The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-29 00:00:00

EVEN I NG EDITION

MALTA,-MARCH 15.

Her Majesty's ships Edinburgh and Wasp left on the 3d
instant for Syracuse, with orders, after watering thereat, to
proceed, the former to Alexandria, the latter to Beyreut ; but
on the arrival on the 9th of the French Government steamer,
Acheron, bound to Alexandria, with M. de Bohan Chabot, the
new Consul-General for Egypt, and which vessel is said to
have brought advices that the French fleet is about to be re-
duced six ships of the line, and the crews of the remainder to
be put upon a peace complement, the Electo steam-packet was
immediately despatched to Syracuse, to convey instructions to
the Edinburgh to rem tin there until' further orders, and to re-
cal the Wasp. The Alecto returned on the 11th, after a pas-
sage of only nine hours from Syracuse, and the Acheron went
on to Alexandria on the 10th. In future, the (Great) Liver-
pool and Oriental will not wait the mails from the lonian
Islands and Greece.
The Dido was admitted to pratique on Friday, the sth it.,
and early on the 9th the Castor frigate arrived off the port
sheeport
from eaitfa. in the Bay of Acre with a signal flying
had the plague on board. Prompt measures were taken fear
receiving her in the Quarantine Harbour of Alarsamuscetto,
where si,e was immediately moored under proper guards op_
posite the new building. (Leached at some distance from the.
Lazaret, erected expressly for a plague hospital, -wherein the
officers and crew, without loss of tinie, were removed and se-
gregated in small w..rties in separate apartments, and their
clothing, as well as the ship and every thing on board, will un-
dergo the same process of depuration which has been adopted
with such complete success in the case of the Acheron and on
several o:likr similar ,ecasions.
It appears that the Castor, which arrived at Caiffa on the
17th ult., received on board, under date of the 20th, two sick
seamen of the crew of her Majesty's brig Zebra, wrecked
thereat on the 2d of December, who have been ever since living
ashore under tents, endeavouring to save as much as possib:e
of the wreck. These men were supposed to be suffering from
fever. On the 21st one man died ashore, where three others
were taken ill : on the 22d one of the two brought on board on
the 20th died, and four others were brought on board ill,
whereupon the rest were embarked, always supposing it to be
fever ; on the same night another died, wh, n a suspicion arose
that it was plague, and accordingly it was resolved to quit the
place without awaiting the return of some officers on leave.
Between the 21st and the 26th, fourteen seamen, thirteen
belonging to the Zebra, and only one to the Castor, had been
attacked, ten of which cases had proved fatal, one before sail-
ing, and nine at sea, and she has now on board the remaining
four men in a state of convalescence. Since the 27th ult.
such were the precautions taken on hoard, that not a new case
has occurred, and no death since the Bth instant, and in all
probability the siisease, favoured likewise by the coolness of
the season, has been already eradicated, but even should it
break out afresh the public need not have the least apprehen-
sion, confined, as under the rigid sanatorvlaws of this island It
must necessarily be to the limits of the plague hospital, a
knowledge of which will, we trust, induce our foreign Consuls
to make such a rep,rt to their several Governments upon the
confidence which may be reposed in our sanator officers, as
will not for a moment disturb our free communication in
pratique with continental ports, though we have heard it ru-
moured that the Nearditan consul has already dissuaded pas-
sengers from leaving for Sicily, under the impression that they
may be rejected, or at any rate subjected to a very long qua-
rantine. Commander Stopford and Air. Beale, midshipman,
both late of the Zebra, and. Lieutenants Winthrop and Shat-
well, and Mr. Foley and Mr. lore, midshipmen all of the
Castor, were left behind, having proceeded on an excursion
to Jerusalem.

The wreck of the Zebra, lying about two-and-a-half
miles from the town of Caiffa, was broke up by the crew of
the Castor, which brought down all the spars, stores, as
well as the topmast and main-yard of the Pique.
The Carysfort having had another case of small-pox, was
not admitted to free pratique until the 9th instant.
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The Benbow arrived on the 10th from Marmorice Bay,
all well, and
TheMagicienne is the only vessel remaining ora the coast

of Syria.
The Revenge, from Suda in Candia, may be hourly looked

for.
The Princess Charlotte has already had some of her after
guns dismounted, and cabins for Admiral Sir R. Stopford's
family are being fitted up in contemplation of an early de-
parture.
The Ganges left yesterday for Syracuse for a stock of water,
and the Inconstant will leave shortly for Trieste and Venice,
visiting afterwards all the principal intermediate continental
ports as far as Barcelona, where she will take up her station
for the summer.
The Numa transport for England, with a detachment of the
Royal Artillery, and some naval and military invalids on board,
was towed out last night by the Confiance steamer.
_ _ _

The Oriental and the Lotus steamers arrived from England
early on the morning of the lath, and the Prometheus from
Marseilles, with the overland London mails of the 4th inst in
the evening. The Oriental proceeded on the 13th to Alexan-
dria, and the Medea is about to leave with despatches for
Rear-admiral Sir J. A. Ommaney, letters for the squadron at
Marmorice, and orders for all the ships to repair, a part to the
lonian Islands and a part to Malta.
The Locust was despatched on the evening of the 12th to
Syracuse to order the Edinburgh to Malta, and after towing
the said vessel to sea, she returned to Malta on the 14th. The
Wasp left Syracuse at the same time. The Bellerophon, Edin-
burgh, and Hastings were ordered to England by the Oriental,
but later despatches overland, by the Prometheus, have sus-
pended these orders until such time as the French effectively
reduce their fleet, and the Turco-Egyptian question is defini-
tively settled.