The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1855.

seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
tion as peculiar as perplexing.
Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which
all will produced.
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Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8.
Private boxes, 1/. Ils. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the
Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress
circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, • ls. ; gallery, 6d. The
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per,
formance on Saturday. November 3, at 2 o clock. Doors open
at half past 1,

STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER,
GRAVESEND, 9, 2.
ttRYINSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL. on the arrival of th.
following Trains from Fenehurch-street,lol4, 3 , weather permit-
tin;.

The Packets will call at the Rosherville, Greenhithe, Purfleet,
and North Woolwich Piers.
To or rum oravesend and L0nd0n.......... 10d. .. Is.
„ (kayolend and Blackwall or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 10d.
„ Erith and Bd. .. Os. lnd
• Frith and Blackwell or Woolwich..., .. Cd. .. Os. 83.
be, wren Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 63. .. Os. Bd.
October 23, 1355.

READING SAUCE, for Fish, Game, Gravies,
Hashes, Stakes, &e.—JOHN and CHARLES COCEA, the
Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers of the celebrated READING
SAUCE, be,.: to CAUTION the Public a7ainit the daily frauds prac-
tiiel by many persons, who are ()tiering their spurious Imitations as
the gennine Reading Sauce. This sauce Is patronised and recom-
mended by most families in the kingdom, and for general use it
stands mrivallcil. It is sold by all respectable Fish Sauce Venders.
Le particular in asking for "Cocks' Reading Sauce," which is pre.
pared ONLY by John and Charles Cocks, at their Manufactory, Duke -
street, Reading. All others aro counterfeits. Observe the name,
".T. and C. Cocas, Reading," ou the seal and label of each bottle :
without this none are genuine.

R. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet-
I street, has introluced an entirely new description of ARTI-
FICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so
perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to he distinguished from
the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or
decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used.
This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful
operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is
guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. De.cayod teeth
rendered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At
home from ten till five.

QIR WM. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING
Y FLUID, for destroying all Offensive smells and purifying Sick
Rooms, &c. Its cost is less than One Farthing per Gallon when
Minted for use.
Sold by all Chemists, and at 18, Cannon-qtreet, City.
Gallons, Is. Quarts, 2s. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 6d.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.

TRIESEMAIL—On the 29th of May, 1855, an
injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and
on the 11th June following was made perpetual, against Joseph
Franklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou-
sand pounds, from imltatin; this Medicine, which is protected by
Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the
Pcole de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine,
Vienna.

TRIESEMAR, No. 1,
is a remedy for Relaxation, Spertnatorrhcea, and Exhaustion of the
Syitem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate.
To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by
the consequences of early errors it is invaluable.

TRIESEMAR, No. 2,
a rectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely
a-adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs
have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health
of a vast portion of the population.
TRIRSEMAR, No. 3,
Is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which
uniortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in-
evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the
sarsaparilla In the world cannot remove .

TICIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, aro alike devoid of taste or smell,
Ind of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table
without their use being suspected.

Sold in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 28. extra, divided into
icparate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux,
&c., Sac.—To he had Wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, 68,
Cornbill ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 19, Ox-
ford-street; It. H. Ingham, druggist, 46. M arket-street, Manchester ;
11. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 52,
Lord-street, Liverpool ; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street,
Dublin ; Winnall, bookseller, High-street, Birmingham.

TER SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.
lust published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by post for 26

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%TER VOUS DEBILITY;
L Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper-
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tv",oessful mode of treatment of the diseases of tho Generative
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listinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of
every variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits,
Ixeesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded
an twenty years' experience in tho treatment of Impuissance,
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ire added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pro-
fautionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice,
Ara on the dangerous reinsdios advocated by various writers on
these important disorders.
Ey SAMUEL LAIKERT M.D.
37, IZEDFORD-SQUA. LE, LONDON,

Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &e.
The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con-
sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses,
which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man-
good, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any
,ther class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is
serticularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of
their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded
thy{ health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is
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It is absolutely necessary that all men should know, that there are
)rinciples of personal management which cannot bo violated without
incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
ay be mitigated, ii,Nw the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
.nd how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all,
et there is scarcely any degree of physical intlrmity or functional
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fee Anther has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive
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Ir:fortunately been too generally confided to the care of ignorant
empirioF, who inflict great injury on those who art induced to place
faith in their pretensions.
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46 st.nvps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed-
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At home for consultation daily f.om eleven till two, and from six
till eight.

PUBLICATIONS.

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CHEAP EDITION of MISS STRICK-
LAND'S LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND.
With all the late Improvements and Portraits of every Queen,
complete in 8 volumes, price 78. 6d. each, bound, either of which
may be had separately.

Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn.

COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY
MAGAZINE.

The NOVEMBER NUMBER contains—The Progress of Russia in
Europe—The French Almanacks for 1856—Tom Pepper's Letters
from Sebastopol—Cuvellier Fleury, by Sir Nathaniel, and other im-
portant articles.

Now ready, 'rice 6d., post free,
.A. ZDKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1856 ; the 42d
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her Majesty's Ministers, &c. Hieroglyphic—Peace, Plenty, and
heft rm.
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all Booksellers throughout the world.

Just published,
Ki-01.11TITATCOV, KINYBULR;BI,I oALAPlravittlan LeBSON,
with the Forts, Batteries, and Soundings, with a Map from o:!cssa
to Perecop. I sheet, is. 6d., in case, 2e. 6d.

wyLD'S MAP of the CRIMEA, with the Roads, Passes, Sec.
sheet, as., in case, be.
James `w yld, Geographer to the Qncen, Charing-cross East, next
door to the Post-office, and 2, Royal Exchange.

Is Published this da',

KINBURN, OTCHAKOV, NICHOLAIEV.-
Stanford's Map of the Roads. &c., between Odessa, Nicho-
Perekop, Simpheropol, and Sevastopol, with e,darged Plans
of Odessa and Nksholaief, compiled from the Itwstan Maps in the
possession of the Royal Geographical Society, the Admiralty Charts,
and other documents. Price, one large sheet, 45.; case, 7s.
Also, Stanford's Map of the Country between Odessa and Perekop.
Priee 2s. sheet; case, 4s. 6d. a _

LOndUnTid;;rd Stanford, 6, Charing-cross ; and Letts, Son, and
Co., Royal Exchange.

ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY,
18, Cannon-street, City.

The owners of Shares and Obligations in this Company are respect-
fully reminded that the Half-yearly INTIMEST, due the 27th instant,
may be received on or after that day, by application at the Offices of
the Company, between the hours of eleven and three o'clock.
JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman.
26th October, 1855.

TOME and FRASCATI RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That IN TEREST WAR-
R rs for the payment of the first half-year's interest, due on the
Ist November next, will be Tsued in exchange for the first coupon
attached to the shares, at the Company's Ofliee, 4, Skinner's-place,
Sise-lane, City, on and after the sth November.

The Directors take this opportunity of expressing to the share-
holders their regret that the li a will not be opened at the close of
this month, as had been anticipated. The extreme difficulty of
finding labour during a very unhealthy season, combined with unex-
pected obstacles in the construction of the tunnel, and a change of
plan and situation of the station at Frascati, have produced this
result. The delay does not, however, affect the interests of the
shareholders, as in virtue of the arrangement made with the con-
tractors their guarantee of 7 per cent, on the capital commences on
the Ist November. The contractors having thus so strong an inte-
rest in the early opening of the line, are making great exertions for
that purpose, and they report that early in the ensuing year the line
will be open for traffic.

By order of the Board.

EDW. C. NICHOLLS, Secretary.

ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—WINTER ARRANGEMENTS.—NOTICE for NO-
VEMBER, 1855.

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The express train leaving London at 9 a.m. will call at Bletchley.
The express train leaving London at 5.15 p.m. for Worcester, the
Midland District, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, will leave at 5
o'clock, and cease calling at Leighton.
The express train leaving London at 5 p.m. will call at Bletchley,
and cease calling at Watford and Wolverton.
The train leaving London for Tring at b. 20 p.m. will leave at 5.5
p.m.

The train leaving London at 5.45 p.m. will leave at 5.30 p.m.
The train leaving London for Worcester at 1 p.m. will leave at
2.30 no( n.

The express train leaving Birmingham for London at 7.25 a.m.
will he made an ordinary train. • Leave at 7.30 a.m., cease calling
at Wolverton, and call at Weedon, Blisworth, Leighton, Wattord,
and Harrow.

The train leaving Rugby for London at 12.55 noon will leave at

1.40 p.m.
The train leaving Birmingham for London at 12 noon will leave at
12.15 noon, call at Blisworth and Watford, and cease calling at Wol-
verton.

The third-class train leaving Liverpool for London at 8 a.m. will
leave at 7.45 a.m., Urrivitr, miter at all stations.
The train leaving Birmingham for London at 1.15 p.m. will leave
at 1.10 p.m.
The express train from the North, leaving Preston at 3.15 p.m.,
Liverpool, 3.30 p.m , and Manohestcr at 3.40 p.m., will leave at 3.30,
3.45, and 3.50 respectively.
The train leaving Birmingham for London at 5.35 p.m. will leave
at 5.20 p.m.
For further alterations on the main line and branches see Com-
pany's Time Bills.

By order. MARK HUISII.
General Manager's Office, Euston Station, October, 105.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY
COMPANY.
At the TWELFTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of
SHAREHOLDERS, held at the Offices of the Company, on Monday,
the 29th day of October, 1855
W. J. HAMILTON, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Company,
The Company's Seal was adchair—
ato the Register Shareholders.
The Directors' Report having been read, In the
ffixe
It was moved by the CHAIRAIAN, seconded by J. ANDERTON, Esq.,
and
Resolved—l. That the Report, together with the Accounts now
read, be approved and adopted.
It was moved by the CusinariaN, seconded by JO9ll. TRORNTON,
Esq.. and
Resolved—ll. That this meeting considers it expedient that mea-
sures should be taken for converting and consolidating the existing
shares of the Company of U. nominal value, into shares of the value
of 201. each (four shares to be consolidated into one), and that such
consolidation shall take place so soon as the whole of the existing
shares shall have been called up.
It was moved by Captain BARBER, seconded by A.
Esq., and
Resolved—lll. That the best thanks of the meeting are due, and
are hereby tendered to the Board of Directors, for their attention to
the interests of the Company. H. RICLIMOND,
(Signed) W. J. HAMILTON, Chairman.
It was moved by Jas. ANDERTON, Esq., seconded by Jou?' FIELD.
Esq., and
Resolvcd—lV. That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the
Chairman, for his admirable conduct in the chair.
(Signed) CORNELIUS NICHOLSON-,
Superintending Director.

BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, New.-
road. London.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the LIST for 1R55 of
HYGE lAN AGE,: TS duly appointed for the Sale of Mr. Morison's
(the Hygeist) Vegetable Universal Medicine throughout the world is
now printed, and may be had gratis on application as above.
M ORISON and Co., Ilygeists.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIJRENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following
Music will be performed by his celebrated Band during
the week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily
of the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gungl), Fenella (Tinney),
Ethel Newcome ( Laurent), La Sultans (Bosisio). Quadrilles—Le
Roi du Pastel (Lamotte), Les Hugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al-
bert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinny), II Trovatore (Tutton).
Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie (Gaviolo), The Lillian (D'Al-
bort), Des Coucous (Bousquet), The Zouaves (Laurent).
The Imperial Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecla (Streather). Schottisc.he
—La Guirlando de Fleury (Bouquet), La Varsovlana (Laurent). Pnn-
eipal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission
One Shilling.

TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE
YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package included.
THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP

AR'TICLB OF FOOD
forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0.
(preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, and nearest sta-
tion.—Address THOS. -LLTTIS, jun., Fish Curer, at. Yarmouth.
" This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar-
mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J• Brashowe,
house steward, Blenheim Palace.—Oct. 20, 1854."
" 151 r. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I
shall be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had last year gave
great satisfaction.—A. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court► St. James's
Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855."

JOZEAIT'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED
CAPSULES, approved of by the french College of Physicians,
successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and
Acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for a certain disorder.
( See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on appli-
cation.—Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the inveator,
UABRIEL JOZEAU, French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and
all the principal chemists.

SEA BREACH IN THE FIRTH or FOETl3.—About 3
o'clock on Friday moraing the sea broke into Granton
Quarry, and in a few minutes it was filled with water to
the depth of nearly one hundred feet. The engine-
house and a small house adjoining, occupied by Muir,
the overseer, were carried away. Muir bad just time
to escape, but all his furniture, &c., was destroyed.
The quarry is the property of the Duke of Bucclench.—
Scotsman.
ARRIVAL OF GOLD AND SPECIE FROM AUSTRALIA.—
The Ballarat (Jones) has arrived from Melbourne in
69 days, with 110,000 ounces of gold and 2,500 Bove-
reigns—total value 442,5001.—and 100 passengers. She
brings but a small mail, the Oliver Laing being appointed
to sail on the 21st of August, the Surprise on the 20th,
the White Star on the 30th, and the Kent on the Bth of
September. Her dates are to the 19th of August, being
about four weeks later than those last received. The
reports from the gold fields continue favourable, especi-
ally as regards the yield from quartz. Trade was steady
and provisions rather lower, but the high prices so long
prevalent had caused great distress, and a petition, signed
by 1,966 unemployed persons, many of them with fami-
lies dependent upon them, had been presented to the
Governor for some plan of relief. A Government com-
mittee had accordingly been appointed to devise the re-
quisite measures. The failure of a firm, styled Adam-
son, Watts, M'Kechnie, and. Co., with liabilities for
46,0001., appears to have excited attention. From Syd-
ney the accounts were to the 15th of July. The price
of bread was :still high and wages were declining, but
some large arrivals of breadstuffs were taking place from
San Francisco and the Pacific ports generally. The
e main trunk railway between Sydney and Paramatta was
expected to be opened in about five weeks.

Spirit of the Public Journals.

TRADE OF RUSSIA.
( From the Times of this day.)
Two years since the quays of Odessa were laden
with the produce of the vast southern plains of
Russia. Fear of impending war had urged the
dealers in corn to buy on every side to make good
the deficiency of the English harvests. The flags
of all nations were to be seen entering the ports of
these isles bringing food from the great empire
which was so soon to be our enemy. What is now
the state of the Russian seaport ? Not the smallest
craft dare leave that blockaded harbour ; its ware-
houses are empty, or stocked only with the sup-
plies for a hopeless and devastating war. The corn
trade, which in a few years had so greatly increased
the wealth of the empire, is at an end, and it is
doubtful whether the return of peace would lead
to the renewal of the commerce from which the
merchants of the world are turning to other adven-
tures. An official article has just been published
in Russia relative to the exportation of grain. As
might be expected, the writer labours to show that
the loss 'of his country by the present war is less
than it has been estimated by the world. If his
facts are correct, he proves two things—that the
wants of England have of late years been the prin-
cipal causes of prosperity to the Russian proprie-
tors, and, consequently, that the hostility of this
country has caused the commerce of the Czar's
empire to collapse speedily and completely. At two
periods within the last ten years scarcity in West-
ern Europe has increased the exports of Russia ;
the first was at the time of that terrible famine

'hich as -a- fiery triartrelan. a- passed, to come forth
with the power of improvement and regeneration.
The Russian exports, which were in 1845 of the value
of 16,000,000 silver roubles, rose in 1847 to more
than 70,000,000. Although this high amount was
not sustained during the succeeding years of
greater plenty, yet the Russian trade still in-
creased rapidly. In 1852 the exportation was to
the value of 34,000,000 roubles ; and in 1853,
the last year of peace, it had risen to 55,000,000,
partly from natural development, partly under the
influence of the deficient harvest of the preceding
year. Now came to an end this great and sudden
prosperity. In eight years the value of exported
Russian grain had increased three-and-a-half fold ;
landowners had been enriched, the State had been
relieved, material improvements, roads, canals,
arc., had been commenced, when in an evil hour
the Czar outraged the rights of nations and of
liberty, and all has come to a close. In 1854 the
export of grain fell to the value of 14,000,000
roubles, and most of this was probably shipped
during the three months which preceded the decla-
ration of war. The expOrt at the present moment
from the whole of Russia is probably not a tenth
of what it was two years since.
The prosperity of Russian trade before the war
is proved by two statements of the writer. He
says that since 1848 the exportation of grain has
followed a much more regular course than in pre-
ceding years. This result, evidently due to the
repeal of our corn laws, shows how much this
country has benefited the Russian proprietor, by
delivering him from those fluctuations in the price
of his produce, which gave him false notions of his
wealth one year, only to undeceive him by an ap-
proach to ruin in the next. In the second place,
it is stated that in latter years the export of other
articles did not sink as that of corn increased, but
that a regular augmentation of all branches of
traffic took place. It appears from the statements '
of this publication that at no time did Russian
commerce flourish so widely, at no time was it
founded on so sure a basis, as immediately before
Nicholas ordered his armies to seize a " material
guarantee" for the submission to unjust demands.
It is now admitted that the corn trade of the em-
pire is at an end, and the Russian writer's only con-
solation is that England has suffered still more. He
says that the importations from Russia have in a
year diminished 40 per cent., while thersupply from
the Danube and the East in general has similarly
been straitened by the wax: He look upon the
confidence of theiglish people in queftion of
lit
food as a false security, and to alto e -compla-
cency and panic he attributes t 1 ariations of
price during the last two years. Russia and gn g -
land, lie says, have suffered lately,—in one country
the producer, from his produce being no longer ex-
portable ; in the other the consumer, who must
buy his food at a higher price. Yet, he urges,.
Russia has not suffered so much as England, for
the price of corn there has only fallen 20 per cent.,
while here it has risen 70 per cent.
Such are the admissions and arguments of a man
evidently writing under official inspiration. We
may accept what he says of his own country while
denying his conclusions with regard to our own.
On its corn trade Russia Wag' mainly dependent for
the wealth of its aristocracy and the comfort of
its people. Although England must indeed suffer
from the increased price of bread, yet her resources
are so large, the occupations of her citizens are
so various, and her commerce so continually in-
creasing, that the augmentation in the price of
food will cause no general distress, and certainly
never be important enough to deter the nation from
war. While Russia must exhaust her resources in
vast levies of men, long and disastrous marches,
and combats on the limits of her empire, she is de-
barred from recruiting her finances by means of
commerce, and must struggle on, isolated from
Europe, with decaying, if not destroyed seaports,
with warehouses falling to pieces if not crushed by
hostile shell, until she chooses to submit to the
terms of the allies. The writer states what is well
known, that Southern Russia had in late years
been developed in a surprising manner by the in-
creasing wants of Europe and the influence of our
own free trade. The commerce of Odessa and
Taganrog was beginning to exceed in importance
that of the Baltic ports. It was for the advantage
of Odessa that the Czar allowed the menthe of the
Danube to be clogged with sand ; it was for the
good of his southern districts that he encouraged
the dissension and withstood the improvement of
the Tarkish provinces. All for which he laboured
has now been lost in a single year. The trade of
the Black Sea has passed away, and that of the
Baltic is carried on almost surreptitiously by the
aid of a neutral. At Prussian ports is shipped
whatever is exported of the products of the Rus-
sian empire ; their price is largely increased by the
land transit which is necessary, and the demand
must correspondingly be lessened. The proportion
which remains of the Baltic trade we cannot deter-
mine, but there can be little doubt that it is only
a fractional part of the considerable and increasing
commerce which Russia possessed previous to the
war. While France and England can continue
unmolested the industry of peace, and suppprt the
contest of the year by its savings, Russia is re-
duced to fall back on whatever realised capital
exists in the country. The hoards of the Emperor,
the Church, the provincial Governments, have
almost disappeared. Russia cannot raise a loan in
Europe—all that comes from foreign countries
must be paid for in money, since her produce can-
not find an outlet. She is therefore becoming poor
at a doubly rapid rate ; her expenses are increased
by war, and by war also are her gains stopped.
We, on the other hand, pay for this contest, as we
must, in blood and money, but at home we never
look upon an enemy, our vessels are at peace in
every sea, and the whole commerce of the country
pursues its even course. The progress of civilisa-
tion, and a deeper sense of international duties,
have prohibited the acceptance of letters of
marque by the subjects of any maritime State,
while the enemy is so blockaded in his own
waters that we need fear no such adventure
originating
from his shores. Whatever inconve-
niences and privations war may bring with it to
us we know are felt with tenfold severity by those
with whom we are contending. It is probable
that, after all, Russia will be most thoroughly
humbled by financial losses. She has opposed to
her the two richest nations of the old world, both
in earnest, and ready to sacrifice the gains of the
past and to pledge the industry of the/future to
carry out what they have begun. She, on the con-
trary, is poor, her treasury is empty, and no one
will refill it; her merchants are bankrupt, her land-
owners reduced and discontented, her peasantry
decimated and hopeless, her territory passing out
of cultivation. It is dismal to think that such
calamities have been brought on a people by its
ruler ; but the blame lies not on us. The state of
the Russian empire is only another instance of a
people expiating the madness of a monarch.

THE VACANCIES IN THE MINISTRY.
( Prom the Times of this day.)
The great heart of the nation that we talk- of, and
believe to exist, ouc,ht at least to be reflected in its
Government. This may ECM a truism, but, true
as it is, we have lately ✓ had Governments that re-
flected rather the dull inertia of the system, the
disorders of the body politic, its rebellious humours
and morbid vacillations, than its pervading senti-
ment and its sovereign will. A nation so governed
could only be in the condition of sufferers by so-
called nervous complaints. We have bad Miniaer74

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who knew not whether we' were at peace or at war,
or what ought to be our state. We have had a
peace party in a war Cabinet; and a Minister pacific
abroad and warlike at home, with the opportunity
of drawing upon either side of his character as
might afterwards turn out convenient. If the ac-
tual execution of the war has not been as energetic
as was to be expected—if all sorts of considerations
have been thought more important than success—
and if England now makes a less splendid figure
than she ought after two years of unparalleled sa-
orifices, the result only corresponds too closely with
the original malady and capital weakness of a
divided will. "A double-minded man is unstable
in all his ways," and nowhere is instability of
performance so direct a result of discordant
counsels as in the-r-matter of war. This
nae. 37 seem just now an ungracious remark, when
no one can doubt the resolution of our Premier,
and the cordial co-operition of the Cabinet as a
whole, whatever rumour may say of this or that
lesser member. But just now there are two vacan-
cies, and Lord Palmerston would do what many a
British Premier has done before if he took the op-
portunity of enlarging his basis, and silencing some
opposition, by annexing a neutral or even a hostile
politician. There are men to be found who are
always ready to trip up a Government, and who
are equally ready to join it that they may do within
the fortress what they could not without. If Lord
Palmerston could be guilty of permitting members
of his Cabinet to express their dissatisfaction with
the war, and so weaken the hands of Ministers at
home and armies abroad, there are plenty of poli-
ticians who would gladly join him on that pleasant
understanding.
—"War, indeed, is not exactly the thing for a man
to play fast and loose with, nor is. national honour
such a trifle as this game would seem to suppose.
Yet there are men who, without having the courage
to say that we are all in the wrong, that we are
answerable for the war and ought to make peace on
any terms, would have no objection to see the war
slackly done, unsuccessful, inglorious, or even dis-
astrous. It would be their opportunity, and still
more so if by any chance they happened to be in the
Cabinet at the time, and could improve the occa-
sion with all the weight of a Minister. The gene-
ral turn is only too favourable to this sort of policy.
Whatever we may flatter ourselves at home, the
opinion abroad is that our gallant allies are doing
the work of the war and reaping its harvest of
glory. The French people have not shown a more
hearty good-will than ourselves ; they did not even
pretend to an equal ardour for the war; they have
not spent so many millions in the cause ; they
have hardly so great a stake in it ; nevertheless,
on the most critical occasions they have carried
off the palm ; and in the execution, as well as the
result, we have been reduced to the class of a con-
tingent, like our Sardinian. and Turkish allies.
That, at least, is the wide-spread continental view
of the war, drawn probably very much from
French, perhaps also from Russian sources, yet
unfortunately deriving too much colour from facts.
The war is indeed substantially successful, and
our own armies and navies have bad a respectable
share in that result. But adverse appearances and
unfavourable opinions are not to be despised. They
affect the relations of States and of parties, and, if
there exist the materials for disparaging our part
in the war, there are continental Governments and
English politicians who will not fail to use them.
So we venture to submit that this is not the time
for attempting to enlarge the basis of a Govern-
ment by comprehending neutrals and waverers,
men of unpronounced opinions and indecisive habi ts.
The great mass of the British people, as none can
know bettor than ourselves, aro resolved to prose-
cute the war at all costs, and for this sacred object
are prepared to pay any income-tax or any price
for their bread. In this respect, it is the same
spirit that animates the honest labourer at home
and the brave soldier in the Crimea. Of us who
remain behind there is only hero and there to be
found a man who would not gladly go to the war
did age, or means, or profession allow. As only a
small proportion can do this, the remainder are pre-
pared to suffer their equivalent in bereavements, in
burdens, i 4Nla lion, and in embarrassments. But
people in thi igh-strung mood are not to be baffled
or mocked by double-minded and irresolute poli-
ticians. They will not boar to be told that they
are suffering what they do suffer, and may suffer
yet more, for a popular frenzy or a statesman's
whim. If the war is indeed au error and a crime,
let it be repented of—in sackcloth and ashes if
necessary. But then it must be proved to be
wrong by better arguments than have yet been at-
tempted. So long as we are under the conviction
that the cause is one of the noblest that free na-
tions ever bled for
.everything must be done in
conformity to this feeling, in the choice both of
mon and of measures, and particularly in the 'se-
lection of our Ministers at home as well as our
commanders abroad.

_

SIR HAMILTON SEYMOUR.
(From the Times of this day.)

With whatever dignity Lord Westmoreland may
have supported British interests at Vienna during
a very critical period, it can hardly be denied that
the appointment of a diplomatist to the Court of
the Emperor Francis Joseph more capable of takin g
a prominent part in the serious discussions which
may be expected to arise at Vienna in regard to
our Eastern policy will be hailed with satisfaction
by the British public. At the time when Lord
Westmoreland entered on the duties of his mission
reasons no doubt existed which fully justified his
appointment ; he has played the part assigned to
him, and played it, let us add, well ; but the cir-
cumstances which especially fitted him for the post
have passed away, and accordingly he is replaced
by a more vigorous successor. Sir Hamilton Sey-
mour has been selected for this responsible post,
and, with no disparagement to Lord Westmore-
land, it may be said that ho is, as a diplomatist,
better qualified to cope with the wiliness of Rus-
sia, the languor of Austria, and the tergiversa-
tions of that Monarch whose throne is so deeply
seated among the quicksands of the Spree. The
mission of Sir Hamilton Seymour to the Court of
St. Petersburg was of comparatively short duration,
but in that brief space of diplomatic existence he
managed to display in an eminent degree the abili-
ties and the virtues of a British Minister. To
him the Emperor Nicholas—no doubt surprised
and thrown off his guard by the honesty and
simplicity of his antagonist—revealed the secret
purpcoe of his soul in the most remarkable series of
conversations which perhaps ever passed between
a Monarch and the accredited servant of another
Sovereign. By him those conversations were con-
ducted with the utmost dexterity and address, and
honestly noted down from day to day. By him
they were as faithfully transmitted to the Ministry
at home, and, though concealed by diplomatic re-
serve and the courtesy of Cabinets for so long a
time as the concealment of facts of such paramount
importance to the Western world was possible,
they blazed forth at last, to the discomfiture of the
tortuous policy of the Czar, to the confusion and
shame of his Austrian and Prussian satellites, and,
we may add, to the establishment at once and for
ever of Sir Hamilton Seymour's fame as a skilful
diplomatist. To have fathomed the hidden pur-
pose of that reserved and subtle soul, to have dived
into its lowest depths, and to have brought up to,.
the light of day that one great Orient pearl of
policy for which the Emperor Nicholas was ready
to stake and to squander the political reputation
of a quarter of a century,- was no small test f
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The Ri •ng of Sweden has published an ordi-
nance, including lead in pigs, or in any other form,
among the category of articles considered as con-
traband of war.
A. letter from Hamburg of the 26th says :—"
Three
English vessels keep constantly off Sweaborg ; no move-
ment was observed there on the part of the Russian
naval division, withdrawn behind the rocks of Hel-
ingfors."