The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-25 00:00:00

RUSSIAN DESPATCH ON THE 'MAMA_

TION OF SYRIA.

The following is the despatch addressed by
Prince Gortchakoff to Count Kisselef, on the sub-
ject of the evacuation of Syria :

TO we ZICELLJINCT COUNT 111148ILEP.

St. Petersburg, May 14.
M. Count,-- In proportion ea the term fixed for the
evacuation of Syria approaches its expiration, we cannot but
view that eventuality with increasing apprehension. Your
Excellency was requested at the last conference at Paris to
express the conviction of his Majesty the Emperor that the
premature creation of the occupation, before a definitive
orpaisation and the instalment of a regular power had
replaced the guarantees acquired for the Christians by the
presence of the European troops, would entail calamities
which the great powers ought seriously to take into =-
adoration in the interest of humanity and in that of their
own dignity. We rate with regret that none of the
*►eats which have since happened, or the =oust"
which have reached us, are of a nature to dissipate these
fears. We is. them even shared by foregoer, of all eons.
tries resident in Syria, whose interest and whose very
existence are at stake, and who have attested the una-
nimity of their wishes by a petition addressed, in the
most peraimg terra, to the great power of Europe. Be
so good, M. Count, as to discuss this subject with
the representative. of the cabinets who shard in the last
deliberations. We believe we should be wanting in duty if
we did not call their attention to the dangers which would
follow a recall of the troops if it were to take place pre-
cisely on the day fixed without any regard to the critical
situation in which Syria would be left, and leaving unful-
filled all the preliminary conditions, which, in oar
opinion, should have supplied the place of the guaran-
tor of which the Christ= populations will see them-
selves soddenly deprived by the departure of the
troops which received from Europe the mission of
providing for their safety. In such a oue it
only remains to us formally to decline, es we have
already dose, all responsibility se to the results of a deter-
sileatioe, the coosequeoces of which we have foreseen red
iotheated. Your Excellasey is invited by order of our
august master to allow no doubt to exist on this head to the
minds of your oollesgues. —Receive, M. Count, kc.,

GorrceAcorr.

AMERICA.
QUEENSTOWN, MAI 25.

no Royal Mail steamship Arabia, which arrived
here at 4.15 a.m. to-day, landed all letters except
those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 4.45 a.m.
All well.

She brings 120 passengers, and 13,950 dole. for
Havre. She left Boston on the 15th, and Halifax
on the 17th inst.

NEW YOWL, JILT 16.
(Per Arabia by telegraph to Halifax and
viL Queenstown.)
The remains of Washington have been removed
from Mount Vernon by the Virginians.
The Federal government has notified to the
foreign powers that it will cease to hold intercourse
with soy foreign power which recognises any com-
missioners from the rebel states.

The report that Breckenridge is to command
under Major Anderson is probably untrue.
A proposition is before the convention of dole-
gates in Western Virginia to separate from the
eastern part of the state, and form a New Virginia.
Over forty counties are represented in the conven-
tion.

The Governors of Ohio and Pennsylvania have
pledged the states to protect the unionist. is Wes.
tern Virginia.