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

handed, at any moment, in Roumelia, Bosnia, and
Bessarabia, or wherever Turks " most do congre-

gate," for the purpose of putting down the dis-
turbances, and that with or without the co-opera-

tion of the Sultan. This is the difficulty--this is

the pinch, which it has been found impossible to
do otherwise than " leate to Providence." For
it is impossible for a moment to suppose that if
the result to which I have alluded should follow
from the landing of the French troops in Syria,
the French Government never would withdraw
them, sd long as there was any more work to be
done, Or any tie* 'idea" for 'c';"hicN to fight. And
What a host of fresh cordplicatioris would eteri
"present themselves," as the French say. Would,
then, these two protocols meet with any better fate

than the treaties of Vienna themselves P—Not very

likely. The excitement at Athens, whose ambi-
tion it is again to be " the eye of Greece "—so far
as having an eye to the re-establishment of a
new Byzantine empire is concerned—is, as might
be supposed, intense at present; and the Aus-
trian, not the Russian element, as was wont to

be the case, is now, strange as it may seem, in
the ascendant in high places in that city. A
private letter from a resident there, dated the

26th ult., contains interesting testimony on this

subject. It states that King Otho has given the
Order of St. Saviour to his Consul-General at

Beyrout, and has conferred the same distinction
on M. Francois Lenormant, the young French

archwologian, for his writings in favour
of Greece and against the Turks, as well
as for his archwological works, and recent
letter respecting the Syrian outrages, which
have carried so much alarm into the hearts

of the Musstilman population throughout the
entire of the Ottoman territory occupied by the
Greeks ; that the inhabitants prepared a regular
ovation for a body of fugitives from Syria, who
recently arrived in the Pircus, and the Govern-
ment has since given each of them a grant of
land, formed them and their families into a little

colony, who are to be supported at the Govern-
ment e?tpensei and that the very gravest 4events
are daily expected id take place in the neigh-
bouring Turkish provinces. The letter also men-
tions that a Greek of Epirus has received -within
the last few days a letter from a Turkish friend,

living in the same province, entreating him to
withdraw at once into a place of safety,
because the events in Syria are about to
be reproduced on a large scale in Macedonia,
in Epirus, and in Thessaly—the rising being pro-
moted alike by the triumph which Mussulman
fanaticism has achieved in Syria, and by the
apprehension of the Turks that the Greek popu-
lations in their localities are about to rise on them,
encouraged by that portion of Greece which is
free—a fear which is far from unlikely to be shortly
realised—as an insurrection committee has been
already organised, under the presidency of Ad-
miral Canaris, the father of the Consul-General at
Beyrout, mid a great many officers of high rank
in the Greek army have resigned their commis-
sions, with a view of taking part in the move-
ment. Several companies of infantry have pre-
pared to desert in a body for the same purpose,
and upwards of 2,000 men are already prepared
to set off. Another Garibaldi only is wanted
to put himself at the head of the movement.
In the Patrie of yesterday evening there is a
circumstantial account of the different regiments
of which the French contingent is to be composed,
the whole of the men being of course full of
enthusiasm at the thoughts of partans pour la
sy rie. M. Ernest Louet, the paymaster-general
of the army of Italy, has been appointed to the
same function for the Syrian expedition. A
second batch of government navvies has also
been sent off; and the departure is announced
from Chambery, for either Toulon or Marseilles,
of a party of volunteers from the 12th Battalion
of Chasseurs, to take part in the expedition.
The Baron de Chayelle, who made the Italian
campaign es a volunteer, has offered his services
to Abd-el-Kader, and they have been accepted.
A letter from St. Petersburgh states that the
Russian Government sends to Syria a flotilla
from the Baltic fleet : one of the ships is the
screw steamer Great Admiral, of 809 men and
50 officers. The largest portion of the Baltic
fleet is at present at Sweaborg, where it has just
been reviewed by the Grand Duke Constantine,
and most of the skips are on the eve of
sailing for Syria, under the command of Rear-
Admiral Boudakoff. He will have under his
orders five or six screw line-of-battle ships and
several frigates. What if they should enter the
Black Sea, join the nucleus which has already
been formed in these waters of a new Russian
Black Sea fleet, on pretence that the Christian
population on its shores were not safe ? This
would put the finishing stroke to the repara-
tion of the disasters which Russia sustained
during the Crimean war, and to the condemna-
tion of the policy, which neither prevented that
war, nor utilised its results. This letter also
states that the irritation caused by the Syrian
barbarities is very great among all classes of the
Russian population.
It appears that the Tceplitz meeting was
brought about through the instrumentality of the
King of Bavaria, and at the suggestion chiefly of
England ; and that the Prince Regent, before
agreeing to meet the Emperor Joseph, stipulated
that he was not to be called upon to undertake
any burdensome obligation on behalf of Prussia,
or to make any change in his policy. The state-
ments in certain Rhenish journals asserting that
a convention, or at all events certain protocols,
were agreed on, is a pure exercise of imagination.
But it is impossible not to conclude,•from the
'accounts which have been given of the meeting by
the well-informed portions of the Prussian press,
and especially in the diplomatic circular recently
issued by M. de Schleinitz, that the interview is
to be regarded as supplementing all that was
wanting 'at the meeting at Baden, and as satis-
factorily consolidating the integrity of the
Germanic territory.
There is no further news of Garibaldi ; but, in
his case, the proverb " no news is good news "
has always held good in a striking manner, both
in the recent Italian war, until the Villafranca
armistice extinguished his light, and in Sicily ;
and I have no doubt it will also hold good on
the present occasion.
All continued ominously calm at Naples down
to the last accounts. M. Romano has failed—
he was the only man who was likely to be
successful in the attempt—in forming a constitu-
tional ministry, and the unhappy young monarch
finds himself at once paying the debts of the
sovereigns whom he succeeds, and the faults of
his own wretched bringing up. He has, it seems,
described his painful position in a letter to a high
personage in Rome, by whom it was, of course,
communicated to the Pope. The unhappy mon-
arch does not conceal from himself, that if he be
abandoned by Europe, he must succumb. From
one day to another, he says he lives in the ex-
pectation of being obliged to embark on board
the frigate that is to conduct him to Trieste.
" I will remain," he adds, "to the end, though
treason having penetrated into my very house,
I shall be forced to withdraw, but I will never
give up Sicily." He cannot get over the con-
duct of the officer (Captain Acton) who com-
manded the steamers charged to prevent the
disembarkation of Garibaldi and the volun-
teers who accompanied him on his first landing
in Sicily, and who so treacherously, in his
opinion, fulfilled his mission.
The rumour that Baron Brenier had left Naples
continues to be contradicted by the semi-official
journals here, who add, also, that in consequence
of the recent news from Sicily, a great concen-
tration of troops upon thatcapital has been ordered
to take place, and that several regiments had
demanded to be called upon " to take part in its
to join in the attack!
defence," or, perhaps-,
By the bye, the return of Capt. Litta, the envoy
of the King of Sardinia, from his unsuccessful
mission to Garibaldi, is also announced. The
he could not comply with his
general regrets
Majesty's request.
There is a curious story current at Rome re-
garding Cardinal Barnabo, Prefect of the Propa-
ganda, and a deputation of Maronitc priests from
Syria. These latter were very ill received by the
Cardinal when they waited on him to detail their
calamities, and it is thus accounted for :—The
Patriarch of the Maronites, who has exercised for
a long series of years the right of direct nomina-
tion of the suffragan bishops of his see, has recently
appointed two bishops without applying to the
cardinal, as head of the Propaganda, for his con-
sent; and although the Pope has never yet given
any formal deliverance on this question of right,
the Cardinal was not onlx very cold in his manner
of receiving these poor sheep belonging to the
flock of the contumaceous eastern chief shepherd,
but he is said to have actually gone so far as to
declare that they ought to regard " the massacre