The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-27 00:00:00

LONDON, WED NESDAY EVENiNGI JUNE .27, 1855%

lit(1 if it. ALBERT SM.II:II.'S MON T ULAN'.
is Now Open Every Evening, at 8 ellock, except Saturday
TII3 Morninx Repersentar.eas take p:ace every Tresday, Thurrday
and r.a..urday. at 3 o'clock.—,tails can be taken at the Box-clitlet
every day front Eleven till Four.—Egyptian Hall, ricu.,lllly.

ARGYLL ROOMS.—lmmense success of the
new dance, LA VARBOVIANA : Music by H. LAURENT
—Danced every evening.

PANORAMA of SEBASTOPOL is now
OPEN at BURFORD'S, Leicecter-square, showing the Mame
lon, Malakoff, Redan, Flagstaff, Quarantine, and all the Batteries;
also, the Allied Encampments, arid the combined Fleets.—The Views
of the BA'rrr.E of the ALMA and the BERNESE ALPS are also
open.—Adnaission, Is. each.

-ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAR-
DE.NS.—INCR EASED AT TRACTION for the WHITSUN
HOLIOAX6.—Grand Vocal and Instrumental DIVERTI3'3E MENU
of Variou countries by the European National Aliwtrels, in appro
priate costume, singing in 21 different languages.—Engagement of
iggr,or Russell' and Family, wh will present their Drawirg-room
Entertainment of graceful classical groupings and representations,
Including the thrilling gymnastic feat of "La Pereht."—Also,
Bradbury, the celebrated Flying Rope Vaulter, will exhibit his unique
performances of daring and skit', concluding with his unrival ed fea
of throwing one hundred summers %Wis.—Repulse of the Russian
sorties and Bombardment of Sebastopol, at hal'=past 6 and 10 o'clock
as usual.—Ne extra charge. Admission to the whole, Is.

OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
ZIA, Last Week of SINBAD the SAILOR, which will be shown
every Morning and Evening.
Last week of the Magnificent SILVER CANDELABRUM, Seven-
teen Fees High, one of four made for the Egyptian Government, by
Messrs. Williams, of 223, Oxford-street, will be Illuminated every
evening, at Nine o'clock, by the Electric Light.
The LECTURES and EXFIIBITIONS, as delivered before her Most
Gracious Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Patron
of the Institution, will he continued.

Last Two Lectures by Mrs. CLARA Lucas BALFOUR, " SIMMER
HOURS with the POETS," on June 28th, and Ju'y 2d, at Eight
o'clock in the evening.
Mon&y Fveninz, Jane Vith, Lecture on ASTRONOMY, by Dr.
Bachhoffner, at Eight o'clock. .
DIORAMA et SAM' SLICK, &c., &c.

HANWELL COLLEGE, MIDDLESEX.
The Terms of this lout-e4tablished and sue,essful flistitution
will be Font on application to the Roy. J. A. Emertou, Princi-
pal.. The School will reopen July 231.
" College is fully sustaining its high character."—United
Service Gazette.

ROYAL COLLEGE of PRECEPTORS.—
The• Half-yearly GENERAL MEETING of the Members of
this Corporation will be held at the Offices, 42, Queen-square,
Rlobmsb•iry, on FRIDAY. the 29th Inst. The chair will be taken at
Two o'clock. The Rev. J. SI Watson, of Stockwell, will deliver the
address.

JOIN PARKER, Secretary.

THE 475. SUITS.—The 16s. trousers reduced
to 145.; trousers and waistcoat, 225.; coat, waistcoat, and
trousers, 475., made to order from Scotch tweeds, all wool and
thoroughly shrunk ; the two guinea dress or frock coat }the guinea
dress trousers; and the half-guinea waistcoat—made to enter by B.
BENJAMIN*, merchant tailor, 74, Regent-street. For quality, style,
and workmanship cminot be equalled by any house in the kingdom.
N.B.—A perfect fit guaranteed.

theni the Crystal Palace and its beautiful pleasure grounds.
riles will they become habituAed to enjoyments which are
irreconcileable with ex.eessive ind.ulgente in stimulants. Kept
cl,
in god humour by such MC,OIS they willbe more accessible to
thos who initite their intention':io -matters of more serious
mom nt, instead of shrinking from\thein—as they do now—
as meddling and dictatorial kill-joys.

! - (Prom the Times of this cfay.)
Y. hstetday we had occasionlo remark upon the gathering
of la* Sunday in .liy.de Park, and last nightthe same subject
was twice brought uncle the House of Comm Ons by Mr. 0
way and Mr. 11. Berkeley. The former' asked the Secretary
of State for the Hone Department 'whether it was the inten-
tion 0 the Government to support or oppose the further pro-
gresNof the Sunday Trading Bill—the latter obtained a com-
mittee on the operation of the Beer Bill passed last session.
As to the Government, nothing was to be elicited from Sir G.
Grey and his friends, save that they are determined to be
guided by circumstances, and are prepared to maintain or re-
linquish the views they have expressed according to the air-
emus ances of the case, and the contingencies of failure or
1 succe s; but even Lord Robert Grosvenor appeared anxious
to di own his measure. " The responsibility for the bill,"
said lie, " did not rest with him, but with the house." If
the 1411 be not the bill or Lord Robert Grosvenor, but of the
housei, why should he take such especial pains' in the matter,
in opposition to the evident feeling of that assembly ? No doubt
the second reading was carried. But how carried ? It is
more than questionable if the.great bulk of the members were
at all.
ware of the importance of the discussion ; it is, we
•hope, tolerably certain that when the various provisions of
the bi I are bronght formally before their notice, they will get
rid of it altogether.

As to the principles upon which the measure is founded, and
the machinery by which it is proposed to carry those measures
into effect, what can we add t ) the various considerations
which; we yesterday submitted to the judgment of our readers?
There can be no doubt that early in the morning of every
returning Sunday the humbler artisans and workpeopie
of this metropq/is do make their little pwchases of
meat, vegetables, milk, &e., and so fitt,-n(P. dolbt them
IS des-derifi3ii the Sabbath. On the other hand, in their
favouri it is to be said, that in numerous cases they do not
receive their week's wages until late on the Saturday night ;
so that they could not, if they would, lay in their little stores
for the Sunday's provision. Again, even if the money were
paid into their hands in time for dealing upon the Saturday
night,lit is a lamentable fact that they frequently occupy
such narrow' and unwholesome lodgings that during the
warmer season the•provisions--not too fresh in the first in-
stance—which they had purchased overnight would be tainted
in the morning. The argument on the other side naturally
is, that such traffic is to be avoided by fresh arrangements
between employers and employed, and that, although it may
be perfectly true that the larders of the poor are not in a very
perfect condition, the measure of inconvenience inflicted upon
them, if the present bill should pass into a law, is as nothing
compared with the amount of desecration of the Sabbath to
which it will put an end. It is at this point that the legisla-
tors of Hyde-park step in with their burly opposition. "alk
of desecration of the Sabbath by the lower classes," say they;
" there is not one house in a hundred inhabited by the middle
classes,—there is not house in a thou!aud inhabited by those
still higher placed in the social scale, in which desecration of

the Sabbath is not patent, constant, notorious. What is the
meaning of your Sunday dinner parties and pleasure excur-
sions, although six other days in the week are open to you
for diversion and amusement? We have but one day, and
on that day you would starve us and recd nee us to inaction as
a sacrifice to your own spiritual, pride.:t Jf we are to have a
Sunday Bill, bo it es you will, but let us have the bishops
perambulating the streets on foot, shut up your clubs and
hotels, stop all traffic, and let Loudon be reduced to a cata-
leptic condition during the Sabbatical period of 24 hours.
Your present bill is a miserable piece of hypocrisy and
deceit." What can Lords Ebrington and Robert Grosvenor
answer to this just objurgation? 'There are certain members
of a tribe in South Africa who earn their living in a singular
way. They are supported by the voluntary contributions of
their fellows in ease and affluence. They are not called upon
to handle the assegai in the cyase, nor the rude hoe in the
parched African field. All they have to do is to be penitent
whenever any member of the tribe wanders into sin and
transgression. The sinner instantly despatches a message to
the professional penitent, who, no matter what his own feel-
ings may be at the time—whether he be feasting or fasting—
must instantly roll himself about on the hot sand, and howl
with intense remorse. Now, it appears' to us that this vica-
rious sanctity is all that we shall attain by this Sabbath bill.
The great and the opulent will continue to revel as before,
while the poor will be called upon to, repent not only for their
own sins, but for ours, and not only for our past sins, but for
those we are actually committing, and liar all we are deter-
mined to commit in the future.

( From the Morning Herald of this day. )

The 'louse of Lords last night listened to another of those
lucid and comprehensive reviews of our war policy to which
Lord Lyndhurst has familiarised their lordships—efforts of an
extraordinary mind, over whose fine powers extreme age
seems to cast neither blight nor shadow. The more imme-
diate object of the noble and learned lord on this occasion was
to examine the policy of Austria, and how far the results of
that policy have justified the course we have pursued with
reference to that power.
It can hardly be denied now by those who were accustomed

to congratulate the Western Powers and mankind in general
upon the consummation of the Austrian alliance, that the
most recent events have shown, that from the first the Cabi-
net of Vienna has played a subtle and a selfish game—that
they•have beguiled the Western Powers with implied promises
of contingent assistance, and delusive proposals for the settle-
ment of the Eastern complication. We do not say that her
mediation was necessarily insincere, because it had led to no
practical result—with such a power as Russia the best offices
might have been unavailing. We are even willing to acknow-
led; e with Lord Ellenborough the value of the tranquil posi-
tion of Austria within her own territory—her well-armed
frontier opposing a barrier to Russia, and creating a necessity
for a Russian corps of observation that might otherwise have
been moved to the Crimea. It may be too, although we do
not very clearly see it, that Austria has exerted a most bene-
ficial influence upon the German Diet and people, preventing
on the one hand a Russian pressure, and on the other the
development of a Russian policy. Against this speculative
good, however, we can set off something like positive evil.
The occupation of the Principalities, in pursuance of that
unfortunate convention of June, 1854, set free the army of
Bessarabia, and supplied some f the troops that fought at
the Alma and at Inkerman. Our two Tears' " deference" to
Austria has been the curse of our policy. It has not only
paralysed our operations in the field, but the prolonged and
profitless negotiations in which Austria played the part of
mediator have prevented, by the shadow of irresolution they
cast on our policy, a declaration on the part of the Baltic
powers, and very possibly of Germany also. These negotia-
tions have terminated, as every one know they would, in the
rejection by Russia of easier terms than she had any right to
expect, and after the ministers of the allies had exhausted
their instructions, and actually returned to their respective
governments, Austria comes forward with a proposition she
knew could not be accepted, affords Russia an opportunity
for a display of moderation in the face of Europe, and, which
is the most significant proceeding of all, commences the re-
duction of the army on her eastern frontier. What has been
the consequence ? Why, the same that followed her occupa-

tion of the Principalities. The army of Bessarabia was then
liberated for. the Crimea; the Russian troops, hitherto
stationed on the frontiers of Gallicia, are now, if the reports
may be relied upon, on their march for the same destination.
Such seem to be the obligations we owe to Austrian alliance
and Austrian mediation. The reduction of her military force
argues, it was remarked by Lord Ellenborou,gb, an entire
change in her intention. Austria thus places herself on a
level with Prussia, and we know what that level signifies.
The debate last night elicited from the Foreign Ministerthe
important announcement that the allied powers consider
themselves absolutely unfettered by the " four points," or any
of them, and that they are henceforth free to make such terms
as the success of our military operations may sanetion. If we
may believe (we do not believe it) this statement the next
proposal will be a. serious advance upon those hitherto offered.
We fear, however, under the guidance of those at present
conducting the war, we are not likely soon to be in a condi-
tion to increase our demands. The Austrian alliance, with
its happy results, was one of the triumphs of the Minister
who is still entrusted with the foreign seals. Lord Clarendon
hardly attempts to conceal the fact that our foreign policy for
the past two years has been a ruinous mistake. Shall he be
permitted to involve the country in tho consequences of an-
other similar period ?

was forthwith despatched into the Sea of Azo ; and here
similar successes awaited us. - The command of this inland
sea passed to the allies in an instant. There was nowhere
any RuSsian force capable. of offering resistance to the squad-
ron, ilthough the number of vessels surprised showed what
extensive me had been made of this channel of communica-
tion With the Crimea. On the northern coast of the Sea of
Azoftlaresituated some of the chief provision • depots of the
Government, while the western shore is formed by that
singular spit of land along which, or by nr:aus of
which, a special military road into the Crimea is understocid
to have been constructed. At the southern extremity, or
root of this tongue of land, stands the fort of Arabat, and be-
yond the Straits at its northern point lies the town of Geuitehi.
Along the coast, between Genitchi and the mouths of the;Don,
are situated the important 'grain depots of Berdiansk, Ma-
rionpol, and Taganrog. To deal with these places, now that
an entrance into the sea had been effected, was but the work
of a fevi days, and the correspondence from the spot which
we have-already published will convey an accurate idea of the
operations which ensued. Berdiansk surrendered, on condi-
tion that while the Government stores and shipping were de-
stroyed private property should be respected. At Genitchi, as
the like conditions were refused, the place was bombarded,
and a vast amount of grain and shipping destroyed, including
the large flats or ferries by which the strait was crossed.
Arabat was cannonaded till its magazine blew up. Taganrog
an Marioupol were then visited, and the stores and shipping
burnt at each place in the like manner. It was at the former
of these towns that, according to the Russian bulletin, al-
though a cannonade- described as " infernal" in 'its severity
was maintained for six hours and a half, the list of casualties
is confined to " one Cossack killed." How very different a
version the same fact can receive will have been seen from
the lucid despatches of Captain Lyons in our impression of
yesterday.

With a similar absurdity of depreciation, the organs of the
Ru;siau Government have assured the world that nothing
beyond a certain amount of damage to private pro-
perty has been accomplished by an expedition which
in the space of a few days took, destroyed, or
caused to be destroyed, 290 veseels with an immense
quantity of stores,- and deprived the enemy of four
months' provisions for 109,000 men. Even these
returns, howeier, •do not convey a sufficient idea
of the results. The important feature of these successes con-
sists in the command thus obtained of the Sea of Azoff and of
the eastern coast of the Crimea, which will enable us to de-
prive the Russians in the peninsula of their chief supplies.
Another result, too, of a most valuable and gratifying kind is
the evacuation of the strong fort of Anapa, now officially an-
nounced in Lord Raglan's despatch. This place, situated at
the angle of the Circassian territory, a little to the south-east
of the Straits of Kertch, was to be the object of attack after
Kertch and Yenikale had been secured, and the letter of our
correspondent in our last impression closed with the intima-
tion that the troops were expected to sail from Yenikale on
this service on the Bth of June. The hazards, however, of
this enterpriSe have now been saved. The Russians, dis-
mayed at our successes, and actuated, perhaps, by some such
motives as had been influential with the garrison of Kerteh.
witliarew from the place of their own accord, and such was
the strength of the fortiacatious thus abandoned that the
casualties probably escaped may be reckoned as some com-
pensation for the losses experienced before Sebastopol. So
fortunate, indeed, has been the whole expedition, that the
returns show but three or four men wounded from first to
last, and the troops are now returned as disposable without
loss for any other service. All that is necessary is to secure
the passage of the straits and the entrance to the Sea of
Az if, and this, it seems to be presumed, can be effectually
accomplished, now that the Russian defences are destroyed,
by leaving a garrison well intrenched at Yenikale. After this
our steamers and gun-boats can scour the Sea of Azoff with
perfect facility, nor will the Russian flag find any more place
upon those waters than upon those of the Maxine.

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 25.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint John R. Parte-
low, Esq., to be Auditor-General for the Province of Now
Brunswick.

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 2G.

Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Emanuel
Bradbury, to be Captain, without purchase. To be Lieu-
tenants without purchase. —Cornet Walter C. Wingfield,
vice Bradbury; Cornet Joseph E. Edlmann.
4th Light Dragoons—Cornet and Adjutant Henry Jen-
nings to have the rank of Lieutenant; Cornet William
Wiustanley to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Booth, who
retires ; Cornet Frederick Augustus Weatherley to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Honourable C. J. Keith,
promoted.
lst or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—The promo-
tion of Ensign and Lieutenant R. W. Hamilton to be
Lieutenant and Captain, to bear date the 18th instead of
the 19th June, 1855.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Tho-
mas Graham to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchalo ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Haythorne, from the 93th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Bell, appointed In-
specting Field Officer of a Recruiting District ; Brevet-
Major F. G. Urquhart, to be Major, without purchase, vice
Graham ; Ensign G. G. Stewart, to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Creagh, appointed to the 72d Foot.
13th Foot—Major A. E. F. Holcombe, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase; Brevet-Major P. R. Jennings,
to be Major, without purchase, vice Holcombe. To be
C tptains, without purchase—Lieutenant G. Fitzgerald
King, vice Jennings; Lieutenant M. Browne; Lieutenant
E. Boyd; Lieutenant A. Bainbriggo. To be Lieutenants,
without pnreliase.--Ensign R. N. Clayton, vice King ;
Ensign H. E. Hall, vice Browne ; Ensign P. E. V. Gil-
bert, vice Boyd; Ensign J. P. Miller, vice Bainbrigge;
Ensigns W. Haslett, Henry Gillett, W. Williams; Ensign.
T. T. Gould, from the Ceylon Regiment.
17th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Pearson Ward,
from the Ordnance Medical Department, to be Surgeon,
vice Simpson, deceased.
28th Foot—The Commission of Lieutenant E. S. R.
Smyth, as Adjutant, to bear date Ist June, in lieu of the
sth of that mouth, as previously stated.
3 )th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Milligan, to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Wilson, who satires.
68th Foot—Ensign H. J. R. Villiers-Stuart to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Smyth, deceased; Ensign
F. G. D. Watson, to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Villiers-Stuart, whose promotion on the 12th May
has been cancelled. The proinotiou of Ensign Joseph
Thompson to a Lieutenantoy, without purchase, vice
Smyth, deceased, on the 15th of March, has been can-
celled.
72d Foot—Lieutenant J. F. N. Hewitt, from the Ist
West India Regiment to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase; Lieutenant James Creagh, from the let Foot, to
be Lieutenant, without purchase.
86th Foot—Ensign J. W. Fry, from the Ist Foot, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Gould, promoted in the
31st Foot.

98th F6ot—Assistant-Surgeon Neil Henry Stewart,
M.D., to be Surgeon,. vice Cowen, promoted on the Staff.
Rifle Brigade—Lieut. the Hon. H. W. Campbell, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Cooper, who retires.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Sidney Cave to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hewett, appointed to
the 72d Foot.