The Sun. — 1860-07-10 (London, England)

STANISLAUS. In the retribution called for by that detestable act we may recognise the source of the continuance even until now of the Turkish sway in Europe—a prolongation of power by a State so effete and worn-out (surviving thus among all the vigorous races of our modern Christian civilisation ?) otherwise we may say altogether is explicable. Again and again the Mahometan rulers at Constantinople have found their real support in the contentions of the rival Powers of Chistendom. Until at length only six short years ago we all remember how the allied armies of France and England fought and bled and died under the walls of Sebastopol to save from the lawless and ambitious grasp of the Russian Autocrat the fair and beautiful city of Constantinople. Happily for the Turks, however, they have had now for the best part of the last half century upon the Imperial throne of the Sultan-Caliph, a prince sufficiently enlightened to strengthen his expiring power by the creation of something like the eidolon of the soul of liberality under those ribs of death theframework of the old Turkish Government. Such has been advantage secured to the power of the Sublime Porte during the reign of the present Sultan, ABDUL MEDJ ID, in pursuance of the policy previously inaugurated by his great and gifted father and predecessor. Notwithstanding which sagacious policy, however, the doom of Turkey is " coming out to view " day by day more and more legibly, as one may see, upon the wall of the Sultan's Palace upon the shores of the Bosphorus. It comes flashing to us again in these announcements of the electric telegraph—those tidings of the butchery of our fellow: Christians in Syria by the Druses of the Lebanon, pagan fanatic hearken on in their terrible work of murder and desolation, first by the secret sympathies, afterwards by the open encouragement of the Mussulman officials representing the authority of the Turkish Government. The massacres in Syria threaten in point of fact to open up yet again, it may be at last for once and for all, that problem, the solution of which has been so often postponed, that problem, long since world-famous under its different phases as the Eastern Question. The crimes of the Druses, the complicity in those crimes of the Mussulmans, now seem to require that that Question shall at length be definitively answered by some united action on 'he part of the dominant Powers of Christendom.  There is no prof whatever that GARIBALDI con nives at all this ; his own nature is above it. Our Government has positive information that he takes the strongest measures he can to prevent it. He is not the man to like the biggest villain on earth to be hunted to death by five or six thousand of his former victims. It were more creditable to him to punish the wretch by due course of law—or, if he were the tool of others who but used his base nature for their atrocious purposes, to leave him to the penalty of universal abhorrence and of his own remorse. As Lord WODEHOUSE observed, " There could be no doubt that General GARIBALDI deserved the highest credit for the general spirit of moderation he had shown since the commencement of these transactions—and it must not be forgotten that if, in the excitement of the revolution, some outrages were committed by the people of Sicily, outrages had also been committed by the royal troops which were perfectly well known to the world, and which certainly bad not been surpassed by anything done by the people of Sicily." And most truly did Lord BROUGHAM retort—" I believe there has been no cause known in the world which has met more universal acceptance than the cause of Sicily, with Gen. GARIBALDI at its head, against the tyrant of Naples and his emissaries, whether in the form of sbirri, policemen, or soldiers—and those soldiers, I firmly believe, only for a season remaining under allegiance to that King. I am told there is a constitution imposed upon Naples by a certain high authority elsewhere. That will be a complete failure, in my firm belief ; and in my entire and hearty hope and prayer it will fail entirely to save that detestable tyrant." We need hardly add that to the last prayer of his .ordship we most heartily say—