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

ROYAL OPERA, DRCTRY4 ADIE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed MASANIELLO. Charact-rs by Mears Far-
quharson, Herberte, H. Braham, Williams, and Elliot Galer ; Xdlie.
Julie and Miss Lanza,
To conclude with the 2d and 3d acts of DER FREISCHUTZ.
Characters by Messrs. Herberte and H. Braham, &c.
Prices of admission :—To the two galleries. 6d.; second circle of
boxes and pit, ls.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; stalls, 45.; private boxes to
admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-office
'pen from 10 to 6 daily.

• THEATRE ROYAL HA.YMA.RICET.
Under the management of Mr. Buckets:oC
THIS EVENING.
Wilt be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS.
After which, LE GEGIRRERA DE SEVILLE. Porn Nena.
Followed by COURT FAVOUR.
After which, THE SPANISH DANCERS.
To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARE.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S TI3EA.TRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING.
After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katha.
ene, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directrera, Mr...tame Ceeste.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed VICTORINE. Cbaracters by Messrs. L. Mur.
ray, C. Selby, P. Bedford, Wright, Parselle, &c.; Miss Woolgar,
Mrs. L. Murray, &c.
After which, HOW'S YOUR UNCLE ?
To conclude with SEEING WEIGHT.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr. Payne.
THIS EVENI3IO.

Will be perfermel VICTORINE. Characters by 3fesars.
loch, Ashley, ;hat te,s. &c. ; Mesdames Summers and Bulmer.
Followed by EL TONADOR.
After which, FOUNDED ON FACTS.
To which will be added UNA 'OCHE DE FIESTA EN
SEVILLA.
To conclude with the WATER WITCHES.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
Lord Bwon'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-oflice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director,
kdr. W. Cooke, Jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY—Morn. 47 rain. aft. 9.—Ev,ming 31 min. aft. 10
To-Moßnow—Aforn.l6 min. aft. 11—Evening 0 min. aft, 0

TUE IVEATHER.--Sof 07Y:Cdt, Sept. 6

THERNONICTEIt, IN TIM SNADL
SS—highest since noon yesterday.
54 —lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.30—riving.
WIND, `.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 tha 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 scarcely one to five of the
Whigs, with whom they had coalesced !
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 native
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. iThey contrived to secure for
themselves all the places connected with the War.
It is needless to expatiate on the serious faults of
omission and commission of which they were
guilty in that position. The senile twaddle of
their nominal head—the pains which he took to
inform the adversary that nothing would induce
him to fight, brought on the War—which the
financial
policy of his Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer "starred." By " waiting for Austria
and Prussia," and suffering- England to be made
the laughing-stock of treacherous Courts—.we do
not include the peoplesin 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 poisit
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 them-
selves at the expense of a reputation that has
become public property.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM has had a cleverly-got-up
aceno in the North, in which he has been carica-
ivring the Proceedings of "his departed friend and
leader under very differque circumstances. That
the Right Hon. Baronet should have consented
to act a conspicuous part in the inauguration of an
undertaking in which many ef his constituents
were interested was very natural, and although
conduct of
there was an undue imitation of the
Sir ROBERT PEEL in turning the first Teens Talley Railway sod of the
plain of what greatly cons-
y, we shall not
a piece of bad taste.
was merely
Rut we must energetically protest against the
mode in which Sir R.' Pees's name was brought
in ; and it was insinuated, rather than directly
stated, that he would *f
if, happily, living, have op-
posed the War, ana ralc •
men tile course- which his nominal followers are now .•
Pursuing. He did rot
pretend to say what Sir R.
do, -but he laid peculiar stress, rxis if alive would
that he
was th ou the fact
a zvidataizer of Zug. ~ Tla•
Was gm, in:

sidious 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- I
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 hhve 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 MU, 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 maxufacturing interests or
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 ix that case be illustrated;
and the issue of the war and of diplomacy will prove
in due time whether building three-deckers, tkc.,
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 CZAR sees that they have
not done it. They have preferred, such of them
as were not wanted in the Sea of Azoff, to cruise
at leisure, facing no enemy but the summer wind
and weather.

CAPT. THE HON. R. DRUMmoND.— By a telegraphic
message received last evening we are informed that the
above hon. gentleman is only slightly wounded, and is
progressing favourably, and not dead, as reported yes-
terday.
CHRISTIANA, AUG. 31.—The resignation of the Stadt-
, bolder Loewenskaeld is accepted, but he bolds office
until spring, when the Crown Prince becomes Viceroy
of the kingdom of Norway.
THE STII ROYAL IRISH HUSSARS.--The complement
of this distinguished cavalry corps having been made up,
it is expected that the recruiting parties will be called in
for the present. It is now upwards of 600 strong.
THE ORNAMENTAL WATER, ST. JAMES'S-PARS.—Yes-
terday men were actively engaged in making prepara-
tion for cleansing the ornamental water facing Bucking.
ham-palace, in St, .Tatnes's-park, by order of her Ma-
jes.ty's Commissioners of the Woods and Forests,
NEW ACT ON UNION CHARGES.—By an act of the late
session the provisions which would expire at the end of
the present month, as to the burial of poor persons and
the maintenance of lunatic paupers, are continued as
union charges for another year.
ND, ACT ON " WEDDING-RINGS."—Among the acts
ef the late session was one t,) except gold wedding-rings
from the operation of the former act relating to the stan-
dard of gold and silver wares, and from the exemptions
contained in the ac's relating to gold wares. Wedding-
rings are now required to be assayed and marked.
Another week of fine weather has increased the assur-
ance of an abundant and well-gathered harvest. The re-
ports from nearly all parts of the country are of the
most gratifying kind, and the gathering is represented as
snaking satisfactory progress.
The Rev. Christopher Smyth, one of the curates of St.
Nicholas, Yarmouth, has lately ascended to the highest
point of Monte Rosa, hitherto deemed inaccessible ; and
has since succeeded in reaching the summit of the mo-
narch of mountains, Mont Blanc, by a new route, and
without the aid of guides.
Captain Hammett, commander of the Albion, who
was killed in the trenches on the 17th ult., was the
brother-in-law of Sir E. H. B. Lacon, Bait, the mem-
ber for Yarmouth. He served as mate of the Bellero-
phon at the bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre in 1840,
and was employed on the North American and West
India stations previously to his being sent to the Black
Sea.

SDAY EvENING, SEPTEMBER 6 1