The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-18

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From the London Times Of April 80
The British ships of war, in the neighborhood
of Naples, commenced, ON the 18th, reprisals, and
captured lit was said,) so vessels The Hydra
was cruising off the mouth of the guilt The
Neapolltan vessels at Malta were under an en-
barge.
From the Morning Post of April 2s.
The news from Naples is important. circu-
lar of the French consul at Naples, dated the
18th, announces the beginning of reprisals, and
the English ships of war had seized upon several
Neapolitan vessels.
1t was agreed that French property on board
Neapolitan vessels, with an English certificate,
should be respected and. allowed to pass.
An embargo on all Sicilian vessels had been
laid, on at Malta.
TURKEY AND EGYPT.
| If the letters in the London papers may be
credited, the British are quietly slipping into a
quarrel with the Pacha, which may hasten the
issue of the Turco-Egyptian question For ex-
ample, the following from the London Morning
Herald
ALEXANDRIA, April 6.-The Russians continue
their warlilke measures-their troops are ready to
cross the Turkish frontier. M. De Boutenieffha
assured the Divan of the active support of Rus
STA, and of her willingness to send an army 70
act in concert with the Turkish forces against
Ibrahim Pacha.
The English, on the other hand, confne their
operations to intrigue. They are inclined to pre-
vent, by their naval forces, the departure of the
Ottoman fleet from Alexandria, while Turkish
| ships, with men and warlike stores, should I'M
resistedly effect descent in Syria. This is the
plan which Lord Ponsonby is said to have COM
municated to the Divan, and, to ensure its sue
cess, he is endeavoring, by the medium of the
officers belonging to the Gorgon steamer, and of
the sloop lying in our roads, to make the officers
and crews of the Turkish fleet hostile to the Pa
ha.
| These intrigues have been supported by Col.
Hodges, .i:s British consul, who, intervening on
the part of the Turkish sailors, demaiIe,, u Con-
ference with the Pacha, and begged the latter to
allow those sailors DESTROYS of returning home, to
proceedto Constantmople. The Pacha made the
following reply;-'It is your policy which has
occasioned the present state of affairs-you have
obliged me to make preparations of defence, and
to fear blockade and landing of troops. / am
ON the footing of war-nilitary law is IN vigor
and, therefore, should any officer or sailor at
tempt to go away, win have him publicly shot
! as q deserter,"
! Colonel Hodges, when he left the palace,spol1e
highly in favor of the Viceroy's frmness, but he
states openly that he will grant passports to the
Turkish sailors DESTROYS of returning to Constan-
tinople, and that he would like to seethe PachaS
arrest and have them shot. AS yet, however, the
English consul has not put his project into execu-
ton.
War would be popular throughout Egypt A
few days back, one of the principal ullemahs OF
the great mosque at Cairo, by name Scheik Os-
man, offered the Pacha to raise him two regiments
of civic guards The Pacha accepted the offer
and sent him the title and decoration of gener-
al. The other ullemahs intend t< follow the ex-
ample set them by Scheik Osman These 1evies,
on which the Pacha did not reckon, will enable
him to reinforce the army in Syria, should it be
| md md ID that
amount to 10000 men at least.
INDIA,
We find no later advices from China, and only
the following paragraph relating to India, in
the Standard, (evening) of April 30.
| The Eco de POrient contains advices from
Bombay, to the 29th of February The Govern
Ior General was at ,Allahabad.l 1t is rumored
that some important changes are to be made in
/ the government of the East Indies. The seat OF
government is to be transferred from Calcutta to
Bombay, the presidencies abolished, and the
whole Of the British possessions in the East In
dies divided inty northern and southern india.
RUSSIA.
A letter from Odessa brings intelligence Of an
other victory gained by the Circassians over
their oyprcssors TheY have taken a Russian
for battery of twenty guns The Russians on
the other hand, are on she eve OF invading CIR
cassia WITH another army, and it is supposed that
that purpose
The last news from the expedition to Khiva
lconfirm the previous accounts Its failure; but
these ACCOMPLISHING from St Petersburg, where
nothing unfavcrable to Russa is per1Ritted to be
published, the failure is softened down in a con-
centration of troops near the kmba, I'm the en-
teenchments erected by the Russians at the COM
niencement of this disastrous campaign. The
troops said to haye ncountereditremendou hur-
ricanes and intensscold rs degrees and more be-
low the freezing point. They had not naet with
the. Tartar enemy. The English government, it
is said, has minated to the Russian ambassador
that if the expeditioas be renewed. or persevered
in, the government oe India will send am army
uponthe Oxus, and will occupy tie most impor--
tant points in that quarter by its troops
Thirty-three priests of Romsh united Greek
church have heen exilad from Russia for having
signed.a am act signifying their adhesion to the
churchlof Rome.
LIxERPooL, April 49, ToUelamg at fifty
i1 miles ans hOar--'Dhe ten feet wheels at
tacheds to the locomotive engines employed
on the Great Western Railway not being
found fully to answer the expectations of the
directors, they have altered theirplan, and
in future wheels of feet diameter only are
TO be,employed. The result has been the
alta nment of the speed of Sc miles an hour
On Saturday the 18th uh. the Fire Ely, new
engine on this principle, manufactured by
Messrs. Jones, Turner, and Evans, ,oftheVia-
duct Foundry, at Newton, made an expert
mental trip from Paddington to, Reading
The speed throughout was equal to. one mile
in one inmate II 81 seconds, or an average
of ffly miles and half per hour. two miles
of the road were, however, got over at the
rate of Sc miles an hour. This is the great
EST speed at present attained in the history Of
locomotive power; what will ultimately be-
the greatest, it is impossible 10 foretell.---
Messrs. Zones & Co. have since forwarded a
second engine FROM. their works to London,
and they have sonr others ia progress of
erection for the use of the Grent Western
Railway Company. ie
EXTRAORDINARY MEMoRY.--There is in
Brampton Wesleyan Sunday School, little
girl, under eight years Of age, who can COM
nit to memory, with few hours notice,
any chapter in the Old or New Testament.
Last week she said to one of the teachers
tbo tr10l Hr1 of -, I'll, III