The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-28 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1855.

Although the telegraph to Balaklava has been
duly opened, and intelligence from the Crimea
may now be received within a few hours, the
country is still without information as to the pro-
gress of the siege, and the real state of affairs
before Sebastopol. This is really inexcusable
trifling. Enormous sacrifices have been made by
all classes throughout the country to carry on the
War vigorously and efficiently. Every pecuniary
demand has been promptly and liberally complied
with. Nor have we spared the blood of our
brethren in the just and honourable cause in which
we have embarked. Why, then, has information
been withheld I Why has Lord RAGLAN main-
tained a perverse silence, when the means of
transmitting intelligence are so readily available
We confess that we cannot understand this
ominous taciturnity. It cannot, under the peculiar
circumstances of the case, be supposed that "no
news is good news." The worst interpretation
may be given to the mystery, and what may
really be ascribable only to the apathy and indif-
ference of the Commander-in-Chief may be pro-
ductive of very prejudicial consequences to the
nation.

It is now universally admitted that Peace must
be conquered—that no satisfactory arrangement
can be concluded until some great success has at-
tended the Allied arms in the Crimea. The sus-
picious and dilatory conduct of Austria proves
that she is biding her time, and will not decidedly
commit herself until unequivocal indication be
perceptible as to which is the winning side.
Hitherto the proceedings at the Conferences
and in the Crimea have mutually influenced
each other. The General has been waiting for
diplomatists—the diplomatists for the General.
Lord RAGLAN has been almost as anxious to avoid
injuring the town of Sebastopol (with the excep-
tion of the fortifications) as Admiral DUNDAS was
to spare Odessa. He, perhaps, conceived that
its existence might be considered as a make-
weight with Russia. A very probable supposition
if he knew that its destruction would not be even
demanded at Vienna. On the other hand, the
Plenipotentiaries, by submitting to so many tedious
delays by their polite request that Russia should
assume the initiative as to the means by which
effect would be given to the principle of the Third
Point, clearly showed that they anticipated some
intelligence from the seat of War that would con-
firm Austria, aadma.keßusaia anxious to enter into
a treaty on the exceedingly easy terms tendered
for her acceptance. Lord RAGLAN was he "Deus
ex machin a " who was to extricate Lord J. RUSSELL
from his difficulties, while he, good easy man,
hoped that the pending negotiations would termi-
nate his labours, and that he had only to do nothing
in order to obtain the coveted step in the Peerage,
_tehheHaprelroritßeteeoeyeseaul Highness the Duchess of Cambridge ar.d
Suffield,
dy Cambridge,
H
ruvres, attended by Lady
accompanied by a pension for himself and his two
Purves, and Colonel Stephens,m
immediate successors, or possibly the grant of anajSoorcilletoymoef
Pviaoiunmtetros in Water Colours with a visit, yiehl‘sieterday, pre-
immediate sum of money, equivalent to a perpe- its being opened to the public.
tual pension, as it was generously intimated be On Monday last, before leaving Vienna, Lord John
Itussell paid a final visit to Prince Mette •
It is expected that before the end of ther ate
andb. summer
AAlgeria
e the
ri
would prefer so long ago as October last before
the fire was even opened against Sebastopol. It electric communication between Marseilles
will be complete.
was, in fact, a repetition of the old story, when
0,1 Wednesday steam-boats will commence running
"Lord Chatham, with his sword already drawn, three times a week, in connection with the Eastern
Was waiting for Sir Richard Straha,n ; Counties Railway, from Antwerp to Harwich.
The ivitcyor of Manchester and the heads of the corn-
Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em,
inereiarbodies have received replies to the addvesses
Was waiting for the Earl of Chatham." with which they last week greeted the Emperor of the
We have seen the result. Between the two 1 French.
stools the interests of the nation have fallen to the
hi.TGherreeeeistnheo truthDeke
owhateverfmarlbo inr u the reported death of
ground,. and should it not retrieve its position it The new building connected gwith the Asylum for
" a Idiots, which Prince Albert has kindly consented to open
will
continue
oafs it has partially become,
laughing-stook this summer, is at Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey. There is
These Europe."
disastrous results may, in in the neighbourhood an agricultural school of discipline
boys, which was opened by Prince Albert in 1849.
" be attributed to the easinessa great degree, firrT
he
Parliament last of both Houses of ;
1 Fund,
Exhibition of Art Contributions to the Patriotic
which will close this evening, at 121, Pall-mall,
seeM°lll and
.o leave everything in the readiness is to bep Piccadilly.
Government, on Thursday next, at Burlington-
th
Government, although 'Aron.
previously been afforded of mignishands of the
h°l-1171:en Mr. Beyrkeley's motion for the ballot is made,
Ministerial
had major Reed intends tol move a.ser amendment that the
ive one.
and inefficiency. It is true that thr.eal incapacity proposed m
Davidson. iilitchell aereyapnedrCillosmo W. Gordon, charged
fives of the People asserted their o„„„ePreselita- with a breach of the Bankruptcy laws, were further ex-
"" dignity, amined yesterday at Guildhall, and again remanded.
and refused to be converted into political cyphers The Caledonian Mercury appeals to the humane on
in all relating to the management of the Wr hehalf of a poor woman, of the name of Rice, who has
a.
just been confined of her sixth pair of
twins. She has
One of the most essential points is that the new tiad, besides, eight single children, making twenty in all,
telegraph should, when not required by the Go_ Zfhewl'on she has at present thirteen alive. The eldest of
roily is only eighteen years of age!
vernment, be dedicated to the public use, and Aua
AMAX ARRIYALS.—FALMOUTII, FRIDAY.—The
that all persons should be allowed to avail them- lap.etvonintrah, Captain Neatby, and Lady Ann, Captain
"Ives of the facilities thereby afforded, on reason- \havelandeitpatmage
Sydney, were off this morning, and
able terms, when it is not otherwise engaged. If ..oApinic:,,trzws received at Turin, from Constasti-
it be not so, we shall only hear the most meagre 7.01-n.otiLnad bteen apa4fLa_t:Titsation. eneral de Cavero,
Constagn He
of the Piedmontese
'and un• •
Intelligible accounts, doled out at long in-
inn'insurmounttale
lie had scarcely landed at
tetvals. Eve
aThiengEorefntehe
earriny h and the vic
cultieerceivietd
re
appearedto to
h
the Legislature itself will,
hathrest for their own
as heretofore, be compelled to receive all
• its valuable information from the graphic coin. graphi.c wire betweenVarnagaZo3°- tiP a separate tele-
e preparing tr„ t
munications of the correspondents of the public The Bucharest correspondent ofl
exclusive use.
journals a week after the facts have been
authority of a letter from Bralloe Fremden Blatt,
known to the Government. The evidence on the
Buss:an3haveewangaitnhfiereclatusan
twheerme Loirriftadre. Danube from Galatz, and forced
cr,eLts.littems
etnhwatht.hhe
Already elicited before Mr. ROEBUCK'S Committee