The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ‘DEFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS, cash tn adoance. Money sent by mati wilt be at the risk of the vender. Postage stamps wot receioed as aubseriplio “THE DAILY HERALD two conte per copy, $1 per annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Sulurdity, al. siz conte sem, oF $8 per annum the Buropean Bidition soory Wedworday, Conte per copy, ts art of Grant Britain, = Prooete) tad Continent, teak is taclode tha Ot mx conte or 3 LUNE AT CORRESPONDENCE, containing importan! The State of Europe—Why New Armies and a New Crusade Are Destred. The epectacle presented by Europe at the present moment, as depicted ia the news by the Australasian aod Kangarco, is one of ex- treme complication, aad the loogest heada there do not venture to prognosticate the result. Our age is undoubtedly ove of revolution, but a revolution modified by the experience of the past. When the lower etrata of society up- heaved during the closing years of the last cen- tury, and poured forth their lava over the face of Western Europe; while France “got drunk with blood to vomit crime,” @ violent reaction from its destructive excesses took place, which brought back moat of the old dynasties and the former atate of affairs. Although the founda- penes, moltcited a uarter the world; if used, rill be Terally ‘paid for. mar On Foaman Coxsaronpants 4x Pannoovancy Requsstep 10 Saat alt Larreas 4xD cory day; advertisements in- mai Fasicy Yiewac, and in the Editions. CO PRINTING eccviad with neatness, cheapness and de- os cui » they saw not the errors of their ways, and continued to govern under the policy which bad animated them for ages. It is in the economical effects of that policy that the seeds of decay and revolution exist and germinate, and through it the most of the il ny. | Old kingdoms have been hastening to the fate pion GARDEN, Broadway.—Equssraian Perro: which attended the old Roman empire. That WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street. | policy, as a whole, tends to concentrate wealth Tiowt Rors Feats—La Syurmipe—Magio Puss. n the hands of the few, and the more perfect its result the more certain the outbreak and de- struction. France presented a notable example of this in 1790, and England and Germany have been in part only saved from a similar destruc- tion of the aristocratic classes and distribution of property by gradual concessions to the peo- ple ard by the great safety valve of emigration .gNe. M17 WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Doussr axp 8o0x— Varare Hovsusrsren. LAURA -RENE’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Ovm Amrnican uM. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Miawtiximo—Wal- Lack—Supvex Tuovcuts. BARNUMS AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Bvening—Ermorian, Soncs, Daxces, Buniesgues, Living Coatositixs, to America. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall. 472 Broadway. | Under the influence of these causes the politi- Seen eee ee eee | cal contest of Continental Europe has been con- eXATIONAL VARIETIES, Chatpam sivcct—JENMY TWiT’ | ted into a contest between the new and the Kseaeincr’ old dynastic houses. The Napoleonic wars continually on the Bourbons and the Haps- burgs, while the Romanoff cautiously balances itself between the new and the old, and the Brandenburgs of Prussia are in doubt on which side to class themselves, for fear of encountering the fate of the losing par- ty. Napoleonism has allied itself with the conservative revolutionary idea, and more par- PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Vooat ano Ix BraoMentaL Concent. CANTERBURY CONCERT HALL, 663 Broadway.- Sonas, Danous, Buniesaurs, £0. New York, Monday, August 6, 1 Whe New York Herald— Edition for Murope. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Canada, Capt. Lafg, will leave Boston, on Wednesday, for Liverpool. Tho mails for Europe will close in this city to-morrow afternoon at one o'clock to go by railroad, wd at four ticularly, at a recent day, with the new eco- nomical idea of the age-——that wealth must be permitted to find its natural distribution, with- out the bars of protective tariffs and industrial O'clock to go by steamboat. ‘The Kunorsay Eprwon ov ras Herstp wi!! be published Bt ten o'clock tm the morning. Single copies, in wrap- pers. six conte. ‘The contents of the Evroraas Eprnow or tas Herap ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph » he office during the previous week, and up to the hour of pubiication. monopolies. It has steadily, and thus far suc- cessfully, directed the efforts of the revolution against the allied Bourbons and Hapsburgs, and to-day the probability of a crisis fills every mind. From an unquiet anticipation of the possible results of this, the new complications schemes in Syria are looked upon as a present relief. The News. England could not be impassive to the intel- By the arrival of the steamship Kangaroo off | lectual impulse of Europe, and her history for Cape Race, from Liverpool, we have advices from | the past fifty years shows continual concessions Europe to Jul; The Neapolitan troops were | to its demands, But the revolution still goes evacuating Sicily. A despatch from Paris states | on there, and the lower orders of society exhi- that the government of Sardinia would consent to | pit g gradual but constant upheaving. The support Garibaldi in a proposal for a six months’ | 1 oe¢ marked characteristic of English society truce between Naples and him. A conference, it} oF the present day is the vast numerical was reported, would be held in Paris relative to = a the condition of affairs in Syria. Turkey had pro- | Proportions which the trades unions of tested against French interference in Syria, and the her working classes are assuming. Much expedition had been stopped. A firm in Parisen- | bas been said of the recent volunteer gaged in the hide and leather trade had failed, and | militia organization which has sprung up in its liabilities were estimated at £120,000. Thecom- | Great Britain; but if closely examined it will mercial news has been mostly anticipated, the | be found to consist only of tradesmen and what Jatest despatch via Queenstown having failed to | are known as the middle classes of society. come to hand. England puts no muskets into the hands of her Our correspondent at Great Salt Lake City, writ: | men of the forge, loom and plough, nor will ing under date of duly 16, furnishes us with a his- she teach them military tacties of any kind so tory of the Indian difficulties in that Territory, and concludes that the troubles have arisen more from | 1008 48 she can help it, The volunteer system the aggressions on the part of the unscrupulous | #8, in fact, nothing but an effort on the part of the aristocratic classes to seek allies among the white men who are anxious for an Indian war than from any inclination for hostilities on the part of | middle men against the upheaving millions. the Indian tribes. Horse thieves and other | This state of things is the true career of Lord offenders against the law, either Mormon or | Palmerston’s recent exciting speech in the Gentiles appear to be dealt with in the | British Parliament on the national defences. most sommary manner when canght. Great pre- The talk about invasion is a» hollow as the idea ts to cele parations were being made by the ‘ é wpe itself. Napoleoniem seeks no quarrel with See ir cere the anniversary of their en England. It only desires to be let alone in its From Washington we learn that Mr. Dimitry, | Present contest with the old dynasties, and this Secretary of Legation to Costa Rica, has brought | 18 what the old tory party in England do not wish should be done. They desire, no matter under what pretext, that a large standing army shall be created which may help to weigh down the upheaving masses, or, at any opportune moment, be turned against Napoleonism. Hence their cheers at Palmerston’s agitating speech. The state of affairs in Itaty bears no promise home with him intelligence of the ratification by the Congress of Cogta Rica of a grant to Mr. Am- brose W. Thompson for the construction of a rail- road between designated points on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The terms of the grant will be found in our despatch this morning. We give this morning a report of the eloquent and impressive sermon of the Rev Dr. Spring, de- livered yesterday on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his pastorage of the congregation | fT the cause of ‘the Bourbons and the old formerly worshipping in the Old Brick Church in | 4ynasties. The King of Naples is forced to Beekman street. The church was densely crowded | abandon Messina and the whole of Sicily, in on the occasion, and the venerable clergyman was listened to with marked attention and interest. order to save his troops from desertion to Gari- baldi, and to suppress the spirit of revolution later and the discussion of politics seems to have usueped the scandal and chit chat which more appropriately belongs to such places. ‘The fact is that New York has been this sea- gon the first of favorite resorts for amusement. Her hotels are more crowded than those of the watering places. Her harbor has more at- traction than spas or beaches. Her Central Park invites more visiters than the promenades of Saratoga, or any other fashionable summer resort. What with the sensation of the Japa- nese, and the Great Eastern, and the prospec- tive visit of the Prince of Wales, added to the attraction of our theatres and other places of amusement, people have found more recreation in New York than anywhere else this season. tions of the old ruling houses were sadly | pne Demoralization and Comfasion of @Parties—Necessity of am Imdependent National Convention of the People: The utter confusion and demoralization which prevail among the different political par- ties at the present moment are without a par- allel in the history of the government. Neither the leaders nor the people seem to know what todo, The rank and file, regarding their cap- tains as blind guides, will no longer follow them, and'yet know not whom or what they will follow. The leaders, feeling that they can- Dot conquer without troops, have resort to all kinds of bungling devices and contrivances, which only make matters worse. There appears to be no statesmanship in this hour of difficulty and confusion, which can only be compared to a ship ina gale at sea, laden with passengers, which haa sprung a dangerous leak, while the drunken captain is without abili- ty, and bas no se!f-possession and cannot com- mand the confidence or respect of his crew, among whom there is no discipline, but every one doing that which seems right in his own eyes, and consequently making confusion worse confounded; and the passengers, participating in the disorder, run here and run there, without a plan or a purpose, or direction from a com- mander, jostling and pulling against each other, and interfering with the efficiency of the few able and willing to work, and, worst of all, try- ing selfishly to escape, leaving the women be- hind and jumping all into the boats together, thus swamping them and scattering the fren- vied, shrieking mob in the waves, who might have been saved had they not given up the ship. This isan image of the demoralization in the great political parties which has been brought about by the corruption, vices and selfishness of the leaders, whose miserable shifts to extricate themselves from the general wreck render them the laughing stock of all sensible men, Some, in their delirium, propose to make their party successful by setting forth one set of principles for the North and another for the South; and some think it splendid tactics to ex- hibit their candidate as saying one thing to pander to the anti-slavery sentiment of one geographical section of the country, while his sentiments are represented to be the very opposite by his friends in the slaveholding section of the Union. The result, of course, must be that neither section can have apy confidence in his views. Then, again, the party is like a house divided against itself, which cannot stand. In- stead of being a unit against the common enemy, it is destroying itself by internecine war, and offering an easy. victory to the foe, if he were only in a condition to seize the ad- vantage. But the republicans are, to a great extent demoralized and divided, as well ag the demo- crats. Their leaders are equally steeped in corruption. In Congress and out of it the re- publican, as well as democratic chiefs, have been proved guilty of an amount of ras- eality which has disgusted all the good men of the party. The investigating Congressional committees and the exposures by the Indepen- dent press have turned inside out those whited sepulchres of the lobby cabals at Washing- ton, and have shown them to be filled with all kinds of uncleanness and pollution, including corrupt men of all parties. The defalca- tions and frauds of the officeholders under the general government, the swindling by our State Legislatures and officials, and the bold villany in our municipal corporations, in which set of conspirators “make a ring,” as they call it, and pledge themselves to each other as 80 many banditti, to rob their fel- low citizens by wholesale—these things have revolted the community, confounded Religious services were yesterday held in @ | op the peninsula. The slight spirit of sympathy political distinctions, and puzzled men to know large tent erected for that purpose at the corner of Broadway, Pighth avenue, Central Park and Forty-ninth street. The Rev. Dr. Williams, Presi- dent of the University of the State of Missouri, officiated in the afternoon, and was listened to by @ large and attentive audience. A synopsis of the reverend gentleman's remarks is given else- where. which was gotten up for the Pope in Ireland has subsided, and the truthful statements of the returning volunteers, regarding the deception that was practised upon them, preclude the hope of any further assistance. The cause of both political and religious feudalism seems hopeless. From all these complications the governing the ground on which they stand, or on what side they will fight, or whether they will fight at all. The same causes produce the same effects in other parties as well as in the demo- cratic. The only two offices over which the republican leaders in Congress had any con- trol—Clerk and Printer to the House—became The synagogue of the congregation B'nai Israel, | classes of Europe anxiously seek for relief. A bones of the most disgraceful contention and situated at the corner of Stanton and Forsyth streets, was yesterday consecrated with the im. posing ceremonies peculiar to the Jewish mode of worship. The Rev. Dr. Raphall and Rev. Messrs. Isaacs and Bondi took part in the services, an ac- count of which is given in our paper to-day. An account of an attempt to burn a house in Worth street will be found among our city items to-day. Three persons suspected of being impli cated in the affair have been arrested. The Great Eastern arrived in Annapolis Roads yesterday afternoon at five o'clock, A large num- ber of people, in steamers from Baltimore, went down the bay to meet her. The sales of cotton on Saturday comprised about 200 a 400 bales, closing on the basis of Saturday's quote tions. Flour wae steadier, and at the close exhibited Father more Grmness, while prices were without impor. tant change, Wheat was firmer and in steady request, ‘With some purchases for export. Corn was steady and the eales fair, at quotations given in another place. Pork ‘was lors buoyant and active. Sales of new mess were mace at 619 10 4 $10 25, aud of sew prime at $14. Oniteo ‘wae quiet but frm. An auction sale, to come of on the Bth inst., tended to check sales. Sugars closed with a Father firmer feeling, while the sales were confined to | About 560 a 400 bhds. The present stock is estimated at 186,560 hhds , 8,000 melado, 24,400 boxes and about 129.200 Dags Freights wore ¥, While engagements were moderate Tue State Exvections in Kentecky axp Mrs Kovn!. —The State elections take place to-day in Kentocky and Missouri, and the result ia them -will form the initial point in the present po- litical campaign. Both of them are flanked by free States; and if the free soil ideas can attain @ foothold anywhere in the South it will be in e two States, and this fact is well known to | iocal parties in them. Consequently im- | e efforts have been made by all the lead- « bring their followers into line, and to- “ be firing is going on. In a day or two we now the result—a positive complexion of B® cekind will be given to the Presidential Qoutest new intellectnal impulse is wanted, and this may come out of recent events in Syria, for whatever result may attend the present quarrel between the Maronites and Druses, it is evident that the moribund government of the Sultan is il able to control the evil impulses of a waning fanaticism. A religions crusade might delay the progress of the commer- cial and conservative revolution of the age, and it will not be surprising to see it preached in every capital in Europe. All the Powers are now indignant with the dying “sick man,” Turkey, and his possessions are a luring prize to all. This may be sought under the cover of religion, but to our view the pur- suit will bring no relief to the sick houses of Bourbon and Hapsburg. It will only turn public attention from their expiring condition. In the meanwhile, Louis Napoleon, with that quick and sagacious perception of the bearing of every present event upon the Napoleonic in- terests which bas marked his whole career, is about to throw twenty-five thousand men into Syria, and thus establish a French foothold there, and erect another interest between the advancing dominion of Russia and the line of communication with her Indian empire which England so jealously guards. Vorces rrom tue Warene Pisce.—We give place today to some more echoes from the fashionable watering places; from Sara- toga, Niagara, Sharon, White Sulph t Springs, ) St. Catharine's, Lake Mahopac, Newport, Cape May, Capon Springs, Ballston, and other poiats of attraction ; but, in truth, the watering places thiv season seem unusually dull, flat, stale and unprofitable. Except at those poiats where sources of scandalous bribery and corruption. Disgust and apathy are the consequence in the republican ranks, and if the Union party should be decidedly successful in the North Carolina election and other Southern State elec- tions during this month, the effect would be to completely demoralize the republican party North by carrying off the conservative portion of it to the support of Bell and Everett. The closeness of the contest in North Carolina, even should Ellis be elected, will have its influence, inasmuch as there will be two democratic can- didates in the field in November, and there is, therefore, every prospect of the success of the Bell and Everett ticket in that State. But the mere transfer of two, three or half a dozen Southern States from Breckinridge to Bell will, of itself, amount to nothing. The re- sult will be the same, unless there shall be a Northern reaction sufficient to rescue the Northern balance of power from Lincoln, so as to throw the election into Congress—a process which will be sufficient to demolish this seo- tional and slavery agitating republican party. But how is this balance of power to be secured? ‘The materials are at hand, in the New Eagland States and in the Central States; but how are they to be combined! Neither the Breckin- ridge managers, nor the Douglas engineers, nor the Bell pipelayers, nor ail these together, are competent to do anything. ‘The only alternative of safety is a sort of spontaneous national convention of the con- servative Union men, of all sections and all parties, regardless of party leaders and party instructions, to see what can be done. Sucha convention, assembling here in New York, say about the middle of September, might be able Mr. Douglas occastogally drops in to the music | to agree upon some general pian of union ia of a brass band, or the Great Easter: her devoirs, there is little to exci Fashion appears to bave become prosaic pags of the President ection which would compass the defeat of Lincoln; othe e “Old Abe” will walk over the Northern course, whatever NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1860. may be the changes in the South. What, then, say the conservative men of the North and the South—Breckinridge and Douglas men, Bell men and sepublicans—to an independent, spontaneous people’s national convention in New York, about the middle of September, in order to determine upon some common course of action to save us all from a sectional, ag- gressive, abolition administration, which may precipitate us at once into the bottomless abyas of disuniont The Syriam Maseacre—The Druses and Maronites. The alleged peace said to have been con- cluded between the Maronites and Druses in Syria is, in all probability, a temporary and merely patched up affair. The boatility of race and religion which occasionally finds vent in such bloody scenes as those recently enacted in Syria is not easily allayed. But it is evident that the Powers of Europe are not going to permit the affairs of the East to re- main in their present deplorable Condition. The Porte is unequal to the task of controlling the wild and half eavage elements which com- prise the Ottoman empire in Asia. The peculiar polity of the Turkish govern- ment has enabled those in the distant pro- vinces who were strong enough to usurp a supreme authority, and control their own dis- tricts with impunity. The scene of these recent atrocities—the region of Mount Lebanon—has long been independent of the central govern- ment. Although the inhabitants united in resisting the authority of the Porte or of the Governor General of Syria, they were divided against each other. These peoples are two distinct tribes—one called Druses, and the other Maronites. As in the East religion is nationality, so these tribes were individualized by their religious tenets, and not by any nativi- ty or amor patria. The Druses, although professedly Moham- medans, have a mystic religion of their own, especially distinguished by the belief of the transmigration of souls, and certain other pecu- liar doctrines, only revealed to the initiated. Like our own Baptists, who are not Christians Syrian coast to protect the suffering Obristians is a Russian frigate. Far be it from us to lay euch heavy charge at the door of any civilized government as that of complicity or positive connivance in these atrocities ; but such are some of the circumstances and the facts which inspire doubts on the subject. Both England and France have long been concerned in the internal affairs of Syria. It seems to be a policy of modern diplo- macy to create a partisanship in those lands where interest gains a foothold. Thus, France having e common bond of sympathy with the Maronites, by means of a common faith, gained much influence in the land, which the English quite as rife here as in England, to say the least onsets Wile of the spirit which animated OO ‘Tue Quarrerre Map .Ur—D, D. Barwanp’s Mantresto.—The New York Tribune, for seve- ral weeks past, has been directing the fire of its batteries, great guns and musketry, to the annihilation of that trio of old fossilized whigs, ~ “Hunt, Duer and Brooks,” on the charge that they have entered into a plot to sell out the Bell-Everett party in this State to the Douglas democracy. Our excited republican philoso- could not brook, because their own Indian pos- yee wil new that this pt sessions lay in euch close proximity. Therefore, the English, merely with the view to the just balance of power, took the Druses under their own special patronage and protection, with the assurance that there was a community of feel- ing and association, since they both claimed the same ancestry—for the Druids and the Druses were identical. Whether the Druses began to love the English because of their common fore- fathers, or because they were a powerful na- or Thold it “ tion, of, still more, for the substantial succor every an ‘uch lows so iiare Supre a they received during their warfare with the | BPTteideut’ oat beve soem Pl Maronites, need not to be told. At all events toes ga meiy 7 follow 0s thooepalt, ia’ ‘the office the English have attained great power over eictora . by i Hwa ot Rprenatativs, the Druses, 80 much so that an order from the Pe deneage ny ola ao be wiepted oy me am, Sultan is treated with contumely, but a note | Mr. Lincoln. For I Pap to stand, from the English Consul is never for a moment gevstbecooniation ete ak cnt disputed. a the laws.” But, while never losing sight of this object, A Druse Bey—Saaddin by name—having on Pete = thelr eventual success always, in es one, occasion used disrespectful language to- wards the English government, Mr. Wood, at | and pu , on just and proper terms, for the certain ac: that time the English Consul at Damascus, takes ini alien cara See ba cite tee umbrage at the incident and writes to the | republican party. defeat in Now York gavea the Druse chiefs for the immediate chastisement of the delinquent. Thereupon the chiefs assem- ble, hold a special conclave and resolve to give up the offender, though one of their princes, to the tender mercies of the English Consul. Saaddin is accordingly sent to him in cbains, who, on his part, forwards him to Con- stantinople. Even at this day a Druse will bully his enemy with the comprehensive threat, the destruction of each other than the defeat of Lincoln, such patriotic appeals as this of Mr. Barnard are thrown to the winds. The Breck- “Iwill have my revenge on you in spite of by birth or christening, but become so upon maturity and the reception of the rite of im- mersion, so all Druses are not considered with- even the English Consul himself.” The question now arises: if the English have inridge Syracuse Convention of the 7th instant, perhaps, may do something; but as matters now stand, we might as well talk of turning over so much influence over the Druses, why did in the mystic pale until they are of age to be entrusted with the sacred mys- teries, or deemed worthy of such confi- dence. The initiated are termed Ukals (the wise) and the uninitiated Jehhals (the ignerant). The other tribe, the Maronites, are Christians of the Church of Rome. Each of these tribes is go- verned by its respective chief. The Druse po- pulation amounts to about 120,000, while the Maronites number 240,000. But the Druses, though inferior in numbers, are a much more formidable body. They are under the com- plete control of their Ukals, who hold secret councils in their halwas (ledges), and regulate all the affairs. They are brave, and fearless of death, which to them is but a transmigration to another form of life. On the other hand, the Maronites have no organization or mutual bond beyond that which unites them in a common faith. There has long been a strife for supremacy in the region of Lebanon between these two pow- ers, sometimes one predominating, and anon the other, so that continual broils have been maintained upon the most insignificant pretexts, with reciprocal rapine and bloodshed. The most bitter conflict occurred during the admi- nistration of Abdallah Pasha in Syria, some forty years ago. Abdallah, who had obtained the government of Syria, thought policy de- manded that he should side with one of the pro- minent parties in the mountains. The Maronites were then predominant, under the leader- sbip of an Emir Bishir, of the house of Shahab—an ancient Arab family di- rectly descended from the Prophet himself—so that Emir Bishir was emphatically a Mussul- man; but, whether from motives of policy or conscience, he became a Christian, and thereby gained the sympathy and confidence of the Maronites, whose chief he had already become. Having also the support of Abdallah Pasha, he began to persecute the Druses, and at last captured their chief, Sheikh Bishir, and, after baving put out his eyes, sent him to Abdallah Pasha at Acre, who put him to death as a rebel. This Sheikh Bishir left three sens—Haman, Sgid and Ismail Beys—who, being minors, could not resent the injuries done their father; so that Emir Bishir, being left sole potentate of the mountains, ruled its inhabitants with a rod of iron, until the year 1840, when, after the ex- pulsion of Ibrahim Pasha from Syria, he him- self was taken away by the English and sent to Malta, whence he removed to Constantino- ple, with the view of effecting a reconcilia- tion with the Porte. At the same time Ismail Bey—the youngest son of Sheikh Bishir, the murdered chief of the Druses—was carried to England. And these two distinguished personages were retained as hostages of peace, and the jurisdiction of the Porte was confirmed over the whole district of Lebanon. But after the lapse of time, the continual dis- cords of these people induced the Porte to ap- point for each of them again a separate head— Emir Haidar for the Maronites, and Emir Rus- lan for the Druses. A momentary tranquillity ensued; but Emir Haidar died and was succeed- ed by a new Emir Bishir, much against the will of the Maronites themselves, who knew him to be an imbecile, and wholly incompetent to govern or resent the encroachments of the Druses. The Druses, on their part, did not fail to take advantage of these circumstances. The central government, as well as the local authori- ties of Syria, hoping that by degrees these fac- tious and hostile peoples, like the Kilkenny cats, would extirpate each other, assumed an air of supineness, or connived with them, as policy seemed to demand. But recently they have sided with the Druses, hoping thus to reduce the Maronites, who outnumber the Druses, the populace following in their footsteps with the zeal of Mussulman fanaticism. How these smouldering fires have burst out again all ofa sudden with raging and devouring fury or by what impetus they have been called into action, and aleo by what strange coincidence the same scenes are enacted in Roumelia and Earopean Turkey and Syria cotemporaneously, are questions, not only of curiosity, but of the deepest import. The Christians of Roumelia have revolted against the Porte on account of atrocities committed against them by the au- thorities, and the sympathy of Russia is so effectually elicited as to induce an interference in their behalf, With an appeal for the co-opera- tion of the potentates of Burope. So watchful is this sympathy, that the first veerel upon the South Carolina to Douglas as to preach the de- feat of Lincoln in New York, with the opposing || elements cut up into three distinct guerilla camps. « Tas Apvent or tHe Provce or WaLes.—Aa the Prince of Wales advances into his royal mother’s possessions in the provinces, prepara- tions to give him a loyal reception seem to be making on a grander scale at each point. We give to-day an account from one of our special correspondents of the arrangements for his en- téMainment at Toronto, which is to be of the most enthusiastic and costly character. The principal cities of Canada are vieing with each other in their anxiety to pay due honor to the son and heir of their sovereign. But the reception which the Prince will re- ceive in the commercial metropolis of the Ame- tican Union will exceed in cordiality, if not in loyalty, that of any city in her Majesty’s colonial dominions. It will be a hearty and thoroughly popular welcome, coming spontaneously from - the people of all classes, if the British residents, ~ who have signified their intention to give him an exclusive reception, do not spoil it by per- sisting in a design which is very much to be deprecated, and ought to be discouraged. The British residents of New York ought to be well pleased and more than satisfied with the feeling exhibited by the American people towards the Prince of Wales. The kindliness of spirit which both the press and the public everywhere evince in his regard should be guarantee enough that his reception in the great commer- cial metropolis of the country will be evety- thing that it should be. Moreover, the Prince, who comes here to visit the American public, and not a few of his mother’s subjects, would undoubtedly be far better pleased with a gene- ral reception by the citizens at large than by the exclusive homage of a few English gentle- men, however estimable and respectable they may be. It is very probable that the advent of the Prince to this country will be the means of bringing here quite a large number of the Eng- lish nobility, who will take that opportunity of visiting the United States and examining our they not prevent there calamities? or how was it that the English Consuls, hitherto so power- ful among the Druses, manifested such “ mas- terly inactivity” while the people were de- liberately massacred before their eyes, and all kinds of atrocities committed? It is true that Kassem-el-Yussef, the factotum of Said Bey, the most powerful of the Druse princes, was invited on board the Wildfire, and there a solemn promise obtained from him for the immediate cessation of hostilities; but the moment he turns bis back upon the vessel, still greater atrocities are perpetrated, without incurring the ire of the English officials. Is it because the English have all of a sudden lost their influence over their proteges? If so, how are we to account for the fact that only a short time ago, when the Druses attacked Damascus, the Dutch Consul was killed, the American Con- sul wounded, the French, Russian and the Aus- trian Consuls took refuge at the house of Abd- el-Kader, but the English was unmolested in his own dwelling? Moreover, it is notorious that a Prussian merchant, on his way to Beyrout from Damascus, had the ingenuity to pass for an Englishman, and had the satis- faction of being told by a Druse that “had he not been an Englishman he would have met his deserts at their hands.” We are aware that there is a frenzy of enthu- siasm which swells and surges till it spends itself upon rock or strand. The carnage and rapine in the recent occurrences were rendered more excessive by the assistance of the Be- douins, Mutwalis, and other fanatical robbers and assassins, who are always on the look out for plunder; yet, as we have already stated, these same Druses are superstitiously obedient to their chiefs, at whose single word, “Peace, be still!” all the infuriated elements would have become calm as the sea of Tiberius. Why did no English Consul promptly and energetically force the wild Druse, his quondam friend, to issue such command? Instead thereof, the whole blame is laid at the charge of the Su- blime Porte, which is said “to exist upon suffer- ance.’ It is well known that Ibrahim Pasha himself could not conquer these wild mountain- eers, even at a sacrifice of twenty-five thousand men, at the wahra of Horan; much less could a ‘sick man” be expected to effect a purifica- tion through his invalid officials. Jf, then, the English can show so much apa- thy, what can be expected from a Mussulman populace, so opposed to Christianz, both by race, fanaticism and interest? To what, we repeat, are we to attribute the strange part which the English seem to play in this bloody drama? Is it in reality with intent to hasten the dissolution of the “sick man,” or is it with the hope of diminishing the power of France in Syria, that this massacre of Chris- tians is winked at by the most philanthropic, humane and civilized people of the age and of the world? Ifso, in both cases there seems to be perfect success; for Russia is already in ecstacy at the developement of her plotting, and the Chriatian world will have little need to waste their sympathies upon their Eastern coreligionists, of whom none will be left. For, even now, out Of the thirty millions of Arme- nians, scarcely five remain, and of eighteen mil- lions of Syrian Christians, hardly half a million are in existence. A Mesorr or Povtriwest Coxvicren or Broeny.—We have ‘ad several instances re- cently in England of @ just measure of punish- ment being meted out to persons of wealth and position for defalcations, embezzlements and other crimes, like criminals of the lowest grade; but a case has just occurred at the York Assizes of a still stronger character, in the conviction for bribery of Mr. W. H. Leatham, ex-member of Parliament for WakeGeld, for which borough he was elected last year, but subsequently un- seated by a committee of the House. The charge of bribing the electors to the amount of about $12,500 was proved to the satisfaction of the jury, and the prisoner was found guilty. The penalty of this offence is imprisonment and fine, and it appears that the Honse of Commons en- deavored to inflnence the Attorney General to withhold proceedings when they discovered the degrading: punishment entailed upon the crime; but the Attorney General was not to be con- trolled, and be pushed the criminal proseention to the bitter end. The conduct of the English oficial ia this case affords an excellent example to our Attorney Generals, District Attorneys and other prose. institutions. The Marquis of Chandos, son of the Duke of Buckingham, is already with us, having arrived here recently. The Marquis is one of the noblest of England's noblemen. He it wag who made so generous a sacrifice of for- tune in order to help to pay off the immense debts of his father, In addition to the noblemen in the suite of the Prince of Wales, we shall have more titled visit- ers in New York during his stay than we ever had before. Tue Jaraxese Swixo.e—Waat Ove Crrzexa Stovip Do.—The outrageous swindle concocted by the committee which had charge of the reception of the Japanese--that act of whole- - sale robbery by which the city is to be vict im- ized to the extent of $75,000 beyond the sum originally appropriated for the benefit of s omie civic functionaries and their friends—came within an ace of being consummated on Friday last. The bill for the $105,000 came before the Board, of Councilmen—having been previously manipulated through the Board of Alder- men—and lacked but one vete of being ap- proved by a constitutional majority. Shameless swindle as it is, seventeen of the fellows who have been entrusted with seats in the Board voted to pay the bill, against seven who voted in the negative; but as the eighteenth ap- proving vote was wanted, the matter waa laid over till the next meeting of the Board, which takes place at five o'clock to-morrow. If the citizens of New York are not content to remain passive and unconcerned spectators of this and every other piece of municipal villany in which they are to be the victims, they ought to bestir themselves in a manner to defeat it, and to teach those successors of the “Forty Thieves” that their course is nearly rua. The people onght to assem)le in mass meetiog in the Park to-morrow afternoon, betweea four and five o'clock, and there pass such resola- tions and take sich action as the nature of the case demands. Among other things they =~ should appoint « committee to wait upon the Board of Councilmen and forbid’ sternly aad resolutely the consummation of such # trans Parent act of villany. Let some of our oro. minent citizens issue a call for such > meetine and it will undoubtedly be respontet to meh a manner as Will make these City | miscreants quake. Tat