The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-20 00:00:00

SYRIA

LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM SYRIA

We are indebted to a gentleman on board the Austrian
steamer Ludovico, arrived this morning from Beyrout, which
sbe left on the 23d, for the following :
Beyrout was at this period resuming, in some measure, her
commercial activity. A Turkish custom-house had been
established, and many families who had fled from it to Cyprus
bad returned. _

Tripoli has fallen. The Austrian frigate Clemenza remains
to protect and effect the landing of a small body of troops.
Reinforcements were daily expected. It is very difficult for
the garrison to operate a junction with the main army, being
entirely surrounded by the mountaineers.
St. Jean d'Acre had not been attacked as yet; but it was
expected that a force would be immediately sent there for
that purpose. Ibrahim Pasha was, it is said, at Marsaka,
near Mount Lebanon.; and Soliman Pasha at Balbeck, with
a handful of troops. Desertions continue daily, and these
pashas are severely molested by the mountaineers.

The Emir Bechir and his family were sent, on the 22d
to,lVlalta, from Saida, in her Britannic majesty's steamer
Cyclops.

SPAIN

MADRID, Nov. B.—A bad intelligence continues to pre-
vail among the members of the Regency • this is to be regret-
ted, as it may prevent the good effects likely to arise from the
conservative policy adopted by the Ministers. M. Ferrer,
it appears, wishes to be lord paramount, and intends, should
he fail in his ambitious designs, to be ambassador at the court
of the Tuileries. H. Hermandez, nominated by his influ-
ence, holds that post but provisionally.
M. Corradi, secretary to the late provisional governmental
junta, has incurred the high displeasure of the Duke of Vit-
toria, by the inflexible firmness with which he insisted on the
total dissolution of the senate.

Some of the juntas seem to be Unwilling to resign their
short-lived power—others call loudly for a prompt convoca-
tion of the Cortes. Their hopes of having a central junta are
quite vain—the Regency and the Cortes will, henceforth, be
the ruling powers.

GREECE

TORTURE AND LEGAL MURDER IN GREECE

ATHENS, OCT. 20.—1 n my last letter I gave you an ac-
count of the torture practised in this capital on the person of
the Albanian Christian Nicholas Panajotti, by the mirarque
of gendarmerie, Tzinos, the monster whose atrocities on the
frontier are well known to both King Otho and his father.
It appears, however, that these horrors are nothing compared
with what are going on in the provinces ; for in the Amie du
Peuple, No. 76, we find the following extract:—" Finally,
we ask the Courier Grec if the lives of Gieek citizens are in
safety when they can be imprisoned on simple suspicion or
frivolous charges ? or when a royal decree authorises the
apothecaries of the kingdom to give deleterious drugs to bri-
gands for the purpose of poisoning them ? Is not this latter
act of the government an evident attempt upon the lives of
all citizens, of whom the official murderers may, without
fear of punishment, kill as many as their political passions
may excite them to get rid of."