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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-01 00:00:00

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Saleroom, 3, York-buildings, Dale-street,
The Brig
CLAUDIA,
\173 tone register; length, 103 feet ; beam, 22 feet
tnateliitt: 8-10ths ; depth. 12 feet 4-10ths. Built at St.
- • - John's, N.F., in 1854, andohas since been well
taken care of; in 1857 she was overhauled at a cost of £l,OOO,
wai thoroughly caulked, and had a new false keel three months •
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to sea without any expense. In Albert Dock. Apply to
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ROBERT A. MUNN & CO.. Brokers.

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The fine Ship
.EARL OF DERBY ;
r 1,000 toes e.m., 1,047 tens register. Length, 162
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and SS for five years, coppered and boottopped ; has hadthree
new masts, new bowsprit, new rudder, and nearly all new
spars, has always been well kept up, and in the East India
trade. Lying in Brunswick Dock. Apply to Messrs. Charles
Moore and CO, owners ; or to
ROBERT A: MUNN & CO., Brokers.

Unless previously disposed of by Private Treaty.
To-morrow (Thursday), the 2nd August at Three o'clock,
at the Brokers' Saleroom, Exchange, Liverpool,
The fine first-class and burthensome three-decked
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ktl EBBA
,fri,,:t‘e; 1,756 tons by the late, 1,625 tons by the present
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5-10ths. This well known and profitable ship was built at
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inspected
and abundant, by
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cabin and other passengers ; has twice conveyed to Australia
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wiLloyd's d s
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lasth erygeeanr ,e
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worthy of Inspection : lying in the Bramley-Moore Dock. For
inventories and further particulars apply to
CUNARD, WILSON, & CO
Brokers.

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To-morrow (Thursday ), the 2nd instant, at Three o'clock, at the
Brokers' Saleroom, Exchange, Liverpool,
The very desirable Ship
PRINCE ARTHUR,
1,025 tons o.n. 1,146, tons late register and 1,086
if,;,V,al tons N.N.M. Length, 168 feet 8-10ths% breadth,
'I-7 • 36 feet 2-' oth= ; depth, 22 feet 9-10ths. Built at
Quebec in 1851, and classed A 1 at Lloyd's for six years ; is
copper-fastened. At the end of 1856 she was thoroughly over-
hauled at great expense, and has just been caulked from keel
to gunwale, and put in thorough order for sea at the expense
of the underwriters ; she carries largely, shifts without ballast,
and having been originally well salted and renewed, will be
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FOR SALE,
The Brig PHILLIS,
239-65 tons register; built at Miramichl, N.E. ;
launched July last year, and classed A seven years
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last, is.wire-rigged, and a strong substantial vessel : now h.;„„.
in Glasgow. For inventory and further particulars, apply ip
Glasgow to A. G. Kidston ; or here, to
PATTERSON, M'CULLY;Br CO., 30, Castle-street.

THE MASSACRE AT DAMASCUS.

The following are extracts from the correspondence
of European residents in. Syria .
"DAMASCUS, July 10, 6 30 A.M.
. _

" A few minutes after I closed my letter of yesterday
an uproar commenced in the street opposite my house.
The Moslems—men, women, and boys—began to
assemble, crying out that all should go to the Christian
quarter to plunder, burn, and massacre, and threaten-
ing not to leave a house or a Christian. I went to the
street and spoke to some of them, hoping it would
come to nothing. It grew rapidly worse. Every
one was calling to others not to come without arms,
and the women were violently exciting the men.
There was some fear expressed of the soldiers, but
most declared the soldiers would not interfere with them.
I now found it prudent to take the advice of some of
my neighbours, and keep inside my house. The street
past my house is about the shortest road from the
Shughoor and the Meedan, the two worst districts in
the city. Soon after I went into my house the ruffians
began to return from the Christian quarter with bur-
dens of plunder, while the numbers running towards
it were increasing, and threats, imprecations, and yells,
were numerous and loud. Every sort and size of thing
was carried past my house,—mares and goats, gold and
old iron nails, silks and cotton, chests, large and small,
tables, chairs, books, and every imaginable article. There
was a stream of plunderers past ray door till after sunset,
nearly five hours. Afterwards they became fewer, but
they never ceased all night, and with the dawn they
again increased. As soon as they had plundered some
of the houses they set them on fire. During the night,
though there was clear moonlight, the flames and smoke
presented a sight as grand as it was awful. During the
first half of,the night the flames presented an unbroken
arc of a circle, as viewed from my roof, of more than 70
deg., extending from a little north of Bab Shurky to the
extreme north point of the Christian quarter. Towards
morning the arc became shorter, partly because it had
been steadily approaching me, and the Christian quarter
as it comes this way grows narrower, and partly, per-
haps, because the line of fire was not sweeping all the
houses on the north border of the quarter. Towards
morning the flames also became lower, or less:violent,
on most parts of the line, and fewer houses were in
flames at once. Still the fire is raging fearfully. There
has been an increasing tumult of cries, of the fire, of
breaking open houses, &c., all mingled up together. I
have no means of guessing the amount of murder com-
mitted. Last night comparatively few appear to have
been killed, but there is said to have been more butchery
this morning. I cannot go out of my door without
being in the midst of these hellish ruffians thirsting and
crying for blood and plunder. If one of the native
Christians in my house were to go out I believe he
could not reach the corner of the street alive. So my
means of informatien, beyond what I see and hear of
the flames and tumult and pinnder are very limited.
We overhear a good deal of their talk in the street,
and some of the talk of our Moslem neighbours on the
roofs.

" I believe it would not have needed a great effort on
the part of the Government to prevent all this, but not
the slighest effort has yet been made. There were
soldiers in the Christian quarter and neighbourhood,
others were sent in the evening with four guns, and
more this morning, but they have not at all interfered
with the ruffians. Yet a majority of the miscreants
are actually women, boys, and girls. I would affirm
that there are not in all more than a few hundred men
—say, 500—mostly the lowest of the low, and miserably
armed. Not one in twenty has a gun. A very large
number have only sticks, the rest swords, pistols, dag-
gers, or axes. Opposite my door is a sort of stopping-
place for them, and we can overhear their talk, and I
can affirm that from the first, and all through, they
have had the greatest dread of the interference of the
soldiers, and constantly ask one another as they meet
whether the soldiers in such and such a direction are
stopping the murderers or opposing them, and this
although, during seventeen hours, the soldiers have
been perfectly passive. I believe firmly that 100, or at
the most 200 soldiers, or armed resolute men, could have
put down the insurrection at the worst moment. Of
course, it would have been easier to do so within the
first hour or so.

" This meagre account does not give anything like an
adequate conception of this most horrible and most dis-
graceful affair ; that words could hardly do. Horses,
donkeys, and mules are employed to carry plunder, and
some of the soldiers help themselves to a share. There
were several thousands of poor widows, orphans, and
other plundered and ruined refugees here, depending on
the charity of the Christians for food, shelter, and clothes.
They are now burnt out again amid the horrors of last
night, and those that were providing bread for them are
now as helpless as themselves.

" NOON.

" The plundering still continues, but the number enga-
ged in it seems greatly reduced since morning, and
most of the articles now are of little value. No effort
has yet been made to stop this reign of terror and
destruction, easy as it would seem to be ; and a
Christian, at least a man, would, probably, be in greater
danger among the ruffians now *than at any former
period, The houses are still burning, though appa-
rently not nearly so much as through the night,
but I cannot see so well, as I cannot go so freely on my
roof in the day as I could during the night. We have
made a peephole over the street from which we can see
and hear without being seen ; for if seen we should
probably be very soon disposed of. These ruffians from
the Meedan, and the Arabs, gipsies, &c., among them,
know nothing of me, and rush past thinking only of
the Christian quarter. If my neighbours do not betray
me I may probably escape, but there are some of them
not to be trusted. We are not in human hands, but in
the hands of One infinitely wise and good as well as
infinitely powerful, and without His. permission nothing
can befall us."

BEYROUT, July 15.

Time does not permit me to give you such details as
I could of the rapid progress of the civil war in Syria.
I need only say that the whole of the Christian villages
in the Lebanon are totally destroyed, their inhabitants
ruined, and compelled to beg their bread. I dread to
think what will become of them during the winter.
On the 23rd of June we had a scene here which
threatened our lives at auy moment. On • that
morning a Christian was reported to have killed a Mos-
lem (although many still say that a Moslem in a quarrel
killed one of his own sect), and immediately a
general demand for the life of the Christian was
made, and by nine o'clock every place of business was
closed. The Christians shut themselves up in their
houses, and the Moslems paraded the streets armed, and
vowing vengeance. By about midday the excitement
had become so great that the Ottoman Bank deemed it
advisable to embark all the specie, books, cSec., on board
her Majesty's ship Exmouth, as affairs looked worse
every moment. At last a poor Christian was fixed upon
as the victim, was tried, and convicted on evidence of
the most . trivial character, and was beheaded the same
evening, and left till next day exposed to view in the
Grand Place. On his way to the place of execution he
was wounded several times bythe knives of theMoslem mob.
The next day (Sunday) went off quietly, but few people
ventured out in the streets, and on Monday, with a view
to start business again, the Bank sent on board for a
portion of the specie ; but those who owed money had
also money owing to them, and seemed determined to
keep what they had for any emergency. Protest after
protest came in, and a general panic reigned over the
whole place. I should tell you that during all this no
steps were taken by the Government to disperse the
mob. The Pasha was at the foot of the mountain
under pretence of stopping the Druses, should they
make an attack on Beyrout. Some of the better
class of Moslems, who deplore these affairs deeply
(perhaps from pecuniary views), endeavoured to quiet
the mob ; but I know one who was struck
by his own people. I am not sure whether we
were not better without the troops, as the chances are
they would have joined in the plunder and massacre,
had the thing once been commenced, as they have done
at Deir-al-Khamar, at Zahleh, at Hasbeia—in fact,
everywhere ; and 1 know from good authority here that
the Pasha has received a good share of the spoils of the
poor Christians. On Tuesday, the 10th inst., the
alarming news reached us that on the day previous,
about two o'clock p.m., the burning of the Christian
quarter of Damascus and the massacre of the
Christians had commenced. Another affair was
feared in Beyrout, but fortunately up to this time
nothing has occurred. I have seen the accounts
from the English Consul at Damascus (Mr. Brant),
and also letters from some of the missionaries
there. They all agree in the horrible consequences
to be apprehended. Poor Air. Graham, an English
missionary there, was seen to fall wounded, and is sup.
posed to be dead. No church, not a Christian house,
remains in Damascus. From the news received yester-
day the Moslems of the better class fear for themselves,
as they protected many Christians, and are looked upon
by the fanatics as no true believers. Besides all this, a
horde of Bedouins and Arabs, assisted by the Druses
have begun such a work as pro-
and the Moslem mob,
mises to level the whole of Damascus with the ground.
In the castle 10,000 Christians are shut up ; but, if
they are not killed they must die of hunger in a few
days. It is impossible to estimate the number of per-
sons killed, but from all accounts up to yesterdoy there
cannot be less than 2,000. I hope, sir, for the sake of
humanity, you will insert this in your valuable paper. I
fear, sir, the people of England are sometimes too slow to
believe ; but surely the reports from our consuls, from
the commanders of our men-of-war, will awaken Eng-
land to see that the Turkish Government cannot any
longer maintain order in its dominions. Perhaps this
may be smoothed down by a promise from the Sultan to
remove the Pashas ; but recollect, after three years'
residence in this place, I have never seen any material
difference between one Pasha and another. Their plan
is to pocket as much as they can themselves, and they
manage pretty well when they can lay by an indepen-
dency in two or three years. You must also yourself be
well aware that the Turkish troops are about 18 months
in arrear of pay. Add this temptation to plunder to

their natural fanaticism, and the little discipline
their officers can enforce on them, and draw your own
conclusion as to the results. I can assure you, from
good authority, that the Government at Damascus has
borrowed money to buy food at the.enormous rate of 36
per cent per annum. The Russian; Austrian, and Bel-
gian consulates at Damascus are all burnt,' and several
attempts have been mad. to burn the French: Up to
the latest news the English Consul was safe, but as
things are going on I do not think his life is worth
mach. The Church of Terra Santa is burnt, and all the
fathers killed. A large number of people have taken
refuge in the house of Abd-el-Kader, who has aimed
about 2,000 of his Mograbins, and promises to protect
the Christians to the last drop of his blood.
We have lying in the roads Her Majesty's ship Ex-
mouth, 91 ; the French frigate Zenobie, 50 ; the despatch
boat Heron; and two Turkish liners. There is also a
Turkish frigate at Sidon, and another left last night, I
believe for Candia. Her Majesty's ship Mohawk is at
Latakia or Tripoli, and the French gunboat Clara left
immediately after the news of the 10th from Damascus
for Smyrna, with despatches.

I feel sure you will see the necessity of making these
things public ; and in the sincere hope that my letter
may do its share towards causing England to see the
lives she is sacrificing to uphold a Moslem Power.