The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-04 00:00:00

LEVANT MAIL.

By au extraordinary conveyance from Malta, the Prome-
theus steam-packet, proceeding to Genoa to embark Lady Can-
ning for Constantinople, we have accounts from that bland to
Cyr evening of tie 18th of May.,.at which date the fleet under
Ole gormand of Vice. Admiral sir E. W. C. R. Owen, con-
stating of the Queen, 110, nag-ship ; Impregnebte, 104 ; Cal-
cutta, 78 ; Vanguard, SO ; Cambridge, 78 ; and Devastation
war-steamer were all ready for sea, .silt' four months' provisions;
on b Jai-a, and beats all in, but is destination was a profound
reset, and it was generally supeosed that, the ships would
trzegh anchor immediately. Sir frames Mason in the Howe,
veth the Thunderer and Savage in company, were signalised
on their hourly expected return from Tripoli. In consequence
of the inability of Sir Samuel Roberts to resume the command
olt he Calcutta, at any rate for some time to come, being still in
a precarious state of health, the Commander-in-Chief has
appointed Captain Rich, of the Queen, to the Calcutta, and
eiven an acting order as Captain of the Queen to Com-
mander Henry, of the Di vastatioc, appointing to this latter
also, with an acting order, as Commander, his ViagaLieutenant
Robinson. Sir Samuel Roberts has not invalided, and will,
consequently, continue drawing tuil pay. The Plicenix, war-
ateatner took her departure with the mails for Corfu end Pa-
tree on the Lath ; and the Alecto steam-packet, for Gibraltar,
with the mails for England, un the 16th insianr, on which
day the Vesuvius war-steamer was dispatched to the eastward,
report says, for Tripoli ; the inconstant is looked for font
Bevrout.
Our Malta Correspondent furnishes us with dates from
Naples to the Bth of May, Tripoli in Barbary to the lath, Con-
etantinoele to the 7th, Alexandria to the tith of May, and Bey-
rout to the 2,7 th of April.
iNeee.m.s.—The anticipations of a rupture with Holland and
Naples appear to have been premature, and the hastiness of the
Neapolitan sovereign to show his 1‘ rakness by recommeoding
the mercantile rave to borrow other colours, cannot be ac-
counted tor. What with the panic of war and the impress-
ment of all merchant seamen into the navy, to man a squatron
destined for the Brazils, to do honour at the nuptials of the
Emi.eror with his Sicilian 3lajesty's sister, has so distressed
commercial shipping that the owners are dismantling some.
Tairou IN BA RBA affairs of this ill-governed
Pachalte, neglected as they have been for many years, appear
to have at length attracted the attention and notice of the
British Goverarnent. Steamers arrive continually from Malta,
with despatches for the British Consul, which are answered
instantaneously, and this has called forth the anger of his
Highness the Pacha Askar Ali. Two important objects,
ie is said, the British Government has in view—the
abolition of the inhuman traffic in slaves, and the re-
moval of the obnoxious Pacha. Lately, and immediately
at,er the arrival of the Devastation steamer of war from
Malta, an appeal, printed in Arabic, was posted up at the Bri-
tish Consulate, inviting and entreating in the name of her Ma-
jesty's Government, all those now engaged in the slave-trade
to abandon such heartless traffic, as revolting to justice and
humanity ; and the whole is wound up by setting forth that
such are not the only personal feelings and desire of her Ma-
jesty the Queen of Great Britain, and her Ministers collee-
iveiy and individually, but. of the entire nation, and that on a
tnture day her Majesty might have occasion to show her good
intsentions towialds the people of Tripoli. This document, by
express directions of the Pacha, was torn down, and ever since
his desire to pick a serious quarrel with the Consul has been
incessant. An Arab of the advanced age of sixty has been
thrown into prison heavily ironed, and is in jeopardy of losing
his head, for no other crime than having been seen conversing
with the son of the British Consul. This latter having had
she commander of the Locust (who lately materially assisted a
Tripoline schooner of war off the rocks), dining with him,
sent his dragoman to solicit a permit for the British offi-
cers to pass the town gates atter the usual closing hour, a
permit which has heretofore never been reused to any of
the Consuls, whereupon the Pacha spat in the messenger's
foes, and heaped upon him the most insulting epithets, which
will not bear repeating. Several British subjects signed a de-
claration, to the effect that such was the excited feeling of the
Pacha towards the nation, that they considered their fives in
jeopardy; this dozoment was dispatched to the Admiral, at
Malta, on the 3d of May. Abdel Gelil, the Arab chief, has
been much encouraged by the late visit of the British Consul,
and is said to have not only defied, but absolutely threatened
to attack the Pacha. Some assert that the Arabs are march-
ing in a strong force against Misurata, and others go the
length of saying that the garrison have already had a skirmish
with the people of the desert; that these latter came off vic-
torious, and were close upon Tripoli ; which, added to a report
of the approach of a British naval force, had in some manner
intimidated the Pacha, who nevertheless refused to render sa-
tisfaction to the British Consul for the acts of insolence offered
to him and others under his protection.
Abdel Geld has solemnly promised to liberate 4,000 slaves,
and pass the most rigourouslaws and enactments for the aboli•
tion of slavery, immediately his tribes are freed from the yoke
they are DOW under by the removal of Askar Ali, and the no-
mination of an Arab chief to the Government of Tripoli, under
the obligation of recognizing the Sultan's supreme sovereignty
by a heavy annual tribute.
CONSTANTINOPLE.—The divan appears exclusively engaged
in deliberations upon finance schemes, which appear to be of
difficult decision, inasmuch as the Imperial treasury is nearly in
a state of bankruptcy, notwithstanding which, strange to say,
the Sultan continues pensioning his favourites.
Druse chiefs continue in durance vile, and
nothing is yet known as to what is to become of them. Seve-
ral Illaronite elders have been invited by the Seraskier
lllua-
tapha Pacha to repair to Bevrout, to assist at a general con-
ference ; but these, having the fate of the Druses so recently
before them, have declined the invitation, fearing to be etl-
. trapped.
Albanian troops have arrived from Salonica, and horrible
excesses are looked for, from the well-known bloody disposition
of this undisciplined band.
Mustapha Pacha, desirous of limiting within the narrowest
bounds, if not destroying in tots the influence of foreign
Powers in Syria, has called upon several of the Consuls to
withdraw their protection from several ravas. Colonel Rose,
the British Consul, has been attacked outside the town gates,
when on horseback, by an Albanian, who presented a pistol to
his breast, but which happily missed tire, and the Colonel was
indebted to the swiftness of his Arab charger for saving his life.
The Turkish authorities pretend they have been unable to
trace the delinquent. The plague rages in various parts of
Syria, but more particularly at St. Jean d'Acre, Sevi, and Dar-
el-Kamar,

ALEXANDRIA.--His Highness the Paella arrived from
Upper Egypt on the night of the 30th of April, and took up
hie residence at the Palace of Ras-el-tin, where, on the day
following, amidst the salutes from the batteries and ships of
war, he received the European merchants, and, indeed, one
might ahnost say the entire population of Alexandria. Learn-
ing the stagnant state of trade, he immediately set about a
movement by selling off 200,000 ardebs of wheat and beans, the
former at 66, the latter at 36 piastres, but which prices, being
.purchased payable in assignments, or Government bonds,
which bear a discount of about 25 per cent., reduces them to
.S 3 and 31 piastres respectively. Several ships have been taken
tip for Malta at fourteen to fifteen tari freight per saim, which
is an advance of from two to three tari upon what has been
"lately paid. A Greek house has purchased from 30,000 to
40,000 ardels sesame seed of the pew crop, deliverable by the
peasantry in five and six months, at 125 to 130 piastres per
ardeb, and the Pacha promises to reduce his pretensions for
cotton, for which thus far he has held out for ten dollars
the Utast. The Egyptian navy has at length adopted the
Sialtaia's uniform, and no doubt the army and marines will
do the same before long. Mehemet Ali continues in his deter-
,inination of devoting the remainder of his days to benefiting
the country. An engineer has received orders for damming
-the Nile in a mode to protect against overflows on the one
hind and scarcity on the other. The plague still hovers over
the place. A French Company is about establishing itself at
Cairo, to undertake the conveyance of passengers through the
desert, at prices much under these of Hill and Waghorn.
JESUITICAL PLOT HAPPILY DISCOVERED, AT
MALTA, AGAINST THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
You will see by the Mediterranean newspaper, of which I
send you two copies by this mail, that a Maltese canon, of the
name of Annetto Casolani, the 'son of Sir Vincent Casaloni,
collector of Tand revenues, and of whose family one is to be
found in every public departMent of the island, has been de-
tected in corresponding with the Papist Peer, Lord Clifford, in
a manner ill becoming one who, through the intrigues of his
father, was raised to one of the highest dignities of the church,
over the heads of hundreds, at the early age of 14 (! !), by the
very Government be so unwarrantably and ungratefully abuses.
The pretended excitement of the people against the Governor
for suspending the Jesuits' preaching is false ; the pretended
interference of the Italian refugee is equally false, for whatever
may have beers their crimes against their own overeign here
at Malta, they are the most inoffensive characters in existence.
Attacked as they have been by the beardless canon and Lord
Clifford, doubtless some unpleasantness might have been anti-
cipated, but nothing of the kind has occurred. The Rev. Mr.
Clsolani fled this morning, in the French steamer, for the
Levant, where it is hoped he will find a wider field to exercise
his jesuitical talents, and indeed, but for the high wind which
iirerails, it was intended to mark the auspicious event of there
being one Casolani leis on the island by a general illumination.
tit. Paul, in freeing the island of venemous reptiles, appears to
have overlooked some ancestor of this snake in the grass. The
British Government are much indebted to Lord Clifford's
hating bunglingly published that which was never meant for
thumblic eye.
MALTA, .4.vir 19.—The Vesuvius steam frigate, which left
Malta on the 16th, returned to port yesterday afternoon,
hiving been off Tripoli to order back the Howe, 121 k (bearing
the flag of. Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Melon, second in com-
mand), and the Thunderer, 80; both of which have just an-
chored here. I; aiipears that these ships, which left Malta on
the 12th inst., having reached Tripoli, stood off and on for
several days, during which frequent communications were kept
up between Colonel Warrington, the ennsuron shore, and the
Rear-Admiral, by fumigated despatches, through the medium
of the Savage brig of war, which vessel, on the arrftal of the
Vesuvius, was sent in with orders for the commanders to land
and proceed in person to the Consulate ; whereupon, the steamer
and liners withdrew before, as it is reported, bringing the Pacha
to his senses. Such a proceeding is very impolitic, for if they
had no orders to carry their point, they ought not to have been
(seer sent. Admiral Sir E. Owen continues in port, with the
fleet under his command. Lieut. Bedford has succeeded to the
acting flag lieutenancy.

THE Qua r,NS PalsoN.—The Bill for consolidating
the Queens Bench, the Fleet, ant; libtrshalsea, into one pris-n,
came into operation on Tuesday, and will certainly be produc-
tive of very great alterations in the custotly and treatment of
prisoners. The classification of prisoners forms an important
feature in thu measure, and which will occasion considerable
alterations in the management of the Queen's Prison. The
Secretary of State is empowered to make rules for the prison,
which are to be laid before Parliament for its approbation. The
females are to be separated from the male prisoners, so as to
prevent all commutiication between them. There-if one clause
which will materially diminish scenes of riotous living which
have at times occurred within the walls of prisons. The 18th
t:ection provides that uo beer, victuals, or other things, shall Le
trought into the prison, except sanctioned by the rules to be
made, in order to " prevent extravagance and luxury, and en.
forcing due order." The Act is now in operation, and the
" day rules" which were allowed during the early van of the
probing term hsvo ceased.

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