The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-06 00:00:00

ROYAL OPERA, DRITRY-T ANE.
Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING.

Will be performed MASANTELLO. Charact^rs by Messrs Far.
emhars Herberte, H. Braham, Williams, and Elliot Galer ; Mdlle.
Julia and Miss Lanza.
To conclude with the 2d and 3d acts of DETI FREISCHUTZ.
Characters by Messrs. Heberte and H. Braham, &c.
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, 10s. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-office
span from 10 to 6 daily.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Backatene. •
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS.
After which, LE GEGARRERA DE SEVILLE. Pera Nena.
Followed by COURT FAVOUR.
After which, THE SPANISH DANCERS.
To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CHARIaII KEAN.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING.
After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Kat"'
rine, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolaey, Mr. C. Kean.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIIL
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dtrectreas. ?WM* Ce7este.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed VICTORINE. Cbaracters by Messrs L. Slur.
ray, C. Selby, P. Bedford, Wright, Parselle, &c.; Miss Woolgar
Mrs. L. Murray, &c.
After which, HOW'S YOUR UNCLE ?
To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr; Payne.
THIS EVENING.

Will be performed VICTORINE. Chsracters by Messrs.
loch, Ashley, Shelters, &c. ; Mesdames Summers and Bulmer.
Followed by EL TONADOR.
After which, FOUNDED ON FACTS.
To which will be added UNA NOCHE DE FIESTA EN
SEVILIA.
To conclude with the WATER WITCHES.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
Lord Boron's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE, with all its
original effects and splendid spectacle arrangements.
After which, the Equestrian EXERCISES in the ARENA, in-
, vented by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

TIM DAY—Morn. 47 min. aft. 9.—Evening 31 min. aft. 10
To-Mortnow—Morn .16 min. aft. 11—Evening 0 min. aft. 0

13IE WEATHER.—Sum Orrial, Sept. 6,

TRESNOMNTNE, IN TUN SHAD&
68 - highest since noon yesterday.
64 —lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.30—rising.
WTND, N.E.—Sharp breeze and cloudy weather.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1855,

We recently protested against the desecration
of the term " Peelite." We felt that it was a
grievous wrong to the memory of the departed
Statesman to permit his name to be associated with
the proceedings of the petty clique who had for-
merly been numbered amongst his followers, but
who certainly have not imbibed the spirit of their
quondam, leader, and do not seem to understand
the motives by which he was actuated. They
have adopted views in direct opposition to that
of the community. In place of following public
opinion they have ventured to set it at defiance, .
and are striving by every means in their power to
patch up a precarious and disreputable truce on
any conditions which the AUTOCRAT may think fit
to impose. Though numerically weak, they
are strong in Parliamentary influence, and in
cunning. They are thoroughly versed in " red-
tapist" slang, and, from the intermediate position
that they formerly occupied between the leading
parties of the State, they are enabled to coquette
with both sides, and to enhance their value by
the possibility, should their claims be rejected, of
casting their weight into the opposite scale, and
turning the beam on some critical emergency.
Thus it was that on the resignation of the DERBY
Ministry they were enabled to secure for them-
selves at least a moiety of the leading offices,
athough they were scareely one to five of the
Whigs, with whom they had •eoa!esced
While, however, they played their game be-
tween the contending parties, we did not object
to the prizes secured by skilful strategy, and
making the most of the peculiar circum-
stances of the struggle for place and power
so fiercely carried on between the Derbyites
and Russellites, or Whigs and Conservatives. It
was not until they had clearly displayed their pro-
Muscovite tendencies, that they pursued an un-
English policy, and showed themselves willing to
sacrifice the honour and interests of their natives
land, in their undue truckling to Germanism and
Coburgism, that they became positively dangerous,
the more so from their adroitness and skill in
legislative tactics. They were not satisfied with
divided power. They contrived to secure for
themselves all the places connected with the War.
rt is needless to expatiate on the serious faults of
omission and commission of which they were
guilty in that position. The senile twaddle of
heir nominal head—the pains which he took to
nform the adversary that nothing would induce
him to fight, brought on the War—which the
financial policy of his Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer "starved." By " waiting for Austria
and Prussia," and suffering England to be made
the laughing-stock of treacherous Courts—we do
not include the peoples in this condemnation—they
protracted the War, and rendered it a struggle for ex-
istence—a conflict between the principles of liberty
and civilisation on the one side, and barbarian
despotism on the other. They were detected,
and, happily for England and for Europe, were
ejected from office. Since then they have openly
professed the peace-at-any-price principle, and,
in conjunction with the BRIGHT and COBDEN
school, are striving for office—the leading point
being submission to Austrian dictation, and the
patching up of peace on terms that will permit
Russia still to pursue her traditional policy, and
to absorb the neighbouring states whenever cir-
cumstances permit such acts of aggression.
Now, this was not the policy of Sir ROBERT PEEL;
and we cannot, in justice to his memory, suffer
so gross an imputation on his name, or permit a
petty clique to make political character for theme
selves at the expense of a reputation that has
become public property.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM has had a cleverly-got-up
scene in the North, in which he has been carica-
turing the proceedings of his departed friend and
leader under very different circumstances. That
the Right Hon. Baronet should have consented
to act a conspicuous part in the inauguration of an
undertaking in which many of his constituents
were interested was very natural, and although
there was an undue imitation of the conduct of
Sir ROBERT PEEL in turning the.first sod of the
Trent Palley Railway, we shall not greatly com-
plain of what was merely a piece of bad taste.
But we must energetically protest against the
mode in which Sir R, PEEL'S name was brought
in ; and it was insinuctted, rather than directly
stated, that he would, if, happily, living, have op•
posed the War, and taken the course which his
nominal followers are now Pursuing. He did not
pretend to say what Sir. R. pm;
if alive, would
but be laid peculiar stress on the fact that he
vraJ to agiubizez Peuo." Thin was all Li:

sidj.ous and an unfair way of raising the issue. It
was a mere begging of the question. Sir R. PEEL was
the lover of peace, like every true-hearted Eng-
lishman, while it could be maintained safely and
honourably. He was well aware of the evils of
war, but he also knew that there were others of
a still more formidable character. We should
not engage in hostilities for the sake of the phan-
tom glory, or for any sordid motive. But there
was a sacred mission which England should never
disregard. Her duty as the protector of the
feeble and the oppressed—as the champion of
right against might, and the determined foe of
palpable injustice whenever or wherever it should
be attempted. A pirate or bandit should not be
permitted to follow his nefarious pursuits merely
because he had not yet attacked the goods of those
who could venture no resistance ;
_and brigandage
should not be sanctioned because it was pursued
in a right Royal manner, under shelter of an Im-
perial Crown.

As " the defender and champion of commerce"
Sir ROBERT PEEL would have resisted those by
whom the principles of justice and equity, with-
out which commerce cannot exist, were disre-
garded. Nor would he have waited to the last
and sanctioned by connivance the earlier aggres-
sions. He would have felt that the crossing of
the Pruth was a casus belli, and by acting
promptly on that conviction have satisfied the
CZAR that he could not carry out his infamous
project with impunity, or without the decided
opposition of the United Kingdom. By so doing
he would have been truly " the maintainer of
peace," the champion and defender of commerce
—the guardian of the manufacturing interests of
the country.

A noble Roman showed his confidence in the
ultimate triumph of his country by purchasing an
estate on which the conqueror almost at the gates
of her capital lay encamped ; a Hebrew prophet
by Divine command had long before performed the
same deed under similar circumstances. The CZAR
is reported to have just evinced in the same way
his confidence in the triumph of Holy Russia.
While not a lugger nor a man-of-war belonging to
Russia has dared for this year and more to appear
on the Euxine, orders are transmitted from St.
Petersburg " to increase the Black Sea fleet, and
to lay down new 131 gun-ships at Nicolaieff."
There seems no reason to doubt that the orders
have been transmitted... The first NAPOLEON'S
well-known remark will in that case be illustrated ;
and the issue of the war and, of diplomacy will prove
in due time whether building three-deckers, ac.,
be a sublime or a ridiculous order.

It must be owned that our Government have
given too much encouragement to such Russian
gasconading. There stand the dockyards of Nice-
laieff; not an attempt has been made upon them.
It is perfectly certain that moderate-sized vessels
might have supported gun-boats and mortar-boats,
which might, in Sweaborg style, have demolished
the entire naval stores of the place. The channel
of the river has been considerably deepened, and
though the talked-of three-deckers would have to
be floated down by the aid of camels, and their
armament have to be completed at Sebastopol,
yet lighter vessels and mortar-boats could ascend
with perfect ease. The CZA.E sees that they have
not done it. They have preferred, such of them
as were not wanted in the Sea of Azoff, io cruise
at leisure, facing no enemy but the summer wind
and weather.

There may be, however, something more than
braggadocio in the CZAR'S orders. They may in-
dicate not only the measure of his hopes, and of
the official bluster which tells in Russia, but also
the demands which he means to insist on in the
event of peace, and the measure which he has
taken of our easily-cajoled Plenipotentiaries. He
is reported to have been prompting Austria again
on the subject of peace, and the accounts from
all quarters of the excessive pressure put by the
War on the resources of the country render this
very probable. To counteract any expectation
that he means to limit, Jaauch.lcss, to give up keep-
ing, a pirate fleet in the Black Sea, suggestions
for peace and orders to augment the Black Sea
fleet are sent forth together. As much as to say,
that if all the Russian navy be sunk or destroyed
at Sebastopol, as soon as ever articles of peace are
signed a fleet, larger than the destroyed one, and
powerful enough to batter Constantinople, is to
be ready to descend the Bug. If this be the
meaning of the orders, we can only say, would
that we had men capable of giving parallel orders.
Why cannot Lord PALMERSTON send to Vienna sug-
gestions as to the desirablenesa of sparing further
bloodshed; but, at the same time officially announce
to Europe that the reconstruction of Poland had
become an indispensable security for the future,
and that the Crimea, which had been the standing
menace to Turkey, could never be allowed to re-
main in Russian hands. A hint might be added
that it would be well to content Italy in a general
settlement, and for Germane to keep to Germany.
No doubt, however, Prince GORTSCHAKOFF—
him of Vienna we mean—has, together with
NESSELRODE, and NESSELRODIeS masters, taken,
pretty accurately the gauge of our Coburgised
Cabinet. They quite understand that boldness,
with continental despots, need not be feared
while the Prince Consort of England is bone of
their bone, and flesh of their flesh. Here lies
their strength. German despots may not be
plainly dealt with, and they again will not allow
the Russian despot to be humbled ; and hence the
whole. War has been an insincere thing. Nor is
that all ; we believe that PALirEitsiox, PANMURE,
WOOD, and GREY, the latter three especially, are
men of Lord JOHN Ituresitzeisawn quality, they
belong to the same effete family clique, which is
as opposed to a noble and generous foreign
policy as the worst of the Tories. NESSELRODE
knows the men with whom he is matched, and
the influences under which they will, one day,
wage diplomatic war with him. He is sure of
finding them willing to yield anything they dare
to the CZAR. He knows that if he can but take
their Plenipotentiary arm in arm again, he can
easily get him to terms which he dare not men-
tion in Parliament, should it happen to he sitting.
The three-deckers, if already built, no one of the
Russ.ELL school would think it consistent with
Russian honour to turn into a bonfire for the
peace ; they must be left to break it again.

It should not be lost sight of that, after all, we
engage Russia with one very great advantage. It
is infinitely easier for us than for her to recruit
and supply our respective armies. Ship transport
is facility itself, compared with land transport in
Russia. Louis NAPOLEON is reported to have
told an American, that when his uncle attacked
Russia in 1813, French troops had to traverse
her arid wastes and snows, but that this time he
would compel the Russian troops to do it. That
all the troops who now come to Sebastopol have
just suffered as much as the French did in the
march to Moscow, and the retreat from it ; the
loss to the Russians having, according to a report
presented to NICHOLAS himself last December,
amounted to not less than 270,000 men ! Such
had been the fatal results of disease, over-march.
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munications. The loss of the Allies at that time
had not been a tenth part of the number. That
the elite of the Russian forces were almost extir-
pated, that Russian recruits were not made into
soldiers under three years, while ours became
staunch troops very quickly—that, in truth,
Sebastopol was a running sore in the side of Rus-
sia, from which her strength was fast draining
out.

Whether these views were actually expressed
by the EMPEROR or not, there is evident truth in
them. -His late written remarks read to the army,
from information " on which he could rely, as to
the impossibility of the Russians getting through
the winter in the Crimea," are in keeping with
the above statements from the New York Times.
The famishing condition of the reinforcements
marched to destruction on the 16th corroborates
the general opinion. Were Russia in Europe
with its present population, one-fourth its present
size, it would be far more formidable to attack.
To maintain troops at once in the North, in Po-
i land, and the Crimea, and to move them without
railways, and generally without roads, greater
distances than the length of England or of France,
and for the most part over wildernesses, is a task
which must in no long time wear out all her re-
sources both of men, and conveyance, and of
money too,