The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-12 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 LS SOgNAMBULA. Characters by Messrs.
Elliot Galer, H. Braham, and J. Ilalford; and Miss Lucy Escott.
To conclude with ROB ROY. Characters by Messrs. J. Ander-
son, Ray, Stuart, Herberte, H. Braham, Barrett, and J. Halford ;
Miss Lanza, Miss Dyer, and Mrs W. J. Wallack.
Prices of admission :—To the two galleries, 6d.; second circle of
boxes and pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; stalls, 4s. • private boxes to
admit two persons, 108. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-office
open from 10 to 6 daily.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Buck/dons.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS.
After which, LE GEGARRERA DE SEVILLE. Pero Nena,
Followed by COURT FAVOUR.
After which, THE SPASISEI DANCERS.
To conclude with A FISII OUT OF WATER.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Uflder the Management of Mr. CHAZLEI
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING.
After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen &ma.
rine, Mrv. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsoy, Mr. C. Kean.

THEA.TRE ROYAL ADELPIII;
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Propriet4;, B. Webster.—DiroctA M amo Ce'este.t

THIS EVENING,

Will be parrormed VICTORINE. Characters by Messrs. L. Mar,
ray, C. Selby, P. Bedford, Wright, Parselle, &c.; Miss Woolgar
Mrs. L. Murray, &c.
After which, lIOW'S YOUR UNCLE ?
To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Ur. Payne.
THIS EVENING.
win he performed LOVE'S FRAILTIES.
Feflowed by SALLY SIIART; or, The Clockmaker's Hat.
With a New Ballet.
After which, WANTED LOW: YOUNG IIIILLINERF.
Followed by TIIE GALICIAN FETE.
To conc'ade with FOUNDED ON FACTS.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

l'saee and. Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THE LAST WEEK OF MAZEPPA !

TFIIS EVENING,
LAM Byron's MAZEPPA and the WILD lIORSE, which, notwith-
standing its pawerful excitement, must be withdrawn next week
for attractive novelty.

After which, those Gems of Equestrian Art, the EvoLurioNs in
the ARE.NA, invented and arranged by Mr. William Coolie.
To conclude with a laughable farce called the SECRETS of WAR, !
7.05-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
-W t. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director,
afr. W. Cooke, jun.,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

MN DAY—Morn. 37 min: aft. 2 —Evening 50 min. aft. 2
To-lfoßßow--Morn. 3min. aft. • 3—Evening 20min. aft. 3

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFIEE, Sept. 12.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

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4 --lowe,t this morning and daring the night.
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BAROMETER, 30.26 rising again.
WIND, N.W.—Moderate, with fr: sunshiny weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1855.

The Allied troops having so gloriously accom-
plished the arduous and important duty in which
they were engaged, it now remains for the Allied
Governments to follow up the victory and to ob-
tain its legitimate fruits. There must now be no
waiting for Austria or for Prussia—no opening of
negotiations, the sole effect whereof would be- to
give breathing-time to Russia, and to enable it to
recover partially from the heavy blow which has
just been administered. The insidious arguments
of the Peace-at-any-Price Party must now be dis-
regarded. No maudlin sentimentality can be in-
dulged in. We have sacrificed many millions of
treasure and the lives of tens of thousands of our
best and bravest, to break the pride and reduce
the inordinate power of Russia ; and, the work
having at length been accomplished, we must ren-
der the humiliation complete, and prevent the
possibility of further aggression for many years to
come. We have now acquired the right to im-
pose stringent terms, and not a single point can
be waived in following it up to the very utmost.
It is ridiculous to say that with the destruction
of the Russian fleet and the demolition of " the
standing menace to Constantinople and to
Europe," the objects of the War have been fully
accomplished, and that we may now safely retire
from the contest. If we did so, it would be
merely deferring the evil day, purchasing a tem-
porary exemption for ourselves at the expense of
our children and their offspring. The paper pro-
mises of Russia will no longer suffice ; " ma-
terial guarantees " of the most satisfactory cha-
racter are indispensable. The plunder of past
years must be relinquished by Russia, and an
ample indemnity given for the expenses of the
War: By insisting on those terms, we only
follow the precedent established by Russia herself
—every success being the signal for territorial
changes, and the loser invariably paid the "full
costs." •

No intervention can for a moment be listened
to. Austria and Prussia have for their own pur-
poses refrained from taking part in the War.
They cannot now be permitted to interfere for the
purpose of helping Russia out of the scrape. In
this respect we have also the example of Russia
to refer to. She invariably insisted on dealing
directly with the adversary, and receiving the
propositions without any intermediate agent. She
must therefore, on the present occasion, " dree
her own weird," and come to head-quarters for
any indulgence she may require.

The next step is now anxiously looked for.
The Russian fleet has been completely destroyed,
but the Crimean army still exists. Sebastopol is
virtually our own ; but Simpheropo], Baknhi-
Serai, and other towns, still afford shelter to Rus-
sian garrisons. That army must be forced to
capitulate—the whole of the Crimea be restored
to its lawful owners. Under any circumstances
it can never again be restored to the AUTOCRAT—
never made the point of aggression to overawe in-
offensive neighbours. Once reduced into posses-
sion, it can easily be retained by those who have
the command of the surrounding seas. No army
could venture to cross Perekop and enter on the
arid steppes which lie between it and the Crimean
capital. A thoroughly efficient commissariat, and
the certainty of ample supplies from the rear,
would be, indispensable before such a movement
could be attempted.

It would be a hard task for Prince GORT-
SCHAKOFF to evacuate the territory, and get his
followers out of the terrible trap in which they are
caught, even if unassailed. But if the Allied Generals
efficiently discharge their duty, it will be abso-
lutely impossible. The triumphant termination
of the siege, will liberate a large body of men
from the harassing work of the trenches, and
within .a
few hours they may be conveyed to
Eupateria, whence a single day's march world
carry them on to Simpheropol. By doing so
promptly they could cut off the retreat of the
Russians. But no time can be lost in considera-
tion. The enemy will make up their minds
very rapidly, and leave nothing but a devastated
country, and ruined towns behind thew. They
on use their heels well, and if time be allowed,

may get off before our troops get to the scratch.
A. single day's delay may impose the necessity of
sending troops to the Tcheterlik, where the fugi-
tives could easily be intercepted, every road to
the Isthmus being commanded, there is a glorious
)pportunity for the Generals to show the stuff of
which they are made, and to render the conster-
nation of Russia decisive. We hope it may not
be neglected or misapplied.

The hour of success is also the hour of danger.
We do not, indeed, fear imprudence on the part
of our Generals; they have hitherto rather shrunk
from heavy risks. The danger is at home. If our
Generals and Admirals receive orders to clear the
Crimea of Russians from Balaklava to Perekop
before winter, we believe they will do it ; but
our fear is for the effect of victory on the people;
if it lead them to relax their vigilance over their
own Government they may lose in an evil hour
the fruits of all their blood and treasure. While
exulting in the first grand success, the first achieve-
ment to which the Alma, and Balaklava, and In-
kerman, and the Tchernaya were but preparatory
stQps ;—while soothed by the retribution which
has overtaken the savage pirates of Sinope, driven
to naval suicide by remorse and cowardice—we
must yet keep our heads cool, and not suffer the
reins to fall from our hands.
Hitherto we have proved true, because honest,
prophets. We take no other credit to ourselves
for having foreseen so frequently and so correctly
the diplomatic and political issues of things than
is due to the instinct of straightforward advocacy
of the nation's views on the War, and the most
rooted hatred to the Germanising and Russia-
sparing policy of our public men. With the vzst
majority of the nation, a majority which ought
rather to be called unanimity, we have held that
Russia ought to be humbled and reduced without
mercy. From the beginning our argument has
been that mercy to Russia was cruelty to our
soldiers, cruelty to all Europe, cruelty to our-
selves at home. For every house spared at
Jdessa, for instance, and elsewhere, we main-
tain that scores of English and French lives have
been sacrificed, for the lenity evinced in taking
die now scouted Four Points into consideration
Sur army suffered in the slackness of the siege
)perations, and in the opportunity gained by
Russia to liberate her troops from Poland. But,
worse than all, there have been traitors in our
camp from the time of ABERDEEN, GLADSTONE,
tad GRAHAM to this hour. Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
or his principles on this question, have been and
will be, unless the nation forbids, the curse of
the War. He might have been more willing
than Lord ABERDEEN to frighten Russia, if she
had not been far too cunning not to see through
masquerade war, but his leading and avowed
principle is as disgraceful to a war statesman as
it has been ruinous to our army and costly to our
finances.

The territory and the dignity of Russia have
been Lord JOHN'S avowed care from the beginning
)f the War till his great Vienna downfall. All
the GREYS and RUSSELLS, with their alines, have
hared the folly, and, we must say, the political
turpitude, of their leader ; at least so far as we
;an gather from their doings and their not-doings,
their sayings and their not-sayings. The whole
,nfluence of the old family clique, backed, we fear,
by the despotic affinities of the Court, ,has been
lirected to conducting the War on the mad prin-
;iple of sparing Russia, so far as the English
)eople would permit. Think of a MARLBOROUGH,
n. a WELLINGTON, a RODNEY or a NELSON, an
IL.FRED or a CROMWELL attempting their campaigns
)n such a drawing-room principle ! England's great
nen hitherto have gone to war with but one
idea, that of sparing the enemy nowhere when
they could, light upon him. They let him know
that he continued war at the peril of losing
more and more, and losing it irrecoverably, each
year. We believe it to be the height of wicked-
ness to draw the sword on any other condition.
The bloodshed of war for mere victory, but war not
intended to disable the enemy permanently from
renewing his aggressions, is, we believe, greater
than that of a war which aims by every means at
the latter.

We suspect a Cabinet which dabbled with the
Four Points, and a Cabinet which avows no sym-
pathy with the rights of_ the nations which Russia
has absorbed, and by absorbing which she has
become formidable. We suspect a Cabinet which
has ignominiously courted the Austrian Alliance,
and sacrificed to it not only Poland but a Polish
legion also. We suspect a Cabinet which has
scoured Europe for foreign soldiers, but has re-
fused the only foreign soldiers whose very name
and banners would have struck Russia with dis-
' may. Above all, we suspect a Cabinet in which
Sir CHARLES WOOD .follows Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
and under whose management the Baltic Fleet
has doubled our Income Tax to do next to nothing.
The relative of Earl GREY, the long associate of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, a man, too, of confessedly
mediocre ability, could never occupy his all-im-
portant post at the Admiralty but as the fitting
implement for not doing too much, We think
it is now demonstrated that it was not intended
to be too successful in the Baltic. The NA PIER
correspondence has, at least, proved one thing—
that even Sir CHARLES WOOD knew how to lay
Sweaborg, Helsingfors, and Cronstadt in ruins,
and has not done it. The autumn exploit at
Sweaborg proved also what could
_have been done,
had it been wished, at any time this summer.
The requisite means were known, the requisite
means could have been provided in any one of
half-a-dozen iron works in England, but the re-
quisite means were not forthcoming ! The reader
must draw his conclusion ; he may, perhaps,
waver between a verdict of incapacity, or Of
design. Re ourselves can feel no hesitation.
Whig and Peelite politics throughout the whole
War forbid us to doubt.
We implore our fellow-countrymen to watch
their Government. Influences from Whig and
Peelite Aristocracy at home, and from despotic
connexions abroad, will spare the great culprit.if
possible. Even HOW that war is throwing its
weight into the scale of justice"it will be attempted
to save Russian territory and Russian dignity to
the last. Vienna gave Russia the means in 1814
to attack the liberties of Europe; Vienna will aim
to perpetuate that wickedness. English States

men are not to be relied on in Germany. The
War must now be pushed till a Peace Congress he
liald at London or Paris, or, better still, at
WARSAW. Russia must send her Plenipotentiaries
to the capitals of the Allies, or to the capital of
reconstituted Poland ; she must be fined to the
amount of the interest of the debt she
has created in four countries, and of a sink-
ing fund to redeem it. Her revenues must,

after a peace, be employed, not in training her

slaves for fresh aggression, but in remedying the
pecuniary losses caused by her late one. Above

all, her dangerous territory must be taken from
her. The Crimea, of course, is all but gone

already, Bessarabia and the Black Sea coasts must

follow ; and if the War continue, even Sir C.
Woon dares not deny that Finland must be re-
united to Sweden, and Poland fulfil the duty
which all common sense allots to it.
SebaAto,i2ol teaches one great lesson. That by

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throwing her strength into her frontiers Russia
has given up her most terrible defence. CHARLES
XII. and NAPOLEON alike found that her inte-
rior was their ruin. It may be hard work to re-
duce her Crimean, her Polish, and her Baltic for•
tresses, but to carry war successfully into her in-
terior would be the more fatal undertaking.
Sebastopol, Warsaw, and Cronstadt may threaten
Europe, but they also enable Europe to wear out
and to chastise Russia.