The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday, Nov. 13.

"The Syrian affair," that is to say, the ques-
tion whether the French Government shall be
allowed further 'to augment the numbers of its
Syrian contingent, and indefinitely adjourn the
period of its return home, is likely to prove fully
as dangerous as any other to the preservation Of
the good understanding which has been resumed
between England and France.. The Government
of the Sultan and that of her Majesty Queen
Victoria are'understood to be very much puzzled
at the presefit nidtortt td deal witli the heti
that there is no likelihood lirliatei;dr- that the
French forces will leave their present quarttis
on the day fixed by the Convention, namely, the
22nd April, 1861. It has been rumoured in the
meanti:ne that arrangements have been made
between Fuad Pasha and General de Beaufort
for 'providing the French troops with winter
quarters but it is considered doubtful whether
the Porte will sanction such a proceeding,
hating too mina the air of a permanent charaetei
about it. . .

The sword of General Lanithicie re has bed,
ordered ; it is to be manufactured at Lyons, titid
the execution of the commission is confided
the same artist who made the one offered 'to
General Oudinot. A great number of the mew'
tiers Of,the, Corps Piplomatique, and the whole
of the Legitinligt hate enrolled themselves
as subscribers to the fund..
There is a vague rumour that the Empress is
to make a visit to Scotland to see het. Scotch
cousins, the Kilpatricks. Four gentlemen, among
whom is the Marquis de Lagrange, are named as
likely to accompany her Majesty, but the rumour
needs confirmation.

• A-grand banquet was given to General Bosco
pye*rieusl td his departure to join Francis 11. at
Gaeta. The general lifts publicly announced' his
readiness to follow the Icing into vide; —an
intention which he will, no ,doubt, ere long have
an opportunity of gratifying.
There is a letter in the Nord, dated Venice,
2nd Nov., which declares that Austria has refused
to comply with the request.of the English Govern-
ment. to cede to her a maratime station in the
Adriatic. This writer says :
It,appears that some negotiations have been opened
by the Cabinet of St. James -with that of Vienna for the
purchase of azi Wand iii the Dabridled AtChipelagb.
know from good authoritY that Austria does not (Irani
of giving her consent to this transaction; netiVithstand-
ing all her apparent readiness to acquiesde hi the tvislies
dEngland. Great Britain is too redoubtable a Vcrtief
to have for so near a neighbour, and the necessity of ad
English station to the Austrian coast would be a per-
manent menace. . _ _

You are, of course, aware that a contradiction has
been given to this story by both the governments
interested.

Yesterday the Rentes 'were done, as high as
70.60, and they ultimately closed at 70.20. This
is a considerable rise, but it is difficult to say
precisely to what it is due.
PARIS, Tuesday, Nov. 14.

For some time past, it is understood, a consi-
derable degree of attention has been given to
suggestion emanating from some of the members
of the Government, which has for its object the
insertion in the Moniteur of an article explana-
tory of the entire policy of the Government. The
necessity of a manifesto of this kind being pub-
lished was admitted by the Ministers at the last
weekly dinner, at which they are in the habit of
meeting. But the proposal which they agreed to
on this occasion has not yet, at all events, met
with the approval of the, Emperor, and the mat-
ter remains where it was.

There is a rumour that Lord Stratford de *a'
cliffe has been appointed Brifish Ambassador to
the Court of Vienna. If so, the circumstance
will be viewed here in the light of a distinct pre"
vocation to France ; but I doubt very much if
there be any truth in the rumour.

There is some additional intelligence, respecting
the state of matters in Syria. The Turkish Mini-
ster put himself. in communication with M. de
Lavalette some weeks ago, on the subject of the
stay of the French troops in Syria. He endea-
voured to persuade the French Ambassador that
owing to the energy displayed by Fuad Pacha,
the Lebanon had been pacified and the guilty
punished, and that at this moment the Porte was
in a position to answer for the tranquillity of the
whole of Syria, independently of any foreign aid.
M. de Lavalette at first wished to avoid entering
into any explanation on the subject, but being
pressed over and ever again to do so, he sent
reply in writing, which is neither more nor less
than an actual complaint against all that has been
recently done by the Turkish Commissioner. He

denied that the guilty have been punished, saying
that the chiefs of the Druses had, owing to the
connivance of the Turkish officers whom he
designates by name, been enabled to escape
the consequences of their acts. He also says that
satisfaction has not been given to the Ilaronites
who haiie been dispossessed of their propertlf
and that the indemnities promised to the Chris-
tians of Damascus have not been been voted or
paid. The work of the commission, therefore,
has not been even commenced, and eonsequentlY
the idea, of recalling the French troops is quite
out of the question. In fact, it is more than ever
necessary that the period" of their syjeura
should be 'prolonged for another year at the
least. , This reply, which is conceived through-
out in the most energetic terms, has caused'
as may be supposed, a tremendous commotion
in the Turkish Ministry ; and the more- so,
as it is quite understood that the Porte
was fully' reckoning on the good offices of the
French Government in introducing its projected
new loan to the Paris Bourse. This is the pre-
sent state of affairs, and you may rely upon it
that the prolongation of the French occupation of
Syria is now a fact beyond all doubt ; besides, it
is to be kept in view that the convention, dated
in July last, has never been ratified by Turkey,
who is, therefore, not in a position to complain of
any one violation. of its provisions more than

another.
The departure of the Empress for a tour in
England and Scotland is announced for some daY
in the present week.

On the Bourse yesterday sellers were numerous,
and the Rentes fell to 70f. 10c.

THE NEW STATE OF THINGS AT NAPLES.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

TURIN, Nov. 9.
The newly appointed Governors of Naples and
Sicily respectively, are to be quite independent of
each other ; the powers conferred upon each being
of an unusually absolute nature.
A decree posted up on the wall of Naples, calls
out all soldiers included in the second category of
the class of 1839. This measure is not necessarily
to be interpreted as originating in a warlike
motile, for a great many troops are needed in
Naples when the army is disorganised or hostile.
A part of the population which inhabits the
mountainous districts is incessantly worked by
reactionary agents, and a military occupation is,
in their case, indispensable. It is on this account
that the ancient provinces of the Kingdom has.°
had to furnish all the supplies they were capable
of yielding to the soldiers.
People here are countinig much upon the dis-
content and disaffection prevailing in Hungary'
for inducing Austria to yield Venetia, either wil-
lingly or by compulsion. It is worthy of remark
that one sees the Hungarians in Garibaldi's arul
inclining rather to the moderate side. Thus, Ge-
neral Turr is said to have done more than all
other man towards the political defeat of Gari"
baldi. It is, asserted that General Klapka had an
interview with M. Cavour at Genoa, when that
minister paid a visit to that city ; and as the
visit was prolonged greatly beyond the time ex-
pected—and it is well known that. M. Cavar
does not 'spend his time in joining in fetes arta
rejoicings —it is shrewdly suspected that the
General has been won over to the Cavourian
The National Bank here las raised it rate
of
discount, and a financial crisis was anticipated,
arising chiefly, it was thought, from the enormous
withdrawal of funds necessary to pay for the pur-
chase of war materials of various kind in foreign
countries. The harvest of the cereals and the
vintage has been but middling, and labour of all
kind, especially harvest labour, has been very
much interfered with, owing to the absence in
the ranks of the army of so many able-bodied
men. Fortufiately the Kingdom of Naples Pes
sesses abundant resources, and by good manage-
ment the normal equilibrium of its monetary and
other transactions, which is at present so
.mushf
disturbed, will be restored. The suppress-10
the custom-houses in the interior will prove 01
great benefit Italy, and., cannot fail to augnieut