Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-24
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.


CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA-On Sunday, Aug.
IA, the discord between the Druses and the
Maronites broke out into open violence at the
village OF Beytiemeri, a few leagues from Bey-
rout. The combatants were fighting the
whole day, and about hundred persons were
left dead or wounded on the field of battle.
The Druses then spread themselves over the
country, to plumber and burn the villages and
monasieries of the Christians. 1t is affirmed
that the Turks have prompted the Druses to
these acts, and have supplied them with war
like munitions. There is every appearance
that the civil war which has broken out will
extend, and that the excuses of 1941 will be
renewed
The PAPAL TRooPs AND GARIBALD1.-A
Paris letter in the London News says Tt
appears by no means improbable that we sl.r4kf33
ere long hear Of open hostilites betv 90, Kai
bermatten and Garibad The .s,,t e 10 H.
arrival of Austrian sol9Sg,grgs in IiVeries not
ranlls III = swell the papal and ex-ducal
IssrssssS, 70 obtains general belief. Perhaps the
Ssttrrench Emperor will not be sorry to learn
that it is so as, although these fellows are os-
tensibly deserters, it will not be very difficult
to prove connivance on the part OF Francis Jo-
seph, should the altered policy of the Tuer-
les render such course desirable for that the
policy of the Tuileries has undergone a very
sensible modification on this question admits,
| believe, of no doubt"
CONVENT INTRIGUEs.-The Archbishop of
Paris is said to be SO highly incensed at the
publicity given to the proceedings going for
ward i'll a certain convent by the revelations
made on the late trial of NJ. de Sebille, wherein
the Countess de Rouge played so conspicuous
a part, that his Grace has declared his inten
ton of laying the convent under Introduction
until measures be taken for the better observ-
ance of the rules of the Order of st. Angus
tine to which the ladies belong. The greater
part of the marriages which take place in the
world are arranged by these ladies-the lega-
cies, the adoptions the disposal of fortunes,
all take place under their sanction, and his
Grace completely disapproves of this worldly
traffic on the part of the holy sisterhood.
THE ARMSTRONG GUN.-There is no longer
any doubt that the Armstrong gun has a range
of five miles, and that it can be aimed with so
much precision as to hit the mark almost
every time at that extraordinary distance.
The Armstrong guns now i'll use at the artil-
lery practicing ground at Shoeburyness, on
the north bank of the Thames, are found to
carry that distance, and to have that accuracy
in carrying balls to their mark. AT the pre-
sent time the royal artillery are being trained
in firing with these wonderful instruments of
war, and henceforth we may count them
amongst Une lnOSu powerful ueIellccS Vi tne
kingdom.
SARDINIA AND AUSTRALIA Vienna cor
respondent of a Hamburg paper says 3" 1t is
/, quite certain that Sardinia offered a large sum
to our government for the cession of Venetia,
which offer, though backed by England, was
simply declined. Sardinia then proposed that
, Mantua and Peschiera should be coded, for
which considerable indemnity was also offer
ed; but this met with as little favor as the
previous proposal. Sardinia lastly demanded
that they should be made federal fortresses +;
and up to the present time she insists on this
requirement"
SOMEBODY WANTS PLoN-PLoN.-A letter
from Agers, of the 30th ult., informs us that
the principal proprietors in that colony have
signed petition to the Emperor, praying that
E Prince Napoleon may be replaced at the head
of the government The petitioners remark
that during the eight months that Prince Ma
poleon presided over their destinies he accom-.
plished various reforms, removed numerous
abuses and realized many improvements.
COOP THE notorious Mazza, the former
minister of police and the originator of the
, bastnado system in Naples, has received a
right good thrashing from General Nunzante.
The cause of the dispute, as in the recent in
stance of M. Niutta, the judge, was a lawsuit
in which he had failed, but in the present case
public opinion has pronounced in favor of the
General