The Express. — 1860-08-06 (London, England)

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.  (now ovi OWN  r.)  PARIS, SUNDAY EVEIf/NO.  I believe it to be certain that the convention on the Syrian intervention is not yet signed. The evasive language of the Moniker of yesterday will have prepared you for this news. As to the departure of the French expedition, it is impossible to get at the truth. The Patric says that General de Beaufort d'Hautpoul is going to Toulon tomorrow, but he has been going to-morrow for several days past. The Patric, in its " latest news," mentions that the sth and 13th Regiments are to go, but theee troops have already been paraded before the public as often as the supernumeraries who represent a conquering army in a successful piece at the Porte St. Martin. The Rmperor is really going to the Chalons camp tomorrow, and I believe not a man will have left for Syria before his arrival. It may not be uninteresting to call to mind that the Commander-General Beaufort Hantponl was the intimate friend of Captain Doineau, of Algerian notoriety, and that Ibe gallantly avowed his responsibility before •  - . sourt-martial for all the acta for which Doineau was sentenced to death. He is selected as a man eminently calculated to inflict vengeance on barbarians without being restrained by scruples about the exact measure of punishment or the actual guilt of particular victims, which might stay the hand of other officers.  It is rumoured that a fourth regiment of Zottaves is about to be created, and that the regiments of the line, now 102 in number, will be augmented to 110.  Among the fantastic rumours of the day touching and concerning a "new map of Europe," is one to the effect that in the event of the partition of Turkey the Emperor would endeavour to propitiate England by proposing King Leopold for the throne of Constantinople ! This prince, it would be said, from his English connexions and sympathies, would be a sufficient guarantee that France entertained no thought of self-aggrandisement in the Bosphorus or Adriatic. Of course the annexation of Belgium to France would be a part of the arrangement. I noticed en passant, some days since, the extreme improbability of a statement prominently circulated that the Regent of Prussia bas promised the Emperor of Austria at Toeplita to guarantee the possession of Venice. I have now seen a Turin letter of August 3, from which it appears that the Prussian ambassador at the Sardinian Court has assured Count Cavour that the cabinet of Berlin would observe the strictest neutrality with regard to Italy. This is as it should be. The telegrams announce the imminence of Garibaldi's descent upon Neapolitan terra firma. General Turr, on leaving Paris on Friday evening, said to his friends who accompanied him to the railway station—" If you have occasion to write to me, address your letters to Naples, where I expect to be about August 17." It has been already mentioned that General Bosco, when forced to give up his chargers to Garibaldi, was mean enough to poison them. For the honour of a soldier it has been hoped that the story was not true, and it yet wants confirmation. There is, however, in Bullier's Correspondence, another anecdote equally discreditable, if true, to the Neapolitan commander. It is said that after he had agreed with Garibaldi to surrender his guns, he had them all spiked, and that Garibaldi was so angry at the breach of faith, that lie made Bosco get off his horse and go on foot on board the vessel that was to take him away. Father P. Esthve, the superior of the French missionaries in Syria, has oome to Paris to give an account to government of the recent bloody events in the Lebanon. He reports that five of his clergy were murdered, and he estimates the total number of victims at 15,000 or 18,000, of whom 8,000 were slaughtered at Damascus. The Courrier de Lyon announces the departure for Syria of several religious sisters of various orders.  The Prince de Boatman, while superintending the restoration of his chateau at Haroud, in Lorraine, fell from a scaffolding of considerable height, and was very seriously injured. It is hoped, however, that the consequences will not be fatal.