The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-21 00:00:00

TIMATRE-RCY 1f , DRITRY.LALIE.

Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVEN 11114.
Will he performed the opera LA SON SAMBULA. Amina, Ma.
dame Gassier: Rudolph°, .ignor Gassier. Lisa, Ma Jame ar-
tinl ; A essio, Signor Bettini
T. conclude with a Grand Ballet Diverti somont.

tip.ATdE o.oi AL liArliAliKKT

Under .he nianairement of Mr. Back3tone.
THIS EVENING.
olr P DTT 1. Character by
Will be Perfoed TH E AC "RE:4S
; Miss Reii9s Ith,
Mow& owe.
W rm.
Farrel, gers, E. Villiers, 8;o
miss Cushman, &C.

After which, a new Extravaganza, caed THE NEW HAY-
IIKAKItkIir SPRING 4EETI,G, 1853.
To conclude with OUR MARY ANNE.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
'Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES Kzaw.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY.
To ccnclude with KING HENRY THE ET'IIITIT. Q leen Ka-
tharine, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal A ol'ey, Mr. C. Kean.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPRI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress. Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,

Witt be performed the corned- of P PRY. Principal cha-
racters by Messrs. C. Sel`.y and Wright ; Mi.s M. Keeley, Airs. L.
Marni.Y, end Mi.s Woolgar.
To be followed by TILE SCHOOL FOR TVIERS.
To conclude with MY PRECIOUS BETSY.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVFNINO.

Will be perf,rmed gTZf,L W ATER: RV DEEP. Characters
by Mesrs. A. Wigan, Emery, G. Vining, Danvers, Miss .11,iskell
and Mrs. Welfort.

To be followed by the Fairy Extravaganza, called T • !E YELLOW
DW,i'RF AND THE KING OF '; HE GOLD MINES.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs.
For the BENEFIT of Mr. J. HALFORD.

THIS EVENING.
Will be performed THE LITTLE DEMON.
To be fol'owed by a CONCERT'.
After which, KING QUEER AND HIS DAUGHTERS THREE,
To conclude with SALLY SMART.

suspicion, and it is possible that they may have
high support behind the scenes. The men
who struggled so energetically to pre►ent
the startling disclosures made. before the
Sebastopol Committee, who mismanaged the
naval resources of the country, who starved the
War, and who, as it is said, caused Odessa to be
spared, to become the arsenal fur supplying all the
necessities of the Russian troops iu the Crimea,
may go any lengths without occasioning great
surprise. It is'right, however, that they should
have the opportunity of exculpating themselves
from the serious charge. They cannot plead igno-
rance, and silence on their part will be equiva-
lent to an admission of their guilt.

ASTLEY'S ROYA!. AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING.
THE FIELD AGAINST THE FAVOURITE !
After which, the SCENES in the CIRCLE.
To conclu•te with the Bar et ot KATE RE kRN EY.
Mr. William Cooke announces for Whit Monday a Grand and
Magnificent Chivalric spectacle ot intense interest, to be produced on
a scale of unparalleled grandeur and effect, combining both stage ant
ring, united by th., giganti' portab'e platform; fonnwed by a ne'S
and b• illiant series of scenic Acts in the Arena, invented and directed
by Mr. William Cooke.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W .
West. Acting ~lanaker, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

TV, i'AY —Wo-tufig 0 qtn.%ilott 5 j Ev.ning22min al. 1"S
k• 11 M rmoi.:42-cas.n.a'..-mt 5 j F:veni g 7min.a t.

WRATHER.-Bust 0rf.0., May. 20.
TMERMOHERTItts, u TSB SPADE,
68—highest since noon yesteraay.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day, at noon.
13ARC ME ;RR, 29* 2—falling.
Wpm, S.E.—Light, with dull weather.
Afternoon.—Wind, E.—Blowing very fresh, with heavy
clouds and rain in the distance.
MAY 21.
62—highest since noon yesterday.
46—lowest this morning and during the night.
54—this day at noon.

• leanuTEß, 29'90.
wnan. N.N.W.—Light, with (lull weather and some
slight rain.

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But another name has been mentioned, that we
confess strikes us with unmitigated astonishment
--we had almost said consternation. It is posi-
tively asserted that Lord JOHN RUSSELL, whose
unflinching boldness of speech alone saved the
" Coalition" during the past year, and whose
withdrawal from their companionship at the con—
mencement of the session led to their overthrow,
has become a convert to the " peace,-at-an3 -
price" principle, and that I.e will seize the oppor-
tunity to declare his adhesion thereto ! Although
by no means satisfied with the proceedings of the
Noble .Lord during his Austrian tour, although,
as British Plenipotentiary, he grievously disap
pointed the expectations that had been formed
respecting his conduct, we cannot yet believe
these grave accusations. He must plead guilty
before we can call for the sentence which in such
c.tse the voice of public opinion will infallibly pt o-
nounce. But, as we have said, respecting the
Peelites, he must speak out explicitly and unmis-
takeably, and not exhibit any reserve, if lie
wishes to retain any remnant of his fernier cha-
racter, or to prevent the creation of an impedi-
ment which will act as a perpetual bar to his
holding any office under the Crown.
We now earnestly and emphatically exhort
every representative of the people to appear in
his place, and to swell the majority against the
degrading proposition. The several constituen-
cies will have an opportunity of knowing whether
they have got " the right men in the right places."
Should their just expectations be disappointed,
they will have a speedy opportunity of avenging
the culpable violation of duty—of casting from
them those who, unworthy of the British name,
cm no longer be regarded as suitable representa-
tives for true-hearted Britons.

It is impossible not to regret the position of
Mr. MILNER GIBSON. We are sure of his ability,
and entertain a strong conviction of his honesty ;

yet what national purpose his motion can serve
we are at a loss to divine. We have no doubt he
will do justice to his case, and so far he may serve
the purpose of proving that no talents can recom-
mend it to the nation ; but we would rather not
have to regard him iu the light of a special pleader.
The great misfortune of the business is that he
and Earl GREY become practically auxiliaries to
Russia, and thereby enemies to their coun!ry.
We have not the slightest doubt that " the Man-
chester School," unintentionally and indirectly of
course, have been the cause of much bloodshed,
and will be the cause of more. They emboldened
NICHOLAS to believe that England would never go
to war ; and this, in connection with his con vic-
tion of the ineradicable antipathy between Eng-
lishmen and Frenchmen, hurried him on to steps
he would not otherwise have taken. Had Messrs.
Conn EN, BRIGHT, and GIBBON demanded that if
Russia m,,ved a soldier across the Pruth England
should declare war, NICHOLAS would not have
supposed us to be abjectly enslaved to our com-
merce. The effect of their error was magnified
by its action on our Russianising Government.
Lord ABERDEEN as well as NICHOLAS might have
pursued a wiser course had he not been sure of
he praises of two or three justly popular meal-
iers and speakers. Seeing that the nation's con-
,eieuce did not allow it to pass by on the othe-
-ede while another nation lay wounded by the
;neat robber, they might have abstained from
fractically abetting the murderer, by proclaiming
hat they wished the injured nation to bear all
.7ithout help from England.
The struggle now, however, promises to be one
for worthier and graver objects than hitherto.
Our troops are rising to a number in the Crimea
which gives hope that the Russians there in the
field will soo.i bs attacked, and Sebastopol de-
irived of supplies, and therefore soon placed in
ur power. The expulsion of Russian troops from
hat peninsula must speedily follow, and surely
o statesman would permit her ver to tread that
lear-won ground again, Meantime both Austria
ind Prussiahave by treachery and cowardice placed
-teuaselves completely hors de combat. The whole
Oar must be conducted, to say the least, in utter
isregard of the wishes of such practically insig-
i,ificant Powers. Wedged in between the fear of
'lie domestic reLibution termed revolution, and
he cowardly fear of Russia termed prudential
I.msiderations, they are useless for all European
,Atrposes. Their governments and dynasties are
ndeed Russian at heart. They will aid her and
damage us as much as they dare. This situation,
as our neighbours term it, compels every thinking
arm to see more and more decidedly, that the
'olish alliance is the grand hope of the Western
Powers, of Turkey, and of all the peaples of
'lttrope, as well as that the necessities of the War
re the hope of the Poles thermielves. But for
'the utter incapacity of our aristocratic statesmen
• o devise or accept a plan worthy of the crisis, we

X3lll,

dust think that our whole Cabinet and Legislature
.vould be of one mind. The independence of
°'oland is clearly to every unbiassed judgment the
solution of the great problem of the day.
We ought, therefore, to take a cairn view of
he strength of both sides. We may even tabu-
'rise it. It will stand about thug :
For Slavery and Bar- For Independence and
barism. Ci v
England.
l'russia. France.
.lustria. Turkey.
:he Coburgs and Sardinia.
?etty German Despots, Northern Italy.
vith Leopold of BELGIUM. Han gary.
Che English Aristocracy. POLAND.
Ile Manchester School. Circassia.
rile Peace Society. The Contiuental Peoples.
The People of England.
The Administrative Re-
form School.

.tussia.

Here the Four Powers actually in arms, with
tll their wealth and commerce, and the command
,f the sea, must be considered inure than a watch
for Russia in arms on the other side, with her com-
neree destroyed, and her conscriptions aggravat-
ing the miseries of her crippled trade. Then her
continental allies are for 019 more part check-
;tee.: by their own people, or by their conquered
orinteorraieasr,ewhom we justly enumerate as our
antitthheeme the People and the New Re
Comnromae:esettelhhiaaettsittealrie match for the Aristo-
cracy
Secthieorogly; butof thite is
farmer
mor-
tifyingertwo is but too much of it wasted through the in-
capacity and obstructive policy
,t of the two latter.
When we need the utostl hearty
capable ad-
ministrators, "we are doomed
to work with a

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENT NG. MAY 21. 1855.

Cabinet ready to clutch at any compromise
which would save their order further exposure,
and the men who won us Free Trade take no
Interest, and worse than no interest, in the Free-
dom of Nations. We can almost imagine that
had they employed the same talents against the
universal aggressor which they have used to
encourage him, Europe might at this time have
been free from war.
In the military contest there is, however, the
one great advantage to the Allies, if they would
but frankly use it, to which Russia has no coun-
terpoise—the certain hostility of Russian Poland.
Even now it requires the best half of her troops
to keep it down. Poland, though neglected,
already saves U 8 the presence of perhaps 150,000
troops on the Danube, or in the Crimea. What
would she not do were we to proclaim her inde-
pendence as the sine qua von. of peace ? Russia
would lie half vanquished by the declaration
itself, while the presence of an Allied army in the
Baltic or in Bessarabia would so ,n enlist thousands
and tens of thousands of the finest volunteers
from the very suburbs of the Russian forts iu
Poland.

LAI:EST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

It is somewhat encouraging to notice some
increasing signs of hope for Poland. The re-
cent publication in the Moulton- (the Govern-
ment organ) of the Polish addresses to Louis NA-
POLEON, invoking his aid as their only hopes is in
harmony with the policy which sends M. DE PER-
SIGNY to our country as Ambassador, and appoints
Count WALEWSRI to be Minister of Foreign
Nffairs. It is gratifying to learn that England is
actively co-operating in the formation of the
Polish Legion in Turkey. We note, however,
with regret the Austrian and timid policy which
denies them their national colours, and forces
them to serve under the absurd banner of a Cross
And a Crescent. To the Poles the sigh', of their
white eagle might wake all the difference between
defeat and victory. If Sebastopol were to be
stormed, for instance, we may well believe that
every Pole would be lather shot down on the spot
than tarnish the honour of their national flag the
first time it floated over their heads since their
last attempt to wrench liberty from the fangs
of NICHOLAS.

There is a most admirable discussion of " the
Polish question, from the German Point of View, by
a German Statesman" (RIDGwAY), which we in-
tend shortly to notice, and which we especially
commend meantime to the study of our Court
and Cabinet, as well as of all our readers.

VARNA, MAY 20.

All the French and nearly all the Sardinian
troops have left Constantinople for the Crimea.
The cholera has disappeared at Constantinople.
Six thousand men are promised at once for the
Turkish Contingent.

Of all the incidents of the " baiting" of the
member for Aylesbury, the conduct of Sir JAMES
GRAHAM on Friday evening last was the most
revolting. No generous mind but must have
recoiled from it in indignation and disgust. The
mjority, probably, of the House had endeavoured,
by sheer numerical vocalisation and the weight ( f

PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 21, S A.M.

The Mowiteur publishes a letter from General
Canrobert to the Minister of War, which says :

such authority as a long attendance in the House
can emfer, to crush and utterly extinguish a
high-spirited but unaided man while in the dis
charge of a public duty. This was sufficiently
discreditable ; but it was left to Str JAMES
GRAHAM to furnish the climax of a persecution
the must unchivairous and un-E iglish we retnem-

HEAD QUARTERS, MAY 8.

Monsieur le Matechal,—My letter of the 4th
mentioned our brilliant combats of the Ist and

2d of May. All the attempts of the enemy to
retake the work taken by our soldiers, either by

assault or by a very heavy cannonade, which ren-
dered it very difficult to hold, have been fruitlesi,.
We have remained masters of this position, which
now forms a vast place d'armes, the parapets of
which are henceforth cannon proof. The loss( s

which we suffer at present are far less sensible ;

they are occasioned only by the ihollow projecths
which the besieged throw in in considerable num-
bers.

her to have been experienc d by any man in the
Eloise since the early days of HumE.
A recollection of the fate of the brothers
BANDIERA shouid have deterred him. The pos-
s;bility that he might f dl into the very error the
House affected to condemn, his own share in the
transaction, and, shall we add, the defectiveness
of his .netni,ry and the burden of the proverb,
should have bid him pause. But no ; the oppor-
tunity for the " humanity dodge" was too tempt-
ing to be resisted ; for could it not be employed
to rescue himself from odium, and cast that
odium with destructive eff!ct on another I So up
he got with p n ier,ius grtvity and spoke on
the questiln, " Woo killed CurtrsTlE ?" Bringing
into phy those thoatrieal p ,wers which had failed
to appal the Nicuil?..u. for Aylesbury iu the Com-
mittee, he proc-eded with an affecting representa-
tion of d.gtufied remorse with his task. Com-
tnencing with au eulogium on the services of the
deceased Giptain, he went on to say—" He be-
lieved the first time any question was raised about
his fitness was when the Hon. Me.uher for Ayles-
bury referred to him in the House. My only
fear," continued the H )n. Btrone., " is that I

BERLIN, SUNDAY, MAY 20.
Revel has been carefully reconnoitred, and
will shortly be bombarded.
The Magicienne has already thrown some shells

into the outworks.
Admiral Dundas has reconnoitred Sweaboig.

BERLIN, SATURDAY, MAY 19.
The following despatch, dated St. Petersburg,
Friday, May 18, has been received here :
Prince Gortschakoff, under date of Sebastopol,

May 12, writes :
Nothing of importance has occurred cn the
different points of the Crimea.
The fire of the enemy is moderate.
The enemy has erected new batteries. We
have done likewise. •
On the night between the 11th and 12th we
made a small and rather successful sortie from
Bastion 3, and spiked some English guns.
O❑ the 12th the enemy attempted to fire a
mine under the main front of Bastion No. 4.
The explosion did us no damage.

MARSEILLES, MAY 20.

BOURSE, MAY 19.—CLO8ING PRICE&
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
.q per Cents 93 65 ---f. ----e.
3 per Cents 6B 65 68 75
Credit Mobilier 785 Roman
Credit Fonder — Austrian
Belgian Fives - Spanish Threes
Piedinontese ......... 85 Rome Debt

The Carmel has arrived, with Constantinople
news to May 10th. The Sultan's brother-in-law,
Mehemet Ali Paella, who had been exiled, has
returned to Constantinople.

The expedition projected against Kertch, and
which had been commenced, is abandoned, pur-
.tuant to orders from the Governments. The
troops which had embarked on board the vessels
were landed at Kamiesh on May ith.
Letters from the Crimea speak of a very sharp
engagement on May Bth.
A supplement to the Presse d' Orient publishes
the on dits relative to a bloody battle on the

heights of Balaklava, between a Russian division
and a corps of Turks and Egyptians. The Otto-
mans are said to have held th© Russians in check

during 11 hours. The arrival of some of the
allied regiments forced the Russians to retreat.
The shocks of the earthquake at Broussa have
ceased.

The French have placed two batteries on the
ground conquered on the night of the Ist before
the central bastion.

The Trieste papers of Friday last publish the
ullowiug despatch, which we give for whatever it

may be worth :

have yielded somewhat too much to clamour with
respect to this officer (1) I ordered an inquiry to
be instituted, after the debate to which 1 'have '
alluded, by the Commander-in-Chief on the naval
station as t.) whether, in his opinion, C ipl.. CHRISTIE
had effectively and wall discharged the duties of
the post that had been assigned to lain. Two faults
were alleged against him. The first related to the
discretion exercised by him with regard to the
transports outside the harbour of Balaklava, on
the day of the storm, the 14th November. The
.-econd question which arose, and one to which
the hon. member hail alluded, was whether CAp-
tain CHRISTIE had not made a serious mistake,
with respect to the ordering a portion of the Turk-
ish troops which N.,. ere conveyed from Varna to the
Crimea to come to ifdaklava instead of Eupa-
toria." For the solution of these questions, the
lion, B tronet went on to say he thought it better
to refer to the constituted tribunal of his bro!.her
officers than to the Sebastopol Committee.
Unfortunately for Sir JAR ES it so happens
as Mr. LAYARD, in his letter of this day to
the Times, shows, on the authority of Mr. GLAD-
STONE, that at the time Mr. LAYARD drew the
attention of the anise to the question of Captain
CHRISTIE'S fitness, that officer bad actually been
diseharged, and by whom ? By Sir JAS. GRAHAM
himself ! So much for the question of the C tp-
tain's fitness having been raised by Mr. LAYARD,
and the assertion that the inquiry had been insti-
tuted after the debate ! What, however, is still
more remarkable, Mr. GLADSTONE actually took
credit to the Government for that dismissal !
Nay, further, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer,
speaking for Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT and Sir. JAS.
GRAHAM, demanded, " Was that all ? Captain
CHRISTIE was on his way home ; he had reached
, Malta, when my Right. IloiL Friend made him
return to the East, in order to take his trial by
Court-martial." This was said on the same even-
ing the Sebastopol Comaiittee was nominated." So
much for Sir JAMEs's pretended consideration for
Captain CHRISTIE, in keeping him from the Sebas-
topol Committee. 'Lug C munittee was not then
in existence Never surely did attempt break
down m a%) completely to the discomfiture of him
who made it. Every allegation proved to be
false, Sir, JAMES GRAHAM stands convicted of
endeavouring to enlist public sympathy to aid him
in an attempt to crush, by a most false and unge-
nerous charge, a ,young, able, and high-spirited
statesman, whose worst fault was his love of
country. the House, with its new-born love
of correct charges, look to it !

EUPATOIUA, May 4.-8,000 Russians are me-
nacing Ower Paella. Their cavalry is endeavour-
in 2; to cut off the Allies' communications by land.
The bulk of the Russian army, 150,000 strong,
having taking up a position near Simpheropol, is
in non-interrupted communication witu Sebasto-
pol.

VIENNA, MAY 19.

P yesterday communicated
Counto rince G
Buolor ts clakrff
aciireu,lar which he has received
nn hi; Government. The Vienna Gazette will

publish this document.

WARSAW, MAY 11.

The Grenadier corps leaves Poland immediately
and in haste. Their known destination is Kieff,
but it is not doubted that, arrived there, tht y
will march further south. The two finest regi-
ments of the Guards are ordered to Poland.

CONSTANTINOPLE; MAY 10.

The commissi iners who are to raise the

Turkish contingent are about to set out. An
Imperial decree explains that the Moslem recruits
will be in a numer'cal majority in the Turkish

army. The journals say that the troops from

Maslak are about to leave. Fuurteen war vessels

RAILW AYS -FOR CASH.

and numerous transports are laden with pro-
visions .for an expedition, to be directed, it is

said, aga inst Odessa.

HANOVER, MAY 20.

The la gr has issued an ordonnance annulling
the Constitution as settled the sth September,
1848, and .also the Provincial Electoral Law of
the 1t August, 1850.

The popular rights are diminished to the tnea-
sure of the Constitution framed by the late King
Ernest Augustus (Duke of Cumberland).

The ord( 'mance states that the measure has

been taken in obedience to the decree of the Fe-
deral Diet ( the 12th April, 1855, requiring the
Governmeu is of Germany to bring the State Con-

stitutions la( ,re into harmony with the monarch

oal (aristoer £ tie) principle.
The Kin a reserves the right of effecting further

chang,es in the State Constitution.

A Cabinet Council wa4 held, and Kit two hours, at
the Foreign-office, aiwning•street, on Saturday after-
no,n, which was attended by Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, E.irl Granvid?., the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grej, the Earl
of Clarendon, Lord John Ru,,seil, Lord Panniure, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right
Hon. non. R. Vernon Souith, Sir W. Mole,3vvottit,
count Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby.

A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated thi
19th lust., says :—The Government declared to
day 1 o the Cortes that it had not received ai)

prop° 3itions for bending troops to the East.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The 1,
the Emperor from the Aldermen
n rt-3( `.O li:2 .elidiellr publishes addresses which have
been by
awl coil uno Counoil of the City of Lwidou, and
the 4,Lityt,
vs lid iildoribeu of Cambridge, Birming-

ham, and Bristol, congratulating his Majesty onl
his late escape from the attempt of an assassin. 1
The Moniteur publishes the official return of
the Customs revenue for last month, amounting to
15,476,178 fr., being an increase of 4,441,187 fr. on
_the corresponding month of 1854, and of 4,048, IB3fr.
on that of 1853. The receipts for the first four
months of the present year have amounted to
53,834,806 fr., being an advance of 12,623,712 fr,
on the corresponding period of 1854, and of
12,495,015 f. on that of 1853.

Orleans
Western.... ....... .... 650 Rouen
Cette 627 50 Strasburg .
Metliterranev..n
Northern • 1.385 - Cherbarg