The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-28 00:00:00

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 28,

Will be pre:.,nted the new Comedietta, caller' TIT FOR TAT, In
Which Messrs. F. Robson, A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will appear.

Followed by A LUCKY FRIDAY.
Atter which, P. new Fairy Extravaganza. entitled THE YELLOW
DWARF AND THE KING OF THE GOLD MINES. Characters
by Mr. F. Pobson, Miss Julia St. George, Miss E. ()monde, Miss
Marston, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Fitzallap.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a new Comedietta, entitled CITY FRIENDS.
After which, the new Operatic Burlesque, entitled, ALONZO THE
BRAVE.
To conclude with the popular Burletta, OUR BELLY. Principal
character, Miss Rebecca Isaacs.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.

THIS EVENING,
The BATTLE of BALAKLAVA and of INKERMANN, added, by
a Third Act, to the success'ul Spectacle, the BATTLE of the ALMA,
which this week reaches its 116th representation ! The addition
embraces the ever-memorable charge o: the British Cavalry, and
also those tretrendous hand-in-hand encountels which characterised
the stove engagements.

After • ,hich, and to conclude with, a select and prolonged Series of
SCENES in the CIRCLE, invented by Mr. Wm. Cooke.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West. Acting Manger, 5 r. W. IL Cooke. Equestrian. Direct or
Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGF
TTn5 DAY —Morning 0 min.after 0 I Evening 13 min.aft, 12
To. \foam, - Morning 4'; min.efter 12 1 Evening 7 mirhafL. 1

THE WEATHER.—Sun Orvicrs, Feb. 28.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
54—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
50—this day, at noon.
BAROMETEB, 29'88.
WIND, W.N.W.—Light, with mild, dull weather.

Al3l,

prevent the army from obtaining the slightest
benefit from their efforts. If the most trivial
formwere wanting—if the red tape were not
tied in accordance with the approved official
pattern, the stores were peremptorily re-
jected, no matter how urgent the demand. It
was a difficult and expensive matter to send the
stores from England to Balaklava, and ♦ery
serious mistakes were made in the arrangement of
the cargoes ; but it was trifling to the obstacles
that arose after the arrival at their destination.
The last seven miles occasioned tenfold greater
difficulties than the preceding three thousand. A
cargo of boots and shoes were sent three times
backwards and forwards across the Black Sea,
while our soldiers were fighting barefooted, or
with straw wrapped about their bleeding feet.
Potatoes were rejected when that baneful scourge,
the scurvy, was present in our camp. The mas-
ter of the transport had, however, the good sense
to give these invaluable esculents to the Greek
population, who realised large sums by retailing
at an enormous price what was intended to be
gratuitously distributed
But why multiply examples? Much of the
misery endured by our troops, aye, more, a large
proportion of the mortality that has thinned the
ranks of one of the noblest armies that ever left
the British shores, may be directly traced to the
mismanagement of the transport service, which
has cost, or is to cost, 8,663,9391. sterling !
And yet this is what the new Secretary
for War thinks fit to defend ! The Noble
Lord last night indignantly denied that
"he had made an apologetic speech, or
had admitted the existence of abuses !" To
what, then, does he ascribe the demand for in-
quiry, the overthrow of the ABERDEEN Govern-
ment, and his own appointment as Minister for
War ? If there were no abuses, why was the
Duke of NEWCASTLE victimised?—why was Lord
ABERDEEN cashiered ? We trust the Noble Lord
will explain these anomalies. It is, however,
difficult to suppose the younger DROMIO would be
willing to expose the blemishes and deformities
of his twin brother; and to that wo must ascribe
the rather inconsistent praise besto Ned by the
Secretary for War on the efficiency and judi-
cious management of the Transport Service !

The case of the Right Hon. T. F. KENNEDY
occupied the attention of the House of Commons
the greater portion of last night. Much ridicule
has been cast on the friends of the deeply-injured
gentleman for their attempts to obtain redress
for the gross and palpable injustice with which he
has been treated. Imputations were cast upon
his veracity, integrity, and honour, such as, if
permitted to remain unanswered, would have
operated as a perpetual and insuperable obstacle
to his employment in her MAJESTY'S service.
These have all been withdrawn in the most distinct
and explicit manner. Nay, more, it was stated
by the Premier that the Right Hon. Gentleman
had come out of the debate with his " character
and honour free from all imputation t" He
even undertook that there should be placed on
record in the Treasury a full acknowledgment that
"Mr. KENNEDY'S honour stands unimpeached !"
These are certainly important conces-
sions. It cannot, therefore, be asserted
that the time of the House has been
wasted or misapplied. There was no other tri-
bunal to which he could have appealed. It is the
theory of the British Constitution that there
should be no wrong without a suitable and ade-
quate remedy ; and we therefore unhesitatingly
say, that if the grievance had been. sustained by
the poorest and least influential of her MAJESTY'S
subjects the time of Parliament would have been
well occupied in affording the tardy redress—such
as it is—which has been obtained.

We cannot, in any degree, admit the argument
derived from the inconvenience that might occur
if such inquiries were granted. We have seen
many committees granted on matters of far less
consequence. Mr. GLADSTONE claimed infalli-
bility for the Minister for the time being ; his
demand that he should be allowed, at his mere
will and pleasure, to damage irreparably the cha-
racter and prospects of any public servant is one
that will never be sanctioned by the House, and
still less by the country. Englishmen love fair
play—to do as they would be done by, and
the absolute irresponsibility asserted is one that
would be more likely to find an echo in Russian
than in English hearts. It is one under which
any amount of tyranny and oppression might
be justified. It may be right and proper
that such a remedy should be but sparingly
resorted to ; but its existence is exceedingly
valuable, and may prevpnt the exercise of
capricious authority in many instances. If a
British subject should be enabled to parody the
old [exclamation, "Civis Romanus sum," and
to rely on it as a defence against unfair treatment
in any country where he might be travelling,
much more so should it lie within his power at
home. jf there were any fair and impartial
tribunal to which he could appeal, could any other
mode of obtaining justice be disovered, then the
'I
appeal to the Commons House of Parliament
might be opposed as superfluous and incon-
venient. But, when: it was clearly ra,dmitted
that there is no existing jurisdiction adequate
to the emergency-, when the grievance was
clearly established, and the unwarrantable impu-
tations withdrawn, then, we say, that the
public time was not misapplied--that it was
the imperative duty of the representatives
of th© people to create a remedy, if none
were in existence, to prevent the arbitrary and
improper treatment of one of themselves.

"It is very fine, but it is not war." Such,
in effect, for we do not at this moment remember
the precise words, was the comment of the dis-
tinguished French General who witnessed the
unparalleled feat of arms, that career through the
jaws of death, of our Light Cavalry Brigade
under Lord CARDIGAN at Balaklava,.
The comment is too suggestive to be left wholly
unimproved, for never was the exercise of a dis-
crimination like that it reveals more necessary
than at the present time. In a similar spirit,
therefore, though with unequal skill, we venture
to make a few remarks on two or three subjects of
immediate interest in connection with the mighty
struggle in which the nation is engaged.
The Peace-at-any-Price Party, in furtherance
of their unpatriotic and degrading views, point to
the fearful loss of human life in the Crimea, and,
appealing
otto the best feelings of our nature, ask
if it is not most desirable that a War requiring
sacrifices
such magnitude, and
should. be put a stop to as speedily
soas appalling,
possible
To an appeal so plausible what have we to say in
reply ? Simply this—the War does not, never
did, and is not likely to require sacrifices so fear-
ful. The number of the slain in attle, and of
those who have died of wounds received there,
does not amount to much more than a tithe of
emon of Cae,wlltloe sses
the number lust. The remainder—seven-tenths of
them at least—have not been sacrificed to the
Demon of War, but to the
D
priesthood hoe been bliod selfishness,sthea