The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-07 00:00:00

TREY LON'DON, FRIDAY EiVE.NIII4(I, SEPTEMBER 7 1R55

Matthews, Gent., to be Ensign. 2d Regiment—John
Blaksley, Gent., to be Ensign.
Aberdeenshire Royal Regiment of Militia—Thomas John
Stafford flotehkiu, Gent., to be Ensign.

Royal Perthshire Rifle St. Leger
Durdin, Gent., to be Ensign..
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let or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Ensign
Henry Mount Parkerson to be Lieutenant.
2.1 or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Lieutenant
George Chaster Wood to be Captain, vice Longo, resigned;
Charles Applewhaite, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Bloom,
resigned.
Norfolk Militia Artillery—Charles Robert Hobart, Esq.,
to be Captain ; Augustus Paterson, Gent. (late Captain.
68th Infantry), to be First Lieutenant; Edward Henry
Rust D'Eyro, Gent., to be First Lieutenant ; Robert Bacon
Longe, Gent., to be First Lieutenant.
West Essex Militia—Ensign Henry Gillett to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Crowe, resigned; Wm. Maling Wynch, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Gillett, promoted.
Ist Royal Lanarkshire—Robert Savory Rouse, Gent.,
to be Ensign.
Lanarkshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—John
Hamilton Montgomery, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Hozier,
promoted ; Win. Allan Woddrop, Gent., to be Cornet,
vice &Lean, promoted ; Hector Frederick M'Lean, Geut.,
to be Cornet, vice Moesman, promoted.
Northumberland and Newcastle Regiment of Volunteer
Cavalry—Robert Bell, Esq., late Captain in the sth Dra-
goon Guards and Brevet-Major in the Army, to be Cap-
tain, vice Cadogan, deceased ' - Charles Francis Shum,
Esq., late Captain in the 37th Regiment, to be Captain,
vice Atkinson, resigned; Cornet William Losh Anderson
to be Lieutenant, vice Bewicke, resigned ; John Ogle,
Gent., to be Cornet, vice Anderson, promoted.

BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Godfrey, rgg merchant, Shepherdess-fields, Mid-
dlesex, to surrender, Sept. 20, at twelve, and Oct. 19, at
half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee, Basiughall-street ; Sturmy, Wellington-
street, Southwark.

William Pattullo, baker, Thornhill-place, Holloway,
Sept. 19, at twelve. and Oct. 16, at half-past twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alder-
manbury ; Sadgrove, Mark-lane.
George Hancock, builder, Fenton, Stoke-upon-Trent,
Sept. 26 and Oct. 27, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham;
Smith, Birmingham.

Joseph Atherley, apothecary, Mountaorrel, Leicester-
shire, Sept. 18 and Oct. 9, at ten, at the Nottingham Dis-
trict Court. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Ingle-
sant, Loughborough ; Hodgson, Birmingham.
John Granville Hopkinson, beer-house keeper, Notting-
ham, Sept. 25, and Oct. 9, at half-past ten, at the Not-
tingham District Court. Harris, official assignee, Notting.
ham ; Deverill, Nottingham ; dodgson, Birmingham.
Thomas Read, builder, Nottingham, Sept. 25 and Oct. 9,
at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Harris, official
assignee, Nottingham ; Motteram and Knight, Birming-
ham.

Edward Wadge, auctioneer, Linkinhorn, Cornwall,
Sept. 20 and Oct. 18, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter; Eiworthy, Plymouth.
Christopher Vickry Bridgman, scrivener, Tavistock,
Sept. 20, and Oct. 25, at one, at the Exeter District Court.
Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter ; Stogdon, Exeter.
Abraham Taylor, coal merchant, Westgate, Halifax,
Sept. 27, and Oct. 22, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; J. H. Mitchell,
Halifax ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
James Finlinson, share dealer, Headingley, Leeds, Sept.
27, and Oct. 26, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Joseph Simpson, painter and paper-hanger, Leeds, Sept.
27 and Oot. 22, at eleven, at the Leeds Ditsrict Court.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Richardson and Gaunt,
Leeds.

William Marratt, attorney, Doncaster, Sept. 22 and
Oct. 20, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin,
official assignee, Sheffield ; J. and W. Collinson, Doncas-
ter ; Hoole and Yeomans, Sheffield.
Wm. Holmes,' worsted spinner, Virilsden, Bradford,
Sept, 24, and Oct. 26, at eleven, at the Leeds Dicta ict
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Taylor, Bradford;
Blackburn, Leeds.
Thomas Linfoot, builder, York, Sept. 20, and Oct. 18,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official
assignee, Leeds ; Newton and Robinson, York ; Bond and
Barwick, Leeds.

Joseph Player, mining agent and dealer in shares, City,
Sept. 21, at one, and Oct. 16, at two, at tho Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court;
Bishop and Son, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
Thomas Orton Goodwin, earthenware dealer, Longton,
Staffordshire, Sept. 29, and Oct. 19, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee,
Birmingham • Young, Longton; fithigson, Birmingham.
Bright Eagland and William Crampton, cotton manufac-
turers, Bedford, in, the county of Lancaster, Sept. 19 and
Oct. 10, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Pat, official assignee, Manchester; Potter, Manchester.
Jacob Abraham Jacques and Louis Selig, traders, Sept.
20 and Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Turner, officical assignee, Liverpool; Evans and Sun,
Liverpool.

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Joseph Aldridge, chemist and druggist, Leeds, Sept.
20 and Oct. 18, at eleven, at the Leedsi District Court
Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Clarke, Leeds.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

Robert Smith, slater, Glasgow ; creditors meet Sept. 21,
in the Globe Hotei there.

Angus Falconer, provision merchant, Eliuburgh ; Sept.
17, in Cooper's Hotel there.

,SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

( From the Times of this day. )

failure of it is said to have create) in the minds of the •
Czar and his advisers. We are told that the defeats of
the Aiwa and of Ihkerman did not excite anything like
the same despon,leLey. Ton, the war was still a 1 be-
fore the enemy ; but this last attempt was :inlytrently
male to avert the hazard of seeing the great strtaighold
starved out.

At the eame time, the plans hitherto pursued by the
allies, and now about to be bruucht to the supreme test
of execution, have made these blows only a secondary
part of their operations; for even if Sebastopol could net
be thus hindreci from obtaining supplies, the assailants
were determined to try to force its ramparts by sheer
strength. We cannot say whether this was the only, or
the best, alternative in the option of the generals. But
one thing is manifest, that they have determined to bring
this experiment to a conclusive test before embracing
the line of conduct so much more usual in sieges—we
mean the clearing of the surrounding country from all
the enemy's forces. The upshot of this singular position
of the belligerents will be, if we succeed, that
having been practically allowed to throw all her might
into the defence, will receive a far worse overthrow than
is generally involved in the capture of an exterior for-
tress. Suite persons, whose judgment is entitled to re-
spect, have disapproved of the plan, as rendering the
reduction of the place the more difficult ; but even these
persons will be ready to admit that, when once gained,
the success will be immeasurably more important, and
wi'l go further towards delivering Europe fro►❑ the fear
of Russian aggressions than would the taking of a dozen
frontier fortresses and strongholds by the usual processes
of war; which processes, besides, are very tediou,, as
every one kn )ws— imply previous victories in the field,
thoroughly followed up, and are not always feasible in
such a country as the Crimea. We do riot say they
ere not as a matter of fact, for we have not the
means of judging ; and it is possible, though, we
trust, not probable, that the necessity will arise to
try that problem. But, meantime, if Sebastopol
falls bef:•re our present attacks, that event will
not merely be equivalent to the defeat of many
large separate armies of the enemy, but will have
actually comprised and involved the destruction of
such armies. In 1812, Napoleon had great difficulty
in getting the Russians to fight pitched battles with
him at all ; and it would have been better for them to
have refrained from even those which they did adven-
ture ; for then, at the end of the campaign, those troops
which were demoralised and shattered, would have been
still in hand, and the debilitation of Russia would have
amounted to nothing We are quite sure that it is not
everywhere the enemy would meet us, as he has been
induced to do in the Crimea, by the fact that the road
for the relief of Sebastopol remained open, and that he
hoped to wear us out chiefly by the tedious combats
under that shelter of which he intended to take advan-
tage. We should not have met, first, the army of Bes-
sarabia, and then the troops of the Don Cossacks, and
those who had evacuated Anapa and the other ports—
then the troops from Podolia and Volhynia, as well as
all that coulo be collected in the middle of European
Russia --and now the frontier army of Poland, Suppose
Russia bed dismantled Sebastopol, and that, seeing it
was in our power (we know not whether this was so)
to intercept all communications, she had riot only ab-
stained from sending any fresh forces into the Crimea,
but had withdrawn the garrison, we do not hesitate to
say that the evacuation of that peninsular would not
have been to her the tenth part of the injury which she
has already sustained, either morally or materially, nor,
as against her ambition, anything approximating to that
guarantee which her exhaustion and prostration have
given to Europe. She will not recover her dangerous
and mischievous strength in our time.
If she had played the waiting game of which we
speak, and then refused to make peace, we do question
whether we should have effected in the cause of general
security those gains which are now a fact. At present,
when her armies, one after the other, melt and vanish
in the Crimea, it is exactly the same as if we bad beaten
them in the provinces from which they have been de-
spatched, and that would practically have been an im-
possibility. A great personage, we believe, has said
that the siege of Sebastopol is " running sore" in the
frame of our giant enemy. And it certainly is. When
we have destroyed that place, after the struggle which
has occurred, we could afford, if so minded, to return
from the Crimea the next day, to dismiss our previous
anxiety about the power of Russia, and to leave her
stretched, all bleeding and mangled as it were, on that
fatal peninsula.