The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

ERKEY AND SYRIA

The AuysburL i 1.6 azette of the 14th instant publishes ac-
counts from Con tantinople of the 23d ult. The Porte had
not yet replied t. the .note of the Ambassadors relative to
the appointment eff a Turkish military governor in Leba-
non. The divan ha held a few days before an extraordi-
nary council, at w hiich all the grand dignitaries of the empire
were present, in o r
d.sr, to discuss that affair,Lut the assembly
separated without coating to any decisive resolution. It was,
however, decided t bat, Omar Pasha should retain the military
governorship of th a mountains, until further reconsideration
of the matter. If we are to judge from a conversation which
had occurred betwi !en &trim Effendi and one of the: Euro-
pean diplomatists, he Porte was determined to evade acqui-
escing in the demai id (14' the Ambassadors. Sarim had an-
nounced to that d jPlematist that . Ali Effendi and Akif
Effendi would short ',13, depart, the one for London and the
other for Vienna,
and. that they would be both fur-
nished with the nece sary instructions and powers to a4Aust
the Lebanon questi.
,1•1 in a satisfactory manner. The two
envoys, however, w
fluid. not, it was expected, leave Con-
stantinople for two u
tontlas, and it was calculated that no so-
lution could be arri fed at for at least six months. in the
meantime the Maro, Siteziwere making preparations, should
their reclamations be 'rejected, to attack Omar Pasha in Der-
el-Kamar. Several < ll:gag-a-fleas had already been fought
between them and the !iDi'u4es, of which ()mar Pasha bad re-
mained a quiet spectat pr.
.4-.,,was not believed, however, that
he Would long observe ';Chat iieutrality. Since the arrival of
the last despatches frot b Syti a, the utmost anxiety seemed to
prevail among the mini ters q f the Porte. Tahir Pasha daily
repaired to the arsenal to stilt .ulate the zeal of-the workmen,
whose number: had bee i 3 mot e than doubled. Sir Stratford
Canning was said to be 'Cliaph used with the reception given
to the Protestant BiShol of J. erusalem by Tayar Pasha, the
governor. Be had adds assed 4 i formal complaint on the sub-
ject to the divan, and in: tisted on the immediate recognition
of the bishop by the sill tan. - The prelate had declined ac-
cepting the offer of anal nutmet it in Tayar Pasha's palace, in
consequence 'Of that fan. :tionari'' affecting to treat him as a
mere English traveller, r find rert !sing to recognise him in his
.episcopal character.

'VI. AU RITI US

Mauritius papers to the 25th De camber have arrived. Sir
Lionel Smith, the governor, had of ened the secret sittings of
the legislature to the public, who vtl !re much gratified,at thus
having the opportunity of *etching the proceedings, or re-
ceiving the sentiments of the meml ers through the medium
of the press. A strong effort was i ade to diminish the vice
of drunkenness, and the subject had;, undergone much discus-
sion in the assembly. The suggestioi is to suppress this vice
—which had become so extensive as ti 3 prevent the possibility
of labour being effectually done—were, • various, but the most
g
salient was one which went to the radual decrease, under
government regulations. of the spirits at lowed to the labourers,
for without government intervention it was said there would
be little chance of effecting any remeti. y. The high rate of
wages had increased the desire for hi; uries among the co-
loured population. Sugars were radices tower; freights, dis-
counts, and exchange, the same as -last arrival.