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obliged to submit to untie/ tile Egyi)tilm Administration, and
particularly in their struggle with the soldiers of Ibrahim,
declared themselves incompetent to pay the required contri-
butions. The Arab tribes of the Anexis had refused to dis-
charge their share of the taxes, because the mountaineers of
Hatturan had stopped paying them a tribute which they owed
to him from time immemorial. The determination of this

trine not to renounce tnat prerogative hac
disorders, and occasioned the Pacha of Damascus to detach
tkither a corps of regular troops under the command of
Schebli Arian. Since then no accounts had reached from
Damascus, and the issue of the differences was unknown.
The mountaineers continued peaceable, notwithstanding the
intrigues of Mehemet Ali's agents. The peasants of several
villages of Palestine had also manifested the intention of
imitating the example of the mountaineers, and not to pay
their taxes until the Sultan had pronounced on the demand
of the latter. The &him Bechir and Aydar had come a se-
cond time from the mountains to confer with the authorities
of Beyrout. The were still in that city, and were treated
with the greatest distinction by the Governor, who had in-
vited them a few days before to a dinner, at which all the
Pashas and the English authorities were present. The
Machonerat had, in consequence of instructions from Con-
stantinople, proceeded to reorganise the sanatory board of
Beyrout. The inspector and the physician having refused to
consent to a reduction in their salaries, had been dismissed.
Tne former had been replaced by M. Pestaluzzo, and the
phssician by Dr. Drombrowski. M. Boure, the new Consul
of France, and Mr. Wood, the British Consul-General at
Damascus, were expected at Beyrout. M. Desmeloizes, the
present French Consular agent, had been appointed to the
Consulate of Caneo. Intelligence had reached Beyrout of
the arrival of Bizegich, on the Euphrates, of two English
iron steamers, intended for the navigation of that river.
Those vessels were under the command of Captain Thomp-
son, who had given proofs, in this difficult expedition, of
much talent and courage. The Arabs directed several attacks
against them, but a few rounds of artillery dispersed them
with wonderful promptitude. There were then lying in the
roads of Beyrout, a British ship of the line, and two steamers,
three Turkish frigates, and a French and an Austrian cor-
vette. Several English sail of the line were shortly expected.
The Egyptian steamer Nile arrived at Constantinople on
the Ist inst., having on board Saib Muhib Effendi, the ex-
traordinary envoy of the porte, and Kiemal Effendi, the
bearer of the last hatti scheriff to Alexandria. On passing
before the Point of the Seraglio, the Nile fired a salute of 21
rounds, which was returned by an Ottoman frigate stationed
before Topkanhe, and anchored at the entrance of the har-
bour. During the day she repaired to the Lazaretto, where
the two high functionaries of the Sultan landed, and she then
returned to her anchorage. This steamer was also the bearer
of 5,000,000 of piasters, which the Pasha of Egypt sent to the
Porte on account of his yearly tribute. The consuls of the
four powers, parties to the treaty of the 15th of July, had,

occasioned

it was said, heen ordered to bold themselves in readiness to
return to Alexandria. The Porte bad addressed a firman to
Tayar Pasha, Governor of Jerusalem. respecting the Jews of
Syria and Palestine, in which that Pasha is directed to give
full and entire protection to the Jews, and treat them in

Our private correspondence, dated Alexandria, the sth
inst., on board the Medea steamer, states, that a perfectly
good understanding continued to exist between Mehemet Ali
and the Porte. Saib Muhib Effendi, the Sultan's envoy,
previous to his departure from Alexandria, agreed on the
part of the Porte to reduce the amount of tribute to be paid
annually to 25,000,000 piasters, with which the Pasha was
well pleased. " Another incident,",adds our correspondent,
" proves to a high degree the tact with which the Pasha en-
deavours to evade complying with the orders of the Sultan.
Colonel Napier having arrived to claim the Syrians enrolled
amongst the Egyptian troops, after many evasions, the Pasha
replied that the colonel should address himself to Saib Muhib
Effendi, the Sultan's envoy, which advice the colonel com-
plied with, when Muhib Effendi informed him that this
affair of the Syrians depended entirely on the Sultan's deci-
sion, and that he (Saib Muhib Effendi) had no instructions
on the subject; to which Mehemet Ali added, ' I depend
entirely on the Porte, and I shall obey all his commands.'
The colonel forwarded despatches to England by the Gorgon
steamer, announcing the result of his mission, and remains
in Alexandria awaiting instructions from his government."—
Times.