The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-25 00:00:00

MALTA, F. 18.

Letters from Greece mention that the commerce of
the* country is suffering greatly from the embargo
laid on by the English government; and, if the pend-
ing question is not qu'ckly settled, the commercial
part of the community will be ruined. The following
is the copy of a letter from the flee. :
0 We are gradually driving the King of Greece to
dr. eration, and I think he must soon give in. We
have taken and detained some 40 or 60 merchant yes-
Eels, which are now laying around us. Oar craft has
six or seven prize crews away; no doubt we shall
soon have more. The Dragon, Bulldog, and Fire-
brand are away clearing out the (lifer:eat harbours
on the coast. We have had dreadfully bad weather,
wilt some frost and much snow. The other
day a boat of the Ganges was swamped with 18
souls on board. The greater part of the crew ma-
naged to get on an Wand, where they remained
two nights and a day. The midshipman
and six men were picked up almost dead, and the lieu-
tenant, Breen, and two men, frozen to death ; three
were picked up drowned, and five are missing. We
are not allowed to go on shore, even for exercise, and
are, as you may imagine, heartily sick of it. Oa the
7tl: the fleet all dressed ships sad fired a royal salute,
in celebration of the anniversary of the Queen in
Greece. The Pincus and Athena were splendidly illu-
minated, and I have heard that Otho gave a large
feed upon the occasion. He bad better Ps y the
40,000 L and let ns be off; otherwise he will have
another bill to pay for wale, &o."
' Another letter from Athena mentions that the
popular feeling, which at first was in favour of the
government resisting the demands of the British
minister, has undergone a change, and that, sines the
publication of all the oerrespondenos upon the subject
of the demand, even M. Thoseenel, the !reach

mosmoa, ie oC "idea that Se demob ore just, sad
'setVia oomplied with;
from Ceapisseasple mks taestioa of a
samal saver*, d **Mbar ; the thermometer
was dews to 16 ; the harboar bad boat frozen
far several days. Mt badmen wee et t mad f the
shops dosed be keep .6% the veldt may perms have
boessletrad dead fa *le attests from adds is fast, the

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lawn of man sannot recollect so mire a winter.
At Gallipoli twenty preens
_perished of cold. Nies
meths have bees lest is the Blasi See. The Reasisa
brig Moo is on shore off Gallipoli, bat ms be got
ofd. AU the produces of Turkey are tranquaL
"HM,I6 hoe a fore* of 12,0001 ms Wacherest.
The Roods& army of osespation is Moldavia and
Wallachia consists of 40,000 mooted it does sot
appear that Ruda will withdraw a single
soldier astil the Austrian ravines* are tranquil.
The new Malts mama of government, is hard et
work epos the sew erisabad Wee; they have already
been twenty yaw and upwards in hand. The order
respecting the admission of patients in the civil hos-
pital upon payment of burrs.. &day, has been
rescinded, sad patients ma sow enter, se before, at
any time, and be attended gratuitously. I am glad
to me, that in this ease, Mr. More O'Ferrall was open
to the convincing arguments of the press.
Her Majesty's steamer Sharpshooter let forGibral-
ter and England on the 16th. Her Majesty's steamer
Tdtoa will come oat of dock to-day, and set ready
to tile up the Corfu mail on the 3rd proximo. Her
Ma
ali:laity's steamer Merlin will take up the next
mail to Marseilles. The bad weather still
continues : we have here some sixty vessels under
repair ; altogether there cannot be ices than one hun-
dred and fiftlarbresor wind and weather bound now
lying in the