The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-13 00:00:00

Doors open at Half-past Seven. Commence at Eight.

ROYAL OPERA, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed MASANIELLO. Characters by Messrs Far-
quharson, Iferberte, H. Braham, Williams, and Elliot Geier; Mdlle.
Julie and Miss Lanza.
After which, the Spanish Dancers.
To conclude with LOVE IN A VILLAGE.
Prices of admission :—To the two galleries. 6d.; Second circle of
boxes and pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; stalls, Is. • private boxes to
admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-office
open from 10 to 6 daily.

TIIRATRE ROYAL ILkYIefARIERT.
Under the management of Mr. Bnckstons.

THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS.
Atter which, LE GEGARRER.S. DE SEVILLE. Fera Nena.
Followed by COURT FAVOUR.
After which, THE SPA_NISTI DANCERS.
To conclude with A FISH OUT OF WATER.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CURB axs Klux.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING.
After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katha.
!hie, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean.

TILEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL
Propriat4,:, R. Webster.—Directress, hfs,..lamt Ceeste.
TIIIS EVENING,
Will be performed VICTOVNE. Characters by Messrs L. Mur.
ray, C. Selby, P. Bedford, Wright, Porsche, &c.; Miss Woolgar,
Mrs. L. Murray, &c.
After which, SOW'S YOUR UNCLE ? •
To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT.

rOYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr: Payne.
THIS EVENING,
Wlll be performed LOVE'S FRAILTIES.
Followed by SALLY START; or, The Clockmaker's Hat.
With a New Ballet.
After which, WANTED 1,000 YOUNG MILLINERS.
Followed by THE GALICIAN FETE.
To conclude with FOUNDED ON FACTS.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THE LAST WEEK OF 3LAZEPPA !

THIS EVENING,
Lord Boron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE, which, notwith-
standing its powerful excitement, must be withdrawn next week
for attractive novelty.

After which, those Gems of Equestrian Art, the EVOLUrioNs in
the ARENA, invented and arranged by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with a laughable farce called the SECRETS of WAR !
Bor-ollce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manaor, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke. jun.

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.

T dig DAY—Morn. 3 min. aft. 3 —Evening 20 min. aft. 3
To-Mo Rriolv—Morn.32 min. aft. 3—Evening 46tniu. aft. 3

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Sept. 13.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

69 - highest since noon yesterday.
59 —Lowest this morning and during the night.
63 --this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.03 falling.
WIND. W.S.W. to W.—Light, with heavy clouds and
aultry weather. Heavy rain in the morning.

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LONDON, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1855.

The national exultation for the glorious triumph
at Sebastopol is largely tempered by regret for
the mighty dead—for those who have nobly
fallen in the discharge of their arduous duties, or
who have received wounds that must permanently
damage their constitutions, and the effects whereof
can never be eradicated. The sorrows of the
widow and orphan cannot as yet be alleviated by
the knowledge of the universal sympathy enter-
tained for their irreparable losses. To them the
hour of triumph is one of the deepest mourning.
As yet they refuse the consolation that will be
freely tendered by every true-hearted Englishman.
But time will pour balm into their wounds.
Their heart-felt affliction will be tempered by the
knowledge that the names of those for whom they
are mourning, will remain enshrined in the recol-
lectien of their country—that the Sebastopol
Gazette may be regarded as a monument more
enduring than brass or marble—and that glory
will ever illumine the memories of the fallen
heroes ! Where could a more enviable death have
fallen to the lot of man ? The anguish of the
fatal blow was assuaged by the shouts of victory
ringing in their ears, and the knowledge
that they had not fallen iu vain ! that
every drop of blood, so lavishly shed on
the memorable occasion, would conduce to the
honour and safety of their fatherland—would pro-
duce happiness and prosperity to future genera-
tions, and that ample retribution would fall on
the unscrupulous aggressors. Such a death was
to be envied, rather than deplored, and the nation
must take due care of the mourners—must act
the part of husband, parent, and son, to the
widow, the orphan, and the childless. As to the
wounded, they are to be congratulated rather than
condoled with. Who is there among our readers
who would net willingly endure the pain and suf.
foriug, for the glory attached to the result ? To
have taken part in the fearful conflict will pro.
duce a life-long ovation to the victors ; but he i.:
indeed to be revered who has cemented with his
blood the triumphal arch commemorative of
French and British valour.

There were 26 officers killed—+exactly the same
nuthber that fell at the Alma. There are, besides,
113 wounded, being 40 more than those recorded
after the great victory of the 20th September,
1854. The numbers of the men placed hors de
combat has not as yet been announced ; but,
looking the ordinary proportion, we can form
a tolerably accurate estimate, and we may reason-
ably calculnt 3 that 2,000 of our gallant country-
men have Leen either killed or wounded. Two
TaOUSAND MEN ! It is a heavy price for even the
greatest triumph. But, thanks to " the LORD of
HosTs," their blood has not been shed in vain. A
substantial gain has been achieved, that may save
ten times the number from less glorious termina-
tions to their military careers !

The great achievement may probably turn out
far more important than had been anticipated.
From the despatch of General PELISSIER we learn
that the attempt to destroy what could no
longer be retained was not as successful as Prince
GORTSOUAKOFF supposed when he informed the
AUTOCRAT that the Allies had only come into per-
session of " a heap of blood-stained ruins." We
are told that an amount of materiel and immense
establishments, the importance of which it is not
as yet possible to state exactly, is placed in our
hands ; while even the experienced mind of the
brave General was astounded at the extraordinary
skill and almost unbounded resources applied to
the protracted defence. He says---" The mind
cannot form an exact picture of our victory, the
full extent whereof can only be understood by an
inspection of tho place itself." Emphatically
.adding—" The multiplicity of the works of de-
fence, and the material means applied thereto,
exceed by far anything hitherto seen in the his-
tory of War !"

It is thus clearly established how great was
the importance which the enemy attached
to a successful defence. To face, Russia
staked everything on the cast. Her ,chief
raw uras
were c, aq.;ted within. the ezacible,"
and it iaeav c.,;rtaill itzt, tba grezt)ol.) having

been attained, we shall not have much to dread
for the future: Famine will make the north side
our own, and if due advantage be taken of the
opportunity the whole Russian Army the
Crimea must speedily lay down their arms. But
it is essential that the occasion be duly improved,
and the victory rapidly followed up. Every ad-
ditional blow now aimed at the panic-stricken
eiemy will be tenfold more effectual than one
of equal force delivered after a brief delay. The
Allied Generals will now have to offer the strong-
est proofs of their efficiency ; and it will be for
the English Government, and still more for the
English people, to take care that this time Eng-
land does not forfeit by diplomacy all that she
has acquired by arms, but that full advantage be
taken of the costly, but decisive, triumph achieved
by the Allies.

The first stage of the protracted investigation
into the case of Sir JOHN DEAN Paula and Messrs.
STRAEAN and BATES has been brought to a con-
clusion. After patiently listening to the abundant
evidence, so laboriously hunted up, Mr. JARDINE
has finally committed the prisoners for trial at
the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court,
and they were required to enter into additional
securities to appear at the appointed time before
a jury of their countrymen to answer the serious
charges to be preferred against them.
Notwithstanding the immense body of evidence
brought forward against them, the issue lies in a
very narrow compass. It is one rather of law
than of fact. There can be no doubt that they
appropriated to their own use the securities
lodged with them for safe keeping merely—that
they wilfully and deliberately violated the trust
reposed in their integrity. This is a commercial
crime of the first magnitude. It strikes at the
root of all confidence, and is destructive of that
credit on which the trade and commerce of this
" nation of shopkeepers" is founded. We cannot
conceive an offence of a more serious character.
Even forgery itself scarcely equals in the criminal
scale the outrageous fraud that has been deli-
berately perpetrated.
As to the moral guilt of the defendants there
can be no possible doubt. There may be grada-
tions in their offences. There may have been
the tempter and his victims. One might have
concocted the series of infamous frauds, while the
others only yielded to his vile persuasion. But
that will, in case of legal responsibility, only con-
stitute an element in the apportionment of punish-
ment. It will form no part of the questions to be
submitted to the jury for consideration. Theirs will
be a simple although a tedious duty. The only
issue will be guilty or not guilty ; and there can
be but little doubt as to the verdiet which men,
faithful to their solemn oaths and the imperative
duty they owe to their country, must necessarily
return. They may regret that persons who occupied
so high a station, who had so long enjoyed all the
luxuries which wealth could supply, should have
so greatly fallen. But their crime is the more
flagrant on account of these very circumstances,
and from the double-dyed hypocrisy by which,
through an affectation of religion, they were en-
abled the more securely and extensively to carry
out their nefarious schemes. None could
doubt the virtue of such very respeetab
men, who were so loud in their reprehension
of the lax morality of " the lower classes,"
so anxious to obtain new restrictions
to enforce the " bitter " observance of the Sab-
bath, and to prevent any poor man who had
laboured all the week from obtaining a draught
of beer on Sunday, should he seek pure air on
the seventh day, and worship his CREATOR in the
contemplation of his works.

The question will, however, not be one of fact,
but of law. It will be for the Court of Appeal
to decide whether the " candid revelation" of
their guilt, made, not to the Magistrate,
but to the Commissioner in bankruptcy,
shall operate as an act of indemnity, to save
them from the consequences of their serious
offences. A plea of guilty does not in other
cases protect prisoners from punishment,
but the collective wisdom of the nation
has been singularly indulgent to respectable offen-
ders, whose imprisonment is diversified by an
occasional visit to Basinghall-street, and whose
confessions before a learned commissioner produces
such miraculous and almost magical effects. Un-
fortunately for themselves the elaborate statement
put forward on this privileged occasion has turned
out to be anything but accurate. This will
greatly complicate the question, and possibly
leave them liable for the consequences of
their act. But, notwithstanding the mistakP,
it is more than probable that they will escape
from any criminal sentence, and that twelve
months' imprisonment in the Queen's Bench,
under the sanction of the Bankruptcy Court, will
be all they have to fear for their heinous offences
against the commercial code, and for the wide-
spread
distress in which they have involved their
too credulous clients.

Tho British Museum, the Picture Galleries, and
the Crystal Palace—how long are they to remain
closed to the public on a Sunday ?

Only until the industrial classes resolutely de-
' 'nand that they shall be open—no longer !So
strong are the reasons in favour of the change,
and so untenable the objections urged against it.
There is but little danger of our being mis-
understood. We are not of those, if there be
such, who undervalue the importance of ono day's
rest in seven ; on the contrary, we believe that
such cessation from toil is absolutely necessary to
the moral and intellectual well-being of the popu-
lation, as well as to the physical, sustentation of
both man and brute, and in this opinion we are
supported by the concurrent testimony of practig
cal men as well as of men of science. Without
it the overtasked sons of toil would speedily do-
generate in physical constitution and moral "and
intellectual status, and far more prematurely than
at present sink into unhonoured graves. Labour
would, generally speaking, have no redompt ion
but in death, for to millions unceasing toil would
be unceasinc, exposure to an unwholesome atmo-
sphere, unceasing deprivation of the means of in-
struction, of opportunity to attend religious
worship, to commune with nature in her life.
inspiring presence, and to ponder over the en_
nobliug marvels of science and art. It is, in fact,
because of our admiration of the institution that
we make the inquiry.

It is because we would have the Sabbath oon-
secrated to its legitimate functions, and made, as
far as possible, a day of healthful recreation—a
day of rest from physical toil, and of elevating
enjoyment to the moral and intellectual faculties
of the masses—that we ask, How long are the
British Museum, the Picture Galleries, and the
Crystal Palaco to remain closed to the public ?
It is the unreasoning Sabbatarian who would have
the Sabbath desecrated not we. He would
have it signalised by the exchange of an unavoid-
able yoke for one of his choosing, and otherwise
uncalled for ; would have it kept on the narrow-
est interpretation of the spirit of Judaism, though
the condition of the Jews differed widely from
that of our working population, and he himself,
itrezgaiy-enough, keeps the 54z,bbatii on a diffaysli
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day from the Jews, and after a fashion of his own
—shrinking from the observance of the more rigid
requirements of the Jewish law, and the applica-
tion of the severer penalties, including death, with
which it was fenced about. To chapel, to hear,
look grave, and swell the collection, and back
home to cold mutton and drowsy listening to
dronish reading, and he is satisfied ; while failure
in this entitles, in his opinion, the offender to
his denunciatory rebuke. Our notion of Sabbath
observance is of a more enlarged nature than his.
We would have worship not only in church or
chapel, but worship also in the fields, gardens,
lawns, woods, and by the running streams—tem-
ples of Nature, and worship in museums, galleries,
and palaces, temples of Art the homage of
healthy bodies and minds---cheerful hearts and
enlightened understandings fortified at once
against the fanaticism of credulity and unbelief.
The homage arising from an enlarged comprehen-
sion of the goodness and wisdom of the Architect
of the Universe, and a growing appreciation of
the wondrous products of man's intelligence and
skill. And to this end theopening of the British
Museum—the Picture Galleries and the Crystal
Palace would, if experience is to go for any-
thing, largely contribute. To urge against such
a step the presumption that these places can be
visited during the week, and that the lessons they
are calculated to teach can be learnt then, is worse
than absurd. Thousands of our -working popula-
tion, equally entitled with any other class, be it
remembered, to participate in the advantages of
our national institutions, are unable to visit
these places on any other day than Sunday, and
are thus virtually debarred the privilege, and
the result is they feel themselves aggrieved, and
resort to places of more than questionable pro-
priety. Let, however, the - opportunity but be
granted to them, and the low taverns and beer-
houses would, to a large extent, be emptied, and
the majority of their habitues would resort to the
above scenes of healthy enjoyment and instruction
—there to be impressed with deeper reverence for
their CREATOR, and respect for themselves, as
beings possessed of faculties worthy of the highest
cultivation. Working men cannot well protest
too loudly, or too resolutely, or too frequently,
against this Sabhatarian atheism, that shuts out
thousands of Goo's creatures from the contempla-
tion of His works, this anarchical tyranny, that
prevents the cohesion of society by depriving the
most helpless, ignorant, and laborious of our popu-
lation of the opportunity to contemplate the
many trophies of the skill and intelligence of their
countrymen, as well as of their kind, won through-
out the world.

OFFICIAL LIST

OF

BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED
AND WOUNDED.

WAR DEPARTMENT, SEPT. 12.

Lord Panmure begs to forward to the Editor of
The Sun the accompanying list of Officers Killed
and Wounded at Sebastopol, which he has this
day received from General Simpson.
Lord Panmure thinks it right at the same time
to observe, that in the transmission of the list by
telegraph several mistakes occurred in the names
of the officers wounded, and he cannot, therefore,
hold himself responsible for its accuracy.

LIST OF OFFICERS KILLED.
Lieutenant-Colonel Patullo, 30th Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cuddy, 55th Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Handeock, 97th Regiment.
Major Welsford, 97th Regiment.
Captain J. C. N. Stephenson, 30th Regiment.
Captain Every, list Regiment.
Captain J. A. Lockhart, 41st Regiment.
Captain G. Rochfort, 49th Regiment.
Captain R. A. Cox, 62d Regiment.
Captain W. B. C. A. Palter, 77th Regiment.
Captain H. W. Grogan, 88th Regiment.
Captain H. Preston, 90th Regiment.
Captain Hutton, 97th Regiment.
Captain Hammond, Rifle Brigade.
Lieutenant L. Blakiston, 62d Regiment.
Lieutenant W. Wright, 7th Regiment.
Lieutenant 0. Colt, 7th Regiment.
Lieutenant R. H. Sommerville, 23d Regiment,
Lieutenant D. Dynely, 23d Regiment.
Lieutenant H. Donovan, 33d Regiment.
Lieutenant A. D. Swift, 00th Regiment.
Lieutenant F. Williner, 90th Regiment.
Lieutenant D. M'Gregor, 97th Regiment.
Lieutenant S. Ryder, Rifle Brigade.
Ensign Deane, 30th Regiment.
Deputy-Assistant Commissary W. Hayter.

DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED.
• Lieutenant-Colonel T. B. Gough, 33d Regiment.
Lieutenant*Colonel J. Eman, 41st Regiment.
Major F. F. Mande, 3d Regiment.
Major R. S. Chapman, 20th Regiment.
Captain Sedley, Royal Engineers.
Captain W. IL Poole, 23d Regiment.
Captain C. H. Lumley, 97th Regiment.
Lieutenant W. Kerr, 30th Regiment.
Lieutenant W. M. Jones, 7th Regiment.
• Lieutenant P. Godfrey, 19th Regiment.
Lieutenant A. Goren, 19th Regiment.
Lieutenant W. Thompson, 17th Regiment.
Lieutenant W. G. Massey, 19th Regiment.
Lieutenant L. O'Conner, 23d Regiment.
Lieutenant C. Beck, 23d Regiment.
Lieutenant E. S. Holden, 23d Regiment.
Ensign C. Miehell,,49th Regiment.