The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-05 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1859.

PRINCE ALFRED AT BBYROUT.

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BEYROUT, Aram 14.
The Euryalas, with Prince Alfred on board, ar-
rived hors on Friday, the Bth inst., from Jaffe, at which port
she remit ined upwards of ten dam s° ea to enable ber
an to vial Jernealem sad the River Jordan. She left &g-
-rout early yeettrday morals( for Sidra, and returns this
femora, in order thee the captain, his alms, end the
Prince may be Fount at a hall ghee this swains by Mr.
Moore, the E. Consai-Osserel, is imam of timer ar-
rival. Not that the invilseleme ere wertisd either far the
invited to at the rime or the diems of the Reryelaa for
la this Mr. Moon bee shows pod ems. sad Beynrat is
the bet piece where hie Royal Rigbasm has bees readmit—
admit with all due respect—withent say el that parader

and eb;w, and for, which be her seseestend elsewhere, het
which la perfectly incompatible with \le position as a mid—
&Dimes is the Davy. When the Reuel= sechowed is the
Beyrout Road; the puha, attended by ell the card and mUltary

functionaries of JIM province, went on board to pay their w-
ipes to the prince. Am a matter of court*, they meld mot

tiadeveasad how it wee that the eon of s reigning sovereign
could useably waive his rank whilst learning his profs dos.
They were, however, received on board by the °aphids. sad
shltougk introduced to um place, were told that he wee to
M ceuldured as s iimpie midshipman of the frigate. The
puha placed his sled of bases et the disposal of his high-
ness, sad of this civility the latter bee availed himielf COM
er tidos daring the week he has been here. The
Ceamalaeneral @eked the prince, u well as some
of the other Akan, to hie hoses, where they
dined sad slur, return( nut day to the Mule.
This. however, is not one this the nand attention
'hews py ear comma to the sneers of British men-of-

war. la-shart, them has bona no more fuss mad* exam
the Inryshae sad Priam Alfred thea thee would have his.
slant say otter large frigate, ow of when addsidpiamn was
fentiebed with good lettere of intreindlem The 'mid=
hams trorwareet either for Malta or Coestaateople.
A. repieds oar hags frigates, I whit they would show
&meshes a Nab Mews en the meat of eyrie. In the het
this. yen the larks Is the first ship ef war of say wag-
shade thla has pail as • visit. It would be gate ma well if
we ware to keep up our Musa* sad show oar anemias a
little more to this meatry, where we were awn sonidered—
what we sre—es the greatest aaval power in the world.
The Nook, Austrians, llerdleiane, Americans, sad even
)Serious, puede mono of lII* very largest ships from time to
thee la these waters, but with rie it seems enough to seed
a minket, or a surveying vessel now end again to Syria,
Irving many large mil Idle almost the whole year In Malta
harbour.

Is making mentioa of the advent of Prince Alfred to
Befrost, I ought to tell you how anxious all the mouatalasere
of Liesaon have been for the last two months about his
catalog. Like all Orientals would they couple the soma
with ems attars politkal event, and whoa told
that suck is net the case, simply belie►e that
you aro trying to deceive them. So goon so the
guitiof the Surplus were heard in the mountain all the
emirs, sheiks, end piamato—Christian so well as Maas—

crowded down to the turn to pay their respects to the son of
the Queen of Ifingbad. They were much surprised, sod
still races disappointed, when told that the Prince could
receive no one, being simply a young man learning his duty
se • navel akar. The) can hardly understand this, but yet
they adsntre the Mars discipline whist makes ao dietinetion
betimes the son of the =vertigo sad the son of a subject.
They have mond Illajw Coweirs reek into that of a
general editor, sod belle= that the Primal' attended by •
gime& wherever be gun. Many at &emcee wealthy chide
brayed down with them henna, arms, end other valuables
which they latended to beg Ida Royal Highnessto accept of,
sad cannot comprehend hew it Is that he would not be
allowed to receive them. They are alwrwd too in =Mr gene-
ration are these mountaineers. " What • One hervest," said

one of them the other day to se; whet a due har;est the
Turkish authorities would reap from se, were a son of the
Sultan to oome to Syria—why the vta7 pipe-bearers would
make their failures?'

After a very long, sad a very snore whiter, the weather
is sow delightful ; es are la the middle of that mtet pleasant
dell seamen a Syrian spring. The mulberry leaves are
eseeedliagly ire, sad the silkworms promise very well indeed,
se arse& so that the 82k amp on both plains and mountain is
expeeted to be much bared the avenge this yaw. Tracta-
ble sse very few r yet, sad those that have passed through
ore assay all Awakens. Her Majesty's at.... sloop Alert
Is impeded every day from Alexandria.

road from Hermit to Damascus is programing well
Already three or four miles to the foot of the mountain are
complete, and shortly after Easter we shall have a service as
°pinatas conning to the pine forest. With the exception of es
old German biotin, which Beyrout tradition asserts a paths
of bygone days to hays brought with bias from Constanti-
nople, these will be the first wheeled vehicles ever seen in
Syria.