Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-08-09

( EUROPEAN INTERVENTION IN SYR1A.-Tho
/ Paris Moniteur publishes the following IN tho
presence of the deplorable events of which Syria
S is the theatre, and which have caused deer
} emotion throughout Europe, the government q
the Emperor has deemed it its duty to conmu.
; nicate its views without delay to the Cabinets
of the Five Great Powers, and to the PoIte, in
, order to concert the measures which ccum-
/, stances demand ,... T.
; The Paris correspondent of the Herald says
, that England will send regiment or two tc
Syria but that France intends to despatch 49,
, 900 men under Marshal Mcmahon One of the
: Paris journals says that this number Of me1
seem greatly exaggerated.
PARIS, July 2O.-The Pat,ie contains the fol.
lowing 1t is asserted that the most energetic
measures are about to be taken, in concert with
the Porte, for proceeding to the relief of Chris
tans in Syria.
The Patrie also says advices received from
Syria are OF grave nature. Great anxiety was
felt at Beyrout respecting the fate of the Chris
sians who had taken refuge in the south of Ker-
rouan, to the number of $4,000 and who were
greater numbers.
The Constitutional publishes an article signed
by NJ. Grandgullot, in reference to the massa-
ores which have taken place in Syria. M
Grandguillot says:
turkey is either powerless or has no fore
sight. The evil which has been committed is
great, but Europe, kaving Knowledge of it, will
neither permit its continuance nor its recurrence
and will remember her duties towards popula-
tons who have been too long oppressed, and
for three centuries have endured servitude to
Turkey"
Bsg The steamer Australian, arrived at
New York, brings two days later foreign intel
:. ligence. France had despatched eleven thousand
troops to Syria, and England was about sending
a fleet of ships and several thousand troops, In
the face of these determined demonstrations we
may hope to find the massacre Of Christians
brought to an end. The King of Sardinia it
was reported would request Garibaldi not to
extend his revolutionary operations to the main
land.
By the kangaroo, arrived at St. Johns, we
have foreign advices to goth ult. The Porte had
notified the Western powers of the conclusion
of a treaty of peace between the Druses and the
Maronite Christians but promises, nevertheless,
to act with the utmost rigor against the authors
of the massacres The Porte had protested
against French Intervention and the expedition
had been suspended. Conflicting reports are
given asregards Garbaldi's intentions. Messina
and Syracuse had been evacuated by the Nea-
politon troops leaving Garibaldi master ofSicily.
The DEFENCEs OF GREAT BRITAIN, ETC.
In the House of Commons on the 23d ult, Lord
Palmerston stated the intentions of the govern
ment relative to the defences of the country
He proposed that the recommendations of the
recent Commissioners-whoser report has been
publshed-should be substantially carried out
The defence of the various dock yards is the
principal proposition, and the estimated, outlay
is go 100000 sterling, which is intended to be
raised by means of terminable annuities, expir-
ing in thirty years. The requirement for the
present year is e2,OOO,OOO, which it is proposed
to raise at once with view to the immediate
prosecution of the works, and to raise from year
| to year such additional sums as may be required.
Lord Palnlerston expatated on the danger to
which the country was exposed from invasion,
and after pointing to the large army maintained
in France, which is always ready for aggressive
purposes, he declared that England ought not to
be dependant upon the forbearance Of another
Power for it's freedom from attack.
The consideration of the subject was postponed
till the Goth of July.
The proposition was generally received with
favor, particularly by the tory party. The
peace party regard Palmerston's speech as
manifesto of distrust towards France. go
The London Daily Nercs says no one could
take exception to Lord Pamerston's tone when
he touched upon the critical foreign relations of
constitutional government with despotic
neighbor. -
The London Herald remarks that the earnest
ness of Lord Palmerston's tone is pretty good
guarantee that the work to be taken i'm hand
will be well done, and that the government had
at last been reused into something like vigilance
and s,licitude respecting the national defences.
The London Times says Lord Palmerston
means nothing more than that with 100000
men under arms or on furlough, within sight of
our shores, aided by fleet almost equal to our
own, both wholly unnecessary for defence,
welded by the changable government OF an
excitabe people, we have to look to ourselves.
The London Daily Neus describes the recep-
ton given to the measure. It was greatly
cheered on the tory side, and this fact is noted
by the Daily Ne,cs as the indication of a delibe-
rate purpose amongst that party to foment dis
cord between France and England.
A minute from the Horse Guards in appro-
baton of the National Defence Commission, de-
clares that an increase in the army ought also
to take place.
nT According to the returns already received
at the Census Bureau at Washington, the crops
in all the Northern and Northwestern States are
immensely heavy this year. In Pennsylvania
they are represented to be nearly if not quite
double those of last year, and in other States
they will probably be correspondngly heavy.
This fully comedies with what we have been
led to expect from the accounts which have
reached us from other sources. The census re-
turns, however, come in very slowly, and it will
probably be sometime before we shall be able