The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

MEDITERRANEAN NEWS.

We have received Malta Papers to the sth instant,
and advices from Constantinople and Alexandria to the
27th ult.

The subjoined naval intelligence is from the Malta
Chronicle .

" The Howe, which took her departure from Malta on
the 25th ult., reached Syracuse on the following day,
and after watering, returned here on Sunday, the 3d
inst., but the Vanguard and Indus, which sailed at the
same time, and, as far as Syracuse, steered the same
course, stood on (without making any telegraphic com-
munication) as if they were destined for Naples or Corfu.
The Rodney from Alexandria, and Calcutta from Bey-
rout, and off Alexandria, arrived yesterday morning,
the former bringing Lieutenant F. H. Stevens, RN., to
join the flag-ship as a supernumerary, and Lieutenant
Mellersh, of the Bombay Infantry. The Hastings sails
to-day for Syracuse, to water, and the Gorgon for Athens
and Suda in Candle, with provisions for the Benbow•.
The Talbot, 26, the Magicienne, 24, and Acheron
steamer were lying in the Bosphorus on the 27th ult.
The Scout, 18, is expected to sail shortly for Suda and
Athens. The Beacon, surveying vessel, was lying at
Port Naussa, Poros, on the 30th ult."

The Malta Chronicle has the following from Alexan-
dria, 26th ult. :

" The Medea is arrived from Beyrout ; she left on
the 16th, calling at Jaffa. From the former place she
brings accounts of an affray at Diar el Kammer, about
twenty miles from Beyrout, between the Druses and
Maronites. The bone of contention appears to have been
the shooting of two partridges out of the boundaries of
one or the other, and from a quarrel of onh or two per-
sons, fomented into a general one, the opportunity being
propitious to wipe off some old standing feud. About six
hundred combatants turned out on each side, and, not-
withstanding the strenuous exertions of Col. Rose, who
placed himself between the two contending parties, they
could not be quieted until 16 men of both sides had been
killed, and others wounded. Upon the affair being known
at Bey: out a surgeon of the Inconstant was despatched
to look after the wounded. From Jaffa the news
is that there had been an engagement between the Na-
plonsians and the Bedouin Arabs of the Damascus de-
sert. The latter had enticed the former from their
mountain holds into the plain, when the Bedouins made
a feigned retreat, and, by some mancevre, attacking the
Naplousians in rear, ended in their total defeat. The
number of killed on both sides is stated to be about a
thousand. The accounts we have of this affair appear
to be very imperfect."
The Malta Times has the subjoined, under the head
of Aden :

" We are sorry to hear that serious disasters have
occurred at this new settlement. Our advices are to the
15th ult. A fire, on the sth, had burnt down five offi-
cers' houses, and the lines of the 10th Regiment. Every-
thing was destroyed, and some people injured. On the
7th a tremendous rain came down, and the mountain
streams carried away a boy into the sea. On the 11th
the Arabs attacked the town, but were repulsed. They
intended shortly to make another attempt in stronger
force."

Extract of a letter from Alexandria, 27th ult., in the
Malta Times :

" We hear of some quarrels among the Bedouins and
Naplousians of Syria, also of an affray at Mar el Kam-
mar, near Beyrout, but they are of no political import-
ance. The Cambridge, Thunderer, Inconstant, Wasp,
Hecate, and a Turkish corvette, were at Beyrout by the
last advices. The Nile is very high, and some crops
have been damaged by the bursting of the canals. The
Emmetje packet, during her detention of sixteen days off
Beyrout (according to the new regulation), did not escape
fever. The Lieutenant in charge of the mails, and two
of the crew were attacked. This vessel arrived at Alex-
andria on the 13th, and sailed again on the 19th with
mails and passengers for Beyrout."