The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EvENING, DECEMBER 6, 1855.

lion of the " Munchausen " narratives of the
veracious Dr. DATE.A, and clearly proves that
rather notorious personage to be a Russian agent,
who has fully carried out the instructions which
he received from head-quarters, and well earned
the infamous wages for which he has sacrificed
character and honour.

The explanation of the withdrawal of the Rus-
sian troops from the south side of Sebastopol, for
"strategetical reasons," is exactly that given
by the notorious Doctor. It was really a
triumph in place of a defeat a brilliant
movement, which ompletely checkmated the
besiegers ! It asks triumphantly, Where are
the trophies of victory the crown, the
standards, the prisoners ? boldly asserting that
the Allies were so intimidated that they did not
venture into the city for three whole days, and
then only with the greatest precaution, and with
fear and trembling. The Russians merely crossed
over to the Northern Side, " as one changes one's
dress, or selects another path !" To be sure it was
a pity to put off the beautiful purple dress of
Sebastopol, but it was only for a time, and the
CZAR will soon give it another one far more mag-
nificent than the former ! If the statement had
the slightest foundation, it would indeed be a
singular movement—a very serious sacrifice of a
very costly dress. But the writer shows that he
does not credit his own statements, or why should
he allude to " the loss of Moscow as not being the
loss of Russia." It shows the real weight of the
blow, and that it may be felt as something equi-
valent to the memorable conflagration of 1812.
It is unnecessary to refer to the unmitigated
falsehoods respecting England. They only show
the intense soreness of Russia at the injuries
she has sustained. The article is clearly intended
to obtain better terms in the anticipated negotia-
tions. In this we believe they will be grievously
disappointed. The only conclusion that can be
drawn from the article is that Russia is tottering,
and that the sound policy for the Allied Powers is
to destroy everything Russian—her commercial
ports and arsenals, so as to prevent the possibility
of the most besotted serfs being deceived by the
lying vaunts of Russian triumphs or English de-
feats.

Who can refute a sneer ? asks PALEY, and with
almost equal propriety we may ask " who can re-
fute a rumour ?" This hundred-tongued authority
has been very busy just of late. " Our own Cor-
respondent" at Paris, who but the other day knew
almost the letter of a treaty with Sweden, the
copy of which as well as the original, if there
ever was one, General CANROBERT must have left
at Stockholm, is now quite confident that peace
proposals are worming their way through Austria
and Prussia to the Western Allies. Again, al-
mest the details are certified, concerting pretty
well with what the "Leading Journal" had a few
days ago declared to be something the Allies might
take into consideration. Then the PALMERSTON organ
intimates that tangible propositions must of
course be considered, come from what quarter
they might. A well-known Conservative weekly
also uses very positive language, and anon it is
hawked about the streets, and at the tails of
omnibuses, that "we have exclusive official in-
formation" (mirabile dictu) that Lord PALMER-
STON is to resign, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL to
come in ! That the terms of peace are, the evacua-
tion of the Crimea by the Allies ! Sebastopol to
become a free Russian port ; the Euxine to be
purely commercial sea, and that the King of
SARDINIA came here to press this peace on the
two Western Allies ! ! Such is the crescit eundo
of the peace rumour.
" Exclusive information," especially when sold
for a penny, it were of course impossible to gain-
say. " The best information," "authorities" on
which " own correspondents " tell us "we may
rely'' are equally intangible ; it happens, how-
ever, that our reliance, had it been given to pre-
vious similar declarations, would oftener by far
have been misplaced than warranted. It is use-
less to play at blind-man's buff with these rumour
manufacturers, and we shall not attempt it. Our
old friQnds, however, united in a new firm of
Tory, Cotton, and Co., with a sleeping partner
whose name must not be public, we better know
how to deal with, and most of their move-
ments are tolerably manifest to us all. The first of
them, we regret to say, shows a factious and party
spirit which we were not prepared for, but which
we are pleased to see neutralised by the thoroughly
national feeling and language of the best men of
that section of politicians. The ultra-peace party,
the union of cotton-spinners and Quakers, are na-
turally in high feather with the rumours adverted
to and the rise in the funds, but they cannot
get their resolutions carried at public meetings,
and are sometimes, we regret to see it, for a
good cause needs no such help, rather rudely
treated besides. The influential sleeping partner,
with the aid of the leading Whigs in and out of
the Cabinet, the men most likely to have set these
rumoursafloat through their agents, has ♦ast power
throughout the whole circle of diplomacy and Court
intrigue ; and it has already done, as we believe,
incalculable mischief, and can only be successfully
controlled by the determined front of the whole
nation.

fleets at their command, much more than equal ff
to the task of killing or catching every Russian
who remained in the Crimea after the Bth Septem-
ber. It must have been the telegraph which said
" Stop." The Crimean Generals had half-a-dozen
plans before them, any one of which would have
been better than the dull and demoralising course
they have actually taken.

One of the Peace orators, Mr. Miami, has just
been addressing his constituents at Rochdale.
His login was singular. He believess in the occa-
sional necessity of war, but thinks this war
might have been averted. He believes that
when a trial of strength once began it was neces-
sary that Russia should know which is the
stronger, Western civilised power or her own
semi-barbarous power ; but he thinks she now
knows that abundantly, therefore we ought to
make peace. One mis-statement alone vitiates
the conclusion. He should have said it was re-
quisite for Russia not only to know, but practi-
cally to confess, which is the stronger. When
Russia beat Turkey, Persia, or Sweden, she made
them practically confess her superior strength.
She required the cession of Bessarabia, the
Crimea, Georgia, Finland, and other pro-
vinces. This is Russia's own test of vic-
tory and defeat. Unless she accept that test
herself, the War will have been brought to a useless
conclusion. The peace men will quickly taunt their
old opponents with the folly of such vast sacri-
fices for such small results, and the Allies will be
ashamed of themselves before all Europe. Russia
will soon resume aggression, at first by piecemeal
and by stealth, then more openly ; England and
France will feel that they have an old disgrace to
wipe off ; and a ten years' sanguinary war will
conclude the present brief and disgraceful one.
Disgraceful we certainly think the conduct of the
War has been hitherto. In personal gallantry our
troops and officers have sustained the credit of
their respective countries. But in generalship it
is notorious that the Russian and Turkish Com-
manders-in-Chief have quite borne away the palm.
If it comes to a speedy diplomatic termination,
we are confident the Russian genius will beat us
in that.

At length Monetary Reformers are bestirring
themselves. The meeting last night held at the
London Tavern will undoubtedly have its effect.
Never was there a time when agitation was more
wanting, or would be mere beneficial for the coun-
try. The iniquitous Act of 1844 has virtually
expired. It now only awaits the notice which the
Government are authorised to give at any moment,
and which will completely get rid of these mon-
strous enactments.

The country wants a really National Note, the
profits whereof will accrue to the public exchequer,
which will have all the security of Consols, being
guaranteed not only by all the accumulated and
realised property of the country, but by its in-
dustry, and which will also be received iu payment of
taxes and every public liability. By the issue
of thirty millions of these notes, as sometime
since proposed by Mr. HAMER STANSFELD, the
same amount of sovereigns would become avail-
able for the maintenance of the War, and
our foreign trade, and a far better and more con-
venient currency would be brought into general
use—a currency which would accomplish all that
could be required or desired—what the Act of
1844 aimed at but signally failed in achiev-
ing. By its means we should avoid these con-
stant fluctuations in the value of money, so
highly injurious to commerce and to the
productive power of the country. Let Monetary
Reformers steadily demand a national note,
insist that the regulation of the circulation shall
be placed under a Minister of the Crown respon-
sible to Parliament, and taken from the hands of
a private establishment, to whom a monopoly
is given in a most important commodity,
and one of the Royal prerogatives—
that of making money—handed over. The
Bank of England has no claim on the country to
entitle it to a renewal of privileges which, if it
has not abused, it has certainly not turned to
the best advantage, either for itself or for the
country.

It is always a pleasing task to independent
journalists to record the ultimate triumph of per-
secuted merit over its detractors, and doubly
gratifying when the announcement is coupled
with the consciousness that, from the first, they
were to be found in the foremost rank of its de-
fenders. It is therefore with more than usual
pleasure we call the attention of our readers to
the fact that the colonelcy of the Bth Hussars
has been conferred on Lord LUCAN, whom, on
his return from the Crimea, we were almost alone
among onr daily and evening contemporaries in
pronouncing au ill-used man. To be sure, this
act of justice does not altogether satisfy his equi-
table claims, but it certainly must be regarded as
an indisputable verdict in his favour. It is by
no means our intention to rip up an unpleasant
affair, nor to offer any remarks that may be dis-
torted into the indulgence of personal feeling ;
all that we shall add, therefore, is the expression
of a hope that, as in this instance, and in the
case of General, whilome Colonel THOMPSON,
whose name having been placed in the brevet
almost at the foot of the list of Generals, was
awhile back elevated to its rightful position, the
claims of meritorious officers will henceforth meet
with that respect the interests of the country
no less than the dictates of justice require they
should receive.

The only circumstance of weight which we can
note is one to which we have so incessantly called
the attention of the public, that our readers are
not likely to see in it any specially pacific result,
but, indeed, rather the contrary. We refer to
the " spare-Russia" policy of the War. From
the beginning we denounced the traitorous de-
clarationauthority,
of Lord J
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spokewant
to lessen Ruaaian territory. We showed that
Poland was the proper means and end, too,
of the War, and that to hit, without
mercy and without cessation, was the true course
to save the effusion of blood, and to briar, about
a speedy peace. The reverse of all this has been
the case ; not, however, to go over too often the
grievous facts, we just notice that only Yesterday
morning the Times itself came out with a vigor-
joua denunciation of the ungeneral-like proceed.
ings of the Allies since the fall of Sebastopol, even
comparing it all, as we had previously done,
everydeone,with
the manifestly superior generalship, under
disadvantage, of the great Tarkish commander.
The Times, indeed, fixes the blame on General
PELISSIER—in which we have no idea that our
contemporary speaks his real opinion, but the real
culprits are not to be named yet, for which it may
have very good reasons. We must own that had
the neglecting to drive the Russians out of the
Crimea before winter been an isolated neglect of
an obvious advantage, we too should have con-
cluded that peace must be thought of. It ap-
pears,how
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:f I 3 COVENT GARDEN PANTOMIME.

Under the chivalric title of The Field of the Cloth of
I Gold, a pantomime is in preparation for the approaching
holidays, under the auspices of the " Wizard of the
North," which bids fair to surpass any entertainment of
that class which has been produced in the metropolis for
many years. The preparations are on a gigantic and
costly scale, calculated to dazzle and delight the liege*,
and commensurate with the unrivalled capabilities
and resources of the magnificent theatre. A
host of such efficient and sparkling talent is
engaged by Mr. Anderson as must, if genius and
experience aught avail, ensure a supreme success. Thus,
the pantomime is wholly "got up" under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Augustus Harris ; the composition and
management of the ballet devolve upon Mr. Benjamin
Barnett ; the scenery is by Mr. Beverley—maxinzus ills
—assisted by Messrs. Cuthbert, Adams, Shalders, &c.;
Flexmore, the best of clowns, and Barnes, the best of
Pantaloons, sustain the leading parts, witb Miss Emma
Horne as columbine ; G. A. Sala and the Brothers
Brough concoct the comic dialogue ; Coder looks to the
music ; in short, such a group of worthies are congregated
round the commander-in-chief of the Christmas cam-
paign at Covent-garden, that, however high public ex-
pectation may be raised, a signal and special triumph
will on this occasion eclipse the past ovations of the
Mighty Magician. The subject is eminently national,
and admits of much military display. On the whole, we
look forward to Mr. Anderson's magic pantomime as
one
of the greatest and most popular theatrical treats that the
playgoing world has been presented with ia the memory
of "the oldest inhabitant"—one that will rejoice the
general eye, and give many a salutary shake to the sides
of infancy and age. Of " The Field of the Cloth of Gold"
we venture to predicate that the impressive words of the
Roman poet will be found veritably applicable to its
comprehensive popularity :
"..rEque pauperibus prodest, locopletibus a3que,i
e'Eque neglectum paeris, senibusque nocebit.

THE KING OF SARDINIA.

DEPARTURE—(This Day.)

The King of Sardinia took his departure from
Windsor Castle this morning, a few minutes before five
o'clock, accompanied by Prince Albert, the Duke of
Cambridge, and suite, and escorted by a squadron of
Life Guards.

Arrived at the Queen's private station at ten minutes
past 5 a.m., his Majesty found a guard of honour of the
22d Regiment, under the command of Col. Boileau, in
waiting, the band of which regiment hailed his appear-
ance by striking up the Sardinian National Anthem.

His Majesty was received at the station by the Mayor
of Windsor, and several members of the Corporation
together with Mr. Crombie, the indefatigable secretary ;
Mr. Scott, manager of the traffic department, and other
officers connected with the South-Western line of
railway. At Vauxhall his Majesty was received by
a Guard of Honour furnished by the Scots Fu-
silier Guards.

The royal cortege having taken its departure arrived
at the Bricklayers' Arms station at 6.27 a.m., and
were received by the Hon. James Byng, Mr. Rich,
M.P.-, Coles Child and Gordon Thompson, Esqs., direc-
tors of the company.

From this station the Royal train proceeded with rapidity
towards Folkestone, where his Majesty was received by
Lord Panmare, General Wetherell, Colonel Kinloch,
and Baron Stutterheim .

(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
FOLKESTONE, 9.30. A.M.
His Majesty the King of Sardinia, accompanied by
his Royal Highness Prince Albert and his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, arrived at Folkestone
Harbour at 8.40 a.m.

His Majesty was received by Lord Pantnure, General
Westall, Baron Stutterheim, and the naval and military
authorities who had been sent to receive him.

A royal salute was fired from the Cliffs, and from her
Majesty's ship Blenheim, which was anchored off the
port. A guard of honour of the 91st Reginient and the
North Lincolnshire Militia lined the whole of the route
from the railway station to the Pavilion Hotel, to which
his Majesty proceeded in one of the Queen's carriages.
The King returned from the hotel and embarked on
board the Vivid at 9 a.m., and proceeded direct to Bou-
logne, followed by the Fire Queen and Osborne, and
saluted from the cliffs and from the ships of war in the
roads as before.

On reaching the shores of France the King of Sar-
dinia and suite would proceed to Compeigne where his
Majesty would be received by the Emperor of the
French, with whom, according to previous arrangement,
he was engaged to dine on his arrival.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert and his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge went to the camp at
Shorncliffe to review the Foreign Legion, at 11 a.m.,
and returned to Folkestone from whence he took his
departure for Windsor at 1.45 p.m., arriving at the
Castle at 3.15 p.m.

THE ORDER OF SERAPHIM.—The Swedish order of
Seraphim, lately presented to General Canrobert, has
been conferred on only one person in Austria, M. de
Metternich ; one in Prussia, M. de Pfuel ; one in Den-
mark, Count de Mohckte, ex-President of the Council ;
and five in Russia, MM. de Nesse'rode, Menschikoff,
WoronzDff, Orloff, and Czernitcheff.
THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES.—The Lord Advocate of
Scotland has agreed to bring in a bill for the reform of
the Scottish Universities next session of Parliament,
provided that the various parties more immediately in-
terested shall agree on the heads of a feasible and prac-
tical measure.
THE NEW ARCHDEACON OF STAFFORD. —The vacancy
caused by the lamented death of Archdeacon Hobson
has at length been filled up, by the appointment of the
Rev. Henry Moore, M.A., vicar of Eccleshall and of
Penn. It was, we understand, the wish of the Lord
Bishop of the diocese, in whom the appointment is
vested, to have the archdeaconry, which is of very great
extent, divided, and to appoint one archdeacon for the
northern and another for tLe southern portion of this
county. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, however,
have ultimately declined to sanction the proposed alte-
ration.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.
A CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICER TRIED FOR MURDER.—
The Court of Assizes of the Basses-Pyrenees three days
ago tried a customs' officer named Pantos for an at-
tempt at murder. The indictment alleged that, in the
night of the sth January last, whilst he and a comrade
were on the watch for smugglers in the mountains near
°sees, they saw three men approach with bales of goods,
and that he, without any necessity, fired at one of them,
named Etchessare, and wounded him so seriously that
his life was for a long time in danger. The answer of
the prisoner was, that as he was trying to arrest Etches-
care, the latter resisted him, and that in the struggle his
musket accidentally went off. The evidence proved that
the man's statement was correct, and the jury acquitted
him.

THE PRESS IN PRUSSIA.—The President of the Prus-
sian Police has just addressed the following circular to
the Berlin press :—" During the last session of the
Chambers the journals did not always observe proper
discretion in reporting the aieenspions and the reports of
committees. Sometimes they published prematurely re-
ports which could not be of any utility to the public in-
terest, particularly on certai❑ important questions, and
at other times garbled statements of the discussions
which only led to incorrect judgment of their meaning,
and bearing. The Director of the Police is, therefore,
compelled to recommend for the future the greatest re-
serve on the part of the journals. The law on the pre
of the 12th May, 1851, which guarantees complete
liberty to faithful reports of the public sittings of the
Chamber, does not extend that permission to what takes
place in the private sittings of committees."
SUSPECTED MURDER.—As a gendarme was three
mornings ago proceeding along the road from Paris to
Bordeaux, in the commune of Aussac, near Angouleme,
he saw two dead bodies lying in a ditch, each with
dreadful wounds in the head, which had evidently been
inflicted with some blunt instrument. There were no
indications of any struggle having taken place, but from
blood on the road, it appeared that one of the men bad
been killed there, and then dragged into the ditch, whilst
as to the other, it appeared that he had been killed in
the ditch as he was crouching down, in the hope pro-
bably of not being seen. One of the men was recognised
as a farmer named Allard, of Fenetre, the other as a
farmer named Regnier, of Chez-Rousseau, and both were
proceeding in company to 'toffee, in a cart drawn by
three mules. This cart was afterwards found in a wo,d,
and a sum of money, supposed to amount to 2,200 fr ,
was discovered to have been taken from it. No trace
of the murderer has been discovered.
ROBBERY AND MURDER.—The police of Clermont
have arrested a man on suspicion of being the mur-
derer of the woman found dead a short time ago on the
top of the Puy-de-Dome. The man belongs to the de-
partment of the Creuse, and was arrested in his native
village, where he had gone to visit his wife and family.
Strange to say, he went home though he knew the
police had been inquiring after him. Some articles
of dress and jewellery, supposed to have belonged to
the victim, were seized in his house. The man when
taken was exceedingly civil to the police, and not only
expressed no surprise at his arrest, but did not even ask
why it was effected. On being conveyed to Clermont,
he was interrogated at great length by the examining
magistrates, and he replied with perfect composure ; he
did not deny having been with the murdered woman,
but asserted positively that it was not he who had com-
mitted the crime. He was c infronted with the body
which still remains at the hospital, and was not at all
affected. A large crowd assembled to see him taken to
and from the hospital, and his sister, who is married
at Clermont, attempted, in a paroxysm of indignation,
to strike him, but the bystanders prevented her.
SUICIDE.—The clerks employed at the mairie of the
let arrondissement were two days ago rather surprised
at the non-appearance of one of their colleagues, who
had been in the office for 30 years, and had never during
that time been absent for a single day or irregular in his
time of coming. As he did not appear on the follow-
ing day they sent to his residence. The porter of the
house having replied that he had not seen him, thecone-
missary of police was sent for, and on the door of the
missing man's room being opened, his body was found
suspended by a cord attached to three nails driven into
the wall in the doorway between two rooms. He bad
only a shirt and drawers on, and there was a deep gash
in the throat, from which the blood had flowed in a
stream, and fallen in a pool at his feet. A razor was at-
tached by a string to the right hand. It was at first
supposed that he had been murdered and afterwards
hanged, and the razor placed as it was found, to remove
suspicion of foul play, but on examining some papers it
was found that he bad determined on suicide in conse-
quence of being annoyed for the payment of some trifling
debts.

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All correspondence from Russia that is spoken of
in Berlin, as coming from well-informed sources,
expresses astonishment at the rumours of pacific
overtures, &c., current in the press ; the only
facts the letters contain point to energetic pre-
parations for a renewal of the war in the spring.
They talk of the Crimea being supplied by that
time with a force of 300,000 men, and of the posi-
tion at Kertch being wrested from the Allies as
soon as the Sea of Azoff is frozen over sufficiently,
strong for the passage of troops ; this latter posi-
tion is looked upon as nearly as valuable as that '
of the north side of Sebastopol.