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The Mediterranean.

(From the Correspondent of the Times.).

VALETTA, May 2.

Her Majesty's screw storeship Fox, 2, Staff Commander

and England. She left tit:,
T. C. Pullen, returned here on April 23, from collecting
Ordnance stores from principal lonian Islands for Malta
di
at Zante on the Sth, leaving o 2 the 12th, and reaching
slyisslaen ve dreo,ni 10, April 6, and arrived
the weather was exceeng
Argostoli (Cephalonia) on the same
.day'- While at Zante
e like it having
been experienced within the memory of the ~2dest inhabi-
tant." Heavy rains, strong wind, snow and hail stor,7lB pre-
vailed. On the 10th so much snow fell on deck that the Cfa•
cers amused themselves by making a snowball, weighing
641 b. She embarked at Zante Lieut. Brown and a party of
Royal Artillery for Corfu, After taking on board a large
quantity of War-office stores she left on the 15th for Bathi
(Ithaca). The troops were anxiously waiting to get away,
and the Greeks apparently as desirous of being rid of them.
Great fears were entertained for the current crops, on ac-
count of the cold. Only a few stores were embarked at
Ithaca, as there is merely a company of soldiers there.
Count de Items, late President of the Council at Corfu, is
resident at Ithaca. The Fox arrived at Santa Maura on the
17th, and embarked all the remaining stores at that island.
The Greeks there also appeared anxious for the departure of
the English troops, when it is generally supposed plunder
and assassination will commence. A number of gne athletic
Albanians came on board at Ithaca to look at the ship, and
told some of the crew, in confidence, that tbeir country-
men from the opposite coast would commence their ope-
rations as soon as the English left. They fully anti-
cipate a scene of plunder and anarchy throughout the
islands on the departure of our troops, as the Greek Go-
vernment has no troops to replace them, and mutiny is
spreading among those it possesses, It is on this account
that the removal of our troops has been delayed until some
measures can be taken—what it is difficult to say—for the
protection of the peaceable inhabitants. The embarcation
of the
June. English troops will commence in the first week in
The demolition of the fortifications at Corfu may now bo
said to be completed, one bastion alone at Vido remaining,
and this was to have been blown up on the 21st or 22d ult.
Some gun-cotton was tried upon the walla of the Martello
tower for purposes of experiment, but it did net succeed so
well
t ai
la l gunpowder.tan
The roofs of the barracks at Vido were
the falling stones from some of the
explosions.
been repaired, and are now inhabited
as asdin
is A small portion of wall of this tower
brought to Malta a soldier belonging
us considerablyausual.
T They
hi injured
Fro have ex d
to the 6th Regiment for England. She left at Corfu the
Orlando, 46, Captain G. G. Randolph, and the steam tender
Growler. The hydra, surveying vessel, Commander A,
Mansell, was in the Corftt Channel, The Fox took her de-
parture for England on Saturday evening, instead of Tues-
day, as expected, in consequence of pressing orders from the
Admiralty. The following Passengers proceeded by her :
R.N., secretary to Vice-Admiral Smart,
—Mr H. Jones,
and family, on sick leave; Assistant-Paymaster Chaffers,
R.N. ; Mr Robert, R.N.,clerk ; Mr Nichol, R.N., clerk ;
Mr Pearch, master, on sick leave; two gunners,
R.N., and a number of invalid seamen and Marines.
Her Majesty's screw troopships Tamar, Orontes, and
Himalaya are expected here this month, as well as the
storeship Supply, to prcceed to Corfu for the embarcation
of troops and the remaining stores there. It is said that
the Admiralty have ordered the immediate construction of
several transport ships of the Himalaya class.
The Dromedary, '2, Master-Commander A. Brown, left
Malta on the 27th ult. for Gibraltar, with supernumeraries
and stores for the Racoon, 22. Captain Count Gleichen, and
will return to Malta and Corfu to embark ordnance stores
for England. The Racoon, as stated in a former letter, is
to proceed to Marseilles to take on board Prince Alfred, and
it is reported, return with him to Spithead, the voyage to
the Cape of Good Hope and Australia having been, it ap-
pears, given up for the present.
The Royal Oak, 35, screw ironclad, Capt. F. A. Campbell,
left port for a cruise and target practice on the 25th ult., and
re entered the Grand Harbour on the 27th.

The surveying vessel Firefly, 5, Lieut.-Commander G. R.
Wilkinson, arrived here on the 25th with the intelligence of
the insurrection of the Arabs in the Regency of Tunis,
owing to the increase of the capitatian-tax. Immediately
afterwards the Meanee, 60, Captain G. Wodehouse, which
was cruising outside, was despatched to Tunis, and the Ma-
gicienne, 16, Captain W. Armytage, and the Pelican, 17,
Commander H, W. Comber, followed in the same direction,

for the protection of the Christian populations of the towns
on the coast. The Firefly will return to Tunis on the pre-
sent boisterous weather moderating.
A Turkish vessel has brought letters from Sousa to the
28th ult. Her Majesty's ship Magicienne arrived there on
the 26th, when the usual salutes were exchanged. The
inhabitants of the neighbouring villages thinking it was a
commencement of hostilities between the town and the
Arabs armed themselves, and came to the environs, intend-
ing to take the part of the insurgents. A great deal of the
alarm had subsided, as the capitation-tax had been removed
by the Bey's orders. The Magicienne had visited Monastir,
where all was reported quiet, and intended going to Sfakas.
The Liffey, 35, Captain G, Parker, is now in port, under-
going a thorough refit.
The Wanderer, 4, Commander M. C. Seymour, on the
Greek station, has relieved the Trident, 3, Commander C.
J. Balfour, at Patras, which has been ordered to Malta. A
telegram received to-day from Corfu announces the arrival
of the latter vessel there, but, having a case of smallpox on
board, she had been detained in quarantine.
The Egyptian screw frigate Mohammed Ali, 20, Captain
Cassim Bey, which arrived some time ago from Alexandria,
was admitted into the dry dock on the 24th ult., for the
purpose of being cleaned and thoroughly refitted. She will
then return to Alexandria, to convey the mother of the
Viceroy to Constantinople on a visit to the Sultan.
The Sultan's steam yacht Fegi-Gihaad is expected here
soon from Constantinople to be docked.
Several changes have been effected lately in the dockyard
here, and others are expected to occur. Mr H. Innes, chief
clerk and dockyard secretary, has been appointed store re-
ceiver at Devonport, after a long and meritorious service of
upwards of 20 years. Mr T. P. Rickard has been tempo-
rarily appointed to the vacant post. Mr W, B. Robinson,
master shipwright, has been promoted to be one of the con-
structors of the navy, and Will leave shortly for his post at
Whitehall. Mr B. W. Pidcoek, naval store keeper, will
probably leave soon fora post in England. Mr W. C. P.
Grant, R.N., secretary to Rear Admiral Austin, C. 8., has
resigned, and has been succeeded by Mr J. E. C. Sullivan,
R.N., assistant paymaster, as secretary.
Her Majesty's screw gunboat Foxhound, 4, Commander
W. Anderson, went out early this morning in search of the
English screw steamer Corcyra, which had been met with
on the 29th ult. off Cape Bon, putting back to Malta under
sail, having broken her shaft. The Corcyra has just been
signalled, and all fears for her safety are therefore, dis
polled.

At the moment of the mail closing the following extract
of a letter from Tunis of the 27th ult. was placed in my
hands:—

" The origin of the insurrection was the increase of the
capitation-tax from 26 to 72 piastres. The Bedouins re-
fused to pay the tax, upon which the Government sent
some of its chief officers to try to induce them to pay,as the
Bey had discharged most of his troops some time before, and
had no troops to enforce it. These officers were obliged to
take to flight, and one of them, General Siferhat, and two
of his aides-de-camp were killed. The Bedouins de-
manded of the Bey the reduction of the tax to its original
amount, the abolition of the Constitution (!) and the courts
of justice, and that he should maintain the administration
of public affairs and justice entirely in his own hands. The
Bey, advised by some foreign authorities, abolished the
Constitution on the 21st, and the day after he took his seat
on the throne for the administration of justice, as was the
custom before the formation of the Constitution. In the
afternoon couriers were despatched throughout the Regency
proclaiming this new state of things, which had the effect in
those provinces whence news has been received of inducing
the insurgents to return to their allegiance. On the same
day that the Bey consented to the wishes of the Bedouins
the French Consul called together in the Consulate all the
French subjects and warned them to arm themselves in their
houses that night, and said that he would give protection in
the Consulate to those who desired it. It seems that he
entertained fears that a number of European bad characters
had entered into a league to join the Bedouins in sacking
the town. He also took the precaution of arming 200 Al-
gerines of the place to protect the Consulate, over which he
hoisted the French flag. The Bey also doubled all the
guards. Everything pissed off quietly, and some people
believe there was no occasion for all this alarm. The
Italian Consul arrested several suspicious characters, natives
of Sicily, The opinion in Tunis is that the English Consul
is opposed to the abolition of the Constitutional system. An
Italian and a French frigate and two English men-of-war
are in the Bay. In town all alarm has subsided, and the
road from Sousa is now safe."

The Adjourned Garibaldi Meeting on

Primrose-Hill.

. Os Saturday evening, in accordance with public
. placards extensively posted throughout the metro-
polis, the working men of London were invited to
assemble on Primrose-hill, for the purpose, in the
first place, of protesting egainst the alleged illegal
and unconstitutional conduct of the police in pro,
hibiting and dispersing the meeting appointed to
be held for the purpose of considering the sudden
and mysterious departure of General Garibaldi from
this country en Saturday, the 23d ult., and also of
maintaining the right of the people to assemble and
discuss the subject of General thribaldi's depar-
ture, as they had intended to do on the occr,sion
referred to. The hour appointed for holding the
meeting was six p.m., and at that time the com-
mittee, who had assembled at the Queen's Arms
Hotel, in the Chalk Farm-real, proceeded in a
body to the summit of the hill, preceded by the
Italian flag. On reaching the top of the hill a
circle was made round one of the seats, and Mr.
Edmond Beaks was unanimously elected to preside.
There were from 1,000 to 1,500 persons present.
The CHAIRMAN, who spoke from the seat on
,-:,hich he stood, opened the proceedings as fol-
lows :—My friends, I thank you for this cordial
and hearly reception. It shows me that you feel
equally with myself that we are met here to. day
to discharge one of the most grave and important
duties of Englishmen—namely, to support, to in-
sist upon, to vindicate the law. In the language of
an old statute, " The laws of Eng:and are the birth-
right of the people thereof," and I trust that you
will, as warmly and as resolutely as your fore-
fathers, prize that birth-right, so far far as it
is valuable—for I mean not by any means
that all our laws are of equal value—that you will
warmly and resolutely insist upon that birthright,
so far as it is valuable, being preserved intact, and
not suffer it to be either openly infringed, or indi-
rectly and insidiously filched away from you, or
sneered away by those whose sympathies are ever
in opposition to real popular rights. One of the most
ancient and valuable items in this birthright, one of
the most precious of our English rights or customs,
which by long usage obtain the force of laws, is this
right or power which we are now exercising, of
meeting together, either in the open air or other-
wise, for the purpose of discussing and deliberating
upon any political or social grievance, any political ,
or social matter or measure of public interest. But
your exercise of this great andvaluable constitutional
right was most wantonly and most unjustifiably in-
terfered with on this spot a fortnight since. A
perfectly orderly and quiet meeting was, without
any sufficient cause or reason whatever, interrupted
and broken up by a party of police, acting under
what are called certain general instructions, and
evidently prepared, in their utter ignorance of the
law, to have had recourse to the most vio-
lent measures, if any resistance had been offered to
their unwarrantable proceedings, I heartily re-
joice that no resistance was offered; that you—the
people—were, on that occasion, the real guardians,
observers, and protectors of the law, as it becomes a
free, enlightened, and Christian people ever to be ;
that only violators of the law were those who,
if they had known or been properly instructed in
their duty, were the most bound to obey and pro-
tect the law. I also rejoice that no one either in an
official position or otherwise, so far as I know, hies
attempted to justify the conduct of the police 00
that occasion. On the contrary, the Home Secre-
tary (Sir G. Grey), in my presence, and in the pre-
sence of Sir Richard Mayne (the chief of the police),
expressed his regret at what had occurred, and at the
meeting not having been alloyed to proceed, and ac-
tually suggested that any of the police who could
be identified as having committed en assault should
be summoned before a magistrate for the offence.
With regard to the original object of our meeting a
fortnight since, the unexpected departure of General
Garibaldi, I shall detain you but briefly, and leave
to other gentlemen to address you more fully upon
that matter. But here also I must congratulate the
people. The reception in this metropolis of that
illustrious patriot,that true king of men,is admitted
to have been magnificent, to form an historical even!,
and that was all youts, the people's work ; his