The Express. — 1860-08-14 (London, England)

DANCES IN SYRIA.-PARLIAMEN. TART RETURNS.  Further papers relating to the disturbances in Syria ware issued lids morning. They include letters from the Britiahelhilla al Beyrout, Aleppo, Hammett", Jamsshim, Smyrna, Jaffa, Ice., and despatches from Sir H. Sulwer to Lord J. RumelL There is also • letter of six pages addressed by Mr. Cyril Graham, of Iteyroat, to Lord Dufferin, giving • connected narrative of the massacres. "Your lordship," observes Lord Dufferin, writing from Paris to our Foreign Minister, " may rely with implicit confidence on the aocmacy of all Mr. Graham's statements of fact, as his knowledge of Arabic, and him personal acqu►intance both with the Druse and Maronite populations, combined with the opportunities he has bad of visiting the places where these tragedies have occurred, will have given him peculiar facilities for arriving at the truth. Your lordship will perceive that Mr. Graham speaks with great severity of the conduct of the Turkish authorities in Syria. It will be the duty of the commission to ascertain how far the impression which appears to prevail at Beyrout, in regard to the complicity of the Turkish officers and troop% can he substantiated by evidence ; but due allowance will be made for the strength of Mr. Graham's expressions, when it is remembered of what horrors he has been an eyewitness."  The accounts in this narrative, :as well as those in the letters of the consuls, all tell the same tale of treachery, pillage, and murder. "In the whole war," writes Mr, Graham, " there has been, perhaps, but one bright excep• tion to the barbarity which has pervaded these wholesale murders. The sister of the great Dross Chief, before the massacre began, advised the Christians not to go to the moral. She most probably knew what awaited them and offered to shelter soy who came into her house. Unfortunately the greater number mistreated her, but 400 creatures crowded into her house, and when the murderers, panting for more blood, demanded of her to give up the dogs of Christians, she said, ' Enter if you dare and take them Even in such a moment the Muses would not have dared to violate the sanctity of the harem of one of their great princes, and with muttered curses retired. The poor creatures she carefully escorted herself to hiohktarsh, whence they were dispstched to Sidon, and brought of by our menof•war and landed at Beyrout." Consul Brant's letters from Damascus, and indeed all the despatches, implore pecuniary assistance. " I entreat," writes Mr. Brant on the 16th oh., " that pecuniary aasistance be furnished me ; I have no means of my own, and the calls en me are so heavy that I cannot long respond to them. I have altogether under my roof nearly 200 people who depend on me for food, and I cannot foresee when they can quit this asylum, or whither they can go. All are homeless, penniless, and with only the clothes on their backs ; I dread a sickness following ; I have but a small stock of medicine, and no doctor to assist. I will not fail in my duty be it as itevere as it may, but I cannot do what is beyond my physical powers and my pecuniary means."  Of the treaty of peace between the Christians and Drums, our consul at Beyrout observes, " It is scarcely necessary to say that the terms of this peace have been forced upon the Christians, who it is impossible should willingly seal their own ruin. Indeed the signatures on the side of the Christiana are confined to theKaimakan and petty functionaries."