The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-20 00:00:00

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ROYAL PE,INCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kenn.
THIS EVENING will be presented Skakspero's Play of THE
MERCHANT OF VENICE: Shylock, by Mr. C. Kean; Portia, by
Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, the Comedy of COURT FAVOUR: supported by
Messrs. Emery, Belford, Poynter, Turner, 311,ses 31. Wilton, Hughes,
and Mrs. C. Melville. After which, HUNTING A TURTLE: by
Messrs. Belford, Burt, Turner, J. Clarke, and Miss 31. Wilton. To
Conclude with RAISING THE WIND: by 31essr3. Belford, Turner,
J. Clarke, Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss E. Wilton.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westmin,ter-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following company of Vo-
calists are engaged for the performance of selections from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES. GLEES, DUETS, Ste.,
viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brusell, Miss Ray, Madame
Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson;
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling
enor Antonio, E. L. Hume, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens'
Mr. Bell. Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde,
and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium'
Mr. Courtney; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at seven
'clock precisely. Suppers, Stc., until twelve o'clock.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 20.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
75—highest since noon yesterday.
62—lowest this morning and during the night.
7—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 20.87.
WIND, North-Westerly; fresh and squally, with cicudy
weather, and some rain in the morning.

The bombardment of Jeddah is a thing accom.
plished. So was the infernal massacre by which i
was provoked. It is now disingenuously main•
tained by the systematic enemies of the Government,
that the condign punishment just inflicted upon the
city which was the scene of these cruel and das-
tardly assassinations is, in a manner, unjustifiable.
Either, says the Times, we ought to have wreaked
our vengeance upon Jeddah sooner or not at all. A
bombardment of the place while yet reeking with the
warm blood of the ',murdered Christians would,
according to our contemporary, have been " a
most intelligible and justifiable proceeding." Had
Captain PULL/IN, it observes, turned the guns
of the Cyclops on the lair of those de-
testable cut-throats, at the very time when
their hands were steeped in the bloody
evidences of their guilt, he would have been sup-
ported in so doing by the sympathy of every civi-
lised community. But now—and so forth. The
argument, we insist, is from first to last, altogether
untenable. If every sea-captain had the right of de-
claring war upon the instant, at his own free will and
pleasure, the country would, indeed, be liable to
perpetual embroilment. What Captain PuLux did
in the instance of Jeddah is precisely the very thing
he ought in reason, and loyalty, and humanity to
have endeavoured to accomplish. With the boats of
the Cyclops he contrived to secure the escape from the
scene of the massacre of those who must have perished
with their companions but for his most timely assistance
Having done all he could do at the period when the
crime was actually perpetrated, Captain PULLPN
drew off the Cyclops from before Jeddah, and tarried
for instructions as to his next proceedings—instruc-
tions for which be was in duty bound to wait from
the supreme authority of the Home Government.
Those instructions he has received. Upon those in-
structions he has acted. Jeddah has been visited
again by the Cyclops. Captain PuLLxx, strength-
ened, or rather empowered by authority from
home, sends in a despatch to the Kaimakan.
That document announces, distinctly and explicitly,
that unless, within thirty-six hours, a satisfactory
answer were given to his requisition, the town would,
at the ead of those thirty-six hours, be bombarded.
And the demand submitted to Jeddah under the
pressure of this alternative? It is simply the punish-
ment of the murderers. That punishment has pre-
viously been demanded by her Britannic Majesty's
Government from the supreme authority at Con-
stantinople. The Ottoman Porte has responded to
the appeal in terms befitting an ally for whom we
have spilt our best blood like water upon
the plateau before Sebastopol. The matter is
promised to be inquired into. A Commission of
Inquiry is organised, and instructed to proceed to
Jeddah, for the purpose of bringing the assassins up
to judgment. But time goes by—the Commission
does not make its appearance at its proposed destina-
tion—the criminals are at large—the crime is unex-
piated. And all the while the blood of the victims
is crying aloud to Heaven for Vengeance !

Our Government in this matter has not acted in
any one particular precipitately. It has proceeded
throughout, on the contrary, with all possible deli-
beration. Its first appeal is made to Constanti-
nople. That appeal is only in words responded to.
In act it is not responded to at all. Then, but not
till then, her MAJESTY'S steamer Cyclops is ordered
to proceed without further delay to Jeddah—to de-
mand the punishment of the assassins, a punishment
only too long delayed—and then, but then only, in
case of refusal, or apathy, or evasion, to bombard the
place. Well—they have bombarded it. But they
have commenced doing so only after waiting patiently
the whole time stipulated. The first reply received
by Captain Puer,EN from Jeddah is to the effect that
the Governor of the town, lIAmIK PACHA, is at Mecca.
The next reply shows that the Pacha's absence really
made very little difference. When he comes there—
his intimation to the captain of the Cyclops amounts
merely to this : that he possesses no power of life
and death, and that therefore the assassins (whom he
has in the meantime at last had arrested) cannot
possiby be executed until the arrival of the Special
Commissioner from Constantinople. So !—the
Special Commissioner has not arrived from Constan-
tinople—the murderers are not punished—the crime
is not expiated—and, as a matter of course, Jeddah
is thereupon bombarded and rebombarded.
At length, after the renewal of the bombardment
on the sth instant—upon that same day the long-
expected ISMAIL PACIIA, the Special Commissioner,
really does at last make his appearance, accompanied
by 480 Egyptians. On the following morning
(the 6th of August, 1858) eleven of the
murderers are publicly executed in sight of
the town and shipping, and four of their accomplices
are sent off to Constantinople. And so the matter
has at length terminated—certainly with no discredit,
rather it should be said in a manner reflecting the
highest honour upon the Captain of the Cyclops,
and upon those who gave him authority—her
Britannic MAJzsrr's Government.

The Times still rages at the report of the Bank
Committee. The disciples of Lord OVERSTONE fan-
cied that report would have been decisive in their
favour: that it would deprive the monetary reformers
of every foundation for their opinions. The Com-
mittee men had been very carefully selected. A. num-
ber of gentlemen, who had " passed the financial
chair," and all of whom were committed on the
point, were nominated. A few wavereri, who, al-
though not admirers of the Act of 1844, were
thorough-going bull ion is ts, regarding "convertibility"
as the one thins
needful in pecuniary matters, and a
few independent men like Messrs. SPOONER
and CATLET, were also included in the list
to give an appearance of fair play, but
they were invariably overruled on every /In'
portant question—Sir CHARLES Noon and Sir G. r.
LEWIS had it completely their own way on every
important point, from the selection of witnesses to
the deciding on the weight that should be attached
to their evidence, and the publication of their own
peculiar views whenever they think proper to give
expression thereto.
But they are exceedingly unwilling to commit
themselves by an express approval of the Act. They
will not march through Coventry with Sir R. PEEL,
Lord OVERSTONE, and their servile disciples.
Although desirous of sustaining the Acts of
1844 gad 1845, they do so rather by impli-

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THE SUN.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1858.