The state of Syria continues to create some anxiety in
Europe. The local Treasury is empty, and no one can be found to farm the customs. The Mussnlmans are unused to the work, and the Chris- tians refuse in obedience to orders from some European Power. Fuad Pasha is compelled therefore to appoint one of his own secretaries Director of Customs. A new panic has broken out in Damascus, and 116 of Abd-el-Kader's Algerines have requested
permission to return to their homes. Druses are murdered every week, and the Christians are quarrelling among themselves, a democratic party having arisen, which resists the French protege at the head of the Maroiaites. The Fiench, it is said, have ordered the Druses of the Haoumn to come in and make their submission under penalty of -a French campaign in the district.
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