The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-03 00:00:00

A STLEv'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE._
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wm. BATTY.
Crowded Honses.—Re-engagement of the celebrated Dela-
vanti Troupe, Mr. George Hutchingson, and the Wonder of
the World, the Great Little Menoni.
PA Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Sept 8. commencing at Two o'clock.
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirety new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
Introducing the largest stud of big,hly-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day, including the greatest Equestrienne in the world,
Madlle. de Berg, and the Wonder of Wonders, Little Menoni.
Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7.
Box-aloe open daily from 11 till 4.
stage Manager—Mr. W. Wzwr.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolt'.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.--
EVERY EVENffiG,
A Grand Selection from
MARTHA,
And Selections from
DINORAH, TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, Is, Hall, od.
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 Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 2, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.98 ; rising steadily.
WlND—North-Westerly; light, with fine dry harvea,

weather.

SEPT. 3.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.

BARoMETL►R-30.13 ; still rising.
Wmrn—Northerly ; light, with fine sunshiny weather,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 30m.—Afternoon, 3h. 44m
To-Koußow.-Morning, 3h. 58m.—Afternoon, 4h. 12m

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 3, 1860.

The sanguinary retribution now being dealt out
by FUAD PAcHA among the fanatical ringleaders
of the Syrian revolt and massacres, will not be
sufficient to satisfy the just demands, or to allay
the natural solicitude excited by late events
throughout Christendom. Something more is re-
quired to bring about either of these good results
than a series of ruthless executions. A few among
the more conspicuous of the blood-stained marauders '
who have descended from their fastnesses in the
range of the Lebanon Mountains, to carry death
and desolation, fire and sword, through cities and
villages, throughout the whole country side, down
to the very shores of the Mediterranean—the chief
among these wretches it may be have already died
the death in well-merited expiation of their
wholesale atrocities—but when their remains
have all been buried away under the polluted
soil of Syria, the source of all these
horrors, unless something else be done, unless some-
thing better than mere retributive executions be
adventured upon by order of the Divan, will still
remain ! And that source—what is it but the
weakness and demoralisation of the Turkish Govern-
ment ? The recognition of this is in no way restricted
to one or two, or yet to two or three, of the Five
Great Powers of Europe. The whole of those five
great P• awers recognise the fact that it is so with
equal ell !arness. They have come now to be of one
mind up on the subject. England, and France, and
Austria, and Prussia, and Russia all think alike as
to the absolute and imperative necessity at length
of the Ottoman Porte putting its house in order
if it -wishes still to maintain its position on this
side of the Bosphorus. For four hundred years
and upwards the Turk has held that anomalous
position simply upon sufferance. The jealousies of
the Christian sovereignties have alone secured to
Won during these four centuries this otherwise
bywildering and explicable toleration. Eventually
the evil has been growing more potent than the
jealousies in the midst of which it has been rank-
li and expanding.

The last magnanimous war undertaken by the
Western Powers with a view to repel the
daring advance of the Autocrat for the law-
less seizure of Constantinople, has exhausted the
g enerosity of the two most civilized and puissant
among the great powers of Christendom. In return
for the blood and treasure squandered in generous
defence of the" rights" (such as they are) of Turkey,
trader the walls of Sebastopol,now but half-a-dozen
years ago, by Franco and England—the Christian
population of Syria has been treacherously
butchered in cold blood to the number of many
tbtousands, old and young, men, women, and
children, with the connivance, if not with the actual
co-operation, of the Mussulman authorities. Prior
to these dreadful occurrences, the weakness and the
demoralisation of the Turkish Government had been
fully recognised by the five great Powers of Chris-
tendom. The Syrian massacres have only
confirmed those five great Powers in the
conviction at which they had already arrived—

namely, a conviction as to the necessity, at last, for
their simultaneous interposition in behalf of the
Christian population of Turkey—a population long
notoriously ground down to the very dust under
the heel of the Mahometan Government. As far
back as the 23d of April, Prince GORTSCHAKOFF
had written explicitly upon this point to the various
Russian diplomatic aqents, in the name, of course,
exclusively of the Government of the AUTOCRAT,
but in the fullest accord and coincidence with the
views entertained upkon the subject by the whole of
the four other great Powers of Christendom. For
the express purpose, in effect, of setting the matter
in question at rest definitively—wrote the Itussau
Minister for Foreign. Affairs, at the date and in the
document already indicated—" and wishing to
establish as complete an understanding as possible,
I, by order of the EMPEROR, assembled round me
the representatives; England, Austria, France, and
Prussia. I point ed out to them the danger of
a crisis, the urgency of preventing it, and