The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-17 00:00:00

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Ind shopkeepers in Paris on this momentous sub-
ject. " You English," say they, " are not in ear- W:N,
nest ; you are using
us in the war as your Manches.
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for traders use their distant customers ; the articles
you send to the seat of war iu the shape of soldiers „
are deficient in numbers, and latterly inferior in: 1
quality. We submit to the conscription from one en I
of Francs to the other ; our young men are taken
from their homes, and hurried off in six months te
the Crimea, while your Ministers, to keep up their
own popularity, dare not even mention the ballot
for the militia. Surely there is no equality or 'fair
dealing in this."
These, we assert, are words commonly made use
of by our Allies, who have themselves well what.
lantly fulfilled their undertakings, but tvtio 'can-
not be expected to continue their exertions, when
they hold, and hold with justice, sentiments such
as are expressed above. Frenchmen never will
believe that we are in earnest till they see some
effort on our part more effective than abortive at-
tempts to raise German, Italian, and Swiss legions,
or to levy mutinous Bashi-Bazouks and useless
Turkish contingents ; while in order, we suppose,
to give confidence to our latest invention—the
Cossacks of the Sultan—Colonel Tur is left, albeit
in British employ, to be dealt with by the tender
mercies of Austria, without an effort to save him.
Surely any sensible Englishman who reflects
upon all these things must arrive at the same con-
clusion as ourselves—that all this apparent warlike
energy on the part of our Premier is simply a
humbug, and that he is preparing the difficulties
on all hands which will ultimately compel the coun-
try to make peace, while he himself may keep the
appearance of being coerced by the votes of the
peace Cabinet which he himself has constructed,
and by the effects of the blunders of the blind in-
struments he has selected to assist him in "carry-
ing on the war."
Take the lat ppearance of abortive activity
shown by the a , the occupation of Kinbourn—
was any operation in war ever more false in prin-
ciple, or more insincere in its ostensible purpose ?
We believe not.

Our object is professed to have been, to destroy
effectually the naval power of Russia in the Black
Sea by ruining the docks and arsenals of Nicolaieff.
Surely, the natural mode of doing this was by go-
ing at once with a force, and at a season when there
might have been at least a probability of success.
But no, we go at the beginning of winter with an
idadequate expedition, and we take a Martello
tower, on a sand pit, 50 miles from our object ; an
oi. eratiou which can servo no other purpose but
that of giving warning to our enemy, and by the
spring we shall find the obnoxious establishments
of Kherson and Nicolaieff surrounded by leagues
of earthworks, and bristling with thousands of can-
non, raised and planted by the genius of Todtleben.
We can never force the river. Warned by the fate
of Sebastopol, " the Russians," as we heard said
by an expetienced. admiral, " will never come to
the neck of the bottle again."
By this miserable peddling all chance of ever
destroying the southern arsenals of Russia has been
rendered hopeless, and if peace be made, the Czar,
ip five years from the breaking up of the alliance,
May have his fleet as strong as ever in numbers,
Lind manned by sailors whom there is nothing what•
ever to prevent his training in the Caspian and the
Baltic, while the disruption of all former conditions
of society in the East, which must follow the events
of the last two years, will place at his disposal the
entire maritime population of Greece and the
islands. The permanent menace of Sebastopol will
to simply transferred to the Dnieper and the Bug.
We find by the arrival of the Overland Mail that,
i
, a addition to the circumstances prepared and made
=early to coerce this country into a peace, some of
Nhich we have enumerated before—namely, the
artificial money, the artificial dearness of bread, the
threatened American quarrel, and many others too
numerous to mention—we find, we say, that various
',lndian difficulties have been prepared in that em-
pire in readiness for the arrival of the news of the
fall of Kars, and the effect likely to be produced
lin Central Asia by that announcement.
It is now understood that the Sontal insurrection
,remains in full vigour, that a religious war has
broken out in Oude, necessitating the annexation
of that wretchedly misgoverned country ; that a
. quarrel has arisen between the Ameer of Caubul and
the heirs of the Khan of Candahar ; and that the
former threatens to call upon England to fulfil her
!treaty liabilities, and march into Affghanistan to
place on the musnud at Candahar the very prince
whom she formerly—despite of justice, policy, and
honour—removed by violence from the government
of Cali bul, under the auspices fp° the very statesman
who is now Premier of England.
If we add to all this, that it is rumoured that
Herat has fallen into the hands of the Persians, we
must admit that the intelligence of our mishap at
Kars will find a state of things in India which may,
without exaggeration, be added to the list of coer-
cive difficulties necessary to force England into a
peace which will certainly be anything but desir-
able or honourable—a state of things which will
afford but little possibility of disposing of the troops
of our Elstern Empire to assist in repairing the
errors and disasters of our " vigorous carrying on
of the war" of the West.
The /surrender of Kars is announced on Russian
authority, in another column. There is now, in-
deed, no doubt of the fact. What, then, is the
amount of disgrace which should accrue to those
who left its garrison to perished unaided, or of the
punishment which ought to await them if the Eng-
lish nation are any longer what they formerly pro-
fessed to be—resolute and honest men ?

DARING ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.

PORTSMOUTH, Sunday.—A daring burglary was com-
mitted here this morping on the Portsea premises of
Alest-rs. E. and E. Emanuel, goldsmiths and silversmiths,

situated on the 11,,rd, facing the harbour, and within

one door of the dockyard gate, where a strong force of
police, under Lieut. Hall, R.N., is constantly on duty.

On the left hand side of Messrs. Emanuel's is the naval
provision establishment of Messrs. Chambers, and on
the right the army outfitting establishment of Mr. Woods.

Mr. Ezekiel Eal;nuel's family retired to rest between 11

and 12 o'clock last night, at which time the premises and
their contents were all safe. Between 1 and 2 o'clock
he was disturbed by some noise, which caused him to
pit out of bed, but as he saw from his chamber lights
moving about the neighbours' houses ho attributed the
noise to their lodgers or other inmates, and went to bed
again. lie was again disturbed in about half-au-hour
afterwards, and again got out of bed and looked down
upon a glans cupola which lights the sitting-room com•
niunicating with the shop, but seeing no light there, and
still hearing, as he fancied, his neighbours moving about,
again retired to bed, it would appear that this must
have been the time the robbery was in progress. On one
of the servants going down at half-past 7 o'clock this
morning she was surprised, on entering the sitting room
which lt els into the shop, to find the doors of the latter
partly open, and implements of housebreaking lying upon
the floor. She hastened to call her mother, who, on
descending to the shop, found that a burglary bad been
committed. The thieves had evidently been distu ,
' and most probably by his looking through the grto watch,cupola,s
under which it is supposed some person was s
the latter
who of course could see Mr. Emanuel, while
could not see any one below.
On examining the shop Mr.
ins brooches,and other portab e j
_Y
estimated,lorethousandsbuotf
Emanuel found the window cleared l s ofli geowldeureirngst,hcohvaainlus
may be safely stated
of which cannot atp raesteruitueb,eifacueut autil
chronometers, job watches, bracelets,
pounds. It is important to add, however, that all the
oachfndetshts other
of
f plate,
m jewellery, left by their customers in the charge
being locked up in
their strong room, escaped depredation. The police were
er for sate custody or repair,
immediately apprised of the robbery, and Mr. Superin-
tendent Leggett took the promptest steps to communie
cate with various parts of the kingdom through the tele-
graph and other effective means. The Mayor of the
borough and the police made an inspection of the pre
raises robbed this morning, when it was discovered that
the thieves had effected an entrance in the first place by
the bottle store of Messrs. Antill and Peters, the wine
amid spirit merchants, which is situated in Wickham-
street, immediately in the rear of Messrs. Emanuel's
house. This they accomplished by forcing the staple of
the padlock ; they then climbed the ladder, and reached
the store, in the gable or sloping roof of which they
made a passage large enough for a boy or a slight man
by removing the battens and tiles. This admitted them
on to the gutter of the roof of Mr. Etnanuere workshop
which is detached from the dwelling and separated by 0
yard. They took off the tiles of this roof so as to admit
a man's body, and thence broke through the ceiling o
the workshop, and, without stealing any of the valuable
plate or chronometers strewn about that room, descend
tieead
the stairs, crossed the yard, and wrenched open
en-
kitchen window shutters, by which in"if-ngrotohneey and
tered the house, and got into the
paper to prevent re-
covered with a sheet of brown
shop. The fanlight over the shop dsoiottrhiiniteeethbeyurglearree
ftection into the street from the interior w
remarkable are the ex-
tremeits success more than
at work. What renders the boldness of the robbery an d
houses,and the fact h
t a t
publicity of the establishment, the security and
respectability of the adjoining.
house so daringly plan-
f whom were directly over the rooms where
dared, some o
n
work.
there are 20 persons living the
the thieves were at

THE ntISR MAGISTRACY.--The Lord Chanoellor, upon
the recommendation of the Marquis of Westmeath, lieu•
tenant of the county, has been pleased to appoint God -
frey Fetherston H., of Ballinderry, to the commission o f
the peace for the county.
THE MURDERERS OF THE LATE MISS HINDS.—We
(Newry Paper) stated some time since, that a man, wh o
gave what was considered to be a fictitious name, we
arrested by head-constable Madders, on suspicion. 0
being one of the parties concerned in the aviessin,atTn
of Miss Charlotte„, Hinds, in the county Cavan. ue,in-
dividual still remains in custody, and some
particularstheCUSPi
ciono 'Met-tabled againd
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ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
THIS EVRITING,

Will be performed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Characters
by Messrs. Emery, F. Vining, G. Vining, A. Wigan, Robson, &c. ;
Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs Fitzallan.
Will be performed SPILL WATERS DEEP.
Followed by XS REWARD.
To conclude with CATCHING A MERMAID.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. J. IT. Anderson, 18, Norfolk-street, Strand.
LAST FEW DAYS.

Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio '
THIS, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock,

will tie presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Xppoint-
manta, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two
parts, by Professor Anderson.
After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. TlA.f.l*-
AN-FIOUR Wm! TUE SPIRITS, being the most surprising and
interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any
theatre.

Revival, hi an Improved form, of the astounding novelty which
t London 10 years ago, the GREIT GUN TRICK !

Prices of admission:—Private Bees, 11. lls. 6d. ani li. Is. ;
Orchestra Stalls, 45.; Dress Boxes, 35.; Upper Boxes, 2s ; Pit,
s.; Gallery, 61. No Half-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5
daily.

Grand Morning Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock
Doors open at Half-past One.

A.STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITIIEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
Immense success of Rockwood
This spirited and exciting Hippoirorne (with Turpin's Ride to
York) embraces the principal events of Ainsworth's Rookwood.
THIS EYENING,
The successful Enuldrame called TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK ; or,
the Heir of Rookwood.
After which the Varied Equestrian ACTS in the CIRCLE.
To conclude with UNE FOUR POUR RIRE ; or, Mirth-Moving
Entertainment.
Immense preparations are making for the Christmas Comic Pan-
tomime, written by Mr. Nelson Lee, called Harlequin and St George
and the Dragon, or the Seven Champions of Christendom.
llox..olice open from Eleven till Font. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director, 111. W. Cooke. jun.