The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

GERMANY.

In the sitting of the German Diet on the 27th,
a formal complaint was made on the part of the
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg against the Govern-
ment of Denmark, on the ground that it has
increased the quota of the general taxes of the
kingdom paid by the Duchy of Holstein, without
the assent of the representatives of the Duchy.

THE SYRIAN QUESTION.

PARIS, July 30.

The Conference on the affairs of Syria assem-
bled to-day at 2 p.m., for the second time, at the
Minister for Foreign Affairs. In this sitting, the
French proposal for intervention which, subject
to the acquiescence of the Porte, has been
accepted by the Great Powers, was discussed for
the first time. It is asserted that the Turkish
Ambassadors, following the instructions received
from Constantinople, claimed essential modifica-
tions of the project of convention. It is also
stated that England, Austria, and Russia declared
themselves ready to send troops to Syria.
Another sitting of the Conference must, it is said,
take place, as the representatives of the Great
Powers have to obtain authority from their
Governments to sign the Convention.

The Ambassadors of the five Great Powers,
before proceeding to the Conference at the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, which will take
place at two o'clock to-day, held a preparatory
sitting at twelve o'clock, at the hotel of the
Turkish Ambassador.

The Paris letters of the Daily News states that
the French Government has only consented to
negotiate on the question whether any and what
convention shall be entered into.

The entourage of the Tuileries persist that the
intervention will take place, and that the Eastern
question in the largest sense shall now be pro-
pounded.

MURDER OF AN.IRISH MISSIONARY IN

SYRIA.

A letter from Damascus states that the Rev.
Mr. Graham, of the Irish Presbyterian Missions,
has been murdered in the open streets while
endeavouring to make his escape from a Moslem
house, where he had been hid by the British Con-
sul. He had a guard of Turkish soldiers with
him, but they did nothing,in defending him from
the Moslem mob.

AUSTRIAN AND PRUSSIAN CONVENTION.
A well-informed weekly journal of Paris states
that, at the interview at Tceplitz, a convention
between the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin was
irrevocably agreed upon. The clauses are yet
entirely unknown. The Convention was not
signed by the Emperor and the Prince Regent,
but was left to be settled -with as little delay as
possible by their respective Ministers.

The following appeared in our later editions of
yesterday :
AMERICA.

QUEENSTONVN, July 29.

The Cunard steamer Etna, with New York
dates to the 19th, arrived off the harbour at
twelve midnight, landed passengers, and pro-
ceeded. She brings $214,600 in specie. The
Canada and the Teutonia arrived out on the 19th.
Passed royal mail steamer Europa off Bailey
Heads. Ten thousand visitors to the Great
Eastern yesterday ; the ship will leave for Eng-
land on the 16th August.
NEW YORK, July 19.

Stock Market excited. Centrals 831- 1, Erie
23Z- 24, Illinois 69:4 70. Cotton market unchanged.
Sales 500 bales. Flour heavy for most descrip-
tions of State and. Western. Wheat and Corn
firmer ; Pork in fair demand ; Sugars in good
request ; Coffee firmer. Freights dull, and en-
gagements light to Liverpool. Corn and Wheat
in ships bags 8d to 81d ; Flour 2s 3d.

NEW ORLEANS, July 18.
Cotton quiet. Sales 350 bales. Provisions
quiet. Freights and exchange unaltered.

BALTIMORE, July 18.
Flour and Provisions active and firmer. Wheat
quiet and Corn dull.

MEETING OF THE PARIS CONVENTION.

The Paris correspondent of the Post telegraphs
that it was only yesterday that official intelli-
gence was received that the Sultan's government
had accepted the proposal to commence a nego-
tiation for a. convention. The plenipotentiaries
will assemble to-day at the Hotel of Foreign
Affairs. Until the signature of the convention
no embarkation of troops will take. place.
The Paris correspondent of the Times says
that the propositions of the Powers are as
follows :—A contingent to be furnished by each
Power for the pacification of Syria. France,
4,000 men ; England, 2,000 ; Prussia, 2,000; and
Austria, 2,000. Nothing is said of Russia.. It is.
also proposed that if any a the Powers will not,
or cannot, send troops, France will supply the
deficiency, so as to complete the number of
10,000 men.