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

doting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
EVERY EVENING.
Positively the last Week.
TO-NIGHT,
CUM UNE PETITE DAME.
And LES DEMOISELLES DE ST. CYR. Madlle.
Delphine Fix.
Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 20. ;
Gallery, ls.
Private Boxes, from Two 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. Docile
will make her first and only appearance this season.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
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 J.llstoricil Spectacle, entitled FAIR
ROSAMOND, Or the AMAZON CRUSADERS. To be followed by
Scenes in the Arena. To concluue with TIIE SPOILED
CHILD. Little Pickle, Miss Amelia Smith.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WERT.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolt!.

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA.
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.

CONCERTS.

Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, is Hall. 6d.
Comic 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, tc., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THR WHATHER.—Suw OFFICE. JULY 23. 1260.
• Yesterday (S ay) ;vas a fine day, but cool, for the 22d
00 of July. li'indfXortherly ; the thermometer ranging in
the shade mom 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.
TYis DlT.—Morning, sh. 7m.—Afternoon, sh. 28m.
To-mounew.-Morning, sh. 50m.—Afternoon, 6h. 13m,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1860.

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 Nicr[oLAs and
the 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 NICIIOLAS. 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, mast 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 prettyllitiaNly made, that we owe the break
up
the Euphratirnlegraph Company to the
op it
e.
ion of the French EMPEROR, and that too
aft r 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 theprestige
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 bona 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 deubt 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 foar, 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
Maronites, from the best accounts we have access
to, do not outnumber the Druses to the extent
stated in an interesting article which we quote from
.a contemporary. Indeed, we incline to thinking their
numbers approach pretty near to equality, though
all travellers mention the Maronites as the larger
body. The Druses, however, are the more fana-
tical se-A of the two. Their founder, HAKEM,
though springing from Mahornedanistn, taught the
indifference of all actions and the equality of all
religions, 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 doe-

trines of the sect. They havo always been a more
furiously fanatical sect than the Maronites, corn_
bining the worst zeal probably of Alahometanisra
and Heathenism too. The Maronites had their origin
in the time of the Creek controversies about