The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-23 00:00:00

THE WEATHER,.--SUN OFFICE, MAY 23, 1860.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
73 —highest since noon yesterday.
53 —lowest this morning and during the night.
72 —this day at noon.

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BAROMETER-29.98.
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Tll E SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1860.

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Two great Powers are again at -work in the
East. What they both aim at generally no one
can doubt ; what their special schemes may be,
whether they have any, or whether they only
intend to make themselves conspicuous on the
scene, and he ready to turn to advantage the chapter
of events, it is not easy to discern. That France
would like to be supreme in Egypt, and Russia on
the shores of the Bosphorus, is certain. Perfidious
Albion would, find the gate across her chief road
to India in the hands of the second Empire, and the
Battle of the Nile would be avenged by the Ruler
of France occupying the throne of the Caliphs,
or using their successors as viceroys ; while Russia
will never be satisfied till she has free access to the
Mediterranean, and till the CZAR becomes the
successor at Constantinople of the Greek Emperors
and of the heads of the Greek Church.

Long, however, Nvill the two great Empires
have diverse interests on this point. It might suit
Franca by the aid of Russia to drive England from
the seven Islands, from Malta, and from Gibraltar,
but that world only convert the Mediterranean
into a Franco-Russian lake. That would not do.
Russia at Constantinople would soon have a navy
equal to that of France, and a navy which might find
it much more politic to employ itself in checking the
movements of the latter, than in quarrelling with
its best customer ; and, except in Turkey, with a
power which is by no means antagonistic to her.
We may well be content with our share of Asia;
the Russian border is not likely to be advanced on
the side of Europe ; and for the rest, France is more
likely in the long run to be opposed to than to be
allied with Russia.

Still for the present the two Empires are evi-
dently acting in accord. The visit of so eminent a
Russian as the Archduke NicifOLAs to Paris can-
not be merely for pleasure ; and the coincidence of
the representations of the Russian Minister to the
Ministers- of Foreign Powers at St. Petersburgh,
on the subject' of the Christians in Turkey, with the
mission and language of the Marquis de LAVALETTE
at Constantinople, shows that there is an under-
standing between Russia and France: We find
also that there has been an effort to get up a case.
The Russian Prince DOIGOROWSKI has been visit-
ing the Ilerzegovine and Bosnia to see whether the
celebrated Hata Hamayoun was really acted. on,
and it is reported that he finds it a dead letter.
That the Turks do not treat the Christians as equals,
that the Christian rayahs are sadly oppressed, so
much so that he advised them to apply to the CZAR
and to ask his gracious and disinterested protection.
Of course petitions were dulj sent, and these were
the documents which Prince GORTSCIIAKOFF
showed to the Fonign Ambassadors at St. Peters.
burgh.

Nov, we have no doubt that Christian rayahs
in Turkey, like Hincloo ryots in Bengal, have much
that they may justly complain of, and much which
they suffer because they are Christians. England,
of course, would be the last Power in the world to
excuse this. No ane has done a tithe for real reli-