The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-22 00:00:00

!Town Hall.

Town Hall, Char.h.
row, Bethnal-green•
road.

3, Crown Office-row, Temple. -
Dated this 21st day of September, 1855.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. J. H. Anderson, IS, Norfolk-street, Strand.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint-
ments, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve acts, arranged In two
parts, by Professor Anderson.

Prices of admission:—Private Boxes, I/. I Is. 6d. and 11. is. ;
Orchestra Stalls, 4s. ; Dress Boxes, ffs.; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit,
Is.; Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. Box-office opea from 1i to 5

ROYAL OPERA. DRURY•LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed Handel's Serenata ACI3 AND GAL &TEA.
Characters by Messrs. Elliot Galer, and H. Brahain ; and Miss F.
Huddart and Lucy Escott.
After which, a BALLET.
To be followed by THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Characters by
Messrs.
and Luc yH. Brat
am. J. Halford, Farquharson, and Elliot Geier ;
Escott.

THRATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Bnekstone.
EVENING.
Wilt be performed THETHIS
MAN OF MANY FRNDS.
After which, THE PRETTY GIPSEY
AND THE BULL-
TE R.
To be followed by THE SULTAN.
To which will be added ONLY A HALFPENNY.
After which, THE SPA_NISH DANCERS.
To conclude with JOHN JONES.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL:AMPHITHEA.TRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Ceoite.
LAST WEEK OF MAZEPPA I
THIS EVENING,
MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE ; with the SCENES in the
CIRO t.E, and the introduction of Mr. Arthur Barnes, the Ch impion
Vaulter, the Brothers Elliott, and a Troupe of Premiers Voltigeurs !
On Monday next a Grand Military Spectacle, embracing the FALL
Of SEBASTOPOL, &c., by the author of the "Battle of the Alma."
Box•oflice open from Eleven till Fonr. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director,
Ifr. W. Cooke, inn*

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Ting DAY—Morn. 13min. aft. 10—Evening 4 min. aft.ll
TO-MORROW—Morn. 42min.aft.11 —Evening 0 min. aft. 0

THE WEATIIER.SuN OFFICE, Sept. 22.
THERMOMETER, IN TEM SHADE.
71— highest since noon yesterday.
56 —lowest this morning and during the night.
65 --this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.39.
WIND, E.N.E. to E.—Light, with fine weather.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1855.
The anxiously looked for despatches have
arrived, and will be found in another part of our
impression. General SIMPSON tells his interesting
story simply, but clearly. There is no attemptlto
gain unmerited credit. On the contrary, he ex-
pressly declares that the devotion of the troops
"was not rewarded by the success they so well
merited." But the brief narrative of the formid-
able onslaught sufficiently proves the fearless gal-
lantry with which they rushed to the attack, and
the unbending resolution with which they sus-
tained a fierce hand-to-hand encounter for so long
a period. Nor was it to the strength of the
enemy that they yielded. The terrific character
of the fire to which the assailants was subjected
after they had gained a, footing on the parapet
was so deadly that they were obliged to relinquish
that which had been so laboriously and meritori-

ously acquired.
The plans of the attack bad been carefully pre-
pared, and were known several dms_-ss-S previously at The Lord MAYOR, it is to be hoped, will nos
the War-office, but were not, of 'retOurse, given to suffer himself to be discouraged by the difficulties
the pnblic, lt was arranged that after three he has to contend against in his praiseworthy at-
days incessant bombardment the assault should tempt to improve the condition of the Thames.
be delivered at noon on the Bth instant. Our The response his appeal for sympathy and advice
gallant Allies were to take the initiative against met with from a majority of the Common Council,
the Malakhoff, their success in which was to be the at the court held on Thursday last, was certainly
signal for the assaults on the Great Redan by the but ill calculated to induce him to persevere ; but
English, and on the Bastion, Central, and the Court of Common Council is not the only,
Quarantine Forts, which were to be simultaneously nor, perhaps, the most influential quarter to which
made by the French. This plan was faith- he may look for support ; and the evil with which
fully carried out. General SIMPSON declares that it is his aim to grapple is of too serious a nature,
"at the hour appointed our Allies quitted their and the results which would attend on success are
trenches, entered and carried the apparently im- too beneficial to admit of his giving up or bating
pregnable defences of the Malakhoff with that im- his zeal in the struggle without dishonour.
petuous valour which characterises the French Not only has occasion for the reproach of a
attack ; and, having once obtained possession, noble stream, running through the very heart
they were never dislodged," Brilliant indeed
was that char , of the metropolis of the richest and most enter-
ge, and nobly ,
did these heroes re- rising
p nation in the world being converted into a
deem the disasters of the 18th of June.
Nothing cesspool, offensive to the senses of two millions of
could resist their vigorous and energetic dash, human beings to be effaced—the further reproach
A brief struggle left them in possession of the of having laid out an immense sum in drainage,
key of Sebastopol, which they tenaciously held, and in otherwise endeavouring to improve the
and from which they could never subsequently sanitary condition of the population, without any
be dislodged,
appreciable result, owing to the pestilential odours
Then came our time. "The tricolour planted unnecessarily permitted to be concocted in the
on the parapet of the Malakhoff was the signal Thames, should cease to have a justification in the
for our troops to advanc©. The Second and fact; for, as Mr. SMITH remarks, "after everything
Light Divisions were appointed to the post of has been accomplished which the necessity of the
honour and of danger, which they had merited cases admits—nuisances removed, accommodation
from their "having defended the batteries
and a roaches for decency provided, and ventilation secured,
pp against the Redan fur many let it never be forgotten that so long as the
months, and for which their thorough acquain- sewerage shall be retained, on an average twelve
Lance with the ground formed a pre-eminent qua- hours every day, within a few feet of the surface
lification. Lieutenant-Generals Sir WILLIAM of the grouni, on which are situated e majority
CODRINGTON and MARKHAM were specially de- of the labouring classes ; so long as theth Thames
puted to settle the plan of attack. This was continues to
pour around th no sinus exha-
Chiefly directed against the salient of the Re- lotions, the few cubic feet of airits that, under the
d an, being less exposed to the terrific flanking most favourable circumstances, can be collected
fire by which the work was protected. to a family must be continually p" It was arranged between Sir W. CODRINOTON fever carry off its thousands
per annumolluted, and
More
0
and Lieutenant-General Mammas& that the perfect stultification, in fact,
than that of suffer©
assaulting column of 1,000 men should be formed ta the Thames to continue as it is is difficult
by equal numbers of these two divisions, the to g
conceive.
column of the Light Division to lead, that of the Not only, however, are there these motives for
2d to follow. They left the trenches at the
pre- concerted signal, and moved across the exertion ; not only do a sense of self-respect and
preceded by a covering party of 200 men, and needlessly vitiated atmosphere, call for the purl-
party of 320. On arriving at the crest
of the ditch fication of the Thames—the moral no less than
, and the ladders placed, the men im- the sanitary welfare of the population demands it.
mediately stormed the parapet of th© Redan and
,
penetrated into the While the Thames continues in its present con-
salient angle. A most deter- `lotion it were idle to look for any marked change
mined and bloody contest was hero maintained for the better in the moral tone of the masses.
for nearly an hour, and, although supported to Good morals are largely associated with good
the utmost, and the greatest bravery displayed, it health, and to look for the same resistance of
was found impossible to maintain the position." The awful catalogue of killed temptation, the same social happiness and intel-
and wounded
battests the terrible nature of the duty. It was, s,
lectual development from an unhealthy, a por-
ously depressed population, as from a population
evisever, bravely attempted. A complete victory possessed of health and vigour, is to look for an
was -wibility
ell earned. There was to have been a imposs. More than
second attack by the Highland physical prostration
Brigade, under
i engendered where fever makes its haunts and
`sir CQUI'T CAMPBELL, supported by the 3ds
selects it victims ; and that which holds good of
Division, under Sir WILLIAM EYRE. The retreat
crowded tenements in unventilated alleys, holds
m
of the enemy during the night, however, ren-
equally good with the same population when ex-
sieved unnecessary what
would doubtless have posed, in apparently more favoured dwellings, to
Proved a successful although a very san- the same enervating agency.
guinary assault, and many valuable lives The objections that it will be impossible to un-
ware spared, which might otherwise have been (lertake the purification of the Thames by the in-
added to the long list, for which Russia will have terception of the sewers without an Act of Par-
tcs render an ample account. The subsequent liament, and that th© four or five millions re-
a ttaeks by our Allies on the Bastion, Central, and quired cannot be raised until the termination of
Quarantine Forts, also failed for the time, although the War, apply, as we understand, to the scheme
a different result would most probably have at- for the disemboguereent of th© sewerage at Bark-