The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-29 00:00:00

THE MORNING ADVERTISER.— a summary of the intelligence within four days at
At the Meeting of the Proprietors of the Monism° ADVER-
TisER, at the L ndon Tavern, of the 17th instant—the largest of the outside, and the despatches themselves in
their body ever held during the sixty years of their Journal's exist-
ence—they formally pledged themselves to the Public thgt the Psper extenso within ten or eleven days ; but, in place
shall continue to be conducted 6n those popular and thoroughly in-'
OF that, here we are nearly double the latter
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THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE,
M. jULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
LAST WEEK BUT ONE.
THE ALLIED ARMIES QUADRILLE.
$ -The PROGRAMME for THIS EVENING, Wednesday, NOV. 29.
will include the French National Song, " Patent pour la Syne"
(composed by La Reins Hortense), and "Minnie," slaw by madame
Anna Thillon ; Grand Selection from Les Huguenots, Overture to
Leonora, Le Compte Ory Quadrille, the Adagio from 3fendelssohn's
Symphony in A minor, the American Quadrille—Solo, violin, Sig
Monasterio ; trumpet, M. Duhem ; and concertina Mr. Case ; La.
Prima Donna Valsv, the Staff Polka, the Charge Galop,. and the
new DESCRIPTIVE QUADRILLE, THE ALLIED ARMIES,
Jullien, assisted by the Bands of her Majesty's Grenadier Guards,
2d Life Guards, and Coldstream Guards.

Pawns OF AnxissioN.—Promenade, boxes, and galleries, Is.
dress circle, 25. 6d. ; private boxes 1/. Is. and 11. its. 6d.
M. JIMMY'S GRAND BAL MASQUE will take place en,
MONDAY, Dec. I I, and terminate the season.

THEATRE ROYAL 11.AYMARICET.
Under the management of Mr. Bankston..

EVENING, Nov. 29,

' WM be performed ST. PATRICK'S EVE. Principal characters
by Messrs. Hudson, Chippendale, and W. Farren ; Miss Martindale,
and Mrs. Poynter.
To which will be added THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
To be followed by the Farce of MAKE YOUR WILLS.
To conclude with the Farce of FAMILY JARS.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Cusazza
THIS EVENING, Nov. 29,
Will be performed (for the 7th time this season) THE CORSI-
CAN BROTHERS. Principal character by Mr. C. Kean.
Followed by CHARLES THE SECOND. Prineipal characters by
Messrs W. Lacy, Vining, Addison, and Cathcart ; Misses Murray
and Heath.
To conclude with AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. Principal
characters by Messrs Meadows, D. Fisher, and Saker ; Misses Mur-
ray and Daly.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 29.

Will be performed THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Ckarao-
ters by Messrs. C. Mathews, R. Rorby, F. Matthews, and Baker ;
Mrs. Hughes, Misses Oliver and Wadham, and Mrs. Foote.

To be followed by a new Comic Drama, entitled A COMICAL
COUNTESS.

To conclude with the Farce entitled MY FELLOW CLERK.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.
Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress. Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING. Nov. 29,

Will be performed THE GftEEN BUSHES. Characters by
Messrs Parielle, Smith, Garden, Rogers, and Bedford; 3lis9 Wool-
gar, Mrs Msirray, and Madame Celeste.
After which, a new Farce called THE SLOW MAN.
Foßowe by BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS.

To which will be aided a new Farce, entitled THE RAILWAY
BELLE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEITRE.
Lassee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.

THIS EVENING, Nov. 20.

Will be presented THE BEULSJI SL A. Principal characters
by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Roosol, aria H. Cooper; Miss
Marston, Sirs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Fitzallan, and Miss Julia St. George.

To be followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Mestsr9.
Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Harwood Cooper, and Gladstone; Miss Jur.a
St George, and Miss Emily Ormonde.

To conclude with the Farce, called A BLIGPITED BEING, in
which Mr. Robson will appear.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL A. NIP HIT EAT RM.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
Miraculous attraction, and success without parallel
THIS EVENING,
The Magnificent and heart-stirring MILITARY SPECTACLE, in
2 acts, by J. 11. STocquina.v.s., Esq., called THE BATTLE OF TILE
ALMA 1 graphically realising that terrible conflict, and occupying
both the Stage and the Ring, with 400 Auxiliaries ;
After which, the Celebrated SCENES in the ARENA, invented
and conducted by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with a Grand Entree called TAE WILD INDIANS
ON THEIR FLEET HORSES !

period, without anything beyond the canards
got up by interested speculators for their own
purposes, or the speculations of " our own cor-
respondents' " clever " guesses," we are bound to
admit, but after all merely guesses on which it is
impossible to repose implicit reliance.
We have heard of a great battle on the 13th,
in which the Russians were again very decidedly
repulsed with considerable loss. No one can say
with any degree of certainty whether such an
encounter really took place. We can only dis-
credit it, although alleged to have taken place
sixteen days since, because no allusion has been
made to it in the MENSCHIKOFF despatches ; and
because, if it had taken place, some efforts would
have been made to transmit the accounts of such
a transaction within less than that time. We
hear also deplorable accounts of losses of
transports, and more important vessels, of
severe injuries of ships of the line and
war steamers—of the Sauspareil being on fire, the
Agamemnon on shore, and the Britannia leaking
—but there is nothing official to allay our appre-
hensions or confirm our worst fears. We must
still be tossed on a sea of doubt, involved in the
deepest perplexity ; and, what is even still more
injurious, prevented from adopting, in due time,
the steps rendered indispensable by the course of
events.

N.B.—An early attendance is respectfully suggested, in consequence
of the numbers who nightly throng the doors of the Theatre.
Box-office open front Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manager, Mr. W. 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Mr. Wm. Cooke, j att.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tiffi DAY —Morning 28 min.after 9 I Evening' 4 aain.aft. 10
To- govaow • Morning 40 min.after 10 Evening 10 min.sft. 11

THE WEATHER.—Suit 07PICII, Nov. 29.
'THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
49—highest since noon yesterday.
43—lowest this morning and during the night.
50 —this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.09-.oa sudden fall of three-quarters of
an inch since yesterday.
PtrinD,.W.N.W.—Fresh breeze, with fine sunshiny cold
weather. We had heavy rain yesterday afternoon, and a
violent storm early this morning.

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We are now told that the electric wires are to
be extended to Varna, so that we may receive news
from that important point without a moment's
delay. We trust it may be so. But the matter
should not now be talked of—it should long since
have been accomplished. Even if the Government
refused to interfere, such an important under-
taking would have been easily carried into execu-
tion by private enterprise ; but cold water was
thrown on everything, and the most serious
negligence displayed in matters of vital conse-
quence, because Lord ABERDEEN could not refrain
from murmuring " Peace, peace, peace " on all
occasions—an occupation about as profitable as
wishing for inordinate sums of money on all occa-
sions, and doing nothing to earn a trifling portion
thereof—while Mr. GLADSTONB is desirous of
keeping the entire expenditure within the income
of the country.

It is needless to expatiate on the advantages
that would result from obtaining the means of
receiving speedy intelligence from the Crimea,
say within two days in place of ten in theory, and
twenty in practice. It will be felt by all persons
of ordinary understanding, and those who wilfully
neglect, or contemptuously deny, the necessity,
will add considerably to an account which already
demands a sufficiently serious and prolonged
reckoning.

Many contradictory opinions are afloat as to
the course about to be adopted by Ministers at
the approaching meeting of Parliament. Some,
paraphrasing the expression of the renowned SA.3I
WELLER, boldly assert that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer has " run a match with the constable
and vun it," or, in other words, that the Right
Honourable Gentleman kas to contend against a
serious deficiency, and that he must resort to some
extraordinary method of "raising the wind," in order
to make both ends meet. Others declare with equal
vehemence that he has remained faithful to his
original " penny-wise-and-pound-foolish " policy,
and that he still keeps a tight hold of the national
purse-strings, being merely responsible for the
minor evils (!), of preventing the despatch of the
necessary reinforcements to the seat of war, and
thus endangering the lives and materially enhanc-
ing the too onerous labours of our gallant fellows
in the Crimea. These strenuous supporters boldly
contend that the pecuniary deficiency has not as
yet occurred. But it is admitted on all sides that
the immediate attention of the Legislature is in:
dispensable, in order to sanction and provide for
a mush heavier outlay than any contemplated by
the Financial Minister: in either of his three Bud-
gets, or his supplemental demand for a credit of
three millions sterling.
How, then, is the money to be raised ? That
is the important problem puzzling the brains of
the quidnunes of the present day. The great
majority affirm, and with good reason, that there
must be a loam, and that Mr. GLADSTONE has
even, at the eleventh hour, abandoned the disas-
trous course on which he entered, of insisting that
all the extra expenditure must be provided for out
of the current income, and that we must leave no
burden for posterity to sustain, in consequence of
the enormous outlay, occasioned by a far more
serious war than we had anticipated, coming on
an Exchequer emptied by a reckless and ill-
advised liquidation of old debts, amounting to
more than Eight Millions sterling. An equally
determined minority, however, insist that Mr.
GLADSTONE will still abide by the narrow and re-
stricted views promulgated in March, and sus-
tained in April and May, and through the entire
Session, and that the extra outlay will be met by
extra taxes, of which the most probable will be
the increase of the Income Tax to ten per cent. (!)
and the re-imposition of the Soap Duties, and
other imposts which had been abolished or modi-
fied of late years, with the almost unanimous ap-
probation of the people, and that, if any credit 1 to
be taken, or money raised, it will be by means of
deficiency bills or a temporary loans—such as de-
lighted the GLADSTONIAN soul, and which, prac-
tically, have only the effect of increasing the tight-
ness of the money market, and, as a natural con-
sequence, the difficulties of the nation, by the
diversion into another channel of the funds usually
applicable to affording the necessary pecuniary
accommodation to the trade and commerce of the
country !

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854.

We are still without intelligence from the
Crimea, save through Russian sources. The
despatches from Lord RAGLAN contained in our
impression of the 22d instant afforded the last
reliable or authentic information to those who
have friends and relatives engaged in the fearful
struggle, and to others who, although exempt ed from
these personal anxieties, cannot remain indifferent
when the honour and safety of the nation, and
of its gallant, but over-tasked defenders, are con-
cerned. These despatches bore date the Bth
instant, and, therefore, we have been no less
than twenty-one days without tidings on which
we could safely rely. This is really too bad
We have already expressed our opinion clearly
and unequivocally on these unwarrantable delays,
and our protests were echoed by the people.
Promises were given that greater energy should
be exhibited for the future, and that news
from the Crimea should be received within
seven -or eight, in place of fifteen or sixteen,
clays. Although this was by no means what we
had a right to demand, and although it could
scarcely be anticipated that the people would be
satisfied in receiving in seven or eight days the
important intelligence which might be obtained
within threo or four, still we hailed it as a decided
step in the right direction, a great improvement
on the previous system. We were told that
steamers were to be despatched every second day,
from Balaklava to Varna, and thence to Bucha-
test, so that we might reasonably look for tidings
every second day, and that we should never be more
than nine or ten days without authentic intelli-
gence

Now, 4iithough, in common justice to Mr. GLAD-
STONE, we must believe the latter assertions to be
wholly unfounded, and to suppose it utterly im-
possible that any man pretending to the character
of a statesman could exhibit such perverse and
wrong-headed obstinacy on a matter of such vital
importance to the welfare and prosperity of the
community at large, it is our imperative. duty to
give timely warning of the danger, so that the
voice of public opinion may be expressed through-
out the length and breadth of the land, and that
the Representatives of the People may be made
thoroughly acquainted with the views and feelings
of their respective constituencies—not only of the
voters, but the non-voters—of every one, in fact,
who contributes to the Exchequer in any degree,
however remote, and who should, therefore, ac-
cording to the constitutional theory, have a voice
in all matters relating to the expenditure.
Both
Houses, then, will have to insist on the
i
the army in the
necessity of send •
e'
forts calculated to all
arduous duties to
sending out ample reinforcements to
Crimea, touether not merely with
all the necessaries reipured, but with all the com-
tion. It is for the Lords
w oeuvlid Y a t
sec
atlriceeilr sufferings. Even
with every possible a
ppliance they have so many
perform that the humblest
labourer at home
envy their posi-
to declare, in concurrence witha ildtheCo n ip
me
oopl al
es
of the United Kingdom, that privations shall

But how have these promises been kept ? It is a
week since We had the despatches to the Bth
instant, and nothing has come to hand giving
less stale news than that of the Bth. It is true
that Prince Mi,,,,,,,Tsmixo
founded on facts publishes romances
that
Fe
can. hear, through him,
to the 19th hut., while we are
ewithoutleven
daysany t neg
from Lord RAGLAN to the Bth,
viously. This is the more annoying, inasmuch
r -
~n much as
we could to a certainty obtain
priority if any
reasonable attention were bestowed on this all-
important matter. As we have already pointed
out, postal arrangements might be madeto convey mails from . Balaklava to yarn
or, what would be still better, to Ku;
teudje, with as much certainty as between
England and Ireland. Thirty-five to forty hours
would be ample even for the longer distance, and
it would not take much greater time to transmit
the correspondence to Bucharest, and thence to
Kronstad t (Transylvania) or Hermannstadt. Eighty
to ninety hours would thus be amply sufficient,
under judicious arrangements, to bring the tidings
into connection with the electric wires, by means
whereof it might be instantaneously flashed to the
capitals of France and England. In place of
Cventy-one days, or more, we might thus receive
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not be added to these other trials, and that their
grateful country will, so far as practicable, save
from "preventible evils." There are more
enough waieli cannot bc, averted ; ii is, thele-
fore, imperative on those who live at home at ease
to do all in their power to preserve those gallant
fellows from any annoyance which foresight and
liberality may get rid of.
But the chief responsibility will rest on the
popular branch of the Legislature—on those who
are to be, not merely the guardians, but the re-
plenishers, of the public purse. At present their
duty differs in many respects from that which
usually devolves upon them. Generally, the chief '
care is required as to the outgoings, to see
that no lavish cr profuse expenditure is sanc-
tioned. Now, however, it is otherwise. The
welfare, honour, and safety of the country are
involved in the existing struggle. Success—full,
complete, and triumphant success—is now the
sole object. That can only be achieved by the
sacrifice of men or money, or both ; and all will
agree that the latter is as mere dross in compari-
son to the lives of our brave compatriots. Let
money, then, be raised to the utmost extent re-
quired, but in such a manner as to be least
onerous to the tax-paying community. The
present generation has done quite enough. We
must now look to "Posterity," more especially as
it is for its protection that we are bound to carry
on the war to the last extremity—to insure not
merely present ease for ourselves, but ample ma-
terial guarantees for the permanent and lasting
tranquillity of Europe, and the protection of that
very posterity from evils such as we, for their
sake more than our own, are now compelled to
. encounter.