The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-25
SYRIA.

THE POSITION OF THE FRENCH.
The Beirut correspondent of the Boston Trap-
elter, writing under date of Sept. 22d, says:
The Druses are now completely environed. The
cunning of the Turkish policy may be seen in the
proceedings of Fuad Pasha. Mohammed Dubuy
the Bedouin Chief, who rallies fourteen thousand
horsemen in battle, was won over by the presents
and cajolery of the Foreign Minister during his
stay in Damascus, and now these Bedouns are
marshalled against the refractory Druses. Alrea-
dy Megdel Shams, the great stronghold aRd famous
retreat of the Druses, has been reduced by this
tribe; and while Isnai Pasha proceeds with the
Turkish force from Beirut, twenty-five thousand
soldiers under Hahn Pasha will advance from Da-
mascus and the Bedouns will cut off the Druses'
retreat to the desert and greatly harass them on all
sides. The famous Akiel Agha, of Capt Lynch's
expedition to the Dead Sea, will also, doubt, be
enlisted in the service of the Turks, who, with his
Arabs, will approach from Tiberias along the base
OF Mt Hermon in the Bekau. We may soon ex-
pect, therefore, to learn of the settlement of the
Druse question, unless, as have ever feared, the
British Commission will interfere to stop the pro-
ceedings against them. The Prussian Commission
er has been changed Instead of Baron de Verified,
who was first designated, an attache of the Prus
sian Embassy has been named.
1t Is no doubt an drriere pensee on the part of
Prussia and England to much delay as DOS
sible, in order to give Fuad Pasha time enough to
apply the necessary remedies himself, that he may
sustain the independence of Turkey, and prove the
French expedition to have been unnecessary and
fruitless. Until the arrival of the Prussian Com
missioner, the Syrian Commission of the five Euro
pean powers cannot act, and meanwhile Fuad Pasha
will restore order punish the guilty, and re-estab-
lish the Turkish government in this province, thus
enabling him to preserve the honor of his Govern
ment and say to the Commissioners gentlemen
you can report to your Governments that order has
been restored, the guilty have been punished, and
tranquility everywhere prevails which renders the
partition of Turkey unnecessary, and any change
in the Government of Syria out or the question
The rules assigned to the French troops is decid
edly humiliating to any army in pursuit of glory.
They have been constituted corps de reserre with
nothing to do, while the Turkish troops go forward
and take possession of the strongholds of the Leba
non. The French General is indignant, but Faud
Pasha is firm, and determined that his master the
Sultan shall have the entire credit OF the Syrian
campaign.
| am glad to announce the arrival of our newly
appointed Consul for Jerusalem, Mr.. VIM. K. Page,
formerly of Boston. His family still remains in Con-
stantinople owing to the disturbed state of the
country.
The Anglo-American Relief Committee have re-
quested Mr.. johnson of the United States Consulate
and Mr.. Moor of the British Consulate to prepare.
weekly report of its proceedings for transmission
to all European and American auxiliary societies.
GEN. LAMoRIcIERE AND THE SABBArH.-General
Lamoriciere appears to have had more reverence
despatch was found by the Piedmontese in the
telegraph office at Spoleto
To his Excellency the Minister of War at Rome
When the telegraph wires are cut every night
sometimes on one line and sometimes on another
the lack OF a Sunday mail is really military
calamity. There are times in which labor is autho
rlZed IN the fields on Sundays and on holidays and
believe that the time has come when Rome must
become accustomed to send and receive couriers on
Sundays as we'll as other days. l make formal
demand for the suppression of this piece of bigotry
which is quite worthy of English Professionalism,
and which only induces idleness among the en-
ployees.
The Ge neral in Chief DE LAMoRIcIRRR.
From Spoleto to Rome, Sept, 10, 1860.