The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-07 00:00:00

strongly at the removal of the ditenities which
havt stood in the way of the sailing of the Syrian
e:qeditfini. The Constitutionnel, the Debats
(which on Saturday had a long article on the

subject), the Patrie, and others, abandon them-
selves to the highest flights of exultation, " Oizr
soldiers," says the last-mentioned journal, " are

departing fot Syria! The last remaining diplo-
matic difficulties are snioc:thed over (aplanies),
and at len,th the noble cause, so energetically
represented by France, and which is nothing
more or less than the cause of civilisation
and of humanity, triumphs over all the objec-
tions suggested by different views of policy.
We are setting off; and this news will be received
with profound joy by the entire body of French

society, in the cities and in the country districts,
in drawing-rooms and to workshops. We had
only one fear: it was, that diplomacy, occupied
as ever—and doubtless with goodeight—with
details which have their importance, and with

questions which will have their day, might lose

time in the discussion, and interpose fresh sources
of delay in the departure of the expedition, which
the Imperial Government has proposed to Europe;
but this fear has not been realised, and diplomacy is

to be congratulated in this instance for its manage-
ment. The agreement between the Great Powers
is at this moment perfect. It is a happy event, on
which it becomes us to congratulate ourselves
without reserve, but without, however, forgetting

that, the original idea of the expedition emanated
from France, and that tha proposition for it was
made by the Emperor on the same day on which
the despatch from Beyrout apprised us of the
frightful massacres of Damascus. On that very
day, it is related of the Emperor that he closed

the council of his ministers with that expressive
and familiar saying, a true ',saying ci la Henri
IV., pent chanter maintenant la chanson de
ma mere.' "It is a saying which history will
• never forget."

The Emperor held another meeting of the
Council of Ministers on Saturday afternoon at
St. Cloud; and rumour still speaks of certain sti-
pulations of an important kind which have yet to
be formally concluded. But I imagine it was
found impossible to provide for all eventualities
before the expedition sailed; and the representa-
tives of the Powers did the next best thing that
was open to them to do in the circumstances,
viz., agree to the sailing of the expedition, and
reserve as extensive and united a control as possible
over its proceedings after it should reach its
destination.
General de Beaufort d'Hautpoul, who, as I
mentioned in my last, left Paris for Toulon on
Saturday, is to go out at once to Beyrout in the
steam-frigate Mogador, which has been placed at
his disposal for this purpose. The English ship
Agamemnon arrived there, and anchored in the
roads, on the 22nd ult. She carries Admiral
Martin's flag, and' several other men-of-war were
expected to arrive immediately, off the Syrian
coast. Toulon is preparing for the reception of
the Emperor and the Empress, as well as witness-
ing the departure of the troops for Syria. A
grand ball is to be given in honour of the visit of
their majesties, in the great square of the Hotel
de Ville.

Arrivals, also, are daily announced and expected
at Marseilles, en route for Syria. A detachment
of Government navvies left yesterday morning
for that port, under the orders of M. Villevedal ;
and on Friday a considerable number of scours
religieuseB, belonging to different monastic orders,
arrived at Lyons from Paris, and who are also on
their way to Marseilles. These ladies are the
bearers of relief and religious consolation to the
Christians in Lebanon, the " victims of the hatred
of the Druses and the fanaticism of the Mus-
sulmans."

The Gazette We Lyon publishes the translation
of a highly interesting letter addressed by Abd-
el-Kader to M. Batach, a mercantile agent of
Kry, in Syria, dated from Damascus on the 18th
ult., in which the noble-mincted Arabian Emir
groans over the calamities of the unhappy Maro-
nites, and details the efforts which he made to
aid them. He accuses the Turks of making
common cause with the Druses in " killing,
robbing, and plundering." The letter thus con-
cludes :—" Finally, all the Europeans and Chris-
tians whom I have succeeded in collecting are
sheltered in my house. lam offering them all
that they are in need of, and I pray Allah to
save these poor Christians from the hands of
these infuriated wretches."

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The interview at Tceplitz continues to be
described by the Paris press as barren of all actual
results. Accordingly one of the Government
organs, which has been much taken up with this
meeting, declares " that there is every reason to
believe that the two Sovereigns separated with
the conviction that their conciliatory intentions
clashed with insurmountable obstacles, inherent
in the vital conditions of their respective States.
In a European point of view, it can only be mat-
ter of regret, that an allianee between these two
great German Powers was not cemented at
Tceplitz. Accomplished in present circumstances
and on advanced bases, by parties who are them-
selves retrograde, such an alliance far from afford-
ing securities for peace and the preservation of
the continental equilibrium, would only be the
commencement of a series of evils and of dangers
for Europe." What think you of that
The Commercial Treaty Inquiry continues to
drag its slow length along. The Supreme
Council of Commerce held, last week, four sit-
tings for the continuation of the inquiry into the
trade in cottons. It received the evidence, of a
great number of manufacturers, representing in
different degrees this very important branch of
national production in France, as well as that
of several foreign manufacturers, English and
Belgian. The sittings were in some instances
prolonged till seven o'clock in the evening. His
Excellency bI. Rouher presided at all the meet-
ings of the council.
Alas ! for poor M. Ponsard and the managers
of the Vaudeville Theatre, at which his piece was
looking forward to a long and prosperous career,
the rumour that was circulated towards the end
of the week, that the authorities had resolved to
put a stop to the performance, turns out to be
correct. The suppression is thus announced in
the Patric :—"The piece of M. Ponsaid will no
longer appear on the bills of. the Theatre de
Vaudeville, from considerations independent of
the wish of the author, and of that of the
direction." This is really too bad. I believe that
the Government considers that some covert. hit
against its policy is concealed under some portions
of the representation, and, regardless of the great
pecuniary loss both to the author and the manage-
ment, to say nothing
of the disappointment of
the public, involved in its extinction, issued its
fat against any future repetition of the play
The discontent
and disappointment of the theatre-
going part of the community is excessive.

Gough,.Esq.., delivers the last of his orations-at
Exeter Hall to-morrow, and sails for America on the
11th instant, having fulfilled a three years' engagement
with the National Temperance League. He is to speak
in Liverpool on Friday evening.

INQuEbTs.—Yesterday the Coroner held the following
inquests :—On the body of Archibald M'Donnell, seven
years of age, whose parents reside on the City of
Dublin's Steam Company's premises, Dickson-street.
On Sunday afternoon, about three o'clock, the boy went
into the yard to play, when he pulled a heavy box over
him, and he received such injuries that he died
on yesterday morning. Verdict, " Accidentally killed."
—There were inquests held on the bodies of two new-
born children and a child that was overlain, but there
was nothing interesting in the details.—On the body of
a bay named John Loftus, eleven years of age, who
resided with his parents in Blundell-street, who fell into
a pit of water'off Stanhope-street, and was unfortunately
drowned. Verdict accordingly.