The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

i‘OTAL ATIZAND TREATRE.

Under the direction of Mr. Payne.
On WEDNESDAY NEX will be presented
NOEMIE ; or, '►he Foster Sister.
After which,
IT BUNS IN TIII FAMILY.
HARLEQUIN BLACK-EYED SUE; cr, All in the Downs and
Davy Jones's Locker.

ASTLEY9 ROW, AMP:ITT/MAME.

Lesaee aMManner, Mr. Wm. Cooke.

On Poxing Night (first time), an tinhearil-of novelty !—an Epics-
tri An Comic Pantomime. called Harlequin and St George aad the,
Dragon. or the Seven Champions of Christendom ; introducing 100
!UAW,. ponies, and other quadrupedal artistes. The animals trained
and the equestrian effects invented and arraaged by Mr. William
Cooke.

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itox.oMee open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West. Equestrian Director, Kr. W. Cooke. !tin.

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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THE WEA.TFIEft—SUN OFFICE, Dec. 25.

TLIERIIOIIETER, IN TLIE &LADE.

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sional sunshine. There was heavy rain in the night.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1855,

A remarkable pamphlet* bearing upon the ar
of war has recently been translated from the on
ginal French of the Russian Major-General OKOU
NEFF, by two ingenious and intelligent officers in
our national service—Captain W. H. WEAVER
and Lieutenant E. M. JONES, of her Majesty's
86th Regiment. The production is altogether so
curious of its kind, so important at the present
juncture, and so strikingly illustrative of the mili-
tary tactics of the enemy, that we would here
direct attention to the brochure as a work small,
no doubt, in its dimensions, but really enormous,
to our thinking, in its significance. Although
this treatise made its appearance several years since,
it may still, we believe, be confidently accepted as
an argument affording us, so to speak, the key
to the whole of the Russian military organisation.
In testimony of which, it should be borne in re-
membrance that the author, himself a soldier of
considerable distinction, takes rank among the
favourite lieutenants of perhaps the greatest Mus-
covite Captain now living, the veteran. Field-
Marshal Prince PASKIEWITCII. It is to 11.18 High-
ness the Prince of Warsaw that the little volume is
pointedly and eulogistically inscribed. It asserts,
its claim, moreover, to be regarded as the expo-
nent of the peculiar system inaugurated by that
daring and fortunate commander, as far back as
the year 1831, upon the occasion of the memora-
ble storming of the great fortified city, famous
still in the pages of history as the capital of what
once was Poland. It sets forth with the almost
axiomatic enunciation of the very important truth
that the most common, if not the only, "plan of
attack" adopted in modern pitched battles, has
been that directed against a FLANK ! It insists
subsequently upon the almost invariable ineffeo
tiveness of this same cautious and customary sy
tem, proclaiming the immensely superior ad van
tago on the other hand of the daring scheme by
which the CENTRE of a hostile army is broken, its
two wings thereby becoming completely separated.
It is of course indisputable that, whenever a centre
is thus broken, an enemy s forces are in consequence
irretrievably routed, whereas in spite f the most
consummate dexterity in the conduct of an out-
flanking movement, the victor almost inevitably
finds the vanquished legions escaping from his
grasp by their orderly withdrawal betimes through
the mere terror of an impending catastrophe.
The reason for all which is, of course, sufficiently
obvious—the foe is opportunely warned directly
lie perceives one. of his flanks to have been turned,
while the rupture of the centre of his line leaves
him no opportunity whatever for the chance of a
timely extrication. Wherefore the deduction
from all this is in its turn no less clearly mani-
fJst—that an attack directed against a flank,
th
)tigh it may be more easy in its accomplishment,

-4. "On the Use of artillery in the Field with a view to
CerLain Improvements in the system of Modern Tactics.
Tranglated from the Fi•ench of the Russian Major-General
N. Okonnett" By Captain W. H. Weaver and Licit.
E. M. Jones, U.M. 86th Regunent.• 12D20.1 PP, 52. Lou-
don ; W. Clowes and Sons. 1555.