The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-30 00:00:00

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ing's issue of the Tipperary _Erai'thet
of, which has often declared his disseK frA
eliargesbf enmity to the Pope -which were made ~
. 'of the Irish Catholic journals against Napo-
leon 111. The letter is introduced at considerable
length by fre editor, who gives it as a complete
,justification of his own views of the French policy
in Rome. The following is the translation :
" The Emperor's Cabinet, St. Cloud, July 6.
" Sir,--When in a country the press passionately
persists in forgetting itself in order to calumniate
and misrepresent the intentions of a foreign sove-
reign, nothing can be more pleasing, or even more
consoling, than to see a clever and disinterested
writer rise up spontaneously to defend him. You,
Sir, have been that writer ; you have had the
singular merit, in resisting the general overwhelm-
ing impulse, to oppose a conscientious judgment
to false interpretation, and a calm voice to the
clamours of malevolence ; thus success has
gradually crowned your efforts, and if the error
be not totally destroyed, it is at least already much
enfeebled, so much power does truth bestow on him.
whom she animates with her inspirations. I have,
then, with real satisfaction, submitted various arti-
cles published in your esteemed journal to the Em-
peror, and his Majesty entertains for them the sense
of gratitude the sincere expression of which he.
charges me to address to you. Accept, sir, the as-
surance of my most distinguished considerations.
" The Emperor's Secretary, Chief of the Cabinet,
" MOCQUARD.
"A. W. Harnett, Esq., proprietor and editor of the
Limerick, Tippeaary, and Waterford Examiner,
Clonmel, Ireland."

KINGSTOWN, JULY 28.
The Leinster has arrived at Kingstown in 25
hours from Southampton.

THE CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA.

A letter from Constantinople, dated July 18,
save

The letters from Syria which have reached Con-
stantinople since the date of my last, add nothing
material to the account I then gave of affairs in the
Lebanon. On the 4th all fear of a serious disturb-

ance in Beyrout would appear to have ceased. The
steamer which should bring us more recent intelli-

gen ee has not yet arrived. an Sunday evening (15th
inst.) each of the Embassies received a telegram from.
Smyrna to the effect that a vessel had just entered
that port from Beyrout with news of a massacre of
400 Christians at Damascus by the Mussulman
population of the town. The 9th is the date assigned
to this occurrence, the account of which has been
confirmed by information received at the Porte. The
American Consul is said to have been wounded.
The Consulates of France and Austria were burnt,
and their occupants seem to have owed their lives.
to Abd-el-Kader, in whose house they took refuge,
and who exerted himself to the utmost for the pa-
cification of the town. The English Consul, Mr.
Brandt, was, I believe, not molested. It is
impossible to desciibe the dismay which the re-
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eeiptof this disastrous intelligence has caused at the

Sublime Porte.

Not without cause did Ministers

Look upon one another in mute and unconcealed ap-

prehen-sion. They have troop) in Syria ; and the
force in Damascus itself cannot have been inconsi-

derable ; but that force is some 30 months in arrears
of pay, and has not been wanting in symptoms of
disaffection. Not one word of an attempt made by
this force to maintain order appears in the telegrams

whicr' i
t have reached Constantinople, while A -

Kader, a foreigner and an exile, is clesciThed as the
champion of order in the town. What if the troops,
that have been despatched in such numbers since
affairs in Syria first took an alarming turn, should
prove no more worthy of trust than the soldiers of
the army of Arabistan ? It is to be hoped that the
receipt of ampler details will serve to reassure us

on this point, but I confess I shall be much relieved
if our next letters from Aleppo, and one or two of
the other large towns, contain no untoward intelli-
gence. There are some reasons to apprehend that
Druses and Maronites have exhausted themselves in

the late struggle, only to give way to a more seri-
ous conflict between Mussulmans and Christians.

The official paper has, during recent occurrences
in Syria, withheld all information from the public-
With a self-delusion little inferior to that which in-
duces a child to cover his eyes when he would not
be seen, the Turkish Government has flattered itself
that if no notice of the events which were passing
appeared in its own organ, no excitement would.
prevail in the public mind, Accordingly, up to yes-
terday, people have been looking in vain for some
information in the columns of the Journal de Con-
stantinople. Compelled at last by the tide of events
to break silence, that paper yesterday published the
following paragraphs :
"The steamer which arrived at Smyrna, on the
15th, has brought news from Damascus of a most
regret table nature.
" While the troubles in Mou t Lebanon appear
to be subsiding, disorders have broken out in a
fresh place.`
" In consequence of a collision, which the troops
at the disposition of the Governor were it seems.
powerless to prevent, a certain number of Chris-
tians have, according to these despatches, lost their
lives, and even some Consular establishments have
not been respected.
" We still hope that fresh information will ar-
rive, to mitigate, at least, these events, as disastrous
as they were unexpected (aussi eruels qu' imprevus),
and we are firmly convinced that the high mission
with which Fuad Pasha is charged ; that the ex-
tended powers that have been given him; that the
force, moral and material, at nis disposition, will
suffice to bring about a prompt re-establishment of
order, after the exemplary chastisement of the
guilty."
The effect produced here by these few lines has
been disproportionate even to the importance of the
information conveyed by the telegraph. During
the time that battles and massacres were of daily
occurrence in the Lebanon, the Government jour-
nal made no sign, or, at most, made a passing al,
lusion to its Syrian correspondent's letters, which
it did not publish. Is it to be wondered at if peo-
ple now say, "matters must be bad indeed when
the Journal de Constantinople is constrained to
allude to them in this manner ?" Nor is the excite-
ment, which the conduct of the Government thus
tends to aggravate, of little moment. There are
those who consider the state of this capital itself
highly critical. lam not of the number ; but fears
for the safety of the Christian population are en-
tertained in quarters where sound information
should exist, and by persons whose opinions one
cannot altogether disregard.
During the last few days, and especially through-
out the whole of yesterday, a confliet between the
police and the schismatic Armenians has been im-
minent. Near the Adrianople Gate of Stamboul is
an Armenian cemetery. It has no doubt always
been used as a place of interment of the schismatic
Armenians. There seems, however, to be as little
doubt that Protestant Armenians have been con-
stantly buried there without opposition or hind-
rance on the part of the more numerous sect of
their fellow-countrymen. On Saturday last the
body of an old man, a Protestant Armenian, was
carried out for burial. No
.previous dispute had,
so far as I can ascertain, arisen between the two
sects as to their respective rights of sepulture in
this cemetery. On the funeral reaching this place,
a large number of schismatic Armenians were
found assembled there. These declared that they
would allow no Protestant to be buried among the
remains of members of their own Church. The Pro-
testants persisted in their intention to proceed with
the interment, but were forcibly prevented from so
doing. The police were called in to enforce what
the authorities would seem to regard as the rights
of the Protestants. The mob of schismatic Arme-
nians increased, and the force of police Tiresent was
not sufficient. Throughout Sunday and Monday
the body remained on the ground a•gaiting burial,
the authorities not deeming it prudent to send_
troops to clear the ground by for,.:e. Throughout
the whole of yesterday there w ere between 4,000
and 5,000 persons collected, raid a collision was
hourly expected. Matters had then assumed so
serious an aspect that Sir Henry Bulwer, who had
received repeated communications on the subject,
deemed his personal interference necessary. His
Excellency proceeded from Therapia in the Ban-
sbee to Constantinople, where he had interviews,
first, with the Grand Vizier, and subsequently with
the Armenian Patriarch. The result was that the,
night last
to be buried
police, 200 of whom were in attendance. These.
facts are significant,—in the first place, because it
is certain that, for some political purpose, the
schismatic Armenians were put upon behaving as
they did ; secondly, as serving to show the extreme
reluctance of the Turkish authorities to suffer ever.:
the slightest collision between their cr,vn soldiers
or police and the Christian population at the pre-
sent time.
Fuad Pasha sailed on Thursday last for Be7rout,
where he should have arrived yesterday.

RUSSIA AND THE ASIATIC TRIBES.—R 7 issia has
exercised great prudence in her conquests among the Asiatictribes ; she has always respected their religion and supersti-
tion ; and no priests have accompanied her Cot ,sacks. She
has thus avoided many difficulties which other powers have
fallen into where the soldier and the mis sionary have
marched together, From my knowledge of t hese people, I
believe it is impossible to make converts an, ung them. They
are not like the Africans, who are but lit' de, more advanced
in civilisation than the animals of their p'iaila.s. The Asiatics
are descended from a race of conquoro rs ; and their tradi-
tions extend back into remote ages. I.ktobl ma they are ;but
neither pilferers nor pickpockets. Great 7 itcopitality, and a
wild spirit of chivalry, still exist a-mong t ima.—Froin Ai.
kitisotee Travels in the iimoori