The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-15 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Lessee and Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING

Shakespere's RICHARD THE THIRD, compressed into 3 acts.
Introduction of Mr. W. Cooke's stud of highly trained horses—Death
Of White Surrey—Grand tableau of eight noble steeds lying dead
in " the Uattle of Bosworth Field," with other stupendous equestrian
effects.

After which,

A series of novel and interesting ACTS of HORSEMANSHIP In
the ARENA, with a variety of other pleasing and amusing entertain-
ments.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, inn.

HIGEI WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY—Morn. 57 min. aft. 12—Evening 23 min. aft. 1
Tn-Ifoßuow—Morn.47 min. aft. I—Evening 8 min. aft. 2

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 15,
THICRIZONETZE, IN THZ SHADIL
74 —highest sinee noon yesterday.
59 —lowest this morning and during the night
74 —this day at noon.

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BAROWITER-30 03.
WIND, W.S.W.—Fresh, with cloudy weather.

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dynasty ; and :therefore our neighbour, who by
himself was con tumeliously disregarded, found it

expedient to en, ;er into the war, which he brought
to a conclusion so lame and impotent. Thus

came the allianca that defeated the skilfully.

planned project, inltended to "Cossackis;" Europe,
;old render the em dire of the AUTOCRAT universal

so far as the old p 'orld was concerned.
But the "leopard does not easily change his
spots." Although foiled for the time Russia has
by no means abandoned her long-cherished de-
signs. Iu cons( :quence of the injudicious lenity
of her opponen .ts she was permitted to escape
from the difficulit position in which she was placed

without humili. ttion or loss of power. The high
contracting patties were satisfied with her pro-
mises. They so ught not the material guarantees
which she hers:4f invariably required ; and they
find too late that they have accepted securities
not worth the paper on which they are written,
and useful only as evidences of Russian duplicity
and perfidy. We have withdrawn our troops,
not only from the • Crimea but from Turkey,
while Russia has simultaneously strengthened her
garrison at Kars. We delivered up even the build•
ings we had ourselves erected ; but the Muscovites
have destroyed the fortifications and defences of Is-
mail, Reni, and of Kars, audarewilfullyand delibe-
rately cmting down the forests in its vicinity,
which ha•re hitherto proved a source of consider-
able reve one to the Ottoman Government, and
are removing the proceeds of their robbery over
the frontier. In addition to these just causes of
complaint they have forcibly and illegally seized
possession, of the Isle of Serpents, and have raised
ridiculous; quibbles as to the rectification of the
frontier, to which they deliberately assented;
Thus stria ing to retain the control of the naviga-
tion of ti Le Danube, and to neutralise one, and
by no rat :ans the least important, of the " Four
Points."

From !this it is manifest that the Muscovite
snake bar been scotched, not killed—that all the
sacrifices we have already sultaitted to, have gone
for nothing, and that we must be prepared to re.
new the pcontest brought to so injudicious and pre-
mature n conclusion before many months have
elapsed. And how are we preparing for this pos-
sible, and'. by no means improbable emergency ?
We have discharged our militia without paying
the bounties to which the men were justly en-
titled. 'While subjecting the Government to the
imputation of a grave breach of faith towards our
own countrymen, they have given handsome gratui-
tiestothefortunate Germans. The Irish militiaman
was discharged with 108. on account of the bounty
to which he was entitled ; two Germans, Twho
, have bean remanded on a charge of forgery, had
received gratuities of 181. and 241. Os. Bd.
respectively I This is not the way to induce
our own countrymen to come forward again
in the dark hour of danger. Unfortunately
Parliament is not sitting to designate such con-
duct in the manner it deserves. We may, how-
ever, warn the Government that the day of
retribution may arrive sooner than they anticipate,
and that they should, so far as possible, strive to
retain the goodwill of such of the militiamen who
have not yet been disgusted, and to avoid any
premature reduction in the line, until they have
clearly ascertained that the Russian difficulty has
been really terminated.

"The distinguished services of the Guards in
the late War are to be recognised, and very pro-
perly so, by a dinner. Why should not the not
less distinguished services of the famous Highland
Brigade, and other regiments, English, Welsh and
Irish have a like recognition r' Such is the inquiry
made by a number of the readers of The Sun ;
and the only answer we can return is—Why not,
indeed ? If it is right, as we believe it is, to give
a public dinner to the one, it is wrong to with-
hold such a recognition from the regiments to
which our correspondents have referred. The
desert is as great ; and he must be a poor student
of human nature who can anticipate anything but
evil of any inequality in the reward.
The question, then, naturally arises—How is
such inequality to be prevented ?—in other words,
by what instrumentality are the so far ne-
glected regiments to be feted like the Guards
And here we must remark the Government
would have displayed more judgment, and given
proof of infinitely better taste, if, instead of
puffing away 8,0001. or more of the public money
in squibs and crackers and silly devices, they had
devoted the money to rewarding, after this and
other fashions, the brave men who won all the
glory obtained in the war, and whom the entire
nation is delighted to honour. The course
adopted by the Government, it may be urged,
was in keeping with all their doings, both in the
management of the War and the conclusion of
what they are pleased to designate—the Peace.
Granted. Turning hopelessly away, therefore,
from this quarter, we will address ourselves to
another, able and willing to do what Governtri?n%
has not done, and at whose hands the recognition
called for will be to the fall as acceptable, to sly
the least of it.

The example set by the patriotic Londoners, it
can in no wise derogate from the self-respect of
their equally patriotic fellow-countrymen in our
great provincial cities and towns to follow. It is
not a good-natured assumption ; it is a notorious
fact that in every city and town in the empire, and
not least in the most important, the public pulse beat
throughout in unusual sympathy with the doings
and sufferings of the gallant British Army in the
Crimea. Who does not recollect the deep-felt
satisfaction with which the record of the pro wens
of the victors of the Alma was perused ? Who
did not feel a thrill of anxiety, followed by a
stern emotion of pride, as he read of the bloody
field of Inkerman, where the indomitable valour
of the men had to supply the want oc.:mioned by
the miserable incapacity and neglect of their
leaders ? In whose veins did the blood course
with equal pulsation over the chivalrous devotion
which crowned with undying fame the sinuous and
sloping field Bilaklava ?In what bosom was not
kindled, however momentarily, the heroic fire at
thought of the "thin red line," before which, like
leaves before the autumn blast, the Russian
chivalry withered in their pride, and wore scat-
tered abroad in unutterable confusion ? And who,
as the mournful details of the trenches and
, the hospitals passed before him, withheld the
tributary sigh for valour as great and en-
durance as noble and protracted as ever
were manifested "in the brave days of old ?"
Where the sympathy and the pride were so general
and so intense, there should be no difficulty about
the recognition being equally so. All that is
wanted is the taking of the initiative.

Let, then, the men of Minehester, Liverpool,
Sheffield, Dublin, Edinburgh, and other large cities
and towns where the "heroes of the Crimea" are or
may have been located, be up and doing. L.t,
subscription lists bo set agoing until a suai is
raised in each locality worthy of themselves and
the purpose for which it is intended.
Where the Crimean veterans can be congregated
in sufficient numbers, there let a banquet be given
to them. A little management will secure in the
chief towns an adequate number of guests ; and
where this cannot be done let the subscription be

forwarded to 'le most immediate quarter where
it can, always i 'emembering tha.t the great bulk of
he Crimean vet ierans is at .S.'norncliffc. Possibly,
Is we have inth mated, routine may throw obstacles
in the way. Governraent, however, has Rot
tcquited so mu ch. ren oi,vn in the management of
the War as to la nit -of any being interposed that
are insuperable. The whole country, in point of
fact, would be deeply gratified by the spectacle of
banquets beinging simultaneously given to its brave
defenders
. some of the great cities and towns
of the thr
.ee kingdoms. The gentlemen heroes
have had their turn—the Guards are about to
hrlve tb .eirs—let the country see to it the hard-
worki.ng, ill-remunerated, and neglected, but none
be less meritorious, soldiers of the line have theirs,
and that not according to the measure of official
or aristocratic favour shown them, but according
to their deseed.