The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-28 00:00:00

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SYRIA. ! FRENCH

BEYROUT, AUG, 29.—This port is blockaded by the
Powerful, Edinburgh, Thunderer, Ganges, Benbow,
Castor, Carysfort, and Gorgon (steamer), within a
pistol shot of the town, and all heats and vessels coming
in are continually captured by them.
Soliman Paella issued the follouing orders of the day
on the 27th :
" Art. 1. Any individual born in a foreign country
who shall introduce any writings or pruc'amarions into
Syria tending to foment disobedience or revolt shall be
punished with death.
" Art. 2. Auy individual, whether native or foreigner,
who shall distribute any writings or proclamations tend-
ing to promote disobedience or rebellion shall be pu-
nished with death.
" Art. 3. Any individual, whether native or foreigner,
who shall be the bearer or concealer of any proclama-
tion tending, to foment disobedience or rebellion, shall
be punished with imprisonment in irons for a period of
from five to twenty years.
" Art. 4. Every person shall be considered a con-
cealer of proclamations who shall not, witbia ten da)s
from the date of this order, delver up to local autho-
rities every writing or proclamation distributed in his
village, town, or district.
" Art.s. Every individual born in a foriegn country,
who shall introduce or distribute arms, ammunition, or
provisions, shall be punished with death.
" Art. 6. Every individual, whether native or fo-
reigner, who shall excite the inhabitants to revolt,
either by words, writings, or money, shad be punished
with death . .

" Art. 7. Every foreigner who shall act as a spy
shall be punished with death.
" Art. S. The composition of the Council of War
remains the same.
" Art. 9. The sentence of death or the galleys
cannot be e3ccuted without the approbation of the
Alaj,:sr-General commanding the army.
Art. 10. The present order of the day shall be no-
tified to the Consul 3 of the different Powers, inasmuch
as it regards foreigners.
" SOLDI PACH A, Major-General."

" OF.Dk.r. OF THE DAY.

" BEYLOUT, AUG. 27.

"The coast of Syria from the heights of Khan Yom-
toes to the limits of the north of Tarsus is declared in
u state of siege. In consequence of this the military
authorities will take cognisance of all crimes and offences
committed by natives or foreigners. They will likewise
take charge of the collection of taxes, and the works of
defence will be intrusted to officers of engineers under
their orders. Notice of this order is to be given to all
the civil and military commanders of the provinces, as
well as to the Consuls of the different Powers, as re-
gards strangers."
Soliman Pacha next addressed the following circular
to the Consuls of the foreign nations :
" General Staff of the Egyptian Armies,
" Beyrcut, August 27.
" Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that his
Royal highness Mehemet Ali has refused the conditions
of the arrangements proposed by the Sultan in accord
with the Courts of Great Britain, Russia, Prussia, and
Austria. Those conditions have been communicated to
bins by his Excellency Rifat Bey, sent by his Highness
conjointly with the Consuls-General of the Four Powers
above-mentioned. Ilia Royal Highness replied to this
communication, that what he had conquered by force of
arms should be wrested from him by force of arms only.
I have the honeer to be," &c.
A large reward has been offered for the bead of M.
Wood, but he is safe on board tile Powerful.
The Benbow has 5,000 stand of arms on board. The
Carysfort also carries a quantity. Some Arnauts and
Turks have deserted the Paella's standard and gone on
board the British ships, where they were informed that
they would receive per man five piastres, one oke of
meat, and three bottles of wine per day. -
Correspondence between Mr. Moor, the English
Consul at Beyt out, and Soliman Pacha (Col. Selves) :
LETTER OF SOLIMAN, FACIIA TO MR. MOOR, ENGLISH

CONSUL AT BEYROUT

BEYROUT, 28 DJEMREZ EL AKBAR.

" M. Lc Consul—The menaces and acts of hostility
on the part of your Government before declaration of
hostilities have rendered the relations of our respective
Governments more and more critical. The intrigues
to cause an insurrection amongst the i❑habitants of Le-
banon, after the negative answer of his Highness Me-
hemet Ali to the proposals made him, induce him to
observe to you that your presence in this town is super-
fluous,.and that it will be prudent for you to quit it with
your fa:oily. If war should break out, which is pro-
bable, as his Highness cannot accede to such demands,
I would invite you, and other English functionaries, to
quit this territory. I have ordered all persons exciting
sedition and disorder to be arrested, and punished im-
..

ir.cdiately."

LEPLY OF Mi.. MOOR.

" BEY ROUT, AUG. 27.
" M. le Gencral—l Lave the honour to aeltoowledge

the receipt of yours, and must profess my ignorance of
any declaration of war between England and Egypt.
You have not made any such notification to me ; and
until you do order me :o quit Beyrout within a certain
time, or until .1 get orders frotti my superiors to that
rffcct, will not sibaudou.rny duties here, however su-
perfluous may thi.tik then. As to your hint that
'My starmis.,,hrbe dangerous to myself and family, I can
onlyrecall that-I amunder •yourprotection and that of
tiro law, of..uations.. If you tell mo I may not count on
that protectiota, and if you ratify to me a declaration of
war, I shall seek an asylum on board the vessels of her
Britannic Majesty.
" I learn that I alone of the four Consuls have re-
ceived a notification of this kind.—&c. &c.

" MOOR."

Soliman Paella rejoined, in another letter to Mr.
Moor, that he did not know of any declaration of war,
but still that the conduct of the English fleet in cutting
off all communications was hostile. In such a state
of things, the presence of an English Consul at l3eyrout
was superfluous. He added that the Consul's remain-
ing was also dangerous, on acoount of the exasperation
of the population against the English agents, who were
exciting insurrection. " For example, if one of your
proteges was killed by a soldier, and I were to proceed
to punish the soldier on the spot, a revolt might take
place, and you and your family might be its first vic-
tims."

Soliman then proceeds to assert, that exciting revolt
amongst the Syrians is not an honest act, but is a policy
of intrigue and corruption. He concludes by saying
that he (Soliman Pacha) could not take upon himself
to give the English Consul a notice to quit Beyrout.
he English Consul, cn receiving this, wrote another
letter on the 28th, declaring the foregoing letter vague,
and demanding whether he might count on the Gene-
rat's protection, and upon his own security and that of
his fa►nily, as heretofore.
Soliman replied, that Mr. Moor and the other Con-
suls might count on his protection as bezetolore,. which
proves the inutility of having. commenced and excited
such a correspondence.

SIR T. PHILLIPS.—On Wednesday the splen-
did service of plate, subscrbA for by upwards of 600 in-
dividuals, and valued at 1,0001., was presented at Newport
to Sir Thomas Phillips, in testimony of the valuable ser-
vices rendered by him in suppressing the Chartist rebel-
lion in November lut. The proceedingsr' were conducted
with much ceremony.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, SEPT.
25.—At our annual " Great Fair" and Market, held on
Saturday last, the 19th instant, the quantity of New Hops
pitched for sale did not exceed 40 pockets, and of year.
lings and other ages, about 400 pockets. The business
done was more limited than is usual at this Fair, which is
chiefly to be accounted for from the almost total failure of
the new crop, which prevented the attendance of country
buyers, the few Hops grown this year not being worth
their notice, and the sample very blighted and inferior.
The public scale returns show that 22 new pockets, and
132 Yearlings and other ages were sold by the growers on
the fair day, besides 7 new and 120 old, weighed during
this week. The prices of the new varied (according to
quality) from 7/. to 141. per cwt., duty estimated at 1501.
Present currency, per cwt. ; —lB39's, from 1403. to 160 s ;
fine and choice, 170 s. to 190 s. ; 1837'5, from 1003. to
Il3os. ; 1836'4 and 1835'5, from 70s. to 955. Worcester
Herald.

On Friday night, about twelve o'clock, an ac-
cilent happened at Tulley's bazaar, Gravesend, during
the performance of the well known gun-trick, which
created much alarm among the company assembled. After
the gun was loaded and the ball deposited therein, it was
handed over to a gentleman present, who was directed to
preceed to the farther end of the concert room and fire at
theconjuror, who stood upon the platform ready to perpe-
trate the " wonderful feat of catching the actual ball fired
from the gun between his teeth." The gun was handled
in a very awkward manner by the party to whom it was
presented, and he fired it off. The sleight-of-hand gen-
tleman caught the ball as a matter of course between his
teeth, but at the same moment, to the dismay of the whole
company, a violinist, who was stending with his instrument
in his hand seven or eight feet distant from the conjuror
exclaimed " I am shot," and raised his hands to his lace,
from which blood was observed to be trickling down. If
the wadding had lodged in his eye instead of above it he
would probably have lost his sight. The gun ought not
to be entrusted to awkward hands. A few nights ago the
wadding struck a lady's bonnet in the same place ; and this
and the accident of Friday bight clearly shews there is no
ball in the gun when it is fired, although one is dropped
into the muzzle and rammed down before the gun is fired,
and by some contrivance removed before it goes off.
Mr. Fletcher, of Eykc, near Woodbridge, has
now in his possession two most extraordinary stones, taken
out of the intestines of a hackney mare, waich died on
Wednesday, the 16th inst:, upwards of twenty years old.
The largest resembles the Shape, and is about the size, of
an Edam cheese ; it measures eighteen inches Aud a half
in circumference, and weighs' six pounds. The smdier
one is of a triangular form, rnith.the acute corners rounded
off, They boor appear very hard; the latter measures
• sixteen inches and a half round, and weighs three pounds
l and a half. The mare was an excellent worker, and was
never known to nil anything till within the last two
months, since which time she has been falling off, and died
suddenly.—Suplk Cironicle.

DUTIES.

The Monilcur of Saturday contaiLs the following
important report and Royal ordcnnance, modifying the
French customs'. duties :
" Sire,—The project of law relative to the customs,
which v. c presented this year to the Chambers, accord-
ing to the orders of your Majesty, was not able to be
brought to debate. The termination of the Session
has again cathed the adjournment of several questions,
many of which are of importance, and of the adoption of
measures which, although they occupy only a secondary
place in the project, are none the less impatiently ex-
pected by the parties interested.

These different dispositions, Sire, have been the ob-
ject of profound examination on the part of one of the
Committees of the Chamber of Deputies. Its report
has been distributed, and may, at the commencement of
the next Session, be submitted to legislative deliberation.
Consequently the time when a definitive decision will
be given upon the modifications which we have pro-
posed cannot be a very distant one.

" Nevertheless we have not considered that the
brevity of their delay dispensed us from making use of
the powers bestowed upon the Government by law to
satisfy provisionally the necessities of trade and industry.
When the Chambers found themselves in the impossi-
bility to proceed to a revision of the tariffs of the cus-
toms, so changeable in their very nature, it became the
duty of the Government to supply this deficiency to the
extent of its rowers in taking measures relative to the
necessities which appear evident to it.
" By the ordinances of the 23d of July and sth of
August last, your Majesty has supplied some of the
measures the most earnestly demanded by the commer-
cial interests, and I now submit to your Majesty other
dispositions, which, by their nature and their utility, are
iiieleoled also in the provisions of the law of the 17th
of December, 1814.
" The actual tariff of the rough cast-iron (Antes
brutes) acts in a repulsive manner upon certain pro-
ducts. The German cast-iron, for instance, takes a
very insufficient part in our consumption, in proportion
to this wants of many branches of cur industry. We
propose to your Majesty to yield to the reclamations
which have been made for a long time upon this point,
by reducing to four francs per 100 kilogrammes (the
rate laid upon the northern frontier) the duty of six
francs which is now laid upon the eastern frontier.
Other diminutions, equally conformable to the
project of law, might be granted for the following ob-
jects :
" Filaceous vegetable products used in making paper.
" The reeds of French Guiana, which might replace
in several articles of Parisian manufacture the reeds de-
rived from India.

" Scented woods, angica wood, and box en bilks, of
which so great a use is made in our toy-work.
" Our aim would not be completely attained if, at
the same time that we moderate the tariff upon exotic
matters, the importation of which can in no way injure
the interests concerned in the national productions of
the same kind, we were not to make, in the case of a
moderate protection, the modifications demanded upon
those objects which the French manufactures are called
upon to supply in competition with foreign maculae-
tures. And thus we consider it proper to fix at eight
francs per kilogramme the duty upon needles, and at
two francs that upon fishhooks.
" These two articles have not as yet any special duty
in the tariff. The first is rated at that of fine merecry,
which, being only at the rate of two francs per kilo-
gramme, evidently cannot exercise a sufficiently pro-
tecting influence upon our manufactures ; and the fish-
hooks are put among the common mercery, the duty of
which (one franc per kilogramme) is evidently too
weak. The new duties which it is proposed to esta-
blish will not affect the value of needles at a greater
proportion than of from 10 to 11 per cent., and that of
fishhooks in a still less proportion. We consider it im-
possible to be more moderate in the establishment of a
protecting tariff ; and we trust the neighbouring ccun-
tries with whom we have a commercial intercourse in
these articles will find in the moderation we evince a
new proof of our conciliatory disposition with respect
to them.
" Your Majesty will regret, doubtless, with us not to
sec placed among the number of the objects regulated
by the ordonnance two measures which excite an almost
universal solicitude in France. I mean all that con-
cerns the use of fire machinery for international naviga-
tion, and the adoption of a new tariff for the threads
and linens. The first of these measures, however, goes
beyond the powers granted to ordonnances by article 34
of the law of the 17th of December, 1814. And we
have refrained from taking the second from motives
which I am about to have the honour of laying before
your Majesty.
" When the project of law relative to the customs
was to have been submitted to the Chamber of Depu-
ties, the Government, rho considered it necessary to
extend the duty to about ten per cent. upon threads,
thought it proper to defer ail increase of the tariff upon
linens until the affect of the new taxes upon threads had
been tried, and more especial)/ until the commercial
negotiations commenced were terminated.
" The opinion was shared by the Committee of the
Chamber of Deputies charged with the examination of
the project of law. In the deeply investigating dis-
cussion which it devoted to that subject, and the rd-
suits of which we find in its report, it maintained, on
the one hand, that it was necessary to fix the tariff
upon threads at more than ten per cent. ; and, on the
other, that it was necessary to raise the tariff upon
inens in the same augmentation as that made upon

threads.
" The Government cannot renounce its opinion upon
the first point. After having taken the advice of the.
most competent personages, it persists in believing that
duty equivalent in value to ten per cent, would form
a sufficient protection to the thread manufactories. And
as to the tariff upon linens, without refusing to acknow-
ledge all the force of the arguments presented by the
Committee, we are bound to say that some et theta do
not altogether agree with the last facts relative to the
importation of them.
" In fact, in order that the balance between the pre-
sent tariff upon threads and that upon linens were such
that the one could not be modified without putting im-
mediately and integrally the quota of this modification
upon the other, it would be necessary that the decrease
which for some past has manifested itself in the number
of the importations of linen should not exceed the pro-
portion of increase which has taken place in the impor-
tations of thread. Now, if such were the case in 1839
(since then a million of kilogrammes of thread more
having arrived, there was a reduction of a similar quan-
tity in the linens which arrived), it was by no means
the same thing in 1840. In spite of the inducements
which apparently were given to the introduction of
threads by the probability of a speedy increase of duty,
the introduction ceased to increase. There was, even
during the first eight months of this exercise, a slight
diminution of 16,707 kilogrammes ; and the importation
of linens fluctuated 611,955 kilogrammes,* an amount
to which must be added, in order to calculate the im-
portance in threads, the 15 per cent. diminution which
relate to the conversion of threads into linens, so much
so that, in fact, the importation of these two foreign
products (linens and threads), which progressively aug-
mented in 1838, and which, in 1839, had upon the whole
remained stationary, is at the present time in a state of
diminution.
4s Besides this new and remarkable fact rendering
settlement less urgent, we may be allowed to conclude
that the necessity which the Committee conceived there
was of maintaining intact the actual proportion between
the two tariffs, in raising equally one with the other, is
not a point so well established that a decision ought to
be taken before the approaching discussion which will
take place in the Chambers.
' Wc will add that, according to the opinion of the
Committee, the increase which it proposes ought to be
effected at the same time as another measure intended
to compensate the inconveniences of more or less weight
which all augmentations of duty almost always bring
upon commercial transactions. This measure is one
which should consist in giving back (in the form of
drawback) to the exportation of linens the duties levied
upon the entry of threads. Now, a disposition of this
kind is not one of those which it is possible to put in vi-
gour by an ordonnance.
" But if, under these circumstances, Sire, it did not
appear to us that any change ought to be effected by
ordonnance in the ensemble of the tariff upon threads
and linens, we consider it our duty to propose to you to
make immediately two modifications, upon the propriety
and utility of which all parties are agreed. I mean the
application—
" First—Of the duty upon linen threads to tow
threads
per (Ells measuring more than 6,000
metres
No. 10 English and above), klis iotgrreatioilttrpnee)(
be-
cause both the one and the other terve for the same
purposes, and it is difficult for the custom-house officers
to distinguish between them.
" Second—Of the tariff upon plain linens to worked
and figured table-linens of fine quality, which, by an error
in the legislation, are charged less duty than the plain
present tariff. tariff.
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linens of the sante quality.
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the
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pouring
nin
which, forming. upon an average nearly •
two-fifths of the;
general importation of thrcads,t take the '
place in our
consumption, to the great prejutiice of
our agriculture,
and our spinning of the common threadso abundantly
produced in the departments of the
We shall thus have made a firstwest and north-west.
step towards the solu-
tion of the very complicated
questions of which the ex-
pose of the motives of the project of law and the report
of the committee have fixe
" Twhichhe ordonnance the limits.
have the honour to sub-
mit to your Molest,' is
terminated by certain disposi-
tions relative to the navigation tariff, which will facii7
and
along the movements of our merchant vessels abroad
along the coast,
as well as the transactions relative to
the property of vessels.
They will be bailed by our
commerce with the liveliest gratitude.
" I am with respect, Sire, your Majesty's very humble,
very devoted, and very faithful servant,
" The Minister Secretary of State of Agriculture
and Commerce, " A. GoulN.