The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-20 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Sept. 19.—Wind this day at noon, light airs
from the southward and westward, with fine clear weather.
The Gondola, from Salonica to Queenstown, which was
reported on the 17th Sept. as not having been heard of
since her sailing from the former port, was passed by the
Energy on the 27th May, and by the Bells, of Blyth, off
Malaga, on the 9th June, but no further intelligence of
her has been received.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 19.--Wind S.—Arrived.—Hopo
(s.s. tpt. 64), from Balaklava, &c., and left for Deptford ;
H.M.S. Perseverance, Gib-altar, and left for Deptford ;
Dee, Woolwich. Sailed—Black Sea (s.s. tpt. 196), for
Deptford. Off the port - Ariel, from Moulmein, for Ant-
werp ; Domingo, La Guayra, for Hamburg ; Mary Ann,
Baltimore, for Bremen ; Elizabeth Hamilton, Newcastle,
for New York.
PLY MOUTH, Sept. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Fanny,
from Prince Edward's Island. Sailed-11.M.Str. Alecto,
for the West Coast of Africa; Blenheim (store ship),
Cri Inca.
FALMOUTH, So pt. 19.—Wind variable —Arrive2 —Con-
trasto (s.), from Shields for Constantinople.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGBA.PH.I
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
Arrived—Courier (s.), from Jersey ; Maria Maude,
Cadiz.
Sailed—Black Boy (s ), for London ; Matilda, Newport ;
Williams, Newcastle; Dispatch (s.), Jersey ; Atalanta
(s.), Havre.
LIVERPOOL, Thursiay Morning.

Wind W.
Arrived.—British Queen, from Bombay ; E. Z., New
York ; General Taylor and Ellen Maria, St. John'3, N. 8.;
Margaret, Havre; Gauntlet, Crimea ; leoni, Maceio ;
Corrido, Paraiba ; Driver, Now York ; Egyptian, Alex-
andria ; Clara, Lisbon ; Auguste and Victor, Rouen.
Sailed.—Golconda, for Coquimbo; Harvest Queen, New
York.
KINGSTOWN, Sept. 19.
Arrived.—Albion, from Antigua.
QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 13.

Wind, N.N.W.
Sailed.—Willielinina, fur Leghorn.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
• DEAL, Sept. 20, 9.50 a.m.

Wind light and variable.
Passed.—Robert and George, from Belize, for Dundee.
Ancbored.—Jobn Laud, from London for Genoa ; Pan-
dora, London, for Constantinople.
Passed.—Black Sea (s.s. tpt. 190), from Malta, for Lon-
don ; Ethiope (s.s.), Africa, for London ; Black Boy (s.s .
tpt. 173), the Crimea, for London.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITT.
The Dispatch, of London, for Algoa Bay, July 28, in
lat. 3N, long. 25 W.
The Marchioness of Londonderry, bound south, Aug. 2,
in lat. 11 N, long. 27 W.
Tho John Henry, from Callao to Queenstown, Aug. 21,
in lat. 36 N, long. 44 W.
The American ship Westmoreland, standing to the west,
Sept. 5.
The John Russell, homeward bound, June 27, 50 miles
southward of the Cape.

The Thomas Mitchell, in lat. 31 S, long. 26 W.
The Georgians, of Bristol, for Akyab, May 3, in lat. 12
N, long. 88 E.
The schooner Elizabeth, bound for Algot). Bay, Juno 4,
in Ist. 26 S.
The Lyon, Aug. 17, standing east, off Sable Island.
'The Red Rose, of Arracan, for Liverpool, 120 days out,
Aug. 20, iu Ist. 31 N, long. 41 W.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM PEEL, RN.—Yesterday a congra-
tulatory address was presented to the gallant officer, in
the Town-hall, Tamworth, on his return to his native
country from the Crimea. Nothing could exceed the
enthusiasm of the assembly. The town was decorated
with much taste, and the population made a real holi-
day on the joyful occasion.
THE ARMY WORKS CORPS.—The detachment of the
Army Works Corps which left yesterday for the Crimea
will embark at Marseilles probably to-day, in the steamer
which conveys General Simpson's despatches to Mar-
seilles, and should arrive at Sebastopol in little more
than ten days hence. Their services will doubtless be
required in whatever new positions the army may
occupy. Another detachment, numbering 250, will be
ready for embarkation on Tuesday next. The Army
Works Corps already in the Crimea is more than 1,000
strong.
The shipment of specie by the Peninsular and Orien-
tal steamer Nubia amount to the heavy total of
486,0501., of which 34,5851. is gold for Alexandria,
Ceylon, and Bombay, and 451,4651. silver for Bombay,
Madras, and Calcutta.
BRIGHTON.—House agents and others engaged in
letting house property state that the demand for houses
in first-rate situations is on the increase ; and that we
are likely to have a good season, if no unforeseen cir-
cumstances should arise to mar it. The Marine drive
in the afternoon is now delightful. The sea for the last
day or two has presented the glassy surface of a lake,
scarcely ruffled even by a ripple ; and the numerous
craft on the water have imparted great animation to a
scene that is not exceeded in beauty under an Italian
sky. The almost innumerable excursionists that daily
flock into the town bring our bathing machines and
pleasure-boats into constant request, and just now the
bathing ia delightful,—Brigktot Gazette.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(Font the Mornin7 Post of this day.)

Although the name of Sebastopol, even by the de-
struction of Sebastopol the town, has secured to itself
an imperishable remembrance, it has ceased to occupy
the large space in public attention allotted to it, with-
out intermission, for eleven months. Odessa, near the
Deeister, Nicolaieff on the Boug, and Cherson, still more
East, upon the Dneiper, have superseded much of the
interest attaching so recently to the great "standing
menace "—a menace no longer. Nay, the solicitude of
spectators has been transferred, in the Crimea itself,
further north. Baksh'eSherai, Sinapheropol, and Perekop
are now the words "to conjure with." But still there
glares upon the canvas the mime of Mackenzie's Heights,
much nearer to the present basis of operations. Ad-
hering to our acknowledged purpose, we will abstain
fir the moment from strategic disquisitions of too
close a character. What could they serve ? A strong
conviction, over and over again considered, might be
right ; but the impression of it, in the present pos-
ture of affairs, would be useless for practical purposes—
surplusage if the plan which is the subject of it ho now,
as we think it in process of execution—and worse than
this, if it has been put aside for the sake of other and
very different operations.
Let us turn, then, to that vast and not altogether un-
profitable margin of topics which the conflict presents
to our notice. Omer Pacha has entirely missed the
later glories which crowned the Crimean expedition.
We will not add that he did not expect them ; but it
appears to us that the very opposite of everything
which could be said of General Cenrobert is true of
Omer Pacha. He is good as first, and, of course,
good when alone. With others, and even with
orders, he seems to feel himself out of place. As to
his proposed scheme of campaign, how strangely accu-
rate has our former calculation proved I Many times
we said, in reference to the Asia Minor war, that
either side, by throwiug itself on the enemy's commu-
nications, must gain a prize. There would, of course,
be hardships ; but victory would yield liberal indemni-
ties. We minutely indicated the peculiar reasons which
in that region rendered such strategy advisable, and,
indeed, iniallible. We finished that more special enu-
meration by a reflection of an exceedingly common-
place character, which was true of Armenia and Georgia
only because it is true of every land. On two accounts,
we observed, it is good to interpose between an enemy
on the defensive and his communications ; "first, you
get his caravans—and, secondly, he loses them ; so that
you feed on his famine."
Well, Omer Pacha proposes to land in Mingrelia,
somewhere between Soukourn-Kaleh and Redoubt-Ka-
leh, probably at or about Anaklia. Yet, Kars is iii
vested, far to his right, and a little behind even. How
is this? Why does he not fly to the relief of liars?
Why does he not propose to make the Russians raise
that siege ? Why is not his first anxiety to break the
leaguer ? So would ask, and so have asked, the steady
ne, se who think they know how a campaign in Asia
Minor, or a campaign anywhere else, ought to be ma-
naged. The answer is simple. Omer Pacha wants to
bring General Mouravieff to Constantinople. He there-
fore goes to the rear of the Russian position—not being
afraid of what that Russian General can effect against
him in the field, and being quite sure that no more cer-
tain means could be adopted to release Kars from all
stress and pressure. The advantage of getting Scharnyl
to come down from Khosbek, And the mountains of the
Caucasus, with his " caterans," is also worth consideration
—although purely collateral. Then Imeretia lies before the
new corners and their Highland allies ; Akhabzik is
threatened ; Georgia is insecure ; even the connection
with the Caspian is by no means a certainty. As to
Kars, it may laugh at its assailants.
All our somrnent4, for some months past; are fulfilled
mad authenticated to the letter. We have, with less
fullness, occasionally di-cussed the properties of the Rus-
sian soldier. We have nob spoken of him in a derisive
spirit. We have been mindful of facts. The Russian sol-
dier has many noble qualities ; if he fights in a bad cause,
he does not know it. lie did not make the cause ;
his Government will have to answer for his long and
patient sufferings— his humble and obedient endur-
ance. It would,' moreover, be a serious error to over•
look the vast expanse of mood and bog, and morass,
and steppe, and desert which that docile and faithful
serf traverses before hu can come face to face with his
adversary. Undoubtedly, he is inferior in constitution
to the children of the West ; but it is not wholly this in-
feriority which decides the battles in which he is en-
gaged, or consigns him to an adverse fate. It is partly
his previous fatigues. And are there none in Asia
Minor ? No great soldier, from Alexander down, ever
looked at Asia Minor except as a stepping-stone. And,
although most of the Russians are wafted to that place
of action in boats through the Caspian, they find enough
to try their nerves and to wear out their courage, their
spirit,, and their health, in the marches of Gulistan, be-
fore they come to Armenia at all.
Only three generals, we think, in the entire course of
history, ever led troops of naturally inferior physical
organisation against their betters with success. Those
three generals were Pyrrhus, Eumenes, and Hannibal.
The second Eumenes, by far the ablest lieutenant of
Alexander the Great, was once obliged to deceive his
soldiers respecting the nationality of the adversaries
whom they soon afterwards utterly routed, and whom
they would not even have confronted had they known
those enemies to be Macedonian soldiers. Hannibal
made the Genie and the Matritanians vanquish their
future conquerors, the Italians ; and Pyrrhus rendered
Greeks successful against Romans in the field. General
Mouravieff commands Russians against Turks ; but the
Turks are commanded by Omer Pacha.

THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. JAMES'S
PARK.