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

31ADAVE GOLDSCAIirDT-L N. D.
EXE;TEIt-HALL, TO-NIGHT.
Mir. MITCHELL repeeically announces that Mendelssolm's Ora-
torio of ELIJAH will he performed this Evening, Monday, Dec
17. Principal Singers :
Madame GOLDSCHMIDT,
1 Miss Messent,
Mr. Lawler, and

Liss Dolby,
Mr. Lockey,

Mr. H. lfraham.
Doors Open at Seven, to commence at Eight o'clock.

Haydn's Oratorio of 'VIE CREATION will be rercited on Thurs-
day, Dec. 27. in which Madame Goldiclunidt will slug the principal
S loran° part.
The Chorus and Orchestra for these performances will consist of
snore than £OO performers. Conductor, M. Benedict.
Prices of admission.—Seats in the Area, Seven Shillings ; West
Gallery and Body of the Flail,. Ten Shillings and Sixpence; Reserved
and Sumner.-d Seats, 11. is

Correct Books or the Or, torte will he given with the Tickets.
applicalions In reference to Mr. and Moderns Goldschmidt's
ntended Concerts, either In London or the provinces, to be addressed
o Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. London.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
under the Management of Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING.
Wit be performed THE BU,i'Y BOOT. Chsracters by Messrs.
Howe, Chippenda e, Rozers, V. Farren, and Buckstone; Misses
lieynolds and E. Charlin.
After which, the Spanish Dancers.
Followed by THE LITTLE TKEASITRE.
After which, a BILLET, by the Spanish Dancers.
To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK.

,LOYAL PftLICESS*4 rfi&ATRE. OXFOKI)..SiItEET.
Under the Management of Mr. Camusa
THIS EVENING

Wlll be performed WOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTIKO.
After which, KENO HENRY THE El(lffril. Queen Katha-
rine. Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinel W Isey. Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with A GAME OF ROMPS.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPID.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madams Celeste.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed TIItTUFFE. Principal characters by
Messrs. B. Webster, C. Selby, Moreland, Garden; Mrs. Keeley,
Miss M. Keeley, and Mine. Celeste.
Followed by THE CAMP AT CHOI:1111M.
After which, the comedy of FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

RDYAL OLY‘IPIC THEATRE.
TEM EVWNINeI,

Will be performed THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Characters
by Messrs. Eme-y, F. 1, inlnz, G. Vining, A. Wigan, Robson, &c. ;
Mrs. A. ‘Vigan, Mrs. Stirling*, and Mrs Fitz Ulan.

Will be perfornuid STILL WATERS DEEP.
Followed by Xi RE WARD.
To conclude with CATCIIING A MERMAID.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. J. IL Anderson. 18, Norfolk-street, Strand.
LAS C FEW DAYS.

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

Will me presented, with entirely Nem and Magnificent Appoint-
ments, Nf AGre and NiriTERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two
parts, by Professor Anderson.

Atter which, the startlin; illoqtrations of Spirit-Rapplmr. trjr-
ANT-HOUR WIC(' TIE AYER( N, being the moat surprialu ant
interesting aeries of experiments ever given within the walla of any
theatre.

Revival, in an improved form, of the astounding novelty which
tartled London i 9 years ago, the GREAT GUN TRICK !
Prices of admission:—Private Ttlxe.s, It. I Is. 6d. and 11. Is. ;
Orchestra Stalls, 45.; Dress Boxes, 35.; Upper Boxes, 24.; I'it,
s. ; Gallery. 6d. No Half-price. Box-office open from II to 5
daily.

Grand 3forninz Performance on Satarday Next at Two o'Clock.
Doors open at Half-past One.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
Lessee and Matmer, Mr. Win. Cooks.
Immense success of Roelcwood
This spirited and excit,nl Hipnoirorne (with Turpin's Ride to
York) embraces the print ipal events of Alnsvrorth's Rookwood.
THIS EVENING,
The successful Eqn!drame called TURPI.N'S RIDE to YORK; or,
the Heir of Rookwood.
After which the Varied Equestrian ACTS In the CIRCLE.
To conclude with UNE FOLIE POUR RIRE ; or, Mirth-Moving
Entertainment.
Immense preparations are makinc for the Christmas Comic Pan-
tomluie, written by Mr. Nelsm Lee, called Harlequin and St. George
and the Dragon, or the Seven Champions of Christendom.
Itox-ortlce oven from Eleven till Four. Stage Manger, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director, tI N. Cooke. jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

TRIO DAY—Morn. 55 min. aft. 7—Evening 30 min. aft. 8
To-MORROW—Morn. 5 win. aft. 9—Evening 37 min. aft. 9

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, Dec. IG.
TFIERNIOINTEII, IN THE SHADE.
51 —htebest since noon yesterday.
41 --iowest this morning and during the night.
45 --this day at noon.

BAROIIETER, 30.33—rising.
Warr , N.N.W.—Light, with, fine Blear weather, inclin-
ing to frost.

DECRVBER 17.
46 —highest since noon yesterday.
40 —lowest this morning and during the night.
41--this day at noon.

BATtnIfieTSB, 301.3—falling.
WIND, E.—Moderate, with dull, c...1d weather.

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1855.

The lamentable rumour of the Fall of Kars is
at last confirmed. Intelligence to that effect has
arrived by way of St. Petersburg. There re-
mains no longer any room whatever to cling with
a tenacious and almost despairing hope to the bare
possibility that a diversion might after all be
effected either from the north by OMER PACHA or
from the south by SELIM Pa.cara, thereby com-
pelling General MOURAVIEFF to raise the siege,
and thus even at the eleventh hour extricating the
gallant WILLIAMS and his heroie garrison of Turks
from their most perilous and desperate situation.
Famine, in truth, has achieved in November what
the furious onslaught of the Russians altogether
failed to accomplish in September. Upon the
29th of the month last mentioned, as history will
infallibly record in characters of fire, the indo-
mitable defenders of Kars repelled the vastly
superior numbers of their Muscovite assailants by
the sheer force of a courage unconquerable by the
sword, the bayonet, and thocannon-ball. Abandoned
entirely- to their cwn resources the heroes of that
famous day have at length, nevertheless, been
driven to the dread necessity of surrender by the
infixorable stress of utter and absolute starvation.
Ravaged by disease, they still contrived to main-
tiin their position until their weapons of defence,
'as it were, fell from a grasp relaxed by the palsy-
ing influence of extreme hunger. Subdued at
last as they have been, it must be recorded of
them that they have succumbed not to Man, but
to Nature. Artillery and infantry were, so to
speak, innocuous against the bulwarks of their
dauntless and indomitable heroism—a heroism
which only proved powerless when paralysed by
fever and famine combined. Theirs be the glory
of the defence. The Shama of the defeat devolv-
ing exclusively upon those to whose indolence or
incapacity it is owing that the heroes of liars
Were abandoned in cold blond to the ghastly peril
of positive and hopriless starvation. Nothing can
exonerate the Allies from the grievous blame at-
taching to them fc,r the atrocity of thus yielding
up, without an effort to relieve them, the glorious
champions of the. ever-memorable 29th of Septem-
ber. A little foresight, and Kars might still have
been withheld. from Russia—thight atill have been
a name of terror instead of a cause of triumph
to General. MOLTRAVIEFF. Why, for example,
was it ever left to the caprice of SELIM PACHA to
advance 'or not, as he might deem it expedient,
with tire inestimable succour for the beleaguered
fortress, placed under his banners in the Armenian
capital of Erzeroum ? Why, again, was the arri-
valthe Asiatic coast of
of OMER PACHA upon
'urkey, in his supreme capacity as Commander-
in-Chief of the armies of the SULTAN, delayed
until all further opportunity should be denied to
him of marrying assistance betimes to the daring
defenders of gars, collected together under the
orders of .....irMETY and WILLIAMB ? Why were
whole regiments of the veterans of the French
army being shipped homewards from the Crimea
across the waters of the Mediterranean to be laid
up in lavender in the vicinity of Paris ? Why
were crowds upon crowds of the English
. officers
allowed to maunder away from the "blood-stained
ruins " of Sebastopol intent upon " urgent private
affairs," meaning
thereby, of course, in the majo-
rity of instances, the snug festivities of Christ-
mas ? Why, we ask, were absurdities of this kind
tolerated by the Cabinets of St, James's and the