The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

Tlll5, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eighto'Clock,

'oe presentsyl, with entirely New and Magnificent tppoint-
(wit% NI %SRC ant If Y'S' gitY, in twelve stets, arrange.' in two
)arts,by Professor Anderson.
After which.the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. H kI,F-
kti-tiOU'it WWI TEE SPERITA, being the most surprising an 1
Ateresting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any
heatre.

Revival, in an Imorovel form, of the a,tounNin¢ novelty whi:h
tartled Loam' 10 yoara ago, tie GREIT GUN TRICK!
Prilee of almission:—Privato. C ,tea, I/. lie. 61 all U. Is. ;
Jrchestra Stant, 45.; Dress Boxes, 34 ; Upoor Soze;, 2a.; Pit,
3. ; Gallery, 61. No Ila!r-price. Bose Clic e open from 11 to 5
iaily.
Grand Morning Perronnance on Satiuday Neat at Two o'inook.
,00ro open at lialf-past Ono.

Asrtr.rs ROYAL ASINTITEIRATRIC.
Leo and lianager, Mr. Wm. Cooks.
Immense saness at' Rockwood !

This spirited and exciting filp.3olroate (with Turpin's Ride to
'or!) emsrw.es tte priuetpal event; of Ainsworth's Roatwooti.

TUI3 EVENING,

The successful Equidrame cailel TURPIN'S RIDS to YORK; or,
the Heir of Rookwood.
After which the Varied Equestrian ACTS in th 3 CIRCLE.
To conclude with UNE FOLIE POUli MIRE; or, Mirth-Morin;
Ent.ntalnruent. . . _

Imrnenge preparatims ara roakinz for the Ctirl.itmas Comic Pan-
'e Wine. written by lir. Nelsen Lee. called Harlequin and St. George
tnd the Dragon. or the Seven Champions of Christendom.
ilex-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
Feat. Equestrian DittaltOr, Si-. W. Cooke. inn.

HIGH WA.TER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Vim DAY—Morn. 5 min. aft. 9—Evening :A7 nun. aft. 9
fio-IfoßnOw—Morn. 12 min. aft. 10 —Evening 45 min. aft.lo

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, Deo. 18.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
43 - highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
43 -this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.19—rising again.
F.l.E.—Blowing fresh, with cloudy, but fine cold
weather and sunshine.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1855.

In anothe; part of this day's impression will be
found the copy of a document which has recently
excited the public curiosity in no ordinary degree.
It is the very remarkable Memorial to which
Prince ALBERT has affixed his name as a petitioner
to his Royal Consort, for a modification of the
regulations contained in the Royal Warrant of the
6th October, 1854. It is therein asserted that the
system of promotion thereby adopted " must press
at once, and has already pressed, in individual in-
stances, with peculiar, unjust, and cruel severity
on those officers," (i.e., Captains and Lieutenant-
Colonels of the Guards, existing as such at the
period when the report was issued) ; " and that
it amounts to a BREACH OF FAITH on the part of
the authorities, and is directly opposed to, and at
variance with, the principle of respect fa 4. vested
interests which the Report recognises and affirms,
and on which it professes fundamentally to pro-
ceed t" This is a strong, a startling assertion ;
and when it is supported by the testimony of one
who must be regarded by her MAJESTY as a per-
fectly unexceptionable witness, requires the
closest examination, the most attentive conside-
ration.

It is needless to say that in every transaction of
life, public or private, unbroken " faith," not
only in accordance with the letter but the spirit
,f every actual or implied contract, should be ob-
any
there fe u i cl
nao-
s
ierved. If therefore there
gwsto
ueldbls,
tion for this statement,
longer a point for argument. At any amount of
inconvenience that which justice and equity de-
mand must be fully and completely canceded.
But we regret to say that we can by ne means
concur in the very
sweeping conclusion thua ar-
rived at, or in the validity of the arguments by
which it has been sustained. No existing pri-
vilege has 'been taken from the Captains and
Lieutenant-Colonels of the Guards, the parties
whose wrongs are so feelingly and elaborately sot
forth. They still rank as Lieutenant-Colonels in
the army, and are entitled, as in former years, to
exchange with officers of similar rank in the Line,
and may thus easily acquire the actual command
of Regiments. They still receive the stipulated
amount of pay, and will be included in any future
brevet or brevets, and thus be materially expedited
in their progress towards the rank of General,
the position of " Co MMAND " which the Memorial
declares to be the great " object of military am-
bition." They have therefore sustained no wrong,
and the only peg whereon it is possible to hang a
complaint is, that they are placed in respect to
future promotions in a comparatively worse posi-
tion than the Lieutenant-Colonels of the Line in
" actual command of Regiments."
There is certainly nothing in this whereon to
found a charge cf injustice or "breacheaonfa
faith
that
And, on investigating the matter, we it
reduces itself to a charge of " favouritism," in
which the Memorialists consider greater advantages
have been bestowed on others than on certain