The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-23 00:00:00

THEA TR E-R0 YAL, 13EAYMARKET.
Lcs4ee, ?Ir. J. D. Backstcne.
TUTS EVENING the performances will commence with
HALLOWEEN. By the Leclercqs.
THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas. Mathews.
Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, ttogers, Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
If After which, the new eomedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY,
in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, will be performed HOME TRUTHS.
After which, the French vaudeville, MILITAIRE ET
PENS lONAIRE. Characters by the Zouaves.
Followed by BOWLED OUT.
And LA CORDE SENSIBLE.
To conclude with AN AMBUSCADE AT INKERMAN.
Commence at 7.

DF.LPIII, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
A. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Mr, B. Webster provincial his firt appearance (since his re-
It turn from his pr tour) in the course ot the present
month, at his Annual Benefit, particulars of which will be
duly announced.
12th week ot the favourite American Actress, Miss Julia Daly.
TH iS r:VENTNG, THE HARVEST HOME. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, P. Bedford, D. Fisher, Billington, Stuart, Eburne,
C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, Miss .11. Simms,
Miss K. Kelly, and Miss Laidlaw.
After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul
Bedford and Miss Julia Daly.
To conclude with OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Messrs.
Eburne, Ward, and Romer.

Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Baloony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Zs. ' •
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
EVERY EVENING.
Positively the last Week.
TO-NIGHT,
CIIEZ UNE PETITE DAME.
And LES DEMOISELLES DE ST. CYR. Madlle.
Delphine Fix.
Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ;
Gallery, Is.
Private w
Boxes, from To Guineas.
Commence at 8.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 5
M. Talexy has the honour to announce that his Benefit wil
take place on Wednesday, on which occasion Madlle. Doche
will make her first and only appearance this season.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHE
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
An Extra Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take
place on SATURDAY next, July 28, commencing at Two
o'clock.
This Evening, the Vistorical Spectacle, entitled FAIR
ROSAMOND, of the AMAZON CRUSADERS. To be followed by
Scenes in the Arena. To concluae with THE SPOILED
CHILD. Little Pickle, Miss Amelia Smith.
Doors open at half-past 8, performance commence at 7.
Bos-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena--M. Felix Revolt!.

CONCERTS.-

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA.
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite ..... Miss Russell.
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, ls . Hall. Bd.
Comio Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, ac., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFIC2, JULY 23, 1560.
Yesterday (Sunday) was a fine day, but cool, for the 22d
of July. Wind, Northerly ; the thermometer ranging in
the shade from 55 to 60 ; barometer 29.68.
To-day it has been, and is, still raining rather heavily,
with the wind fresh, at South-West ; thermometer 62, and
barometer 29.82.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DA.T.—Morning, sh. 7m.—Afternoon, sh. 28m.
To-mmatow.-Morning, 6h. 50m.—Afternoon, 6h. 13m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 23, 18e0.

Look which way we will—to Syria, to Naples, to
Germany, to, Belgium, to our own dockyards, the
French EMPEROR'S suspected policy, suspected be-

cause of past breaches of faith, is causing endless
embarrassment and cost. The late NICHOLAS and

th 3 living NAPOLEON, in one respect, strikingly re-
semble each other. We have now to watch, to

counter-work, to guard against our neighbour
Ruler as we had to do against NICHOLAS. Where

all might be, and ought to be, easy and straightfor-
ward, we are obliged to act with fear of sinister
projects. In Syria, at this moment, the need for
action is -urgent. The murders and massacres of the
Christians by the Mahometans, and their allies the

semi-Mahometan Druses, must be stopped ; but the
intention of the Annexer of Savoy and Nice are
the real difficulty. Europe does not want to see
another Algeria in Syria, and one which may be a
gain rather than a loss. pecuniarily ; while England
remembers that it is on her road to the East.

In the city article of a contemporary the affirma-
tion is pretty plainly made, that we owe the break
up of the Euphrates Telegraph Company to the
opposition of the French EmrEnon, and that too
after our own Government had given earnest sup-

port to so evidently desirable a project, and the
Turkish Government had pledged itself to grant a
concession. This concession was suddenly refused ;
and the allegation is, that the EMPEROR'S visit to
Osborne, which occurred just at the time, induced
oar Government to acquiesce, the threat being that
otherwise the Isthmus of Suez question should be
made a ground of international disagreement ! The
imperial objection could only have been to the pr estige
which would be acquired by an English company
in the East, among the tribes of the Desert, and
the inhabitants of the few cities on the route ; or,
perhaps, still more to the rapid information which
both Constantinople and London would receive of
what was going on in the farther east. It was
great weakness in our Government to give way.
We wanted the line for a bone fide object ; it would
have been at the service 'of all Europe, of Turkey
and France included, for all honest purposes, but if
dishonest schemes were at work, no doubt speedy
publication of them in the west would have been
very embarrassing. The suspicion is not un-
natural, therefore, that nothing but dishonest
purposes induced the present master of Savoy and
Nice to oppose such a boon to Turkey, Europe, and
India, as the telegraph by the Euphrates line.
We are assured now that the outbreak has been
provoked by the Christians themselves—even
French papers tell us so—and there is a strong sus-
picion that France has good reason to know. If it
be so, there is, we fear, too much reason to think
that the Christians were stimulated by evil coun-
sellors, whose master wanted a pretext for insur-
rection in order to divert his subjects' minds from
home politics. We think so the more, because the
Ilarcnites, from the best accounts we have access
to, do not
outnumber the Druses to the extent
an interesting article which we quote from
aeorttemporary. Indeed, weincline to thinking their
numbers approach pretty near to equality, though
all travellers mention the Maronites as the larger
ly.)dy. The Druses, however, are the more fana-
tical sect of the two. rr
...heir founder, HAREM,
though springing from Mahomedanism,
taught the
indifference of all actions and the equality of all
and on this basis founded a sect of
mystics, in their way ; since they have three grades,
the last of whom only are taught the esoteric doc-
trines of the sect. They have always been a more
furiously fanatical sect than the Maronites, corn.
biming the worst zeal probably of Mahometanism
and Heathenism too. The 11,1aronites had their origin
in the time of the Greek controversies about