The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

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THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Les'ee, Mr. 3. B. Buekstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commeree with
THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C.
C. Mathewe, Buck-
iss
stone, Compton, Chippendale, Ro, Mrs. Mathews, M
Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the new farce, entitled FITZSMYTHE OF
FITZSMYTHE HALL. Messrs. Buckstone, W. Farrell, and
Rogers ; Mrs. Wilkins and Miss Henrade.
To conclude with THE ODDITIES OF THE OHIO. By
the Leclercqs.

Caramence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, will be performed RICHELIEU.
Mr. Phelps.
To conclude with BOWLED OUT.
Commence at 7.

-Al) EL H
PITT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL..
rSole eroprietor and Manager, Mr. BenJ. Webster.
Reproduction of the powerful Adelphi drama, "The Flowers

of the Forest.'

Eleventh week of the American Actress, Miss Julia Daly.
THIS NENTNG, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
Mesrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Sturt, Eburne,
C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. a
Kelly, Mrs.
Billington, Miss Laidlaw.
After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Killington, Eburne, Miss Julia
Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw
Commence Ms.
at 7 Chatterley.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, Z 2 2s. ; Family Boxes, It
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45.: Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, 18. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery, fid.
Acting Manager —Mr. Wm. Smith.

WRENCH PLAYS—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Directeur, M. Talexy.—Le.see, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
EVERY EVENING.
Madlle. Delphine Fix.—Positively the last Week but Three.
TO-N IGHT,
LES PROJETS DE MA TANTE.
And LES PATTES DE MOITCHE. Madlle. Delphine
Fix and M. Paul Devaux.
Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ;
Gallery, ls.
Private Boxes, from Two Guineas.
Commence at 8.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

A STLEVS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY.
In consequence of the immense success of the MID-DAY
PERFORMANCE, ONE MORE will take place on Saturday,
July 14, to commence at 2 o'clock.
On Monday, July 9, 1880, and during the week, to com-
mence with the immensely successful Grand Historical
Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled " FAIR ROSAMOND, or
the AMAZON CRUSADERS." To be followed by Scenes in
the Cirque, supported by Madlles. De Berg, Monet, and
Leontine ; Messrs. Fernando, L'Epine, F. Watson, and Herr
Christoff, dco. &0., artistes of unequalled celebrity. Conclud-
ing with a Laughable Farce.
performance commence at 7.
Doors open at half-past 8,
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena--31. Felix Revolti.

CONCERTS.-

CANTERVURY HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOB
UST. OD'S OPERA.
FA
first Time in this Country.
Herbert.
heles Mr. C. Bernard.
Mephistop
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite ..... Miss Russell.
Conductor /dr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore,
tertain Macbeth, and numerous other
Enments.
Balcony, is Hall. M.
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, &c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THR WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 10, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.12.
WIND—E. to E.S.E ; moderate, with dull weather.

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THE SUN".
LONDON', TUESDAY, JULY 10, 18(3_0.

A terrible massacre of the Christians in Syria
has been commenced by the fanatical Druses of the
Lebanon. Unless England and France interfere
betimes between the Maronites and their mur-
derers, the whole of the believers in CHRIST in
those regions will have been ruthlessly destroyed,
their cities sacked, and the intervening'country laid
waste and barbarously devastated. The butchery
indeed has already, as we have said, begun in
dreadful earnest. Insomuch is the position of the
unfortunate Christian population of Syria recog-
nised to be perillous by the Allied Governments of
Western Europe, that while our own rulers have
without an instant's hesitation caused two British
men-of-war to proceed to Beyrouth instanter--the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs (M. DE THOU-
VENEL) has forwarded instructions to the Imperial
ambassador at Constantinople (the Marquis DE
LAVALLETTE) " directing him," says REUTER'S
Telegram, " that France from feelings of
humanity as well as in consequence of
former conventions to inform the Porte
concluded with Turkey, is bound to put a

stop to these horrible massacres !" Nay,
it is added explicitly in these instructions that the
Turkish authorities not being capable of defending
the Sultan's own subjects, France will concert, with
the other Powers, the most efficacious means for
preventing the continuation or recurrence of the
sanguinary deeds being enacted in Syria between
the range of the Lebanon and the shores of the
Mediterranean. How much more urgently is not
this intervention of the chief Powers of Christen-
dom required, if it can be proved that far beyond
any mere lack of capacity on their part to defend
the SULTAN'S own subject, those Turkish autho-
rities have actually been implicated with the
Druses in the massacre of the Christians in Syria!
Such, in point of fact, is understood already to have
been absolutely the case. It is notorious, we believe,
from one extremity of the Levant to the other, that
the heathenish Druses oftheLebanon have found not
only connivance, but direct encouragement among
more than one of the Mussalman officials of the Tur-
kish Government.
Time and again there are indications not
less clear in regard to Turkey than in regard
to Austria that the whole fabric of the State is
crumbling away from its very foundation. The
sick man is even now once more sickening. The
time is obviously approaching when he must be
sick unto death. Ever since the Turk took Con-
stantinople—he has had one foot in the grave.
T
conquering foot of his planted haughtily upon
the soil of Europe ! Theorists tell us that every
Child born into the -world has the seed of the particu-
lar disease that'must triumph at last (unless anti-
cipated by accident) latent in its new-born consti-
tution. It has been so throughout all these four
centuries past during which the Mahommetans
have held dominion in Europe among the
nations of Christendom.
Inthat very crowning
triumph, in that aTparent
culmination
osewohf
othceanstarreaodf
the Turk there was manifest
to i
history aright, to• those who are
endowed
t
the
source with any
clearness of politi prevision,
inevita-
ble defeat, the ger= of inexorable decline and dis-
solution. If the slope of Russia is towards the East
as the poetic and philosophic historian of France
has remarked—thee gravitation of Turkey is as un-
doubtedly back ag rain into Asia Minor. The Eu-
ropean rule of the:. Turk has been all along an
anomaly. It has never been accepted by Christen-
dom, it has only been tolerated. The beginning
of the end of that .same anomalous rule may, with