The Express.
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TUESDAY BIANING, JULY 24, 1880.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

.ROUST OF LORD6.—MoNDAv, JOLT 23.

At ball-pet fear °Week the royal anent was given by
commienoe to a greet number of bills, the commissioners
upon this menekra Wag the Lord Chancellor, Viscount
Sydney, and Lad Stanley of Abiseley.
FRIENDLY SOCILTIM.
Lord BROUGHAM nted some petitions from the
Manchester Uaity of d Fellows, an importact ionociation, '
with braaeltre all over the country, complaining of • dame I
in the Friendly ficeietice Amendment Act of 185 d, which
bad entirely altered the constitution of all such bodies'
with regard to widilleg-up sod distributing their mousy.
By the eaWaidatiOU Ain meld in lAA no friendly society
isiold be dissolved aseriftitg• Amenfution at • meet-
leg livewizthe of the members. But
to the eat lehd a dense wan quietly added,
sot ki semealttee, bet on besieging up We
of theeeintetlare ea the bill, by which clause a =
nisnilisn of 'mooch friendly society might wldrees • memo-
randum to any estuary of an insurance company, who might
thee eonsider the ems, and if he chose, rat t dissolve and
wiad the society
After • few words boa Lord BADEADILLZ, the noble and
learned lord gave notice of • motion on the subject.
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SMITHFIELD MARKET (STREETS AND IMPROVE.
/CENTS) BILL.
This bill was read a emend time, and ordered to be re•
faring tea West emenalliee.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT AMENDMENT BILL
This bBl Owed through eeinuintes.
AL LUNATIC ASYLUM BILL. •
This bill was mad a third time and passed.
NEWSPAPERS, tc., BILL
Loyd STRATHEDEN, in moving the emend readies of
this bill, which had mute up from the 001iii0011, said the
beta it dealt with, and partially repealed, were AO GOO.
'IL, c. 79; GO tiro. 111., c. 9; and 1 Wm. IV., c. 73.1
The bill did not interfere with, or in any way alter the acts
which enforced the registration of newspaper, at Somer-
set-house, or required the same of a printer to'
appear in each publication he issued; and, doubtline, to
that fact might be ascribed the unanimous, concurrence
which had marked its progress through the other home.
The first am war pared in 1799, to restmln the conspiracies
which then existed, and the present bill only repealed that
part of it which prohibited debates or lectures is places not
previously licensed, and compelled printers, type-founders,
and printing press maker, to obtain a license through the
' clerk of the peace before proceeding with their business.
The second act, passed iu 1819, warn one of the six cele•
brated measures of that time, which brought much odium
on the government as being encroachments no the
ancient freedom of the country, and by the last
act, which became law in 1830, the securities exacted fur
the first time from publishers in 1819 were in some degree
extended. The only issue raised by the bill was whether
those mouritima,which were now practically nullified, should
be any longer exacted from publishers.
Lord CHELMSFORD moved that the bill be read a
second time that day three months.
The home divided For the second
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Non-content 3O-26
NUISANCES REMOVAL AND DISEASES PREVEN-

anent toria iatersnallon In Syria by 'fora, of arms? And,
heti", whether her Maisety's government would protest
agesestiteehan iptervesdhet *zeniths coyest at the Porte
had ban obtained?
Lord J. RUSBILL--Without answering the particular
amertises whisk the hoe. end gallant gentleman had read
from Frieda and
Sir J. FEROUSSBIV-FnisreXPenofic—ial papers.
Lord J. RUSSELL—I did not know that M. Grandguillot
(who dense the article to the Coosititvl(mesi) was as
official personage. I will date, however, what has occurred
*Rh erbium to this very painful subject. Some time ego
upon an account being received of massacres near the coed.
committed by the Drums, orders were mat by the Adore.
relty that Admmil Martin should proceed to the east of
Syria, and put himself in communication with the tonrids,
mod that If it should be loud in caddie day the
program of the madames, he should he autherined to land
the marines of his fine. After that, other acooesta wen re-
ceived of a still more dreadful character. There came
accounts of a massacre in Deirel-Master; and that trans-
action was marked with some peculiar features. State-
ment* were received from various quarters that the
tech* who was in command of the town in-
hesed the ehrlethwo that he expected an attack would
Ile made on them by the Domes, who were encamped at a
lion diadems ; and he therefore advised them Weems into
ilhe please They di& so; the Cheistasse were litagermelbled
he advised them to give up their arms as the Draws
made that demand. The Imes were acCiciedieelle gives
p, and they were sent away apparently with the view of
being taken to Darnaecus ; bat they were all captured by the
Drams. After that the Pasha ordered the Christians to be
confined within a building at the centre of the town,.
where they were kept for eight days with very little
food, till they became in a very weak condi-
tion. He thee amenibled them all in the court
and ordered the gates to be thrown open. The Drums
entered armed with muskets and swords, end they cut down
end killed nearly the whole of these unhappy people. Some
few escaped and fled to Beyrout, where they related what
had occurred. A gentleman who was well coqueinted with
some of the Drum chiefs was prevailed on to go to one of
them and endeavour to stay the progress of the madame.
He accordingly saw the chief, who told him that he had
been opposed to this attack upon the Christians ; that he
had said all he could against it, and could my no more ;
that he had no influence, and that the mamma-es would pro-
bably continue. On his return to Beyrout this gentle-
man saw the town and described the streets as being strewed
with deed bodies. The stench from them was terrible ;
end the Drums went about with their heads partly covered
for the purpose of saving them from the stench ; but at the
same tune they were plundering, laughing, and joking
amidst the horrors of the meas. There seemed to be a
general impression amongst the Europeans on the coast that
the Turks, for some reason which I will not now discuss,
had not done, either at Beyrout or in other Oams, all that
ti!edy might in order to stay these massacres, and that they
appeared to show more sympathy with the Drums than
withinappy victims of their ferocious attacks. Soon
afterwards accounts were received of a rise at Damascus,
in which 500 Christian had beau killed, including—butthet
report might not be true—one of the consuls. On Wedneeday
last the French ambassador told me it was the opinknot his
government that the massacres could not be stayed unless a
body of European troops were met to Syria. I stated to
him at first that the Sultan had sent a considerable body of
troops, and that It was to be hoped that they would be
sufficient to restore order. His answer to me wee that he
dui not think that that resource could be depended upon,
because the apathy and indifference to the ponervation of
Christian life already shown by the Turks—(hear, hear)--
gave us redou to fear that any Turks that might be bed
would rather encourage the disorders than restore peace.
He referred to the treaty of 1856 and other provisions by
which the Christian subjects of the Porte are to be pro-
tected by the European powers ; sal he asked me if
her Majesty's government would consent, in common with
the other governments of Earope, to send a body of troops
to Syne. I said I would consult the cabinet, and give him
an answer the same evening. The smear which I gave
him, in concurrence with the opinion of the cabinet, was,
that seeing the accounts which had been reeeived her
Majesty's government could not object to Europese troops
being despatched to Syria. (Hear, hear.) We were of
opinion, however, that as we hoped to be able to send a
squadron it would not be neesseary to send Erie& troops
that Austria might send some troops, but that the forte
would of coarse be chiefly French. I added that her
Majestv's government were of oplaion that Weider to regu-
late proceedings, especially with regard to the Pine of
the stay of the troops, it would be to have a am-
vendee, and that above all the Porte ould be a party
to that convention. At the same thee I said that If the
principle of the convention were agreed to, I did not think
it would be necessary to wait for the arrangement of all
the details, or for the signature of the document before
the expedition sailed, supposing the urgency to be greet and
the lives of the Christians to be to jeopardy. The commu-
nication of her Majesty's government was transmitted to
Paris, and the other powers were at the same time, or im-
mediately afterwards, commits& I have been inform:lV:ly
the French government that Austria and Russia had
and that the Foreign Minister of Roads had concurred,
but had dated that he must take the orders
of the Prince Regent, who was at Backe.
The European powers generally appear, therefore, to have
agreed, but we have not yet received any information is to
what the Porte is prepared to do. We have thought that
under the circumstimose it would be impossible not to agree
that a corps of European troops should be sent to Syria ;
but it is still a matter of negotiatiou what Shall be the
terms of the convention, what shall be the stay of the French
troops, and what the manner in which they shall proceed.
We were informed no Saturday lad that French troops had
been ordered for service ; but a convention must first be
made with the powers of Europe and with the consent
of the Porte. If the hon. and gallant gentleman
sake me as to the accounts we have received stating that
the country has been pacified and that peace has been sow*
I can only say we have had • telegram from Constatinople,
stating that peace had been signed between the Drums and
the Hartland on the 10th Inst., but those were all the
words of the despatch, end we have received no oonfirrnation
of them. (Hear.)
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__INDIA BILLS.

In answer to Mr. faiiiTriisitl,
Sir C. WOOD announced that his two bills relating to
the civil service and the coneolkiation of court. would not
be proceeded with. (Cheers.)
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

Mr. DISLCEII7ITWoUId be very satisfactory to the
house if the noble lord would state when he proposes to
take the question of the customs duty on paper.
Colonel FRENCH—Perhaps the noble lord will also state
at what time he proposes to give the house some informa-
tion on the Galway contract?
Viscount PA.LMERSTON —I cannot give aprecise answer
to either question. I cannot state the day when the
Customs duty on paper will be taken. It will be taken in
due course. (Laughter.) As to the Galway contract, due
notice will be given of it (Renewed laughter.)
Mr. DISRAELI—In "doe course" would have been to-
night. I understand tie subject is not to come on to-night ;
&ad therefore it will not be "in due course." (Hear, hear.)
I should like to know whether the government will at
Wet give the house notice when it is their intention to
bring it on?
Lord PALMERSTON—It is not likely that it will corns
on to-night ; probably, it will be on Thursday.
In answer to Mr. Lrnoeu,
Sir G. C. LEWIS said he should proceed with the Ecclesias-
tical Commission Bill and that he hoped to be able to make
such • is with respect to certain of its clauses, as
would to to obviate the objections entertained to the