The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-13 00:00:00

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which will be regularly notified by the prison authorities
to the officers commanding districts, municipal garrisons,
and cavalry depots and depot battalions, and the camp
at Aldershott.—By command.
• - - " G. A. WETHERALL."

• • • THE MILITIA.'
Orders have been received for the Royal Cornwall
Rangers Militia to be disbanded. and recruiting parties
' from several regiments of the line are at Bodmin, where
the corps was assembled, to obtain recruits.
Toe Galway Militia arrived in Dublin on Tuesday, and
marched into Aldborough barracks, headed by Lieut.-
Colonel the Earl of Clanearty. The corps are about to
embark for England, and will form part of the army en-
camped at Aldershott.

LORD EDWARD HOWARD, M.P., ON
TIIE WAR.

At the Arundel Fat Stock Show on Tuesday, Lord E
Howard, M.?. for Arundel, in returning thanks for his
health being proposed, spoke as follows :—lle was happy
that the market continued to improve and to keep
up its name. They could not expect, of course, that this
year all business would be flourishing, but he thought
he might congratulate the agricultural interest at least
at having a very flourishing time of it, although it was
considered by some that the agricultural interest with
respect to prices was in greater prosperity than they
could wish, because he believed it was an acknowledgesi
fact that nowadays prices might be too high. They all
knew that when prices were too high a reaction might
follow, which might not be found quite se agreeable. It
was also admitted that the poorer classes of this country
were suffering very much from the price of bread. In
reference to the ever his lordship observed that some
months since every one was telling tibout war, was
some months later that everybody was talking about
peace. He was sure that no one would like to see peace
more than he should. But that peace must be a peace
which must be lasting, and obtained too on the most
advantageous terms. Some persons might have before
them an object not well defined, and say that as they
were at war, so they might continue to fight. That was
not the right way of looking at things ; let them fret
what as just and what they ought to get, and then let
them make peace ; but do not let them urge on what his
friend Dr. Duke would call it, a chronic state of war. He
tw the other day a very excellent provincial paper, the
Norwich Mercury, and it exactly d scribed the feeling of
the country throughout the length and breadth of the
land ; and there never was a time, he believed, when the
country was more thoroughly imbued with war than the
present ; from John o'Groats to the southern part of Lit-
tlehampton pier, everybody was heart and soul in it.
(Hear, hear.) The paper he alluded to described it as be-
ing what the country wished, "a short and cheap war,
and a long and lasting peace." He thought that took
the question just where it cugbt to do. If anyone
looked at the published maps, and saw the acquisitions
which Russia had made within the last half century,
from 1770, or something like that, and also the different
states, with their dates attached, that would show the ex-
tended boundary of that great country, and in a way, too,
which was not very agreeable to those who were her
neighbours. (Applause.) He looked upon it, therefore,
that they ought to continue the war until they had souse
kind of guarantee that Russia would not be always
knocking at our doors ; because it would be a very un-
pleasant thing indeed when one got up one fine morning
to have a cup of tea and a plate of toast to find the Tmpe-
rial Czar carrying and taking it from him. (A laugh.)
They, therefore, ought to carry on the war to prevent this
occurring. What those terms of peace should be he could
not exactly say ; and perhaps no person in the room
could well form an opinion as to what ought to be the
exact terms of peace. It was only those connected with
the secrets of state who were enabled to look at the dif-
ferent points of view in which the great question was in-
volved, and who were able to form an opinion of what
might practically and honourably be obtained. He was
sure they, as Englishmen, wished for no more ; and he
trusted that Russia herself would not think it any degra-
dation to listen to almost, he might say, the united voice
of a large portion of Europe, and give such terms that a
speedy peace might be obtained. He thought they must
all think, from the reports which had been diffused so
generally and so implicitly for some time, that there
must be something in petfo. If he was the Russian mi-
nister himself, or even the Czar—though he did not
know whether his subjects might not put an end to him
—and when one talked of peace he did not exactly know
what the national feeling of the country was—be should
say that Russia would see really that the best thing for
her country would be to make peace, whether for the
prosperity of Russia, the prosperity of her trade, land,
or commerce, and for the advance of her subjects, and
to put an end to those horrible things which one saw
in the newspapers every now and then of the tak-
ing of 1.000 men from every 10,000 to draught into
the different regiments. To put an end to these
frightful things, he thong-he that Rasoia, must wish
for peace ; and if she was wise or desirous to flourishothe
would make peace as soon as she possibly could. There
was a something attached to it called a point of honour ;
but he thought it must be obvious that, when Russia
had such nations as were united against her ; and when
Austria was apparently every day getting more favour-
able to the allies, Sweden, too, coming from the north
against her, he thought there was hardly a point of
honour left for Russia ; and a man must be very punc-
tilious indeed if he did not see, without diminishing the
strength or honour of Russia as a country, that she
must very soon accept peace if such were offered on
terms on which she might make peace. He begged par-
don, but be was intruding too lcug on the patience of
the meeting. (Cries of "No, no.") His lordship con-
tinued, and observed that whilst the war occupied the
serious attention of every ono, they did not always wish
for the country to be in a state of war. What the coun-
try desired to see was the question so arranged as to
develops the interests of the greatest number—the arts
of peace and the advantages of commerce. (Cheers.)
Although they had been young lately in the art of war,
it was to be expected that they would not be thoroughly
up to carrying on a great war after a lung peace and at
1 u:7; distances from the country—though at first they
did not appear to have everything in the order it was
now, yet he was glad to see that the governing power of
the country, with a due appreciation of the serious mat-
ters in which they were embarked, had arranged that a
flea of 260 vessels, furnished with all the appliances of
art and skill, was to set sail for the Baltic in the coming
spring ; and if the Czar or his Government protested
against the justice of their cause, they should knock at
the doors of his palace of St. Petersburg, having first
lighted it up with the flames of Sweaborg and Croustadt,
an.l, if necessary, should follow him to Moscow, and there
tear from him that peace, which we trust, by the bless-
ing of a merciful Providence, they might be convinced
was due, asking for no more than was fair for Russia to
give to the allies, without obliging them to put there
frightful and unhuinanising means of action into force.