The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-14 00:00:00

WILCOX 1r BANWILL.

Mr. M. Smith, Q.C. and Mr. F. Bayley were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Serjeant Kinglake and Mr. Edlin were
counsel for the defendant.

This was an issue to try who was the owner of some
property in a 'Richfield in the neighbourhood of Weston-
super-Mare, which had been seized under an execution
by the sheriff, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff.

THE MASSACRES IN SYRIA.

We publish to-day a number of extracts from
private letters, which sill be found of great interest :
" Bevrout, July 19. •
" We are favoured by yours of the -2,411 ult., and in
reply to your information that the Sublime Porte had
chmiged some governors, end ordered the tlespatth of
some soldiers to Is is country, and, in consequence of
tho-e measures. hopes were entertained of a speedy
settlement of these disturbances, we beg to say that the
fearful occurrences in the mountains against the Chris-
tians pre totally absortled now in the last events and
cruelties at Damascus. On Monday, the 9th inst., a
rising of the Moslems took place against the Christians
of that capital, and about 6,000 men in three divisions
attacked their quarter, and at once commenced burn-
ing, pillaging, and mu t tiering, and on the following day
Moslems. Bedouins. and Droves of the neighbourhood
poured into the town and continued the tragedy. Sane
Christians took refuge at the house of Abd-el-Kader,
others with some respectable Moslems, and the women
and children at the Castle, and at the English and
Prussian Consulates, which, being Moslent property,
and in the Moslem quarter, were saved. All the Chris-
tian quarter, with the other Consulates, to the number
of about 1,000 houses, were ',MN:ed and burnt. On
the 12th inst., when they hail done with the pillaging
and burning of every house, they went into the city,
anti there ransacked all the warehouses and shops
belonging to the Christians, and, according to
the last news arrived from Damascus yesterday,
pillage awl murder continued up to the last
dote, the 10th inst. The number of killed ionic
calculate at 0,000, and .lIIC at more. At the time
these horrible demi. began there were about 1,500 regular
Tun kish troops and as many Bashi-Basuuks, but they
never gave any protection to the Christians, but helped
to throw them back into the burning flames when they
attempted to escape ; those who are still alive are in
danger of meeting their death by starvation. In fine, if
we were to write all the details we should require& large
volume; mnface it to say,—God save us! At present
fears are entertained for the Christians in every place,
—at Hums, Hammel', Saida, Latakia, Aleppo, Tripoli,
Ileyrout, lyre, Acre, Jaffa, Naplous, and Jerusalem,—
lest the saute fearful crimes should be committed then-,
as, after these events at IMmaseus, the Droves and klos-
Imes killed the Christians of Horan and Baalbee, pillaged
their property, and forced many to embrace Islamism.
About half the population of Beyrout have left for Alex-
andria, Sara, and other parts of Greece, and even for
RUIPlia• Two days ago his Excellency Flied Pasha,
Minister for Foreign Affairs, and his Excellency Halim
Pasha, commander of the army of Damascus, arrived,
and before them, and in their company, came regular
soldier., sent for the last disturbances in the mountains,
as when they left they had not the news of the Damn/.
cene sevents ; so we have about 0.000 in Iles-rout, and
with the soldiers that went with Mahmer Paulus, the
new Governor of Damascus, there will be about 4,000
there; but no one knows what will happen afterwards."