The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-12 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY t NOVEMBER 12 1855

LINES L,F.4SEI)

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day).

RALEGSTAY6.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Common Jury.)
HILL V. WLAREN.

CORN EXCHANGE.

There was an improved demand for wheat in most of the
country markets held on Saturday, and prices advanced
le to 2s per quarter. Barley changed hands freely, at an
improvement of fully is per quarter. Oats were dull,
but all other articles were in good request, at very full
prices.

Bed:ord and
Blot chley
Buckghamsh.
Clydesdale Jc.
Col. Stour Vy.
Sud. and Hal.
E. Lin. rs. 6 pc.
E. Un. H.
Barr. &
Neils. Direct
Do. New
Glstr. & Dn. Fr
Hrtlpl. Dk. &
Railway
Hull & Selby
Do. Shares.
Do. d Shares.
Lon.&Greenw
Do. Preference
Lon.,Til.,&S.
Lowestoft gr.
4 per cent.
Do. 6 per ct.
Manch. Bstn.
and Matlock
Middlosbro' &

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a female'
to recover of the defendant, a green-grocer, of the Lon-
don-road, the sum of 301., advanced by her to the de-
fendant when she was under age. On the part of the
plaintiff it was shown that she and her mother were
persons in humble circumstances, and that about 12
months since they each received 2441. under legacies
bequeathed to them. Her mother paid the defendant
2001., rand in May last tho plaintiff advanced to the
defendant 301. with which to purchase some fur-
niture, and it was for that sum the present
action was brought. For the defendant it was
contended that the 2001. was paid by the mother to the
defendant for the expense of her maintenance for a
period of 10 years, during which time she had lived with
him and his family, and that the 801. claimed was a sum
of money given him by the plaintiff for his kindness to
his mother. No memorandum or security was given for
the advance of the money, and it was insinuated that
the present action would not have been brought had not
an estrangement taken place between the plaintiff and
defendant's son. Letters were, however, read from the
plaintiff to defendant asking him for the money, she and
her mother being again in indigent circumstances. Ver-
dict by consent for plaintiff for 301., and the defendant,
by the direction of the learned judge, was taken into
custody for gross and wilful perjury.

Our latest advices from the United States bring high
I rates for grain and flour, with au active export inquiry.
The continental markets are very firm as to price.
Very limited supplies of English grain were received up
to our market last week. The;imports amounted to 5,699
qrs. of wheat, 15,193 oats, 602 beans, 1,326 peas, 24 tares,
10,336 linseed, 5,248 rapeseed, 37 mustard seed, 231 sun-
dry seeds, and 12,881 barrels of flour.
The quantity of English wheat received fresh up to our
market to-day, coastwise, from Essex and Bent, was short.
By land carriage the supply was moderate. The stands
were rather scantily filled with samples, and the demand
for all kinds, notwithstanding that the attendance of mil-
lers was not to say extensive, but somewhat at an advance
in the prices paid on Monday last of 2s per quarter. The
general weight and condition of the samples were toler-
ably good.
The show of fresh foreign wheat was very limited, and
the number of samples in the market ex-granary was but
moderate. Most descriptions were firm, and, in some in-
stances, ls. per quarter more money was realised for fine
red and white qualities.
Floating cargoes of grain wore hold on higher terms.
We were scantily supplied with both English and fo-
reign barley, and the trade was active at from is to 2s per
quarter more money.
Malt was in short supply, and good request, at very full
prices.
Wo were heavily supplied with Irish and foreign oats,
and the demand for them ruled inactive. Damp qualities
were rather lower to purchase.
Beans and peas were in fair supply, and moderate re-
quest, at last week's quotations.
We had a good sale for flour, at very full prices.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex t Kent.
Red new 665 to 803
Ditto.. • • .... old 76s 88s
Ditto, White new 7)s 88s
Ditto.. • • .... old 803 92s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, old T 65 88s
Ditto new •• •• • • 63: 805
Rye—Old •••••••• •• • • —s —s
New .... •••••• • • 48s 52s
Barley—Grinding .•• • • 365 38s
Malting ..• •• •• •• 37s 40s
Chevalier•. •• • • 425 44s
Milt—Suffolkand Nor-
folk— •• 715 76s
Brown •... 62s
KiagatonandWare 761

Redear.
Midld.Bradfd
Newmarket
Bury Exton
N.& Est.s p.c.
Do. 6 per et.
Do. Fixeds p e
Prest. & yze
Do. Shrs. A
Roystn.& Hit.
Shef.Roth.and
Goole g. 5 p. c.
Shrews. &Her.
S. Staffordsh.
Wear Valleygr
6 per cent
Do
Wilts&flomret

(Oats
78s to 80s
lOats Yorkshire and

Linealnsh.,Feed 26s 3On
Potato " . . .. 28s 33s
Youghal and Cork
81ack....... 255 28s

Cork, White ..... 26s 30s
Scotch, Feed • ... 27s 303
Beans—Tick ......... 42s 485
Pigeons • • . 47s 555
Peas—Groy ...... 42s 455
Maple ........... 45s 485
• White .... • . 50s 54

Boilers ......... 52s 56,
Flour—Town-made... 73s 75s
Suffolk .......... 58s 60s
Stocktn & Norfolk 57s 60,

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

For the time of year about an average supply of foreign
stock was imported into London last week, viz., 5,679 head.
In the corresponding week in 1854 we received 5,532; in
1853, 7,880; in 1852, 4,612; in 1851, 7,797; in 1850,
5 815 ; and in 1849, 5,486 head.

RUSSIAN INVASION OF ENGLAND.

The Paris Pays, on Saturday, published a long
letter from St. Petersburg concerning the internal
condition of Russia. The following extracts will
be found highly interesting :
" St. Petersburg, Nov. 4.—Russia is very sick. Th©
most short-sighted cannot but see the evil and the preci-
pice, which deepens daily. All men feel the want of a
speedy peace, but no one dares give utterance to his
thought The Grand Duke Constantine, some time
since, in a council of war, made a most singular propo-
sition—namely, to arm and equip the whole fleet of
Cronstadt, Revel, and Sweaborg, to embark 20,000 men
of picked troops, to make sail at a propitious hour, t)
force a passage through the allied squadrons, or await
their departure, and the moment they left the Baltic to
effect a landing in Scotland or England.
"Rather than perish with his men in the basins of
Cronstadt, was it not better to attempt to strike terror
at London, which he hoped to enter with his 20,000
men, without meeting any serious opposition on the
way ? Certainly, the plan was bold and even practica-
ble, and on due examination there was a chance of six- I,
cess especially if the vigilance of the allied fleets could
be deceived. For a moment he gained over the Empe-
ror, and even the advisers of the Crown, to his views.
If it did perish, at all events the Russian fleet would
have wiped out the reproach of cowardice which was
pointed at it from all sides, even in Germany. The
Empress most energetically opposed the enterprise,
which might compromise the safety of St. Pe•
tereburg itself. The Russian armies had enough
to occupy them without depriving themselves of 20,000
soldiers and as many sailors, which might one day be
wanted to defend the Baltic coast. The Emperor
hearkened to the advice of his wife, and disapproved his
brother's plan. It is, however, said that he has again
resumed it. His idee fixe appears to be that. he could
sack and burn London, or bury himself and his troops
under the smoking ruins of the first commercial city of
the world.

" In Europe, !and especially in France, strange no-
tions are entertained of the military strength of Russia.
Her million of soldiers, with reserve millions to fill up
the ranks, are believed in. Doubtless they exist ; she
has a million of soldiers under arms ; she may recruit
another million among her 60,000,000 of inhabitants,
spread over an enormous territory of not less than
3,000 leagues from east to west, and 1,000 from nortls
to south. But her available army in the field does not
exceed 400,000 or 500,000. The remainder, veterans,
Cossacks, Bashkirs, &c., are quite unfit for active ser-
vice. It takes a long time to make the Russian soldier ;
he is heavy, clumsy, and idle. He learns only because be
is compelled to do so. After 10 years he is net up in his
exercise. A. Russian army of 100,000 or 200,000 men
destroyed by the sword, famine, disease, and sickness
is an army which the Czar cannot replace. It will take
him ten years to make another. The recruits will
not be of any use to him ; o❑ the contrary they will
be drags upon the divisions in which they are incor-
porated, and will spoil the uniformity of the regiment.
Thus the best way to finish with Russia is to kill as
many Russians as possible. The Czar knows the weak
part of his cuirass, and if he orders great levies it is be-
cause he has suffered great losses. The losses since the
commencement of the war are estimated at 303,000 men.
Do so many remain to him of that magnificent army,
which it took his father 38 years to form ? It is doubtful.
" Since the winter season has set in and nothing
serious is to be feared on the Baltic side St. Petersburg
is more calm.

" Some weeks since an American engineer arrived at
St. Petersburg with a cannon of his invention, capable,
it is said, of doing tremendous damage. He was ad-
mitted at once to show his invention to the Emperor,
and orders have been issued to the foundry at St. Peters.
burg to prepare everything for a trial At the same time
a model, in wood, was sent to Slataoust in the Ural to
have a cast made. It is said that the range of this gun,
which is oblique, is more than 4,000 metres, which, if
true, would exceed anything hitherto known. A new
musket is also spoken of. The foundries at Slataoust
and Toula are to furnish 90,000 by next May. Jacobi,
the inventor of the submarine infernal machines, has, it
is said, discovered the means of throwing Congrevo
rockets and other projectiles to an enormous distance,
and great success is expected from them against the
fleets. The Government has placed the arsenal and
foundry of St. Petersburg at the professor's disposal to
make his experiments.

THE RUSSIAN PEdeg, PLOTTERS.

(Front the Morning Advertiser.)

A meeting is to be held this evening in St. Martin's
Hall, which, we fear, is intended, by those with whom
the idea originated, to entrap the unwary into an expres-
sion of opinion adverse to the further prosecution of the
war. The whole affair, indeed, is represented to us as a
very ingenious but dishonest device, to accomplish the
purposes of the anti-English, pro-Russian clique, who
are known by the name of the "Peace-at-any-price"
party. The first part of the proceedings is intended to
bear on the recent expulsion of the French exiles from
Jersey, but we are assured that though the persons
getting up the meeting no doubt sympathise with Victor
Hugo and his fellow-proscrits, yet that the Jer,ey coup
d'etat is only regarded as a mere secondary matter. It
is for the meeting to defeat the antiwar objects con-
templated
by the Peace party. Let those who approve
of the war, as necessary for the discomfiture of the ag-
' gresive designs of Russia, the maintenance of Turkey
in all its integrity, the independence of other European
countries, and the honour of England, muster this even-
ing in large numbers, and either move that the meeting
separate, after the question of the Jersey exiles has been
disposed of, or propose an amendment to the effect that
the war is just and necessary, and that the interests of
Turkey, the independence of Europe, and the honour of
England, equally require not only that the war be con-
tinued, but that it be prosecuted with greater vigour
than ever. •
This is what is wanted. The war cannot be termi-
nated in the present state of things. Russia in that case
would claim a triumph, Turkey would feel that she had
not escaped from the paws of the Northern bear. Europe
would tremble in the prospect of the future, and the
honour of the allies would be seriously compromised.
This must not be. We have embarked in the enterprise
of checking the ambition, repelling the ag4ressions,
humbling the pride, and paralysing the power of the
Czar ; and until these great and essential objects are
accomplished, we must not for a moment entertain the
idea of abandoning that enterprise. We must go through
with it. We must do the work effectually. And that
will be the cheapest, in the long run, as well as the
best way of doing it ; for a few more millions of
money, and the shedding of a little more British blood,
will be a far wiser course to adopt than only to do
our work partially, and then, after the lapse of a few
years, to have to engage in it anew, when the Czar has
become much more formidable, because much better
prepared, to go to war with us. We must not con-
tent ourselves with doing things by half. Let us do
them fully, and we shall be spared the neceFsity of doing
them

This is the deep-seated desire of the whole country,
always excepting that little clique, out of the House of
Commons as well as in it, who would be nething if they
did not differ from the rest of the community. Singu-
larity is to thorn the only pathway to notoriety—which
they must have on any terms. Let the people of London
give them a lesson to-night which they will not soon
forget. Let the masses be early at the place of meeting,
and lose no time in showing their strength.
It would be an awkward circumstance, and would be
playing the Russian game most effectually, were those
who share in the all but universal wish for a vigorous
prosecution of the war to absent themselves from ISt.
Martin's Hall this evening, when they are forewarned
that the Peace party, which is synonymous with the
abettors of Mmcovito objects, intend to bring forward a
resolution condemnatory of the war as impolitic, unne-
cessary, and unjust. The little Muscovite junto must be
taught that Englishmen are not yet so debased, nit FO
entirely lost~ to that love of freedom which has ever ani-
mated the national breast, as to acquiesce in any proposal
that may he made, which, however disguised, would have
for its object to entail deep and lasting disgrace on the
national charrcter, and lay us, as a people, prostrate at
the feet of the Czar. These are the real objects of the
pacific gentlemen who are to figure this evening on the
platform at St. Martin's Hall. They must be made to
learn, before the meeting has separated, if not earlier in
the evening, that Englishmen are not yet so insensible
to the blessings of Constitutional Government as tamely
to submit to become the serfs of the Czar.

GREAT MEETING ON THE FOOD QUES-
TION.-ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.

BIRMINGHAM, Sanday.—There has been a meeting
to-day at Wes tßromwich, at which 15,000 persons were
present ; a memorial to the Queen was adopted against
the exportation of grain, and monopoly in human food.
off
quietly. deputation of working men was appointed to proceed
to London to present it. The meeting passed
quietly.