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 t) 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 the:framework 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 Govern. ment. 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.  Poor Lord NORMANBY seems to be haunted by a spirit from Italy, which neither Lord WODEHOUSE nor Lord BROUGHAM can lay, and which allows him no repose. Since his model Italian Court has had to go on tramp, all at Florence has gone wrong. The arch-sinner MAZZINI has had more influence than ever. The Provisional Government has been far more tyrannical than the Lieutenant of Austria. His letters, of course from parties perfectly disinterested, assure him that all is tyranny and misrule ; doubtless the postcripts add that the Florentines sigh for the glorious days of Ducal freedom. Then, steaming in fancy across to Sicily, he sees GARIBALDI, if not personally cruel and barbarous, tolerating barbarities in others; and seeing that, against the laws of nations, he has at the voice of a nation assumed the Dictatorship, he  is held responsible for all the misdeeds of the infuriated Sicilians. Unlucky man ! Neapolitan soldiers and police have provoked the natives to retaliate for imprisoning and torturing patriots and innocent citizens, and even for crucifying them on the walls of their prisons ; and GARIBALDI is to answer for the blows struck by the hands he has untied!  Lords BROUGHAM and