The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, April 17.—The quietness naturally (From the Manch,estcr Guardian of this day.)
en-
suing upon the late extensive operations in yarns and
certain descriptions of cloth, has been nut less observable
to-day than it wds at the latter end of last week ;
ays . It is
per-
haps, indeed, rather more so, seeing that the comparison
lies between a market
pretty evident that politiday matters arehary not d
without in-
fluence. In yarns, the full attainable prices of last week
are realised to-day ;in some cases, as in 40's mule,
slightly more ;
it is, ho' ever, found that .nanny spin-
ners, who were asking ad.. more than could be got,
are willing to abate the excess. Water twist in
the hank, and some kinds of warps and cops, show
the change from a state of animation in..re than
most other sorts of yarns.
T cloths and long cloths
continue dull, and are losing value
; the better
dor/lest:es are quiet, as are also 7-Bths and 9-Bths printers,
but without any giving way in prices.
HALIFAX, April 14.—The attendance in our Piece-hall
to-day has been but slender, and the business done
far from extensive. The improved demand fur Tarns
As the
scpoinntnineursesh,avaendprpartiycegsean,reerailloyekin
supplied themselves, the
upwards.
inquiry
fori'
exhibitingwool
less
Aa April
fii vi i
17.—There has been little
rem
ithanies
s.
iluD it was, the quotations
DEiRnSFt
the
Lmket to-day, as compared with that of
c'
market variation
last
ROCHDALE,
R LE,
April 16. We had rather more
ionr
for pieces to-day, and the merchants seemed m
posed to purchase. There is little or no change in wool-
the demand continues go,d, and prices very firm. -

MABICBT NAWS--(Ttll2 DAY.)

CORN EXCIIANGE.

To-day's market was very scantily supplied with English
wheat. The demand, however, was ht a very sluggish
state, at about Monday's quotations.
The imports of foreign wheat coastwise aro on a limited
scale. S 7arcely any business was doing iu any description,
and prices were almost nominal. Floating cargoes were
held at full prices.

The barley trade was dull, at late rates, and malt com-
manded very little attention.

Oats, beans, peas, and flour moved off slowly. In prices
very littio change took place.
♦KKIVALS THIS WELK.
Barley.
2,180 r 3,780

English ..
Irish
Foreign .. I
2,490 I 2,700

Wheat.
1,820

Oats.

5,1120
3,210

Flour
570

BORO UGH HOP.
The business doing in our market to-day was limited, on
firmer terms.

WHITECHAPEL.
Each kind of meat ruled steady, at very full prices.
Beef, 35 4d to 4s tid ; mutton, ;is 4d to is Gd ; lamb,
5s 2d to 6s 2d ; veal, 3s 8d to 43 8(1; pork, 3s Od to 4.s Id
per 81b3. by the carcase.

NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL.

CLAUSES TO BE PROPOSED IN COITIIITTEE
BY THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EX-
CHEQUER.
(Actions or suits may be carried on in the names of the
registered proprietors of newspapers or other periodi-
cal publications, on behalf of themselves and co-pro-
prietors.)
And whereas it is proper and expedient that the per-
sons who for the time being may be registered. under any
such declaration as aforesaid in that behalf made, as the
proprietors of any newspaper or other periodical publica-
tion, should be enabled to maintain any action or suit in
their own names, for and on the behalf of themselves and
of other proprietors of such newspaper or other periodical
publication in co-partnership with them, be it enacted,
that in any case in which a newspaper or other
periodical publication shall have been registered,
and such security as aforesaid shall have been
given in respect thereof, in pursuance of the said
several acts before mentioned, or of this act,
any action, suit, or other proceeding at law, or in equity,
or otherwise, to be commenced or instituted for or on
behalf of the proprietors of such newspaper or other pe-
riodical publication in co-partnership against any person,
for recovering any debt, or enforcing any claim or de-
mand, due to such co:partnership in relation to the
concerns of such newspaper or other periodical pub-
licstion, shall and lawfully may be commenced,
instituted, and carried on by and in the
names of the proprietors of such newspaper or other
periodical publication, who for the time being shall be
registered • as such proprietors, or as two or more of
such proprietors, by or under any such declaration as
aforesaid in that behalf made, in pursuance of the
said act of the sixth and seventh years of his said
late Majesty, or of this Act ; and Vie death, bank-
ruptcy, or insolvency of any such registered pro-
prietor, alter such action, suit, or other proceeding com-
menced or instituted, shall not abate or prejudice the
same ; and in any such action, suit, or other proceeding
as aforesaid, a copy of any such declaration, certified in
the manner directed by the eighth section of the said
last-mentioned act, upon such proof as therein mentioned
shall be evidence that the persons named in such certified
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publication to which such declaration may relate are
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such copy of a declaration, signed by the commissioner
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the said copy, and stating that security has been duly
given in respect of such newspaper or other periodical
publication, in pursuance of the statute in that
behalf, shall be evidence that such security as
aforesaid has been duly given in respect of the same.
And be it enacted, That the proprietors of every news-
paper shall, for the purpose of protection against piracy,
be entitled to a copyright in every original article, letter,
paragraph, communication, and composition which shall
be for the first time published in such newspaper in this
country.
And be it further enacted, That if any person shall,
within twenty-four hours alter the first publication of
any original article, letter. paragraph, communication,
or composition in any such newspaper, print and pub-
lish any copy of such original article, letter, paragraph.
communication, or composition, or of any material
part thereof, or any colourable abridgment or
alteration of the same, such ;person shall for
every such offence farieit a sum of not less than
five pounds, nor exceeding thirty pounds, to the proprie-
tors of the newspaper against whom such offence hhs
been committed ; and it shall be lawful for the printer
or publisher of such last-mentioned newspaper, on behalf
of the proprietors thereof, to recover such penalty by a
summary proceeding before a stipendiary magistrate
who has, or two justices who have, jurisdiction where
the party offending resides, who shall issue a summons
requiring such party to appear on a day and at a time
and place to be named in such summons (such time not
being less than, two days from the date thereof) ; and
every such summons shall be served on the party offend-
ing either in person or at his usual place of abode ;
and, either upon the appearance or the default to
appear of the party offending, such magiss
trate or justices may proceed to hear the com-
plaint ; and, upon proof of the offence, by confession, or
upon the oath of one or more credible witnesses (which
oath such magistrate and justice are respectively here-
by authorised to administer), may convict the offender
in a penalty of not less than five pounds, or more than
thirty pounds, as to such magistrate or justices may
seem fit ; and, if the amount of such penalty and the
costs of the proceeding, which shall he assessed by such
magistrate or justices, shall not be forthwith paid, the
same shall be levied by distress and sale of the
goods arid chattels of the offender, and such magistrate
or justices shall grant warrants accordingly.

LA UNCTIOP TWO FLOATING BATTERIES.

Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Meteor
and Thunder 'team floating batteries were launched from
the yard of Messrs. Mare, the eminent shipbuilders, of
Blackwall, amidst the cheers of many thousands of
spectators.

At the hour above stated, everything being in readi-
ness, the dog shores .were knocked away and the im-
mense mass of iron and timber gliied magnificently into
the water, Air. Baines the Government surveyor being
pre.4ent._

T 1) e Thunder and Meteor, as they sit upon the water,
have a peculiar appearance off Rackwall, and we have
no doubt a great many persons will avail themselves of

the opportunity of viewing these peculiar vessels ere
they are despatched on the important mission for which
they have been constructed. The most prominent
thought suggested by the appearance ofeach of the ves-
sels was, the disproportion between their size and the
means of offence. We ore so much acimatomed to asso-
ciate strength with bulk, that when a vessel intended
to confront and heat down the fire of a land battery is
,poken of, the idea suggested, and which will remain
uppermost until dissipated by palpable facts is, that
of a huge stout timbered ship. But here two ves-
sels very much smaller than a third-rate man of
war, constructed of wood and iron of such tremendous
power that, putting out of view the others that are being
built, will, we feel assured, tell a tale ir connection with
the destruction of Sweaborg or Cronstadt litt:e thought
even dreamed of.

The bows of the vessels are of immense strength, and
they an. each pierced with twenty-eight ports, and will
tight 10 10-inch 68 pounder Lancaster guns on each side.
By a novel arrangement all the guns can he brought to
bear on one side, and that gives double powers of de-
struction.

The decks of the batteries are constructed of 9-inch
oak, and to give another idea of their strength we may
mention that the beams are twelve inches square in
thickness, and they are only placed twelve inches apart.
The vessels are externally entirely plated with iron, 4
inches and a quarter thick plating being carried down to
a foot below the water line, and every precaution has
been taken to preserve the lives of those on board from
the shot of the enemy ; the fitting of the fighting deck
being of a like character to the exterior.
The vessels are to be propelled by screws worked by
pressure tubular steam engines of 200-horse power.
Those for the Meteor have been constructed by Messrs.
Maudslay, and those for the Thunder by Messrs. Miller
and Ravenhill.

As the dimensions of both vessels are similar we only
give those of the Thunder, which are as follows --

Ft. In.
Length bet‘seen perpendiculars
Keel for tonnage
Breadth, extreme
For tonnage
Molded 42 0
Depth of h01d...—. l4 7
Burden . 1,469 tons.
The' extreme draught of water, with all the stores,
guns, shot, and powder, &c., will be 7 feet 9 inchert.
We must not omit to mention, in order to show how
complete the vessels are at the present moment, that
they were launched with their steam up, all ready to
start for Woolwich, and all that now remains to be done
is to set the riggers to work, place their armament on
board, and then they will be ready to sail at a moment's
n,tice.

The Messrs. Mare deserve the highest praise for the
manner in which they have fulfilled the contract with
the Government, and. although they did not receive their
order to lay down the keels till nearly a month after the
orders to construct batteties had been given to other
parties, they have been the first to launch the vessels,
and thus set at rest the doubt that existed as to the
practicability of such being done. •
At the beginning of December not a plank of the ves-
sels was laid down ; but, in the incredible short space of
little more than four months, two of the most powerful
vessels, ever heard of in modern warfare have been en-
tirely built and launched. This simple fact shows what
can be done in the establishment of Messrs. Mare.

THE PREFECT OF THE SElNE.—yesterday evening the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex--Henry Muggeridge,
Esq., alderman, and . Charles Decimus Crosley, Esq.—
gave a magnificent entertainment at the Albioc Tavern,
Alrlersgate-street,, to the Prefect of the Seine, M. Delangle,
Senator Pelouse, Senator Thayer, Senator Germain Tiii-
bault, M. Perrier de Tourette, and M. Mille. There were
'also present—The Lord Mayor, Mr. Under-Sheriff Far-
rer and Mr. Under-Sheriff Crosley, the Rev. Mr. Gre-
gory and the Rev. Mr. Bridge (chaplains to the respective
sheriffs), the Rev. Mr. Moon, Sir R. W. Carden, Sir J.
Duke, M.P., Alderman Cubitt, M.P., T. Hankey, Esq.,
M.P., Sir J, Key, Bart., Alderman Salomons, Alder-
man Wire, Alderman Carer, Alderman Wilson, Deputy
Hoit, Deputy Harrison. Deputy Dakin, Deputy Rath-
hone, Deputy Kebbell, Mr. Anderton, Mr. Lloyd, Mr.
Phillips, Mr. Moon. the Rersembrancer, Mr. Nichols,
Mr. T. Tyrell, Mr. La vrence, Mr. Maynav, Mr. Am-
brose Moore, Mr. T. Uzielli, and Mr. C. Uzielli. Mr.
Sheriff Muggeridge, who presided, having proposed the
usual loyal toasts, which were duly responed to. Mr.
Sheriff Crosley proposed the health' of " The Emperor
and Empress of the French," which was drunk with the
greatest enthusiasm. The Prefect of the Seine,
re-
turning thanks, expressed his strong conviciouninthat
the interests of both countries, and especiLy the
ce
interests of humanity, pointed out the
f apreserving
of
England and France as the surest means of
cheered
the peace of the world. The Prefectenwetion of it, the
throughout his speech, and at the eh:arty cheers and ono
company, upstanding, gave t
cheer more for the Ernpef,oTr
The other toasts were Municipal
"The en d tnfeperte so
fo f
the
ee French.. Seine,".
London,"
n "
Members of the:ijegeiosriiptoivraetio'nh of 0
not prate till near mid-
Bodies," " The Sheriffs and
&c., andTthheed_cir'nfrai nwYliidellidwas served in excellent style,
night.
was not ordered till a few hours before the guests as.
f and the number was suddenly
sem
haleeedtofroPart6aoketcoonlea,rly 100.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL&

(From the Times of this day.)
Although we do not underrate the importance of the
personal homage which is paid to the Emperor Napo-
leon at the Court of England, or the effect of the popular
ovation which has accompanied his auspicious visit, the
festivities of the Court and the acclamations of the people
subside almost into insignificance when we contrast them
with the unparalleled and almost overwhelming magni-
tude of the political interests which must, in the midst
of these scenes of splendour and of excitement, engage
the deliberate attention of the allied Governments. Ti e
visit of the Emperor of the Frenchto this country would
at any time have been a remarkable and a romantic
event, but it coincides in point of time with the most
important crisis in our political relations and in our
military position with which the allied Powers have had
to deal since the commencement of this struggle. On
Monday afternoon, at the very moment when the Im-
perial cortege was approaching the capital, the British
Government received intelligence that the long-expected
attack of the siege batteries upon Sebastopol had com-
menced on the 9th inst., with ,as much success as
could be expected in the first few hours of such
a -bombardment. Yesterday morning we learnt that
the Russian Plenipotentaries have received their defitd•
tive instructions, and that the tenth meeting of the
Vienna Conference was about to take place ; but that
the rejection cf the third proposition, and the conse-
quent termination of the negotiation, were confidently
expected. Lord John Russell has intimated that he
expects to be in London by the 27th inst., and, conse-
quently, to leave Vienna at the end of the present week,
This very moment is therefore the most critical period
in the military enterprise and in the political trans-
actions in which we were engaged ; and before the days
have elapsed which the Emperor of the French has
arranged to pass in this country, it is highly probable
that some decisive intelligence will have reached us, both
of the results of the fire against Sebastopol and of the
last conference held at Vienna. The Moniteur, as the
principal organ of the French Government, has di
tinctly announced this momentous state of affairs in a
second article, which reviews the political conduct of
time alliance, more especially in relation to the Court of
Austria and to the four propositions of peace, in
order—to use the expression of the French writer—
that public opinion may be alike prepared for peace,
if it be possible, and for war, if it be necessary.
Under these circumstances, we can scarcely exagge-
rate the importance cf the personal conferences held at
Windsor between the Courts of France and England and
the leading Ministers of the British Cabinet. This visit,
which wears the appearance of a holiday or a festival,
will contribute to resolutions of the gravest consequence
to the politics of Europe, and the interests of the two
great Western nations wore never more intimately
united, for peace or for war, than under these outward
manifestations of ceremony or of amusement.
The events, upon which a more clear and decisive
light must be thrown before the close of this current
month of April, are indeed of the utmost importance to
the honour of our arms, to the stability of our alliances,
and to the ultimate peace of the world. We have yet
to learn under what auspices the allied generals in the
Crimea are prepared to enter upon their second cam-
paign, what results they anticipate from the powerful
fire they have concentrated on Sebastopol, and what
measures they bold in reserve should the force of the
batteries not subdue the defences of the enemy. We
have also to learn, if all hopes of peace from the confer-
ences of Vienna are already dissipated, on what
point the negotiation is to be broken off by the,Rus-
sian Cabinet, and what pretext that Governmen:;
will use to repudiate the assent the Emperor
Nicholas hai previously affected to give to the pro-
positions of the allied Powers. And lastly, we
have now reached the point which 'must speedily
decide the conduct of the Cabinet of Vienna, and show
whether that Court is resolved to act up to the preamble
and the engagements of the treaty of the 2d of December,
or resort to a subterfuge for the evasion of those pro-
mises. On none of these esseilial points can we ven-
ture at this moment to express a positive or confident
opinion ; yet they are unsettled, uncertain, and obscure;
yet they each and all of them affect in the highest,degree
the continuance, the extent, an the success of the war.
Upon the last of these topics, with reference to the
conduct of Austria, the official article in the Moniteur
speaks with great confidence. It states that it was
-from deference to Austria, and from a de-ire to obtain
an offensive and defensive alliance with that power, that
France and England accepted this renewed negotiation
on the basis of the Four Points ; and that, in the event
of the failure of the negotiation, " the We-tern Powers
know ti,at Austria will combat resolutely with them,"
and that they have obtained the co-operation of Austria
in this just and necessary war. We do not dispute the
authority of these statements, although they are not
e,oifirtned by the language of our own correspondent
at Vienna, and by some other cimmunications which
reached this country ; but the fact is in itself one of con-
siderable importance, that the French Government

should choose this moment to publish, in terms so em-.
phatic, its absolute reliance on the resolution of the Em-
peror Francis Joseph ; for the same declarations of
confidence which form an additional pledge of union in
the event of Austria's joining the belli;erea Powers lay
the basis of the etronge,t recrimination if she should dis-
appoint their expectation. Indeed, we infer from the
publication of this document that. the main object of the
French Government, and of the Plenip,,tentiaries of the
Western Powers at Vienna, is to determine the course of
Austria, sn(l to obtain from her the complete execution
4,f the Deuemb(r treaty, upon the failure of the Con
ference. Should that just demand not• prevail, the con-

sequences would nut be the less serious for having been
long delayed.
The form to which the Third Point has at, last been re-

Muted is =imply a demand upon Russia, either to limit her
own nasal forces in the Black Sea or t.) con,ent to the
exclusion of all naval forces from those waters ' • and, if
-uch a ciindition as this he r jected, we tniz,t hold it to
be an infallible prof of the in,incerity of the Russian
Governineiit in the whole transaction, ‘Vhatever be the
result of our land operations, it is certain that three or
foor ships of each of the allied Powers aro more than

sufficient to deprive Russia, not only of her preponde-
rance in the Black Sea, but of the power of showing her
flag there at all. Practically, we are'able, without any
serious effort of war, to annihilate her maritime power
ani her commerc;al marine altogether, both in the
Black Sea and in the Baltic. Tbat Weapon with which
she threatened the Bosphorus has already been almost
destroyed. We consent, by peace. to give back to
Russia the right of navigating the Black Sea, which she
has de facto lost; but this concession is male on an as-

- .
surance that she will not use that right again to the de-
triment of Turkey or of other States. By land Russia
may perhaps boast that her defence of Sebastopol has
as yet equalled the vigour of our attack, although she
has been signally beaten in two pitched battles and
many severe engagements ; but the Third Point concerns
exclusively the Black Sea, and it is not amiss to remem-
ber that we are talking of a sea which is entirely at. this
time in our own possession.
But, lastly, although our operations by land have not
yet had all the success which we had at one time antici-
pated, the last intelligence from the Crimea strengthens
our hopes that from the 9th of April operations ore more
active nature have recommenced. Some days must elapse
before the full effect of the fire which, has opened upon
the place can be ascertained, and the longer it can be
continued the more reason we have to expect that the
guns of the enemy will be overpowered. In any case
this bombardment must bring to a crisisx and probably
to a close, the siege operations as they have hitherto
been carried on ; for, if the place cannot be taken now
in this manner, it is high time to vary the plan of attack.
The Allied army is numerous and in high efficiency,
partly from those gallant troops who have survived the
rigour of the winter, and partly from the reinforcements
it has received. .The use to be made of this powerful
force is, therefore, ore of the most important au' j, etc
which can engage the' Allied Governments, and it is
probably for the purpose of taking past in this discussion
that the Emperor is accompanied by that able and ex-
perienced officer Marshal Vaillant. But in the execution
of these plans, whatever they may be, we have no doubt
that the Emperor reserves to hi'uself a more active part.
It is generally believed that the visit to England will be
followed by his departure for the seat of war immediately
after the opening of the Paris Exhibition ; and, a'though
we were at first opposed to the adventurous character of
such an expedition, the want of authority has since be-
come so manifest in the Allied armies, that we shall
view with satisfaction any measure calculated to give a
more active and decisive effect to the operations of the
ensuing campaign.

(From the Daily News of this day.)
After a world of fiddledaddle Austria has mustered
courage to break off from the Western Powers. Austria
cannot take au active part in the humiliation of Rusda :
it must remain neutral. Nay, if a telegraphic despatch,
received in Paris from Vienna, may be trusted, even
the neutrality of Austria cannot be relied upon, unless
France and England consent to extend the interpreta-
tion of the third point. We confess that we do not believe
' the Austrian Government to be possessed of sufficient
energy and resolution to act the villain in this bold-faced
inapner. The sneaking, petty •larceny spirit of that
Jesuitical Cabinet will prompt ,t still to attempt to play
fast and loose between the contending Powers. But this
France and England cannot tolerate. The time has
come when they must peremptorily declare "he who is
not with us is against us." If Austria stands in their
way, they must march over Austria. For our own part, I
we are well pleased to be finally rid of the entanglements
of an Austrian alliance. Sn long
' being
was a risk of the French and English GovernmentsAust
riao
induced to give guarantees for upholding
d natinnaliti, s.
as it continued, there
do-
mination over some of the discontent:t
w.... e
.e,._
~,,
Now of course the Austrian G-..vernnui,g:iabnt,: si,',lLa.
settle accounts with its malcontent'
i} 11 ~...,
part with the op.
England being prevailed uper
vonians, and Lallans. Theretiostakoe
pressor against the opyTess,,sQuined
by
France and Eng•
fear or r r3nce or
Meanwhile the p
last seam-official proclamation
Russia has lost," e-colesgaittrlioiaentid' Unequivocal. "That which
land appears to b
•laa3:ii'cli it c,innot recover by war, how_
ever the Menden), . i
its
is preponderance in tr.° i mt.
continued,
ever long
That which it may properly demand is a proper share of
These are the
terms which the Allies offer to Russia. The means by
iriifiie:•ein the affairs of the world."
which Russia is to he kept in its properplace -
balance of the world's power are explicitly d in
the
"To demand of Russia to limit its naval forcese,cloarretl;
neutrali,e the Black Sea—that is to say, to exclude from
is to
it all
as shk
much less of war, to .whatever nation they may belong,
than we have already
war, and which it rests with us to_ keep Without
uieffreodrtb.7.
And what " we have already
and may " keep without effort" aicsquthiruesd
which is either sunk r a naval fortress, for its fleet,
"Sebastopol is no longer
shut up behind that ibnydicwataeri
a.t the entrance of the port or
impassable barricade, has been
withdrawn f r9ni the field A struggle,. `Tlie Black

Sea is the field of battle which we have conquered;
or; if you please, which you have abandoned to us. The
Russian flag elm no longer chow itself there. . •
..,
And not only do we occupy the Black Sea : we besiege
Sebastopol ; we are in a fortified position at Kamiesch
and Balaklava. Omer
.Pacha is entrenched at Eupa-
' toria ; Odessa is menaced by our fleets." •In other
words, the sovereignty of the Crimea and Russia's naval
power in the Black Sea have passed from it, and are not
to be restored. These are not merely the words of a.
State paper ; the rupture of negotiations at "Vienna and
the promising opening of the bombardment of Sebasto-
pol, make them realities. It is this uncompromising
attitude assumed by the Emperor of the French that has
obtained for him the enthusiastic welcome he has re-
ceived in England ; and the cordial plaudits which have
rung around him wherever he has passed in our land will
sound like a knell in the ears of the despots of the East,
for they tell them that France and England are une.
The war, however, is not at an end, nor likely soon
to be, whatever the " bulls" of the Stock Exchange may
say. As we announced months ago, the late Emperor
of Russia was master of the position, and could have
made peace at any time; but the new Emperor
must swim with the tide, and the politically powerful
class in Russia will not relinquish the dreams of national
aggrandisement by conquest, cherished for centuries,
without a desperate struggle. Some words fell from
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the Treasury, on
Monday, which seem to indicate that Ministers are pre-
pared for this protracted struggle. He told the influen-
tial gentlemen connected with the money market there
assembled, that Ministers "reserve the
power of guaran-
teeing any loan which may be required by a foreign
Government." This cannot be understood as referring
to Sardinia, for its loan is guaranteed. It points to the
accessi :n of the Scandinavian Powers, and perhaps of
others, to the alliance a,alnst the aggressive policy of
Russia. The work that has been begun is not to be left
half-ended. We hail these indications with joy; not
only do they augur well for the future independence and' r.
which it -
peace of Europe, they point to efforts by this country
can only
make after extensive administrative
reforms.

(Front the Morning Post of this day. )
We trust that the nation has at length made up its
mind to abandon the exaction of brilliancy from a finance
minister, and even to content itself with budgets that
fail in the exhibition of invention and originality. Not
only has many a good man been led astray by a desire,
natural enough it must be admitted, to satisfy extrava-
gance of public expectation, but
many a million has
been lost and sacrificed in making the attempt to con-
tent its cravings. We are truly glad therefore, that Sir
Cornewall Lewis exhibits Ao early in his career symptoms
of having the discernment to see the rock upon which
both of his brilliant predecessors, Mr. Disraeli and Mr.
Gladstone, suffered shipwreck, and that he appears to
have the sagacity to avoid it. It requires some courage
too. It requires some courage in an age like the pre-
sent—when immense credit for superior efficacy is readily
given to every untried method and new device on the
strength of its rawness and newness merely, and upon the
consideration simply of its being the emanation of
an era supposed to be unique in its development and pro-
gressive powers—to announce an intention of taking a
beaten path, and of working with the tools left us by our
grandfathers.

It must, in the year of progress, 1855, truly be an
amazing relief to the financially occupied portion of the
community to secure at last a Chancellor of the Ezell°.
quer who, more intent upon being useful than upon
making sensations, comes to the country, which he
finds engaged in an enterprise of gigantic dimen-
sions, and asks its capitalists, in a formula compre-
hensibleby everybody that can read, write, and cast
accounts, to advance to the State, upon such terms
as will afford a fair profit, the extraordinary sum
which the war service of the year demands, beyond
the usual requirements df our customary expendi-
ture.,
It really is a great relief. The emulative'
brilliancy of Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone kept
the perceptions of ordinary people in a condition of
constant strain that bad become most painful, and the
public mind in their day was maintained at a sort of
never-let-down _concert pitch by a continuous looking
for some brilliant financial device which was to extract
means from the pockets of the community with as much
rapidity, in as great a measure, and wit'. as little appa-
rent exhaustion, as the Wizard of the North did
bouquet.; of hothouse flowers from an empty hat, or end-
less glasses of maraschino from a bottle with nothing in
it. We thank Sir Cornewal: Lewis most heartily for
relieving us from the state of nervous expectation from
which we have lately suffered so weverely ; and we thank
him the more, beca•ise we feel that, even should he raise
his sixteen millions from the British public, as a capitalist
and a lender, upon terms somewhat less favourable than
he anticipates to .the British public as a borrower, the
cost will be more than counterbalanced by the profits to
the country accruing from the creation of positive and
discernible financial prospects, and the establishment of
steady and uniform relations in the markets of the
monied world.

Do not let us permit ourselves to be deceived.. A
great war cannot be clrried on without a great annihila-
tion of national capital. A. financial device may .cloak
this fact, and may mystify its perception,'but no inge-
nuity can save us from its creation, or exempt us from
its influence. We are engaged in carrying on a contest
with an adversary of gigantic strength, astutely handled
in the Cabinet, and ably and powerluily put forth in the
field. If we would cope with him, we must make up our
minds nut to spare our resources. To daily with circum-
stances, or to hesitate in acti.m, in such a contest as that
in which we are engaged, and in the face of such a toe as
the Russian ha- proved himself; would only involve the
certain concurrence o f expenditurean .1 fa •lure. Loss, 14 rge,
sensibleloss, in the pecuniary sense of the word, we must
make up our minds to sustain. We must accept it as
certainly as the man who enters upon a lawsuit to de-
fend his estate and insure its p.oesrssiou. Such a man
makes, as we are about to make, a lar4e arid immediate
sacrifice, and he sinks deliberately a considerable portion
of his estate, as we are about to do, io order to hedge
round the remainder with an outwork against future ag-
gression. Mr. Gladstone, by his specious but foolish
and insufficient device of paying this extraordinary ex-
penditure out of annual income, persuaded himself, and
wellnigh the country, too, that he saved us from any
destruction of capital. He really did no such thing.
There has been au annihilation of capital in just the
same proportion to the money spent as there would
have been had it been, raised by a loan instead of by
new taxation. The only difference in the respective
influences of his device and the ordinary method
hitherto in use, and now again to be adopted, being
that his especially acted teurictively upon the move-
ments of his Government, and resulted in the starvation
of the war, to the great and costly discomfiture of. the
nation, while it took fully the same amount out of our
pockets and that of our posterity.
The country, thanks to the efforts which ourselves and
some few others have unceasingly made, has, we trust,
become fully awake to the futility, for the purposes of
war, of the financial theories broached by the late Go-
vernment ; and it way safely be assumed, we imagine,
that whatever discussion may be raised upon the modes
by which Sir Cornewall Lewis proposes to carry his
scheme into effect, there will be no serious opposition
advanced to the principle upon which it is founded. To
the prebable operation of the details which it involves
we shall probably take an opportunity before Friday of
directing attention.

ARRITA.L OF THE ADELAIDE WITH
INVALIDS FROM THE CRIMEA.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 17.

The Adelaide, steam-transport, Captain Young,
arrived here this morning, bringing 175 invalids from the
hospital at Scutari. _ _ _

She leit Constantinople March 24 ; Malta, March
30 ; Gibralar, April 9..

Passengers.:—C.olonel Bell, lat' Royals ; Captain
Benson, 38th Foot, and Mrs. Benson ; Captain
Bredon, R.A., in charge of Invalids ; Lieutenant
Persse, 19th ; Lieutenant Kirkpatrick, 28th ; Sur-
geon Abbott, 41:t ; Staff Surgeon Ewinv, C. P.
Woodfall, assistant hospital dresser. Five soldiers died
on the passage home.

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