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

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE,
THIS EVENING,
Will be perrormed Sr ILL WATERS DEEP.
Followed by £5 REWARD.
To conclude with CATCHING A MERMAID.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. J. 11. Anderson, IS, Norfolk-street, Strand.
LAST FEW DAYS.

Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio
THIS, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock,

Will be presented, with entirely New and Ma9;niflcent Appoint-
ments, MAGIC and ITY:iTERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two
parts, by Professor Anderson.

After which, the startling ithistrations of Spirit-Rapping. 11. LF-
AN-LIOUR wint THE SPIRITS, being the most surprising an I
nteresting series of experiments over given within the walls of any
theatre.

Revival, in an Improved form, of the astonnding novelty 101E1
Startled London 10 years ago, the GREAT GUN TRICK !

Prices of admission:—Private Boxes, It. Ile. 61. ail l/. Is. ;
Orchestra Stalls, 45.; Dress Boxes, 33.; Upper Boxes, 24. ; Pit,
Is.; Gallery, 64. No Half-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5
daily.

Grand Morning Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock.
Doors open at Half-past One.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
Immense success of Rookwood !
This spirited and excitin; Hippodrome (with Turpin's Ride to
York) embraces the principal events of Ainsworth's Rookwood.
THIS EVENING,
TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK ; or, the Heir of Rookwood. Hair-
breadth escapes of Turpin. Terrific leap over a five-barred gate by
the mare Black " Bess," traine3 by Mr. William Cooke.
Last Week of Mlle. Clementine Soullier in the SCENES of the
CIRCLE.
Mr. J. H. Cooke's FLIGHT of the BRIDGE, &c
To conclude with a number of Amusing Entertainments.
Gigantic preparations are making for the Grand Christmas Panto-
mime, written by Mr. Nelsen Lee.
Itox-olice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. !ult.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

TEN DAY—Morn. 32 min. aft. s —Evening 54 min. aft. 3
TO-MoßßOw—Morn. 17 min.aft. 4 —Evening 33 min. aft. 4

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, Dec. 12.
TLIERIIOIIETER, IN THE SHADE.
39 highest since noon yesterday.
3 t—iowest this morning and during the night.
37—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.82 falling rapidly.
Wrgr, , W.—Moderate, with dull hazy weather. Snow
in the night.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1855.

THE RUMOURED FALL OF KARS.

Kars—they say—has fallen. We cannot in-
duce ourselves to believe it. We cannot for the
life of us credit so very easily the rumour of any
such unexpected and most lamentable disaster.
We have altogether too large a confidence in the
strategical resources of our own gallant WILLIAMS,
we have altogether too implicit a reliance upon
th© unflagging energies and upon the unflinching
determination of the brave KMETY, to yield our
faith at once so very readily to the statements
now put forth upon no discernible authority that
ISMAIL PACHA (KMETY) has contrived to effect
his escape, and that the English General (Win-
nums) has been compelled to offer to the Russians
terms of a tardy but inevitable capitulation. The
intelligence which has arrived to this purport,
still, we conceive, requires confirmation. Granted
that our " wish" is father to our unbelief, granted
that we may even now to all appearance be only
hoping against hope—still, we repeat, whatever
may be the construction placed upon our incredu-
lity, we do feel a very extraordinary reluctance to
accept, as beyond all further doubt, the assurance
that Kars has fallen, that General MOURAVIEFF has
triumphed, that General KMETY has retreated,
that General WILLIAMS has been driven by famine
to capitulate.

Let us give
very briefly the grounds for our
incredulity. Let
us state simply and plainly the
reasons why we conceive ourselves justified iu still
hoping that the beleaguered city has held out to
the last against its assailants. It must bo ob-
the first instance, that the an-
served, then, in
nouncement of the fall of Kars comes to us from
a direction, to say the least of it,
exceedingly sus-
picious. It was intimated first of all in the Ger-
man Frankfort Journal that the garrison, ravaged
at once by famine and typhus, despaired altogether
01 being able to maintain their defence beyond
the 18th of November. But discredit appears to
be at once cast upon this announcement by the
double circumstance that the statement thus made
by the Frankfort Journal was dated as far back
as the 3d of November, and that the news re-
ceived directly from Asia itself exceeds the time
actually calculated therein, coming down indeed as
recently as the 19th (not the 18th, observe ! but
the 19th) of November. At which last-mentioned
date WO know that Kars had not fallen, that
General KM= had not retreated, that General
MOURANIEFF had not triumphed, that General
WILLIAMS had not capitulated.
Again, whereas the correspondent of the pays
has spoken of various unsatisfactory rumours an