The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-20 00:00:00

PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN SYRIA.

The atrocious calumny of shedding human blood
in our religious rites, which occasioned some years ago so
great a persecution in Syria, of our unfortunate co-reli•
gionists, appears still to be wickedly persisted in by the ig-
norant, bigoted, and malignant pseudo-christiens of that
benighted region, if we may credit the following statement,
which we give verbatim from a letter we have just re- ,
ceased
" Damascus, July 15, 1853.—1 t is, alas, evident that oar ,
enemies do not cease their wilful persecution against our
co-religionists. The eternal, malicious slander by which
they pretend to denigrate our religion, of its prescribing
human sacrifices, is now and then trird, soil the no-suectm
issued in a place does not discourage them from contriving
new plots in another. Thus while at Salo'tina a young girl
was concealed by some Christians, to claim her from the
Jews, and after inquisitions she was found in a Christian
house, another similar intrigue had been recently contrived
at Aleppo, with no more success. On the 17th ult. a young
Christian goldsmith apprentice coming out from his master's
workroom, being accompanied by his Jewish companion,
has been pretendedly lost. The Greek catholic bishop did
not fail to claim the disappeared fellow from the Jews, who
he said were in habitude of smuggling men for religious
purposes, citing for precedents the affairs of Damascus and
other places. Inquisitorial visits were practised at the
Jewish quarter. The poor Jewish fellow who has been seen
walking with the missing youtb,was arrested, ill-treated, and
put int examinations; u;spositions to a general persecution
spinet the community were evident; when the goldsmith
(a ca'holic converted to protestantism), master of both
fellows, revealed to some Jews that the vanished Christian
has been concealed by his relations. Immediately the
Jews took with them some Alussulmen, and went to verify
this statement ; the young fellow was actually
.found
living, and hidden among the stuff in " a corner ' in a
room. Then he was brought triumphantly to tne tribunal
for trial ; there he avowed that his relations bid to him to
conceal hiaself. The Jews craved from the local authori-
ties that a writ should be delivered to them stating the un-
masked turpitude, but the opponent's influence prevailed to
prevent the obtainment of such momentous act. Until
when, will such stupid, calumnious, detestable proceedings
on our charge be continued ? Are not yet our detracton con-
vinced of the watchfulness of the Almighty to detect it, and
to show the innocence of his persecuted adorers ?—Jercish
Chronicle.

EXTRAORDINARY BRUTALITY.
A correspondent of the Ciereland (U.S.) Plain-
dealer, writing from Mackinac, gives the following
account of the fiendish cruelty practised upon some
children by their uncle :—" I send you the result of a pre-
liminary examination had at Grand Travers*, a newly-
organised county, formerly attached to Michilimackinac, for
judicial purposes, in the matter of the people against 0. P.
Hughssn, charged with murder, rape, and assaults with-
out number. It appeared that Hugheon had formerly
been a teacher of the common schools at Mackinac, but by
various little tyrannies, and au occasional outbreak of MOT*
or loss brutality, had so far estranged his patrons and ex-
cited the indignation of the community that he found it
convenient to change the scene of his educational labours.
For this purpose be selected Grand Traverse, on Lake
Michigan, where his conduct might be less open to scrutiny
or condemnation. Among others his own sister had left
her three young children to be houwd and instructed by
their unnatural relative. For months, as it appeared by
the testimony of witnesses, he had pursued a system of
ruthless cruelty towards these unoffending little ones, by
starvation, burning', and other chastisements of the most
aggravated description. For days he would furnish them
with an ear of corn to be eaten from the cob with the
swine. And, after a day's labour, he would It.* and
bemuse their bodies to aid digestion, and then send them,
shivering and pppsrMss, to their beds. Thus these un-
footman§ ism bassos dieaL of public attention and coin-
nalmesdow. Their Astute", pale and wan, their frames
dwarfed sad ettesussed, their looks and gestures cower-
ing sad evasive, all told of some home mystery, that a
few weeks were doomed to unravel. Suddenly, one of
the children, a lad of about eight years, died and was
buried. The villagers, suspecting foul play, appointed a
committee of investigation, and removed the other children

front under his cafe. The history of their unexampled ant.
ferioga was now brought to light. Unawed by the WIM.
dish presence of their tormentor, and his threats of farther
cruelties and death, they told of long nights of bitter
cold and darkness, of blows, kicks, pinches, bruises, and
rowitinp ea the back, hips, and under the armpits :
and dike gnawing, of hanger, almost terminating their
wretched lives. They exhibited their emaciated bodies,
scorched and excoriated, in proof of their statements,
and spoke of their little brother in the grave, who had
only *soaped farther cruelties in death. Hughson had
remained, in the meantime, at Orand Traverse, shunned
and forsaken, but evidently suspicious and alarmed.
He even ventured upon the desperate experiment of in-
viting a meeting of the citizens to inquire into his con-
duct and listen to his explanations. But his effrontery
could not abide the test. la the evening of that day he
suddenly disappeared, carrying with him a portion of a
slaughtered hog, which he had killed and quartered with an
axe ; and in this plight he started, in mid-winter, to accom-
plish a knarney of several hundred miles, through snows and
rivers, and the untamed forest. His next appearance was
in company of Officer Tyler of Detroit, who brought him is
irons to Mackinac, about the end of May last, and eventu-
ally lodged him with the sheriff of Orand Traverse county.
After Hughson's escape from the latter place the body of the
murdered boy was exhumed, a jury of Inquest summoned,
and a earful post mortem examination held. It resulted in
an exhibition of the still untainted body, frightfully bruised
and blackened with kicks and blows; anti in a vet-
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as Ye dy_efaseting.
ant. 10. J. Itaily, Lawbasas. Mid,
_flaiter-lept 10. V. Chiwers, bad undoubtedly been occasioned by cruel treatment, long 15. In the Commons railway amalgamations and the
it, Wte~4 Mb Maned elelnelNO--110. 9. E. Blakely,
continued, and divers severe bruises inflicted a few hours 1 seizure of alleged warlike stores at Mr. Hale's factory,
etaduit.suest, Wandastd, sail Itarwlab. Ilbsoaawr-SepL 9. K, before death. So ended the tragedy, at least 64 the present. I Rothcrhithe, came on for a discussion. The Jewish Dim-
Don. Taaass aem d lhassfan. Daesadde, grocer- It appeared, moreover, that this fiend in human form had bilitin Bill, after a long and animated debate, read a third
ant. Y. E. T. lea dad si 13. W. lain with his little niece, a child of about twelve years of time, and passed by a majority of 288 to 230.
aloft, Powfol‘wwws ellooho=llWWl woo -ooPt age, and attempted to accomplish his horrible purpose, 18. The Chancellor of the -Exchequer, in a speech of six'
13. T. Tapley, LINSIISNI.__IIIIIIIIIh
16 DUIOLVED. partly by promises calculated to allure unsuspecting child- hours' duration, which occupied seventeen columns of the
J. Firth. 0. gieeksi.tikaing g.Lcamcod. sir ale. T,,,,k,,p;,, hood, and by threats, in case of refusal or expowure, of newspapers, propounded his budget. In the Lords sho
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_Midi L. llelDad. IL L. Holland, torture by fire, and a bloody death. Hughson's sister, the Earl of Winchilsea, after a long debate, failed is ob.
F. Wink ad G. Al Ma" Woatrase, and Bread street, mother of the children, kid arrived in Mackinac, on her tain a committee to inquire into the system of education at
City, ham semahaavhcas No Wu wards J. T. lydsr and L. ltd. way to the Traverse, but resolutely persisted in her refusal hiaynooth.
-41.44,G5ig-t Ilitalkwrizonoli,`"lmell4,wallaAwff,„. Wiltabir°„..e.b„uildft° to be seen by him. Hie wife, also a delicate and intelli- 19. In the Lords the case of Mr. Kirwan, and in the
sad Lanka.% taiga„,,i4citit=---.--. —,--„„l,o,—bmis--...ke,'''pers! gent woman, was a principal witness against him. She told, Commons Sir B. Hall's motion with respect to the doings
T. Mow= sad W. jhualhire, tutop_y in a simple tale, other constant fear that her husband would of the late Board of Admiralty, were under discussion.
Davies, It. Watkins. and J. Swam cad et. Halso's Lancs. murder her ; and that ever since her unlucky marriage he 21. Mr. Fitsroy brought In the Hackney Carriages Bill.
ibini• 4"....k.. WSW Their, T. dUirt. R. had continued to abuse her by threats, narvation, and 22. The Canada Clergy Reserves Bill debated at length,
Miter, sod G. Miller, Eristol =I the ea Yards What mar- blows. Hughson is about five feet nine inches in height, and read a second time in the Lords. In the Commons the
chain, art far as regents it. X ilke-J. J.
K. sisathaia, sad E. T0wi1,..... aNimay. malt. Lretbopuit• of spare make, light, and very active, and with a furtive South Sea and Other Annuities Compensation Bill went
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aufsetuthes, ea an aa regards J. J. Ilessan sod B. Down-a. Y. but by no means repulsive aspect. His demeanour is quiet, through committee after long discussion.
Jot*** aid B. I'. Joirrum. Joss, Bow, Middlesex.Oloalkers-B. but sufficiently self-poseused ; and, on the whole, he seems 2.5. The income and Property Tax resolution debated in
Billorril sad W. Wootfraden, ftMae, Lasegibyn, rag dagyea-4. not over fearful for the future. His only explanation to his the Commons and adjourned.
31°.""a NA w. BIM, Gate's**, Clawbire, masullanisters of the counsel, as I understand, is that he is the inventor of a new 26. The South Sea, &c., Bill passed the Commons.
patent cork twit-T. weir ad J. Moen,
Swamis. Cdnaleslanannot system of medical treatment peculiarly adapted to muscular 28. The Canada Clergy Reserves Bill passed the Lords,
,at and rpm Ern:beau -C. J. buckles Y. Buckley, and IL Beet. system
len Raddisnesek yaskek.... ...A,„., i ' . ],lobed and j. agitations, consisting, in the main, of abstinence from food, The Budget debate resumed in the Commons.
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and mannthesain y.oubin, ...wat.d ~..i.,, abundance of cold water, and an unlimited supply of Ora- 29. The Jewish Disabilities Bill, of which the lew.eind
sera-T. "'atm. "d li• Gardner, laiiisitasii.treei, ciiy. accountants ham's bread, or Indiaa corn in any shape. The murdered reading was proposed by the Earl of Aberdeen, was tl's own
1.7 e. G. Ereergeld and C. Clark proorkton of the Everatiskl water child, he avers, was subject to epilepsy, and in this way out in the Lords by a majority of 164 to 115.
Worn*. rant St...Leonards.os-theAto, Sussex-Cbristum 31401 e, UM. ' bruised and lacerated his body. By the way, he informed May 2. Sir E. B. I...ytton's amendment on the Income
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oregasdablrf 4:0011tIt011 with the Lthdon. Leith, his wife (so she swears) that he intended to place the body Taw resolution in the Budget lost in the Comm,'" by 323
w isomer Commies, Leith • the Edinburgh • yard •
sod anima Company ; an' the mita 1 aeur.c.' Cempeey. is the in order that the hogs might root it i and or- to 232.
OCOTCII OD IC ESTWATION. ' dared her, on pain of death, to inform any too Cllfloll4 per- 3. The Charitable Trusts Bill reads second ejete, and the
D.P4LD eamilmr. Pone, ‘too merrhaat, Aug. at and Nor. 3, at the son who might notice the marks of violence that they men South Sea, &c., Bill a third time, in the 1.0'0'..5. The Chat-
Miamian Betel. Perth. thus occasioned." ham Election adtir discussion in the Cor,,,mons.