The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

A.STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Leese. and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.

No diminution whatever In the prodigious attraction and excite-
ment created by the new Military Spectacle I
THIS EYENING,

The GRAND and wonderfully successful SPECTACLE, in 2 act 3,
from the pen of J. H. bTOCQUELLEB, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF
THE ALMA I

After which, a novel series of SCENES in the CIRCLE, invented
and conducted by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with the ENCOUNTER and CAROIJ9 AL of the WILD
INDIAN !

N.B.—An early attendance is respectfully suggested, In consequeaco
of the numbers who nightly throng the doors of the Theatre.

Box-office open frona Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manager. Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
Mr. Wm. Cooke, Jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tate DAT —Morning 59 min.after 4 I
Evening 26 nain.aft. 5
To °Racy Morning 55 min.eter 5 Evening 25 znin.Aft. 6

THE WEATHER.—Sus Oyinm, Nov. 25.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
45 highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—tkis day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.54.
WIND, N.—Light breeza, with fine seasonable weather

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1854.

We hardly recover from the accounts of a seri-
ous onslaught by the Russians, and a glorious
victory by the Allies, when we hear of another
conflict, with a similar result. The Russians
have unquestionably proved thesaselves to be
brave and energetic opponents. They have dis-
played extraordinary activity in bringing up rein-
forcements to the seat of war, and great resolu-
tion in attacking an enemy by whom they have
been so repeatedly foiled. We must not, there-
fore, pay either the enemy or our own men the
bad compliment of under-valuing their exertions,
or supposing that success is a matter of course,
which can certainly be achieved without our being
called on to make any vigorous effort, or to submit
to any serious sacrifices. It is useless denying
the fact that we have met with a far more vigor-
ous opposition than we had at all anticipated.
But we should not on that account be discouraged.
On the contrary, we should only be animated by
a more unflinching determination to carry out
our projects without reference to cost, and to
succeed—deeisively and unequivocally suecied—
in an object in which not merely the influence,
but the safety and honour, of the British nation is
at stake.

We cannot, even if we would, now hang back.
The stake for which we are contending is of too
momentous a character to admit of doubt or hesi-
tation. The tires of our men---of those who
have faithfully and unflinchingly discharged their
arduous and important duties—are involved in
the desperate issue. The maintenance and per-
manency of that cordial alliance with our nearest
neighbour—respecting which our fervent aspira-
tion, este perpetua, will receive an earnest and
unanimous response from the entire community
—mainly depends on our conduct during the
present crisis. It would inflict an indelible
brand on the national escutcheon, we shall
not say, if we were to desert our gallant
Allies for that is absolutely impossible, and
could not enter into the mind even of an
ABERDEMI !-but if we hung back or displayed any
vacillation, timidity, or " penuriousness" under
existing circumstances. W: are engaged in a
truly noble cause, and we must be prepared to
submit to sacrifices proportioned to the magni-
tude of the object we have in view. This is the
course which not merely honour, but prudence
demands. We may be assured that every pound
saved during the present emergency will lead to
a tenfold expenditure at no distant date, and that
without reference to the question—all important
as it will be admitted to be—of strengthening
and cementing the bonds by which we are united'
to France.

Earnestly as we should be resolved on straining
all our resources to the utmost, in order to insure
an unequivocal
lessuuequivocal triumph, our Allies have interests
no
important—motives no less irresistible.
The future" of France would be as seriously
compromised as our own, by the substitution of
Ituasiaa for Turkish
to
power at Stamboul. Be-
sides, there are traditions of "the Empire" which
I
cannot be forgotten.
has
we look only to the
"hereafter," France
avenge, a fearful reckoning ancient
injuries to
cast up with the
Russians. As a great military power, tho first in
the world, it must now see that the opportunity
has arisen to vindicate its former wrongsw.n as well
as its present reputation ; and it
do
we do not suffer the " wet blanket,"," whicsho,wier
still tolerate, to damp or smother its ardour.
It is now stated that there has been another
desperate, conflict before Sebastopol—that the
13th has also been signalised by a Russian de_
feat. The rumour, which purports to come from
Constantinople, under date of the 16th, is to the
effect that it was the French lines which were
attacked, and that the Russians were repulsed, but
with great loss on both sides. It also announces that
the Russians bad received further reinforcements
—a matter which, whatever opinion we may form
as to the alleged battle, we can easily credit ; for
we must remember that Lord RAGLAN an-
nounced in. his despatch that the 4th corp6H