The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-03 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received al
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, AUG. 3.

The Convention which was agreed upon in the
sitting of Monday last contains six articles, deter-
mining the common co-operation of all the great
Powers.

The following is a summary of its contents :
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The intervention will last only as long as the
Porte shall deem it advisable.

A previous agreement is necessary for the regula-
tion of all the military operations, and in order to
determine the effective of the expeditionary forces,
who are to be maintained at the charge of the re-

spective Powers.
A separate article stipulates that the French
troops already on the point of embarkation shall
start without waiting for the contingents of the
other Powers, unless the representative of the Sul-
tan at Paris should receive information from Syria
which would render all intervention unnecessary.

As soon as the great Powers have adhered to the
plan of the convention as modified in the second
sitting, their representatives will re-assemble in
order to sign the convention and the additional
protocol which has been drawn up at the request
of the Turkish Ambassador.

The representatives of the Powers will then com-
bine the two documents, in order that they may
receive, in a fourth sitting, the signatures of the
Plenipotentiaries.
It is said that Prussia, which till now has only
been represented at the Conference by a Chargé
d'Affairs, will (when the definitive signature of the
convention takes place) be represented by its Mini-
ster, Count Portalis, now absent from Paris on
leave.

ROME, AUG. 2.
The Pope has addressed an energetic letter to the
bishops of Syria.

His Holiness laments the massacres of the Ma-
ronites which have been committed by the Druses,
and expresses his horror of the barbarities of the
Turks.

His Holiness further speaks in high praise of the
French expedition, and exhorts the Princes to
repress the excesses of the infidels, and to arrest
the enemies of morality, justice, religion, and social
order.

PARIS, AUG. 3.

The ffloniteur publishes the text of the conven-
tion signed at Messina between General Clary and
Colonel Medici, which is merely a military conven-
tion for the evacuation of Sicily from motives of
humanity.

MESSINA, JULY 29.
Garibaldi has entered the town amid great en.

thusiasm.
The convention signed between General Clary
and Colonel Medici stipulates the evacuation of
Sicily.
Four thousand Neapolitans will guard the citadel,
and will not bombard the town unless Garibaldi
attacks the citadel.
The outer forts are occupied by Colonel Medici.
The artillery of Garibaldi has arrived.
The Neapolitan troops are demoralised and refuse
to fight.

PALERMO, JULY 31.

Signor Depretis will modify the Ministers by
choosing only such members as are favourable to
Italian unity. Signor Crispi will reenter the
Cabinet.
Count Litta leaves for Turin to-day.

MARSEILLES, AUG. 2.

News from Messina state that. Garibaldi is pre-
paring 300 vessels to transport troops to the main-
land. The preparations have been witnessed by
travellers,

PARIS, AUG. 2.

In addition to the plan of a convention in six
articles which the Conference drew up in its sitting
of last Sunday, the members of the Conference have,
at the request of the Turkish ambassador, drawn
up a protocol, which at this moment is being sub-
mitted to the approval of the Great Powers.

This protocol is for the purpose of precisely de-
fining the object of the intervention in Syria, and
sets forth that, as the co-operation of the Great
Powers takes place by desire of the Sultan and in
concert with the Sublime Porte, the foreign troops
shall act at all times in unison with the Turkish
forces.

The protocol also stipulates that, as the Great
Powers in giving their assistance to the Sultan
do not seek vengeance, but merely wish to discover
the guilty parties, who are to be punished, no
rigorous measures shall be taken except after a
common inquiry, in which the commissaries of the
Great Powers and of the Porte will jointly assist.
The above protocol necessitates an exchange of
communications between the Great Powers, and
causes a delay in the definitive signing of the
convention.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 28.

News from Damascus to the 17th July announce
that the massacres had ended. The Kurds and
Bedouins had retired into the interior, but the
Christians were still concealing themselves.
Fuad Pacha arrived at Beyrout on the 17th inst.

Sir Henry Bulwer has advised the Sultan to re-
cal the Grand Vizier. He is expected to arrive in
Constantinople immediately.
A general panic prevailed among the Perotes
during the past week.
The troops of the capital have been paid two of
the four months' arrears of pay due to them by the
Government.

MARSEILLES, AUGUST 2.
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