The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1860.

SYRIA.
THE MASSACRE.AT DAMASCUS.

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BEYROUT, JOLT 15.
On the 11th instant I forwarded you, rid
Smyrna, a telegram giving an outline of the fearful
tragedy which has just been witnessed, and which,
when the last accounts left the place, was by no
means finished, at Damascus. Since then further
details of this outrage have reached Beyrout from
various authentic sourcee. The European consuls
in this place have managed to get off letters to
their respective governments, and English, French,
and other residents have been able to write to
their friends. All agree in the main features of
the massacre, which will, when known in Europe,
bring more disgrace upon the local government
than anything that has happened within the
memory of man. And remember that the affair is
not vet over. We fully expect to hear by to-mor-
row s post of still greater atrocities having been
o sionitted, and of the grand plot for the exter-
mination of the Christian population throughout
Syria being carried out at Aleppo as well as other
places.

Damascus is the real capital of Syria, and is the
largest city of Asiatic Turkey. It is considered by
all Moslems a holy town, as from it departs and to
it arrives everyyear the haj, or pilgrim caravan, to
and from Mecca. The population of Damascus
exceeds 150,000, of which 130,000 are Moslems,
15,000 Christians, and 6,000 Jews. Ever since the
murder of the Christians by the Drums in Lebanon
commenced, and more particularly since it became
every day more and news evident to all men
that the Turkish government showed partiality
to the Druses, the more disreputable Moderns
of Damascus begun to be exceedingly ono-
lent to the Christians. These low Mos-
lems are a numerous, a very troubl
and an exceedingly bigoted race in all large ori=
towns, and are tenfold more so in Damascus than
any place I know in Asia. Hearing how the
government hail everywhere not only sided against
their co-religionists, but how it had everywhere in
Lebanon actually helped to betray, if not really to
murder them, theChruetiana of Damascuswere from
the very outset downhearted and frightened—as well
they might be, when threatened from day to day
that the Moslems would rise and exterminate them.
Matters got worse and worse, the one party be-
coming daily more frightened, the other hourly
more insolent, until at laAt, on Sunday, the Sth
inst., when the Christians came out of their various
churches, a mob of Mtetlent lads were busy in the
streets making 4T01.004 in Chalk on the ground, and
then stamping and spitting on the sacred
emblem. But so utterly downhearted were
the Christians, that they did not even complain
to the authorities of this wanton insult. On the
contrary, all they di4l was to confine themselves
still more strictly within their houses for the rest
.4 the day. What must then have been their
astonishment on the Monday morning to see these
same lads who had made and spat upon the crosses
on the previous day sweeping the streets of the
Christian quarter in chains, by order of the Turkish
head of police. They at once supposed that this
order must have been given for the very purpose of
exciting a riot, and they were not mistaken.
At 2 p.m. some three hundred of the lowest
Moslems of Damascus rushed armed into the
Christian quarter, crying out, " Slay the dogs
of Christians ! " and immediately the work
of plunder, burning, and murder commenced.
Aehruet Pada, Governor-General and Commander-
in-Chief of the place—a field-marshal in the Sultan's
army—was at once informed of what hod taken
place. But, althugh he had at his disposal some
eight hundred regular troops and several field
pieces, not a man nor a gun did ho move. He
never showed himself in the streets, nor took any
steps whatever to stop the massacre, declaring—the
old story of Haabeyia, Raaheyia, Deir-el-Kamar, and
Sidon—that he had not troops enough to do
any god. The Russian Consulate was almost
the first house attacked, and all those Chris-
tians who did not take refuge with the famous
Algerine chief, Abd-el-Kader (who hat behaved
moat nobly throughout the burliness), were murdered
at once. But, although the affair might have been
stopped with the greatest ease before dark on the
Monday, after that hour the mob increased in num-
bers every minute. Late in the evening about 300
soldiers were sent to put a stop to the outrage, but
very shortly joined in the plundering ; such as did
not do so actually used their arms to massacre the
Christians. The whole Christian quarter—which
includes some of the finest palaces to be found in the
empire—was soon one mass of flames ; and—for
this there is the positive authority of a European
eye-witness, who was !titling in the neighbourhood
all that fearful night—as the Christians tried to
escape from the Hams they were thrust back on the
bunting piles by the bayonets of the Turkish regular
troops. However, wheu we recollect that one of
the military chiefs who commanded in Damascus
was Osman Beg, the miscreant who but three weeks
preciously had delivered up at Hasibeyia upwards
of fifteen hundred Christians to he massacred by
the Druses, all wonder at the conduct of the mili-
tary ceases at once. An Englishman, who has
shown great personal courage and example through-
out this awful tragedy, writes that from the very
first the mob cried out that the soldiers were
OD their side, and would not hurt them,
using this as an argument to their bro-
ther fanatics to " kill all the dogs of
Christians, not to spare one, to burn their houses,
plunder their property, dishonour their wives, tear
in pieces their children, and rid the holy city of all
save the true followers oof the true prophet" In
another letter, front a sober-ininded Englishman,
whose wonl 110 one can doubt who knows the man,
the writer says : " All this last fearful night,
Turkish, soldiers, and Moslem men, women and
re childn continued to pour past my :hew in an un-
broken stream; all hasten with spoil, most drunk
with bleed and rapine, all bla.spheming the name
• Christ and Christians in shouts fearfeg to hear
and too horrid to repeat."
What the Turkish authorities 41 may be sunimesl
up in one wool—" Nothing." No lens than six
tine, did that gallant old man, Mr. Brant, the
En4lesli annul, and the Rev. Mr. Robison, Irish
Pc,..hyturian nii,sionary, at the unwed risk of their
lives, go together to the Pacha Aclimet, and urge
him to do something to save the lives of the
Christians. No : he said he could, and showed
that he would, do nothing, but remained "con-
sulting" in the castle. When the last despatches
left Damascus, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, the 12th
inst., the burning, slaugl;ter, murder, pillage, and
other atrocities continual not merely as bad, but
worse than ever, for the miscreant fanatic's of the
place hail been just then joined by a host of
Bedouins, Kurds, Druse:4, and ether scoundrels,
who were only too happy for the chance of
Whet, our last advise from Damascus left that
place the whole Christian quarter hail been utterly
destroyed. 4,000 Chriatiami had taken refuge iii
the house of AM-el-km.ler, who defended them
against all comes. 3,000 hall taken refuge
in the castle limier the paeha, and several
hundred in the Engksli c,..nsulate, which as yet—
being situated in the Moslem quarter of the town
—had been respectol. Upwards of two thousand
Christians, it was calculated, had been murdered,
all in add blood and the nitinuttml leas of pro-
perty, mousey, valuable, ke., was 1,200,000 f.
sterling.
It will hardly he believed that with all these
facts more or lots known to the authorities, the
Turkish troupe who arrived here. before daybreak
wa Tuesday, the 10th instant, froinConstantmople,
only left yesiterday (Sat u r lay, t he 14th) for Damascus.
Fria Aleppo the views i.e 11D01. Thee had mitt
beard of the Damascus massacre, but fully ex-
pected, almost every hour, the 'Moslems of the town
to rise OD the Christians. Captain Poynter, her
Majesty's ship Exmouth, seuitir naval "Siker here,'
bas despatched her Majesty's ship Mohawk to Lr
takia and Alexandretta, so as to pick up and es"
fugitives from Moslem fanaticism.
In Beyrout the panic amongst the native Chris-
tians has be-eu something fearful yesterday and to-
day. They are embarking by hundreds in the dif-
ferent merchant steamer.. to Aleanudretta, Alexan-
dria, Corfu, Malta, mail even for England. Nearly
all the French. and English merchants are sending

' away their families to Europe. All trade is stopped
for the present. Syria has had a blow from which
she will not rooover for sixty years. Men who were
yesterday wealthy are now, owing to theee disturb-
ances, and the bad faith shown by the Turkish govern-
ment, beggars. Six weeksagooommercialbillsusedto
be paid at maturity as punctually in Beyrout as in
London ; now a bill due is a bill protested. Native
merchants shut up their magazines and are off, off
anywhere to get away from Turkish rule and
treachery. In Alexandria all the refugees that
have tied there have been very handsomely treated
by Said Pacha, who gives food to the poorest,
money to many, houses to all. In Beyrout the
English and Americans have formed a fund to re-
lieve the poor who have fled to this place in thou-
sands ; the French have done the same ; the Sisters
of Charity have relieved hundreds every day with
food ; the French, English, Russian, Austrian, and
Prussian consuls (to say nothing of the American
missionaries who daily feed three hundred people)
give bread, cooked meat, rice, clothes, &c. to
several hundreds of these poor, starved, burnt,-out
peasants. All the medical men have attended to
their wounds and sickness gratis, and even the
crews of her Majesty's ships Exmouth and Mo-
hawk, as well as the French Imperial frigate
Zenobie, bare contributed their mites.
. .

What have the local Turkish authorities done to
relieve all this misery—for gigantic misery it must
be, considering there are 150 Christian villages
burnt, and 75,000 Christians without home or
bread—what, I ask, have the local Turkish autho-
rities done to relieve this misery, either individually
or collectively t The answer is in one word—
" nothing," absolutely and literally nothing ; not
one penny have they given in the way of food,
clothing, or shelter.
But the truth ought and must be told. If any
man doubts what I am going to say, let means be
taken to ask in parliament for the official corre-
spondence of the consul-general in Syria to the
Foreign-office, or to the embassy, and also of the
senior naval officer on this station to the
admiral at Malta. Should this be done, I feel
certain that I should find my opinions confirmed,
for throughout the land, nay, even amongst the
more respectable Moslems theniselves,4 but one
opinion prevails among all classes of men, that
there has been on the part of the Turkish govern-
ment a gigantic scheme or conspiracy to crush out
the whole Christian element in Syria, and that what
we all looked upon it first as a mere sectarian war
between the Drums and the Christians of Lebanon,
was, in point of fact, part of the plan by which, in
using the Druses as their unconscious weapons' the
Turks succeeded in cutting down and rooting up
nearly the whole Christian population of the moun-
tain. These facts have not become apparent
all at once. It is only by degrees that
we, the lookers on at this monstrous
game of iniquity, have become fully alive to what
were the real sources of action by which the whole
Christian people of Syria have lost more than two-
thirds of their influence, property, land, and com-
mercial prosperity, and by which the civilisation
which a quarter of a century's peace has fostered in
Syria, has been lost in one abort month. At
liasbeyia, Raaheyia, Deir-el-Kamar, Sidon, and
Damascus, the line of conduct of the Turkish
authorities has been oneand the same, and this has
been never to help the Christians agaiust their
adversaries, but to allow their troops to help in the
massacre of the former, whenever an opportunity
of doing so occurred. Not in any one single in-
stance since the troubles commenced in Syria has a
Turkish soldier taken any part on the side of order.
That they should join the mob in pillage and
plunder is warmly to be wondered at, as the greater
part of the army in this province is now two full
years in arrears of pay. But what shall we say
of the government which keeps an army that
time without money, and then pretends that it is
able to prevent the plunder of wealthy towns. Nor
does the fact of their being in such a state by any
means justify them in taking part against the
Christians as they have done on every occasion,
either treacherously disarming them and then
handing them over to their Druse enemies for
slaughter, or else actively joining themselves in the
deeds of blood.

As I write, news from Damascus down to Thurs-
day evening, the 12th instant, has reached Beyrout.
The Rev. Mr. Graham, of the Irish presbyterian
mission, had been murdered in the open streets
whilst endeavouring to make his escape from a
Moslem house, where he had been concealed, to the
British consulate. He had a guard of Turkish
soldiers with him, but they did nothing towards de-
fending him from the Moslem mob. The Bedouins
and Arabs were pouring into the town to join in the
pillage. The Franciscan friars, eight priests and
two lay brothers, all Italians or Spaniards, had
been butchered. Of Greek catholic, Maronite, and
other Eastern soda, some forty-five priests had
been killed. The biters of Charity and the Us-
sarist priests were at Abd-el-Kader's, who held out
bravely. Achmet Pacha was shut up in the castle
doing nothing at aIL The fifteen hundred troops eent
from Beyrout were not expected to arrive before
the lith, and by that time God knows what will
have happened. All agree in the foul treachery
shown by Achmet Pacha, and every one here, W-
I eluding even the respectable Moslems, is of opinion
that nothing short of a joint occupation of Syria
lby troops of Turkey, England, France, and Russia,
can ever restore order or confidence in theprovince.
Here the panic continues. Every steamer, every
ship, every boat that can be hired, is tilled
with the moat respectable of the native Christians
flying from the place, afraid that the fanaticism of
the low Moslems will break out here as it did at
Damascus, and that the Turkish authorities and the
Turkish troops will betray them as they did their
co-religionists at Deir-el-Kamar, Hasbeyia, Ras-
heyia, and elsewhere. In the quarteri where I live
all the houses of the respectable and wealthy
Christians are shut up, men, women, and children
being off—off anywhere out of Beyrout, anywhere
to get clear of the authorities. Two days ago a meet-
ing of the English residents was held, to deliberate
whether or not we should put our families on board
her Majesty's ship Exmouth, but we determined to
show as far as we could an example of confidence to
the natives, and to remain for the present, such as
wish to send away their wives and children doing so
quietly in the various merchant steamers which call
at this port. Five or six English ladies, with their
children, leave Beyrout for Liverpool this week
in the steamer Atlantic, which will reach its desti-
nation about the 10th or 12th proximo.

Ne.roLsonic Ream.—A nephew of Prince Demi-
doff tun Pat opened a " Napoleons° " museum in the island
of Elba. It consists exclauvely of furniture, clothes, and
jewellery which belonged to Napoleon I. men is also a
curious autograph written by General Bonaparte to Telma,
the actor, at a time when the former was vegetating in
poverty in Paris. It runs thus :—" I hare fought like a
ion for the republic, my good friend Telma, sodas a reward
she lets me starve ; that wretch Aubry leaves me on the
pavement when be might make something of me. I feel
myself more than a match for such generals as &Mem
and Rossignoll, and they won't find a corner in Vendee, or
elsewhere, to employ me. You, indeed, are fortunate. Two
hours on the boards put you face to face with the public
that dispenses fame. We, soldier, must purchase glory at
• higher mice, on a larger stage, which we are not always
permitted to ascend. Do not, then, regret your position ;
remain on your stage. Who knows whether I shall ever
►ppear on mine again! I raw Mooed (another actor) yen.
kolas. He is a true friend. llamas makes large promises.
Will he keep them! That I much doubt. lam reduced to
my last farthing. Have you a few franca at my service? I
won't refuse them, and promise repayment out of the first
kingdom I may conquer. My friend, how happy were the
heroes of Ariosto. They did not depend on • Minister of
War. Adieu. Yours, tk2NA PA IdT5.:

The GARIBALDI FUND.—Mr. W. H. Ashur*,
who has been commissioned to collect and remit subscrip-
tions, has already received nearly 3,000/. in aid of this
object. The liberality of our Scotch brethren is con-
vacuous. It appears that a SUM of 1,0001. has already
been remitted from Glasgow, so.d smaller sums re-
ceived from Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Arbroath, and other
towns, make the aggregate amount forwarded from Scot-
land over 2,000 f. Meetings have been also held in all
the principal towns in England, expressive of sympathy
with Oaritelldi, and in most instance* that sympathy has
assumed • practical form, as we understand that collec-
tions are now being uniformly organised in all parts of the
couatry.
Aw m Gantuatol.—During the last few weeks
the Sicilian Liberator's agent. in Liverpool have been par-
ticularly bury, and we understand that another steamer has
been purchased for the Sicilian navy. On Friday • number
of smooth-bored guns were proved on the sends at Crosby,
near Liverpool, and were afterwards forwarded per 'learner
to Palermo.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, JULY K—AProurrirms.—Miulter's
Amiatiat F. Seaton, to the Horgan.
Clerk L. L. Needham, to the Hawke.
JOLT Ma —Master T. A. Ha, to to additional to the
'tray.
Clerk, H. E. W. Roberta, to the Firebrand.
Thud Mae Amur' tent Engineer H. Duncan, to the ludas,
ea supernumerary.

CHATHAM., Jou' JO.
By the arrival of Captain A. R. Lempriere,
LE., at the Royal Engineer establishment, from North
America, intelligence has been received of the boundary
expedition now employed in British Columbia under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Hawkins, R.E. The Royal
Ingineers have made great progress in surveying and
planning the boundary between the British possessions and
Um United States, both officers and men exerting them-
selves to the utmost in the prosecution of the work. The
chief camp, for the present, is at Dallas, in the State of
Oregon, but the depot from which the °Mem and men
draw their supplies, and which forms the base of their opera-
tions, is at Esquinmalt, Vancouver Island. Captain .Lem.
prism has brought home with him some men of the expedi-
tion who have been invalided and are unfitted to continue
their surveying duties.

Ou Saturday afternoon two companies of the
37th Middlesex (Bloomsbury) Volunteers, under the com-
mand of Captain Come, and one company of the 7th Mid-
dlesex (Ishng)on), under Captain Ebsworth, mustered at the
Foundling Hospital about half past four o'clock, and
marched to the King's-cross Station, where the29th
sex (St. Paper's), under Captain Roes, and the 20th (Railways)
were already assembled, the whole force being under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bine, of the 20th Middle-
sex, and mustering rather over 300 men. They proceeded
by special train to Barnet station, and thence marched to
Wrotham-park, heeded by the band of the Royal Marines,
where the Barnet Rifles, under Captain Taylor, and Mewl.
Trainee and Henbury's corps, were drawn up to receive them.
Raving been formed in quarter distance column right in
freest, Coool Biggs put the battalion through a few ma-
meuvree, but it was found that the rain, which had been
coming down in a steady pour ever since leaving town, effec-
tually prevented any further operations, the men being
soaked through, and the ground in many places reduced to •
swamp. The battalion then marched into Barnet, and
the mss fell oat for refreshment, which no doubt they
needed, the demand for hot brandy and water, &c., fully
the staff of the various hotels in the town.
the' seism* wee sounded, a large portion of the
men expressed a desire to march home instead of returning
by train, and the question was settled by the 7th Middle-
sex (Islington) and the 29th Middlesex (St. Pancras), with
detachments of the 37th (Bloomsbury) and the 20th (Rail-
ways), taking the main road, with the resolution of performing
the journey on foot. The spirits of the men were excellent,
in spite of their damp uniforms, and the journey home was
enlivened by many a good song, in which the men joined
most heartily in chorus . At the toll-gate in the Archway-
road a stoppage took Nam in consequence of the keeper de-
manding toll per man, which the officers very properly
refused to psy, alleging that they were volunteers in uni-
form returning from duty, and were consequently exempt
from toll. The keeper took the names and addresses of the
officers, with the intention of summoning them for the
amount. At the Archway Tavern the different corps sepa-
rated and marched to their respective headquarters, none of
them seeming any the worse for their soaking and their ling
march home.

HER MAJRRTY AND THII NORTHERN VOLUNTEER).
—The following letter has been received in reply toe memo-
rial signed by all the eontraendents in the north of Ens-
lend :—" War-office, July 25..-.-Ortlemwn,.:-I have tel

before her Majesty the memorial of the Artillery and Rif*
Volunteers of the northern counties of England, praying
that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to review the
corps which will assemble on such an occasion. Her Ma•
jsety tall appreciates the loyalty and patriotism which has
prom the desire you have expressed to be reviewed by
your 33333S000000vereign ; but her Majesty's arrangements will unfor
tunately not admit of her reviewing the Volunteers of the
North of England either on her way to or from Scotland.
The Queen has, however, been graciously pleased to express
a wish that she may at some future day have an opportunity
of doing so. It is with much pleasure that I emery to you
this proof of her Majesty's gracious approval of the loyal
desire expressed in your memorial which I have bad the
honour of laying before her Majesty.—l am, gentlemen,
7ourobedien berrant, S. HEIBERT.—To Lieutenant-G.l°nel
Fife and other oMoers commanding Volunteer Corps."
THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT Ire IRELAND. —Oll
Saturday last • meeting in support of the volunteer move-
ment in Ireland wm held at the Rotunda, in Dublin. The
assembly, which was not a very crowded one, wanpresided
over by the Han. Major Francis Stanhope, in the absence
of the Lord Mayor, who was unavoidably detained else-
where. The speeches delivered were most patriotic, and Lord
Palmerston was badly condemned for refusing to place Ire-
land on an equality with this country in regard to the volun-
teer movement. Resolutions were passed to the effect that the
movement was as essential in the ose country as in the
other ; that the ref mai to assimilate the law tended to ex-
cite jealousy where perfect unity should prevail, and was
unconstitutional. It was also resolved that the movement
in Ireland should not be permitted to become a party, am-
, tarian or political one, and the meeting pledged itself not to
support any candidate at any future election who would not
give his aid in furtherance of the object for which they were
assembled.

SPORTING.

TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY.

Sporting men were divided--one division was at Lewes
and the other at the Corner. The outstanding accounts on
the Goodwood Meeting were therefore collected in " bits,"
and much grumbling was made at the absurd appointment
of two settling days at two different places. The final
adjustment of the Goodwood amounts will not perhaps
take place until the end of the week, for Lewes and
Brighton Races will give Leen additional breathing time.

Blitcwrow RACCPS.—A complete programme of this meet-
ing will be published to-morrow.

LEWES RACES.-MONDAY.

THZ TRIAL STASIS of 5 sows. each, with 30 added;
2-yr-olds, fist 10lb ; three, Bet 416 ; four, Set 111 b ; See, six,
and aged, 9st ; mares and Odin, allowed Mb. The winner
to be sold for 500 move., Ice. • if not to be sold, to carry 91b
extra ; 31b and 51b allowance.. Half a mile, (9 sobs.)
Mr. E. Hall's Fravok,_ by Orlando, Spin, fist lib (Charlton) 1
Mr. Henry's I. Nicholl yrs, Oat 716 (GrimOusw) 2
Captain Christie a Miss Jour knot to be mold, 0 yrs,
est dib 'including nib extra) (0. Fordham) 3
Tux AiIinToCRATIC PLATS of 30 sows., added to a handi-
cap sweepstakes of 5 AIWA, each. Gentlemen riders. Pro.
femionals slb extra. One mile and a half.
Mr. Swindells Simla, by Tbs Nabob, 3 yrs, 9st 41h.
( %Ir. W. Berlill 1
Mr. Byrn's Catherine, 4 yrs, 10st 1016 Mr. Towneley) 2
Mrs. Oshaldestone's St, Clarence, 4 yrs. lost 71b
Mr. Cameron's Comquot, 6 yrs, lost 21b (Mr Edwarda)(Owner) 4
Mr. B. lead's Bed Bock, 3 yrs, list 7lh (Mr. Boynton) 6
Tla CADTLII STAII2 of 5 Dors. each, with 30 added, for
two and three-golds. Optional selling weight., ho, T. Y.C.
(4 sobs)
Mr. Drewltt's Stormer by Storm, 2 yrr (304), Oat
H.Orlmshaw) 1
Mr. FL P. Dame's British Grenadier, 3 yis (Mot), 7st Sib
liundy; 2
Tax Do WA/Ill:NNE HANDICAP of 10 sort each, 5 ft,
with 50 added, for 2.yr-olds and upwards ; certain winners
extra. T.Y.C. About Eve furlongs.
Lord Portsmouth's Cronstadt, by Kingstown, 2 yrs, Est 11111
Daley, 1
Captain Beresford's Oliver, 3 yrs, flat 101 b Jlray) 2
Mr. Morris's Apollo, 3 yrs, DA 101 b H. Griambaw) 3
Mr. Barnard's Parapet, 2 yr', Set (ear sst Lib. ,:Reeves) 4
Lord Standord's Benthsek, 3 yrs, fiat Bib ....(A. Edwards) 6
Mr. Ingham's Predictor, 3 yrs. lid Mb (J. Plumb) 6
Mr. F. C0...'. Cracow. 2 yrs, rat (I. Bendy) 7
TUB FIERY TRAIL 01 Tab PAW COVRTINAT BOINNIAL
STALLS of 10 sore. each, 5 ft, with 50 added ; for 2-yr-olds ;
colt., Rat 716 ; EIUs, get 41h. Certain allowances, Ac. The
second to save his stake. T.Y.C. (39 rube.)
Mr. Bland's Maid of Honour, by The Prima Minister,

(endears) 1
Mr. &waifs f by Wild Dayrell—Agnes Wickfleld, Bst elb
(J. Osborne) 2
Mr. Quartermabse's c by Newminster—Grey lien, Mt flb
(G. Partlitam)
(Mock) 4
. -

Mr. Barnard's Warrior Pat 71b.

.....«k
Mr. Wyatt's Neighbour. Ist Mb (J. Guitar 8
Mr. T. Stevens' King of Kent, Sit 716 11" I Lord Coventry's learns, Sit Mb (L Snow en) 7
Mr. Ylemlng's BoabdlL Sit 4lb (J. Mann) 8
TSB Quatcres PLATS of 100 guineas ; 3-yr olds, 7st 111 b
four, 9st ; Iva, Sat, 71b ; six and aged, lit 1016. Two
miles.

Mr: Desons Defender, by Melbourne, 4 yn, 94
(L. Snowden) 1
(Chariton) 2

Kr. eatiest a Craisr,

ILatu Int/Maim.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.-JULT 30.
(Before Mr. (lossaisioner Nichols.)
IN ill JOHN JAHNS HAWKINS.

This insolve;t,wi;7le;crTlx7d himself se a gentleman,
whose cam was before the court in May, appeared for fur-
ther examination.

Mr. Dowse opposed for Mr. Soilless, and by Mr. Macrae
for Mr. C. W. Price ; Mr. !largood supported.
The insolvent had been in prison since May, 1859, having
been arrested on a capers by Mr. &Dieu:, • stockbroker,
and then detoined by Mr. Prior another stockbroker. The
claims of those creditors on the purchase and sale of
stock exceeded 2,0001., and the only other debt in the
schedule was %V for law expenses. The insolvent con-
sidered that he had not contracted the debts with
the opposing creditor, and had resisted payment. As an
applicant to the court he was bound to account for consider-
able property he had possessed. In September last (whilst
theinsolvent was in prison) he sold on the Stock Exchange
shares in the Lombardo-Venetian Railway, for 2,7471.,
and on his refusing to mention the name of the broker the
case was adjourned. After staying in prison upwards of
two mouths he again came up, intending to disclose the
name. He now said Mr. Ash, an "outsider" of the Stock
Exchange, sold the shares for him, and brought the money
to him in prieon. On the same day he paid • Mr. Foster
3,000 i. in bank notes for his brother, Mr. J. B. Hawkin,
who lived at Galveston, Texas, America, and in December
him 4001. more. He owed his brother 4,0001 ~ arising on 5, speculations between them twentyyears ago, rind
given him a note that he would pay him 4,0001. " when
fortune or Providence " enabled him. In pursuance of this
premise he sent the 3,4001. (having previously paid him
0001. hi different sums) by Mr. Foster to his brother, and in
that manner he accounted for the disposition of hisproperty.
The insolvent underwent • searching examination. He
described Whitecrosestrest Prime as • "

and said before his removal to the Queen's Prison he hid
kept his money in his pocke► Had it been known that he
had so much about him he would probably have been de-
spoiled of the same.
Mr. Dowse and Mr. Macrae submitted that the insolvent,
after the extraordinary circiunatences narrated, should be
called upon to give proof of the sale of the Lombardo
shares, and also proof of the disposition of the money.
Mr. Sargood resisted the apphcation, contending that the
insolvent had disclosed the name of the party who had sold
the property, and also the payment to the agent of his bro.
their, to whom he was indebted.
Mr. Commissioner Nichols considered the application on
the part of the opposing creditors a reasonable one, and ad-
journed the came for proof of what had become of the Lom-
bardo shares, and if disposed of, what had become of the
money arising therefrom.
The insolvent was spin remanded to prison.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCITIT-7-311.titerows, JULY 30.

Lord Chief Justice Cockburn commenced diepoeing of the
special jury cam, of which there are eight tote tried.

T9l itAIONICSB WENBAN V. -810311).

Thia was an action to try the right to certain land between
high and low water mark upon the river Swale, neat Sheer
nem

Mr. Bovill, Q.C.. Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. Garth, were
for the plaintiff ; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins,
Q.C., and Mr. Prentice were counsel for the defendant.
The point in dispute in this cause was the right to oyster
beds from which the celebrated native oysters are produced,
it being alleged that the defendant had improperly built
portiontictaifkone or two
of the soil oif,ittnhe river, belonginge to the
r
was unlined that the came should be referred.
The remainder of the day was occupied in trying a case
Involving a right of way of no interest to the general public.

lent had nude "no threat ." and that the men had a right
to say that they would not work with others who for valid
moons they considered objectionable persona. That, the
learned counsel contended, was not in the natureof a threat
"to limit the description or number of workmen," &c., as
contemplated by the statute.
The court held the conviction to be good, sad confirmed it
with costs against the appellant, who was then ordered to be
sent to the House of Correction, in the terms of the convic-
tion, for one month.