Malta.
- var traute witi vicily Ias received anotner blow by a proclara- tion just issued, altering the consumption dutiea on grain as fol- lows:- On Egyptian wheat, when worth 35 to 40sc. per salm lsce. per saim 30 to 35.c. 2sc. 25 to 30Vc. 3Sc. 20 to 25sc. 4sc. 13 to 20sc. osc. under lbsc. (sc. " All other descriptions of wheat are subject to 2sc. ocr saltn more, and every kind lsc. per salm more, when imported by a foreigo Hlag. * Thus the consunnption duty on Sicilian wheat is at present 9sc. per saln, and the same on the prodace of the Black Sea: our ope. rations with that quarter are consequently entirely destroy,d. hlie duty on barley, oats, Indian corni, &c., is 1-4th less thain on Egyy- tian wheat. " This measure has shaken the poularitv of our new Governor. It has been very hastily deter:nned upon, with a view to assist the landed proprietors, who have been loudly complaining. The Go- vernmrent have in deposit more than 30,000 salma of Egyptiani wheat, whlic they will thus be enabled to sell. We sincerely hope that sonle modification in the scale may be obtained as otherwise our commerce in grain must be etitirely restricted to EgypL Several Si- ciliaa boats, with grain, have already gone back with their cargoes ; and the few operations undertaken tor the Black Sea have aU taken other directions." MALTA. EXTlhACT O9 A LETTER DATED MtALTA, J.'TE 28.