The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-06 00:00:00

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Criols ;'or Account, 12th October
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Spanish Roads, 3 per Cent 3B
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‘nyuiends on the above payable in London.
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SUN OFFICE, Six e'Clock.

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100 - 102

TATTERSALL'S.

(THIS EVENING.)

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CESARE WITCH.
6to 1 agst Robgill (taken)
13 to 2 agst Mr. Sykes (7 to 1 taken)
11 to 1 agst King Tom (taken)
12 to 1 agst Sultan (taken)
12 to 1 agst Monarque (taken)
14 to 1 agst Neville (taken)
25 to 1 agst Siding (taken)
100 to 8 agst Brother to Grey Tommy
30 to 1 agst Crown Pigeon
33 to 1 agst Muscovite (offered)
33 to 1 agst Bolton (taken)
40 to 1 a2-st Paletot (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lady Tatton
66 to 1 agst Quince (taken)
66 to 1 agst Vindex (offered)
100 to 1 agst Topsawyer (taken)
20 to 1 agst Messrs. Greville and Payne's lot
500 to 40 on King Tcm agst Monarque (taken)
500 to 10 agst Robgill winning this and the Cam-
bridgeshire.
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THE Sfl s LONDON. SATURDAY EVEN LNG OCTOBER-6, 1855

LORD PALMERSTON ON THE WAR.

TLe mayor, town council, and inhabitants of Romsey
yesterday presented a congratulatory address to Lord
Palmerston on his return to Broadlands.
It was originally intended to have presented the ad-
dress on Saturday last, but as the day turned out unfa-
vourable for any open air demonstration it was arranged
that the presentation should be postponed until the wea-
ther was more auspicious. In the early part of yester-
day the rain fell at intervals in copious showers, but to-
wards the afternoon the sun shone out, and the bells of
the church rung a merry peal.
The inhabitants of Romsey closed their shops at 12
o'clock, and all business was suspended. The streets of
the town were gaily decorated with the flags of the allied
nations, and streamers floated from every conspicuous
point of view. Triumphal arches were constructed in
the principal thoroughfares of the town, decorated with
flowers and transparencies, bearing the motto, " Wel-
come, Palmerston, the friend of liberty and peace."
At half-past 2 o'clock, the mayor, accompanied by the
town council and principal inhabitants of the place,
walked in procession to Broadlands, and, preceded by a
band with colours flying, escorted Lord and Lady Pal-
merston and the Hon. Miss Sullivan to the market place.
The noble viscount's open carriage having been drawn up
in front of a platform erected for the members of the
council and their friends, the noble lord was repeatedly
and enthusiastically cheered.
Silence being at length restored, Mr. FRANCIS TAYLOR,
the mayor, advanced and read the following address:—
" May it please your lordship,—We, the mayor, town
council, and inhabitants of Romsey, ask permission to meet
your lordship with our congratulatory welcome on your re-
turn to your lordship's residence here. Your lordship's an-
cestors were the constant benefactors of this town and
neighbourhood ; and while we venture to claim your lord-
ship as a fellow-townsman and as one of ourselves, we also
record your lordship's continuance and extension of similar
benevolence, conjoined with that of your estimable and
noble lady, the Viscountess Palmerston.
" On the present occasion we feel it to be our privilege
and duty to address your lordship in your exalted station,
as the Prime Minister of England—a post which your lord-
ship was called to occupy at a moment of difficulty and
emergency, and in a critical and almost unparalleled con-
juncture of affairs. We believe that your lordship's firm-
Does and decision, sustained by the voice and the sympathy
of the people of England, has tended greatly to produce
the recent successful results of the allied armies in the re-
duction of the fortress of Sebastopol.
"And wo earnestly pray that your lordship's councils
may be so guided that ultimately the blessing of an equit-
able and durable peace may issue from your lodehip's ad-
ministration, and be accompanied with those civil and
social rights secured to other nations, which shall place
them beyond the reach of despotic power, and prove their
best armament and their only true safeguard." (Cheers.)
Lord PALMERSTON, on rising to reply, was enthusi-
astically cheered. The noble lord (who spoke from his
carriage) said—Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, on behalf
of Lady Palmerston and myself, I beg to return you our
most cordial and sincere thanks for the kind reception
which we have met with on this occasion upon our re-
turn to Romsey. It would have been most gratifying to
me to have been so received at any town in this great
and mighty kingdom, but it meet be peculiarly gratify-
ing to meet with such a reception in the place to which
I em bound by so many ties of personal intercourse, of
local interest, of long-established family connection ;
and I may be permitted to say, adverting to what has
just fallen from you, to which I am bound by community
of office with those whom I have now the honour to see
before me. The occasion which has assembled us together
to exchange mutual congratulations is one, no donbt, of
the most remarkable and important which has happened
in late and recent times—l mean the capture of Sebasto-
pol. (Loud cheers.) It is an event of which all English-
men may be proud. (Cheers.) It is an event of which our
allies—the French, the Sardinians, and the Turkish
nation—may also be proud. (Hear, hear.) It is an
event which must inspire joy and exultation in the breast
of every generous free man on the surface of the globe.
(Cheers.) We have been told, by the commander of the
Russian army, that in evacuating the town of Sebasto-
pol, he left nothing to the allies but " blood-stained
ruins ;" and, no doubt, as far as depended upon him—
as.far as time allowed—as far as his means of destruc-
tion extended, it was his intention to leave nothing else
to the victorious enemy. Bat, although in retiring, he
blew up fortified works—although he exploded great
magazines of powder—although he destroyed everything,
that could be busned within the time allowed for his re-
maining stay, yet we know that, when the allies entered
the town, they found among its blood-stained ruins no
less than 4,000 pieces of cannon, an immense quantity
of powder, an enormous amount of cannon balls and
shells, and materials of various kinds, necessary for the
prosecution of war. (Hear, hear.) Well, gentlemen,
what does that teach us on reflection I Why, does it not
show the vast importance which the Government of Rus-
sia attached to that stronghold of Russian power in the
Black Sea ? (Cheers.) Why was that vast accumulation
of warlike material made, more than could have been
required for the most prolonged defence of the place ?
Why was it that elements were there accumulated for
supplying great armies and for furnishing great fleets ?
Why, it was because they felt that in Sebastopol was
the stronghold of their power in the East—that from
that centre was to radiate that intense and extensive
power which was to lead them to the conquest of Con.
stantinople, and to lead them from that centre of empire
to sway the destinies of Europe. (Great cheering.)
Well, then, gentlemen, that, I think, affords a satisfac-
tory proof of the sound judgment which was exercised
by her Majesty's Government in directing against Se-
bastopol the great power of our army and navy in the
Black Sea. (Hear, hear.) There were those, and
some of them no mean judges either of international or
of military naval affairs—there were some, I say,
who thought that we ought to have sent our armies
—I mean that England and France ought to
have sent their armies—to the Continent, to scour'
the Principalities, invade Bessarabia, and pursue
the vanquished and retreating Russian armies—for
vanquished and retreating they must have been if our
armies had landed and attacked them through the steppes
and great wildernesses of Southern Russia. Why, if we
had done so, what practical result would we have
achieved equal to what we have accomplished in the
capture of Sebastopol. True, if we had adopted that
course, we would have defeated army after army, but
army after army would have been replenished by the
successive hords issuing from the north, and at last we
should have found nothing but vast and extensive plains
from which we would have been compelled ultimate* to
retire, without having in our hands the pledge of future
security. Well, then, gentlemen, we have heard much of
the siege of Sebastopol, and of the gallant defence of the
garrison which held that town; and yet I may be per-
mitted to say that, in the proper sense of the word, there
has been se siege at all, and that Sebastopol has not been
defended by any garrison. Why, a garrison means a com-
paratively small military force, which, shut up within
the walls of a town or fortress, defends itself against a
vastly superior army. A. siege means an operation which
is conducted by a superior force investing such a fortress,
cutting off its communication with the roar, and, by ap-
proaches which are familiar to military men, at last make
a breach in the defences, and then, by bringing superior
numbers against the inferior amount of the garrison, over-
whelming them, as must be the case in so unequal a
struggle. (Cheers.) But that which has happened in the
Crimea has been a transaction of a totally different kind.
The allied armies of England and France, assisted from
the beginning by a portion of the Turkish forces ; assisted
materially by the bravo Sardinians—a body of troops
worthy of admiration by all, for their discipline, their
skill, their science, their good order, and their bravery—
that allied army has for 12 months—l was going to say 12
long months, and long I must call them, although 12
months be a short period of historical time, yet it has
been pregnant with so many vast events, that it must be
long in occupying its page in the history of Europe—that
allied army has during that period not been besieging a
single town, or attacking a single garrison, but it has
been fighting the entire military forces of the Russian
Empire. (Lend cheers.) We have been contending not
merely with an army in the Crimea, equal and some-
times superior to our own numbers, but I say it with-
out exaggeration, we have been contending with the en-
tire military resources of that vast military empire—an
empire which devotes a great part of its revenues to the
maintenance of an enormous standing army—an army
which they call a million of men, but which may be set
down at 600,000, or even 800,000 men. Well, gentle-
men, almost the whole, or the greater portion, of that
force was set free from the Baltio to the Euxine by the
neutral position of those Powers which border the Eu-
ropean frontier of Russia. Russia bad nothing to fear
from either Austria or Prussia ; she was therefore at
liberty to sand down to the Crimea and defend Sebasto-
pol, and drive our armies, as she vainly boasted she
could do, into the sea. (Hear.) She had nothing to
prevent her sending division after division—army
after army—the garrison of Poland and the garrison
of St. Petersburg—in fact, every man whom She could
manage to feed at so distant a place. (Hear.) S
the
no danger on her frontier to prevent her reinforcing
Crimean army, and replacing with new levies the losses
she had sustained in battle. (Hear, hear.) I say,
therefore, our army has not conducted what is com-
monly called a siege—that it bas not, conquered what is
properly called a garrison—but that we have been
fighting in the Crimea a battle against the whole mili-
tary resources of Russia, the armies of Russia being en-
trenched in a position strong beyond measure by nature,