The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1855,

do something at Helsingfors and Sweaborg ;
it is within the range of possibility that it
may hammer away at Cronstad b. But we say
bombard Russia in Poland. Let our ships cover
a disembarkation on the Baltic shores contiguous
to Poland ; let a camp and base of operations be
formed on a coast hardly more days' sail from
England than it takes of weeks to rear:h the
Crimea. 1 here we shall And not a listless and
effete Tartar population, but a nation of fettered
heroes. Men who, twenty years ago, met
Russian sabres with their scythes, and were
conquered only through sheer want of every
military equipment witk which we could
abundantly supply them. There our soldiers
would bo side by side with the countrymen of
SOBIESKI and Kosciusco, with whom as comrades
every officer and private would be proud to fight.
There we should contend with our enemy no
longer in the dark, but apprised of his every
movement, warned when and where to be on our
guard, when and where to attack, by the übi-
quitous espionage of a people enthusiastic
in our cause, or rather in their own.
There we should paralyse every Russian
regiment into which a Pole had been forced,
by the fear of his desertion in the very
moment most dangerous to them and most
advantageous to us. There we should have no
evil Greeks to betray us to the enemy, and to
burn our depots. There, in a word, we should
have every facility which we now want, and the
enemy lose every advantage which he now enjoys.
Public meetings have already been held for the
instruction of the Whig Cabinet. We trust that
every town and county will meet ; and at every
meeting there ought to be one demand at least—
in the name -of the dead and dying abroad—in
the name of the mourning and anxious at home—
a solemn demand that Austria be left to take her
course, but that a Polish Alliance be sought at
once.

Surely every patriot will be indignant at the
cruel wrong perpetrated on the Times. It is at
no small inconvenience, and perhaps loss, to the
Post-office, that it proposes carrying a quarter of
a pound for a penny. Under that arrangement
the country walking posts will have to buy don-
keys, the town pedestrians to hire a cab, and
the peculiar single-horse vehicles distinguished by
a V. R. and a crown to be transformed into a
chaise-and-pair. The London bookseller will sup-
plant the country tradesman ; every lady will
remit her postage stamps or post-office order for
the last new novel, and get it cheaper and earlier
than through her neighbour of the market town.
Innumerable metropolitan firms will be offering
to supply the wintry through the post with
almost every work that comes out ; and the post-
office will literally groan under its new parcels
delivery business.

This dire infliction on Mr. ROWLAND HILL'S
squadron is, however, nothing to the shameless
injustice inflicted on our contemporary. Hitherto
it has sent well towards half a pound—not less
than six ounces—for one penny ! It has been
able to favour the whole kingdom with six ounces
of costly advertisements and news for only one
penny. That privilege it is now proposed to
abrogate at the end of ten short years ! Why
this gross injustice ? Merely to please a
set of free - traders. That impracticable
school will theorise and generalise ; they will
have but one law for all printed matter sent by
post. Hence their dilemma. If six ounces were
allowed for all, the Post-office never could transact
its business. Since four ounces threatens to over-
whelm it ; what shall they do ? Simpletons (as
old HOMER used to say), they thought to propi-
tiate the Times! Their Free-trade chief commis-
sioner so very recently did make it a present of
five-and-twenty or forty thousand pounds per
annum, we forget which—they supposed it would
in gratitude accept with a bow a ten years' licence
to trade in that style. Foolish men, did they
forget the old school motto about the love of
money ever increasing with money's growth ? Do
they themselves not build larger cotton factories
and warehouses, as they taste the sweets of in-
creasing profits ? Surely the Hon. Member for
Kidderminster will rise in his place and denounce
the unparalleled injustice of laying down but one
uniform law for all printed matter, and thus com-
pelling the Times to pay more than four ounce
papers if it sends two ounces more of lucrative
advertisements. The Times is one of our national
institutions ; the profit on its advertisements it is
vulgar to regard as a personal matter—it is a
national benefit. Every Statesman must wish the
Post-office to lose if it do but enrich the Times.
Nothing could show a more JOSEPH-HumE-like,
and contracted spirit, than to argue that in ten
years the Times may make a quarter or half a
million of money out of Mr. GLADSTONE'S last
present, and that that should be enough. To
enrich the Times is to enrich the nation.

We had almost forgotten our own woes in the pro-
spective sufferings of our great contemporary. We
do think it very hard, however, that we of the
evenin press—light-weighted, all of us, like a
Newmarket jockey—that we should pay the same
as the four-ounce dailies. We are implacably
angry that we cannot travel for a half-penny when
four ounces go for a penny ; and wo hereby ad-
vertise Mr. JAMES WILSON, of the Economist and
the Treasury, that we mean to carry that point ;
and, if he will not concede justice now, we will
extort it in due season.

DEATH OF THE EMPEROR OF BUSI.A.

(From the Press of this day.)

Telegraphic despatches were received at, the Ad-
miralty yesterday from her Majesty's Ministers at
Berlin and the Hague, announcing the death, be-
tween twelve and one o'clock yesterday forenoon,
at St. Petersurg, of his Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of Russia.

The alleged cause of his death was " a stroke of
pulmonary apoplexy."
It' is stated that the Earl of Clarendon, her
Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has left London for Boulogne, in order to
confer with the Emperor of the French.
This startling event, if it prove authentic, may
have such important consequences on the pending
negotiations, that we shall refrain from communi-
cating the highly authoritative information which
has reached us during the week on that subject.
We will merely add that the sanguine hopes in
which the diplomatists of all countries have re-
cently indulged, that an almcst immediate peace
was at hand, had, especially within the last three
days, become clouded.
The visit of the Emperor of the French to the
Crimea has been postponed, in consequence of•the
refusal of Prince Napoleon, on the plea of ill-health,
to accompany his Majesty. Irrefragable proofs of
the active relations of Prince Napoleon with the
alleged party of disturbance, both while in the
Crimea and during his residence in France since his
return, have rendered it impossible that his Imperial
Highness should remain in France during the
aL-
sence of the Emperor of the French. Notwith-
standing many disagreeable circumstances, every
confidence is, however, reposed in the energy and
sound judgment of his Majesty Louis Napoleon.

On Thuriday the marriage of Countess de Vista Alegre,
eldest daughter of Queen Christina, with Prince Ladislas
Czartoryski, was celebrated in the chapel of the chateau
of Malniaison, by Cardinal Donnet, Archbishop of Bor.
des UK.
DEPARTURE OF THE LORD-LIEUTENADIT.—The Earl
of St. Germans is to leave Dublin for England on the
15th or 16th inst.

CEYLON.—The llon. C. J. Macartby was sworn in
Lieutenant-Governor after the departure of the last
mail, by which Sir G. W. Anderson returned to Eng-
land.

LATEST NEWS.

THE EMPEROR ALEXANDEE
OF RUSSIA.

BERLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Czezarewitch Alexander assumed the
Government at St. Petersburg yesterday afternoon,
and received homage as Emperor.

Prince Charles of Prussia leaves Berlin to-
morrow, to be present at the funeral of the late
Emperor.

THE LATE EMPEROR OF
RUSSIA.

The following very important telegraphic de-
spatch from our correspondent at Berlin appeared
in our third edition of last evening :
" BERLIN, FRIDAY, Mandl 2.

" I hasten to inform you that intelligence has
just reached Berlin of the death, this forenoon,
of the Emperor of Russia, from an attack of
apoplexy.

" The news has created a great sensation ; and
it is thought that the event will give a new aspect
to the war."

The following despatch has also been received :
BERLIN, FRIDAY, MARCH 2.
The Emperor of Russia died this morning. He
was seized with influenza on Wednesday and be-
came worse on Thursday. This morning, after
appealing to his physicians respecting his ap-
proaching end, he receiVed. the Sacrament, took
leave of his family, and expired.
Lord John Russell had a farewell audience of
the King of Prussia this morning.
He leaves Berlin to-morrow.

PARIS, SATURDAY, 8 A.M.
The Moniteur publishes the following de-
spatches :

Major O'Brien, of H.M. 86th, died at Colaba on the
22d January.
A meeting of the Copiapo Mining Company will be
hold at the London Tavern on the 23d inst.

` STUTTGARD, MARCH 2.

"On receipt of the intelligence of the serious
illness of the Emperor of Russia the Princess
Royal of Wurtemberg (Grand-Duchess Olga, daugh-
ter of the Emperor), and the Prince Royal started
for St. Petersburg."
" THE HAGUE, MAncu 2.

" The Queen-Dowager (Anna-Paulowna, daugh-
ter of the late Emperor Paul) received the news
of the Emperor's death at 1 o'clock to-day."

A meeting of the shareholders of the Cana la Com-
pany has been called for the 28th inst.
The transfer books of the Thames Haven Dock Com-
pany will remain closed till the 29th. A call of ss. per
share has also been made, and is payable on or before
the 28th inst.

VIENNA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2.

The Oest. Correspondenz publishes adviees from
Constantinople of the 22d of February.
General Niel was to return on that day to the

Crimea.

The mortality at Scutari ways diminishing.
The Russians, on their retreat after the attack
on Eupatoria, left a number of scaling ladders
behind them.

COPENHAGEN, MARCH 1.

The ex-Miuisters Binlne, Sponnecli, Hansen.,
and Bille, are cited to appear before a special
committee of the Lower Howe, there to answer
for having, without authetity, exceeded the
budget.

other of light infantry. It is announced alio that
the division of Bomarsund, which since its return
from the Baltic has been stationed at Cherbourg,
Rouen, Amiens, and other towns in the North, is to
join the army of Paris, and to form the nucleus of
the camp of Saint-Maur, ele intended establish-
ment of which we have already mentioned.

The committee is moat hostile to the late
Cabinut, and will have to deride on the question
of impeachment.

VtTRIN, MARCH 2.

. _
" Tho French army in the Crimea," says the
Salut Public, "is about to be increased by a 10th
division, which will be formed at Lyons, and be
embarked partly at Marseilles, and partly at
Toulon."

The Chamber of Deputies has adopted the Bill
for the Suppression of Convonts and other Eccle-
siastical Corporations by a Da.-ajority of 117 votes
against 36.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 2.
The Cabinet hasannouuced to the two Chambers
that it had tendered its resignation to the King.

BOURSE, MA.P. CH 2.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
q per Cents 95 90 66f. 95e.
3 per Cents 6O 90
Credit Mobilier 7:',o Roman
Credit Fancier 535 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes —
Piedmonteso B4 Home Debt 3l
RAILw .11'S —FOR CASH.
fr. c. fr. c.
Orleans
Western 655 Roucn
(Jett° — Strasburg .
Mediterranean — Havre 550
Northern

The letters of the 13th received from the Crimea state
that the French army was aware of the Emperor IsTa-
poleon's design, and most ardently longed for its exe-
cution. _ _

M. Palmi Belli, aide de-camp to the Emperor, arrived
at Marseilles on the 28th ult. 43 English surgeons,
with a number of hospital orderlies, have also reached
that city on their way to the East.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Commis-
sioners of Emigration yesterday gave notice that
they require ships to proceed to Adelaide and Sydney,
to be ready to receive passengers between the 19th and
lith of April.