The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-02 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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TrflA DAT—Morn. 41 miu. aft. 5 —Evening 13 min. aft. 6
TO-NORROW—Morn.3O min. aft. 6—livening 9 min. aft. 7

THE WEATHER.—Snr OFFICE, Oct. 2.

TIIER3IO3IETIM, IN THE SHADE.

Cr) - lz;zhest since noon yesterday.
Sri -:,west this morning and during the night.
62 --this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 20'71.
WIND, N.W.—Light, with fine weather.

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Kertch and Anapa, through which no less
than 1,500 waggons were despatched every
day, are completely dried up. And if
judicious steps be taken by the Allies that, via
Perekop, will speedily meet with a similar fate.
Not strong enough to hazard a general and deci-
sive encounter between his panic-stricken troops
and the triumphant Allies, he would be compelled
to lay down his arms and surrender at discretion,
unless the means of retreat were secured. It is,
therefore, by no means impossible that he may
have adopted such a course, still keeping up the
feint of defending the northern forts so as to pre-
( vent the Allies from detaching, until too late, a
formidable body to Eupatoria or the Tcheterlik.
We must, however, receive with the utmost
caution and distrust any non-official tidings con-
veyed by the Vienna telegraph, and founded
merely on the report of an Austrian journal.
There seems to be very strong reasons for cre-
diting the report that considerable reinforcements
have been actually landed at Eupatoria, and very
decided demonstrations made on the rear of the
Russian army, while they have also been threat-
ened from an opposite quarter. The Allied Fleets
have also departed from Sebastopol for some
unknown destination, but which probably is
directed against Kherson, or Odessa, or
Nicolaieff. Everything leads us to hope
and, believe that the Allies are at length
in earnest, and determined to humble the
pride and decisively diminisk the power of Russia.
As we have stated, however, these matters are at
best but guesses, collected from rather scanty pre-
mises. If not strictly correct, they ought to be
so ; and the evacuation of the Crimea, and the de-
struction of Odessa, Kherson, and Nicolaieff, or
‘t least of some of these arsenals, should be the
objects of the Allied Commanders by land and
by water. The Admirals should be doubly soli-
citous to redeem their own characters from
the reproach of inactivity by striking some
formidable blow against the enemy, for whose
possessions they have hitherto manifested
extraordinary and almost unaccountable for-
btarance. If, then, our natural curiosity
remains unappeased for the time being, we may
reasonably anticipate the prompt arrival of stirring
intelligence, which will amply compensate for past
silence, and prove that the Allied Generals and
Admirals are worthy of the position in which they
are placed, and both ready and willing to push
their advantages to the point most beneficial to
the Western Powers, and conducive to the great
end and object for which they have been com-
pelled to engage in hostilities, and to submit to the
many serious sacrifices thereby occasioned.

Whatever apprehensions were entertained in
relation to the Sonthal Insurrection will be dis-
iipated by the latest intelligence from India.
Whether the insurgents were ever 30,000 in
number may admit of question, though there can
be n• doubt they presented a formidable ap-
pearance. However this may be, it appears they
Are now scattered abroad, in small parties,
throughout the country, and that their career of
devastation, which has been marked by horrible
atrocities, will shortly be put a stop to. All but
invariably worsted in their conflicts with the
regular troops, they appear to have lost heart, and
to have given up every other notion save
that of plunder. In the meanwhile, the
troops which surround them are gradually
narrowing the circle, and by the next mail
we will in all probability hear of their surrender.
So certainly is this desirable consummation
anticipated, that already speculation is rife as to
what is to be done with them. The number of the
insurgents will provont that summary justico their
enormities call for from being dispensed. It is
impossible to hang thousands. Still the ring-
leaders should not be permitted to escape. The
" Friend of India" offers a suggestion worthy of
consideration. The Sonthals are an industrious,
hardworking race, and the province of Pegu
lacks labour. Why not transplant the offenders
from their native heights, with their wives, fami-
lies, and gOods, and locate them in its fertile
plains, now barren for lack of cultivation ? By
adopting this course a temporary punishment
would undoubtedly be inflicted, while per-
manent good to themselves, and the pro-
vinces whose immense resources it would
be their task to develope, would ensue. At
all events they will have no right to complain,
and the tranquillity of the plundered districts will
be insured. The opinion we expressed awhi]e
back respecting the origin of the insurrection
appears in the main to be justified by all that is
known of it ; over-taxation and a taste for blood
and plunder have lent their aid to religious
fanaticism. A prophet breathing fire and sword,
and holding out the promise of plunder, proved
irresistible. Away went their implements of la-
bour, and the inddstrious Sonthals were trans-
formed into ferocious insurgents. Cannot instruc-
tion be communicated to this tribe ? It seems
worth an effort.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BAI4MORAL, SEPT. 30

Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince, accompanied
by her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, and Prince
Frederick William of Prussia, drove out yesterday
afternoon.

The Royal dinner party yesterday consisted of her
Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince,
their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Prin-
cess Royal, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, her
Grace the Duchess of Wellington, Lady Augusta Bruce,
the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Hon. Beatrice Byng,
Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C.
Phipps, Captain de Heinz, and Dr. Robertson.
Sir George and Lady Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Far-
quharson, the Misses Farquharson, Master H. Farquhar-
son, Captain Dawson, 93d Highlanders, and Ensigns
Mackenzie and Robertson, 79th Highlanders, were in-
vited to join the party in the evening.
The band of the Royal Aberdeen Militia were in at
tendance.

Baron de Moltke,.Aide•de-Camp to his Royal High
ness Prince Frederick William of Prussia, arrived last
night on a visit to her Majesty.

The Marquis of Anglesey has left the St. George's
Hotel for Beaudesert.

The Earl of Eglinton is entertaining a succession of
visitors at Eglinton Castle, N.B.
The Earl and Countess of Derby have returned to
Knowsley from Eglinton Castle.
Lord and Lady Milford have arrived at the St.
George's Hotel, from Picton Castle.
Lord Stanley of Alderley has been in Edinburgh
during the past week.
General J. Addison Thomas has arrived at Edwards'
Private Hotel, George•street, from Paris.
Colonel Windham, the heroic leader of the Redan
storming parties, is brother of the Countess of Listowel
and uncle of Lord Ennismore.
RELIGION IN RUSSIA.—The Warsaw Courier relates
that a man has been condemned to hard labour for quit-
ting the Greek Church and joining another Christian
sect.

A messenger arrived at Marseilles yesterday morning
with despatches from Sebastopol to the 22d, and Con-
stantinople to the 24th, Sept. ; and left Marseilles at
one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
SALE OF LORD WATERFORD'S • STUD.—We perceive
by an advertisement in the Leinster Express of Satur-
day last, that the Marquis of Waterford's stud, stallions,
brood mares, horses in training, steeplechasers, hunter-,
&c., are to be brought to the hammer, at Curraghmore,
on the 26th inst.

AUSTRALIAN MAIL.—The Black Ball mail clipper-
ship Schomberg will sail from Liverpool on Friday with
the October mail for Melbourne. She went into the
river on Saturday, when her beautiful proportions excited
general admiration. She has about 400 passengers and
2,000 tons of cargo on board. At a dejeuner on board
yesterday it was stated that her owners are getting U.
per ton more for merchandise from London than is ob-
tained by vessels sailing from the Thames, although the
shippers also pay the cost of bringing the goods to Li-
verpool by railway. The Schomberg is the largest Bri-
tish mercthant:ehip,affoo, aniforboinfort, convernietite,
and elegance is uneurpmed.