The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-30 00:00:00

NEWS FROiI THE EAS

" Maui t Lebanon, July 8

A long conference has taken place between Minoan
Paella and the Emir Bechir, en the Syrian insurrection.
Soliman declared, in the name of Mehemet Ali, that they
should never again be taxed, that they should be allowed
to retain their arms, and that they might if they chose be
incorporated in the Egyptian army. The insurgents re-
pelled these vain promises with disdain.
" Egyptian troops are daily pouring in from SO JeEn
Their army consists of a heterogeneous mcss of
stoops of all nations, amounting to 20,000 in number.
" Near, Balbec, Eldamia, and Mount Lebanon have.:
risen en ettisse, and war seems the order of the day. A
skirmish has takesi place at Tripoli between the insurgents
and Ibrahim's solcheflie The garrison at Zoale, a small
town near Beyrout, has been dispersed by the Maronites.
In all these affairs the Mardeites, the Druses, and Me-
tonales have obtained signal advantages, notwithstinding,
their numerical inferiority."
Private Correspondence of the Semaphore de Marseilles.
oan-
Beeleetr, July 4.
Although this town is in a state of siege, a ndotuedrrn
, coin
munication with the interior is entirely interc ,p
although everything announces war, I believe the t an ar-
rangement will be effected. The insurrection has ex; ended
teazel. ;eac than was reported. The last news receive'.' an-
noeneea aat the mountains in the neighbourhood of Alox
andretta arid betakes are perfectly tranquil. Seyde, Sour 4
Acre, and Nariutse, hzve not taken up arms. The Anti-
Lebanon remains neuter, and several of the villages of:
Lebanon have not revoked. There are scarcely wore tlita
6,000 peasants under arms, 'skis tLree or four Princes-,
but little influence, at their hem.
This
Emir Bechir has,
remained faithful to Mehemet AIL This Emir was ehe
only one who could have given the insurrection an alarm-
ing character.
ALEXANDRIA, JULY 6.—On the evening if the 3d inst.
the French corvette Diligente arrived from 3eyrout with
a deputation from the French Consul at that place, com-
posed of the Chancellor and of MM. Lemont and Chem-
platreux. This deputation came to lodge the fallowing
I Complaint with M. Cochelet :
" That for a long time Mahmoud Bey, the Governor oil
Bcyrout, !lad refused to grant the Europeans resident there,
that protection to which they were entitled; that all the'
Censuls unanimously complained of him; that since the ar
rival of the Egyptian troops several Europeans became the
victims of the insubordination of the military ; that &le.:.
French Consul was obliged in consequence to declare to the
Governor, that as justice was refused, he would be obliged
to strike his flag, which he did in effect ; that for this' rea-
son the deputation had been sent to Alexandria. At this
news M. Cochelet deplored that the French Consul h
taken so serious a step without consulting Lite.
Cochelet waited forthwith upon the Viceroy, whom he
found in an excess of rage. He asserted that the French
Consul at Beyrout had no reason for acting as he had
done; that the pes'tien of the Governor was very critical
at die present moment, and that the Consul's conduct
Might ban the most fatal consequences ; that it would
give confidence to the insurgent , and give rise at Con-
stantinople to iejuri.ui interpretations. The Viceroy was
so leech displeased, that at first be refused to give, any
satisfactiott. M. cochelet, however, finally obtained the
following order, which was despatched immediately to
Mahmoud Bey
On receipt of this despia'eJ, you will immediately-
seek out those persons who were gn:lty of violence agaiinst
some French subjects. You will hay.' them brought to
trial regularly, and you will keep them in prison in the
mean time.
" As, with the assistance of God, the insurgents will
very soon be subdued, I intend immediately after to go to,
S:ria myself. and to pass sentence on the guilty. As
soon as the French flag shall have been hoisted at the
French Consulate, you will salute it with a discharge of
21 cantion.!
" This affair was brought to a conclusion so quickly,,
that the deputation sailed on the evening of the 4th on
board an Egyptian steam-boat, which was ordered by the
Viceroy f'e take despatches to the Governor of Beyrout.
" Just at the instant that the steam-boat was leaving the
harbour the steam. boat Genereax arrived with des latches,
announcing that the ine:lrgents bad been defeated oft two
points. The insurgents Ina! lost 400 killed and 600 ors.
oners in one action."

( Private Correspondence of the Malta' Times of the
10th inst.)
Cotisrawritsoeut, JUNE W.—When the news reached
this city of the fresh insurrection in Syria, joy beamed in
the countenance of every friend of the Ottoman Gnvern-
men% The position of the Pacha of Egypt is by i.lanY
considered ticklish in the extreme, as, his power being en-
tirely of a military character, the slightest slur upon big.
arms might at once be 11.4.11 to him. An amicable arrange-
ment according to the grasping conscienceless P. tha, bas
hitherto been one by which Turf ey was to be made a vic-
tim to his ambition, but it was hoped that the state of
Syria would cause hire to be more reasonable, and many-
persons began to prophesy that we were finally on the eve
of an accommodation. The arrival of the French steamer,
however, on the 25th, with intelligence that Mehemet All
Lai ordered off, by Turkish and Egyptian ships, 16.000
man to be landed in Syria, has thrown our politicians into
fresh doubts, for the solution of which we must be content
to wait a little. On the 26th the English steamer of war
Cyclops arrived here with despatches for Lord Pons:mby, ,
and I understand she sails again this very day fqr the ;?get
at Deshika bay.
(Private Correspondence of the Malta Pyles of July 15.)
We bh4,'e received private letters from Movul, datd
/1! ;nio:Fling us that tLe o that astriet
in open war with the .Paeba of Amcieh, f and that all com-
munication was cut off from Constantinople on account of
the insurrection of the Kurds, who reuse to yield, tbg
exorbitant demands of the Preba of M,ssul.
Mr. Rassam and Dr. Ainsworth were waiting for the
abatment of this insurrection to posecute their journey to
the Jacobite Patriarch of Antioch, called likewise the
Patriarch of Mardin, who resides in the Kurdistan n.ousi-
taide. One of the East India Company's steamers, the
Nimrod, built fur the navigation of the guphigcs, had
reached Bagdad. 'lt is of much less power tha.' the
Euphrates.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 7.—The envoy of the Viceroy
of Egypt, Sami Bey, has had a nice little country pa-
lace, or kiosk, placed at his disposal,
to doish his quaran.-
tine. It appears to be quite decided Mat his mission
trill
be a complete failure, as be has been, or be, told that
the affair in question being in the bands of the five Powers
the Porte cannot on any consideration listen to tiny pro-
posals through any other channel. To the confc,-enees
in London the Sultan has sent a special ambassador, ~nd
it is evident that unless those were broken up and the.
Ottoman delegate returned, nothing could be done on
thin side. The answer mentioned was to be expected, and
bough France will be much annoyed at such a result of
the mission of Sami Bey, I dont see that the real friends
of the Turks have any cause to be annoyed. I can assure.
you, that whilst the delay may be detrimental to the Paella,
it is doing no injury to the Porte, whose position is daily
acquiring strength. A fine body of Albanian troops arc
either arrived or shortly expected here, and the army will
soon, under the active administration of the present Se-
raskior Pacha, be once more on a respectable footing-.
We are looking with intense anxiety for fresh adviccs
from Syria, and are curious to know what our ships will
do down there.

LLOYD'S SRIPPIISIG-(THIS DAY•)

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LONDON.—Wind, this day at noon, S. A. light breeze.
DEAL, JULY 29.—Wind E.—Sailed the Outward bound.
LIVEhYooL, JULY 29.—Wind variable.—Arrived the
Zaate, Campbell, from Tobasco; Idris, Leggett, Tee-
tola ; Paragon, Hardy, St. Domingo; Mary, Hamilton,
Mobile; Britantfca, Cape Bran; Cambridge, Prince
Edward Island; James, Quebec; William and Joseph.
Crisp. Licata. Sailed the Outward bound. Off port
Penang, Chita ; Enterprize, St. John's New Brunswick.
PORMOUTH, JULY 29.—Wind S. W.—Sailed the
Imaum of Muscat, Thickbroom, for Calcutta.
FALMOUTH, JULY 28.—Wind, W. S. W., fresh breezes.
—Arrived the British Oak, Taylor, Licata; hirtal Dunn,
Furze, Smyrtia; Errico, Sabarage, Gallipoli.

Mr. O'Connell arrived in Mayo on Thursday.
A repeal meeting, at which Sir Samuel O'Malley presides,
takes place there to-day. The Ulster repeal meeting will take
place in Belfast, on the 14th of August.
On the morning of Wednesday last the inha-
bitants of Stckesley were aroused from their slumbers by the
roaring of waters, and in about an hour afterwards the whole
town was in the greatest commotion. By five o'clock the whole
town and neighbourhood were one continued sheet of water,
and the lower parts were covered several yards deep. The
great cause of this disaster was the demolition of the dam of
the extensive fishing lake belonging to Mrs. Livsey, of Kildale-
hall, about six miles distant from Stokesley, which was broken
down by the unusual weight of water pouring from the hills.
It is impracticable to state what the amount of dampgel may be
at Stokesley, Kildale, Avton, Hutton, Rugby, and several other
places in the neighbourhood, but it is believed it will amount to
several thousand pounds.—Durham Advertiser.

VON RAUMER'S ITALY AND THE ITALIANS.
—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marl-
borough-street, has this day published, " Italy and the Italians,"
by Frederic Von Raumer, author of " England in 1835," " Il-
lustrations of History," &c., in 2 volts. post Bvo., price 21s.
bound, which can now be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn
hag also just published, " Queen Victoria, from her Birth to
her Bridal," in 2 vols. post Bvo., with Portraits of her Ma-
jesty, Prince Albert, &c., price 21s. bound. Agents for Scot-
land, Messrs. Bell and Badfute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr.
John Cumming, Dublin.

COINS FOUND IN CHARNWOOD FOREST.-
On the 2d of June last, an urn or vase, such as is frequently
found in Rom;n sepulchres, of very plain workmanship and
totally unornamented, was found in Charnwood Forest, in that
part of it which is at present in the occupation of the monks of
the Cistertian convent which has lately been established in that
neighbourhood. Charnwood is not far from Loughborough,
in Leicestershire, and the spot in which the vase was found is
in the highest part of the forest, and in a place which has pro-
bably never been used as arable land until the present time. The
vase, which will contain about two quarts, was filled with coins
of the Roman empire, varying in time from the year of our
Lord 40 to the year 69. The coins that have been taken indis-
criminately from the mass in the vase are of a base metal ; they
are white when cleaned from the incrustation of rust and cor-
rosion, and in good preservation, On the obverse they bear
, the heads of various Emperors and sons of Emperors, with the
legends, Marius, Probus, Phillip, Quintillus, Gallienus, Salo-
niuna, Claudius Got4Gps, Victorious, &c., and on the reverse
are figures of Veriui, -Fortuna, &c. The vase has probably
been in the ground since the year 426, in which the Romans
left England, or perhaps longer. It. was discovered by a lay
brother of the convent, John 3l'Donell, and two labourers,
W. Hickey and C. Lett, as they were ploughing. The vase
was not more than a foot below the surface. The vase and its
contents are now on view at Mr. Abraham's, No. 8, Bruton-
street, where they have been inspected by several antiquaries.
Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Digby, the newly-ap-
pointed Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, Vice Sir nobert
Waller Otway, is in his 64th year, and first cousin and heir
presumptive to Earl !Digby, Lord Lieutenant of Dorsetshire.
The gallant Admiral is married to the Viscountess Dowager
Andover, daughter of the Earl of Leicester, by whom he had
an tay.ly daughter, the si-decant Lady Ellenborough, whose
marriage with her Lord was dissolved by Act of Parliament in
1830.