The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-14 00:00:00

tell our readers, is the oldest or premier Earldom
in England ; neither do we require to point out
the vast and valuable possessions belonging to it.
lire ere all at leaSt eqinillyfainiliar with the high
antiquity and magnificent property and estates
of the house Of:, STANLEY, and the intimate con-
nection with, and interest in, this town, which its
representatives have maintained for centuries.
The lands of these two great families maLbe said
to adjoin each other. By this auspicious match
these two noble houses and their great possessions
may one day become .actually conjoined—a pro-
bability which gives 0 :significance and importance
to the 'event which cannot fail to intefest every
inhabitant of Lancashire and Cheshire—nay, of
the -,-ihole.country. 11,sverqf. we had less sympathy
than we have With Lord.. DEnßr's glorious
career as
.a statesman, we could not: but cen-
gratulate . him on this happy and most . pro-
mising settlement for his estimable daughter.
It was only recently that we had to congra-
tulate' the Earl of- SHREWSBURY on his faking
possession of Alton Towers, but, were he even less
known to us than he ••is for his liberality, enter-
prise, and intelligence; we could not but congra-
tulate him: also on so suitable a match for his gal-
lant- brother. Altogether, this great event- will
.„..
doubtless be one of unparalleled' magnificence and
public rejoicing throughout the two counties ;and
thus, to the happiness and comfort which natu-
rally spring from a judicious marriage, will be
added the pleasure of its being hailed hytOodwill
and applause' from rejoicing millions of the popu-
.
laden.. •

LFOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

-FRANOE.
(FB,ollt
~OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
S.UNDAY, August 12.

A long and important conference, has taken
place between Lord Cowley and M. •Thouvenel,
but whether or not, it has reference to the proposal
which. is broached in a • forthcoming pamphlet,
to found a new Eastern Empire with Abd-el-
Kader for its head, I cannot say. The departure
of the •• French expedition has not by- any means.
had the .effect,
_either of calming the uneasiness
regarding the state of affairs in Syria and else;
where in the East, or of bringing' the question
itself, never
.te a :solution. The author of
the proposal I am alluding .to, looks upon the
Turkish Government as powerless to put down
the disturbances' wYjiok have broken out in
its dominions, and it would suppress it alto-
gether. Turkey in Europe in that case would be
shared between the neighbouring Powers, and
Turkey in Asia, from the - Bosphorus to the
-Ocean, • and- from the Mediterranean -to the
Enplirates,., Would be erected into an empire,.
under the sceptre of the ,ex-Emir, which -would
be under the protectorate of the Christian Powers
generally, and to which liberal institutions would
be given, in order to assure its future tranquility
and progress. Obstacles easily disappear before
a pen in the hands of an anther who is writing
on a question that provokes enthusiasm, but the
realisation of his . programme is a very different
affair. -

There has been a talk on the Bourse.-relative to
a letter which is said to have been addressed by
the King of Napless to the 'Emperor.• "In this
letter, report states, that Francis 11. has thought
it right to remind the Emperor that, acting on
his advice, he had given his people a constitution
and 'had:further, been guided by him in order-
ing the evacuation of Sicily ; but that he did not
see 6at, up to this time; these sacrifices had been
attended with any good; still, however, if he was to
fall, he would fall as a Sovereign ought to fall—
at the head of his troops. I, believe this report
is traceable to a large 'banking establishment,
which has
.a great pecuniary stake in Neapolitan
affairs; as is also another, that the ambaisadors of
the Great Powers are firCparing to quit- Naples ;.
but I do not: attach much credit to that state-
ment. I have reason to believe;: however, on
authority which has Seldom or ever, deceived me,
that a proposition has within the last few days
been seriously entertained by the Great Powers
to assemble a congress for the settlement of Italian
affairs, and that but for the lively opposition of
England to any such step being taken, at least in
present circumstances,. a conference would, ere
this, have taken place.

___,
The arrangements for the further dapitch of
troops to. Syria: continue to be energetically fol-
lowed up, and the question how-Many are to be
supplied,' and what they are to -do after they
arrive, is, probably, one of the subjects
which (the state of Italy being the - other
other) is now being discussed at the Military
Council Board of the camp at Chalons, where
the Emperor is engaged in taking counsel witft
--itome-for
Marshal the Duke of Magenta, Marshal Mae_
Mahon, and Generals Bandon. and Goyon,
which last has been summoned -from
the pnrpoSe. M. Thouvenal has also gone down
to Chalons., .6

r
The Moniteur announces that therolececniNt
of
s-
s
Fg ernaeilic- ael
althroughouts e tdhteo
reffceerievnet s
udbscriptions forep4t
the relief of the. Syrian Christians, whose con-
dition; -Whatever may have been the origin of the
strife to which they have fallen victims, is de-
plorable beyond conception. According to the
list published in that paper, the sum of 158,000 f.
has been collected in Paris .up to this
The departure from Marseilles of Father Royer,
a Franciscan monk, belonging,to the convent, of
Avignon, is announced. The rev. father hoes out
,as vicar of the brethren at Jerusalem, a function
which traditional usage-has associated exclusively
with,a French subject, but Which, ever since the
dissolution of the Order of St. Francis, in France,
has been exercised _by Italian or 'Spanish

gionists.
Accounts from Cherbourg ieport great acti-
vity in' the works there, and this circumstance
is explained, as being an indirect answer
.to thia
English national defettces, fur which Parliament
has just voted the money. It is, no doubt, with a
viewicriiVe-the execution of the additional forti-
fication at that port as great an impulse as possible,
that Vice-admiral Willaumez Las been nominated
maritime prefect there.

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PARIS, Monday, August 13, 1860.
The Emperor continues assiduously hiainspec-
den Of the troops at Chalons, the Prince Imperial
witnessing 'the mance uvres from an open carriage.
The fire which broke out in the Emperor's guar-
ter 'was only of importance on aoaount of its riear.
vicinity to the apartment in which the Prince

Was asleep.
The departures of the troops from Toulon and
Marseilles continue. uninterruptedly. So far as
one can judge from their frequency, and the num-
bers of men and quantities of ammunition which
have been already _sent off,, much more than
the fixed contingent must have been despatched;
and what is particularly worthy of remark is,
that the amount of: materiel and of provisions,

the number of engineers, of officers of the

commissariat, and of the medical staff, seem to
be altogether out of propoition to the require-
ments, of a single division of 6,000 men, and
they clearly betoken arrangements both for a
considerable army and for its protracted -stay in

*the country.
Several families' who' have escaped the Syrian
'massacres have arrived fro-m the scene of them at
Lyons, together with a number of relifliPx be-
longing to the different establishments founded in.
these inhospitable loCalities. Other bodies of the
rescued have arrived, and taken up their resi-
dence at Marseilles, where they. attended ' the
other, day a funeral service celebrated, by the
Unionist Bishop of Damascus, according to the.
rites' of the United Greek Church that is,
the community of Christians in the East which
acknowledgesncreias ng agi
agitation
he
tlon
coßomancontinues
notbi
eesdii eon;
le,
e through-
out Great and
i
out all parts of Arabia, in fact; thrciughant the-
Mussulman world, and is being amply
met by a
corresponding agitation throughout Russia, espe-
cially in Moscow, where, at the present moment,
excitementie3a...nielrcaant in that city, stating th"t
has been Manifested
told that a letter has been
the Greek clergy are engaged in preaching a
are
egxcateri'ianvosetrddrriiin:oakntY
:
.and are'
war, loudly insisting that the Russians
should join the French in .aVeriging the shedding
of so much Christian 'blood., The autil"ities'n
fact, have, it seem been obliged interfere, and:
-8, to holy
insist upon the preaChers moderating, their tone,
for rear of .a regular outbreak. News has also
been received froth Odegsa, stating that prepara-
tions for an armament on a large scale are being
conducted them insecret; and that an aide-de-camp
of the Emperor recently arrived in that city with 1