The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY EVEIf/NO.

I believe it to be certain that the convention on
the Syrian intervention is not yet signed. The
evasive language of the Moniker of yesterday will
have prepared you for this news. As to the de-
parture of the French expedition, it is impossible
to get at the truth. The Patric says that General
de Beaufort d'Hautpoul is going to Toulon to-
morrow, but he has been going to-morrow for
several days past. The Patric, in its " latest news,"
mentions that the sth and 13th Regiments are
to go, but theee troops have already been paraded
before the public as often as the supernu-
meraries who represent a conquering army in a
successful piece at the Porte St. Martin. The
Rmperor is really going to the Chalons camp to-
morrow, and I believe not a man will have left for
Syria before his arrival. It may not be uninterest-
ing to call to mind that the Commander-General
Beaufort Hantponl was the intimate friend of
Captain Doineau, of Algerian notoriety, and that
Ibe gallantly avowed his responsibility before •

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sourt-martial for all the acta for which Doineau
was sentenced to death. He is selected as a
man eminently calculated to inflict vengeance on
barbarians without being restrained by scruples
about the exact measure of punishment or the
actual guilt of particular victims, which might stay
the hand of other officers.

It is rumoured that a fourth regiment of
Zottaves is about to be created, and that the regi-
ments of the line, now 102 in number, will be
augmented to 110.

Among the fantastic rumours of the day touching
and concerning a "new map of Europe," is one to
the effect that in the event of the partition of
Turkey the Emperor would endeavour to propitiate
England by proposing King Leopold for the throne
of Constantinople ! This prince, it would be said,
from his English connexions and sympathies, would
be a sufficient guarantee that France entertained
no thought of self-aggrandisement in the Bosphorus
or Adriatic. Of course the annexation of Belgium
to France would be a part of the arrangement. I
noticed en passant, some days since, the extreme
improbability of a statement prominently cir-
culated that the Regent of Prussia bas promised
the Emperor of Austria at Toeplita to guaran-
tee the possession of Venice. I have now seen a
Turin letter of August 3, from which it appears
that the Prussian ambassador at the Sardinian
Court has assured Count Cavour that the cabinet
of Berlin would observe the strictest neutrality
with regard to Italy. This is as it should be.
The telegrams announce the imminence of
Garibaldi's descent upon Neapolitan terra firma.
General Turr, on leaving Paris on Friday evening,
said to his friends who accompanied him to the
railway station—" If you have occasion to write
to me, address your letters to Naples, where I
expect to be about August 17."
It has been already mentioned that General
Bosco, when forced to give up his chargers to
Garibaldi, was mean enough to poison them. For
the honour of a soldier it has been hoped that the
story was not true, and it yet wants confirmation.
There is, however, in Bullier's Correspondence,
another anecdote equally discreditable, if true, to
the Neapolitan commander. It is said that after
he had agreed with Garibaldi to surrender his guns,
he had them all spiked, and that Garibaldi was so
angry at the breach of faith, that lie made Bosco
get off his horse and go on foot on board the vessel
that was to take him away.
Father P. Esthve, the superior of the French
missionaries in Syria, has oome to Paris to give an
account to government of the recent bloody events
in the Lebanon. He reports that five of his clergy
were murdered, and he estimates the total number
of victims at 15,000 or 18,000, of whom 8,000 were
slaughtered at Damascus. The Courrier de Lyon
announces the departure for Syria of several religi-
ous sisters of various orders.

The Prince de Boatman, while superintending
the restoration of his chateau at Haroud, in Lor-
raine, fell from a scaffolding of considerable height,
and was very seriously injured. It is hoped, how-
ever, that the consequences will not be fatal.

PARIS. SATURDAY EVWIIO.

M. Ponsard's new piece, Ce qui plait aux
Femmes, after having been played four times at the
Vaudeville, was yesterday morning positively in-
terdicted. M. Ponsard went off at once to St.
Cloud, hoping to get the Emperor to reverse the
verdict in time for the evening's performance. The
Emperor, however, did not choose to be visible to
him. I hear that within the last half-hour the ques-
tion las been definitively decided at the Ministry
of State against the comedy. lam told that the
great "offence in it" may be seen iu some lines of •
political import quoted in the Figaro of August.
Secondly, a paragraph furnished to the evening
papers pretends that the piece was only withdrawn
obedience to unmistakeable manifestations of
public opinion. But, surely managers cannot find
I t their interest to play plays which du nut please.
Why then slay the slain 1
. . . _ . .

A:pamphlet, which I can certify to be semi-official,
will appear at Dentu's next week, by way of an
answer to Lord Palmerston's speech on the national
defences. The pen employed on this occasion is
said to be the judicious one of M. Cucheval
Claviguy.
The Charicari complains that the ides( of making
Abd-el-Kader viceroy of Syria is pirated from its
columns ; another time it will take out a patent.
The Pays, in its " lastest news," denies the
accuracy of some details of the convention signed
yesterday, which aro given by the Courtier do
Dintanche. It is worthy of remark, however, that
the Monitesr gives no details at all, and merely re-
pasts the placard posted y.....terday at the Bourse.
The Bourse to-day was remarkably inanimate.
Scarcely any business was done, and the Reute,
after the must insignificant fluctuations, closed sc.
lower than yesterday. Mobilier rose 1.25. The
Northern and Eastern railways rose 3.75 each.
There was hardly any change it. the other lines.

The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Com-
staam ship Parana will sail front Oslway to•morrow
i
y), 7th test, for St. John's, Newfoundland, and
with her Majesty's mails. Messages received by
British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company up to 2
p.m., 7 inst., rid St. John's, Newfoundland.

GARIBALDI AND THE CITY OF LONDON TILA
NIA! CLUIL—Mr. Ashuret, of 6, Old Jewry, London, has
received the following note from the Sicilian Secretary of
Slate in answer to an address of congratulation by the City
of London Tradesmen's ChM, which they forwarded through
him to the general :—" Palermo, July 2D, 1860. —Dear
—I am ordered by General Garibaldi to request front your
kindness to express his sincere thanks George Walter,
Fag., C.C., Chairman of the City of London en's
Club, for the sentiments contained in the resolu-
tion, which through you wee forwarded to the general.
It afford,. a genuine real pleasure to the defenders of the
cause of liberty, and it inftainen with resolute courage the
Italian warriors, to hear at last that the free people of Great
Britain, proclaiming with loud voice that Italy shall be of
the Italians, enthusiastically and unanimouslyexpress their
admiration for Garibaldi as the heroic leader in the terrible
struggle for the indepeudence and freedom of his country ;
not because there was any doubt which way would enlist
itself the sympathy and the powerful voice of the British
people, bet because the general feels himself satisfied that
if you are determined to support Lim through thick and
thin, he will be enabled to accomplish his inotlion with isms
effusion of blood, tail shorten the horrors of war. Italy
once united sad independent will nut forget la the enjoy-
meet of civil and religious liberty that England was by her
side on the day of trouble, cheering on Ler warriors sad
her leader."