The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-23 00:00:00

THE MASSACRES IN SYRIA. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) BEYROUT, AUG. 8. On Saturday afternoon, about 6 o'clock, the first caravan of Christians who had escaped from the massacres in Damascus arrived in Beyrout ; and a more heartrending sight—one which made men weep like women, filling them at the same time with an almost irresistible craving for revenge—was pro- bably never beheld. They had left Damascus on Thursday at noon—a column composed chiefly of I women and children, and variously estimated at from 2,000 to 3,400 souls ; for the Turkish autho rities had provided cattle for the conveyance of 1,500 persons, but many travelled on foot or on beasts of burden of their own or friends. Parched with thirst, not half fed, unwashed, with clothes unchanged for nearly a month, choked with dust, and covered with lies, they fled hither, under heavens glowing like brass, from the city, which, if it be the most ancient, will henceforth be the most infamous in the world. They were widows and orphans whose husbands, fathers, and brethren had all been slain before their eyes with every indignity and cruelty the most bar barous fanaticism could devise, and whose most comely maidens had been sold to gratify the brutal lust of filthy Arabs. Nearly all were afflicted with ophthalmia ; five women had died on the journey, and one was taken in labour. Babes might be seen striving to suck food from breasts that were dried up. Young children were so dirty, so disfigured by sores, on which flies settled continually, as to be loathsome to look upon. Old men and women tottered under doorways and sank down exhausted, heedless of the crowd that pressed upon them, looking like so many bundles of dirty rags, and incapable of reaching out their hands to take the water for which they famished, or of crawling to the shelter provided for them by the authorities at Beyrout in three khans. The streets leading from the Damascus road were thronged with mules, shambling horses, and asses, all huddled together, and rendering the condition of the fugitives all the more painful. The muleteers rained down blows right and left upon the cattle ; and from the statements made of their brutality on the journey it required no great effort to believe that they would have beaten the " infidel dogs" com mitted to their keeping even more lustily, while it was difficult to say how far the curses and execra tions which filled the air were confined to the ani mals—how far they were intended to apply to those of whom Moslem vengeance had been defrauded. In the lulls between the cursings arose the piteous cries of babes, and here and there the wailings of women—Christian Rachels weeping for their chil dren, and " refusing to be comforted, because they are not." But, generally speaking, the grief was too deep-seated, too hopeless for lamentation. Those who had wept the loss of their nearest and dearest relatives had no tears left for their own sufferings, and, although they had fled from the city of death, they exhibited an apathy and indifference which appeared to indicate that all which rendered life valuable had been snatched from them, leaving them to pursue their melancholy and dreary pil grimage ever accompanied by the memory of the horrible scenes they had witnessed. The living may be pardoned in this case for envying the peace and oblivion of the tomb, bloody as may have been the path to it. Beneath the scorching sun of Syria, after a twelve hours' journey during the hottest part of the day, and amid the bustling confusion of the streets, the fugitives remained—many with a child at the breast and two others strapped in front upon the mule — until they could be got one by one into the khan. Now and then might be seen groups of young children suspended in what looked very much like orange chests slung across a horse. These were all that remained of a family. They have no pro tection, no refuge save in public charity. At last the fugitives were got into the khan, which may be described as a square courtyard, surrounded on all sides by a two-storied structure, a portion of the upper floor being carried on arcades run ning round the courtyard. By this means a single line of chambers is obtained on the ground floor, and a double line on the upper one. Between the two lines of chambers in this last runs a passage, into which the doors and windows open. The chambers are about 8 feet square and 10 feet high, with a number of inmates generally ave raging 10. The few things saved from pillage—a carpet, quilted coverlet, leather water-bottle, and nargbile, with, perhaps, a few articles of clothing, are spread out, and, for the first time for weeks, the fugitives sleep in complete security, and with a sense of safety. But their destitution is complete. Nothing but bread have they tasted since they fled for safety to the castle of Damascus, now a month ago, and even of bread they did not always get suf ficient to appease their hunger. The fugitives are lodged in the three khans situ ated in the most crowded parts of Beyrout, which I have visited, and in a Greek convent. One of the khans, about 60 feet square, is beside the hotel where I am staying. The windows of my room over look it, and I have only to lift my eyes from this letter to behold the misery, destitution, and physi cal sufferings of upwards of 400 human beings. Through the open windows come the cries of chil dren blinded by ophthalmia, teased by flies, mos quitoes, and vermin, and almost maddened by sun stroke. There come also occasionally, when food is served out, the angry and menacing expostulations of Turkish officials. I trust the noise has no other cause or accompaniment. From the statements of the fugitives, it would appear that they numbered in the castle of Damas cus upwards of 12,000 persons whose relatives had been foully murdered or whose lives were threat ened. Elsewhere in the city Christians were shel tered. The English consul—Mr. James Brant—had his house full ; and here it may not be out of place to set those ingenious writers in the French press right who pretend to draw conclusions from the English consulate not having been burnt or the consul assaulted. In the first place, and contrary to the assertions of the French press, neither the Dutch nor any other European consul was mur dered or wounded, and if the British consulate was not burnt it arose from the building being the property of a wealthy Moslem, and from its being situate in the Moslem quarter, whereas the other consulates are in the Christian quarter, and also from its being next door to the great mosque, which would have been destroyed had the British consulate been fired. M. Outrey, the French Con sul, was also untiring in his efforts to relieve the Christians, and fed several of them at the cost of his Government ; and several Moslems proved that they did not share the cruel fanatical spirit of their countrymen by secreting in their houses fugitives and their famLies. A native Protestant teacher who escaped massacre in the English mission by disguising himself as a woman, and who, while running away, received a sword cut over the head from an officer of the Turkish army, was met by a Moslem, who took him, hid and fed him in his own house for three days, until arrangements could be made for the teacher's escape from the city. The young man is now here ; he speaks English re markably well, and is, I believe, employed by Vice-Admiral Martin. Another Moslem, on the evidence of a European, sent large supplies of food daily to the Christians in the castle, and what articles of clothing he could collect, for the Govern ment allowance of bread was barely sufficient to keep life in them. Even now the arrival of the fn.' • ° a wes here w ill hardly have improved the condi tion " their fellow victims left behind in the castle, for dill it is r -n crowded and so foul as to suffice for et pestilence. Indeed, great appre hensiont he engesn are n a heavy L a tert s ained that an epidemic will in flict a d . desolating 0. retribution upon the population of the eh • Y ; for ophthalmia, fever, and dysentery cannot f a u to foll ow constant exposure to the alternate heats and chills of Syrian days and nights, and the exposure mud last until the houses destroyed . are reb u il t . so wantonly Again, food is growing scarce and dear; it will be scarcer and va and wh en dearer as the season colnces the evil s army arrives, so that :n addition to the French which desolate the nand we have the Prospect of famine to still furth .11* a ggravate the suffe r i ngs of I the populations, unle. ni the c harity of western Chris tians comes to our heulp. We have had a foretaste of what may be expm ted from the want of proper management and the concentration of so much THE SUM LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1860. er ' misery Beyrout. Early last month the few Eng lish and American residents here formed themselves into an " Anglo-American Committee" for the relief of the destitution created by the religious war, and right nobly have they done their work, sparing neither their time nor personal labours nor purses in the discharge of their self .imposed duties. If the sources of their charity are limited, if they confine their appeals chiefly to those whose mother tongue is English, the application of this charity is most Catholic and in the broadest and most liberal spirit. They have already collected from local subscribers 49,487 piastres, and spent 23,358 piastres, out of which 4,700 piastres were handed over to the Sisters of Charity, and the remainder expended in the pur chase of clothing, bedding, and in the daily supply of food. Operations were commenced on the 16th of July. After the first four days the average num ber of persons fed was about 700, but on the 6th of last month it rose to upwards of 1,000, and the day before yesterday lists of applications were received for the daily supply of food to 3,248 individuals. In the course of the afternoon two members of the Ame rican mission in Syria, the Rev. W. M. Thomson and the Rev. J. E. Ford, distributed assistance to nearly 4,000 people. It would be almost an imperti nence to speak in terms of praise of gentlemen so well known and appreciated in Eastern Christendom as are these members of the American mission; but what may not be so well known is the arduous nature of the labour they have voluntarily undertaken from the simple desire to do good,and in illustration of the doctrines they teach. They are the hands and eyes and ears of the executive committee, investigating the applications and distributing succour, in the course of which they perform an amount of physical labour which, taking the trying character of the climate into consideration, would be too much for a London drayman, and drive a fort de la Halle to despair. The pressure upon the committee has in creased enormously within the last few days, as pre viously stated, in consequence of the return of seve ral native indigent families from the Kesrouan, while the sources of relief have at the same time diminished from the reduction, and in some cases stoppage, of several native subscriptions. Of course, the committee, on which are the leading English merchants of the town, did not attempt to supply the full necessities of the poor, the object being, while providing against death by famine, to provoke the action of the local authorities and stimulate them to the discharge of their duties. It is calcu lated, at a minimum, that a piastre and a half are required daily to provide food for each head of po pulation. The committee give about a piastre. Another system adopted has been to induce the Christians to return to and remain in their vil lages by entering into arrangements for sup plying them with bread in the localities them selves. By this means it is hoped the Christians will rebuild their houses and resume their labours, else next year they will be worse off than they are now. Perhaps I ought to add that of the 3,248 applicants only 80:are Protestants, and grants are made to Maronite congregations on the certificate of the clergy—in one case Bishop Butros—that the applicants were needy, deserving of charity, and that their church was unable to support or to assist them. In connexion with this subject rather a curious circumstance has come to light. A state ment has been made by some of the leading lay members of the Greek Catholic Church in Beyrout in which it is distinctly asserted that the clergy of this country who may have been affected by the late deplorable events have sustained comparatively trifling injury, nevertheless, that there are some among them who desire to turn to their own indi vidual profit the sufferings of the people by going to Europe to collect charitable subscriptions; and the authors of the statement add that, " it is a fact sufficiently well known from the antecedents of the Greek Catholic clergy that if they superintend the distribution of charitable succour the unfortunate poor will not derive the slightest benefit from it." Consequently, the laity of this sect have requested the Anglo-American Committee to take the neces sary measures to prevent any such abuse of Euro pean charity. Profiting by Crimean experience, it is proposed to erect soup kitchens. Application has been made to Vice-Admiral Martin—who has given already 40 sacks of bread, for the loan of water tanks, to be converted into boilers, so that if we obtain the as sistance of the engineers to set them up we shall soon be in working order, and able to stave off or reduce in virulence the epidemic which the medical officer of the Turkish Government has reported is inevitable. I have to apologize for dwelling so long upon this subject; but, by the public at home more interest is taken in works of Christian charity than in following the tortuous intrigues of Oriental government, its falsehood, cruelty, and meanness, or in unearthing the policy of the representatives of civilized States. With thousands of Christians already slain, and tens of thousands almost certainly fated to undergo famine, pestilence, and sudden death, it becomes a matter of very secondary im portance which European influence is preponderat ing in Syria. Since writing the above a letter has been received from the secretary or manager of the Ottoman Bank in London, which for stupidity and bad taste de serves notice. It states that, so far as London is concerned, the Relief Committee at Beyrout is to be superseded by a London committee, of which Mr. Layard is to be chairman, and the £l,OOO voted are to be placed at the disposal of the English Con sul here. A grosser or more offensive insult could not be offered to the English merchants and to the American missionaries who have hitherto given their time and money to the good work. The Con sul's diplomatic position renders him most unfit to distribute charity; and Mr. Layard and his friends can scarcely mean to intimate that the Anglo- American Committee are not to be trusted with a few pounds. Since the despatch of my last letter I have endea voured to ascertain from persons of long experience and accurate knowledge of Syria the cause of the late outbreak, since their deliberate and matured conclu sion must be of greater worth than the opinion of a recently arrived European. whose information has been chiefly derived from reading. The task would be easy if it had to be performed anywhere than in the East. But we are in the land of fable. The moment the traveller sets foot on shore he is sur rounded by unrealities—saving always dirt and ex tortion. Fiction or rather falsehood is erected into a system, and disfigures the common occurrences of everyday life, while incessant, continuous, and the most glaring contradictions pass as matters of Course. The other day I spoke with a European of long experience in the Lebanon. He told me that the Druses were the aggressors, and that the Maronites only required organisation to gain the upper hand. The next day the same authority asserted that the Maronites began the war, although they were too cowardly to fight even when the advantage of num bers was on their side. A Turkish official of high standing asserted that Monsignor Tobia, Bishop of Beyrout, was devoted to France, and that he had conspired to bring about the independence of Syria, in proof of which two letters are said to exist. Another official, superior to the first, informed me that Bishop Tobia was the uncompromising enemy of the extension of French influence, that the letters said to exist are the forgeries of a Druse, and that the Turkish Government had abundant proofs of the bishop's thorough devotion to the Porte, for he warned the officials of the plots and intrigues against the maintenance of the Sultan's authority in Syria. All the Consuls and subjects of foreign Powers are of different opinions as to the cause of hostilities between the Druses and Maronites. Even the Turks themselves differ, although they do not often take the trouble to give an opinion. Then the members of the various sects have their views. According to one the massacres have been caused by the in trigues of Russia. His neighbour tells you they have been provoked by the proceedings of France to assert her claim to be regarded as the protector of Eastern churches. The Porte is accused of having fomented the troubles to convince Europe of the necessity of changing the status quo ; while England is with equal bitterness held responsible, since she is said to be opposed to any alteration of thette m present state and thingsteof from a bitter jealousy of ideal mission of France, and om a b fr ase desire from commercial profits. Take the religious view, an .d we shall be told that the fanatical Mahomedan party has organised an ex terminating war, nil& a. the patronage of a member of the Sultan's famil .y at Constantinople, against the Christians throng tout the East ; and in support of this assertion we are reminded of the Indian rebellion, the Morocc o war, and the onslaught last May on the French. frontier stations in Algeria. The Moslems mint tin, on the contrary, that they are the victims of ri; new crusade, resuscitated by the Ultramontane party—here the members are called Jesuites—in order to divert the attention of Cabinets from Ron re to Constantinople, and to pre vent the downfall of the Pope by compassing the destruction of th,e Sultan. Lastly, we have the question of race a to render the imbroglio all the more difficult and inexplicable. With such a ravelled skein before me, I feel great diffidence in expressing an opinion either one way or the other, lest an act of injustice should be committed, for it is impossible to obtain positive evidence. The utmost we can get is an accordance of the opinions held by the majority, or an assur ance that this or that statement is credited gene rally. Accordingly, then, to general opinion and public notoriety, the Turkish Government has always been opposed to the last diplomatic settlement, which, by the institution of two Kaimakans—one for the Druses and the other for the Christians — has greatly enfeebled the power of the Porte. The Pashas, knowing this, believed they would be re warded if they pitted tribe against tribe and sect against sect, to their mutual destruction. The policy of divide et impera has disciples in Europe, the dif ference being that it is the only one which the Turkish mind is capable of understanding and per sistently following. France has been all along opposed to the system of two Kamaikans, which was the result of the quadruple alliance. The pro gramme which she has proclaimed is, placing the Lebanon under one governor, who is to be a Chris tian, and to this end her political and religious pro paganda has invariably tended. The union of Druses and Maronites under the same local govern ment, with a view to the gradual independence of the Lebanon, is said to be the French idea as to how the Eastern question should be solved, The idea has its advantages and disadvantages. It places France in contradiction with herself on two points of the same coast. In Africa she is the enlightened and impartial protector of Moslems, supporting their schools and mosques out of the national trea sury, and endeavouring to put in practice the pre cept of the founder of the Imperial dynasty, that the reasons which ought to make the ruler of a Western State a Christian ought also to make him a Mahomedan in the East. But between the policy observed in Algeria and that followed here there ought to be agreement. If in Algiers France is Mos lem, she can hardly be anti-Moslem in Damascus, the holy city of Islam. When M. Edmond de Lesseps was here as the consular representative of France, some two or three years back, he was indefatigable in striving to extend the influence of his country. After failing in his advances to the Druses he fell back upon the Maronites, visiting them in their homes to promise protection, and inviting them to his house on great occasions, whence they used to proceed to church in grand procession, thus identi fying France with the Maronites in the eyes of the Moslems. These subjects of the Porte claimed to be protected by France, and if they committed an offence they would not be arrested and punished by the Turkish authorities. This system, although it has existed for a long time with respect to the con ventual establishments in the mountains, has been productive of endless disturbances and illwill. There was the case of Tonijos Chahin, a muleteer, who claimed to be protected by the Lazarists, and who, when punished for an offence by a Sheik, without their intervention or permission, intrigued and brought the people to place themselves under foreign protection, until in the end he was enabled to overthrow thenative princes and appropriate their estates. The " Native Christian Association" here recently received a new and extended development under the presidency of Monsignor Tobia. They are accused, without a titt:e of evidence being forthcom ing as yet, of having procured arms and ammunition for distribution among the Maronites, on condition that if the arms were ever required for defence they were not to be paid for, and of having excited the Christians to rise. Four members of this Maronite 1 Committee at Beyrout have left the country. Their names are Ayoub Trabelsy, member of the criminal tribunal ; Mansour Tean, member of the civil tri bunal; and Nicola Naccache and Naoom Kikano, native bankers. The Turkish authorities here are accused of hav ing informed the Druses of a Maronite plot against them, and of having supplied them with arms and ammunition, the latter from the arsenal at Constan tinople. It is, therefore, not surprising when mat ters had been brought to this point—the train, in fact, laid—when rival races and sectaries had been irritated against one another, and encouraged by European political intrigues, that an explosion should occur, and that the outbreak, when it came, should take proportions never contemplated, burst ing from all control, and wrapping the country in flames and blood. That any one concerned in these proceedings ever imagined they would be fol lowed by the atrocities which have filled Christen dom with disgust and horror no one for an instant supposes. God forbid that any policy or any sect should incur so terrible a responsibility. But people ought to have learned by this time that if revolu tions are not to be triode by rose water, neither are the antipathies of race and religion to be excited with impunity. For some time murders and outrages had been committed by the two tribes on one another, but they had been so common that they were held to constitute the normal condition of society in the Lebanon. At the beginning of the year the Maro nites made armed incursions, or promenades mill taires, into the Druse country, boasting that in a short time they would drive out the Druses or ex terminate them. The Moslems sent in messengers asking for peace. At Beit-mari they even sent their children to their Maronite acquaintances to be kept as hostages. But they were returned with mes sages that war was inevitable. The 18 Druses of Beit-mari left accordingly, and were fired on; they turned, fought, and were defeated. Subsequently they returned with reinforcements, and, though still numerically inferior, were victorious, when the massacre and firing of houses were effected. So far as I have been able to learn, this is the true statement of the first outrage which may be sad to indicate a departnre from the usual proceedings of chronic assassination and outrage. The telegram which was despatched on the 6th will have informed you of the position of affairs at Damascus, and I now forward a, resume of the letters and documents on which it was founded. On the 28th of July Fuad Pasha arrived at Da mascus with the Muschir, accompanied by some 3,000 troops, which tranquilised the people, and put a stop to the exciting reports thit before were daily circulated, and served to keep up the panic. On the following day his firman was read, and early in the morning Mr. Brant, the English Consul, called to pay his respe:lts. Within a day or two of his arrival he received despatches from Constantinople, announcing the in tended expedition of French troops. He at once issued proclamations, which were distributed in the towns and along the seaboard, stating that they were coming with the Sultan's consent ; for it was feared that, with the excited state of the Moslem mind, the rumour of a hostile expedition, or of any thing looking like a crusade of the Cross against the Crescent, would render the fanatics furious, pro voke perhaps fresh massacres, and jeopardise the small Christian communities scattered over the country. In Damascus the fanatics boasted that, with the help of Druses, Kurds, and Arabs, they could defend themselves t.gainst the Sultan and his allies. Meanwhile Fuad Pasha was taking informa tion, and awaiting the arrival of two battalions which he had asked from the military commander at Beyrout, Ismail Pasha, better known in England as General Kmety, one of the valiant defenders of Kars. On the 3d, Fuad Pasha, having received these re inforcements, commenced acting with extraordinary vigour, which at once inspired the Christians with confidence, and induced them to say, "We do not effec 300. need the French." In his irst interview with the Great Medjlis, Fuad made a hasty salute in return for salams, &c., and did nct invite any one to sit down. He then addressel them to the following "By this affair you have dcie three things—you have violated the religious law; yot have trampled under foot the civil law of the Empire ; you have placed the Sultan and his Ministers in a position from which they do not see how to extricate themselves. Now, let each of you bring me a list of the guilty parties—authors, leaders, and actors in the affair; and any ono whc does not bring such a list I shall count one of the authors of the massacre. You may Last Thursday night themilitary were on the alert. At dawn yesterday the giards were doubled, and new ones stationed. The gates of the city were all closed and guarded, and so one permitted to pass. The city was terrified, and did not know what was coming. Much plunder as collected, but the ob- ject was the arrest of the criminals. About 400 were arrested, as mentioned in the despatch, up to the 4th, and the private letters received yesterday, the 7th, state that 1,800 are in prison awaiting their trial, that every Christiar. and Jew appears to have regained his courage, and that no Moslem dares look Europeans in the face. Among the latter Fuad is very popular. They are unanimous in praising his energy, and they ask, "How is such a man to be humbugged, cajoled, misled, or bribed 9" The heaviest indictment made against the Turkish officials and Moslems of Damascus is by a Nlahome dan gentleman, in the shape of a letter, of which I subjoin a translation from the original Turkish : "May the most merciful God take vengeance. " The sole cause which alined up the people of Damascus and of the villages to bring about the insurrection described below is this :—That before the breaking• out of this wicked ness by 20 days some of the worthless fellows and baser people had been appointed, by order of Government and the decision of the chief council of Damascus, to be police captains, and officers and policemen, and thereupon these persons, being themselves the chiefs of the sedition, collected a number of the lowest and basest fellows, and commenced supplying them with arms, and, as they were appointed to guard the Christian quarter, this circumstance incited al. thoughts of all the Damascenes to preparation for this work (the rising), whereas no one would have thought of the oc currence of such a sad event as this. " On Monday, the 27th of June (0. S.), 1860 (July 9, N. S.), at about 2 o'clock p.m., some boys made crosses in every section of the city, and began to cause the passers-by to tread upon them and otherwise to insult the Christians; and the making of these crosses and these insults were not of such a nature as would naturally occur to these boys, but they must have been instructed by some of the leaders of the sedition. After half an hour the report of the affair of the crosses and of the audacity manifested in insulting and hu miliatin,g..the Christians had by some means or other reached the Government, and immediately the chief of the police, with some of his men, went forth and seized a part of the boys and other persons, and sent them to the Government, when they were put in chains, and sent forth to the market to sweep the streets, and actually began sweeping. Then there gathered around them the Moslems of the neighbour hood, and rescued these boys from the police, and broke off the chains from their feet and cast them away ; and as soon as the boys were set free all the shops of the whole market (bazaars) were closed within the space of 5 or 10 minutes, and in a quarter of an hour two cannon were fired, and from that time guns began to be fired. The traitor, Selim, Agra of the Medan, an officer (Boulik Basha) of the irregu lar troops, took with him an immense number of the worst people of the Medan, armed, and led them at once to the Christian quarter; and as soon as he entered that quarter immediately fell upon the houses of such Christians as he p reviously had his eye upon, and breaking open the doors, he and his companions set about plundering, and burning, and killing; and, inasmuch as the wretch alluded to had under his command a number of armed villains, no one was able to get the start of them in carrying off the most choice and valuable of the plunder. " True, the people of the villages surrounding Damascus, and the Arabs, and Di uses came in crowds to the city after some hours and filled * it, and they also plundered much, and were fierce in shedding blood and burning. But the assembling and agreement and union and concert and pur pose of all the people of Damascus with the villagers and Arabs in the space of an hour, for the accomplishment of this sedition.in Damascus, could not have occurred without some previous determination on the part of the leading men. And that this was the case is made clear as day by the cir cumstance that, within the space of five or ten minutes, white and green banners were displayed from prominent positions on all the Moslem houses, no one forbidding. And is it possible that at such an evil time such a procedure should occur to any one without his having been previously prepared for it ? " The city guards and irregular troops that had been en rolled and officered by the order of the Great Council of the city professedly for the protection of the Christian quarter, they were the ones who first began plundering and burning and killing. Hadthese city police and people of the Me( who were enrolled as guards kept the heads of the streets leading to the Christian quarter, and bolted the gates of the quarter, and fired upon invaders, and endeavoured to turn them back and prevent them from entering the Christian quarter like the regular troops, the affair would not have arrived at such a pass, but would probably have been soon stopped. " Had the members of the Great Council and the leading men and principal persons of the tows proceeded at that time to the Christian quarter, nothing whatever would have occurred. Whereas in these circumstances no one of the aforementioned members of leading men said to any one, " Desist." And from this it is evident that the calamity which has fallen upon the heads of the poor Christians, npon their posterity, their houses, their children, and their wives, was by previous intent of their leading men, or was moreover apparent from all the indications manifest in their conduct. Many of the Christians concealed themselves in their houses, and were consumed in the flames, and many of them, subjected to severe tortures in order that they after ym fte ig r being subjected the places where their property was concealed, were butchered within their houses after making such disclosures, lest they should afterwards make complaint. Many of the women from whom they could not draw their bracelets quickly had their hands cut off, as were likewise the fingers of many others who had rings which could not easily be removed. They were not satisfied with this, but killed and destroyed many of them, and there were many women also not able to remove their ear-rings from their ears who had their ears torn open or cut off in conse quence. Some of the Christians were taken out by the fol lowers of Abd-el-Kade,r, the Algerine, from the wells and other places where they had concealed themselves, and while they were being conveyed to the Castle they were fired upon and wounded by bullets, " His Excellency A.bd-el-Kader, above mentioned, took a large number of the Christians to his house and saved them, and his men also saved a great number and took them to the Castle, and in that distress there was no one but he and his followers who made any effort to save the Christians. It is true that some persons among the Moslems took from the Christian quarter a few men, women, and children, and conveyed them to their houses, and they also took some persons to their houses from the Castle, asking the privilege of taking them, as if they had merciful intentions towards them ; but, alas for these poor people I what harm and tor ture they inflicted upon them in their houses, in order to make them disclose the places where they had concealed their property ; and how many acts of wicked violence were inflicted upon them I On the morrow they would return a part to the Castle and kill a part, while others were com pelled to become Moslems. Many vile persons took from the Castle a number of women and children without giving surety for them, and as soon as they got them out of the Castle gates they chose out the youngest of them and left the older in the street. " I was present in the Castle on that day, and saw persons of the lowest class picking out children, whom they took away without any one saying to them What are you doing ?' They opened the Armenian, Greek, and Catholic Churches, carried off the vessels and killed the priests, and then burned the churches. They plundered the Russian Consulate, and burned it. The consul is at present in the Government Palace, but the Consulates of England and France were not touched, as they were in the Moslem quarter. There were in the Custom-house about 200 Chris tians at that time, and I immediately went in haste to the Palace and brought some of the regular soldiers and took them away, and thus I secured the salvation of these poor people. " Those Christian houses which were in the Moslem quar ter were also burned after they had been plundered of everything in them. The number of such houses was about " On the 9th of July, O.S. (21, N.S.), Khaled Pasha, the military governor, in accordance with the decision of the Great Council, commenced sending to the Christian quarter and taking out the property concealed there, forbidding any to enter except those thus employed, and some of the Chris tians who were in the Castle alsl obtained permission to go to the Christian quartet and search forwhatevcr might be found in their burnt houses. Three days since a few of the Christians began to issue out into the streets nearest to the Castle, but it was reported that a Christian was killed near the Kaimardeyeb. "On the day of the outbreak they took the bell of one of the churches and placed it in an inverted position on the middle of the cross, which has been from ancient times lying under foot in the street of the Emweh Mosque. On the day of this affair and the following night, the gates of the city remained unclosed that there might be no obstacle to the removal of the plunder to the houses of the plun derers. After the dwelling-houses of the Christians were finished, their shops also were broken open and the goods carried off in the night. Many of the Sheiks, Ulernas, and principal men disguised themselves and plundered in the Christian quarter ; and in short no one in Damascus re frained from plundering the property of the Christians, not even the old women." Up to the present date we have no news of the French expedition. Nevertheless the Commissariat is active in preparing for the troops. The Turkish troops, whose pay is from 18 months to two years in arrear, have addressed a petition to the Sultan, praying that if there should be any fighting they may be employed without French assistance, until it be proved that they are unable to uphold the Sultan's authority. The latest intelligence received from Aleppo states with respect to that city nothing disastrous or alarming has happened, though the recollection of the troubles experienced some years since keeps the Christian inhabitants constantly in mind of their danger. They hope to escape a recurrence of those scenes, especially through the wakefulness shown by the Government of the district, and the• measures taken for the prevention of Moslem risings,and more particularly at the present time, since the issue of the Sultan's decree reached Aleppo, conferring upon his Excellency F aad Pasha full authority for the punish ment of those who have shed human blood. Never. theless, when the news of the Damascus massacres arrived in Aleppo the Moslems began to show bad feelings towards the Christians. The boys began to curse the Christians and threaten them, preventing them from going about in the streets. They made crosses on the ground and also on pieces of paper, hanging them about the necks of dogs, and if they saw a Christian passing they would spit upon him and curse his cross. Previous to this the Christians had presented a sum of money on the feast of Kour ban Bairam to the sheikhs and agas. Oa account of this state of matters the Christians, especially the women, did not, at the date of the last letters, leave their houses, and they were alarmed by Moslems coming and saying, " To-night will be the rising," and pretending that news had been received of mas sacres in other towns—Jerusalem, Homs, llama, Antioch, Bilan, Adani, Orfa, Aintab, and Saarit. The day before the Damascus post arrived in Aleppo bringing the news of the outbreak there the Moslems knew what had happened there, the news having been brought by a Bedouin, who had come from Da mascus. When Ismail Pasha, the new governor of the diatriet, arrived, the firnian wan read, and night of the agas were summoned and received with hon our. Leave was given to each one to have a certain number of men under them as soldiers. They imme diately commenced to arrest the rabble of the town, who patrolled the streets with arms, and gave the Christians who wished an opportunity to escape from the town, and about 50 persons left for Alex andretta, and by the next opportunity others in tended leaving, but when thii came to the ears of the Government a deputy came to the Christian quarters, accompanied by Ali Effendi Gabri, one of the members of the Medjlis, who said that they had heard some of the Christians intended to leave, and that they hal come on the part of the Pasha and the Medjlis to assure them there was no cause for fear, and they gave orders not to give tazkeras, except to those who went on business. On the 21st of July express advices were received from Diarbekir, stating that 3,000 or 4,000 soldiers were to proceed to Aleppo, and were expected about the 30th. This somewhat reassured the Chris tian inhabitants, but up to the date of the last letters the Government had not released the six innocent Christian prisoners who had been then 50 days unjustly imprisoned. At Saarit the Moslems burnt a school belonging to the Keldan,and searched for a distinguished Christian who resided there, to kill him, but he fled, and the result is not known. The Moslems of Orfa are at variance among them selves ; in Aintab they refuse to pay taxes. We have quite a large fleet off the town, and Beyrout roadstead presents a most animated ap pearance. There are here : British—The Marlborough (flag), the Exmouth (liner), will leave for Candia in a day or two ; the Liffey (frigate), the Racoon (corvette), the Lapwing and the Mohawk (despatch vessels), to leave to-day for Alexandria with mails; and the Firefly (surveying vessel). French—The Donawerth (flag of Rear-Admiral Jehenne) the Redoubtable (liner), and the Moselle (steam transport), to sail for Toulon on the 9th. Turkish—The Fathie (flag of Mustapha Pasha), the Geattiere (liner), and one screw corvette. Sardinian—The Eurydice (frigate) and one steam sloop. Austrian—One frigate, the Radetzky, and one steam sloop (paddle). Dutch—One frigate, the Admiral Von Wassenaar. Greek—The Ariadne (corvette), the Athena (brig), brought bread for the poor ; and one gunboat. At Sidon—The Neptune (English liner). At Jaffa—The Victor Emmanuel (English liner), and La bentinelle (French screw brig). :dan _HEALTH OF LONDON DURING TILE WEEK. (From the .Registrar-General's Weekly Return The deaths in London, which were 999 in the' previous week, rose to 1,029 in the week that ended last Saturday. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the 33d week of 1854 are excluded from the re turns of previous years it will be found that the average number of deaths in corresponding weeks of the last ten years is 1,091. With this average, corrected for increase of population, the present return may be compared, in which case it will appear that the deaths of last week were less than the calculated number by 171. The births registered last week exceeded the deaths in the same period by 656. Diarrhoea, which had been increasing slightly during the previous five weeks and in the week ending the 11th inst. was fatal in 90 cases, exhibited no increase last week4,in which the deaths from it were 87. There were also in the week 6 deaths from cholera and choleraic diarrhoea, all of which were those of infants except one. A warehouse man, aged 46 years, died on the 15th instant, at 68, Havelock-street, Islington, of cholera, after 47 hours' illness. Not more than 7 cases of small-pox were fatal ; of scarlatina there were 37, and of diphtheria 6. Three girls died in one family of scarlatina, within three days, at 3, Litchfield street, Soho. A master butcher, aged 31 years, died of delirium tremens, the result of intense anxiety and losses. An officer of the Indian civil service died of ele phantiasis. A man and a woman died at the ad vanced ages respectively of 97 and 96 years. Last week the births of 829 boys and 856 girls, in all 1,685 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59, the average number was 1,589. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 477 in. The barometrical readings rose from 29 . 67 in. on Sunday, and fell to 2922 in. on Thurs day. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 57.8 deg., which is 3 . 6 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as deter mined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily tempera ture was below the average throughout the week, and on Saturday the amount of deficiency was 8 . 2 deg. The highest point attained in the week by the ther mometer in the shade was 70.8 deg. on Thursday, the lowest was 48.8 deg. on Saturday. The entire range of temperature in the week was therefore 22 deg. The mean daily range was 14.7 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 61 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 4.6 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 86, complete saturation being represented by 100. The humidity varied from 76 on Friday to 96 on Satur day. The wind blew from the north-west generally on the first two days, afterwards chiefly from the south-west. 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No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, enthe seal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s, 6th; 51b. lls. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. Time 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free on receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox ford-street ; 330 and 4.51, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement; Phillips and Co, tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street, City ; at 127, High Holborn; and all grocers. Rev. Mr. Price to resist any force that might be brought against him. The enterprise was soon bruited abroad, and numerous persons of different classes offered to assist in the undertaking. The storming party met on the Spaxton-road at six o'clock on Tuesday evening, headed by Mr. Price, and a few friends in a cab, and• proceeded in two vans, each drawn by a oouple of horses towards the Agapemone. They arrived there about seven o'clock, and directly commenced the assault. Two of the inmates of this peculiar institution were on guard, armed with bludgeons, at the gate leadin g from the garden in front of the laundry, that point being the one most easily scaled. Mr. Price, followed by about twenty of his supporters, rushed towards the gate in question immediately upon leaving his vehicle, and scrambled over the adjoining wall, ob taining access to the grounds at once. The Aga pemonites retreated and gave the alarm, but were quickly follo wed by their late co-religionist to the front door of the principal dwelling. On reaching thus far Mr. Price knocked at the door and loudly demanded entrance, declaring that he had come for his wife. Entrance was denied him, and the door was thereupon battered with iron bars the assail ants had brought with them. The panels were smashed in a short space of time, but it was found difficult to burst open the other portion, the wood being very solid, and the bars at the back exceed ingly strong. When the panels were smashed the Agapemonites were seen ha strong force in the pas sage, well-armed with life-preservers, and the en trance was barricaded with tables. One of their number presented a pistol, and threatened to shoot the first intruder. A man in the crowd outside hereupon produced a second pistol, and informed the Princeite that his weapon was as good as the one first exhibited. While these proceedings had been going on the door in front of the dwelling had been forced open, and the assailants increased to 60 or 70 in number. Mr. Price, in a firm and collected manner told his late friends - that they had brought this business upon themselves by treating him like a dog, and keeping his wife from him. He added that he was resolved upon searching the premises for his lady, if she were not given up to him, and if he were not allowed to do so peaceably, he would do so by force. After this address the crowd became somewhat excited. One man shouted "Let him shoot, he can only kill one," and another called upon the owner of the second pistol to fire also. A cry was raised to break in the two bow windows. This direction was about to be carried into operation, and the people at the threshold were beginning to force their way into the passage, a man aiming a blow at the pistol with his cudgel, when one of the de fenders called out " A flag of truce." This was a most prudent step, for the assailants were resolute men, bent on carrying out their object, and blood shed must have resulted had not the Princeites de cided that discretion, was in this instance the better part of valour. A parley ensued, the spokesman on the part of the Agapemone offering to admit Mr. Price to the house. The companions of that gen -1 tleman would not accede to that arrangement, and it was eventually agreed that six individuals should accompany Mr. Price in pursuit of his wife. They then entered the house, and searched every room therein, their examination lasting more than an hour. A male Princeite went with the searchers from room to room, and the ladies of the establish ment were seen in their various apartments. Beds were turned over, and closets peered into, but no Mrs. Price was discoverable. The investigating party were treated civilly by the inmates, and when it grew dark were supplied with a candle. Whilst the search was going on the outside multitude was greatly augmented by persons from Bridgwater, 'who came in vehicles, on horseback, and on foot, and by the inhabitants of the villages of Spaxton and Charlinch, who flocked to the spot to ascertain what was the matter. Before eight o'clock there could not have been less than 500 people assembled, and none were heard to utter other than disparag ing remarks of the fraternity whose repose had been thus rudely disturbed. The lane leading to the Abode of Love from the main road was filled with gigs, vans, &c. From the first groups of men had stationed themselvesin different parts of the grounds to foil any attempt to take away the lady concern ing whom so much trouble was being taken. Two or three Princeites stood as sentinels at the door which had been broken in during the search of the principal residence. The upper rooms were exa mined twice, and locked as they were left, but the scrutiny proved unavailing. The cottages, conser vatories, and stables were next visited by Mr. Price and his half-dozen followers without success, and near eight o'clock the trespassers quitted the noto rious abode. . The conduct of the assailants was much less riot ous than might have been expected. It is said that scarcely a shrub or a flower was injured, and that the breakage of the door was the only damage per petrated. Mr. Price, previous to setting out on his expedition, impressed upon those who accompanied him the great desirability of inflicting no greater injury than was absolutely necessary for the ac complishment of the object he had in view, viz., the rescue of his wife, to whom, he maintains, he is rightly entitled. He kept the multitude, who readily gave him their help, under control, and was anxious that the Princeites who strolled about during the search, should not be maltreated. A busy trades man in the furniture removal line had the effrontery to inquire from a gentlemanly member of the pecu liar institution whether his services were likely to be required, " For," said he, " I have heard you are about to leave this place, and I can remove goods cheaply and safely for you." Prince himself, on this as on the former occasion, was not visible. The mission to the Agapemone having failed, a consulta tion was held as to what next was to be done. Smile suggested that the neighbouring Lamb Inn and cot tages should be visited, but the general opinion was that Prince's farm at Aisholt (three miles distant) contained Mrs. Price, and that it would be ad visable to hasten thither at once. To Aisholt, therefore, Mr. Price led the way, twa vans, several vehicles, and a number of men on foot following. The cortege had not gone more than half-a-mile before an inmate of the Abode was discerned mounted on one of the splendid black chargers of the establishment, galloping towards' the motley procession. The rider passed the hindermost gig at a smart pace ' • a shout was then raised that he was a Princeite, and must be stopped. The fiery horse was lashed and struck, and men in the road ran in front of the spirited animal to drive it back. The horse reared and plunged, but its rider kept his seat admirably. No progress could be made, and the mounted dis ciple of the " Holy Ghost" returned, only to hasten to the menaced Aisholt Farm by another route. The road was rough and hilly, so that heavily laden conveyances advanced slowly. The expeditionary corps were, however, eager for the fray, and left their vans in order to walk to the place to be at tacked. Darkness drew on apace, and when the bottom of the dangerous Aisholt-hill had been reached, and the establishment in question' was near, a council of war was held, whereatit was de cided that it would be unwise to attack the farm that night, as sufficient time bad elapsed to permit the removal of Mrs. Price, if she had been there, and it would be impracticable to hunt the adjacent woods in search of her. Mr. Price and the indivi dual who had acted as his lieutenant collected around them, in the road, what may be called the advanced guard of the storming party, and ad dressed them. The lieutenant said the men had acted manfully, bravely, yet prudently, in assisting Mr. Price to obtain his rights. That gentleman was deeply grateful to them for their generous support, and none the less so on account of their non-success. Another attempt would be made to restore to Mr. Price what he was justified in seek ing, and what he was entitled to by the law of God and man. He trusted that the gentleman they had so kindly and generously assisted would meet with the same hearty support on a future occasion. The Rev. Mr. PRICE also briefly addressed the assembly. He first sincerely thanked them for their hearty sympathy and support, and then went on to state his belief that it would he useless to proceed to Aisholt that night. He appealed to God as his witness that he had no desire to retaliate upon the Agapemonites in consequence of the ill treatment he had received at their hands. He only wanted his rights, and he was resolved to obtain them. A visit to the Aisholt farm could only now have the effect of frightening and disturbing the inmates, and that he tad no wish to do when his purpose could not be gained. Those who had accompanied him, he averred, had done nothing of which they need be ashamed at the Agapemone. When a large body of persons congregated for, such an object as they had in view riotous behaviour usually took place, but nothing of the kind had occurred that night, and he begged those who had so kindly af forded him help thus far to quietly and peaceably return to Bridgwater. He again thanked them in a feeling manner, and intimated that he might hereafter ask them for their 'assistance. Both speakers were repeatedly applauded, and at the ter mination of Mr. Price's speech an enthusiastic in dividual called for three cheers for the hero of the evening. Others thought it would be unseemly to disturb the night by hurrahs ; but more than a dozen volunteered to lie in ambush for the lady, and to obey any orders be might think fit to give. They disclaimed any thought of compensation, and declared they were willing to continue the woman hunt for several days. These offers were politely THE AG' 'O_RMED. It was known on Monday in Bridgwater that a most determined attack was to be made the follow- ing (Tuesday) evening upon the Agapemone, to de liver Mrs. Price from the clutches of the Princeites, and the aid of volunteers was solicited to enable the declined, and the expedition returned to Bridgwater, the faster vehicles arriving home about half-past ten o'clock. The night was pitch dark, and it was no easy matter to get back from the Aishot Hills. The townspeople, aware that the attack had come off, thronged their doors to inquire the upshot as the vans passed along the streets. Thus ended the second organised attempt to free Mrs. Price from the influence and custody of the Agapemonites. Actions for trespass and damage against some of the leading actors in the transaction may be ex pected. Mr. Price says he is prepared to defend any suits against himself, and to indemnify those who aided him. After such events as these, it is not probable that the Abode of Love will be much longer located in the vicinity of Bridgwater. IMPORTANT TO BETTING MEN. Mr. George Read, of Bushey Heath, Watford, appeared before Mr. Mansfield at the Clerken well Police-court yesterday to answer a summons, which had been taken out by Mr. John L. Hatton, late musical director to Mr. Charles Kean, of the Princess's Theatre, which charged him with using abusive and insulting language towards the com plainant, whereby a breach of the peace might have been occasioned. _ Mr. Hatton said he was a professor of music, and resided at 3, Goswell-street. On the 2d inst. the defendant met him in Belgrave-street, and called him a rogue, a blackguard, and a vagabond. He had before used this language to bim, and the only reason he had for doing so was that he owed the defendant some money on horse-racing. The de fendant had threatened to annoy him in every way he could. _ _ The defendant, in answer to the charge, said the complainant owed him £6O, £3O of which he had paid in hard cash out of his pocket. The debt arose out of some horse-racing transactions. He had. frequently asked the complainant for payment, but he could not get his money, and was always met with some subterfuge. He was not the only one to whom the complainant owed money, for some of his (the defendant's) friends had been served in the same manner as he had been. He (the defendant) had only been brought there that day for the pur pose, of annoyance, and to preventiim from being present at the York Races. The summons was not taken out until a fortnight after the words had been used, and this was done so that other persons who were present at the races should not see him (com plainant) at this court that day. The fact was that he ought to have taken the summons out, for the complainant called him a blackguard. Mr. Mansfield said there was no reason why debts of honour should not be paid within 24 hours, and all persons who had not the means of so doing should not make such bets. He could fully under stand that Mr. Read was much irritated at not being paid ; and as both the complainant and the defendant had used similar expressions to each ' other, he should dismiss the summons. The decision was received with loud clapping of hands, which was soon stopped by the officers, t: OUN 21R Y MARKETS. SHEFFIELD-Aim. 21. There was a thin attendance, and prices may be noted at an advance of 6d to is per load of 3 bushels for wheat, with a fair business. Flour held at the full rates of last market. Beans 6d and oats is to 2s more money. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...23s 6d to 24s 6d 7 1 White ...24s 6d to 26s 6d _ New red 11 New white ~ ...—s Od to—sod ...—s Od to —s Od Beans .. . 19s 6d to 21s 6d Peas, per qr 48s Od to 62s Od Grinding barley, per qr 33s Od to 36s Od Malting ditto, „ 34s Od to 37s Od Oats /, 26s Od to 33s Od Millers' prices for flour-2s 3d, 2s sd, and 2s 7d per 141 b. HULL—Ausa. 21. At our market to-day there was a fair attendance, with a thin supply of wheat, and prices generally is to 2s up. Grinding barley scarce, and an advance was obtained. Peas in good demand, and is higher. Beans scarce, and a free sale, at advanced rates. Wheat.... Old white per qr. s9s Od - to 64s Od Old red f New white .. New red , Dantzic, Konb , Sm. old white 53s Od to 57s Od Dutch, Belgian,and French 538 Od to 54s Od _ ._ _ Baltic'and lianiburg, red .. s3s Od to 54s Od St. Petersburg and Riga, old 45s Od to 49s Od Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 43s Od Grinding • 3la Od to 37s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 34s Od to Ms Od Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 14d to 14id. Friesland and Dutch osl4ld to 0815 d Swedish and Danish oBl4d to 08140 Beans .'...English, old, per qr 46s Od to 48s Od New pigeon 44s Od to 45s Od New tick Egyptian Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .... Spring 4os Od to 50s Od Indian Corn Linseed, feeding • 48s Od to 52s Od crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) Foreign 8 0 oto 810 0 Rape cakes 5 5 oto 510 0 Bones 5 0 oto 5 7 6 DUBLIN-AuG. 21. At the opening to•day a smart advance was generally demanded on every description of grain, which checked the disposition to buy. On the whole the market was slow at about the currencies of last Friday. The weather for the last two days has been fine, and the mercury steadily rising. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 33 0 to 36 0 Do., red .. 31 0 to 33 0 Do., new .... 0 to 0 Barley Oats Do., black l5 0 to 15 6 N. d. s. d. Do., new . 0 to —" 0 Bore . ..... 14 6 to 16 0 Rapeseed .... 20 0 to 23 0 Oatmeal l5 0 to 17 6 Bakers' flour Indian corn COAL MART (rem of Coal per Ton at d.( :ET—Aua. 20. the close of the market.) Walls End. Davison's West Hart ley ....16 3 Hastings Hartley ....16 3 Howard's West Hart- o. di Wharneliffe 16 6 .Thorpe Edon Main l7 6 South Hartlepool 17 6 Hedloy .. 16 6 Hetton Keiper Grange.... l7 6 Russel's Hetton 17 9 Caradoc ..18 0 Shineliffe 17 3 Lambton 18 6 101; sold, 82. ley 16 0 Wylam 16 0 Walker Primrose 13 9 West Hartley 16 0 Walls End. - Brsddyll's Hetton 17 91 SouthHetton ..19 3 Ships at market, THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South= ampton) .. • • Sept. 18. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 12. Bahamas and Havana (via-New York) .. .. Aug. 30. Canada, &c. (via Liverpool) .. Aug. 22. Cape of Good Hope, &c... • • • Sept. 1. .China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Sept. 1. Do. (via Marseilles) Aug. 26. Gibraltar (via Southampton) Aug. 25. 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Let him send o.t once for a box of Holloway's pills; after a few doses 1 1 us head will be clear again, his spirits elevated, and all his energies restored. Printed directions for the gu ida x n ed eeto patients in the use of this admirable medicine are afli every box. BIRTHS. Coox.—On the 21st inst., at Doughty House, Richmond, the wife of Francis Cook, Esq., of a sou. FORBES.—On the 17th inst., at luverarnan, Strathdon Aberdeenshire, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Forbes, C.B .) Bombay Cavalry, of a son. HAWTRE V.—On the 21st i n st., at Eton, the wif e o f the Rev. John W. Hawtrey, of adaughter. James Hargrove, Esq., of lACIES M A it g - . fi n the 22d lust ., a t Bayswater, to Jessie, the second HARGROVE —AIRD.-- - Sidney th e parish Esq., of The Grove, Lee. 6 ch , u p r e c m h b o ri f d L ge ef o , r li es e ce n i t t, John Acrd, daughter of Sr URGE ON BtatooYNE.—On the 22d i ns t., a t N ew Park street Chapel, the Rev. James Archer Spurgeon, minis ter of Portland Chapel, Southampton, to Emily Georgina, youngest daughter of General Sir John F. Burgoyne, Bart. DEATHS. • CHAILLTON.—On the 20th inst., at 6, Acre-lane, West Brixton, Geor ge Ch arlton, Esq., aged 76. DRAEGER. — On th e 21 s t i ns t., at D or ki ng, S urrey, B en j . Draeger, E sq., of 7, vale. Upper Chadwell-street, Penton- GOL DSMID.—On the 20th inst., at Paris, Nathl. Goldsmid, Esq., late of Upper Berkeley-street, aged 53. .• GRAY. .On the 20th inst., at 4, Clifton-gardens, Alexan der Gray, Esq., of the Garden Estate and Sweet Briar, Trinidad, W.I. MORRISON._On the 16th inst., at St. Helier's, Jersey, Vice-Admiral Isaac Hawkins Morrison. M - ma.on.—On the 18th inst., at Ilkley Wells, near Otley, Yorkshire, James Mellor, Esq., of 15, Cleveland-sqtare, aged 68. • LONDON : Printed and Published by KURD() YOUNG , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Dffice, No. 117, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Thursday, August 23, 1860. 0