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fraurt.—The sittings of the Corps Legislatif terminated on Friday week. The Emperor will go shortly to Chalons. Prince Napoleon is at Cherbourg. Orders have been given for the embarkation, simul- taneously, of troops at Marseilles, Toulon, and Algiers. Three French steamers off Latakia, Sanda, and Acre, have been ordered to restrain the inhabitants. The exigencies of the service have rendered it necessary to arm the reserve squadron. _ The Independence Beige reports from Paris that the French Government will give a high military command in Syria to Abd-el-Hader, and employ his influence over the Mahomedan population in favour of the Christians. For the exertions he made to protect them in the late outbreak of fanaticism it is stated that the Arab chief is to receive the Cross of the Legion of Honour.

The Honiteur says :—" Letters from Beyrout contain details respecting the horrible massacre at Deir-el-Eammar, and pointing out the odious con- duct of the Turkish authorities and of the Governor of Beyrout." A message from Toulon, dated the 21st of July, announces that two more large war transport steamers are being manned. Several are ready. A telegraphic despatch in the Freese asserts that they had already taken their departure. The French Consular rep'brts received from Syria state that the massacres which have taken place are the result of a conspiracy of the Mussulman fa- natics. The report having spread among the Druses that European di- plomacy was about to drive away. the Turks from Europe, they determined on exterminating the Christians in Syria. The French Consuls, therefore, state that the Porte will be unable to repress a rising which has been or- ganized in its own favour. We learn from the Moniteur what the Government has done in taking the initiative of intervention :— " Under these circumstances, the Emperor of the French has declared that, although inviting the Powers who have signed the treaties of the 30th of March, 1856, to give their concurrence for an efficacious protection of the Christians in Syria, France, on her own account, will never fail in her mission of humanity, and is resolved upon immediately sending an armed expedition to Syria. "The proposals made by France, with the object of arresting the effusion i of blood in Syria, and of protecting the Christian inhabitants, have been acknowledged by the Great Powers.

"England is ready to cooperate with ships, and recognizes the expediency of sending a corps d'armee, of which France would furnish the whole or the greater part. "Austria and Russia have given the same opinion. The Prussian Mi- nister for Foreign Affairs has gone to receive the orders of the Prince Regent on the subject. "A Convention is to be signed for determining the character and object of the European intervention. The acquiescence of the Porto only is now awaited."

A letter from Marseilles says :—" The preparations for embarking troops for Syria are continued with great activity here and at Toulon. The first expedition will not exceed 10,000 or 12,000 men. Colonel Osmont, of the Staff, sailed for Beyrout on Friday, with three orderly officers, to make prepara- tions for the reception of the troops in Syria, and to ascertain the resources to be found there for the support of the French army. bi. Money, Deputy- Commissary-General at Marseilles, embarked yesterday, with several officers of his department, foriBeyrout."

The Constitutionnel says :—" The latest news from Syria announces that the state of things was still serious. Ten thousand Druses were marching on Damascus, where the Christians run the greatest danger. A prompt European intervention is absolutely necessary to rescue the remaining Christians from being massacred. It may be added that a perfect good un- derstanding prevails between France and England. The last measures have been taken in concert with the English Cabinet, and nothing delays the de- parture of the expedition for Syria."

'Very horrible accounts continue to arrive in Paris from Syria.

The Constitutionnel has an article on Thursday signed by M. Grand- guillot, congratulating the London Times on its leading article on Syria. The language of the Times, says M. Grandguillot, " seems to be in accord- ance with British feelings, and to express the real policy of the Foreign Office." The Constitutzonnel also says :—" The expedition which France

has been preparing for the last three days with marvellous despatch will, as a matter of necessity, be carried out. The early departure of our troops may be expected. The part of France will be neither that of occupation nor intervention. We are about to give our support to Turkey, to assist her in repressing disorders which would infallibly result in the loss of the Turkish Empire. The Eastern question, as it at present stands, does not appear to be susceptible of dividing Europe, but, on the contrary, of uniting the European Powers for the defence of interests and principles which impose the same obligations on all the Christian States."

Sl flla•—Advices from Naples under data of the 20th inform us that Garibaldi had attacked Melazzo with a force under the command of Co- lonel Medici. The latter was obliged to ask for reinforcements from his chief, who left Palermo to join him with 8000 men, but the Neapolitan King, in order to spare the effusion of blood, ordered the evacuation of the whole of Sicily. A report was circulated that with 5000 men Gari- baldi had made a descent on on the coast of Naples. The Times corres- pondent at Naples says, that "after a conference with Count Cavour, it was decided that the King of Sardinia should send an adjutant with an autograph letter to Garibaldi, requesting him not to attack the mainland." Messina, Melazzo, and Syracuse were being evacuated by the Royal troops, who were being transported to Naples in steamers. Letters from Naples to the 21st instant announce that Garibaldi had left Palermo with from 8000 to 10,000 volunteers. It was expected that Garibaldi would soon effect a landing on the continent. The chiefs of the revolutionary move- ment at Naples had caused an illumination of the whole city to take place. Crowds of people shouted " Garibaldi for ever," in defiance of the Royalists. About ten of the late police agents had been killed.

§ r nt a u q . —A meeting has been arranged between the Emperor of Austria and the Prince Regent of Prussia at Toplitz. The Preu-ssische Zeitung publishes the following :—" For some time past the relations between the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin have been much more friendly, and now a further step has been taken. In an autograph letter his Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph has expressed his eager desire to have a personal interview with the Prince Regent of Prussia. The Em- peror left it to the Prince to appoint the place for a meeting. We hope that the personal interview about to take place between the two rulers on the 26th instant, at Toplitz, will turn out favourably to the best interests of Germany." A letter from Berlin, dated the 20th instant, says :—" In libe- ral circles the interview between the Emperor of Austria and the Prince Regent of Prussia is looked forward to with some anxiety. The Prince Re- gent declared at Baden-Baden that, under all circumstances, Prussia would stand up with all her power for the integrity of Germany, thus, doubtless, also for the integrity of German Austria ' • and this the Prussian people fully approve. But they do not want to see the fate of Prussia connected with the fallen mixed provinces of the Austrian empire." The National Zeitung rays:—" As matters stand, as little good is expected from the interview between the Emperor Francis Joseph and the Prince Regent as arose from the interview with the Emperor of the French. At Vienna; as at Paris, the object aimed at is to shackle the independent action of Prussia."

The Emperor arrived at Toplitz on the 24th, and was received with royal honours. the Prince Regent arrived on the evening of the 24th, at six p. m., and was received at the terminus by the Emperor.

The Pays says that reports are current that a treaty between Austria and Prussia-preceded the conference at Toplitz.

On Thursday the Emperor paid a visit to the Prince Regent, which listed one hour and a half.

. Count Hochberg afterwards had a long audience of the Prince Regent, which was followed by a conference between Baron von Schleinitz and Count Hochberg.

illS if lg.—The Vienna journals are occupied with discussions of the increased powers accorded to the Rcichsrath, or Council of the Empire ; these concessions are hailed as an important step towards the establish- ment of a freer political system. The great advance in this direction is that the Council will now have a veto on measures proposed by the Go- vernment ; it had previously only the power of advising. The right of originating any legislative measure is still withheld, and in certain eases, such as a danger of war, the Emperor can act without the intervention of the Council, or omit to call it together. But the most important con- cession is that by which all financial questions are henceforth to be sub- mitted to the new Council of the Empire. If this is really carried out, there may be some chance of Austria being redeemed from bankruptcy and ruin.

ra .55 is.—At 10.22 a.m. on Tuesday, her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick William was happily delivered of a daughter. Her Royal Highness and the Royal infant are doing well. So satisfactorily have her Royal Highness and her infant progressed that no further bulletins will be issued.

Snrkrg.—It is stated that the assent of the Porte to an European intervention in Syria has arrived in Paris. The other Powers have like- wise acceded.

The representatives of the five Great Powers were to have signed the Convention on Thursday for regulating the expedition.

14aria.—We have intelligence from Beyrout to the 1st instant. The panic in the town had somewhat abated ; but there was still cause to fear that the disturbances in the Lebanon were far from over.

Nearly 100 villages have been reduced to ashes, and the unfortunate in- habitants, to the number of some 30,000—men, women, and children—are scattered over the mountains, where many of them are hunted down and slain like wild beasts. Of the larger places, Hasbeya, Rosheya, Deir-el- Kammer, and Zahleh, have been the scenes of frightful massacres. The Druses are, as a general rule, worse armed than the Christians—the latter possessing, for the most part, percussion guns. To prevent the primes acquiring the additional strength by improving their weapons of offence, would seem to have been the sole means by which the Turkish officer could hope to redeem his pledge of protecting the lives of the Christian population. In this state of affairs 800 stand of arms were packed on mules and sent oft' to Damascus. No sooner had the convoy got clear of the village than a party Of Druses quietly took possession of the prize. Possessed of the arms of their enemies, these Druses rejoined their comrades in the village. Then . occurred one of those scenes not uncommon in the annals of savage warfare. The gate of the Emir's palace was broken in, and an indiscriminate butchery of the Christians of all ages and of both sexes was perpetrated. The yataghan was the weapon employed in the work of destruction. There were upwards of 1500 living i bodies to be hacked to pieces in that one place, and the work, though long in executing, was only too well done. A private letter communicated to the Times gives into-resting particulars from Beyrout, under date July 5 :—" My last of the 23d informed you of the massacre of Deir-el-Kammar and the rising in Beyrout. This year is really one of the hardest this country has seen, and one which, perhaps, history will signalize as unequalled in these places. I informed you in my last how the Mahomedans rose here and the agitation of the town ; after that the pretended murderer of the Moslem was brought in the same day, as was promised, and executed at two o'clock the following morning, but the most credited opinion is that he was not the murderer, but that the real murderer is a Moslem himself, who got into a quarrel with the murdered man and stabbed him with a knife, which caused his death. Suspicion of course was cast upon a Christian, who was seized in the afternoon and laid in prison, and sentenced to.death upon the evidence of a boy. only eight years old. Ho before his execution called for a priest, and having made his confession declared that he never killed the man, but he said that I am quite willing to offer myself as a sacrifice for the tranquility of others.' Asking God to receive his soul and pardon his persecutors he was led to the place called Bourge-el-Kashef and beheaded there ; crowds of the Ma- homedan mob gathering together held his head by the hair, and beating it against the ground cursed his religion, his nation, and the Cross, all this, and the Christians keeping silence ; besides that Moslems had wounded and illtreated many of the Christians before, causing many to fly to the vessels at sea, and many of whom passed several nights on board. About 1500 na- tive and fugitive Christians departed to Alexandria, Syra, Malta, and other places, among whom are all the members of our family except myself, who remained here to see after our affairs; but I was obliged to abandon our house to the servants."

From Paris, under date the 25th, we have a telegram. " The Porte has instructed its Ambassadors at Pens and London to officially communicate to the Courts of the Tuileries and St. James's the conclusion of peace between the Druses and Maronites on the 10th instant. In this official communica- tion, the Porte although expressing its satisfaction at this happy event, adds, that it will, nevertheless, pursue with the utmost rigour the authors of the recent massacres, and that Flied Pasha had to that end been invested with the most ample powers, not only to punish the guilty parties, but also to take such measures as would prevent the recurrence of fresh conflicts be- tween the Druses and the Maromtes."

The later letters from Constantinople announce that fresh violences have been perpetrated at Aleppo, Orfa, and other places in Asia. It has again been confirmed that the Turkish soldiers took part in the massacres. The Christian Kaimakan of the Lebanon, his council, and some of the principal inhabitants, had signed a declaration of peace, in which, however, the renunciation of any claim for indemnity was not mentioned. After having discussed this act, they went., by, order of the Muehir of Saida and of the Turkish authorities, to confer with the chiefs of the Druses. No news, however, Cad been received of the thousands of Christians who were surrounded at Keerouan.

Otatrs.—The following correspondence between Mr. Presi- dent Buchanan and Queen Victoria, in reference to the visit of the Prince of Wales, has been published in the New York papers:— Letter from the President to the Queen.

" To her Majesty Queen Victoria—I have learnt from the public journals that the Prince of Wales is about to visit your Majesty's North American dominions. Should it be the intention of his Royal Highness to extend his visit to the United States, I need not say how happy 1 should be to give him a cordial welcome to Washington. •

" You maybe well assured that everywhere in this country he will be greeted by the American people in such a manner as cannot fail to prove gratifying to your Majesty. In this they will manifest their deep sense of your domestic virtues, as well as their conviction of your merits as a wise, patnotic, and constitutional

Your Majesty's most obedient servant,

Sovereign. Your EUCHADTAN. " Washington, June 4, 1860."

The Queen's Reply.

" Buckingham Palace, June 22.

" My good Friend —I have been much gratified at the feelings which prompted you to write to me, inviting the Prince of Wales to come to Washington. He in- tends to return from Canada through the United States, and it will give him great pleasure to hare an opportunity of testifying to you in person that these feelings are full-; reciprocated by him. He will thus be able at the same time to mark the respect which lie entertains for the Chief Magistrate of great and friendly State and kindred nation.

" The Prince of Wales will drop all Royal state on leaving my dominions, and travel under the name of Lord Renfrew, as he has done when travelling on the Con- tinent of Europe. The Prince Consort wishes to be kindly remembered to you. " I remain ever, your good friend, VICTORIA R."

A correspondence is also published between the Mayor of New York, the American Ambassador, and Lord John Russell, accepting an invitation for the Prince to visit New York.

The Yew York Thnes says that the President's declaration, made in his speech at the Breckinridge and Lane ratification meeting in Washington, that Democrats were not bound to vote for Mr. Breckinridge as the " regu- lar" Democratic nominee, had produced considerable sensation at the capi- tal, and speculation was rife as to the probable result in- the South. The friends of Mr. Douglas were represented to be highly elated at their im- proved prospects in consequence, and anticipated carrying not only the South, but New York. It was understood, from a reliabiesource, that there was to be no more proscription of Douglas men, and the office-holders of that stamp may be supposed to breathe with more freedom. The American papers contain a despatch from General Casa, expressing his satisfaction as to the explanations of the British Government upon the seizure of a vessel, by the Falcon, Commander Fitzroy, on suspicion of being a slaver. The political cauldron is boiling, but has not yet attained any violent de- gree of agitation. The news received from Oregon indicates the triumph of the Republican ticket in a community hitherto overwhelmingly Democratic. The Legislature just chosen is anti-Administration by about 14 majority in a total of 50 members, thus insuring the election of two anti-Administration United States senators in place of the present Democratic incumbents, one of whom is General Joseph Lane, the candidate of the. Southern wing of the Democracy for Vice-President. Messrs. Brackenridge and Lane have pub- lished their formal acceptances of their nominations respectively for Presi- dent and Vice-President. The 4th of July was rendered memorable by an oration delivered by Mr. Everett in Boston, in which_ he very ably replied to the charges preferred by Earl Grey in his speech of the 19th of April against American institutions.

The Reverend Jacob S. Harden a Methodist minister, was hung at Bel- vedere, New Jersey, on the 0th. he seduced a Miss Dorland, married her to save his reputation, and soon conceived a passion for a Miss Smith, who lived at his boarding place. Five mouths after marriage Mrs. Harden sud- denly died. In his confession he admits having given her arsenic and lau- danum at eleven different times. He first gave her the poison when she was sitting on his knee. He purchased an apple, which he cut into halves, upon one-half of which he spread arsenic, and kindly invited her to partake of it. She unsuspectingly ate it, remarking that it appeared to have some- thing gritty in it. He very coolly replied it was "nothing." Subse- quently he administered the deadly drug to her again in milk and water. Albert W. Hicks, the murderer of Captain Burr and the crew of the cyder sloop E. A. Johnson, was executed on the morning of the 13th on Bedloe's Island. The culprit made no remarks at the gallows, but quietly and firmly resigned himself to his fate. He was attended in his last mo- ments by Father Duranquet, to whom, it was supposed, he made a full confession of his guilt. The execution was witnessed by fully 10,000 per- sons, who surrounded the island in steamboats, sailing vessels, and small boats.

t ailft .—From Montreal we have indications of the probable move- ments of the Prince of Wales .-

" The squadron, with his Royal Highness and suite, is expected at St. John's, Newfoundland, about the 21d. Here, while the vessels coal, the Prince pays a short visit to St. John's. On the following day the squadron sails for the Bay of Pictou, about forty miles north of Halifax, where the Prince disembarks and proceeds by rail and carriage across the country to Halifax. Already a great gathering of mayors and civic dignitaries is assembling there to meet him with becoming state and ceremonial. After a stay of nearly two days at Halifax he proceeds by land to Frederickton, land thence to St. John's, New Brunswick, stopping at each place a twInole rt.11:7catitaeissoti PLiecaegjazlearlastanond,boAredrettee reHmeeo., and visits Charlotte- town, the greater part of two days. capital Prince Edward's Wand he proceeds with the fleet to Gaspe Bay, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, where the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Lyons, the Minister to Washington, and the chief members of the Canadian Go- vernment, proceed by sea to receive him. Thence he comes by the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Saguenay River, up which he will steam for the best part of a day, to see the wild and sombre magnificence of its rocky shores. From the Sague- nay lie comes straight to Quebec, where he is expected to arrive about the 12th of August. Ire will, it is believed, remain at Quebec at least five days, during which time there will be a ball and a levee. His Highness will also visit the falls of Mont- morenci, and the still more beautiful and extraordinary rocks called the Natural Steps, above that cataract. If there is time, he will visit the falls of St. Anne, which, always excepting Niagara, are considered the finest and most beautiful in America. He will leave Quebec on the evening of the lath or 19th, and as, through the care of the Colonial Government, the bed of the St. Lawrence has curing the last few years been much deepened, he will be able to proceed in the Ariadne to Montreal. He anchors for the night about thirty miles below that city, whence a fleet of river steamers, with visitors, has been arranged to go out and meet him. At Montreal he remains some days, one day being devoted to opening the Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, another to opening the Victoria Bridge. On other days there will be levees, banquets, and balls. Fifteen splendid horses have already been provided for the Prince and his suite."

The Montreal Gazette reports that the preparations for the Royal banquet were proceeding with a great deal of energy ; and the Ottawa Citizen states that the lumberera propose to man 100 canoes, each crew in• uniform, and banners flying at the sterns. The largest canoe will be for the' Prince, and thus escorted they will convey him the length of Lake Duchesne and back again.