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Wes firnth. and Mi. Atkinson—And BOWLED OCT. H. Hid.thronnh Salm., and CUleosit: Mr C. lankTr.i. Mai E. Le., len% and Slim Winkle. —Clannessen at 7. IitITANILL TwoRTEMN, OLD DOM, Or IMMONGATL —TL. mei liAcK SET will Ws W rseserise4 E 1 TERTAIN -IthINT.—ICT NON LEAR AND NTS IrAITKErlat. MOLL Mr. A. Messy.—Aad MALI ILIMIZIELT. Yr. W. CrAutord. 1101 WA AT LONDON lIIDOL Ti DAT —SS& SL arm MIAMIOOI3, Ih. 4m. Toiressov—lionies, Ik. S.....Ahernnos, Ih. 9.40.. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY ir. LAST week we were told how much revenue it was meant to dimipate at the outset of the China War ; tits week we are informed out of which national pocket the money is to be taken. Mr. Gi.sosrowc explained last night how he proposes to provide for the principal part of the require ments to which, "at a guess," Mr. SIDNEY Has sear says the country will be liable during the first campaign. Direct taxation is no longer fashion. able in our Conservative Parliament ; and the CHM/CELIA/IL of the Exoneores seems to have made up his mind to lay aside for the present the doctrine he once so eloquently propounded regard ing the special fitness of a property tax as a financial weapon of war. Two shillings a gallon is to be added to the duties on home and foreign spirits ; and as the House of COIIII4OIIB Iss thought fit to acquiesce in the decision of the House of Lords regarding the excise duty on paper, Mr. GILA ism:ix consents to appropriate 1,400,0001. arising from that source, to help lay for the in glorious expedition to the Gulf of Pecheli. Thus the whole of the cost is to be defrayed oat of indirect taxation. Although it is certainly un fortunate that ere the French Treaty is six months old the charge on one of the principal articles of import affected thereby should be raised 12} per cent., most persons will probably think that if we must go back to the old system of taxing consumption, alcohol is that the pro duction and use of which deserves the least amount of sympathy. What we deprecate and deplore, however, is the surrender p►o kit rite of the salutary check of which we lately heard so much, upon wasteful and wan ton war expenditure. So long as the cost of aggressive expeditions can he provided for in this fashion, wanton and wasteful wars we shall have without fail. Could the commercial and indus trious community at the present moment make their wishes felt, it is notorious that they would decree a very different policy regarding China from that on which wo are embarking. They see in the success of Sir Hon E Gaarrea expedition nothing of which as a nation we can be proud. They know that infinite misery will unavoidably be inflicted upon millions who know nothing of us, notch less wish us harm ; and they have a strong belief that if a serious blow is dealt by our troops to the feeble (:overnment of Pekin, the conse quence will inevitably be either the increase of the power of Russia or the United Staten, or of both, in the farther East, or the com mencement of a pennanent system of armed interposition on the part of England, certain to lead to incessant misunderstandings and collisions with our European rivals in that region, and certain to involve us in a new and 0 1' 't species of useless expenditure. And all for whitf To compel the Mantehou Court to admit that our political civilisation is superior to theirs, and that an inni jar is sure to break an earthen one when knocked against it. But as for the ex pansion of trade or the diffusion of Christianity by the means our Government is going to employ, the public opinion of this country utterly re pudiates any belief in it. We are wit surprball at the easy assent ac corded by the Opposition to the new Ministerial demands. Of course it is a source of exultation to all the reactionista of every hue that a Minister elm fur a time had shamed them out of their old practices should avow himself constrained to allow matters once more to resume their wonted way. We have too much respect for the convictions and principles of Mr. GLainiToNE to conceal our regret that he should in the present instance have, been induced to waive their applica tion. At heart se have no doubt that he agrees with those wl.o think with us, rather than with those who most billy cheered him yesterday evening. W.- tamed hying ourselves to believe that he is satisfied so any Sense with these supple mental expedients; but he proliably Saw that hr could d.. 111,11 better under the circumstances, and he is oqiirsit to tale in sail, and let the ship run before the wind, against whose force he cannot for the present make way, prepared, with helm in hand, to seise the first opportunity to resume his onward course . We shall not, therefore, join in the jeering cry with which he is sure to be en- countered because he has made up hi s se ;,,d to lose • move or two instead of throwing up the game. Until he recants the principles he has so often and so ably advocated, or deserts theta in the main conditions of his financial policy, w e shall not renounce the hope of ac t in g Li w and them eventually triumph together. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, IT has been remarked that very dull joking will pass for wit in • law court. Assuredly, this emptiest and stalest gossip from the purlieus of a foreign embassy will pass for "secret informed Nos "of the most undeniable authenticity is the House of Commons. General 430 = 31 4Ctliss vthc represents the simple-minded corn dealers and other innocent burghers of Bridgewater, is au unfathom able mine of European mysteries into which the ingenuous and unsuspecting Member for Lis keard peers with confessed astonishment and awe. The Villafranca interview has for' months past exercised Ithe sagacity of those industrious chro niclers who defy keyholes and laugh at locksmiths, and the versions of that famous Imperial colloquy are as various as the inventive powers of the cor respondents who were not present. But it was reserved for Mr. K let LA E, after ten months' artful reticence, to tell the House, in the solemnest stage whisper, and with shrugs more eloquent than words, what really passed in the imaginary conversa tion between the youthful CAussa and the long headed CHARLILMAGNIL. A secret so important as this offer of Loris NAPOLZON's to hand back Milan to FRANcIti demerit as a pledge for Austrian acquiescence in the invasion of Germany, was well worth knowing as soon as possible ; FRANCIS Josarif and Mr. KINOLAILE deserve the greatest credit for having kept it so long. Following closely on the celebrated Milan proclamation, it should have been published in Turin in time for the French Eartilnit's triumphant reception in the Lombard capital; or, at any rate, in time to enable the Pelmet Atom". of Paosna to redeem hie dynastic character in Germany by marching to the assistance of Austria. Such is the chivalrous generosity of FRANent Joszrn, that for nearly a year he has allowed his conqueror to bear the palm of the Liberator of Lombardy, and the Panes RroLNT of Prussia to' remain in ignorance of his deep debt of gratitude to his brother Sovereign, who had repaid the cold neutrality of Prussia by refusing to be indemnified at her expense, or to suffer the Rhine to be seized in exchange for Lombardy. This is the highly probable fact Mr. KINOLAILZ asserts on the faith of some person unknown, whom Mr. BERNAL (Naos!: z, in the simplicity of his soul, assumes to be the Emperor of Atirrius himself, since it can hardly be Mr. Knecures's intimate enemy the Emperor of the Flt6Nen; and nobody else, as all the world knows, was present at the interview. Now Mr. KINGLSKE (of whose book it has been I said, that not the least of its merits is that it is the only one he has written) is nothing in Parliament if not a chiireoyent ; though like other practitioners of that mysterious art, he is more successful as a mesmerist. But the gift of clairvoyance, which enables him to know what passed be tween a couple of Emperors, seems less remark ' able when it is remembered that this astounding " fact," at which the House of Corutuons gapes, is nothing more nor less than one of the thousand fictions which have gone the round of the foreign press, and have fallen dead months ago of mere exhaustion. It is no new thing that " informa• Jim" which no decently conducted journal in this country would admit into its columns, except as a ridiculous an din, finds ready believers in the House of Commons, when it is mouthed with sufficient pomposity by a sententiously silly Mscitisvei. it petit pied in search of a sensation. The Member for Bridgewater mistakes his vo cation when he transfers to the British Legislature airs of mystery and attitudes of awful import which are effective enough at dinner-tables and positively irresistible in drawing-rooms. For an ambitious member of Parliament the part of l'ionemr fatal in French melodrama is not the roost dignified or useful. A commonplace attention to matters of domestic policy, to supplies and estimates, to commercial legis lation and law reforms, may be less ornamental and romantic, hut, we should imagine, more satisfac tory to the honest householders of Bridgewater. Besides, is not the author of " Eothen " an autho- rity on the Eastern question T Is not the amateur aide-de-camp who "emitted at" the Alma an authority on military subjects ? Surely he might do better for his literary and political reputation, not to speak of his constituent', than to retail the gossip of royal refugees. Perhaps the misfortune is, that of the very foreign questions he preatunes to make his own this wonderful twerrllisk hardly knows the alphabet. He echoes the unreasoning and indiscriminate abuse of V 'cum Emit AN17.1., which is almost a passport to some great houses, as if the Italian question, in its relation to France, Austria, and Piedmont, dated from Count Csvot a's visit to Plombieres. Mr. KINuLACC believes that it is the perfection of le halite pilitique to speak of Austria as " our oldest ally"—an expression conve nient enough to Austrian statesmen in the early years of this century, when the British nation was taxed to death to keep all the totteriug and bank rupt tyrannies of Europe on their legs. It is far less fashionable, no doubt, even for a Liberal member, to remember that it is to the wisdom of our Tory negotiators of 1815 that the agony of Italy, which has avenged itself on the peace and tranquillity of Europe ever since, is originally due ; that the blind obstinacy of Austria and her clients, aided by her incessant military interven tions throughout the Italian peninsula, and sup ported by Sisrresuica's contemptuous denial of the existence of an Italian nation, created and developed this Italian question ; that so long as Piedmont was the hiusible servitor of Austria and the Port, the "ambition" of the House of Savor was a dead letter ; that what legitimist France was in Spain, France of the Second Empire is in Italy, though on opposite principles ; and that Orleattist France occupied Ancona quite as avowedly for the sake of French influence, as Imperial France now occupies Rome ; that in 1848, theyearof revolutions, Piedmont alone, without allies, remained faithful to the cause of Italy, for which CHARLES Aiamer's heart was broken and VI.-rox ENNAltell. fought at his father's side ; that from 1848 to 1859 Pied mont alone remained constant to free institutions, exposed to the double hostility of Austria and the revolutionary faction ; that in 1855, when Austria was haggling for a guarantee of . - her possessions 111 Italy as the price of her alliance with the Western Powers, Count CAvota with masterly boldness unfurled the standard of Italy in the Crimea, and thus secured for Italy a seat and a voice at the Con gress of Paris ; that when the sufferings of Italy became intolerable, and the patience of Pied mont exhausted, Count Csvoun (not unmindful of Novara) was fain to take assistance where he found it, and found it net in England ; that, while to French arms at least Italy owes the emancipation of Lombardy and Central Italy, the cession of Nice and Savoy, no trivial sacrifice to the heart of a Emu, has at all events set Italy free from an intolerable debt to the moat unscrupulous of creditors ; and that having neither aided nor prevented, it is not for England in her haughty isolation to calumniate the weak because else would not arrest the strong. It is character istic of Mr. KINGLAIE% chivalrous idea of foreign Policy to lavish insults on •KING who has on many a hard-fought geld staked life and crown for the happiness of the people whose love and loyalty an his recognised ambition, and his " right divine." It is charloteristic of Mr. KIM:MAIL% political mega city to piesiest against the independence and unity of Italy leader one strong sceptre and uncles fres and equel laws, become Italy weak and disunited must tss ase prey of Austria or the tool of Wawa. We have authority to state that her Majesty has been pleased to intimate her intention to hold a review of volunteer corps at Edinburgh on the 7th of August. The commanding officers of corps de siring to attend must intimate their wish to the Secretary of State for War, through the lords lieutenants of their respective counties, before the let of August, and they will then be admitted as far as space and numbers will permit. Immedi ately after receiving this application, each corps will be informed whether it will be possible to accept the offer. EU Court. OSBOBNP, dram 16. The Prince Consort, attended by Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, left Osborne this morning for Bucking ham Palace, to preside at • meeting of the Statistics] Congress about to assemble in London. The Earl of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers have returned to London. The Prince Consort arrived at Buckingham Palace from Osborne at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, attended by Major. General the Hon. C. Grey. The Prince landed at Southampton from the royal yacht Fairy, and travelled by a special train on the South Western Railway to the private station at Vauxhall. At a quarter to four the prince left the palace, and opened the International Statistical Congress at Somerset house at four o'clock. The Earl Spencer, Lord Waterpark, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel Seymour, C.&, sad Lieut.-Colonel Ponsonby were in ►ttendance. The Prince Consort returned to the palace at five o'clock, and received delegates from foreign countries and from her Majesty'. colonial possespions, who were severally intro duced by the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson. The Prince Consort paid a visit in the afternoon to the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and afterwards went to the South Kennington Museum, attended by his Equerry in Waiting. The Prince Consort honoured the performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, with his presence in the evening ; Lord Waterpark and Lieutenant-Colonel Pon , nouby were in attendance. Mr. Ewart, of Liverpool, and Mr. Watson had an inter view with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Despatches were sent from the Colonial Offlee yeetenlay to the Governors of the West India Wanda and Britiph Columbia. The Prince and Princeaa Hohenlohe Schillingfura have arrived at Long's Hotel loan Pane. The Baronet% firunnow'a ball, which wax to have taken place to-morrow (Wednesday), at Chesham House, has been unavoidably postponed until Thursday, the 19th inst. The Counters Dowager of Enaex's dance, an nounced for Thursday, the 19th inst., is postponed. The mortal remain,, of the Counteam of Wicklow were interred to-day in the family mausoleum of the Aber corn family at Stenmore. Sir E. S. Stanhope has arrived at the Queell'a H .td, Upper Norwood. The marriage of Mimi Bultoel, niece to Earl Grey, with Mr. Bingham Mildmay, cousin of Sir B. St. John Mildmay, Burt., will take place neat week. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. • • MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS IN • DAMASCUS. The Mendlaw of this morning txmtaine the follow ing despatch from the French naval commander in the Levant : "BEYROUT, JULY 11. "The attack of the Drueee ou the Christians at Damascus commenced on the evening of the Bth, where many men were killed and women carried off for the harems. " It is said that the consulates were burned down, with the exception of the English consulate. The French, Russian, and Greek consuls took re fuge in the house of Abdel-Kader. "The attitude of the Turkish authorities was in decisive, and rather injurious than useful to the Christians. " Three thousand Turkish soldiers arrived to-day. Thelears of the Christiana are redoubled, and the Commissioners Vely and Naniick are expected with impatience." The Moniteur announces that the project of law for the purchase of the canals has been adopted. VIENNA, mownsr. Government is said to have received the following intelligence : A fearful massacre has taken place at Damascus. Five hundred Christians have been murdered, amongst whom is the Dutch consul. The American consul is wounded. Details are wanting. The Patrie oontaine the following : " According to the latest news from Beyront, the stateof things in Syria continues to be of the gravest character. " A French vessel had been sent to Latakia, and was obliged to take position within firing distance of the town, in order to restrain the fanatical por tion of the inhabitants. " It was asserted that information had been re ceived of atrocious plots having been formed against the lives of the Christians in many parte of Syria. " The naval authorities wero taking measures in order to be in readiness to meet the difiiculties of the situation." THE FIRE' INSURANCE COMPANIES. From a parliamentary return, issued this morn ing, we find that. the /unwiring was the gross amount of duty on insurances evilest fire collected in the year 1859 by the various insurance companies of England : Losecion.-Alliance, 45,633/. 18s. 103. ; Atlas, 41,084/.; Church of England, 4,5401. 2s. lid. ; County, 66,044/. 7s. MI.; Emperor, 5711. ss. &I.; Equitable, 2,3421. ss. 3d.; General, 15,649/. 12s. &I. ; Globe, 30,5551. 18s. 7d. ; Guardian, 33,0341.95. 9.1.; Hand-ia-Hand, 10,8991. 15s. 9d.; 55,3711. Oa. 6d.; Law, 33,9181. lac. 8c1.; Law Union, 6,554/. 14s. ld.; London, 31,9061.10 x. 2(1.; London, Bank of, Re., 511. 7s. sd. ; Phonic , 134,3484 6s. 10d. ; Preserver, 321. 136.3 d. ; Royal Exchange, 80,5941. 12a. 31. ; Royal Farmers, 12,097/. 16s. 9d. ; State, 4,7971. 17s. Id. ; Sun, 263,4371. Os. &I. ; United Kingdom Provident, 1,158/. ls. Id. ; Union, 29,6101. Bs. sd. ; Unity, 15.334/. 14s. Id. ; Westminster, 32,4371. 19a. sd. Cuantry. -Bir mingham, 15,3511. 10s. 4(1. ; Birmingham District, 8,815/. 17.. 7d. ; Essex and Suffolk, 6,959/. 154. 4d. ; Rants, Sus sex, and Dorset, 2,335/. 6e. 4(1. ; Kent, 15,135/. 2e. 10d. ; Kent Mutual, 1,410/. ele. ld. ; Lancashire, 22,605/. 21. sd. ; Leeds and Yorkshire, 26,271/. 14s. &I. ; Liverpool and LOG. dun, 55,937/. 19a. 7d. ; Manchester, 40,4271. ss. ld. ; Mid land Counties, 3,186/. 13s. 10d. ; Neweastle.upon-Tyne, 5,8891.65. 4d. ; Norwich Equitable, 3,041/. 3s. 61. ; Nor wich Union, 80,639/. 10s. 11d. ; Nottingham and Derby shire, 4,882 i. 14s. 161. ; Provincial, 5,7371. 9a. 10d. ; Queen, 3,4661.65. 11d. ; Royal Liverpool, 47,4191. 10s. ld. ; Salop, 4,1521. lb. Id. ; Sheffield, 3,429!. 12s. 9cl. ; Shrop shire and North Wales, 2,010/. ; West of England, 52,249/. 17s. ; Yorkshire, 22,139/. 2‘. sd. The sums insured by each fire office in the year, on farm lag stoc► exempt from duty, 111111 u follows :-Londue. - Alliance, 2,842,806/. ; Atlas, 1,297,234/. ; British Provident, 2,901%. ; Church of England, 19,180/. ; County, 7,906,081/. ; Emperor, 5,0451. ; Equitable, 119,880/. ; General, 152,141/. ; Globe, 1,172,74. ; Guardian, 368,1351. ; Hand-in-Hand, 37,1415/. ; Imperial, 1,032,732/. ; Law, VANN. ; Law Union, 11A1,475/. ; London, 379,9301. ; Phoenix, 4,468,2771.; Preserver, nil. ; Royal Exchange, 4,544,524!. ; Royal Farmer', 4,531,632/. ; State, 181,Z301.; Sun, 8,794,9601. Union, 309,676/. ; United Kingdom Provident, 8,412/. ; Unity, 701,904/.; Westminster, 222,5131.-Total town, 39,492,2291. Conatro.-Binninghani, 792,528/. ; District, 299,970/. ; }'neex and Suffolk, 1,461,221/. ; Rants, Sussex, and Dorset, 1f5i,2201. ; Kent, 1,091,666 t. ; Kent Mutual, 16,318.11. ; Lammehire, 307,0141. ; Leeds and Yorkshire, 701,3311. ; Liverpool and Loudon, 971,440/. ; Manchester, 1,043,5691. ; Midland f'ouuties, 1,206,744/. ; Newcastde-on- Tyne, 487,323/. ; Norwich Equitable, 281,401/. ; Norwich Union, 10,149,6361.; Nottingham and Derbyahire, 502,1471.; Provincial, 1,778,471/. ; Queen, 10,760/. ; Royal, 6911,836/. ; Salop, 561,605/. ; Sheffield, 76,3901. ; Shropshire and North Wales, 356,r(7/. ; West of England, 1,434,103/. ; York shire, 3,460,4061.-Total country, 27,862,7541. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION or 1882.—The Gua rantee Fund subscribed now amount. to 335,0001. It is understood that the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibi tion of 1851 ate willing to grant the use of a part of their retate at South Kensington for the ezbiliitioo, and that • portion of the buildings to he enacted will be permanent, available for future exhibitions of art and industry. THE. YAcHTINO REGATTAB.—The Royal Yacht vollllllCooll their annual meeting at Cowes w Toes . day, the 31st hat, osi which day the l'nnce Consort's Cup will be competed for by cutters balcagingtotheßoyal Yacht Squadreu over CA tons ; time race, Acker's scale. Weds's. day, August I, the Royal Yacht Squadron nannal dinner. Thursday, August 2, her Majesty's Cup, for achomiers of the 1:03 al Yacht Saplil4ll,Hl above 100 toes ; time race, half a minute per too. Friday, August 3, the Royal Yacht Squadron minual lall. The Royal Yacht Squadron prize of 1001., open to yachts of any squadron, to be sailed for on a ilay to b, named during the regatta. The Royal Vittoria Yacht (lab eminence operations on Tuesday, August 7, with • prize value 501., open to small yachta beleagiug to any Royal Yacht Club, decked vessels of any rig or clam, not over 80 feet in length on or below the water line. Snood vessel 101. A graduated time nice, about ore minute per foot. Wednesday, August 8, the annual dinner. Thursday, August 9 • prize, value 50/., open to ell cutters belonging to the itetl Victoria Yacht Club ; time raoe, half Acker's scale; 101. for the ascend vessel. Same day, a prize of 501., open to all schooners belonging to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club ; 101. for the seomal vessel ; time race, half Acker's scale. Friday, Auguat 10, the Royal Victoria Yacht Club annual ball. Meseta or Parrwre, Solna Karourorori— Number of visitors for the week ending July 14, 2,843; total number siuos the opening of the museum free daily (31a_y 12, 1858), 242,481. METROPOLITAN FREE HOAPITAL, DEVONSHIR6 sQuass,Crm—The aggregate number of patients relieved during the week @Mime July) 14 was—Medical, 1,118 surglial, 483 ; total, WAN; of which 482 were new mums. SICILY. The Pays and Patrie of last evening are fertile in " Latest News." The Pays nays : The news from Naples continues to be reassuring. The expulsion of M. La Farina from Palermo is considered at Naples sa a favourable symptom for the alliance between the Neapolitan and Turin governments. Y. de Is Greece, the interim Minister of the Interior at Naples, has been seat to Paris to submit, as it is said, the intentions of Panels IL to the Emperor, both on the subject of reforms in the Neapolitan states, and as to the policy of the King with a view to the general interests of Italy. It is thought that the envoys who will bear the proposals re lative to the alliance to Turin, all wait for the return of M. de la Greece. The latter person age has arrived in Paris, and will go to London to confer with Lord John Russell. M. de la Greece is permit &By known to the Emperor, and lived for a lung while in England as an exile. It is on these double grounds that he has been selected to represent the constitutional govern. meat of Naples for a special purpose at Paris and London. The Patric, confirming the statement of the Pays that nothing will be done by the Neapolitan envoys at Turin until the result of M. de la ()recta's mis sion to Paris and Landon is known, adds that in the meanwhile it has been agreed that Piedmont will use her influence in such a way as to favour the pacific establishment of a constitutional regime iu Naples. Both the Pays and the Patiie contradict, as wholly false and absurd, a statement in the Milita r y Turin Gazette that the French Minister-of-War had ordered generals oommanding the different military divisions to refuse leave of absence to officers " unless for the purpose of taking service under Garibaldi." The Pays gives the somewhat important intelli gence that the Prince of Syracuse having been prevented by " private reaming" from accepting the command of the Neapolitan National Guard, the Prince Ischit3lla has been appointed in his place. According to the Pattie, the two vessels alluded to by the last telegram as having gone over to Garibaldi were not ships of war, but merchantmen freighted by the Neapolitan government, and which abandoned their contract because Garibaldi made them an offer, and the Neapolitan government has tent to Marseilles to take up two other ships to re place them. THE POPE AND PIEDMONT. ROHE, dna 14. The Pope in a mnsistory held to-day pronounced an allocution energetically protesting against the Piedmoutese government on acoouut of the arrest and condemnation of the bishops of Pisa, Imole, Faeuza, and Piacenza, approving the conduct of these bishops, and designating the annexation of the Duchies and the Legations to Piedmont as a usur pation. Yesterday the French ambassador had a long audience of his Holiness. The two Neapolitan ministers charged with the special mission to Turin will also proceed to Puria awl London. A letter from Berlin of the 14th eaya :—" The English minister at thie court, Lord Bloomfield, returned to Berlin this morning from England. The immediate cause of his excellency's return was the approaching sc couchement of the Princess Frederic William, on which oc casion his presence will be officially required at Pots(lain. This event is expected to take place in a very short time. Sir James Clark, accoucheur to her Majesty Queen Victoria, will be present, and is expected to arrive at Potebim to-day or to-morrow from London. The precise period of the ar rival of Queen Victoria is as yet uncertain, but her Majesty le expected at the end of the present month, or beginning of the next." The Casette 114 s Thhlbw announces that a mar riage is on the eve of being celebrated between Mdlle. Trochu, the descendant of Racine, and • young captain of infantry in the French army. The subscription which was opened in favour of the young orphan, and in which the Pope and several foreign sovereigns took part, will give the lady • marriage portion _a.r.o,ooolr. We are informed," mays the Opixion "that the Venetian refugees ►t Florence are shoot to found a journal, the Venezia, for the defence of their cause, M. Alvisi to be chief editor." Galignani states that at a sale of autographs on Saturday, a letter written, dated, and signed by the hand of Mary Stuart, and addressed to her good and dear mother, Catherine de Medleis, was knocked down at 222 fr. M. Victor Hugo will delivers lecture et Belfast this (Tuesdsy) evening, on Garibaldi and Sicily, the proceeds to be site. to the Garibaldi Fund. A TowN IN A Fix.—The Me eager of Nice nays : —" We have received the following statement of the sin gular position in which the town of Lammas, in the upper valley of the Tines, is now placed. On the one heed, tie governor of Coni has ordered the cure of Lieusola to remove the French nag from the church steeple, stud to pray fur the King of bardinia. On the other, the cure has received from the bishop instructions to celebrate a solemn 111401 , 1 fur the late Prince Jerfime. Again, the inhabitants of Limos& have justice administered to them in the name of the Bs paror, being in the jurisdiction of the just, de pail of Saint Etienne. The population of the commune have sent an eddies to the Emperor, through the prefect, Praying that they may not be separated from the arroutlisseinest of 1860. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY Erna's°. Private orders have lately been given to the French press to say as little as possible about Geri ' bola To use an expressive French phrase it is desired to mettre la suesrdine upon him. The Illus tration (Paris Illustrated Neirs)waa very nearly pre ' vented from comila out on Saturday. The order reached the officilief that journal just as it was going to prase, and it so happened that all their plates represented scenes of the Sicilian war, in most of which Garibaldi was the principal figure. The difficulty was only got over by erasing Gari baldi's name wherever it appeared in the letter press at the foot of the engraving. Thus " The Interview of the Neapolitan Generals with General Garibaldi," was in deference to the paternal advice of the French government to its free press, changed into "The Interview, Arc., with the Sicilian Staff," and so of the rest of the pictures in which Gari baldi's portrait appears. Both the evening government journals say that the state of affairs in Syria is still very aerious. The Patric mentions that a French ship of war was obliged to anchor within gun shot of Latakie, a port in the pachalic of Tripoli, iu order to main tain tranquillity there. The Currespoudance Butner says that "whatever may be the intentions" of Piedmont the alliance between that power and Naples will take place, and that Piedmont, which has resisted for three weeks, will be " forced to cede !" A very pretty alliance it is likely to be if made under these circumstances. The Bourse, which was not affected by any tele grams of importauce to change the political situa tion of Saturday, was firm, and towards the close of business there was more animation than in the early part of the day. The Rents closed for account at 69fr. 15c., with a rise of 10c., and for cash at Saturday's price, 691 r. 10e. Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. The Orleans Railway rose sfr. ; Lyons, 3fr. 750. ; Eastern, 2fr. 50e ; and Western and Northern, lfr. 25c. each. Southern fell lfr. 25c. I have heard some amusing particulars of a recent sitting of the Senate. One day last week, on the occasion of the presentation of a petition praying that the new law against the use of false titles might be rigorously executed, M. Amedie Thierry proposed that the Senate should advise the Emperor to make a large creation of nobles, giving them all hereditary landed property. It was not sufficient to create, timidly and by way of exception, here and there a dukedom in favour of a military hero ; the Napoleonic dynasty should be supported by a regular order of nobility chosen from among the tried friends of the empire dynasty, and composed of civilians as well es soldiers. Baron Dupin (brother of the Prom reur-General),.whoeu coronet was given him by Louis Philippe, warmly supported the motion, and it was for a moment supposed that it would be car ried. But AL de Heeckeru (an old friend of the Emperor, and an ex-officer in the Russian service, who attained celebrity by killing the poet Pouschliue iu a duel) spoke with great energy on the opposite side. At a time when questions of the most serious nature were arising iu every part of the world, when thrones were falling and demo cratic principles breaking through all opposition, when Garibaldi, with an acute perception of the tendency of the age, had inaugurated his dictator ship iu Sicily by the abolition of the title of "ex cellency," with which he himself had been saluted by the Neapolitan generals, it was perfectly ridicu lous that the French Senate should be discussing the revival of privileged orders which were sae's tially repugnant to modern France. They should remember that if a revolution were to take place here, the senators would be the first to be held re sponsible by the people for vagaries of this kind. He urgently entreated the president, for the credit of the Senate, nut to make this debate public, and moved the precious question. This speech pro duced a great effect, and the previous question was carried without a division. THE MASSACRES IN SYRIA. (mos oua own sromnarr. ) 11EYROL7, Jet! 1. Until last evening I bad hopes that this mail would take home more cheering news respecting this unhappy province. Unfortunately our prespecti get darker every day, for each hour brings either news of fresh atrocities committed by the Druses, or more decided proof that the acts of the latter are connived at by the Turkish government. It is now ascertained, and a nominal list of them has been made that up to last night the Drusea have burnt and pillaged no less than one hundred and fifty-one Christian villages since the 29th of May last, while no leas than from seventy-five to eighty thousand Christian inhabitants of Lebanon—many of WllOlll were a wealth ego wealthy men, others in quite easy circumstances, and all strangers to anything like poverty or want—are homeless beggars, depending on actual charity for their daily bread. Over awl above the number of Christian's shut iu actual warfare, between seven and eight thousand have been butchered—hacked to death would be the fitter term—as no butcher ever used iu his calling half the cruelty of these bloodthirsty miscreants—in cold blood by the Drums. And, besides this, more than five thousand widows—mho until this Drum mini pelf' were happy wives and mothers—have lost their husbands, brothers, fathers, and all male relatives, even to the nude infants at the breast ; awl sixteen hundred children are now orphans. All these figures have been very carefully compared with others, and weighed in the balance of English Omni) opinion, before being given as facts. And after converging, comparing, and digesting all I hear, after bringing my own four years' experience in Syria to beer upon the subject, I am bound to say that I have considerably understated the case. Moreover, fifty millions sterling would not pay for the name, villages, hamlets", and silk-factories destroyed throughout the mountaiu—all the pro perty of the Christians. There is besides a fear fully long list of convents, churches, and nunneries belonging to the same people, all of which have been plundered and then destroyed by the Drums. In short, what commenced as 4 a civil war between the two sects can no longer be called by that name. For the last twenty days it has been nothing lees than a wholesale massacre of Christians by the Drums, and a wanton destruction of all property belonging to the former by the latter. To give you some ides what these Drums are, I will enumerate a few instances of their frightful barbarity, all of which I have heard from the un fortunate sufferers themselves, now refugees from Lebanon. One poor woman—l knew both her husband and herself well at Deir-el-Kantar, where they were wealthy people—told me that when the Druses attacked the town the second time (I should men tion that it had surrendered, and all the inhabi tants had given up their anns some twenty-four days previously to the Drums, and Lad been pro mised protection by their sheiks) her husband was hacked to pieces before her eyes by the large knives of the DrWheli, who then declared they intuit kill all male children iu the Lome. Thu mother tried to hide her two sons, one fifteen the other nine years old. The Drums, however, found them out and as she begged and prayed fur their lives, and endeavoured to cover them in a corner with her person, but the Drusea hacked at the lads over Ler shoulder, and gashed them until they both dropped down apparently lifeless. The Drums then made off, and the woman, thinking her two boys dead, remained in a sort of stupor for two hours—ea far as she can calculate. At last she was roused by hearing the eldest lad call her in a faint voice, trying to assure her that he was not yet dead. On this she felt the body of the youngest boy, and found his heart beating. She got some water, and after giving it to both her chi ldr en—so far as she could get them to drink it—started into the town to see whether she could procure assistanee to get her and her boys away. She got as far as the seralio, or government house, but there she found that some 500 Christians, who had taken refuge, were being cut to pieces by the Druses, who had been invited to enter the precincts of the building by the Turkish soldiers of the garrison, these latter helping in the butchery, and being so far worse than the Druses that they abused in the most infamous manner all the women. Seeing no help could be obtained here, the poor woman turned to fly, when she came acmes an old Druse who had formerly been a farm servant of her husband's. After a great deal of entreaty on her part the man consented to protect her and her children down to the seacoast, about four hours' journey, on condition of receiving an order on her brother, a wealthy man in Beyrout, for 10,000 piastres. To this she agreed, and they returned together to her house. She had not been absent more than an hour, but she found her two children cut into pieces, joiut by joint, " limb and trunk se vered" (to use her words) " as butchers cut up sheep" —heads legs, arms, and bodies being hacked up into * shapeless mass of bloody flesh and reeking bones. Some other poor women then joined her, and together they made their way to a mulberry planta tion outside the town, where they passed the night. At daybreak they were discovered by a party of Druses, who, after stripping them to fi nd whether they ha d any money on their persons, and taking away what little they possessed, told them they might go where they liked. Four of the poor creatures had babies, all under a year old. Of these infants two were girls and two boys; the former they did not touch, but the latter they said might grow up to be men and bear anus against the Druses ; they therefore took the poor little creatures and before their mothers' eyes tore them up the meddle and limb by limb—" exactly," to use the poor woman's own expression, "as you tear up a fowl that is to be cooked with pillar." Re member,oll this was done not in the heat of fighting, but deliberately, in cold blood. And I have heard of eleven other exactly similar cases of child de. struction by the Druses, in nine of which I um . plicitly believe, having every reason to do so. Deir-el-Kamar contained, a month ago, a popula tion of 8,000 souls, of which about 4,000 were men and lads, 3,500 women and girls, and 500 chil dren under ten years old. Of the men not more than 150 have escaped ; of the wo. meu and girls about 2,000 have reached Beyrout ; and of the young children leas than two hundred are alive. Don't forget, too, that this fiendish massacre was perpetrated upon a popula tbm which twenty-four days previously had stir ; rendered to the Druses, had been promised proton , tion by them, and were disarmed previously to their murder. For many days past a conviction, which I he sitate) almost to write, has been forcing itself on the minds of all men here. I have been one of the hot to adopt it, and have delayed, until I could do so no longer, to ventilate the subjoct. But as with others no with me, facts and proofs—evidence both direct and circumstantial—force me to adopt this creed, which every one in Beyrout—English, French, Russian, American, or Syrian—at first faintly whispered, and now boldly speak out. It is this : That from the commencement the D 1118135 have been carrying on this bloody war of extermination, with the connivance, if not by the express secret orders of the Turkish government, or, at any rate, of the Turkish local authorities, and that all they have done hitherto is but part of a grand Turkish scheme to exterminate altogether the Christian element in Syria. I am not prepared to go so far as most do, and to say that this hellish scheme has been hatched iu Constantinople, and that the cen tral government is cognisant as to what hands pull the strings here. But I speak advisedly when I say. that Koorchid Pacha (the Governor of Beyrout, of Lebanon, of Sidon, Tyre, and so forth), or " Cursed Pasha," as he is now called, has all along been esiguisant of all the Drums were about to do ; that he has—almost avowedly—helped them with food, ammunition, and arms ; that none of his troops nor any of the local authorities have at any time rah' ccd a hand against the Druses, although from the first they have been the aggnessors ; that from the first lie might have stopped the bloodshed and carnage, but has never done so ; that on the contrary, has manifestly helped it by leav ing the Christians on all occasions to their fate ; I that ho hies been in constant, direct, and friendly communication with the Druse chiefs, almost any one of whom he might at any moment have seised and kept as a hostage ; that all along he has given out openly, and the Druses have said, that he bad only to speak iu order to be obeyed by them ; that the Drusea never would have dared to go the fear ful lengths they have, had they not known that be hind them was a greater power than themselves who would support thew in any difficulty when the day of reckoning with the C'hristiau powers of Europe came; that unless they wen/ convinced they would be supported, they would have been only too glad to embrace the opportunity offered thew, four days ago, of making peace ; and lastly, that the Druses themselves, when sated with bloodshed, rapine, plunder, mur der, and devaatation, give out that they are only doing the will of a higher power than their own nation ; all this and more is undeuiable ; whether Koorchid Pacha is acting by himself or from higher instructions, which time alone will reveal. He is a fanatic of that new school whose doctrines have spread so wonder fully amongst all the Osmanlis during the last four years, but of whom so nothing—is known iu Europe. Their doctrine is that the Tur kish Empire is fast comingto an end, and that their entire nation will either have to remain and bow the head to a Christian power, or betake themselves towards Mecca, there to fumnd a new empire. They believe that as this is inevit able the sooner it takes place the better, but that before they go blows must be struck at Christians and Christianity how, and where, and when they can—the oftener and the more deadly the greater will be the glory to the true faith. Nor is Koorchid Pacha the only Turkish official in Syria who is a follower of this new and fashionable fanaticism. But of this subject more in a future letter. The question now is, has Kuorchid supported the Druses iu their blood-shedding career of his own free will, or by orders from Constantinople 1 This is a question which the Christian powers of Europe will have to ask, and to which they will require an answer. As I close my letter, a Greek catholic priest, living in my neighbourhood, has brought me a letter which he received yesterday from Damascus, iu which it is stated that a large party of Druses and Moslems entered a Christian village called Medan, iu Anti-Lebanon, and at the sword's point forced the priests awl the nude villagers to undergo cir cumcision, and profess the Moslem faith. A great number of the native Christians are sending away their families from Beyrout, the men who are merchants merely waiting to wind up their affairs and follow their mothers, wivut, and daughters, to Alexandria, Malta, Algiers, Corfu — anywhere, to be away from Turkish rule. R RAT SOLAR ECLIPAR. —Aw the Astronomer Royal and the sarante of this country are actively engaged in making preparations for viewing the forthcoming total eclipse of the sun iu those parts of Spain over which the ceutral shadow-lice will puss, Dr. Bachhoff iier, with his usual promptitude, is doing good service at home by fami liarisiug the minds of his numerous arittors et the Colos seum with the causes and effects attending this iotercsting plisuornenou. The simple and unaffected conversational manner so characteristic of Dr. Bailhoffnei's style of lec turing tells with admirable effect in his illustratious of this somewhat abstruse subject. As • great solar eclipse iscom partitively a rare occurrence, we advise our younger readers to go and hear the doctor's discourse, ilkstiatid os it is by numerous &Kamm, and so become Lizoil:ar with the phe munens to Le seam in Loudon on the i'th of the present mouth. V