the quiet-
' new and r r ler, cheerfulness and temperan,e, which is oh-
e.•rvsb:e in their habits, is noticed by every one. Smolt
the city through, and you will not find an idle Chinaman,
and their, kaoline u t xceeds that of any other people we ever
WV, The buildings brought from China are generally .0
feet square, one story in bright, and 12 feet from
' the fi ,or to the ceiling. The timbers are muted nod many
of them very mot ked. We have noticed in am ray instances
the erection of China buildings of double the Cris described
above ; but we suppose that in such cases two separate
frames are erected together, thus forming a single building.
The first movement after raising tl.e frame is to attach the
windows, which consists of a frame and blinds without sash,
The blind is so constructed as to close itself by its own
weight—the slat being of double width outside. The
timber is very uniform in size, and about six or eight inelvs
in dismettr. The boards nro well a. awned, and resembled
American c• der. The price of a Chinese building soeh as
we have described, including the erection, is 3,500 4 Is.
The building, however, consists of simply the frame and
covering. They are brought from Hong Koa;.—PacifieNetes

PoWEE OF A BUSHEL OF Cons.—lt is well k..own
to modern engineers, that there is virtue in a buai.el of male,
properly consumed, to raise seventy millions of pounds
weight a foot high. This is actually the average effect 0: an
engine at this moment working at Rue! Tuwan, in Corn-
wall. Let us pause a moment, and consider what this is
equivalent to in matters of practice. The ascent of Mont
Blanc, from the valley of Chamouni, is conaidered, and wi.k
justice, as the most toilsome teat that a strong Mill can exe-
cute in two days. The combustion of two p iunds of coal
would place him on the summit. The 'genii lull :e, one of
the most stupendous works of art that has hien ra's d
by man in modern ages, cAnis's of • mass of ircn, to;
lee than four millions of pounds in weight, suspended
at • medium height of about 120 fret above tae set.
Tho combustion of seven bushels of cum' u
suffice to raise it to the place where it hangs. Thr jireat
pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite. It is 700 fi,t, in
the side of its base, and 600 in perpendicular he got, and
stands on eleven acres of ground. lie weight is, 00 More,
12,700 millions of pounds, at a medium height of 125 tett ;
consequently it would be raised by the effort of about 630
challrons of coal—a quantity consumed in some foun tries
in • week. The litmus' consumption of coal is Lordon is
estimated at 1,600,000 cbaldrone. The effort of this quantil
would suffice to raise a cubical block of marble, 2,200 feet in
the side, through • space equal to its own height, or to pile
one such mouniain upon another. The Monte NLovo, war
Pozzuoli (which was erupted in a single night tos v..losiiic
tire), might have been raised by such an effort from •
.!..p k
01:40,000 feet. or about eight miles.—[Frons the tint number 1,
of the WorLitsq Mate's Friend, a cheap, useful, and muds- I
lag miscellany.)

RIOT AND MAN KILLED AT KELSO.—On Sa•
tardily night, being pay-day with the " navvies" employed
on the railwsys in course of formation near Kelso, lama
numb. re of the Irish were marauding about the town in 3
state of intoxication. A row at leniTth broke cut strong
them, when a man, named William Fairbairn, a iteialei, •ehe
was near the spot, was stabbed in four places ; one wound
was between the third and fourth ribs on the lest side, and
must have proved Wel, by the heart being wounded. Im-
mediately the town was raised, and the police were stringly
seconded by a large crowd of townspeople of every class in
their 'trona to secure the person or persons who di.i the
dreadful deed. In a very short lime seven navvies sap; vied
to 'is engaged in the tight w, re in custody. The dressed
was ain uric I man, and kayos one child. liis ate nas only
23.—Sculsnsata