The Express. — 1848-03-06 (London, England)

MALTA, FEB. 2d. On the 14th a Mr. E. Baker was married to the daughter of Mr. E. Goodenough, the proprietor of the Malta Mail. The day previous to the marriage the young lady abjured the protestant religion, and was baptised in the Cathobo church. The bridegroom has been a widower upwards of three mouths ! Mr. B. an intimate friend of the Jesuit Padre Esmonde. This conversion, or rather the taking up of a religion, will no doubt be the subject of a long article in the Tablet. The triumph will he the greater, when they reflect that the Malta Mail hay, until the last two months, been the moat bitter of all the enemies tha Jesuits had in Malta. Even now there is a criminal information out against it fcr a libel on Padre Esmond.. I understand that this is the only instance known, in Malta, of the conversion to the catholic religion of a person born and educated in England. The lady's grandfather is Archdeacon Goodenough, of some place near Bath. The double fact has occasioned no small sensation. The French steamer, Alexandre, arrived here e irly in the morning of the 19th from Alexandria, having on board his Highness, Mehemet Ali, Pacha of Egypt, secretaries, physicians, and suite, to the number of 64 persons. His highness was saluted by the battery, and by the Ceylon. He landed in Fort Manoel to perform his quarantine. Every attention was shown him by Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis. The Austrian, French, Neapolitan, and Brazilian consul' waited in Ai tan Bay, and lett cards for his highness. lie is suffering severely from dysentry, and has hien recommended to try Naples or Pisa, for a change of air. The Odin has been placed at his disposal wh he chose. to sail, which, it is said, will be in a few days. The Locust started the same evening with despatches for the admiral, to &worm him of the l'acha'e arrive/. Mehemet Ali passed a very bad night on the 19th and 20th. The day after his arrival, the night of 20th and 21st, he passed more favourably. A bulletin, issued to visitors on the 21st stated, " Better this morning." Since then Mehemet Ali has wonderfully improved. He will take pratique on the 2,.,d March. A wing of the palace ha been prepared for 'ids reception. lie will probably remain some time hete, as he finds his health so much int proving. Sir Thomas Reatle intends to pension, at two dollars each per month, the Arabs who behaved so humanely to Lieut. Woke and the survivors of the Avenger. A mat melancholy suicide occurred on the might of the 22nd, at the Princess Royal Hotel. The unhappy person was the Rev. R. Irvine, incumbent of St. John's, Waterloo.. road, London, who arrived here three months ago, to. improve his health—in fact, he appeared quite reoorr red ; his former weakness had altogether left him, and he confessed that the air of Malta had so far restored him that he had never been se well for twenty years. He wulound in his room early on the morning of the 23rd, with both carotid arteries completely severed, and the razor in his hand. His death must have been incantaneons..  ATHENS, ran. 20. I informed you in my last that the holidays were over, and that the senate was discussing the project et the jury law. The ministry bad not the least doubt but the reinforcement they bad smuggled into the senate in the shape of new members would enable them to carry every qu• stion before them. They reckoned without their host. The opposition succeeded in opening the eyes of the ministerial members to the iniquity of several of the clauses in the project, and notwithstanding all the efforts and eloquence of M. Culocotroni, the senate decided by a majority of 21 to 16 to continue the system now in force until next May. The budget of 1848 has not yet been submitted to the senate. The budget of 1817 is not yet pissed. A project of a law for 130,000 drachmas has been presented to the Chamber of Deputies, to indemnify the national bank for the lU,s it suffered during the late ettoeule in Petra'. M. Mussur..s has performed twelve days quarantine at Bain', on account of the cholera at Constantinople ; he will get pratique this morning. Many are anxious to see the presentation of the sturdy old Turk to his Hellenic Majesty. There is a rumour afloat here, that the King of Bavaria is coming here in propria persona, end that Lola Monies and her bud-dug is coming with him. The ministers declare they have no objection to the old gentlemen and the fair Mdesian, but protest in tun) against any more bulldogs. They h ,d enough last year when they had to pay down the • interest of the loans, and recently another baiting to pay the I 30,000 drachmas guaranteed by the English consul at Petra", '.. to the rebels, as ransom for the town of Patras. They have been compelled to yield.