The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-26 00:00:00

Conservative minority victories on three measures
of the first class in the course of a single session.
No one who was not possessed of Mr. BRIGHT'S
unequalled powers of irritation could have effected
it. We would not be understood to say that he
carried off all these triumphs without help. Such
an assertion would be very unjust to several esti-
mable men, whose opinions are quite as extravagant
and have been quite as artlessly disclosed. Dr.
FOSTER no doubt shares a large part of the glory
of saving Church Rates ; Mr. GLADSTONE'S weak-
ness for the Peace Society, and his anxiety, by dint
of a crushing finance, to keop down the military
spirit of the English people, were nturally valuable
aids in upholding the Paper Duty; and Mr. GEORGE
POTTER has rendered service not to be despised in
discrediting Reform. But it is evidently from Mr.
BRIGHT that this indiscreet school of revolutionists
have taken their cue in abandoning the slow under-
mining method which was previously in favour, in
attacking by storm instead of by sap. They are merely
the staff of devoted imitators and lieutenants, whom
a great strategist will always form around him."
Nor in all this is there any extravagance. It is a
tribute to which Mr. BRIGHT is fully entitled.
Palmam quz meruit ferat. And to him cer-
tainly is it mainly attributable that Reform
has been again so very effectually given
the go by—that the Church Rates still re-
main untouched that the paper-duty-abolition
has been so glaringly unpopularised. Whatever
may be thought about Dr. FOSTER'S share in the
quashing of the Church Rate movement, or of Mr.
POTTER'S participation in the postponement of the
Reform of Parliament—in regard to the Paper
Duties the Quarterly Review insists with a glow
of fervent admiration—" This triumph was all Mr.
BRIGHT'S, was all his own ; " adding " for
Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. COBDEN were less
in the position of allies co-operating for a
common end than of agents executing his com-
mands." The inopportuneness of the juncture
selected for the proposed remission is emphatically
specified in one overwhelming sentence, where the
reviewer remarks—" It was clearly rash, with so
slight a margin of surplus, and so many clouds on
the horizon, to hazard the irretrievable loss of so
rich a tax." Shortly after which the writer adds,
with an almost spiteful sneer, regard to the
particular duty in question. " The tax is not an
unexceptionable tax, though its incompatibility with
the existence of penny papers is far from being its
most serious disadvantage." As to the Commercial
Treaty negotiated between England and France by
the unadorned diplomatist, the reviewer observes,
not less truthfully than humorously, that Mr.
COBDEN had been flattered and coaxed into
selling England's concessions in the cheapest
market and buying France's gratitude in the
dearest." Mr. GLADSTONE'S rather eccentric
course is quaintly illustrated by the remark that,
" Though he has undoubting confidence in the par-
ticular bend of the zig-zag along which he is at the
moment travelling, the retrospect, even to a man of
his sanguine temperament"—must be occasionally
cheerless and saddening. Speaking of the doubt
expressed by the hon. and learned gentleman the
Member for Peterborough as to " whether his
dignity as a Member of Parliament remains the
same," after the late terrible affront put upon
that House by the House of Lords—as when he
first graced its consultations, the Quarterly Re-
view speaks of this with delicious gravity of
manner, as—" a comparative investigation which
will, no doubt, be interesting to the students of
microscopic sciences!" Altogether, it may be ob-
served in reference to the position assumed of late
1 the Quarterly as one of the more prominent
among the organs of Csnservatism, that what it
has lost in dignity and influence it has gained in
vivacity and satiric force. If its voice can exercise
no influence whatever upon the division lists—it
has grown humorous enough and witty enough to
be provocative of peals of merriment.

LATESI .NNENVS.

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

PARIS, lULY 26.

The Constitutionnel has an article, signed M.
Grandguillot, congratulating the London Times on
the leading article on Syria, published in that jour-
nal yesterday.
" The language of the Times," says M. Grand-
guillot, " seems to be in accordance with British
feelings, and to express the real policy of the
Foreign-office."
The Constitutionnel also says :
"The expedition which France has been pre-
paring for the last three days with marvellous
despatch will, as a matter of necessity, be carried
out. The early departure of our troops may be
expected.

" The part of France will be neither that of
occupation nor intervention.
"We are about to give our support to Turkey to
assist her in repressing disorders which would
infallibly result in the loss of the Turkish Empire.
" The Eastern question, as it at present stands,
does not appear to be susceptible of dividing
Europe ; but, on the contrary, of uniting the
European powers for the defence of interests and
principles which impose the same obligations on
all the Christian States."

BERLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The health of the Princess Frederick William
and the Royal infant being quite satisfactory, no
bulletins have been published to-day.

TOPLITZ, JULY 26.

The Prince Regent arrived here yesterday at
6 p.m., and was received at the terrain's by the
Emperor.
His Majesty shook hands with his Royal High-

The Emperor wore the Prussian military uni-
form, and the decoration of the order of the Black
Eagle.
The Prince Regent wore the Austrian uniform,
and the decoration of the order of St. Stephens.
Count Rechberg was not present at the ter-
minus.

TURIN, JULY 26.

The object of the mission of the Marquis de la
Greca is to bring about a compromise by which the
King of Naples would accept the result of univer-
sal suffrage in Sicily should the Western Powers
guarantee the integrity of his Majesty's dominions
on the mainland, and prevent Garibaldi from effect-
ing a landing there.

CONSTANTINOPLE (via MARSEILLES)

JULY 18.

The Ambassadors have received accounts of the
recent massacre at Damascus.

The Druses and Bedouins, in returning to
Kaman (?) passed through Damascus, and proposed
a general massacre of the Christians to Abd-el-
Kader, who refused to countenance it. The inha-
bitants, however, became accomplices in the murder
of the Christians. The other details are in accord-
ance with those already known.

It is confirmed that some of the Turkish soldiers
assisted the assassins. Their General, Ahmed Bey,
took to flight, but the other authorities remained in
the fortress.

The Turkish reinforcements sent to Syria are
said not to exceed 6,000 men, as it is not possible to
'withdraw the troops ittrn Itoumelia on account of
the agitation prevailing, there.'

Sir Henry Bulwer hasYreceived a telegram from
London, and immediately had a long conference
with the Sultan.

MARSEILLES, JULY 25.

The indirect packet-boat from Syria has arrived
with dates to the 7th inst. Nothing fresh had

THE G.AME OF LIFE.

transpired.
The direct packet from Syria is expected to
arrive on Tuesday next.

(From " Nee A Week."
BY ELIZA COOK.
With eager hand Hope deftly weaves
The mantles that our pride would don,
While busy-fingered Care unreaves
The garments as we put them on.
We rear our palaces of joy,
And tread them with exulting shout,
Till, crumbling round, 'tis plainly found

TURIN, JULY 25.
The King has received the Neapolitan Ambas
sadors.
There is no news of Garibaldi.

Some corner-stones have been left out.
And thus we play the game of Life,
Shadow and substance ever blending;
'Mid flowers of Peace and tears of Strife
Gaily beginning, sadly ending.

PARIS, JULY 25.
The Constitutionnel contains the following :
" The latest news from Syria announces that the
state of things was still serious.
" Ten thousand Druses were marching on Damas-
cus, where the Christians run the greatest danger.
" A prompt European intervention is absolutely
necessary to rescue the remaining Christians from
being massacred.
"It may be added that a perfect good under-
standing prevails between France and England.

The maiden greets her swain to-day,
They jar to-morrow, and she flouts him ;
Now she believes whate'er he'll say,
A month has gone,—alas I she doubts him ;
The lover hangs upon a glance,
With glowing trust and earnest cueing ;
Next year ho rouses from his trance,
And scorns the one he late was wooing.
And thus we play the game of Life,
Our dreams dispell'd, our plans defeated,
And when we've lost with pain and cost,
Still stand, as ready to be cheated.

" The last measures have been taken in concert
with the English Cabinet, and nothing delays the
departure of the expedition for Syria."
The Pays of this evening says :

The cooing infant's rosy mouth
Aptly receives the sweeten'd potion ;
When waves are calm, and winds are south,
None see the death-rocks in the ocean.
The rich man toils "to gather up,"
Meaning to bask in Fortune's clover,
And while he pours into his cup,
Perceives not it is running over.
And thus we play the game of Life,
Now simply snared, now wisely brooding,
Now bribed by smiles, now spreading wiles,
Living deluded and deluding.
The Poet prattles to the stars,
Philosophers dissect the thunder,
But both are stopp'd by crystal bars,
And stand outside to watch and wonder.
We moralise on battle plains,
Where blood bas poured, and fame was won,
We turn and see the baby's glee
Over his mimic sword and gun.
And thus wo play the game of Life,
'Twixt holy Thought and fearful Deed.
Some only stay to work and pray,
And some but live for Crime and Greed.

" Reports are current that a treaty between
Austria and Prussia preceded the conference at

Toplitz."

Our feet of clay trip up each other,
Our wings of ether seek the sky;
We breathe—we are—child follows mother,
Yet none can tell us " How ?" or " Why ?"
Our hearts, like clocks, keep ticking fast,
We climb and laugh, we fall and weep,
Till, tired of guessing, at the last
We solve the riddle in a sleep.
And thus we play the game of Life,
In motley garbs of Grid and Pleasure,
Till we are drest in that green vest
For which the sexton takes our measure.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his
Serene Highness the Sovereign Prince of Lichtenstein, the
Marquis of Exeter, and Major Greville, joined the circle
partaking of the hospitality of the Duke and Duchess of
Richmond, at Goodwood, on Tuesday evening.
His Highness the Prince Poniatowaki and the
Marquis of Gaviria have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, from Rome.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and the
Ladies Scott are expected to leave Belgrave•square on
Saturday first for Drumlanrig Castle, N.B.

-
The Marquis of Lansdowne will leave Lansdowne
House in a few days for his residence at Richmond.
Count and Countess de Flahault arrived at Coven-
try Ho= yesterday from Brighton.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will leave
town on Saturday on a visit to her Majesty at Osborne.

Lord Clyde has left Wallace's Hotel, Hyde-park•
Corner, for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty.

Lady Mary Pelham died on Monday last, at the
D ,wager Countess of Chichester's residence, in Grosvenor-
place, after a short illness. Her ladyship was eldest
daughter of the late earl, and was born in 1802.
Mr. and Lady Isabella Schuster have left town
for the Lakes, en route for tho Earl of Orkney's seat in
Scotland.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY- 26, 1860.

that the Sicilian fleet, which consists of the
Washington, the Lombardo, the Oriso, the Veloce,
the Duca-di-Calabria, and the Elba, intercepted
their passage, and compelled them to return. We
have just been informed that the authorities have
already received 4,200 applications from persons
desirous of being exempted from serving in the
National Guard."

The Official Constitutional fouenal, of Naples,
deplores the events of the 15th, and adds that M.
Pianelli, the military commandant and several offi-
cers, interfered and put a stop to the violence of
the soldiers. The latest intelligence confirms the
nomination of M. Leborio Romano as Minister of
the Interior at Naples. M. Raphael Farina suc-
ceeds him in the Prefecture of Police.
A letter from Naples of the 18th says :—" After
the late attempt of the Royal Guard, the Ministers
assembled in council, and had an extremely agitated
discussion. Eventually they pronounced energeti-
cally for the removal from the city of the regiments
which committed the excesses ; for the dismissal of
the foreign battalions, the existence of which is
contrary to the spirit and letter of the constitution ;
and, finally, for the definitive sending away of the
most influential members of the camarilla. The King,
accompanied by Prince Ischitella, went yesterday
morning to the regiments and sharply reprimanded
them. 1 tell you,' said his Majesty, in a firm
voice, 'that any one who acts against the constitu-
tional regime which I have established of my own
free-will acts against me.' These words produced
a good effect. The Ministry, I am assured, is
anxious to hasten the opening of the Parliament,
and consequently the convocation of the electors.
It also desires to lower the property qualification
required for electors, and to enlarge the basis of ad-
mission to the National Guard, of which, up to the
present moment, only a few battalions have been
formed. Almost all the persons nominated to the
command of these battalions have refused, not so
much from hostility to the Government, as from
fear of the present and the future."
The King of the Two Sicilies has just addressed
the following proclamation, dated. the 15th, to the
army and navy :
" By a free and spontaneous act of our free will,
we have conceded to the kingdom constitutional
and representative bodies in harmony with the
progress of civilisation and the wants of the people
whom Providence has confided to our care. You
will enter on this noble and glorious path, and
you will unite in the constitutional compact
which binds us together as one family ; you will
be the champions of justice, humanity, discipline,
and love of country ; you, the hope of your
fellow-citizens, will be the firm supports of the
Throne and of the new institutions, and the instru-
ment of national grandeur and prosperity. I re-
member with gratitude the fidelity and obedience
which you have hitherto shown me, and I give you
this testimony of my satisfaction. No one better
than your Sovereign can assign to your merits the
praise which is their duo, a fact which even those
who are actuated by malignity or malevolence can-
not deny. It is now proper that you should do
honour to yourselves by your moderation and
your dignity, and make your arms the support
of the new order of things and of the new, firm,
and conciliatory policy which must inspire con-
fidence in the people, and put an end to the appre-
hensions of the diplomacy which fears to see the
balance of power in Europe compromised, Your
past is a guarantee for the future. Soldiers ! Fresh
destinies call you to raise the dignity of our Italian
country ; be proud of the mandate. The people who
have twice revived European civilisation will not
fail in the difficult work of reconquering by its in-
dependence the high position which its geographical
situation, the force of arms, and historical associa-
tions accord to it. You constitute a great part of
this people, and you must henceforth support its
glory and its grandeur. " FRANCIS II."