Weekly national intelligencer., 1860-08-04

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/ House OF Commons progress in committee was mad
with the Bankruptcy bill as far as the 12Sth clause
Sir RoBERr PEEL made speech respecting th.
probable annexation of Sicily to Piedmont, and th,
demands OF France should such annexation be ac
eomphshed, and inquired whether such an even
would be viewed with Indifference by Great Britain
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was glad of this opportunity o
expressing, in the most unqualified manner, thu
views and intentions of the British Government
His lordship's explanations were satisfactory ant
explicit. He recalled the relations between this
i country and Naples since the peace, showing the
friendly way in which we have uniformly acted to-
/ wards that unhappy Court. This country gave Si
Peiy to the Rourbons forty years ago. and since ther
has done every thing in its power to establish then
on the throne But all efforts to arrest them In thei
suicidal course have proved vain. Friendly advice
has been rejected time after tme and If it IS now
too late, at least not responsible for the re-
suit, nor need we wish to avert it. The infatuated
King must be left to the tender mercies OF his Owl
people, If they trust him, 1t is not for US to I'M
| terfere But, the other hand, there must be no
intervention in favor of the King, pressure from
without against the voluntary action of the peoples
i motion for the House to go into committee fof
supply was agreed to sub slenti0 afterwards Sir J
| TRELAwNEY moved that this House, in conse-
quence of the House of Lords having nterfered with
| the arrangement of supplies for the year recomi
mended by her Majesty's advisers, and by such in
reference assumed responsibility for the conduct OF
finance, postpones the consideration of further pro-
posals by the Ministers of the Crown towards meet
ing public expenses until the period when the autho-
rity of the House of Commons shall have been as
serted and the bill for the repeal of the excise
paper shall have become law" As motion for go
ing into committee of supply had been already put,
this motion could not be put also.
The news from France is unimportant. Prince
Napoleon has succeeded to nearly every honor and
office which his late father, Jerome, held, and has
become active power in the State. All the Pow
tprS Wb or will
in favor of conference upon the question OF Savoy
The conference will be held in Paris; 1t will not
take place until October. Lit is said that sharp
note has been received in Paris from Prince Gorts-
chakoff respecting the French revolutionary agents
| in Hungary, who are charged with having carried
their political enthusiasm the frontier into Rus
sian Poland. The commercial treaty between Eng
land and France proceeding very rapidly to conclu-
slon The French customs duties will range nearer
l0 per cent than the stipulated maximum OF 3O per
| cent The duty upon coal imported into France has
been reduced from 3s. per ton to Is. I'd. France
| has repealed three millions of revenue, convinced
that the increased trade under the new tariff viii
| more than make good that amount.
The Pope is unwilling to go so far as the King OF
Naples in granting liberal institutions to his sub
jects He steadily refuses to have any thing to do
with the King of Sardinia. Neither Rome nor Ma
Piles have any thing to expect from France. The
Commander Chief, however, of the French troops
in Rome has received orders from Paris not to allow
any popular demonstration to take place in Rome.
The effective force of the Papal army, under Gen.
Lamorieere, amounts to 10 900 men, but desertions
are daily taking place rather large scale.
letter from Rome of the Both ultmo, in the Monde,
(ultramontane Journal says
The King of Naples at the moment of ceding to the
menaces of the revolution and to foreign exgences adj
dressed letter to the Pope, declaring that he felt great
agony OF mind and mporing advice but he wrote from
his bed and in which showed that ne had already
eeded almost every thing Plus k in reply made of
many aectonae and paterna expressions but did not fail
to point out the dangers to which concessions would sub
ect his Majesty, those which they would inevitably bring
upon his people, and the inapprecabe injury they would
do to religion to the honor of his house, to Justice to law
and To all the sentiments which soveregns are bound TO
respect"
The Constitution of 1s48 has been proclaimed at
Naples. The Embassy, with the offer of alliance to
Sardinia, had not left Naples for Turin the 4th
instant The laws of 1845 respecting the press have
been re-establshed Parliament has been convoked; !;
one account says the LIST of September, another
on the 10th of that month"; The National Guard has
been Professionally established. Naples is quiet and
the Constitutional party more consolidated. Gen.
Garibaldi is every day accommodating strength in
Sicily. -Four steamers purchased by him in Eng
land, and which will form the nucleus of his fleet,
are daily expected at Genoa from whence they will
transfer troops and munitions of war to Sicily Two
thousand five hundred young men, from all parts OF
Italy, making up the third expedition, bound for
Sicily, under the orders of Cosenz embarked at Ge
noa on the I'd instant An order has been received
in England from great Marsees house for Carl
badi, with cash payments 10000 six-barref revol-
vers, 5000 muskets, 5000 rifles, III 900 bayonets,
and three more steamships. The matter is nego-
tiated quite openly. Garbaldi had lately held re-
view of nine thousand volunteers at Palermo.
The affecting of the terrible massacre of
Christians by the Druses in Syria has been confirm
ed. The large town of Zahlah and one hundred and
sixty villages have been completely destroyed and
the Christian inhabitants cruelty put to death. A
letter from Marseilles, dated the 7th says that Da
mascus was surrounded by the Druses, and that a
massacre apprehended. 1t was hoped, however,
that the French and English men-of-war would ar
| rive soon enough to prevent such calamity. The
Patrie predicts that French bayonets will shortly
make their appearance in Syria and that only such
an Intervention the Christian population
from destruction and the Turkish Empire from dis
honor.
From China the news is that the progress of the
Rebels is creating great excitement throughout the
Empire. AT Marking the Imperialists have been
forced to raise the siege, with the loss of their guns.
News of further defeat had reached Canton ON the
I'D May. Trade was almost at stand still. The
first demand for money on account of the Chinese
war is about to be made. The amount will be, in
| round numbers, about f4,0G0,OOO, or about one
seventh of the late annual expenditure for the army
and navy. This is what Mr.. d'IsRAEII (if the war
was his) would call hea-bte; and to be sure it is,
compared with the amount of last years taxes
Ell ,4l6587l
The news from Australia is that the commercial
crisis is We fear that the native insurrection
in New Zealand is extending.
We have no new announcements in the theatrical
| world but full proportion of new books; among
others, :" Life and Correspondence of William Lord
Auckland" vols; The Corsair and his Con-
queror," by Henry Post; g The Oldest of the Old
World" by Sophia Nj. Eckey; second series of the
Curiosties of Natural History" by Francis Buck.
land the second and concluding volume of Lord
Dundonald's Autobiography of Seaman - g Six
Months in reunion, Clergyman's Holiday" by
the Rev. p. Beaton; 'Vicissitudes of Families, ;,
second series, by Sir Bernard Burke; " Mainstones S
Housekeeper," by Miss Meteyard, Sd VOL; Ira
vels not far from Home," by A. st. Heller .sScars-
dale, or Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bor-
der thirty years ago." 3 vols; High Church,"
2 vols.
The funds have fallen in price, and so has wheat,
but the difference the aYerare of the 1Uael is