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

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITUEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Co3ke.
Miraculous attraction, and success without parallel !
TIIIS EVENING,

The Magnificent and heart-stirring Miur.tity SPECTACLE, in
2 acts, byJ. H. S•rocQuEm.sa, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF THE
ALMA I graphically realising that terrible conflict, and occupying
loth the Stage and the Ring, with 100 Auxiliaries ;
After which. the Celebrated SCENES in the ARENA, invented
and conducted by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with a Grand EnteCe called T EIE WILD INDIAN'S
_ON THEIR FLEET HORSES I

N.B.—An early attendance is respectfully suggested, in consequence
of the numbers who nigi'tly throng the doors of the Theatre.
Box-ofEce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manager. Mr. W. 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
3tr. Wm. Cooke, jun.

`lll WATER AT LONDON BRIDGR.
Tir4 DAT' —Morning 28 min.after 9 Evening" 4 rnin.aft. 10
To z-owtow - Morning 40 min.after 10, evening 10 infn.r.ft. 11

THE WEATHER.—Sr s Orgicz, Nov. 29.
Tag=OliZTZR, tN TEM SRAM&
49—highest since noon yesterday.
—'owcst this morning and during the night.
50—this day, at noon.
Biltoma-rzn, 29.09—a sudden fall of three-quarters of
an inch since yesterday.
WIND,..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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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1854.

We are still without intelligence from the
Crimea, save through Russian sources. The
despatches from Lord RIGLA.N 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 exempted 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 unwarinntable 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,
days. 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 three •r four, still wa 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 Balakla,va to Varna, and thence to Bucha-
rest, 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 !

But how have these promises }peen kept ? It is a
wed- •
" since we had the despatches to the Bth
instant, and n • thin 4. has come to hand giving
less stale news than that of the Bth. It is true
that Prince
founded on fae h NsteuixoFF publishes romances
to the 19th inst twe can hear, through him,
.) while we are without anything
from Lord RAGLAN to the Bth, eleven days pre-
viously. This is the more
obtannoying,aija v r ior
ipriority inasmuch
ifanays
we could to a certainty
reasonable attention were bestowe d
on this all-
important matter.
As e havealreadya_i,,htbe made
t:3r
pointed
out, postal arrangements
to convey mails from 1 klava to Varna
or, what would be still better, to Kus-
'
tendje, 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
Kronstadt (Transylvania) or I-lermannstadt. 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
twenty-one days, or more, we might thus receive