The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-04 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1855.

It.- 'ALBERT SMITH'S MONT fib A.NC,
Y TO-NIGHT, at 8 o'llock, and Every Night (but Saturday).
4talls, 3s. ; Area, 29.; Gallery, Is. The Morning Representation 9
take place every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.
Egyptian II all, Piccadilly.

lAPPIN'S "SHILLING" RAZOR.
L.l' Sold everywhere. Warranted good by the makers, JOSEPH
MAPPIN and BROTHERS, Queen's Cutlery Works, Sheffield; and
37, Moorgate-street, City, London.

ItIAPPIN'S SUPERIOR TABLE KNIVES,
i V A as made for the Crystal Palace, Sydenham ; handles cannot
possibly become loose : the blades are all of the very first quality,
being their own Sheffield manufacture.
Buyers supplied at their London Warehouse, 37, 3foorgate-street,
City; and Queen's Cutlery Works, Sheffield.

Capital Modern Furniture, 70 line Pictures from various collections,
old Indian and other China, Carved Oak Tables and B•okcases,
old and modern Marqueterie Cabinets and Tables, and several
other articles of German and French make. •

MESSRS. BULLOCK will SELL, TO-MOR-
ROW, at 11 o'clock, at their great Rooms, 211, High-
holborn, an assemblage of HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS, including
some capital Rosewood Drawing-room Furniture, Walnut Tables,
Cheffonier, Chairs, a handso:ne gilt Console Table and Glass. Car-
pets, Curtains. Lamps. glazed Mahogany Bookcases, Wardrodes,
Mahogany, French, Arabian and 4-post Bedsteads and Bedding,
Toilets and Washstands, Cheval and other Glasses, Mahogany Par-
lour Tables, Chairs, and Sofas, Service of Plated items, and some
old and modern Books and Prints.—May be viewed, and catalogues
had.

have been offered, we do not wholly break off futile and dis-
creditable negotiations, and prove to Russia that we rely, as
with much justice we may, rely, on the united energies and
resources of England and France to bring her pretensions
within reason and moderation ? It is mere self-delusion to
talk of peace now. We must make up our minds to fight it
out with a stout heart and a strong hand. The people have
been disgusted, and with reason, with the mismanagement of
the army; but, though these things have roused their indig-
nation against our Ministers, they have, so far as we are
aware, done nothing towards lowering their spirit or their
well merited confidence in the courage and resources of the
nation. When we look at their mismanagement we may in-
deed feel shame, but when we regard our own conduct we have
nothing to blush for. The,people of this country undertook
the war on a den. 'and well-defined principle, from which
they, at least, have never 'shrunk or wavered. They have
undertaken the burdens of fresh taxation without a murmur,
and relieved the wants of our' neglected army with princely
munificence. All that we have lost has been from causes
clearly preventible. Our men were sent to Devno in
despite of warnings of its deadly malaria. Starvation, over-
work, exposure, want of medicine, want of medical comforts
—nay the very shipwrecks themselves —were all occasioned
by causes within our owriecntrol, and which, if we courd only
rescue ourselves from the deadly incubus which oppresses us,
need never return again. We have never met the enemy but
to conquer them, and inflicted upon them losses and dis-
graces such as broke the proud sprit of one Emperor and
already throw a dark shadow far into the reign of his suc-
cessor. We have shut up the Russian fleets, demolished at a
blow the commerce of the country, and are at this moment
spreading terror on the coasts of provinces which hundreds of
thousands of men are deemed barely sufficient to protect. Our
army is in high discipline and full
of ardonr—our navy desires
nothing so muclLusan ppportunity of distinction. We have
maintained ourse ves by ourown strength and that of our
ally for six months, under every possible disadvantage, in a,
position from which all efforts of so many Generals and
armies have been unable to dislodge us. • Add to this the
necessary derangement of the finances of a vast and poor
„wary, _ Ala. tar enormous 'ffeenuizry nserifieent.and
drained of its very heart's blood by the ever-increasing
draughts of the conscription. Why should we despair with
such a prospect ? Why tsrnish our honour and lower our
prestige by attempts to wheedle from our enemy that peace
which we must eventually be able to dictate on our own
terms, and conciliate that support from timid and vacillating
Courts, without which we are well able, by courage and per-
severance, to reduce our enemy to submission ? Let us have
no Ministers but those whose hearts are in the cause, no
Generals, no Admirals, but those who really mean to win by
the utmost exertions of courage and enterprise, and we need
no shabby compromises, no discreditable and colourable con-
cessions. But, if we are determined to carry on war in a
lukewarm way—if we are to ,hink more of conciliating, sup-
port than of winning battles—if we are to have Ministers who
represent their own timidity and feebleness, instead of the
manly and earnest spirit which animates the country,—then,
with or hout Austria, with or without Prussia, with or
without negotiations and protocols, there is nothing for us
but to descend from our high position among the natio/14,
and confess that we are unable to fight for our rights, because
we have not patriotism to form an honest, or courage to sup
p ort a vigorous, Government.

ATAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Pyla.ios, 20, screw steam corvette, left Sheerness
yesterday at 10.45 a.m., with the gun-boats Redwing, Thistle,
and Starling in tow, for the Baltic.
The Volcano, 3, p ddle-wheel steam-vessel, left at 10.20
a.m, yesterday, witn the gun-boats Dapper and Badger in
tow, for the Ba tic.

The Porcupine, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant-
Commander G. M. Jackson, remains in harbour, waiting Ad-
miralty orders to proceed to the Baltic with gun-boats in tow.
The Odin, 16, paddle-frigate, Captain Willcox, is expected
to touch at Portsmo .th on her' way to the Black Sea, with
the new mortar vessels, to take in supernumeraries and par-
cels for the Black Sea fleet. The new steam gun-boat Leander
was taken out of Portsmouth yesterday, to test her machin-
ery, her first trial since fitted out. T,e new mortar vessel
Magnet was clocked y sterday at Portsmouth, to be fitted
forthwith for service. The Jasper new steam gun-boat was
taken out of the basin at Portsmouth yesterday, after being
fitted with the iron bulwark plates, du:. The Malacca, 17,
screw corvette, Captain F. rquhar, will join the fleet at Spit-
head to-day. The Dee steam transport returned to Wool-
wich, from Portsmouth, yesterday.