The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPRL

Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celesta
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed RORY (rISORE. Characters by Messrs. rind-
son, P. iiedbrd. '. Selby, Parselle. J. Bland. Garden. &c. ; bits:"
ataxy Keeley, Kate Kelly, Wyndham, &c.
Followed by RETSY B AKER.
To conclude with OPEN SESAME.

DYIL OLY APIC THEATRE.
THIS EIVNKING,
Will be presented PLOT AND P kBAION'. Characters by Messrs.
F. Robson, Emery, G. Vining. Leslie, J. H. White, H. Cooper, and
Franks; and Mrs. Stirling and Miss Bromley.
Followed by CATCHING A MERMAID.
To conclude with A BLIGHTED BEING.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. J. IL Anderion, IS, Norfolk-street, Strand.
Increased littractions, and success in equal ratio
THIS. AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock,

Will Ile presented, with entirely New and Magnificent ippoint-
ments, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two
parts, by Professor Anderson.
After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Ttapping. HALF-
AN-Roca wira TFIE SPIRITA, being the most surprising and
interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any
theatre.

81,721 persons have visited the Lyceum already to see the Great
Wizard of the worth.

Prices of admission:—Private Boxes, IL 113. 6d. and IL IL ;
Orchestra Stalls, 45.: Dress Boxes, 34.; Upper Boxes, 2s. ;
Is.; Gallery, 61 No Half-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5

Grand lforninsr Performance on Saturday Nest at Two &Clock.
Doors open at Half-past One.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr: Payne.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed SIMPSON AND CO.
After which, SAM PATCH.
To conclude with NITOCRIS.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
Vivid delineation of the daring deeds of the Allies.
THIS EVENING,
The triumphantly successful Military spectacle, The FALL of
SF.IIASToPOT,! Capture of the 3falakhoff -Cavalry, Infantry,
Artillery, with magnificent materiel et war—Stud of Trained Horses
—4OO Auxiliaries. Stage and ring combined!
After which the WONDERS OF THE CIRCLE, with Mr. J. H.
Cooke's " Sant du Pont.'
To conclude with the farce of JONATHAN.
Box-office onen from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. w.
Waist. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, sun,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

TUN DAY—Morn. 54 min. aft.ll —.Evening 19 min. aft. 11
To-MORROW—Morn 43 min. aft. 12—Evening 5 min. aft. 1

THE WEATHER.—SUN Ornoz, Oct. 23.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAD/1.

65 highest since neon yesterday.
58 --Aowest this morning and during the night.
62 —thi. 'lay at noon.
BAROMETER, 23.99—falling rapidly.
WTN-n, S.W.—Light, with dull, warm weather.
It was very sultry yesterday.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1855.

The Russians have, it appears, deserted " the
second pillar" of the gate of Nicolaieff and to
Kherson. Clearly perceiving that they could not
maintain their position against the English fleet,
they blew up, on Thursday morning, the 18th
instant, their fortifications at Otchakoff Point,
mounting 23 guns, which were assailable by our
mortar vessels. We have thus obtained the full
command of the estuary of the Boug and the
Dnieper, and can operate either by land or water,
on any side, against the Russian towns. The
vast importance of combined operations, where
troops and vessels can mutually support each
other, is now thoroughly understood and appre-
ciated. We cannot doubt that these first suc-
cesses at Kinburn and Otchakoff will
be duly followed up, and that it will
be our pleasing duty to record other valuable
acquisitions. There are numerous small batteries
erected at various points along both roads that
cannot possibly hold out if properly and vigorously.
assailed. We shall probably find that, the Rus-
sians will anticipate the impending and inevitable
blows, and spare us the trouble of assailing these
detached and isolated batteries, by blowing them
up themselves. Our troops are within two days'
march of either town, and they can be accom-
panied by a number of gun-boats and mortar-
vessels---all ships, in fact, not drawing more than
eighteen feet water. The admirable chart just
published by Mr. WYLD shows how feasible is the
project above referred to. If we do not capture or
destroy these important towns it will not be the
ability, but the will, that is wanting. We do not
fear that there shall be any deficiency on the part
of Sir E. LYONS, unless he be fettered aid re-
stricted by instructions from Whitehall. If
the people speak out firmly and resolutely the
necessary authority will be given, and Sir CHAS.
WOOD prevented from marring our most brilliant
opportunities. On the proceedings of the next
few weeks the eventualities of the War may
xnainly depend.
We must see that they are be-
fitting the honour and dignity of the British na-
tion, and not deteriorated by the incapacity or
peace predilecions of the First Lord.

Austria is at her dirty work again ! She is
striving to get up a cause of complaint against
Sardinia, hoping that a diversion in favour of
Russia may thereby be accomplished, or that she
may have some excuse for setting aside her pre-
tended neutrality ! She may possibly think that
the spirit of Germanism, so long prevalent in
British councils, will still induce our Ministers to
truckle to her most unreasonable behests, and to
receive her ukases
" With bated breath and deep humility."
She may, however, find that she is " reckoning
without her lio,t"—that the intense and resolute
feeling of the British People, which constitutes a
very important element in tho account, has been
totally omitted in her' calculntion ! No Belgian
or Coburg influence can neutralise er effectually
oppose the current which has set in so steadily and
strongly in the right direction ; nor could any
Administration hold its grow Ad that should attempt
to substitute back-stairs ir Ltrigues or unconstitu-
tional influence for a 'l3O submission to the
Popular will. Any Cabin et must be contented to
float with the stream ; the attempt to stem
the torrent would lead. to speedy and decisive
changes in official circles..
The wanton and unjustifiable demonstrations
against Sardinia, and th a threats uttered may be
attributed partly to
d
and straightforward the j ealottv felt at the manly
r con, duct. displayed in refer-
ence to the War, which I
3.3 v lade the contemptible
duplicity and insincerity
c f Austria appear in
the strongest possible
and partly because
the constitutional freedow I Allowed to Sardinian
subjects leads to• other e omparisons by no means
favourab/0 to thp Gerry lan despot, to Whom any

appearance of liberty iu Italy is peculiarly dis-
pleasing. Nothing could be more gratifying to
the Red EMPEROR than the opportunity of picking
a quarrel with what he considers, perhaps
erroneously, his less powerful neighbour ;
and when a party has determined on a course it
is easy to find a plausible cause. The precedent
established by the wolf in his celebrated dispute
with the lamb has never been lost sight of by
those anxious to discover a pretext for aggression.
Never has there been a more futile or uncoil-
scientious one than on the present occasion. It
is one directed as much against Tuscany as Sar-
dinia, for it completely ignores the most trivial
portion of independence in the Florentine Court,
and treats the GRAND DUKE as the mere vassal of
the EMPEROR. A wanton insult was offered at
the dictation of the Austrian Minister—an insult
not merely uncalled for, but in direct opposition
to the previous acts of the Tuscan Court ; and it
is avowed that it has been occasioned by instruc-
tions sent by the Imperial Government, and that
the EMPEROR considers it a matter personal to
himself, and that if the question be not settled
within a specified time he will take measures
accordingly !
This is an insolent threat against our faithful
ally, whom we have pledged ourselves to defend ;
and it is consequently one against the Western
Powers, and must be received and acted on as
such. Our measures should be prompt and ener-
getic. Nor should there be the slightest hesi-
tation in taking up the gauntlet which Austria
has so arrogantly flung down. If we linger or
negotiate the golden opportunity will be lost, and
Austria will still continue her insidious and
treacherous policy, and the name of England and
France will be disgraced throughout Italy and
Europe. Where can we hope to find an Ally, if
we permit one who has merited the highest praise
to be bullied and humiliated, because he has
continued faithful to his engagements, and
acted as became a high-minded, consistent, and
independent Sovereign ?
We have heard with deep regret that the re-
presentative of Great Britain, at the Tuscan
Court, has not behaved with the decision and
vigour imperatively required under the peculiar
circumstances of the case. The Marquis of NOR-
MANBY has been long closely connected with the
Tuscan Court. During his father's lifetime he
was for many years Envoy Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary at Florence, and was on
terms of great intimacy with the reigning Grand
Duke. Subsequently he passed through more
elevated positions, was Governor-General of Ja-
maica, Lord Privy Seal, Lord-Lieutenant of Ire-
land, and Secretary of State for the Home and
Colonial Departments. Then he was made Am-
bassador to France, and, we believe. that, in con-
sequence of certain difficulties with the Emperor
NAPOLEON, was removed from that position, and
sent back to his first' love, the minor Court of
Tuscany. There he is enjoying the " deice far
niente" and recruiting his health, which had been
somewhat impaired by too keen a relish for Court
attractions. It is possible that a desire to avenge
himself on the Ran znoft may have in some degree
influenced his proceedings. But whatever be the
motive whether personal displeasure to the
French EMPEROR, 'friendship to the Grand Duke,
or infirm health and failing energies—he cannot
be permitted to sacrifice the interests or the honour
of his country, or to act in a manner inconsistent
with the position he occupies. Should Lord
NORMARBY disregard the positive instructions he
has received it will be incumbent on the Govern-
ment to recall him from the situation for which
he is not qualified, and to replace him by a more
vigorous diplomatist, whose opinions are more
in accordance with the feelings and wishes of his
countrymen of all classes and grades in society.

The public have not wholly forgotten, though
most willing to forget, the frightful revelations
made awhile back in connection with the metro-
politan graveyards—revelations which not only
stirred the gorge of humanity in revolt, but
awakened apprehensions for personal safety. That
exorbitant greed that, for its unrighteous in-
dulgence, outraged every finer feeling of our
nature, and converted the precincts of the temples
of religion, and the hallowed resting-places of the
dead, into nurseries of pestilence and seething pots
of corruption, where torn and mangled mortality
reeked horribly in the light of day, is at least
occasionally remembered with mingled indignation
and regret ; and for our part we wish the record
of these things could be suffered to fall into
oblivion. Unfortunately, however, it has not yet
served its turn. The public are still in danger—
not, perhaps, from a recurrence of the grosser
scenes which have been presented in connection
with the burial of the dead, but from inhumation
where inhumation there should be none, and
from overcrowding, where, to say the least, the
propriety of burials taking place at all is question-
able.

The ghoulish greed that would profit by the
dead, even at the expense of the living, is not,
by all accounts, yet extinct in the race of church-
wardens. Though the unanimous voice of society
has pronounced the most signal reprobation of
the unrighteous traffic, individuals are still to be
found to whom more than a suspicion attaches of
a hankering after it. Though science has demon-
strated the pestilential effects of overcrowding—
and it is known that the practice cannot be pur-
sued without imminent risk to the lives of thou-
sands, it may be, in a neighbourhood—church-
yards, at all events churchwardens are to be found
yawning for forbidden prey, and something more
than the letter of the Burial Act is required for
the safety of society. Deplorable as this is, it
must be deemed still more so when it is taken
into consideration that the Home-office is not
guiltless in the matter, but, by its vacillation,
has aided in undoing what the public had effected,
and re-opened sources of danger while they slept.
The salutary awe which public indignation
had
inspired has
has by no means been increased, but the
cn
by the repeated permissions for the re-
opening of graveyards r which the public were led
to believe
were closed for ever. And unless the
bl remembering what evils they had escaped
m stir vigorously in the matter, they may
fpruo sir orousy
find themselves in almost as bad a state as they
were at first. It is true there are penalties, as
well as enlightened opinion nowadays, to deter
churchwardens from so unholy a
traffic, but with-
out constant watching opinion has but little effect,
and penalties may be evaded.
The burial ground of St.
Mary, rfaggerston,
would
according to information we have received,
seem to furnish a case in point. Prior to its
closure under the Burial Act as many as
from
40 to 50 burials took place in this ground every
Sunday, tile Churchwardens, with disgusting
avidity, to king advantage of time before the man-
date issued to turn an honest (?) penny. Such
keen trade rs were they, that we are informed, as
a positive fact, no fewer than 42 bodies were
huddled Tinto seven graves 1 the only precautions
taken to prevent danger from these fermenting
masses of putridity being the sprinkling of three
or four in ches of charcoal between each coffin.
Nay, witt L a long-headedness that, in a righteous
them credit, they prac-
traffic, w ould have done

tically- abrogated an old rule exacting double fees I
on the burial of every corpse not belonging to the
narish. Parochial or extra-parochial, the officials
of St. Mary asked no questions, and bodies were
brought from all parts of London to St. Mary's
graveyard for interment. Be sure of it the mandate
did not arrive a moment too soon. The yard was
closed, and the outraged and endansgered parish-
ioners congratulated themselves on being freed
from so dangerous and revolting a nuisance for ever.
Mistaken mortals, they relied on the immutability
Jf the Home-office. A month, however, has
hardly elapsed since they were rudely awakened
from their pleasing dream. The shovel was again
at work. For some inexplicable reason the Home-
office has withdrawn its mandate, and given per-
mission for the re-opening of the yard for a cer-
tain time and under certain penalties—viz., 10/.
if more than one body be interred in the same
grave, and what has been the result ? On the
21st inst., twenty-six funerals took place, the
bodies being brought from all parts ; thus, as
our correspondent remarks, "making the neigh-
bourhood a perfect charnel-house." It is true
there is a penalty incurred if more than one body
be placed in one grave, but where so many funerals
take place how easily may this be evaded. The
beaten down surface will soon cease to tell its
tale, and the yard being filled one deep, there is
but little to prevent the officials, if left to them-
ielves, beginning afresh. The finding of the
committee of the inhabitants in the parish of St.
Matthew, Brixton, in which the charges preferred
against the officials of violating the provisions of
the Burial Act, exacting double fees, and falsify-
ing the entries, are substantiated, warrants
apprehension. Nothing, in short, that we
can see will save the inhabitants from their re-
newed peril but publicity, including a strong and
united remonstrance to the Home-office ; and that
failing, a close watch and an inexorable enforce-
ment of the penalty whenever it is incurred.
They must confide in nothing but their own efforts
and the righteousness of their cause, and the more
vigorous those efforts are the sooner will success
attend them.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, 0cT,22.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal,
walked in the grounds adjoining the Castle this morn-
ing.

Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Seymour, left
Windsor at 10 o'clock tbis forenoon for Aldershott, for
the purpose of inspecting a draft of the Grenadier
Guards ordered for immediate embarkation for the
Crimea.

Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Hardinge, and Lord
Panmure took their departure by an early train for
London.

The Earl of Clarendon and the Right Hon. Sir Richard
Pakenhara have been invited, and are expected this
afternoon.

The Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith arrived in town
yesterday afternoon from Northampton, for the purpose
of attending the Cabinet Council.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in London
yesterday from Harpton-court, Kington, Hereford.
Viscount Palmerston and Lord Paumura arrived in
town yesterday from Windsor Castle.

Viecount liardinge returned to London yesterday
from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Earl GranvillQ, Sir George Grey, the Earl of
Clarendon, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon
Smith, the Earl of Harrowby, and Viscount Canning.
The Council eat two hours and a half.

Lieutenant• General Sir W. J. Codrington is to com-
mand the army in the Crimea.—Morning Paper.
Lieutenant-General the Hon. G. Amon is to be com-
■nander-in-chief in India, giving up Madras.
The Earl of Erroll has rejoined his regiment, the 3d
battalion Rifle Brigade, now encamped at Aldershott.
Lord and Lady SaHowl, with the Hon. Miss Fraser,
Captain Fraser, and party, have arrived at Philorth
House from a visit to Arndilly.

Mr. E. A. Scott and Mr. R. 11. Droop, of Mad-
borough College, have each been elected to al fellowship
at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Sir Michael and Lady Octavio. Shaw Stewart are on a
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland.
Lord Clinton (brother of the Duke of Newcastle),
Lady Clinton, and family, have arrived at Kilmun.
Viscount Canning's successor to the head of the Post-
office department must be appointed this week.
The Earl of Lincoln, the Hon. William Henry John
North (son of Colonel and the Baroness North), Lord
Howard (son of the Earl of Effingham), and Viscount
Vaughan (son of the Earl of Lisburne) are pursuing
their studies at Christ Church, Oxf,rd.

Mr. Brodie, R.A., of Edinburgh, is about to execute
a bust of the Poet Laureate. At Forfar a monument
to the late Joseph Hume is in progress.
Alderman Humphery is reported to be dangerously
ill. His death would not now cause a vacancy in Par-
liament, since he gave up his seat-for Southwark in 1852
to Mr. Apsley Pellittt.
DEATH OF LORD DE VESCI.—This venerable nobleman
died on Friday, the 19th, at Pottaferry. He was the
second Viscount De Vesci, of Abbeyleix, Baron of
Knapton, Queen's county, one of the representative peers
of Ireland, a baronet, and lieutenant and custos rotulo-
rum. He was born Feb. 16, 1771. He is succeeded in
his title and estates by the Hon. Thomas Vesey, now
Viscount De Vesci.

DEATH OF LORD WHARNCLIFFE. —We regret to an•
nounce the death of Lord Wharneliffe, which event took
place yesterday morning at Wortley Hall, the family
seat in Yorkshire. The deceased peer had for some
inimths suffered from severe indisposition, so that the
event was not altogether unexpected. The Right Hon.
Jamas Stuart Wortley, M.P. (the Recorder), and other
near relatives have been congregated at Wortley Hall in
anticipation of the approaching death..
REPRESENTATION OF SLIGO.--A local Conservative
journal states that Mr. John Sadleir will not seek the
suffrages of the immaculate electors of Sligo borough at
the next dissolution of Parliament.
Yesterday, at a wardmote of Farringdon Within, Mr.
Geo. Dollond, of St. Paul's church-yard, was elected
common councilman for the ward, in the room of E.
Eagleton, Esq., lately elected alderman of the ward.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HOXTON.—Yesterday morn-
ing, shortly before two o'clock, a fire broke out on the
premises of J. Hill, bread and biscuit baker, Haber-
dashers'-walk, Pitfield-street, Hoxton. Considerable
damage was done, the shop, parlour, and stock being
destroyed. The loss will fall on the Sun Fire-office.
The cause unknown.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE AND THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—
The Crystal Palace Company are about to invite the
exhibitors at Paris to transfer their goods to Sydenham
at the close of the Exposition, giving them space for
their display free of charge. Glasgow has taken the
initiative in this step.
LUTON, DUNSTABLE, AND WELWYN JUNCTION RAIL.
WAY.—The first sod of this proposed line of railway is to
be turned on Thursday next, the 25th inst. After the
ceremony, a banquet will be given in the Town Hall,
under the presidency of the Right Hon. Wm. Cowper,
Ili. P.

THE BRITISH SWISS LEGION.—The men of this legion
gave a theatrical entertainment on Saturday evening
last, at the Dover Theatre, under the patronage of their
gallant chief, Colonel Dickson, Lieutenant• Colonel Sulz-
berger, &c.
NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.—The Port of Spain Gazette
(Trinidad) states that the new Newspaper Postage Act
has proved a fatal blow to the colonial press, and has
effectually prevented the colonial papers from circulating
from one colony to another.

RAILROAD EXTENSION IN CANADA.—A telegraphic
despatch in the New York Courier, dated Toronto, Oct.
4, says :—" Trains were run to•day for the first time
over that portion of the Grand Trunk Railway west of
Toronto, as far as the village of Brampton."
CHATHAM, Oct. 21.—Yesterday morning J. Crawley,
08th Regiment, in Fort Pitt, au insane man, after
breaking open a door and window and removing sonic
bars, let himself down into the yard, by forming a rope
composed of his sheet out in pieces. He then tied a
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