The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-16

upon between the parties, 5000 horses of the
gendarmerie. For the light calvary, we must
have other means, and to these the attention OF
the Minister of War has already been turned.
The French naval force now ahoat i'll the Me
diterranean comprises thirteen sail Of the line,
from eighty guns upwards Eight of them are
! in the Levant, four off Tunis, one at Ioulon. |
| Government will, no doubt, reunite the two
squadrons to avoid either of them being exposed
to contest with unequal forces. At Toulon,
there are three eighty gun ships, and one hun
dred and twenty, which could put to sea IN SIX
weeks; and the marine department could finish
and fit out, within three months, eight other sail
of the line, with ten or twelve large frlgates.
H1hey talk" says the National, ''of casting
cannon, Of calling cut 100000 men, and of con-
hding the defence Of towns and OF the frontiers
| to the reserve of the National Guard"
FRENCH NAVAL FoRcES.-Fl'he five ships of
the line now aloat," says the 'Constitutlonnel,'
Sand ready to be fitted for sea, in execution of
the ordinance of the 10Th ult, are the Fr1edland
OF l2O guns, Jemappes of 100, Infexible OF so,
Nestor of 81, and La Couronne of 81 guns
| There are also in the same state Is frigates OF
from 60 to 90 guns; 8 steam ships, two of them
OF $50 horse power, one of 800, two of 220, and
! four Of less force, ready to be launched"
The F'National" estimates the total naval
force of France at % sail of the line in service,
or ready for within month, % others in an
advanced stage of construction, all being of So
/
in commission; 81 briggs, OF which 80 are in.com-
mission; 1874 smaller vessels, of which 100 are
in commission; 20 government steamers, now at
| sea, carrying each guns, building, and 10
post office steamers, capable of serving as war
| steamers"
The Minister of the Marine has directed an
| alteration in the works going ON at the harbor
of DiePpe, so far as to make the basin in its en-
try and interior capacity of sufficient depth to
receive the8arge steamers to be employed in
| transatlantic navigation, in case of their being
driven in by stress of weather other accidents.
The "Univers" states that the Minister of
\ Marine has sent orders to the Maritime Project
Fol Brest, to reinforce the French naval station
OF Newfoundland with frigate and two large
corvettes. 'These vessels, )" adds the EUnivers,
"wlll, In case OF need, make our fishing vessels
sail homewards, and will convoy them"
The ordinance for raising 100000 seamen is
nullity. The thing is impossible, either in
France or in England, in less than six or twelve
months In France, the entire amount of sea-
men, men and boys, does not exceed 10000. OF
these, l2,OOO are atoat in Kings ships, the rest
are employed in the commercial navy They
may draft land conscripts into their ships-but
of what use are they likely to be? There will,
| however, be no war-of this we feel confident
ONE CHARACTER OF M. THIERs.-The France
has the following very severe observations upon
/ M. Theirs: "Never were the destinies of France
i'll the hands of such blunderer as NJ Theirs
1t seems if he had been born, like the Giles
oil Columblne Mannequin, to set other people by
the ears. In 1880, he founded the National,
inflamed peoples minds, illuminated the king
prepared the revolution of July, made and signed
the protest of the journalists and then fled shame
fully to Montmorency, leaving the msled work.
men to contend against the balls of the brave
and heroic soldiers of the Royal Guard As a
minister, he fell, because he wished for interview
ton in Spain, which intervention would have
/ hootn He lied he och c,,fR
parte, without giving himself the trouble of re-
fecting whether this might not be another source
| ofdisturbance; andthen, after having long known
the projects of the new Quadruple Alliance, he
| becomes angry, and talks of nothing less than
hosting the ricolor flag on the otb er side of the
Rhine. As M. Theirs has, after all, nothing to
lose but his head, he stakes all for all. But does
| he know that revolutionary war, undertaken
with king, even though placed upon the throne
| by the principle of the sovereignty of the peo-
| pie, is contradiction, and that, if the tempest
| Were to burst and to overthrow thrones, he might
not be strong enough to sustain that which he
| has sworn to detend' If he does not reflect on
this others do for him. We see in the menaces
! Of a general war only the means of spending
money, and we know, alas! from ten years ex-
perience, how money is spent. He thinks to
| brighten Europe, but he will not have even this
pleasure, for Europe has long since taken the
/ measure of M. Thiers"
PORTUGAL.
LISBON, Aug. Ain the Chamber of Depu-
ties no event OF greater Importance had taken
place than the rejection of the motion for the
impeachment of Senhor Costa Cabral, the Min
lister of Justice, by majority of 81 to %.
The Minister of Finance had contracted for a
loan of 400 contos Of reals, by means of mixed
operation.
Our correspondent states that the affairs of
| the Treasury were greatly embarrassed, owing
| to fha GREAT fallinr off in tha Custo,nc, ra
ceipts
RUSSIA.
The Presburg Gazette states that letters from
Guizzewo, dated June 20, announce that $780,,
900 Russian troops had marched for Syria.
This statement is in all probability exaggerated,
but the troops assembled by Russia on the
| borders of the black Sea have been much more
numerous than the object they protested to ac
! conplsh has demanded
TURKEY.
All is quiet in Constantinople. Old Kore-
shew Pacha has been sent into exile.
SYRIA.
! BEIRoUr, July 26.-Of course, you have all
heard of the close of the Instruction, but you
have not heard of the horrible desolation and
massacres that have been perpetrated in the
mountains, particularly in Lebanon and the
neighborhood. The soldiers marched 10 the
mountains without any resistance, and have
been plundering and burning every village they
came near, and committing the most barbarous
and vile excuses. Several converts have
| likewise been burnt by the soldery. Beirout
| market is crowded to excess with those wicked
wretches the Albanians, who dispose of their ILL
gotten wealth for a quarter ofits value. From
our house we could see them coming into
the city, bringing with them cows, goats, sheep
donkeys, cames, mules, copper vessels of all
sizes, clothes, silk, the womens' tantooras,
and immense quantities of jewery, Most of
the itch families had sent their most valuable
things to the convent ofBeit Mir, but this has
been plundered and burned, so that many of the
people will suffer here as well as in the noun
tains. Finally, you will be surprised to hear
| that the Fellaheen have partly surrendered; the
soldiers are collecting the arms from the emirs,
shei5hs and people, and many of the principal