The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THUItSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1854.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1154.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
•trader the management of Mr. Baokstone.
THIS EVENING, Dgc. 28,
Will be Performed the Drama of THE KNIGHTS OF THE
ROUND TABLE. Characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Howe,
W. Ferree, Compton, and Bnckstone; Misses Reynolds and E.
Chaplin.

Followed by a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled LITTLE
80-PEEP; or, Harlequin and the Girl who Lost her Sheep. Little
80-Peer, Miss L. Thompson ; Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; Pantaloon,
- Mr. W. Barnes; Clown, Mr. Appleby ; Columbine, Miss M. Brown.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEA.TRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Qum.= NUN.
TIIIS EVENING. Dee. 28.

Will be performed THE STRANGER. Principal character by
Mr. C.

After which will be produced a New Grand Christmas Pantomime.
entitled, EfARLEQUIN BLUE-BEARD; or, The Great Bashaw ,
Barlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Haling; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ;
and Columbine, Miss Desborou3h.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webater.—Directress, Madame Celost4.
THIS EVENING, DEO. 2i,

V7lll bs performed an entire new Rustic Drama called PIERRE
THE FOUNDLING. Supported by Messrs. B. Webster and Kee-
ley, and Mrs. Keeley and Miss Woolgar.
After which, a sew grand Eccentric Extravaganza, called ZIG-
2IAG : Travels et Messrs. Danube and Pruth.

To 'wll will be added a new Farce, entitled THE RAILWAY
BELLE.

[ROYAL OLYMPIC THE tTRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Die. 28.
WM be presented anew Cornedietta, called A WIFE'S JOURNAL.
Characters by Brown, Emery, Harcourt, and Leslie; and
3fra. Brown. ma Silas maskell.
Alter which, a new Fairy ExtraTagsnza, entitled THE YELLOW
DWARF AND TULE KING OF THE GOLD MINES. Charac-
ters by Mr. F. Robson. Miss Julia :A. George, Miss E. Ormonde,
hugs Marston, Miss Bromley, and Era. Fluanan.
whic
To h
cMr.l_Robson will appuroncude with the Farce,.
called A BLIGHTED BELNG, in

ROYAL LYCEITYI THEATRE.
Under the management of Madame Veetris. Sole Lessee Mr.
C. Mathews.

TIJI3 EVENING, Dtc• 2g
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Will be performed AGGRAVATING SAIL ,La D_,_,
by Mr. C. Mathews. . ipal character
anal Fai
Will be produced a new and origry Extra,
tltled PRINCE PRETTYPET and THE BITICTERFLYI!aIiza' "-
To be followed by TWO HEADS ARE BETTER Tllikx oxE.
Box-offloe open from 10 mail 6.
Sole agent for Private Boxes, Mr. Alleraft, 15, New Bond-street.

ASTLETS ROYAL AMPHITIIE.AVOI-
Lolsee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
Tremendous success of the Comic Pantomime !
MORNING PERFORMANCES will take place on the Monday
Mornings of January Ist, Bth, and 15th.
THIS EVENING,
THE RATTLE of TILE ALMA!

A " projet de toi" has just been presented to
the Legislative Corps authorising a new loan of
500,000,000 francs, equivalent to 20,000,0001.
sterling. NAPOLEON the Third, in the exercise of
a sound discretion, perceives the importance of!
sparing the pecuniary resources of his subjects at
the commencement of what may possibly prove a
very protracted and onerous war. He has not at
the very outset endeavoured to disgust them with
hostilities in order to prepare their minds for
peace at any price, or on any conditions, however
humiliating. He has not permitted the Ministe-
rial organs to put forth a quantity of unmitigated
nonsense as to the advantages of a great " finan-
cial demonstration," in order to prove to the CzAz
how humble was the estimate which we had formed
of his prowess and resources, and how well satisfied
we were as to our capabilities of " doubling him
up" at a moment's notice and on the cheapest
terms ; or, according to another and perhaps a
sounder interpretation, to afford to the Prime
Minister's old friend (of forty years' standing) the
most conclusive evidence that we were not deter-
mined to accept any propositions which he might
deign to offer, or, if he maintained the appearance
of obduracy, to approach his throne as humble
supplicants that he would deign to overlook our
presumptuous opposition to his will, and to be
satisfied with " Turkey" for the time being, before
Central Europe, France, and the United Kingdom
become necessary to appease the cravings of his
insatiable appetite—that, in fact, we were only
intent on obtaining the boon granted by the
il
01)Teg," that of being the last de-
CYvoicreP to
d.

Nor did the Memos even imagine that the
present generation was to bear the entire of the
extra war expenditure. He was too prudent
and clear-sighted no:: to perceive the absur-
dity of exhausting the national resources
in the very commencement of the contest.
His first proceeding was, therefore, an appeal
to the patriotism and loyalty of his people—and
nobly, gloriously was it responded to. He flung
aside all his red-tape trammels. He boldly disre-
garded official precedents. In place of dealing
with a few over-cautious or over-griping capitalists
—and the terms may be convertible, as caution
is frequently resorted to as the mask for cupidity
—he laid his proposals before the whole body of
his people. In place of striving to obtain several
trifling advantages—possibly not exceeding a few
sous in each one hundred francs, or, in other
words, of opening a novel description of lottery,
a State gambling table, in which the unwary
might be cheated of their money by paying more than
the real value of that for which they were bid-
ding—he caused the value to be fairly esti-
mated, and allowed every man, even those who
could not offer for more than ten francs Rentea,
to inscribe his name on the list, end, thus to ob-
tain an additional interest in the welfare and
prosperity of the country.
It requires but little argument to prove the
wisdom of this course. A simple recapitulation
of facts is all that can be demanded. The EM-
PEROR asked for TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY' MIL-
LION FRANCS, equivalent to TEN MILLIONS OF
POUNDS STERLING of our money. Ninety-eight
thousand Frenchmen responded to the demand.
They were not all rich, had not their thousands
or even hundreds to tender their SOVZREIGN ;
but every man's mate was forthcoming. Moro
than sixty thousand Frenchmen applied for
sums not exceeding fifty francs of _Ream, or two
pounds sterling, of annual dividend. The account
thus obtained was no less than forty-nine millions
of francs, or one million nine hundred and sixty
thousand pounds sterling, while the entire ac-
count tendered for was no less than four hundred
and sixty-seven thousand five hundred francs—
(lB,6Bo,ooo/.) Nearly half the accounts de-
manded by bidders for more than fifty francs of
Renter were, therefore, withheld—while the hum-
bler classes obtained all they asked for. This
judicious and equitable course will again
be successful. The EMPEROR will obtain
the twenty millions he requires from his
people. No strangers are required for what
can be provided by the honest and heart-
felt enthusiasm of the people. Are the English
less enthusiastic--are they so dispirited, so poor,
or so apathetic, that they could not provide even
Two Millions in the mode by which the French
EMPEROR could have obtained nearly ten times
the amount ? Far from it 1 The fault is not
with the people, but with the Financial Minister.
Let red-tapist precedents be cast aside. Let a
straightforward application be made, and we
venture to assert that Englishmen will net hang
back—that they will display as much ardour,
liberality, and enthusiasm as their Continental
brethren. We do not require or seek for more.

Matters are still proceeding according to the
ordinary course before Sebastopol. The Allied
Armies, who are at once besiegers and besieged,
have fortified their positions so as to be capable of
resisting any attack either from the interior or
the exterior—from the garrison of the beleaguered
city or the army in occupation of the open country.
The weather is at present favourable to the
Allies ; for while it leaves the sea open to our
vessels, it has reduced the roads between the
Isthmus of Perekop and Sebastopol to an impas-
sable condition, little better than so many quag-
mires. If, therefore, our men have suffered in
some degree from the wet and oold, the Russian
troops in the field have endured far more is the
absence of supplies, which they are now un-
able to obtain, and of the reinforcements that
might enable them to resume the offensive.
The decisive check which they experienced at
Inkerman—the failure of the vigorous and de-
termined attack on the sth of November, where
two Archdukes had been summoned to witness
and participate in the anticipated triumph, has
ever since paralysed their energies and reduced
them to a state of comparative inactivity. With-
out additional force—without fresh troops, they
could do nothing. The panic occasioned by the
unexpected victory of the Allies had not yet
Passed away ; and, as above-mentioned, the state
of the atmosphere and of the roads, for the time
being, precluded the hope of further aid, at least
until the frost had fairl

In the meantime weybsaevteinn.ot been idle. Diy
After which, Hie SCZNES In the ARENA!
rter day Ell 11511 French,
1 I
To conclude with an entirely new Harlequinade by N'ePon Lee, •
or Turks, and add.-
with new music, scenery, dresses, tricks, transformations, &C., &C , '
called, ti ULM YER's Tit iVE LS TEI 40 Uti II Tile. HORSE al
tional stores have been landed at the convenient
ISLANDS ; or, Harlequin and Britannia!
80r..-ethde open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. 14 • I
West, Acting manager, Mr. w. H. Cooke. Equestilan Medal
it depot At BAIAkIATA. The errors
Ike W. Cooke, iu. lo Peintilly per.

ceptible in the earlier stages, are being steadily
though slowly remedied, and we can look forward
confidently to the ultimate capture of the Russian
stronghold, and with it the overthrow of the
Russian power in the Euxine.
Olfga PACHA is preparing to move with from
30,000 to 35,000 of the gallant veterans who
proved their efficiency last year in the Princi-
palities and on the line of the Danube. Whether
he will proceed to Balaklava, to Eupatoria, or to
Perekop is not at present known. His presence,
however useful it might be, is not urgently re-
quired at the former locality. Our troops have
shown that they are able to hold their own, and
that they can withstand all assaults from the out-
side as well as all sorties by the garrison. If the
Turkish cohorts landed at Eupatoria they znight
create a diversion in the rear, and place OSTEN-
SAcKEN's corps between two fires, and thus get
lid of their opposition, and enable the besiegers
to complete their arrangements for the reduction
of the fortress. On the other baud, the seizure
and garrisoning of Perekop-4 step that ought
long since to have been taken, if sufficient force
could have been mustered for the purpose— I
would not only prevent the arrival of
new auxiliaries and new supplies, but
it would shut in those already there like rats in
a trap until they should surrender themselves
unconditionally to the victorious Allies. With
the complete and unopposed command of the sea,
with the power of landing the personnel or mate-
riel of war at any point on the coast of the
peninsula, we: should very speedily have
matters all our own way. We have hitherto
neglected, or, at least, not adequately availed
ourselves of, the means at our disposal. There
is, however, if we are to credit the advo-
cates and eulogisers of the Austrian Alliance, no
reason for the retention of troops for the protec-
tion of the Principalities, or the Turkish territo-
ries, properly so called. All that is guaranteed
by Austria. And even without such a guarantee
we should suppose that Russia had quite' enough
to do to protect its own territories without attack-
ing others. With vigour and determination
the matter may be brought to a speedy close ;
and we earnestly hope that these indispensable
qualities will not be wanting in the present crisis.