The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-07 00:00:00

MILEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
The unequivocal success of the new Burlesque demands its repetition
every evening.

THIS EVENING,
A new Mythological Equestrian Burlesque, by HIIGO VAMP, Esq.,
called THE SIEGE OF TROY ; or, THE GIANT HORSE AND
THE MISS-JUDGMENT of PARIS!
After which, the inimitable performance on the Tight Rope of
HERR CHRISTOFF, who is engaged fur a limited period.
The Matchless Stud (with the Smallest Horse in the World) in
the brilliant SCENES in the CIRCLE, conducted wholly by Mr.
William Cooke.
To conclude with Mrs S. G. Healey's Equestrian
Love Balletam ong d'Action,
THE KNIGHT AND THE WATER LILY;
or, the

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open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager. Mr. w
Wesßo office t. Acting Manager, Mr. Campbell. Equestrian Director, Mr.
Wm. Coote, Jun.

FiGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY —Morning 0 rnin.after 2 Evening 23 min.aft. 2
To. vio.sacriv - )ruing 43 rnin.after 2, Evening 3 mn.elt. 3

THE WEATHER.—Bunt Orytos, Ssrr. 7.
THEIIMOILETEB, IN THE SHADE.
6S —highest since noon yesterday.
56 —lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30•30—falling.
WIND, S.E.—Cloudy.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1854,

There is at length reason to hope that the un
accountable, and, we may add, culpable inactivity
that so long prevailed amongst the allied forces in
the East is about to be dispelled. The pestilence,
possibly occasioned, certainly aggravated, by that
sloth and inactivity, and also by the gross neglect
of the most ordinary sanitary precautions, has
happily abated, and there is but little doubt that
our gallant seamen and soldiers, notwithstanding
the severe losses they have sustained, will be ready,
as on all former occasions, to dis
a chao
rge their
eve duties
all
energetically and efficiently, nd t achi
that they may be permitted to accomplish.
Even the ABERDEEN organ now acknowledges
the impolicy, to use no harsher term, of the course
adopted by our leaders in the Euxine and its
vicinity. But a few days since—even during
the present month, the first week whereof has not
yet expired, the Times makes the following
remarkable admission :—" It can hardly be de-
nied, however," says our contemporary, " that
the casualties by which the army has been visited
might possibly have been avoided. By the wisdom
which comes after the event we can now mark our
errors and their consequences. By this time we
trust that the troops have exchanged the sickness
and monotony of a life in camp for the excitement
of active operations in sight of Sebastopol ; but
nothing can be clearer than that this movement
might have been effected months ago. As it turns
out, our army might as well have sailed for Varna
direct, and embarked from that port to the Crimea
as soon as ever the requisite preparations could
have been made. Our expedition, in short,
might have been an expedition against Sebas-
topol, without any reference to the Dardanelles,
the Bosphorus, or Bulgaria. The line of the
Danube was effectually protected by OMER PASHA
and the troops of the SULTAN, and we might have
addressed ourselves at once to Russia without
expending any solicitude upon Turkey. There
was literally no reason at all why the resolution of
invading the Crimea should not have been formed
and executed within two months after the army
left the shores of England, and, if this had been
done, it is quite within the bounds of possibility
that the whole work might now have been over.
As it is, five months have been consumed under
canvas without any result but discouragement,
weariness, and disease."
Yet this was the line of argument adopted by
ourselves and other journalists, which, no later
than Saturday last, called down on our devoted
heads the indignant reproaches of the very consis-
tent leading journal for our factious attacks on its
protege, the good and excellent ABERDEEN. Now,
however,
its tone is altogether altered. In addi-
tion to the matter above extracted, it tells us that
" our troops are not useless in Bulgaria, but
they are suffering deplorably from the very inac-
tion to which such a position condemns them ;"
adding, " that it must appear to every one that
with such an expenditure of life and strength
Sebastopol must infallibly have been ours," and ad-
mitting that "no doubt that fortress is strong, its
garrison numerous, its artilleryformidable,and
defenders brave, but that no weapons or its
devices
of the enemy can be half so destructive as that
protracted inactivity which consumes the very soul
of the army,
while pestilence with all its horrors
is abroad."
• Why, here is a leaf out of our own book. The
Times has suddenly become a convert
war
the
on of the war, and
vigorous and energetic carrying
•
irapliedly censures those who• so long continued
indifferent to the wisest and most eligible line of
policy. It says, "the sooner we NOW get to
Sebastopol the better t" From this we may fairly
conclude that it is tolerably certain that we are
going at Sebastopol, for our leviathian contem-
. Umipoi-ary is, to use its own language, justly
celebrated for " the wisdom that comes after the
• event," and would by no means recommend a
course which it had not very substantial grounds
for believing to be resolved on.
Once in action, we cannot permit ourselves for
a moment to doubt the result. The bombard-
ment of Bomaraund, and the speedy surrender of
that quasi impregnable fortress, has completely
:established. . the supremacy of
eannoi.balls
unpossibdity
and ohells, And the • of the