The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-02 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 25 (via Marseilles)

The Marquis de Lavalette has notified to the
Porte the resolution of Franco in reference to an
expedition to Syria.
It is said that the Sultan has requested the Vice-
roy of Egypt to send an auxiliary army of 10,000
men.

MARSEILLES, AUG. 1.

Advices have been received from Damascus to the
12th of July, confirming the report that 6,000
houses belonging to the Christians had been de-

stroy ed.
The Jewish quarter had been burnt.
The Turkish houses in which the Christian wo
men had found refuge had also been burnt.

As the massacres lasted for 80 hours it was diffi-
cult to ascertain the number of victims. 2,000
Christians were still under Abd-el-Kader's protec-
tion. Several Consuls were at Abd-el•Kader's resi-
dence, who also glve refuge to several Englishmen.

The new Governor of Damascus had arrived with
1,200 soldiers.

It was not certain whether the disturbances
could be considered as terminated.

The Impartial do Smyrne, in confirming the
above, expresses doubts, however, whether the
Belgian Consul had been killed.
Although peace had been signed by the tribes of
the Lebanon several Christian sheiks refused to
give their adherence to the treaty, as they consi-
dered it illusory.
Some wretched and starving Christians had en-
deavoured to return to the mountains.

Letters from Constantinople state that on the
13th of July anarchy still reigned at Damascus.
The massacres had not been stopped.
The semi-official Journal de Constantinople ad-
mits the number of victims at Damascus amounted
to 2,000, and adds that on the 13th of July the
massacres continued. The same journal gives a
denial to the report that the Sultan had requested
the Viceroy of Egypt to send a reinforcement of
10,000 soldiers.
It had been resolved to increase the Turkish
army in Syria to 26,000 men, and to pay all arrears
due to the garrison of Constantinople. Great pre-
cautionary military measures had been taken.
The bridges of Galata. and Pera were raised every
night. The Sisters of Charity had dismissed all
their pupils. Several Christians had been insulted
, and beaten.

The Marquis de Lavalette had had a conference
with the Sultan, which lasted three hours.
Disturbances had taken place among the schis-
matical Armenians. Several thousands of them
had opposed the burial of Protestant Armenians in
their cemetery. At the request of Sir Henry Bul-
wer, the military interfered, and killed or wounded
40 persons.
The Moniteur announces in the following terms
the arrangement of the differences, as already stated,
between France and Peru :

" It is well known that in consequence of inci-
dents which are to be regretted, our Consul-Gene-
ral at Peru was led to break off his relations with
the Cabinet of Lima. M. Edmond de Lesseps, who
was afterwards appointed to fill at that place the
functions of Consul-General and Charge d'Affaires
for France, was charged to enter on negotiations to
obtain the satisfaction due to us, and information
has just been received that the affair has been satis-
factorily terminated. M. de Lesseps, actively
seconded in the accomplishment of bis mission by
Rear-Admiral Larrieu, the Commander of the
French squadron, in the Pacific, has, after explana-
tions entered into with the most
perfect good faith
by the Government of General Castilla, obtained a
full and satisfactory solution of existing difficulties.
The official relations of the Consul-General of
France with the Cabinet of Lima have been thus
renewed, and their re-establishment has been ef-
fected on conditions which allow of a confident
expectation to be entertained in the duration of
the friendly intercourse which the two countries
had always kept up."
The Opinion Nationale publishes the following
strange piece of intelligence :—" An affirmation
from a reliable source deserves to be taken
into serious consideration. The Emperor
Napoleon, with a view to establishing
.du-
rable order in Syria, is said to have contrived
the project of investing Abd-el-Kader with a vice-
royalty analogous to that of Egypt, with its capital
either at Damascus or Jerusalem. Having learned
toleration under French tuition, the Emir would
be the most likely person to hold the balance even
between the Christians and the Mussulmans in
Syria, and also between the Latin and Greek
Catholics who dispute the possession of the Holy
City. This combination would have the double
advantage of neither shocking Mussulman preju-
dices, nor the still subsisting principle of the in-
tegrity of the Ottoman Empire. But Ab-del-
Kader is a French Arab with French notions.
What would Great Britain think and say on the
mutter ? In any case the French Government will
find means to tranquillize the susceptibilities of our
too mistrustful neighbours, for it feels the necessity
of acting in accord with them on the Eastern
question."