The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-10 00:00:00

S\MALL•PDX IN THE 82D REGIMENT.

Small-pox having unfortunately broken out in the 82d
Regiment, their embarkation in the Babiana, transport
No. 160, at. Liverpool, for conveyance to Corfu, which
was appointed to take place on the 6th inst., will be
considerably delayed. They will proceed to Preston this
day for medical inspection, where they will remain until
all danger is past.

ROYAL ARTILLERY FOR THE CRIMEA.
The Canadian, steam-transport, 1,764 tons, No. 176,
has been ordered to proceed from Liverpool to Wool-
wich, where she will receive on board, for conveyance to
the Crimea, four companies of the Royal Artillery, filling
up with hospital huts and stores.

RIIS CELL ANEO US.
Sixteen assistant commissary storekeepers are to em-
bark at Greenhithe early next week in the Peninsular,
steam-transport No. 172, for passage to Constantinople.
The Candia, Peninsularand Oriental Company's steam-
ship, Captain Field, left Portsmouth yesterday for South-
ampton.

Yesterday the notices required in respect to the Rus-
sian prize Industrie, of which J. A. 11. Soblossman was
late the master, seized in the port of Cardiff under simu-
lated papers by Mr. Catchpole, the Customs' officer of
the port of Hull, baying expired, the Court of Admiralty
will proceed forthwith to her condemnation.
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Brevet-Major Bridge, 84th Regiment (York and Lan-
caster), died on Monday' at Chatham barracks. He had
been in that garrison about three years. He returned
from India in 1851 he went out with the regiment in
1842. He has als• served in the West Indies, from
1831 to 1838, when he returned to England from Ja-
maica, and received the appointment as adjutant to the
corps. He first entered the service in 1828, and was
made brevet-major in 1854. He has been medically at-
tended for the last two mouths. He was much respected
by all classes in the garrison.

THE ZIILITIA.
The West York Rifles, now assembled under the
command of the Hon. E. G. Monckton at Pontefract,
are in a very efficient state. They arc, however, be-
tween 200 and 300 short of their complement, and as
yet they have not given many recruits to the army.
Their general conduct in the town is highly spoken of
by the inhabitants.
The East Suffolk Artillery, under the command of
Cdlonel Adair, M.P. for Cambridge, expect to march in
detachments at the end of this week ; 200 will march
from Ipswich, to be stationed in detachments at Lan-
guard-fort, Harwich ; Tilbury Fort, and at Hull garriion,
at each of which stations the men will join a party of
the Royal Arti'lery, so that they will have the benefit of
serving with regular troops.
The 2d Regiment of the Warwickshire -Militia, on
Friday last, had about SO volunteers, 40 of whom were
accepted. From them and others, two have joined the
Royal Sappers and diners, two the (lth Enniskillen
Dragoons, 27 the Stli Hus,ars, one the 90th, and 24 the
Rifle Brigade. Captain Ward, of the lSth Royal Irish,
superintenckd the voluntary erilistment.

The let Derby Militia, Colonel Lord Waterpark, inns•
tered on Friday, and were embodied ; in consequence of
a great many of the men having volunteered into the
line the present strength of the regiment is only 476.
The Berkshire Militia mustered on Monday. The
whole of the volunteers will undergo medical inspection,
and those unfit for the line be dismissed the regiment.
The City of London Royal Artillery Corps is to be
considerably augmented, and yesterday circulars were
issued inviting volunteers.

TilE CZAR'S MOTIVES FOR GRASPING AT
EXTENDED DOMINION.

The French and English batteries have again been
supplied with ordnance, and the Russian fleet is as her.
metically sealed up as ever. The Muscovite is in the
toils ; the Tincital has closed around him. One terrible
effort, and Sebastopol—the Crimea—is wrested from
hire.

With such prospects before them, it is impossible to
believe that the French or English Governments can be
so insane as to canteinplate the possibility of a peace
upon any other terms than the cession of the Crimea by
Russia—at the least. One wild emotion of rage would
convulse the armies, which already feel it crumling in
their grasp, were the quarry which they have suffered
so mush to bring to bay, to be snatched from their hands
at the moment they are in act to pounce upon it. And
a contagious thrill of indignation would rush along the
veins of the Allied nations, full-fraught with danger to
any Government that should interfere to break the fall
of Russia.

We will not believe that any dishonouring, patched-
up, resultless peace can be in contemplation. From
the same sources whence we derive the information
that negotiations have been renewed at Vienna, we
have assurance of the Allies having stipulated that no
suspension of hostilities shall take place while these
negotiations are in progress. Assured that the war is
to be urged on with unrelenting vigour, we can look on
with conaparative indifference at the insidious attempts
of Russia to detach Austria from the Western Alliance,
cogeinced that they must prove abortive.
Austria, though timid and hesitating—and they who
know most intimately the actual condition and imme-
diate prospects of that Government can best feel what
excuses it has for being so—is now too well aware of the
real aims of the Czar lightly to throw itself loose from
the Anglo-French Alliance. In addition to the heredi-
tary policy of the House of Romanoff—in addition to the
pressure brought to bear upon Nicholas by the Muscovite
or Sclavonic party—the Czar has had a private and per-
sonal motive for taking, at the present time, the rash
step he has ventured upon. An unnatural discord dis-
turbs the peace of his family. His sons Alexander and
Constantine hate each other. The former, of a mild, per-
haps effeminate, disposition, clings to that section of
the court and nobility which affects the civilisation of
Europe ; the latter, of a hardier temperament, sympa-
thises with the Muscovite party, represented by Men-
schikoff and the Primate of Moscow. Nicholas is haunt-
ed by the dread that after his death the tragedy of the
Theban brothers may be re-enacted in his family, and
that the unnatural feud may extend its influence beyond
the walls of the palace, and shake the empire even to
dissolution. To avert, if possible, this evil appears to
have been at least one of his motives for grasping at
extended dominion. Ho has sought an independent
kingdom wherewith to portion off his younger son and
induce him to leave the rights of the elder born uncon-
tested. The throne of Constantinople—the vision that
has haunted the Czars ever since the days of Catherine
—first attracted his eyes ; and hence his attempts to
ound the English Minister at his Court as to whether
England—if allowed to seize upon Egypt, the high-
way to India—would connive at the Russians retain-
ing hold of Constantinople. But the campaign of
1849 had suggested an alternative chance ; and hence
the endeavours of his emissaries ten or twelve months ago
(as wo stated yesterda,3) to learn whether the Hungarian
"Magnates would be contented to purchase Russia's re-
cognition of their national independence by acce2ting
Constantine as their King. These intrigues are now
known to the Austrian Government, which is therefore
aware that Russia, intent on western spoil, has been
sitting ready for the spring, hesitating whether to make
it southward upon Turkey or eastward upon Hungary.
Did the question lie between the people of Hungary
and the house of Hapsburg, it would clearly be the duty
of France and England to abstain from interfering in
such a purely domestice quarrel. But if the quo:Con
shall be raised as to whether France and England ought
to stand aloof in the event of the house of Romanoff at-
tempting to snatch Hungary from the house of Hapsburg
a very different answer may be given. It is not likely
that the inhabitants of Hungary will feel any very lively
wish to be handed over from the rule of Austria to that
of Russia, or that they would have any chance of bet-
session by the
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parallel to his
aggression on Turkey. Matters standing thus, might it
not be well for the Hungarian patriots to try whether
they cannot come to terms with the house of Hapsburg 7
Even the statesmen of Vienna must by this time begin
to suspect that, though arms and foreign allies may
_re-
pel foreign aggression, the permanence of a dynasty
among brave and intelligent people must be assured by
other means. Nay, there Es some faint reason for be-
lieving that the Austrian Government begins to perceive
that the removal of so dangerous a neighbour as the
Muscovite from its frontier would he cheaply purchased
by the cession of its own share in the spoils of Poland.
These things are, it is true, as yet but problematical—
dimly seen in the distance of possibility ; yet they are
not altogether undeserving of the consideration of the
friends of national independence and good government
in Europe.—Daily Ncws.

THE RENT OF THE CITY TOLLS.—The city tolls,
which have just been abolished, were rented by a con-
tractor. From an official document prepared by the
Chamberlain, it appears that the rent paid in 1852 and
1553 was 5,8101. a year. Ono quarter was paid in ai-
vance of last year, amounting to 1,4521. 10s. Of the
13,0721. 10s. received for the city tolls in two years and
a quarter, the sum of 1,3311. 10s. 2d. has been applied
in the payment of interest and discharge of balance of
moneys raised under the authority of the Act of Par-
liament of Ist and 2d Victoria, chap. 83, towards the
formation of a new street irorn Holborn-bridge, -in the
City of London, to Clerkenwell-green. - The balance
remaining to the credit of the city's- cash has been al--
plied to the purpose for which the general fund 3 of the
corporation were applicable.