The Sun. — 1855-05-15 (London, England)

THIS EVENING. Those EQUESTRIAN PERFORMANCES which eclipse thoae of every Establishment in the world. Also, an interesting Hippodramatic Spectacle called, THE FIELD AGAINST THE FAVOURITE I After which, the matchless SCENES in the CIRCLE, executed by first-rate artistes, including Mr. J. Henry Cooke To conclude with the Ballet of KATE KEARNEY, or, the Lakes of Killarney. Vast preparations are progressing for a magnificent spectacle at Whitsuntide. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Ilr. w. Cooke, Jun.  We believe the view which we have advocated from the beginning will soon be the universal one —thatno peace can be made worth having without Russia on her knees. That was the policy of the Allies towards Fraace, even when during the hundred days she had given no indication of intending any aggressions upon the rest of Europe. Why should Russia be dealt with more leniently now ? We look back upon the peace we have escaped with almost the sensations of one who perceives at dawn that be has in the darkness been treading the brink of some dreadful precipice. Peace was to.be concluded on the basis of the illusive Four Points, without one word of many serious questions raised by the incidents of the War itself. Not aword of the brave Circassians, nor of Bomarsund and the Alanders ; not a word of indemnity either to the Allies or to Turkey, whose exchequer the aggressor has almost drained. Not a word of the surrender to Turkey of all the territory bordering on the mouth of the Danube, of which Russia deprived that Power, and of which she has made so infamous a use ; and even the evacuation in perpetuity of the Black Sea by her ships of war was not insisted on, notwithstanding our having that point absolutely in our power.  All this must be reversed, if we are to have a speedy, not to say a safe peace. Let the Allies openly lay down as their rule of conduct before all Europe, that all they acquire by their arms, wk.. 'her by sea or by land, shall cease for ever to belong to Russia, and we believe that she would make peace only too speedily. The folly of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S declaration that the Allie 3 did not wish to deprive Russia of any of her (stolen) territory has probably done more than anything else to prevent peace. Coupling this with the imbecility which courted Austria, let her into the provinces, and then made her president in a peace conference, why should Russia put herself in a fright ? Very different would have been the effect had we pronounced each conquest forfeited for ever by the aggressor—had we, as soon as her ships were sunk at Sebastopol, proclaimed that not a Russian vessel of war should ever float again on the Black Sea. And agai ■, when Bomarsund fell, that no Russian so?.dier should ever assert Russian power again in t: he Aland Isles ; and when we took Eupatoria that it ceased thenceforth for ever to be a Russian town. Had we added, as we might easily have done, Odessa and other places to such a  list—in all probability the CZAR would have soon put an end to a war, evory year of which would have only branded his wickedness and folly with greater and permanent disgrace. Suppose we become, as we hope to be, masters of the Crimea—it will then be (airs by at least as good a right as that of Russia ; wo should say a better one. Let it be announced at once to all Europe that it is Russia's no more. Perhaps some would like her to redeem it ; if so, the lowest price must be to refund to Turkey, to England, to France, to Sardinia, to all but Austria,  every penny of expense to which the War has put them. A policy like this is the  to her senses. yet arrogant power, can be brought only one by which a barbarous and cunning, Frown the beginning all has been sacrificed by timely courtesy, or query—timidity ? From the passage of the query—timidity to the cruel massacre at Sinope, and thence to the Vienna. Conferences, all has been conducted on the principle of trying ho 7 littl and ! would do_. The polite distance, ships :were kept at a eVen nitei naval murder