The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-23 00:00:00

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MOYDAY, JULY 23, 1860.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

French consular reports from Syria, received in Paris
on Saturday, state that the massacres which have taken
place are the result of a conspiracy of the Ifikssulman
fanatics. The report having spread among the Druses
that European diplomacy was about to drive away the

Turks from Europe, the Druses determined on exter-
minating the Christians in Syria. The French consuls
state that the Porte will, therefore, be unable to repress
a rising which has been organised in its own favour.
Under these circumstances, the Emperor of tte French

has declared that although waiting for the Powers who
signed the treaties of the 30th March, 1856, to give their
concurrence for an efficacious protection of the ghristians
in Syria, France on her own account will never fail in

her mission of humanity, and is resolved upon imme-
diately sending an armed expedition to Syria.
It is stated that Lord Clyde had_an interiew with
the Emperor Napoleon during his short stay a; Paris.
One of Reuter's telegrams, dated Palermo, July 17,
states that "the City of Aberdeen has dimbarked
1,200 volunteers." We have just seen a letter from an
officer on board to a friend in this town, which states
that the number disembarked
.was only 400. There
_would thus seem to be a tendency to exaggerate in a

certain quarter.
By the arrival of the Europa, yesterday, we have
papers from America to the 11th inst. We cbserve a
report of the defeat and capture of Miramon, ind of the
movement of Vidaurri in Nuevo Leon for the recall of
ex-President Cornonfort. In both of its aslects this
news is important, but it requires confirmation
Lord Lyons has officially advised the Presdent that
the Prince of Wales will proceed directly fron Canada
to Washington.
From all parts of the country are received lust satis-
factory accounts of the harvest. The extent d ground
under cultivation is greater than in any previnis year,
and the husbandman's labour is promised a rim reward.
The great cereal crops—wheat, rye, oats, and orn—are

generally in a most flourishing condition ; and even

orchard fruits are more abundant than they hive been
- --for-many past seasons; 1860 promises to becone noted
in the American calendar as "the year of plenty."
Scarcely have the Ambassadors from the Go ernment
of Japan left this country, says the the Au) York
Herald, of the 10th instant, after an interchan;e of the
commercial treaty which opens to us the tray of that
exclusive nation, when the Secretary of our Leption in
China arrives at Washington bearing the ratifiaL treaty
between our' Government and that of the 6lestial
Empire, together with an autograph lette, from
the Emperor to the President of the Jnited
States. Thus, almost at the same moment have
been consummated our negotiations with tb two
most ancient and most powerful countries in ,sia, a
flattering commentary upon the course of policy tirsued
by our Government towards these nations. Whi) Eng-
land and France—and the former country more elcially
—have been striving by force of arms to estalish a
trade with China, we have succeeded by prudene, fair
play, and the exercise of a pacific diplomacy, in seuring
the opportunity to extend our trade there—an ppor-
tunity which, we doubt not, we shall improve to tb ulti-
mate profit of our own country and of China. And
so, also, with Japan, towards which England ha pur-
sued a more politic course than that which she aopted
towards ber neighbour on the Asiatic connent.
Through the good offices of the American Miister,
Mr. Harris, and by virtue of our good name with
the Japanese, England has been enabled to cure
certain commercial advantages with that centry
conjointly—though she has not been honored
with an Embassy yet—with ourselves, a Inefit
which Queen Victoria has not failed to achow-
ledge by presenting, a splendid gold box
to Mr. Harris.. It is a matter of some congratuttion
for us to reflect upon, that while England and Fance
are fitting out:hostile armies against the Chinese our
Administration is receiving assurance of the most race-
ful and friendly relations with that people, an the
ratification of a highly advantageous treaty fron the
hands of the Emperor of China.

Dr. Hayes and his little band of adventurersleft
Boston on the afternoon of Saturday, the 7th insult,
in the schooner United States, on their voyage t(the
Arctic regions. The object of this enterprise is to
follow out to a clear and satisfactory solution, if ich
,be possible, the problem of an open Polar sea, whichras
discovered but not explored by the Kane expeditio in

8.55. Dr. Hayes,, who was the companion of Rie,

proposes to harbour his vessel on the western she

of Smith's Sound, and then push forward with bets

and sledges towards the Pole, where he expects to sttio
the open water, seen from a distant point by some of ie