The Virginian

DISTURBANCES IN SYRIA.

It appears very evident from all accounts which we receive from the dominions of the Ottoman Porte, that it would be better policy for him to look to his own territories than further to attempt the reduction of the Greeks. We learn from Aleppo that the above named city suffers severely from the excursions of the Arabs—who intercept the communication with the country, and have forced the inhabitants of the villages south of the city to abandon their habitations.—In Tripoli now, or recently has been, in a state of uproar and consternation—the Anazi Arabs commit all sorts of excesses between the towns of Hamma and Damascus; it is expected that a civil war will break out in the mountains of Lebanon. Accounts by the way of Persia further represent that the Bedouins intercept the communications from Bagdad, by whom the troops of the Pacha, sent for their reduction, have been twice repulsed. The Emir Bechir is said to have received instructions from Mehmet Ali Pacha of Egypt to attend henceforth to his orders only, and not to those of Abdallah Pacha, to whom he is also said to have written not to interfere in the affairs of Emir Bechir, on pain of his incurring his displeasure, and even threatening to send troops to take possession of St. Jean d'Acre.

[Balt. American.]