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ST RUM—The evening Government organ La Pa/sic prints a signi- ficant paragraph. "The Emperor has taken the initiative among the great Powers for the introduction into the Council Board of Europe of a sixth great Power—Spain. The proposal has been favourably received by those Cabinets." _Le Nord, on behalf of Russia, derides the proposal. The Pa Ole of the 14th says :— "There is no foundation in the rumours that the French army of occu- pation in Rome will be reduced by a brigade, or that General Goyon has been recalled. Should the_General return to France, it will only be in virtue of temporary leave of absence." M. de Thouvenel has addressed the following circular to the repre- sentatives of France at foreign Courts :— " Paris, June 20.

"Sir,—The Treaty of Turin having received its final sanction, and the cession of the territories ceded by the King of Sardinia having been accom- plished, the moment has arrived for the Government of the Emperor to conform to the obligation he undertook to come to an understanding as well with the Powers that signed the general act of Vienna as with the Helvetic Confederation, on the subject of the eventual neutralization of a portion of the territory of Savoy. The object of such understanding, as I informed you in my communication of the 7th of April last, ought, in our opinion, to consist in putting the fdd Article of the Treaty of Vienna in accordance with the 1.1 Article of the Treaty of Turin. It is this accord- ance which it is sought to effect by a diplomatic stipulation destined to be inserted in the public law of Europe. "To attain this end various paths offer themselves to the Powers. The question may be brought before a Conference. One might also, if thought preferable, agree upon an exchange of identical notes, by which the Govern- ment of the Emperor -would assume upon itself and towards the Courts guarantees of the Helvetic neutrality, and towards Switzerland itself the obligations consented to by Sardinia. Finally, one might also decide upon preliminary negociation between France and Switzerland, the result of which should be to determine the rights and duties resulting from the neu- tralization which would take place by remodelling and completing the treaty Signed in 1816 at Turin, between Sardinia and the Helvetic Confederation. The Government of the Emperor is ready, for its part, to take the path which the other Cabinets may prefer, and which may appear to them most suitable to the circumstances. I confine myself, in case they should decide upon a Conference, to call to mind that the majority of them have recog- nized the propriety of holding it at Paris, and that Sardinia and Switzer- land have, with a view to participate in its labours, advanced claims the justice of which is admitted by the government of the Emperor.

"You will please read this despatch to —, and leave him a copy.

" THOUVENEL."

fflhlj.—A telegram from Naples to Paris, dated the 16th instant, an- nounced the fall of the Ministry, Di Martino alone remaining in office, and disturbances on the 15th, in which the Royal Guard fired on the people, killing one or two persons and wounding many. Despatches of the 17th, received in Paris, stated that the collision was provoked by the

soldiery, who shouted "The king for ever ! " "Down with the Constitution!" that notwithstanding this demonstration the King adhered to constitutional principles ; and that Ministers, therefore, consented to re- main in office.

The officers of four frigates, the ]?ulminante, Stromboli, Ettore Fieramosco, and Guiscardo, have refused to act against Sicily.

Of the old police of Naples nothing remains, not even the name. The new police will be called The Direction of Public Safety." The magis- y, the bench, the functionaries in every department, have been changed, iteration being sure to be a boon. The men of 1848 are now sought out ee not for torture and imprisonment. The dungeons have given up -,ylight captives who have lingered there ever since Mr. Gladstone's t, a dozen years ago. Fourteen young men (now grown grey) have ciserged from sepulchral durance, to which the mere fact of having been *college with Agesilao Milano had consigned them. Athanasio Drammis,

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,soldier who had an insignificant note found on his person in Milano's vtriting,had not heard a human voice or seen the light of the sun the last six years in the vaults of Maria Apparent°. No sooner had he realized the ilea of his freedom than his first impulse was to start for Garibaldi, wearing he shaggy beard and the indelible traces of the "iron that had entered his soul." One sufferer was found insane and none could tell his history, save that he had been seven years entombed in the Vicaria, and the register in- dicated his having been sent hither by Antonelli after three years previous incarceration at Rome.

A telegram dated Palermo, July 13, announces the formation of the new Ministry, including Signori Interdonato, Amen i the historian,—who has arrived at Turin, and has been receivedby Count Cavour ; and Signor Erranti.

The Neapolitan corvette Velem, the desertion of which to Garibaldi had been denied, is in dock at Palermo. Besides the eight guns on deck, there is a land battery on board and a crew of 250 men. One of the two steamers gone over had a cargo of dollars belonging to M. Rothschild of Naples. Signori La Farina, Griselli, and Totti have been removed from Palermb by order of the Dictator. Griselli and !Potti are said to be Corsicans, affiliated to the police of the continent. La Farina went straightway to Turin and published a hitter denouncing Garibaldi's The Opinion Nationale publishes a message, dated Messina 15th instant, stating that Garibaldi had joined Colonel Medici, at the village of Bar- celona, with 3000 volunteers. Colonel Bosco had made a sortie from Messina with 4000 men and three guns. An engagement between the two armies was imminent.

In a•Consistory held on the 13th instant, the Pope pronounced an allocution energetically protesting against the Piedmontese Government, on account of the arrest and condemnation of the Bishops of Pisa, Imola, Faenza, and Piacenza, approving the conduct of those Bishops, and designating the annexation of the Duchies and the Legations to Pied- mont as a usurpation.

The last accounts from Lamoriciere's head-quarters represent him at Spoletto as employing his troops in making military roads, diverging from and converging on that town, so as to facilitate the transport of artillery wherever it is called for.

The Royal Guard has been removed from Naples, and the posts have been entrusted to the National Guard.

Sark r —Massacre runs its course almost without a cheek in Syria, the Turkish soldiery cotperating passively, if not actively, with the Druses. The latter attacked the Christians at Damascus on the llth instant, when many men were killed and women carried off for the 1 harems. The details are still imperfectly known. One account states that five hundred Christians were murdered, among whom was the Dutch consul. It is said that the American consul was wounded, and that all the consulates except the English were burned. The French, Russian, and Greek consuls took refuge in the house of Abd-el-Kader. The following letter from the Sultan to the Emperor of the French, dated July 16, has appeared in the Honiteur :— "I have at heart that your Majesty should know with what grief I have learnt of the events in Syria. Let your Majesty be convinced that I shall employ all my powers for establishing security and order in Syria, and that I shall severely punish the guilty parties, whoever they may be, and render justice to all. ln order to leave no doubt whatever of the intentions of my Government, I have entrusted that important mission to my Minister for Foreign Affairs, with whose principles your Majesty is acquainted." It is stated that the Sultan has despatched a similar letter to her Ma- jesty Queen Victoria.

The Christians of Tyre owe their lives to the energetic conduct of an Englishman. A letter from Beyrout says :—

A band of Druses and Mutualis were marching on the place, to the great terror of the people, when a small light vessel was seen to enter the port. The Governor of the town, the English consular agent, and the chiefs of the Christian communities imagined that the vessel was one of war, and they prayed the commander to take measures for saving the town ; but she turned out to be only a pleasure yacht, the Claymore, having on board her owner, a wealthy Englishman Mr. Harvey. That gentleman, however, without hesitation, promised Is coOperation ; and immediately placed his yacht in such a position as to enable her four small pieces of cannon to bear en the street, and he armed his crew with muskets, swords, and pistols. He after- wards landed, examined the town in order to see the points by which the Druses could enter ; he then caused the women, children, and the more valuable portion of the property to be placed in safety, and had certain points occupied by his men, taking other measures of defence. All this gave confidence to the peaceable part of the population, and overawed that which was suspected of connivance with the Druses. Tke latter were told by their spies that an English vessel of war was in the port, that English troops had been landed ; and they, in consequence, abandoned their projected attack on the town and went away."

instria.—The Datum Zeitung gives a denial to the news published in some Belgian journals of certain negotiations between Prussia and Austria, more especially in reference to concessions asserted to have been offered to Prussia by the Austrian Ambassador at Baden-Baden. Never- theless a conference is about to take place between the Emperor of Aus- tria and the Prince Regent of Prussia at Toeplitz, and several Vienna journals state that some other German sovereigns will be present, es- pecially the Kings of Bavaria and Saxony. Count Rechberg will ac- company his Emperor. The frigate Itadetzky has been ordered to proceed to Syria in order to cooperate with the vessels of the other Powers for the protection of the Christians.

Lord Clyde was to leave Calcutta on June 4. A ball had been given in his honour. His successor, Sir Hugh Rose, promises to be the most efficient Commander-in-chief the present generation has seen in India. Those with whom he has conversed have been much impressed with the largeness of his views, and with the determination and vigour by which they are characterized. In his hands the question of reorga- nization would lose many of its apparent difficulties. His whole career in India has given confidence to the officers of both services, and those of the Indian army especially, hail his arrival in Bengal as the commence- ment of a now era.

Money is abundant. The Bank of Bengal has reduced its rate 1 per cent. ; other capitalists are competitors at lower rates.

13 r gi 11111.—The Belgian Senate has passed the bill which abolishes the octroi dues. The final vote was 37 votes in its favour to 15 against it, there being two absentees. Consequently from the present time there are no more octroi duties in Belgium. The great kidnapping case which had occupied the judicial bench at Ghent a fortnight closed on Saturday, and the sentence on all concerned is now under deliberation. The young girl sought to be made a proselyte had been spirited away from her relatives to Pens, to Antwerp, to Louvain and fi- nally traced and identified, under various fictitious names, in sundry con- vents and receiving houses. An Irish agent, one Callaghan, cuts a singular figure in this melodrama, having volunteered a reply to the judge, who asked if he was aware of breaking the laws of the land, that "the laws of most parts of Europe ought not to be obeyed ?" Some of the reverend de- fendants having pleaded that they had consulted Alfonso do Liguorio before entering on the business, a cry was raised in Court that this Liguori° " should be put in the dock as an accomplice, when it was explained that Li- guori° was dead a hundred years ago and " beatified." Net fewer than ton of the witnesses examined for the defence "had destroyed all letters or docu- ments bearing on the case by ecclesiastical direction." The effect on the

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public of all these proceedings s very sad. The French papers notice a pas- toral from the Bishop of Montauban advocating "physical pressure and even punishment as a legitimate means of conversion." Montauban, Montpel-

Her, Nismes, with Lyons, Paris and Strasbourg are the main centre of the Reformed Church in France, arid the most susceptible of irritation from the open advocacy of such maxims.

Sarkinia fief Yi glts.-The Paris correspondent of the ..VOrd, the value of whose information is highly estimated in another portion of the paper, speaks of a good understanding which he says exists between France, Russia, England, and Prussia, the object of which is to procure an intimate alliance or "league," which, he says, is the word adopted between Naples and Turin.

anitrb t in.-The Japanese took their departure on the 30th ultimo. They cost New York ten thousand dollars per day. Mr. Dou- glas and Mr. Breckenridge have accepted the Democratic nomination "ticket." Archbishop Hughes has been attempting to raise money for the Pope, but without much success.