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WEDRESDA y, AUGUST 15, 1860,

NEWS OF THE DAY.

—ln the House of Lords, yesterday evening, the Under-
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to some enquiries
by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, on the subject of Syrian
affairs, stated that Admiral Martin had a large fleet at
his disposal on the Syrian coast, that the Admiral had
received express instructions to protect Smyrna in case
of an eutbreak, and that when tranquility was restored
throughout Turkey, the European Powers would use
every effort to effect reforms in Turkey. It would
appear that the apprehensions of an outburst of fana-
ticism in Constantinople itself, are shared by Lord Strat-
ford de Redcliffe.
At the morning sitting of the Lower House, leave was

given to introduce a bill founded on the resolutions ol

the previous evening, agreeing to borrow three millions
for the service of the Indian Government. In the even-
ing the subject of educational grants was introduced by
Sir J. Pakington, who put in a strong plea for an
increase of the allowances to ragged and industrial'
schools, which were more in need of such assistance than
other classes of schools. The discussion that ensued was
of a valuable and interesting nature.
Further papers relating to the disturbances in Syria
were issued yesterday morning. They include letters
from the British consul 4 at Beyrout, Aleppo, Danaascus,
Jerusalem, Smyrna, Jaffa, &c., and despatches from Sir
H. Bulwer to ',ard J. Russell. There is also a letter of
six pages addressed by Mr. Cyril Graham, of Beyrout, to
Lord Dufferin, giving a connected .narrative of the
massacres. Consul Brant's letters from Damascus, and
indeed nil the despatches, implore pecuniary assistance.
"I entreat," writes Mr. Brant on the 16th ult., " that
pecuniary assistance be furnished me ; I have no means
of my own, and the calls on me are so heavy that I
cannot long respond to them. I have altogether under
my roof nearly 200 people who depend on me for fobd."
A letter from Turin, written by a person who has
just ,returned thither from Genoa, confirms the state-
ments current as to the activity of Bertani in preparing
and organising several large corps of volunteers for the
attack of the Roman States. The writer of it states
that on the • night of the 6th inst. a large volunteer
force embarked on board the Abbatucci, bound for some
point on the Roman coast, and that they were accom-
panied by Bertani himself, who bad left two well-
known Genoese merchants to represent him in his
absence ; that S. Feroli, of the Piedmoutese bar, has
been appointed secretary to the commission for the
enrolment of the volunteers ; and that Bertani .was to
have a cenference with Garibaldi, to whom he was the
bearer of a very considerable sum of money. This
latter circumstance would seem to strengthen the
report---the accuracy of which is positively vouched
for by the Opinion Nationale—of Garibaldi having
been seen in Naples or the neighbourhood, whither he
had come from Sicily, to have a meeting with his
friends and supporters on the mainland.
The Goiernment of Naples, in its expiring throes, is
at last displaying a little energy, but these indications
only betoken the near approach of dissolution, not the
evidences of
,any renewal of vigour: Tt has forbidden