The Austrian Observer gives an aceonnt of the evacuation of
the pr aces of the Taurus by the Egyptian troops; and, adds that el though they set fire to the great barrack and arsenal et Faille!: Bogaz, yet thee left behitel them 113 cannons and 20 mortars, alter spiking them. it adds, that a Tatar arrive l on the iith of November, in Constantinople, from the Governor of Diarbekr, Zekeria Pashe, with the intelligence that four out of six Egyptian reghnents statioued near Oret liii received orders to join Ibrahim Pasha mar Baibeek. This corps ot 8,000 to 10,44et men was attacked on its merch by the Ansarivs, and st badly treated thut but 3,000 men were able to continue thvir route Four or five hundred men who lay in elarasele and who leel com- menced their march in the same direct iii, were attaehiel mid ent to pieces by the Kurds. Zekeria Pasha has gone to occupy the points thus evacuated.
• Letters from Alexandria of the 7th stele, that Mehemet Ali hid cleared off all his debts to the Franks, at the same time diet he allowed the pay of his laud and naval troops to remain thirteen minthsiii ar- rear. The Pasha still appeared most desirous to teeilitate the commu- nication through his dominions between England and Indin ; 3,20 on the hilt his Minister, Bog-has Bey, wrote to eir. Briggs, who is ellarl:eti Lit! interim with the expedition of the Indian wail, tinit his I lighness hod directed a einem of his Divan to be placed it the dispesal of the Eng-- lish agent, sent to receive the iaail at Suez, end escort hint to Alex- andria.
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The Semaphore of the 25th November publishes a letter from Alexana
dria of the Ilth, stating that St. Jean d'Acre, viewed from the sea, pre- sented the aspect of a heap of ruins. Aleppo and Damascus had been placed in a respectable condition of defence. nevertheless, the Egyptians were believed to have no chence of preserving them, fear having com- pletely disorganized their army. Mehemet Ali had sent orders to Ibra- him to concentrate his forces on the frontier ; but they were se dispersed throughout Syria that this operation could not he easily ceecuted. The Pasha had not for several weeks received any news from either Ibrahim or Soliman Pasha, when on the Oth a courier arrived bringing the sad intelegenee, which was confirmed on the next day by the arri- val of the Euphrates. The Pasha at firer. swore that he would make no
end n ci weuld. Oct return the fleet to the Sot am. ellen in- firmed, howeve.r, or the extesit of hia disasters, his courae appears to have abandoned him, and he declared his readiness to subscribe to the
most humiliating conditions. Alexandria was plungsel into a stnte of indescribable stupor ; and it was greatly apprebendsd that the Allies,
eneouraged by success, would carry the whole treaty into execution. Trade had resumed all at once an e..tr.iordinary activity. A windier of Grecian re nets, sufficient to ship all the es mils lontllit by the merchants, had arrived, and several fresh purchases had also taken place. M. Walewski was still at Alexandria.
Toe Aires/we Gaz:tte announces that the Pasha of Bagdad had sent troops to issenpy Damascus.
Sir :Moses Montetiore, when at Constantinople last :eolith, was pre- sented to the Sultan, :eel expreseed his thanks for the interest nu:ni- ce:steel by him fer 11:e pereectued Jews of Damascus. The Sultan received Sir :doses with eyeat comIsecension, and assured him that the Jews under his dominion should always experience the protection which their fidelity deserved.
' A letter dated Corfu, November 6th, gives the details of an earth- , cake at Zente,ellieh commenced hy a smart shock on the e0th of October; and Lets...cell that Ity aml die 4th of Nos - eineer no fewer than ninety-five shocks were felt in the town. Every hotve in Zante was
more or less daniegrd, ...e a considereble portion of them totally de- stroyed, burying men, women, and chi:dee:1 in their ruins. The steeples of four churches were throe n down. The citadel was so much
sheleen that the soldiers tied front it, expecting every moment to see it overthrown. The Lord High Commiesioner repaired thither the
moment he heard of the disaster, but found the place deserted. He commenced. however, on the spot, a subscription for the relief of the sufferers; but it was net supposed that any thing short of a large advance from Government could give relief to the numerous victims of this visitation.
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