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

LORD PALATE ON THE WAR.

The mayor, town council, and inhahitants of Ilcnis.7
yesterday presented a congratulatory address to Lord
Palmerston on his return to Broadlands.
' 'lt was originally intended to have presented the ad-
dress on Saturday la,t, but as the day turned out unfa-
vourable for any npen'air deMowiiration it was arranged
that the presentation should be postponed until the wea-
ther was more auspicinus. In the early -part of yeste,r-
`day the rain.fell at intervals in copious showers, but to-
wards the afternoon the shorn) out, and the bells of
the church rung a merry peal.
The inhabitants of Romyey closed their shops at 12
o'clock, and all business was uspended. The streets of
the town were gailY deCorated with the flags ofthe 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,Pah:cterston, the friend'of liberty and peace."

At half-past 2 o'clock, the mayor, accompanied by the
town council and. principar.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 repeated!)
and enthusiastically che'erea.
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 yourre-
turn to your lordship's residence hero. 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-townsnil'in and as one of ourselves, we also
record your lordship's continuance and extension of similar
benevolence, codoined 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-
ness 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 we 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 lodship'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 PALOIERSTCPN, 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 Rornsey. It would have been most gratifying to
are to have been so received at any town in this great
and mighty kingdom, but it must be peculiarly gratify-
ing to meet with such a reception in the place to which
I am 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 ha-
just fallen from you, to which I am bound by community
of office with those whom'l have now the honour ti see
before me. The occasion which has assembled us together
to exchange mutual corgratulatious 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 array, 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 aliowed—as far as his means of destruc-
tion extended, it was his intention to leave nothing &se
to the victorious enemy. But, although in retiring, he
blew up fortified -works—n'tbough he exploded great
magazines of powder—although ho destroyed everything
that could be buried 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, all 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 ? Why, does it not
show the vast im poi ta rice 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 anti 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 I
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 affdrs-L-there were some, I say,
who thought that we ought to have sent our armies 1
—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 Sauthern 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 horde issuing from the north, and at last we
should have found nothing but vast aid extensive plains
from which we would have been compelled ultimately 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 so 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 rear, 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 tl:e Turkish forces; assisted
materially by the brave 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. (Loud 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 Baltic to the Euxine by the
neutral position of those Powers which border the Eu-
ropean frontier of Russia. Russia had nothing to fear
from either Austria or Prussia ; she was therefore at
liberty to send 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. (flear.) She had
no danger on her frontier to prevent her reinforcing the
Crimean army, and replacing with new levies the losse3
she had sustaited in battle. (Hear, hear.) I say,
therefore, our army has not conducted what is com-
monly called a siege—that it has 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,

strengthened by all the resources 'of art and all the c'on-
:trivances of skill arid science, and that in that twelve
months' struggle deeds of valour: have been perfyrmcd
by our troops—by the liiritish and Fr each troops —deeds
of heroism which will live to the= memory of the latest
posterity, and which will' do immortal honour to tln;
people of the two countries. .Cheers.) It is, gentlemen,
the fashion with, many to say' that war is the greatest
of all calamities. Now, war undoubtedly is a great
ca'amity, but there are evils greater than war. There'
'are the evils which spring froth the'sucCe.is of. gin-ping
ambition, from triumphant violencgi and from wrong
and misrule over men. ;Iu all,times, in all ages, and in
all countries, those nations, which, have possessed the'
qualities which dignify and adorn human nature, have
felt that these evils were evils greater than war,-and 44 4
'have been prepared to encounter the calamities of'-war,
however great they may, be, -rather than submit to the
still greater evils which I have just pointed out to you.
So it is with the-people of England.- So it is with our
noble neighbours the people of France ; and I believe
that if the nations of the Centinent were to detertnine
the course which they were to pursue simply according
to their own sentiments andleelings, there are countries
which, are now resting on an inglorious neutrality that
would join the alliance, and do honour to them and the
cause: (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, every war is, no
doubt, a calamity ; but the course of the present war has
brought its evils as little home to the people of this
country as was possible consistently with the nature
things. Our enemy has seen his arsenals in the
Baltic flaming and blazing to' the sky. (Hear, bear.)
Our enemy has seen that great fleet, nearly 28 or 30 sail
of the line, for which, the revenues of the country weie
squandered, and for which crews were conscribed, and,
to nicks 'those crews efficient,'they were taught
ing the icy rigours of winter to mount fictitious masts
er,,cted in their barrack-Yard, and'to imagine they were
climbing up the rigging of the fleet—(a laugh)—they have
seen that fleet cooped up ignominiously in its harbours

and its docks, not daring to face the Allied squadrons,
which, allow me to say, never were superior in numbers
to the Russians, however superior in other respects on
which victory depends. (Cheers.) They have had the

mortification of seeing that all that expenditure and trou

hie was fruitless when the moment came in which a fleet
might ever be useful. They have seen in the Baltic the
humiliation attending that stateof things.. They have had
their commerce crippled and greatly reduced. In the
Back Sea they have seen a fleet which not long ago
proudly swaggered over the waves of the Euxine, and whose
most glorious achievement was the barbarous outrage
of Siuope. (Ironical cheers.) They have seen that fleet,
not captured in an open battle, or yiel.ling, after a brave
resistance, to a superior force of antagonists, but sinking
under the hand of its own commander, and leaving no-
thing but their topmastS sticking out of the water as
marks of the degradation to which they have been sub-
ject. (Cheerii.) They have seen this great arsenal—this

vast capital of which they were so proud, but of which
they were so chary that no prying stranger was allowed
to enter its walls, so that the only Englishman that has
ever given any account of it was compelled to find his
way within its gates disguised as a peasant and covered

over in a cart full of hay—(a laugh)—they have seen, I
,ay, this great arsenal, which they so studiously kept
from the eyes of jealous strangers, exposed, not to the
eyes, but to the possession, of an enemy, after having
vainly endeavoured for twelve months to defend it.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, we . have no doubt, in many

respects, felt the unavoidable pressure of war ; but
those wild raging fires that have lit the arsenal of

Russia have reduced themselves simply to those miti-
gated lights which accompany the evening rejoicings of
a town, and the only noise of cannon which has echoed
►n our ears has not been the cannon that has shaken the
walls of Sebastopol, but those occasional harmless die-

charges which are the tokens of national rejoicing.
(Cheers acid laughter.) Well, then, gentlemen, I trust
and hope that a cause which has been so ably supported
—a cause which is so nobly defended—must proSper in
the end as it has prospered in the beginning ; and I may
-ay there is hardly an instance •in history of an army
whieh, in a.single campaign-L-for it is only, so far as
we are concerned, a single campaign—has been attended
with such great and important results. We are pre-
senting to the world one of the noblest spectacles which
it is possible for nations to exhibit'. (Cheers.) Here are
the two greatest nations of the world—l say it without
vanity and without exaggeration, but without one par-
ticle of diminution—l say the English and French
nations, which stand at the head of everything that
dignifies humannature—(cheers)—are presenting
to the world the noblest possible spectacle of two
great people casting into the shade of oblivion all their
former jealousies, rivalshipe, and extinct animosities,
uniting for a purpose generous, and, so far as any sordid
motives are concerned, utterly disinterested, looking for
no trumpery profit or gain, terzitorial or otherwise, for
themselves; but seeking simply to establish for them-
selves the liberties of the world in which they are so
deeply interested on a solid and permanent foundation,
making vast sacrifices, not wantonly for abstract prin-
ciple, but from a sound political view and consideration
of things—l say these two nations present the noblest
spectacle that the history of the world has ever, up to
this day, exhibited. (Cheers.) For we have seen great
combinations made for purposes of conquest ; but a com-
bination made for a purpose like this, so honourable to
the two, has seldom, if ever, been witnessed in history.
And we have seen the armies of two nations, which bad
learned face to face in the battle-field to view each other
with respect, fighting side by side, and knowing. more
intimately the qualities of each ; and we have seen
them change their feelings, and convert what was for-
merly respect into enthusiastic admiration. (Cheers.)
Well, then, gentlemen, I say ill would it become any
man in the situation which I have the honour to hold to
talk of the future aid to advert to prospective measures;
but this I think I am well warranted in saying—view•
ing the manly and unflinching spirit which animates the
people of this country—viewing the generous support
which Parliament has given to the Government in every
measure connected with the prosecution of the war—
viewing the perfect good faith and undeviating con-
stancy of purpose which animates our great ally the Em-
peror of the French—viewing the sympathy which our
cause excites among the people of every free country in
the world, even in places where mistaken views of in•
terests, ail think, lead their Governments to a different
course—viewing also the justice of our cause, which en-
titles us to look for the protection of Providence on our
exertions—Lsay, viewing all these things, Jam confident
we may look to such a result of the contest in which we
are engaged, as may place the future liberties of Europe
—as may place the interests—the main and perma-
nent interests—of the countries which are now allied
upon a sure, stable, and lasting foundation. (Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, I beg again to thank you for the
great honour you have done me in the reception which
we have this day received, and I again assure you that
such testimonies coming from you, however they may
belong mainly to the great event which we are called on
to celebrate, I cannot refuse to accept as in some degree
evincing friendly and kindly sentiments towards my
lady and myself ; and I again cordially thank you for
your respects, and I beg to wish you all prosperity both
to yourselves and the town of 'Romsey. (Loud and
prolonged cheering.)
Dr. BEDDOBIE then proposed three cheers for Lady
Palmerston, which were :heartily given, and her lady

ship gracefully bowed her acknOWlecigments. Three
cheers were also given for hie lordship ; and, on the mo-
tion of the rev. the vicar, the proceedings concluded
with three cheers fOr the Queen.
In the evening his lordship entertained the mayor and
the members of the town council ot dinner, at his seat
at Broadlands.

(Pram' the Times of this day.)
A: manly speech on the capture of Sebastopol, delivered
• by Lord Palmerston to the inhabitants Romsey,of_remter,whom
againo
Premier,
calls our attention to the conduct, of the
we have so often blamed,
,and at :the same time to that
fraction of the community whocannot understand why we
shOild now praise the poficyof oar. ancient
.foe. The
w,th as that created by the
in-
dependent and 'honest portion .ef the. press have no such
8, and careless
serious difficulty tc struggle'
oy, their profligacy or
conduct of• writers devoted to party. objects,
of the degree in which they Pkinorce,_
meanness, the character of the fuPt!Ll9,-TI to which they
' belong. It, is difficult to elevate the feelings of these per-
sons to a just appreciation of dignity f the of their calling.
£ newspaper, at least acnoio cclern newspaper, is not a mere
vehicle for party violen
Pm' t y ambition, for pulling
down one man or setting up another, for gratifying piques
and animosities, for providing worn-out politicians with, a
commodity
of good reputations, for official intrigue or po-
litical jobbery. The daya are rapidly passing away when
any newspaper ef.Character can afford to avow itself as'the
untlinchin-
if, advocate of any party.or of any person—of
anything, in faCt, except that which ought to be the object
of all periodical' ai well as permanent writing—the truth,
the *hole truth, and nothing but the truth. To give a
true narrative of events, and to make on those
events just, natural; and pertinent reflections, is all
.to
which We aspire, it being a matter tons of the purest in-
difference what partY, :what clique,,or what individual re-
putatkon may be damaged or promoted by our faithful and
fearless discharge of the duty we twdertake. Another
habitual, baseness of eertain persons is the habit of imput-
ing to xis a desire to flatter the prosperous, and to trample
on those in adversity. Thus, when we praised Mr. Glad-
stone's excellent budget andthe. admirable speech in which
he proposed .it,•we were told we were parasites and syco•
phants; and when we felt called upon to censure the ab-
surd and unpatriaticcourse which he has adopted with
regard to the war, we were taunted with deserting in his
adversity one whoni we had beslavered with our praise in
his prosperity, a:a if it were in the power of Mr. Gladstone
or orapy other Statesman of the day, to give or to w iI.
holaTioin the Times that position which it owes to the
Nye*. of the public, and,not to that of any patron or
party. • ' ... ........
We have been* led to, this train of refiedaon by observ-
illig that we have' been in'ade the objects of attack because
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wehsve feltet 'd* r so rend`er to gbrd Palmerston,
onsthe caPteretef,Sebastopol, that meed of praise which,
whether agreeable or not to certain of our contemporaries,
or whether consis',ent or net with our former views of his
character, is uequeseibunblY his dup. We are reminded
and with Much •truth—tliet We objected to Lord Pdl-
'Menton's treatment of Smite:eel with reference to Don
Ya~itico; and we are told, therefore, it is the height of
inconsistency to give him, credit for the firmness which he
•has shown during reeeanteneiii"ditions, though it has un-
doubtedly led to tiW lats.:brilliant success of the allied
arms. Now, if ceneietenviis tq be found,in always blam-
ing the same pertion,ewbether,les deserveblame or no, or
praising the eauielepeesspieeseitheeiessilee pertinacity, our
conduct carries the proololVaconsisteney on the face of it ;
but if, as we Tether aPpreheekeonsistency is adherence to
truth, and nqt to pereee's,, Fe may have been perfectly
' right in censuring Lord'Patteeretbie's'Spenish and Greek
policy, and in praisitig'hik conclitit. eVith regard to the
war ; : and there -imetcerereiotetts:97sl4pkise that our censure
' , was occasioned; di-061e wisessestee.'asiert, by any difficul-
ties in obtaining foreigninformation—difficulties of which
the readers of the Times aateniot, we .flatter ourselves,
very sensible, thepttle tm in Downing-street
being as nothing compared to the flood of light thrown on
.pa,,sing events by, gut forelegn . correspondents—or our
praise occasioned by the brighter prospects which seem to
n
dawn o Lerd Palintisfon's Goverment. To enter into
irritating CorrespondenCii With the' Spanish Government,
and thus to expose this country to the insult of a suspen-
sion of diplomatic relations with ouch a power as Spain,
appeared to us au . un.c!iso..'aitalunisliess abuse of power,
'and in those opinions we sseernothing,to retract. To put
in motion the mighty fleet of England against such a po-
tentate as the King ef Greece far Abe sake of enforcing
fictitious and exaggerated claims, trumped up by our du-
bious fellow-subject Don PaCitipo,esppeared to us unwor-
thy of the man and the occasion,; and here, also, we are
not disposed to recant. Neither do we deny that we have
felt it necessiry, 'from time to time, to make remarks
on the tendeney •of Lord' Palmerston to encourage
*hat has been. well called the jargon of na-
tionalities, and. to foster movements which, when
the critical ; time arrived, he was not prepared
to support by eny strongerweepens than the expression of
upavailing sympathy. -But ,wliats haven this to do with
'the conduct of Lord Palmerston in' the present war? For
its commencement he is not, so faxas the public know, one
Whit' more answerable than Mr. Gladstone, Sir J. Graham,
Mr. Herbert, or any, of those who have lately edified us by
panegyries on Russia, 'end under-estimates of our power
and prospects; but, once engaged, how different has been
his conduct, and hove much reason has this country to
rejoice that in her extreme need she has found a Minister
worthy of the crisis and of ':her 'own unshaken and un-
sweiving resolution 1 .One by ode those who began the
war by their va.cillationi Mismanaged, it by their incapa-
city, and deserted it at its most zeritical moment, shrank
from his side, and left him to struggle with such support
as remained to him against .the, cppsequences of errors
which he 'had not coin;nittearstiniiously aggravated, and
increased by the •spoechea 'Of theii. 'authors, who, cowed
'out of the resolution they had prevititisly shown, were the
loudest in denouncing their o wn policy, and the most strenu-
ous in counteracting their own measures. It is but bare
justioe to say that at this period the country needed a man,
and th..t it found in Lord Palmerston the man it needed.
He adhered to the position Ite had taken up with unskrink-
ioeb firmness, and devoted himself to the discharge of his
duties and the support of his Ministry with an energy and
industry which at. his period of 'Le were truly heroic and
worthy of all praise and honour. By his untiring dili-
gence, by never leaiing the house, and being always ready
and on the spot for every emergency, he preserved his
Government from those reverses 'Which, under the more
lukewarm and careless leadershipaSncird J. Russell, per-
petually befell the far stronger Administration of Lord
Aberdeen, and, as the reward of this great physical and
mental effort, he concluded the session with a Government
effectually consolidated and restored in character.
These things may be*disagreeable to certain of our con-
temporaries, who habitually prostitute their pens to the
purposes of faction or animosity. They may even come
from us with something of the air of a constrained and
unwelcome admission ; but they are the simple truth, and,
as the truth most worthy to be spoken, both by us and by
all who respect truth for its own sake, we have little reason
to be ashamed of the impulse which prompts us to do fair
and noble justice to an ancient adversary, or wish for that
consistency which: would teach us to withhold well-merited
praise because we have at other times felt it our duty to
express equally well-merited centime. We sincerely be-
lieve thatdt will be . found that, one success is due very
much to the general conviction that the power which its
circulation places in the hands of individuals is not wil-
fully abused, and that the ptiblic receive from us, together
wAh the best intelligence we can collect, the fairest and
most honest comments which we are able to make. Nothing
else could account for our undoubted influence among per-
sous of every phase and shadow of opinion, and nothing
else could maintain for a single week the position to which
the favour of the public has raised us. It is our wish, as
it is our duty, to rise above personal and party feeling,
and, so far as the ,iufirraities of .human nature permit, to
present to our readers every day a fair and impartial chro-
nicle of the tittles in which they live. It is not for us to
say how far we attain this object, but we are quite certain
that we should attain it' no better by sacrificing our
honest conviction's teC personal animosities, to party
predilections, ,to*..an* unmanly dread of the charge of
inconsistency, or :a childish desire of the appearance
of infallibility' Ines. *code wan are Journalists, not
Popes. On the long and, eheckezed career of Lord
Palmerston history of a more. deliberate and philosophies
character than we pretend to write will pronounce its ver-
dict; buteithat verdict will not be as our contemporaries
would have it—unmeasured praise or vndiscritninatiug
blame. Such consistency befits neither the philosophical
historian nor the honest journalist. Censure there will
doubtless be on a policy often vigorous and patriotic, but
also often irritating and dangerous—on a jealousy of France
which endangered the peace of the world 'in 1810, and a
restless desire to anticipate Russia in the East which in-
volved us in the Affghan insurrection in 1841. But history
will pot fail also to ropord that, while England was plunged
in domestic faction, aed patties were exclusively occupied
with religious differences or economical heresies, there was
one mast who faithfully and honestly watched over the des-
tinies of the empire, who; while others were sunk in sloth
or blinded by meanness and subserviency, saw through the
masked desigus of the Imperial robber, and sought by every
means in his power, in season and out of season, to coun-
teract them, until at last the opportunity tame and while
others fainted and shrank back, he accomplished the object
of his life—the humiliation of Russia, and the deliverance
of Europe from the swoop of that greedy vulture whose
outstretched wings had so long darkeued.the sky over her
head.

MARKLT NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.

There was a good business doing in to-day's market, as
follows

FRUIT.—Pine apples, English, 3s to 6s per lb; colonial
do., is to 3s each • hot-house grapes, is 6d to 48 Od per lb ;
foreign ditto, Od Os ; melons, is 03 to 2s Gd each;
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peaches, is 6d to 6s • nectarines, is 6d to 4s per dozen;
' apples is Od. to 3s Od per half sieve ; pears, is Od to
3s per half sieve; Orleans plums and green gages is to 2s
per punnet; ap:lcots, is Gd to 5s Od per doz.; common plumb,
5s 0 to 7s Od per sieve; cherries, Od to Od per pound;
lemons, 4s to 8s Od per 100; oranges. 8s to lls per 100; f.
berts, 6s to 9s per doz. lbs ; cobnuts, Os to Os ; almonds,
Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 6d to 10d. per 100; figs, is
to 2s Od per doz. ; strawberries, Od to Od per pottle ; goose-
berries, is Gd to 2s Od per half sieve ' • currants, 3s Od to
4s Od per half seive ; raspberries, 2d to Gd per pottle.
VEGETABLES.—White cabbages, 6d to is 3d per dozen;
red ditto, 2s to 5s Od per dozen ; French beans, is SI
to 2s 0,1 per half sieve ; brocoli, Od per build. ; potatoes,! 40s
to 90s per ton ; vegetable marrow, 4d to is per doz. ; peas,
to 5s Od per bushel; broad beans, is Odto is 9d per half
sieve ; turnips, 2d to 4d per bunch ; carrots, 4d to 6d per
bunch ; cucumbers, Os 3d. to Os Gd each ; garlic, 6d to
Os 8d per pound ; spinach, is Od to 2s Od per sieve;
old onions, Os to Os per bushel ; new ditto, 2s Od to 4s per
doz. bunches; leeks, 2s 6d to 4s per doz. bunches ; shallots,
4d to 6d horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley,
2d to 3d per bunch ; celery, is Od to is 3d per
bunch ; endive, is :id to 2s 3d per score ; beet, is Od to 2s
per doz.; parsnips, Os 6d to is Od per dozen; small
salad, 2d to 3d per pt, iret ; mushroOms, is sel to is 9d per
pottle • artichokes, 51 to 6s per doz. ; cabbage lettuces,
Is to is 6d per score ; sorrel, 6d to is per half sieve ;
radishes, is to is 3d per dozen hands • tomatoes, Is to is
61 per punnet ; chillies, is to Is 64' per 100; Brussels
to
ossels
s
sprouts, is Od to 2s 00 per half sieve; capsicums, 2
per 100 ; walnuts pickling, 6d to is per 100; cauliflowers,
13 to Gs per doz.