The Express. — 1847-10-04 (London, England)

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 17. The exequaturs have now been withdrawn from all the Greek consuls in Turkey, and in a few days the coasting trade will be suppressed. Yesterday a cabinet council was held at the Porte, at,whieh Reschid Pacha, the grand vizier, presided. The principal subject of discussion was the Tux°. Greek question. It is said that the Turkish ministry have determined on the measures to be employed after the suppression of the coasting trade, and that they are to be of the most stringent kind. Coletti's illness has produced a certain sensation here; but it is not at all supp3sed that, even though he should die, the relations between Turkey and Greece will improve. Matters have now proceeded too far, and the old hereditary hatred of the Greeks to their former oppressors has been roused to an extent not easily appeased. Tho Turks are too calm and dignified to express noisily their opinion on the subject; but they are not • whit the less decided to exact retribution for the insults and indignities to which, during the last eight months, they have been subjected by the Athenian cabinet. The fast news from Albania gives the account of fresh successes which the Sultan's troops obtained over the rebels in that province. Rappo, the lieutenant of Dpuleike, the chief of the revolt, is now • fugitive in the woods near Beret. The whole of the army of 3,000 men which he had under his orders has been dispersed. The battle in which Rappo was overthrown was fought at Beret. Rsppo took up a position at the foot of the mountain, facing Malacastro, and in front of the Turkish camp. Ris head-quarters were at the village of Signs, in the centre of the celebrated pass of the same name. The imperial army under Darbhor Pacha, consisted of six battalions of infantry, eight pieces of mountain artillery, a squadron of cavalry, and three thousand irregular troops. A battalion of infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, and three thousand irregulars, formed a corps of reserve, and were placed close to the pass of Signs ; and a battalion of infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, two pieces of artillery, and a thousand irregular troops were kept to defend the camp. At half-past three in the afternoon the attack commenced. A body of Turkish light troops advanced against the extreme left of the insurgent army which rested upon the village of Sadroitzka. Notwithstanding the difficult nature of the ground, which was rocky and broken, and a severe fire from the enemy, the Sultan's troops carried the village at the point of the bayonet. The rebels then began to retire, and they were driven from hill to hill, and ravine to ravine, as far as Pricks, which is situated at the gorge of the terrible pass of Signe. This was Rappo's stronghold, and here he made a gallant defence. Numbers of the Turkish soldiers fell, and, for a moment, the chances of the day were doubtful, bat a body of irregular troops, composed of mountaineers, in the pay of the Sultan, gained the heights above the pass, from whence they opened a murderma fire upon the insurgents. This produced the greitest disorder amongst the rebels, and the corps of reserve, which had hitherto remained inactive, being ordered up at thin crisis by Darbhor Pacha, completed the confusion amongst the enemy. In their panic they blocked up the only plane open for their retreat, so that great slaughter was committed amongst them by the imperial troops. Rappo, his adopted son, his harem and the rest of the household, took advantage of the darkness which had now come on and fled Into the woods in the neighbourhood. The pursuit was continned throughout the night, and was only discontinued when the total rout of the rebels was assured. Darbhor Pacha, a few days afterwards, marched his forces to Antonia for the purpose of communicating with the blockading squadron, and from thence proceeded to Argyrocastre to form a junction with the troops under Ishmael Pasha. Thus, has the rebellion terminated in Albania, and a wholesome lesson been given not only to the inhabitants of the province, but to those foreign agents by whom principally the insurrection was excited.