The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-13 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MALLS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY NIGHT.

The Tagus steamer, Captain Cook, has arrived.
She brings mails from Ltabou on the 7th, Oporto
eth, and Vigo, 9th, 19 saloon passengers, 6,5251. In
specie, and a general cargo. She spoke Avon, Elton,
and Pere steamers, outward bound.
Her Majesty's steamer Dover was at Lisbon.
The Tagus painted three French gunboats on the
evening of the 7th, steering north, and on the 12th
three Logli.h hue of battle ships cruising off Port-
bind.
There is little alteration in exchanges at Lisbon
since the last packet. Exchange on London closed
at NI; l'arie, 542; Hamburg, 461; Amsterdam,
Stocks were dull.
Mr. Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate, returned
from Liam; it. this packet.
The King and royal family remained at Mafra.
The weather was very hot at Lisbon, and the wine
crop almost a total Iths.

A letter from Paris says The grand anneal
fair of St. Cloud swam•nod yesterday (Sundry) and will
lest three weeks. The weather was magnineest, the crowds
of visitors wars iturneass, the tryotha were supplied with ex-
traordinary narrate*, the *hew gentlemen and ladle,. wars
deemed in their gayest attire, and the great w►tees
played to the highest pitch ; but the Emperor vas
absent from the palace, and the authorities wore not at they
poet. The con•equeece was that a moat disgraceful dia-
ltartest:amok plat* as ',rely as 6 o'clock at the station of the
omnibus whioh conveys preasugen from St. Cloud to the
termious of the 'isotopia, Railway at Auteuil. There
was no policeman io atteadasor, sad a riotous mob
of well•dremed rutlims determined that politely should
have places in the ouraiburas but themeelaea. Ladies and
children were forced back, and one Eaglishwoman, who had
secured a sat, was lilted out by one of the mob, who mated
himmif in her place. That ataterneat will appear incredible
tummy of your tea tee was Mow Low admirably the Paris
omnibus stations generally ars managed, but the feet is as
above stated.•"

SYRIA.

(7110111 00Z OWN CD3IOI'ONDEIT.I
MOUNT LEBANON, NEAR BEYROUT,
ACOVIIT 24.

I fear greatly that Mount Lebanon is threatened
with all the hereon of • civil war. The old feuds
between the Drum and Christian tribes have broken
out again after ►ying dormant since 1845, and within
the last week some horrible deeds of revenge and of
retaliation have been committed on both aides. As
is generally the case amongst Orientals, the primary
ostensible cause of quarrel was a mere absurdity. ft
took place at the village—well known to all English.
men who have sent the hot weather on the moun-
tain—of Beitmane, about two hours distant from
Beyrout, and the first disputants were two muleteers,
one a Christian and the other a Druse. Between
these blows were given and returned, until the vil-
lagers commenced to take sides with their respective
co-religionists. Before any blood h►d been shed,
the bishop on the one side and • Drums sheik
on the other managed to make peace between
the parties, and it was so arranged that the Christian
muleteer was to ask pardon of the Drums, the former
being the greater offender of the two. But when
on their way to the place where they were to be re-
conciled, a Christian emir, or prince of the village,
met the party, and on learning that his co•religionist
was about to declare himself in the wrong, he
stopped the whole proceedings, declaring that no
Christian should ever with his consent demean him-
self before one of their hated adversaries. Upon
this the Drams at once flew to their arms, the
Christians doing the same, and firing commenced on
both sides. For the first time is the motels of
Lebanon warfare, the latter got completely the better
of the fight—that is to say, they gained the advan-
tage, in the savage manner which these mountaineers
count an advantage, for they being three times as many
u their enemies, shot down twice as man/ of
the Proses as the latter did of the Christians.
The fighting lasted all day on Sunday, the 14th
instant, and on Monday was extended to the
neighbouring villages, many of which were burnt
down by Druses or Christians, according to the enmity
borne by one or other of the parties. Thus the
moment the Drams heard of the Christians being vic-
torious, they burnt down the first Christian village
they came acmes ; whilst the Christians, in order to
square the account, did the same towards the
Dross'. There were, as usual, several European
families from Beyrout spending the summer in the
village of Beitmarie, brit not a hair of their heads
nor a single item of their property was touched by
either one or the other of the belligerents. There
was only one English family in the place, two ladies,
who happen to be travelling in Syria, but
these ladies got down quite safely to Bey-
rout, as, indeed, did all the other European
residents of the place. The following day the Pacha
of Beyrout, accompanied by several of the civil and
military authorities of the place, proceeded to a place
called Hearin, on the Damascus road, which
forms • sort of boundary between the Christian and
Dense districts in that portion of Lebanon, and there
they still remain, accompanied by three or four
hundred regular and irregular troop.. In Beyroat
everything is as quiet, and both property and life are
as secure, as in London, nor has there been any
mafiosi fighting since the 16th instant in the
mountain, although here and there, when-
ever a Drees can get a sly shot at a Chris.
flan, or one of the latter at a Dense, neither
fails to improve the opportunity. In three portions
of Lebanon which are inhabited almost solely by
Drum, there have been no disturbances whatever,
so much so that at the villages of 86k-el-Ourb,
!Merano, and Abeigh, between which there are seven
or eight English and three or four. American
families spending the summer, all the European re-
sidents have remained without moving, for not a
shot has been fired in these districts. The most un-
settled parts of the mountain are in and about the
Ileum, which is inhabited by both Christians and
Drone, in proportion of about three of the former to
two of the latter. There an be no doubt, however,

but that a vast deal of ill-feeling has been engen-
dered between the two races by recent events, and
this is the more to be feared as the policy of the
Turkish government has for the last three yean been
' to foment discord between the different races of
Lebanon, so that local government may become im-
possible, and the European powers may agree to the
supreme authority on the mountain being placed in
the hands of a Turkibb