The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-16 00:00:00

(Front the Daily News of this day.)

Before the House of Commons can proceed with
advantage to the discussion of Sir Bulwer Lytton's
motion it will be absolutely necessary that some
fUrther information should be obtained respecting
the actual condition of the Cabinet. The retire-
ment of Lord John Runell, under circumstances

that deprive it very much of the character of a volun-
tary act, was plainly resorted to in the hope of
thereby diverting the impending storm. The explenipo-
tentiary once driven from office, the imputation of dis-

cordance and disunion in the Government .would forth-

with fall to the ground. The terms of the resolution as
originally framed seemed to render such a mode of
dealing with it possible ; and if the affairs of nations
were to be governed by the technical rules of special
pleading, the co-partners in the great delinquency now
charged might thus perhaps elude further investiga-
tion, and claim the benefit of a non-suit. But while we
are abolishing the use of fraudulent quibbles in our
courts of common law, it will hardly be tolerated that
the demands of right and justice should be baffled by
such means in the grand inquest of the nation. The
substantive issue raised by Lord John's avowals respect-
ing the Austrian proposition is not whether he acted
with diplomatic indiscretion at Vienna, but whether on
his return home he well-nigh succeeded in misleading the
Crown into the acceptance of a peace which the country
would not have sanctioned ; and then at the last moment
took a prominent part in persuading the public that the
divided Cabinet was an united Cabinet, zealous for the
unslackened prosecution of the war. The universal
anxiety and alarm created by these revelations cannot
for a moment be regarded as identical with any desire
for the exclusion or any peculiar distrust of one man.
Everybody understands that had Lord John stood alone
in his infatuation about the proposal of Count Buol, ho
could have done no harm. Everybody comprehends that
the danger lay in his having in the Administration
influential allies, by whose aid he expected to be able to
carry its adoption. That was the danger in May last ;
that is the danger now. The Cabinet since then has
undergone no change ; yet it was currently rumoured
then, and is now implicitly believed, that of the confi-
dential advisers of the Queen, one half were ready to ap-
prove the compromise with Russia which the Austrian
Minister proposed ; and, notwithstanding this, we know
that without exception the whole of the members of the
Cabinet contributed to the delusion practised upon Par-
liament, and prevented unanimity in breaking off nego-
tiation, in order to defeat a party motion in the House
of Commons.

It will not now avail to say that the Secretary for the
Colonies was the deceiver, and not his colleagues.
Many of them sat by and heard his words, some of
them cheered and none of them disavowed them.
How was it possible, indeed, that they should do
so ? Was it not notorious that for many days pre-
ceding hopes had been excited amongst the advocates of
peace that sooner than prolong hostilities a numerous
section of the Government was prepared to separate from
that which advocated the rejection of Austria's terms ?
Is it not still in the recollection of every one that Lord
John was expected to make a pacific speech, and that
the house was taken wholly by surprise in listening to
that which he actually delivered ? Assuredly his col-
leagues who agreed *ith him in opinion, and differed
from him in the course eventually pursued, cannot have
the face to deny that they were participators along with
him in the delusion practised on the house. They were
ready to make peace upon conditions wnich the country
repudiates, yet they consented to make war in order
to preserve their places. The country has a right
to know who were, who are these men, for they
are still Cabinet Councillors of the Crown, and they
are so because they put forward the most courageous
of their number to tell a martial tale, and to talk
enthusiastically about the war. We should like to
know before the session ends, and.the fortunes of the
country are committed, for another perilous recess, to
the keeping of such men, how many of them we pay for
lying in wait for an opportunity to resume negotiations
like those of Vienna. We presume that ere the debate
of this evening commences some explanation will be
asked on this score. It is the right and duty of a legis-
lature which finds that it has been once deceived to in-
terrogate strictly those who have misled it. They cannot
deny their public participation in the act ; we should
certainly like to hear how they can justify the desertion
of their leader in his acceptance of the penalty incurred.
His act was their act ; his momentary triumph their
genie. So strong is this feeling abroad that since the
resignation of Lord John Russell was known to have
been expected, popular belief has given Sir George Grey,
Sir Cornewall Lewis, and Sir Charles Wood credit for a
determination to follow his example. If this be so, there
only remains to be questioned the residue of the Philo-
Austrian party in the Cabinet, amongst whom public
conjecture points to two inembere of the Upper House
and one of the Lower.
But there is another and equally important view of
the matter. How will the Prime Minister and the Sec-
retary for Foreign Affairs account for withholding from
Parliament, pending the discussion on Mr. Disraeli's
motion, the despatches contained on the papers pre-
sented only on Thursday last, and which reveal the truth
regarding Count Buol's proposition ? Certain portions
of the correspondence had been laid upon the table, but
none calculated to give the representatives of the people
the slightest knowledge of the final conditions agreed to
by the French and English Plenipotentiaries at Vienna,
and none affording the least intimation that these con-
ditions met with the approval of a moiety of her Ma-
jesty's advisers. This great and essential feature of the
transaction was studiouslyand deliberately kept concealed
by Lord Palmerston from the Commons, and by Lord
Clarendon from the Peers. They may aver, if they will,
that paramount considerations of public policy governed
their conduct, and that they thought themselves jus-
tified in duping Parliament and mystifying the country.
Well, let them make good this defence, and then Sir
Bulwer Lytton's motion will, of course, he defeated, and
Lord John Russell will be regarded as a martyr, if not
reinstated triumphantly in office. But if they shrink
from this course, if they are prepared to sacrifice their
late envoy and colleague, for having too venturously
championed the cause they now would fain repudiate,
how are they to justify their participation by acts of
omission and commission in that for which he is so
deeply blamed ?

ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE ENEMY.

It is a wise maxim not to despise an enemy ; but there
is a fault on the opposite side, that of enormously exag-
gerating the power of an enemy. To what purpose do
men in high position in Parliament dilate on the might
of Russia, and the difficulty of coping with her ? What
is the effect of this but to encourage the enemy, who
knows how to make use of admissions serving to show
that we have entered into a contest to which we are un-
equal, while Russia has taken the part which her supe-
rior strength assigns her and enables her to perform with
success. Most acceptable must these assurances be at
St. Petersburg. Amongst other passages we grieved to
see in Lord John Russell's speech of the 7th was one
holding forth on the difficulties of the present contest, and
describing Russia as enormously powerful, her popula-
tion animated and strengthened by repeated successes,
continually adding something to her power, appetite for
rapine growing with what it has fed on. Now, if this be
really growing
John Russell's opinion of the effect of the en:
croachments of Russia during the last century, it must.
be utterly inconsistent with a hope he has repeatedly ex-,
pressed, that a peace may be made with that country on
the onlysure basis, "her interest in peace." For his lord-
ship has represented her elements of strength, materia: and
moral, as derived from the robberies achieved either by
her arms, or extorted by the terror of her arms. Mr. Cob-
den, who followed, pursued the same strain, and talked of
the impossibility of our humbling Russia, with her
60,000,000 of inhabitants, and inexhauetible raw mate-
rial for troops. Well said Custine, that Russia is a huge
puff placarded on the face of Europe, and the imposture
passes, as those whose patriotic interest should be to
expose it to lend themselves to the support of it. What
is a population of sixty millions to a country like Russia,
spreading over a seventh part of the earth ? We do not
make use of the phrase a seventh of the habitable globe,
because Russia is a seventh of the globe habitable and
uninhabitable. Now the strength of a population consists
in the closeness of its texture, and the proportion of men
to the soil. A thin population is a weak population, and
Russia averages about eight s.itils to a square mile, while
France averages more than 170, and England more also
than 230. In the province of St. Petersburg, not includ'
big the capital, the average is 1 soul to 25 acres, in
Archangel there is only 1 soul to 50 acres, and in Tomsk
the proportion is one to 180 acres. Whenever the po-
pulation of the British isles was rather less than a mil-
lion it was, relatively to the territorial scale, as strong
or as weak as Russia is now. And if our Queen counted
her people as does the Czar, including Europe, Asia, and
America, she would include all her subjects in every part
of the world without regard to geographical distinctions,
or the separation of distances, and would boast not sixty
millions, but more than double, nay, nearly treble, that
number, British, colonial, and Indian. And the separa-
tions of the parts of the British empire aro as nothing,
compared with the frightful distances of the Russian em-
i pire, as Nicholas used to call them. We communicate
with our fellow-subjects at the Antipodes in far less time
than the Czar takes to communicate with his slaves or
prisoners in Siberia. So when the bugaboo of the Rus-
sian sixty millions is raised to frighten us, let it be mea-
sured with territory to divest it cf its awe, and let the
question be asked what are sixty millions scattered over
so many as seven millions of square miles and upwards.
And men, so scanty in Russia compared with the
ground they are spread over, are the wealth of Russia ;
where the fortune of a man is counted in serfs as it is
hers in pounds, and out of the sum total of sixty millions
forty-four are serfs, twenty-three belonging to the nobles,
twenty-one to the Crown. Every man en'isted in the
army is a man taken from the meagre producing power
of the country, and every man killed is so much of its
wealth diminished, for he belonged to somibsdy who is
the poorer for losing him. Russia is a country poor
in everything but deceit and military organisation. She
wants men at this moment far more than we do ; but
the difference is that the Czar helps himself arbitrarily to
what he wants, robs and impoverishes his nobles to re-
cruit his ranks. But this resource has its limits, and if
endurance be strained too far, the remedy in usage in
Russia is like ours in analogous circumstances, a disso-
lution—but a dissolution of a very different sort of body.
Russia no doubt brings all her available strength to
the front of the Crimea, and the question yet to be solved
is, what depth there is in this resistance. Certain it is
that it is not of a force to repel invasion, and that we
have held our ground against it when weak in numbers,
exhauSted by fatigue, sickness, and want of every kind
but one—indomitable resolution.

ila,ving.compared the alleged strength and weakness
of Russia and Turkey, Lord John Russell stated that
when hostilities commenced the military force of the for-
mer was to the latter as ten to one ; but at those odds
the Turk did not shrink from taking the field, and
nothing daunted by numbers and difficulties so much
dwelt on here, be made head against great odds. Courage
with justice are good against great odds. But Russia
is most successful in shamming, and can put on imposing
appearances when she can do nothing else. At the end
of the last war between Russia and Turkey, the Musco-
vite army was in the last stage of exhaustion, reduced
to some 5,000 effective .men, when the concessions so

tr
disastrous to the Ottoman Porte were made, in
°te
ntie
ignorance of the real weakness of the power at
them.
Russia is the bully of Europe, and they play the belljb:
game who are perpetually magnifying his potencl• kep
time for dwelling on the enemy's strength and Tur these
weakness is past. There was, indeed, a season for oa
considerations, and it was before we a
deter
drawing the sword. Then was the time for ecaOto
difficulties, and measuring, or even over-estimating/
strengthT with which we might have to cope. 1011
To harp on these things now is neither consistent :0
spirit nor with policy, it either depresses or rev es
the
public mind here, and it animates, and esslrressP ad;
enemy, reading to him the lesson Lord Lynati'Lit'bo
dressed to his country, " Persevere." And has " h de'
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and Prussia refer to the statements of English 0 e
men as sufficient reasons why they should hesitat,,•,i
take the field against so gigantic a power ail 11'11'''016
Her prestige is the spell which binds Geral.,_l6°l' tbsi
some of our leaders do all they can to strengtas° ,rr
prestige by never mentioning Russia without earsaelid
posterous exaggeration of her power.
yWielde,det:estye.„l9oll'
to the Submissionists; it is all consistent with their 4jey
ing policy. As they would have us
your to make out a case of irresistible power one tbePr
of the enemy ; but for men who have advised thw:
labour to produce an impression that we hors el3ec'os'
ourselves in a contest beyond our strength, is 9',11„;;i rr
sistency, and impolicy, strange, foul, and unasu","oftbl
deed. If there has been weakness in the condoc"„-40
war, it is not to be carried to the account of the 0:41
of the enemy, in order to cover the faults f the
managers of affairs.—Examiner.

COUNTRY IWARKETS.

HADDINGTON CORN MARKET—v 1- l'ool
WHEAT. 1 BARLEY OATO:, 5" 0
First Bos Od 89s 6d 36s to' 495 4 0
77s Od 1 37s 9d. 31s Second fid
-
Third 69s Od 1 34s 6d 31s au' 27Pii
Total quantity of wheat in market, 291 (1111" 054,je
PP PP barley „ 121 40" 01" i,
~ PP oats ,;
~ PP beans ~ 7585 cic1110:' 43°
AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL (117ARTO'n 4
Wheat, 31. 17 0 11-12ths 1 Barley, _V 1. 17 V
Oats, ... li. 14 6 10-12ths 1 Beans, .....21. 9 '

DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—JULY itfoliiii
Qrs. Best. Current. CO
289 Wheat 82s Od oos Od. ......... 9 i
430 Oats 34s 8d Oos Od ... —."O ul
178 Barley 33s Od oos Od ......... 40
46 Peas & beans 50s Od Oos Od .......

ABERDEEN—JULT 13.
96s 6d to 27s Od pubtlibi
Potato oats
Common oats 26s 04 to 26s 6d
Bere 31s Od to 31s 6d 1
531bs
Barley 31s 04 to 31s 6d
Wheat, red (spring)63s Od to 65s Od
1 621b8 0
, white 7os 04 to 75s Od
Oatmeal 2os ‘''d to 21s 04 per boll'
Rai' 55s Od to 56s Od per sa" 0
t°
RETAIL PRICES. 4OllO
10$
Os 0
Flour oos Od. to 3s Od Barley flour,l4lb• Ito
Oatmeal,l4lb 2s 9d to 2s 104 „ dust, ...•••••
.1- ON
Beremeal is 7d to is 8d , per lb ......... 00CP
Peasemeal 2s 7d to 2s 84 Sids, ... .. .. . ! .....
4.1 b. loaf ...9d. j 2-lb. 10af...4d.
Cheese, per imperial stone, 3s 64 to 45' 01
PROVISION MARKET. 1 tdinj
Beef, per lb 64 to 91 Butter, p lb. Os 9va
te 0,
Mutton, per lb. 64 to 8d Eggs, p doz. Os nj te, is,
Veal, per lb 6d to 94 Hens, p pair 3 -„i to, (.
Pork, per lb ...54 to 6d Chickens,do.2s v, 000
Salmon, per lb Os to Os Ducks, do., Os Od tolwd
Grouse, per brace Os to Os Ducklings,do 05 u`i to,V
I &IV
Tallow, p stone, 4594 to 5s Od Turkeys, each4s O
Potatoes, pr peck, 10d to 124 Geese, do., 45 ~,, 000
Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt..nots
Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen .... ............. "

DUBLIN—JuLY 14.
A to, dr
White wheat, 41s Od to 43s Od ; red ditto, 3v,9 rc',
barley, 17s Od to 20s Od ; oats, 14s 9d to 16s 6a, VP
6a 0
00s Od to —s Od per brl; oatmeal, 15s Oct to 170 A to.'
flour, ns 6d to 27s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 48s "
per 4801bs.

SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tone of the market
_ite,
improve I to-day. Midland, 71i i—South ~
—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 81$ i—Caledonian',4l4
Lancashire, 19 1-16—Sheffield, 24i s—London'
Western, 1001—Exchange Buildings, 277.

MANCHESTER, JULY 14.
STOOK EXCHANGIC.—There was little bus/010V
but more disposition to sell, and prices were ralhe,
Leeds, 81—London and North Western, 10;00
2-14—Ditto, 101. Pref., 11 i—Ditto, el. Pref., 6 P'
Man. and L'pool District Bank, 81 prn.

BIRMINGHAM, JULY 14-
znocl4
STOCK EXCHAITGE.—The market has be.ell.indsoq
active during the: past week, and prices of alj4idiand ;6,
pretty well maintained. Sales to-day. ' i dig. 0
(for next account), 711—N. Staffordshire, 6_-
Western, Stour 'Valley Guarantee-i:
3 ellers'i s 11e;,,i
Western, Birrninglam Guaranteed, .1-1,,1 Dors 1
—London and North Westerns, buyers LW" se }op)
Warwick and Nap:ton Canal, buyers 101-13,,irraniing0
sellers,
7149 lo
Worcester Canal, sellers 21—Birmingham ua3l-1

LEEDS, JULY 14.
11 t:11
STOCK EXCHAI7GE.—The business was very --'llO,
but yesterday's prices were about maintained.
71—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 241.'40
land, 71 —Leeds Northern, 6 per cent. Pref., 30 r .
—Craven Moor Mine, 18s., 17s. 6d.

The steamer Queen arrived at Southampton ~.°110;110
day with a cargo of above 200 fat bullocks l'tecl
Peninsula. These beasts have been in:ll3°r
,/
furnish beef for the camp at Aldershott. ofp
lit M COUNTRY ASSAY-OFFICES —AlllllB.6'OO
turn of the reports of the Inspector-General
and Taxes on the assaying and marking of gibe
mingham and Sheffield have since appeared. see v 9
waster at Sheffield is a surgeon-dentist, who vtitl4o,
be an intelligent person, and well acquainte''epto)
duties," and the business of the assay-office allpitrit
conducted with due order and regularity. tj
ham the assay-office is very commodious, a..oo°"ly
paratus of a superior description. The exceila b9O
business appears to be properly superinteneveept. #
wardens, and the accounts are systematicallYro-elli
assay-master at Sheffield reports a crying 00
which the silversmiths loudly complain,—v4,'
tice pursued by the manufacturers of plated 'Leer
other imitations of silver, of impressing such be eflie
marks bearing too close a resemblance to 00%e
marking genuine silver plate, and deceiving thedief,
[AevEterisEmENT.l—Fifty years indescribable !iiolh
dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constiPitiOM
leney, spasms, sicloaess at the stomach, and v°':°,,,„,o4l,tri
been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revs:,-
Food.—Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near
' Sedi
Cure No. 3,9 0 6.—Thirte en years cough, indigestioll'elle,"
ral debility have been removed by Du Barry's f%,,et, Alki‘
valenta Arabiea, Food.—James Porter, Athol-sl3-5P15
From the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart. 0111„,.eDer'4 Yr,
Rosstrevor; County of Down, Ireland, 9th De A' e— VO
The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels indocoolld
interest of suffering humanity, to state that D?,,
cellent Revalenta. Arabica, Food has cured P`:'

Medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, gl. -eat 01,O1, ;It
'less and irritability of many years standiug. oi 5 0
• Del
deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and. se,b,
sidered a real blessing. Inquiries will be Cheerfaw, Iros
In canisters, 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d.; 51b. 118.0',
The 121 b., carriage free, ou receipt of Post-office 0107,
Du Barry & Co., 77, Regent-street, London; 451• Als
Piccadilly ; 60, Gracechurch-street ; 330, and 5 ir
4, Cheapside ; 60 and 68, Cornhill; 49, BishoPt s 0.„ fli
55, Charing-cross; 54, Upper Baker-street; v, Fth
Oxford-street ; 89, High-street, Camden-towe.% P 2,04
mall; 7, Pall-mall-East ; 132, New Bond-street' tivif,'
j
comb-street ; 13, King William-street, City ; ~..3; t;,O,
street; 21, Coe:IL-spur-street ; 95, Fassingdon-w-oetr
Paul's Churchyard ; 6, Edward-street, l'orttuen

BIRTHS. .91
OF A SON.
On the 12th inst., at Ilchister-place, North
Mrs. Benjamin Rowsell. tb°
On the 14th inst., at Lee-grove, Blackheath? 0.0.
William Carr, E
‘Oi" sq.
On the 13th inst., at 7, Fortress-terrace, fit
Mrs. Bass. cto
Oa the 12th inst., at Lytchett Matravers Vi° fog'
wife of the Rev. W. M. Heath. t "be
On the 11th inst., at Horncastle, the wife of ,
Lodge.
On the 13th inst., at Pelmuir, Torquay, tb°
W. L. Feilden—stillborn.
OF A DAUGHTER. lov-
On the 14th inst., at Nelson House, Stoke
Mrs. Alexander Rose.
la°

On the 13th inst., at Highbury-terrace, the
Steavenson, Esq.

MARRIED. p flo
j 33044111/
On the 10th inst., at Walcot Church, t
Julien Count Wengiereki, to Fanny, wic3"cof,
John Francis Smith, Esq., of Whitebourne
fordshire. 14.°1 of

On the 12th inst. at at Ditchingham Church, ,I9C'
Rev. H. R. Nevill, incumbent of St. Msrk v
to Alice, third daughter of the Rev. Ed. Wilß° ,d,SY
Toperoft.
CI PlaV
On the 12th inst., at the parish church,
Duncan Gerard, Esq., of Kandy, Ceylon, I°oo
daughter of Daniel Bell, Esq., Milton House,
road.

DIED. 030,
On the 13th inst., at Laura place, Cia_Pten'
herd, Esq. late of the Admiralty, aged 75. -attOe err
On the 13th inst., at 31, Coleshill-street,
'
Colonel John Enoch, Assistant -Quartermaster
Head-quarters, . London, aged 71. stijio
On the 13th last at 50, Tavistock-squarst p'oF
mann, Esq., of Aus"tinfriars. de„
On the 13th inst., at Herne-hill Abbey,
Vysa, Esq., of Luton, Bedfordshire, agecl..."''' orbs '
sa,OmnuetlheFrla2ntchisinmsta.r,ryaatttM, ercer
i-ife.4
only surviving
Captain Marryatt. rtie dte
On the 28th ult at Sebastopol of watin--i, r
the 18th, Captain Wm. Henry Ma' nsfielcLit't
On the 30th ult., at Antwerp, Henry Sim"' off 00
surviving son of the late Robert Vans AP- 1
Sh heucan aged 67
On thel7th lust at Emsworth, Hants, Doia.„l
Esq., aged 42. " 74#f
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