The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-15 00:00:00

SYRIA.

Ivor A

On the 25th, 270 of the prisoners from Damascus
arrived. awl acre brought down to the lauding-
place on camels, to be shipped for Constantiuople.
They were condemned to the galleys for life, and
were for the mist part truculent looking Kenn-
dn•Ls, and of the lowest clam The exceptioue
were very few. Seen of them had dieti on the
reef, and another large batch was to follow, toge-
ther with these condemned to serve for life in the
army. Their enibarkat was a strange scene, on
which the Moslems looked with sullen faces and an
evident monument of humiliation, while every
available point of view in the vicinity of the land-
nig place where they were collected was crowded
with Clirtstr.e., the contemplated the acetic with
silent eatistactiou. The prisoners had their hands
secured het wee,, two pieces of wood, about 18
lather long, with hollows cut to receive the wrists,
faeseiteg rude, but secure and very inconvenient
hawk lids, and they appeared to be gene-
rally tolerably intlifferent to their fate.
Yawl Nash has applied for reinforcements,
and two battalions are to proceed to Damascus as
soon as baizage animals are procured, from which
it may he inferred that he has not implicit faith in
the tranquillity which bogeys prevails at Damascus.
Slur ktters of the 27th describe the city as in a
net of state ef siege, most of the shops being closed,
all bueirwes suspended, and arrests very numerous
and frequent. A general consternation and anx-
iety existed, and the Chrittimis generally were but
little inclined to rental,., having a limited faith in
Fuad'e power to protect them, and no belief that
when he left the Mordents would abstain from
wreaking their vengeance ou them. It appears
that none of the Jews were injured or their pro-
petty taken • nay, wore, I was told that many of
the Jews carried bread and water to the Moslems,
and in some degree abetted the attack on the " se-
amed race." I should state that my informant
was a Greet Christian and therefore Ido not plate
implicit faith on his account of the doings of a Jew
.of Damascus, but lie added that the Jews bad stated
that they hail been obliged to act so, to save their
hetet. As yet there is no intention to move the
French troops, although rumours to that effect
have been current, hut the expeditionary force forms
the great foundation for the inventive powers of
the native and foreign cumin! manufacturers of
Beyrout, and their name is legion.
th.e of those incidents the danger of which I
have formerly alluded to has just occurred at
Gebeil, and it was related to ine by an actor in it.
It appear+ that the Viceroy of Egypt is getting rid
+4 a number of bashi-bazooka, and 10 if them
who arrived here a few days ago took a boat to
return to their homes at Tripoli, Latakia, and else-
where. The boat was obliged to put in to Gebeil,
where they went on shore to purchase fruit, cke.,
when they were set upon by a troop of Christians
from Zahle, Dei it ICaunner, Bchweigat, Beynnit,
&c., wlio robbed them of their arms and v.duablee
to the amount of about 200,000 piastres. The
Turks took refuge on hoard their boat, when
the Christians commenced firing on them
from the roof of a coffee-house. An hills,
bitant of Gebeil, with his nephew' who is in
the ser;ioe of an English merchant here endea-
voured to dissuade them from their nuirderous
purism-, and to recover maim of the preperty, and
sueceedetl at hut in getting the Turks to their
home, and in calling a meeting of the notable@ of
the town to protest them. This they refused to do,
and the two men, fastening the gates, managed to
keep out the rabble ft two days, until 250 nice ar-
rived from a neighbouring village, well armed, and
with them a portion of the force employed to guard
the road between Beyrout and Tripoli. Under this
escort they succeeded in getting the Turks on leecol
a boat, and under the escort of 90 men they
brought them to Bey-rout on the 28th, with a Ne-
bo', of the property stolen. One of the robbers was
r.crir Juni, but the people of the village just
above that place rescued lulu, and set him free.
The preservers of the Turks sent an ex-
po's to Beyrout for arwi-bante, but received
so reply, mel now these haelii-bazooka, who are
klo elems. are everywhere proclaiming their grie-
vance against the people of (-Isbell, and with good
reason. The roads in that direction are infested
by some of the sconulrels of the towns above niew
timed, and usunlers and robberies are frequent, no
distinction being made as to the victims, a priest
having been recently stopped and plundered. Such
tiecniveuois will seriously complicate marten, and
render the pacification of the country inToettible.
The Christians are as difficult to deal with as the
Moeleins, being as fanatical and perhaps more un-
rincip!ol. There are universal complaints of the
Whew*. and apathy of the refugee from the muun-
taiu. The Turkish goverumout projected a road
to the quarantine, and entrusted its conatruc-
titiu to the French ulhcers, who staked
it out, and who °tiered to the able-bodied
refugees 5 piastres a day, quarters and rations, to
ivirk upon it, asking for 500 labourers. Not one
has offered, and the French, like most of the foreign
residents, are beginning to lo disgusted with these
people, who Poem to possum no other qualities than
tleoe of idleness and cowardice, with a dash of
ferocity and cruelty when they can indulge in them
without danger. We are still without env news of
tic Ganges with French troops, now 14 days over-
due. 5,800 men have already arrived, and about
1,100 more are on the roil, but already a good
many are iu hospital, and deaths have been rather
unmernas. There is no tale yet of hotting the
men, but we shall shortly have the tremendous
autunnuil rains, and wilew they are under gnat
shelter before that time eicknoss will infallibly
make sere havoc among them

Photo all Pcorricta.—Ye.toolay, about 3 o'clock
In the lettermen. the attentioa .4 the wayfarer. ia I.mipte.
hill we. pstandly attracted be a ...vac far more thrilling
then air .4 these ticht•erspe feet. by wh:eh Bh.udin hor.
er gratified ret the caw• in.iy he, the Unlit-aeon at
tapir' ibis time twelvemonth. Amiumet the other it,
pars in mums of progre.e at M. has eithedrad IA the
stetiaelthar of the cow, matte; of the dom. iu these
where it bas become Injured by the octi.m of the wewther,
and the men employe I io this dangerous work are
in b.aketa 'unrelated by ropes attached to
the outside pllery commotion the turret which
the ern.% m that their pocitien
trite. Ed; tee deecript:on of the ..rapliire gatherer. on the
hiellt of Dover 11Ife. At the thou above ateationed it
eatevary for them to imenntunicate with their
fools .wenionwe engaged in the .olleey. who, to roe the
labour of rAisieg soil relowerin4 tM Mabee% a tn
sad woit dose to aeon, who i. ule his irty thither
Kid ly 1.e.t..1.1 .4 the dome, without say U4lMOf protectiou
airsin.i the fearful fate which *salted him should he have
loe.t dip, than the hut.' of a haadrope which, a.
an nontn'.l.• ' anneder. wan penned frau the gall;r7 to the
lonket. All thnne who witnewed the dement sad ascent
.4 the lwave fellow teenthed free whoa they maw him regain
the luso :nit - a place of compontive afety.
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hell, in .I..ittic Staffordshire, a . ireumatamea bas o,xure,l
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the err0....4 a alma wed .1 key catith. on
chew of poi...alias hie wife. It pe.trt thet the warn to tan
heed soar fen her busload for ....vend ...nth, 'mat, but
that, ea %Welaveday might, he 1. et her in the et rest, sad
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drank three hatfaipiato `tutoetthuily he. 4,, her
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about • quarter to twelve the ..ote bight .1.., became, ill,
ml violent pejo from c:. asp in the legs. A sorgeon
we. sent for, and Mr. Taylor, a... .Lint to :tfr. Harhill, re,
arric..l. Mr. Taylor pruadwil .ta emetic sod slot mediciae.
but the whom symptoms maid :.ot be abated. The WOlllllll
cootimend to get weep, wed died et about a quarts' to sin
o'cl..ck on Thumbs', morniog. Ali invest sad "i'sed on
the Indy. and witeeven dep...ed to the &craved'. o.otooeset
a, to dot conduct of her hti.: oui, related shove. The
enentter att 'olllTeel the inquest .Dal the buvhaad wee token
tot . m0..1y. charged oa en•pici.... of havie4 poisoned the
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EXTENSION or 7/111 Buou P 4.7 TO COWMAN IN
Illt WES: INDIts. —OD the let • I ortober next and theme-
forward, the provision• of the oh post, a. wited to So
o,.lo•lggt will lee eateotled to Is..its traelftitaid by packet
between the Pelted liingdoes io.d the Danish Odoers. in
the Ives, /mt.. se. emiz, and
Jamie The peonage oa leak I...ket:e ad:lns:sod to any of
the ono,. Owes VW ha ea toff,. ;-- Vu. • po,leet not ex-
-4 or. to weight, hi. ; a' • a 4 oz. aud oat a:wee:444
fil.; chore gb. and nut, a... 41114 for every
whlatiottal 1.41 The postai.: meat, :a All moss, be paid
ia iiiiren.v by mons of poataie .isips.

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