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

THE RUSSIAN PIiACE 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
♦ery 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
lingo and his fellow•proscrits, yet that the Jersey coup
d'tStat is only regarded as a mere secondary matter. It
is for the.rneeting to defeat the anti war objects con.•
templated by the Peace party. Let those who approve
of the war, as necessary for the discomfiture of the ag-
gres-ive 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 roust not be. We have embarked in the enterprise
of checking the ambition, repelling the aggressions,
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 necessity of doing
them again.
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 nathing if they
did not differ from the rest of the community. Singu-
larity is to them 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 St.
Martin's Hall this evening. when they are forewarned
that the Peace party, which is synonymous with the
abettors of Muscovite 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, ❑ot ro
entirely lost to that love of freedom which has ever ani-
mated the national breast, as to acquiesce in any proposal
that may be 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. Martha'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 HE ti MAJESTY.

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

- -
SIR COLIN CAMPBELL.

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(From the Morning Advertiser of this W.)
We can state, on the beet authority, that the sole
reason of this gallant' officer having thrown up his com-
mand in the Crimea, and departed for England, is the
deep disgust and sense of injury which he feels at the
way in which he has been treated, by the appointment,
over his head, of Sir William Codrington, so
much his
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junior in the service, and notoriouslyso him
inferior to
in gallantry and skill, to the o
e ffice of Co
mmander- Club; on Thursday,
Chief. At a meeting at the Guards'
held for the purpose of celebrating
the Battle of In1
ke
man, and at which the Duke of Cambridge was present,
this fact was stated by friends of Sir Colin Campbell; and
ffi had sharply
it .was also added that the gallant ulcer
in the Crimea,
snubbed some of the " carpet soldi
and that he was, in additio,n,
wt.obhiest' indignation at his
own treatment, disgusted
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There is every reason to believemak
England, Sir Colin will vinertybestcarrtilminega.revvvee-
lations respecting the state of affairs
understand that he has tendered his resignation of his
commission altogether, but
that it has not been accepted.
We are further told that six or seven other officers of
mean to do, the same, under feelings
of indignation and
Crimea, not disgust at the state of affairs in the
Campbell. less intense than those felt by Sir Colin

The Australian Royal Mail ship Red Jacket, Captain
M. Milward, from Liverpool to Melbourne, was spoken
on the 10th of October, out 20 days, in lA. 8 N, long.
23 W, by the Record, from Bombay, arrived in the
Mersey,
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A letter from Constantinople estimates the force now
under
Wrangel, and Gortschakoff at
8 0,00 Generals
0m en thlal pi
occupying
various positions between
Nicholaieff, Pereko
P 9 and Cherson at 100,000 ; and that
in the interior of the Empire at 100,000—and the loss to
the Russians during the last winter at 200,000 men.
The Giornale di Roma states that the Pope, in a con•
sirtory held on the 3d, announced the conclusion of theconcordat with Austria, and dwelt in his allocution on
the principal points.