The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, L NDON, SA I Uilli AY

the end of the month, and it is something „of
wb ich Lord DERBY' sGovernment may well be proud,
that they have effected more real business, within
little more than four months, than their prede-
cessors in any two previous sessions.

The atrocious massacre at Jeddah has, it ap-
pears, been supplemented by another act of
Mahommedan brutality in Candia, almost enacted
under the sanction of men high in authority. It
is to the honour of VELY PACIIA, and other in-
fluential persons, that they strenuously resisted
the servile bending of their colleagues to mob dic-
tation, and resisted to the last the attempt to
enforce Lynch-law against a Christian, merely on
account of his faith.

It is, as yet, impossible to say what may have
been the magnitude of the offence committed by
the unfortunate youth, who was subsequently
murdered, with the sanction and connivance
of the Turkish Admiral, An MET PA OHA.
It is said that he, being a Greek servant, had
assassinated his Mussulman master, that ho had
confessed the crime, and been sentenced to death
by competent authority. It was, however, essen-

tial that the sentence should be confirmed at
Constantinople, before it could be carried into
execution. A ferocious mob, however, de-
manded instant vengeance, not only against
the supposed criminal, but uttered the
most sanguinary threats against all Christians.
They even insulted some of the authorities who
endeavoured to allay their excitement.
The matter occurred on the 2d July instant,
and on the morning of the 3d VELY PACHA was

informed that the culprit had been- tried, con-
demned, and executed during the night. He
forthwith attended the Council to protest against
an act of such outrageous illegality, and there
learned that the execution had not actually taken
place, but that it was the opinion of the Admiral
and a majority of the Council that he should be
given up to the mob, in order to allay the excite-
ment. Ho was, however, permitted to endeavour.
to appease the infuriated miscreants, a task
from which he narrowly escaped with his life.
All this time the Admiral had ample force at
his command to suppres3 the tumult, to which,
however, he preferred truckling—all his efforts
'being directed to compel VELY PA CHA to sign the
warrant of execution, a mandate with which, to
his honour, he refused to comply.

The wretched lad was strangled, with the direct
sanction of AHMET PACHA, and the mutilated
body dragged through the city and paraded before
the different European Consulates—the mob
howling, "Let us show theca dogs that we also
can obtain what we desire." , Under such circum-
stances it was felt that there was no safety for any
Christian, and a number of families sought safety
in flight, leaving property behind them to a large
amount.

It is now to be seen what course will be
adopted by the Governments that have been so
gros,dy insulted and abused in the persons of their
diplomatic servants, to avenge the bitter wrong
inflicted on them by Mussulman fanatics. At

Jeddah there was an organised conspiracy, in
which many thousand Talks were implicated,
without even the slightest pretence or reason.
Without anything to extenuate their brutality,
they butchered not only the representatives of
France and England, but helpless females
and innocent childten. IJ, is to be rc-

gretted that the commander of the Cyclops did
not inflict summary vengeance on the sanguinary
miscreant!. Probably he did not feel quite ctr-
tain as to the manner in which such energetic and
decisive proceedings would be received at home, and
therefore contented himself with affording shelter.

u al as to eWcapd rroin ter. We cannot,
however, believe that the Government would ob-

ject to the most vigorous measures in such a case,
such as the honour of the British flag and the

interests Of humanity alike dethanded.

We shall soon learn the nature of the prcceedings
instituted by Co Turkish Government. We
strust
that they may be commensurate with the magni•
tude of the outrage, and that they may be such as
fully and completely to satisfy the just indigna-
Von and reasonable demands of the Cabinets of
St. James's and of the Tuileries.

The unusual circumstance of a political pamph-
let running rapidly into a second edition has
been witnessed—not in any way to our own sur-
'prise—in the instance of the really ad nirabla
brochure entitled "Phases in Politic--,"* more
than once cordially commended by us upon the
occasion of its first appearance. The ingenious
author of this remarkable and caustic resume of
recent occurrences in Parliament has prefixed to
the new edition of hie argument a few pertinent
and sparkling pages, bringing events down to

a moment almost immediately contemporaneous.
In these "addiioni" Mr. LENDRICK, our pamph-
leteer, naturally enough takes occasion to refer
somewhat exultingly to the justification of all his

I
sagacious reasonings as to the prospects of the
newly-installed DERBY-DISRAELI arvern ment.
His reference to the graduated dwindling of the
supposititious majority against Ministers upon
Mr. CARDWELL'S memorable and most re-
doubtable motion—a majority becoming, like
ErGELINA'S waist, " small by degrees and
beautifully less," lading, in Let, from 180 to
150, then to 130, afterwards to 100, next to 70,
and eventually to 50, where it stopped up 'to the
moment of his sudden evaporation in an igno-
minious withdrawal—is as drolly cruel as it is
tersely epigrammatic. His allusions, therefore,
to the edifying theory laid down, during the de-
bate, as to what constitutes a private letter, as

certainly, was there a happier opportunity for a
smart and witty pamphleteer. Of this opportu-
nity Mr. LENDRICK has availed himself at once
judiciously and delightfully.