New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-27
European INTELLIGENCE.


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va Alexandria, on the l6th instant | mentioned
that two vessels, having on board portion Of fhe
french +, pediton, had that morning anchored in
the roadstead. But as the men were nj diaa1,. Il,
barked until after post hour was unaI1Ie 10 fnr
nlsh any account of their landing, This com
menced about two hours after sunset the Enaifsh
DaEcn, n austrian Sandman, Greek and Russian as
wen as French men-ofwar lending their Iyoats for
the occasion. The number Of men that had arrived
adaouheeo M to rather more than ITg8 of which about
pes. pog f Gang n the Messagefie mai boat and the
fessih large steam transport. ri, tfs latter Vaa
General Beaufort d'Hautuoq1j who commands tbe
expedtion, and who, from the fact of fis having
served all through the Syrian campaign of Is4J as
@ EiaP 70 suliman Paeha, Colonel Sevres)
rnanding the troops Of Ibrahim Pachs, seems 10 he
the right man in the right place The diseTabarta.
ton was By no means well managed The men
were landed at Ras Beyroat, to the sogth If the
town. the very furthest possible point from yybers
their camp was to be.
Instead of being brought ashore in large bodies
ahd directly marched off at an easy pace to their
camp, they came ashore in driblets were kept for
hours in the fearfully hot Syrian sun and then
iharesed on at the rate Of six miles an hour along
sntIs'yS alsy road over very steep hill through
@t sdhd and to second road more dusty
sadn uls hrst, and 80 some three miles to their
camp, reeklng with perspiration c6vered with
dnst, oyerladen with baggage iinrling with Tness
ttits alld means Sung about them, and having
The most unrnposing appearance it il nossible II,
conceive was really almost as if an er,erau had
| done It, and panied one to see such realIy fne
troops made to look so little in the eyes Ii tie
natives. But French troops do not embark or iiis.
| embark well; all connected with the sea ia their
weak point. Any English colonel Of regiment
or staff officer who had disembarked his BRIGADE
| Or regiment as these men were landed the other
day would have received such a wigging as he
| would not have forgotten in hurry. Even the
4 lfsf detachment that marched off did not reach
their camping ground until long after sunset, and
lhe iattef could not have arrived until an hour or
more after it was quite dark. This too in 4 reyg
| country, where every arrangement had 70 be
made, and where the men had to pitch their eayon
4 before they slept. 4
But here all fault finding must end The soldiers
had no sooner got to their ground than they com
Inenced pitching their small entes d'd54is {each of
which is divided into three parts and carried by as
many men) preparing their soup kettles and other
| wise making themselves comfortable. visited the
camp the following day aud went all over it the
men looked as comfortable and as perfectly settled
! down as if they had been year in the place
| GREAT CONFEDERATION N SMYRvA.--A s,1pple-
ment to the Impartial, Of Smyrna, Of the 29th Of
4 August, gives the following account Of terrible
| confagration which has taken place at that CITY:
| terrible disaster has befalen the city Of
| Smyrna confagraton has DESTROYED that mart
| which had remained intact after The cafastrobhes
of the years l84l and 1s45. According to the esti-
nation made seven hundred houses have fallen
| prey to the flames.
{ For more than month the heat here has been
sutfoeatlng varying from ninety to one hundred de-
grees Fahrenheit. This Senegalian atmosphere
has dried the wood beyond measure, and rendered
4
north wind of extraordinary violence never ceased
| to blow except at rare intervals
| About half-past O'Clock on the morning of the
2sth, pistol shots announced that fire had broken
| out somewhere. It was at st. Dimitri. People
rushed to the spot, but before the first assistance
could be given the confagration had made rapid
progress.
ST. Dimitri is a sort Of fauboarg Of the Town.
commencing at the extremity of the Rue ies Roses,
bordered on the right by the Armenian quarter on
the left by that of st. Catharine and extends east
ward to the new hospital of st. Roche, where the
| gardens commence. All this space is filed with
| very old houses, built exclusively of wood. Most
| Of the streets are eXceedinly narrow some of the
projecting roofs almost touch across. The inhabit
| ants are nearly all Greeks, and are chiefly day
workmen at various trades.
1 Owing to the strength of the wind the greatest
anxiety was felt Strong gusts sent the flames in
every direction, and the conaagration assumed ter
rible proportions. All hopes of stopping the
flames had to be abandoned, and for seven hours
they did their work of destruction. At2P. NJ it
reached the extreme end OF the Rue des Roses. In
this street the fifth house on each side is of stone
on the right side the great establishment Of the
Deaconesses, recently increased by the adunetion
of the ancient Papasion house on the left the
house Of Roboly Every effort was made here to
arrest the progress of the flames. The house Of
Papasion, nevertheless, caught fire, and had il not
been through the mercy of Providence that the
wind lulled, the destruction of the whole of this
quarter of the town would have been inevitable.
The flames were got under on this side In the
street to the left, leading to st. Catherine, one
single building was left standing, that Of Dr. j.
Edwards.
All the public establishments have been thrown
open to receive the sufferers. from this disaster,
and committee was at once formed to collect
subscriptions to provide for their immediate wants.
To-day, at noon, 10000 piasters had already been
subscribed.
The cause of the disaster was purely accidental
It is said that woman had lit candle in honor of
the Virgin, and having left it burning it caused the
fire.
The official report gives the number of houses
burnt at 700 at first it supposed that 20O0 had
been destroyed.
From the London News Correspondence
MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN NSAPLEs.-Ndpes. Sept /.
We have passed through little ministerial crisis
which even now is not quite over. The King had
appointed getddfnle of the name Of Cutfofano,
commander OF the place, who meditated q restera.
ton. He had issued rather rnde proclamation,
announcing that the state of siege should be en-
forced in all its severity. he had requested the
President of the police to furnish him with the
names OF the most courageous patriots, members
of the committees of the Sardinians being natur-
allied subjects of Naples and thereatened the
Prefeet himself that he would arrest him if the in-
, formation was not forthcoming in few hours.
4 This made the Ministers reflect.
During the night the Minister of the Interior pro-
cured the arrest Of a French legitimist one Sou.
lier, on whom some papers were found of com
promising nature, quantity of arms, a little
money and 10000 copies of an address of the Nea
! politan people to the King, in which the people
! were made to implore the King to dissolve the
present cabinet which betrayed him, and to have
certain foreigners expelled from the kingdom who
were conspiring against the throne and the naton
further, that general disarmament should take
place, and the police dismissed. Strengthened by
this lucky discovery, which included even some
vague indications OF completely of the command
er of the place himself, the Minister went to the
King and told him that he had to make his choice
between Cutrofano and the Cabinet. The King
asked for time to reflect He then had Councillor
!. Pietro Ulloa summoned to his presence, and or
! dered him to compose a new Cabinet. ulloa was
all night trying to get together cabinet, but found
nobody inclined to accept office from sovereign
4 in eGtfeDis.
$ Yesterday morning the Ministers resumed the
) attack. The King yielded and offered the COM
membership of the place to Viglia, and the COM
mland of the National Gaard to Desouget. Viglia
and Desouget refused. The Ministers had also in
sisted upon the dismissal Of Prince dlischtea. In
the meantime Cutrofano presented himself to the
President Of the Council, at whose house the Cabi.
net were sitting ia permanence and is said to have
used very insolent language there concerning the
) National Guard and the people. The Ministers
made. use Of very iorbearing language, and told
him simply that they must insist upon his dismissal,
because the DeOBle had no confidence in him Thew