The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

To conclude with the Farce entitled MY FELLOW CLETLE.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress.Madame Celesta.
THIS EVENING. DEC. 9.
Will be performed THE GREEN BUSHES. Characters by
Messrs Par.ene, Smith, Gafden, !totem and Bedford; Miss Wool-
ear, Mrs Murray, and .11adame Celegte.
F,ilowed by BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS.
To which will be aided a new Farce, entitled THE RAILWAY
BELLE.

LOYAL OLYMPIC THE k TRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.

THIS EVENING. DEc. 9.

Will be presented THE BEULAH SPA. Principal characters
by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, and H. Cooper; Miss
Marston, Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Fitzallan, and Miss Julia St. George.
To be followed by THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by
Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Harwood Cooper, and Gladstone; Miss Julia
St. George, and Miss Emily Orimm.le.
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To conclude with the Farce, called I BLIGHTED BEING, In
which ALL. Hobson will appear.

ASTLErB ROYAL AMPIIITIIKATKr.
Lessee sad Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
Never did the pages of D7anaatie History record such an effect as
that produ'ed by the Speztaelo nos. acting here—the BATTLE of
THE ALMA! Crowds nightly testify their surprise and admira-
tion by the meat tumultuous applause.
TUTS EY E

, THE BATTLE of MA, J. H. S•rochui, Ea
The Stage sad. the RingTHE in AL
one vastby Arena, with Foisur Mandrel

After which, the CIRCLE will display the perfction of Equ!ta
Jima.

"'lf SCENES lave AO. and the horses trained by Mr. W. Cook::

/h whole to conclude with s FARCE.

Box-olce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
',Vat. Acting Manager. Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Mr. Win. Cooke, Jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tnifi DAY —Morning 32 min.after 4 I Evening 5t min.aft. 4
To- :mow - Morning 10 rain.after 5 1 Evening 31 inin.aft. 5

THE WEATHER.--flux Onto, Dec. 9.

THIBKOZZTZZ, Ilf TRZ SIAM!.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
46—lowest this ramming and during the night.
45—this day, at noon.
Basommus, 29.51..
worn, W.—Fresh, with fine clear weather.

it is said that Austria enters into the same engage-
ment with France and England that she had
already done with Turkey, that she will de-
fend the- Principalities from any Russian attack.
We may be . very obtuse, but we are
equally insensible of the value of obtaining
a new promise to do that which she had already
undertaken. She was allowed to occupy the
Principalities, solely on the faith that she would
exclude the Russians. If they attempted a new
invasion she should drive them off. We cannot,
therefore, see the value of a renewal of the obliga-
tion that had not been vitiated or impaired in

any degree.
But, further, Austria recognises " the right of
Turkey and her Allies of making all the move-

men which may suit them, for the purpose of
attacking either the Russian troops or the Russian
territory." " Thank you for nothing," said the
gallipot. Why, that right was inherent in the
lawful owner. The troops of the SULTAN could
not be excluded on any plausible pretext from
their master's territories. Austria entered nomi-

nally as a friend. She could not, under any
plausible pretext, claim to be the proprietor.
That some difficulties have arisen is indisputable.
We have felt them in the presence of thousands
of Russians at Balaklavo. and Inkerman, and the
blood of our gallant soldiers who perished on the
25th October, or sth November, bear fearfu
testimony to the injury occasioned even by flail
hesitation or procrastination of the faithless or
lukewarm friend.
And this, according to the Berlin intelligence,
is all we have obtained from Austria t If so, it is
indeed " much cry and little wool,"—the most
striking illustration 'of the diminutive progeny
ever produced by "parturient mountains," to
which even the " ridiculous mouse" was a pro-
mising offspring. But although she gives so little
she takes a great deal in return. " If, in come-
sequence of her attitude in the Principalities, or
from any other cause, Austria ihould find herself
at war with Russia, the Alliance, offensive and
defensive between her, France, and England shall
be established by the fact of the War." Here we
are bound to assist her in any difficulty, no matter
how it may arise, while she may leave us in the
lurch to fight our own battles. Everything is
for the protection of the slow coach—nothing for
those who are bearing the brunt of the encounter.
But say they, " if Russia shall not, before the
end of the current year, 1855, have made proposi-
tions which are considered acceptable, and which
insure good and durable peace, the Three Powers
will advise as to the means of obtaining that
peace." What 1 ' Advise on. the means !" More
negotiation, more special pleading, quibbling,
and equivocation. We have had too much of
these already, and want no more of such matter.
The only additional-point is that, " the parties
bind themselves not to accept any propositions for
the re-establishment of peace which are not de-
liberated on in common." This, however, only
applies to the Western Powers, for Austria has
not been, and is not, at war.
We have not had a very high opinion of Eng-
lish diplomacy, more especially of those who made
such a terrible " mull" of the former Treaty of
Vienna. But if the Berlin intelligence be accu-
rate, they have afforded evidence of their incapa-
city more durable than any existing on record
against former bunglers. We never fancied the
Austrian Alliance ; but it is really absurd to
boast of it on such terms as the foregoing.

Crushing preparations and no mercy I—these
are the only conditions of success. Whether
Russia still show fight or whisper negotiations

,hrough Prussia, we must neither relax nor

relent. We have tried both ; and, ou the one

hand, three bloody slaughters of Russian and

Allief/ troops, and on the other, an obstructive
Austrian policy, hare been the results. We re-

[axed our exertioas while beguiled by Vienna

diplomacy, therefore Russia crossed the Pruth
and, not long after, the Danube ; we relented

when Odessa lay at our mercy, therefore we

have a hundred thousand Russian soldiers in the

Crimea, and Sebastopol is yet a maiden fortress,

The last advices speak distinctly of Odessa as
the source of overland supplies for the Cri-

mea. The tempest which destroyed many o

our ships destroyed also a whole train of waggons
wending their way across the steppes from Odessa
to Perekop. But for that base of operations it is

questionable whether Russia could have brought
an army into the field in the Crimea at all ; and

it seems certain she would not have been able to
maintain it there. Granaries of corn are the
first essential of the munitions of war. All the
pride of the best military equipment ever seen
must be upheld by the same every-day means

which sustain a union workhouse or even a prison.
From the time of XENOPHON and CJ:SAIt to this
day the res frumentaria has been the first
care of a great general ; and to deprive

his enemy of it, the second. We did not
neglect the first, but in overlooking the second
we committed a fatal, aid, now to a great extent,
an irretrievable error. The dead of Balakla.va
and Inkerman can rise no more ; and their death-
warrant was sealed when Odessa survived the 2tist
of April. The men who planned the attack on
Sebastopol ought to have first laid Odessa in
ashes. If, as some conceive, Perakop could not
have been easily maintained by the troops we
could spare, then we ought to have taken thorough
good care that we left to Russia nothing to send
through the Isthmus. It would have been no
great effort fur our ships to have destroyed
Odessa, Nicolaieff, and Kiterson ; and, to
say nothing of the bewildering effect of

this course on the enemy, it would have so
cAnpletely isolated the Crimea, in a military point
of view, from the rest of Russia, that we cannot
believe Sebastopol would not have fallen a com-
paratively easy prey. With all the refinements
of the age we cannot afford to reverse the war
maxims of antiquity. War must spare nothing
a which can feed, shelter, and equip, or facilitate
the movements of the enemy. Russia, who leaves
her wounded to perish on the battle-field, who
pours rounds of grape on her own cavalry to get
a chance shot at ours, and who bayonets a wounded
enemy—Russia will not spare the property of
her own peaceful subjects if we do.
We drop these remarks because we are satisfied
that the only determination of Englishmen should
be to " fight it out ;" indeed the worth of the Aus-
trian alliance will depend entirely on the energy
shown by France and England. Most appear to
think that the CZAR will save us the trouble of
sustaining any such determination. Well, we
hope he will. We are confident that it is best to
settle now the grand question whether civilisation
is stronger than barbarism ; and decidedly best
that the settlement of the present quarrel should
not take place till the haughty Mongol is fairly on
his knees. If we had little faith in an ABERDEEN
Cabinet to begin and. carry on a war with Russia,
and if our distrust has been superabundantly con-
firmed by the events of the spring and summer,
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