The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-12 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

The present week's arrivals of Englieh wheat, coastwise
and by laud carriage, have been but moderate, and the
show of samples, to-day, was small. The demand, how-
ever, for all kinds was in a very inactive state, and the
quotations were: almost nominal. Foreign wheat—the
show of which was but moderate--sold heavily, but w e
have no actual decline to notice in the currencies. Float-
ing cargoes commanded very little attention.
The show of barley was not extensive ; yet the trans-
actions in that article were trifling, at barely Monday's

fall.
There was ♦erytittle doing in malt, the prices of which
were again lower.
The inquiry for oats was dull, and the quotations were
barely supported.
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Wheat.
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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1855.

LITERATURE.

The Englishwoman, iii Russia. By a Lady.
Murray.
The authoress of this work having resided in
Russia for ten years is evidently qualified to give
a description of the people. She remarks that the
generality of travellers take the steamer to St. Pe-
tersburg, and from thence proceed to Moscow, and
then return home, having seen only the surface of
things, and having seen, the writer asserts, all that
is civilised in the empire. ghe takes a most un-
favourable view of Russian progress and civilisa-
tion, though undoubtedly her statements are cor-
rect. The log-huts of the peasants, we are told,
are very little better than the wigwams of the Red
Indians. The inhabitants live much in the same
manner as they did centuries before the reign of
Peter the Great, and have not made " a single for-
ward step in the march of intellect." It would,
indeed, be wonderful if they did make progress
under such a despotism. While the authoress was
staying at Archangel a deaf and dumb gentleman
paid the town a visit ; he was furnished with letters
of introduction, and was well received by the
society of the place. He was able to read many
languages, and his agreeable manners and mis-
fortune made him a general favourite. Two
or three times the writer was struck with
an expression of intelligence in his face,
when a conversation was going on behind his
back. Some time after she heard the truth. He
was a government spy ! A general officer visited
another province in which she was staying. His
rank gave him access to the best houses, and he
was sure to be met with at any grand entertain-
ment. He also was a spy. This system of living
under a perpetual espionage, under which a casual
expression is often severely punished, gives a con-
straint and hypocrisy to their manners, besides
limiting the conversation of people of sense to scan-
dal of their neighbours and remarks on dress.
These, it appears, are tie favourite topics in high
life, for no one can tell what subject of more gene-
ral interest may not give offence. Some of their
regulations are most absurd, and lead to serious
consequences. One is that if a man should see an-
other lying murdered on the ground, and should
give information to the authorities, he will be him-
self retained till some trace of the assassin is found.
Another still more ridiculous, is that everything
must be done by the agency of the police. If a
man falls through the ice he must be left in the
water till the police arrive, and the same in any
other accident. A servant one day hung him-
self ; one of his companions entered and saw
him struggling, but could not cut the cord.
He ran to fetch the authorities who, by
the time they arrived, found a corpse. The
police, however, do not bear a very good cha-
racter. Two anecdotes are related of murders
committed by them ; in one instance for the
sake of the victim's dress, and the other case,
which was that of a poor servant girl sent on an
errand, for the sake of the silver rouble with which
she was entrusted. The poor serfs are cruelly ill-
used. Ladies of high rank and polished manners
think nothing of boxing their servants' ears for
a very trifling error. On one occasion the authoress
was going to accompany a Polish lady to the opera,
and while waiting for her in an adjoining room she
heard an altercation going on between mistress and
maid, which finished with a loud crash. Soon
the lady made her appearance with a smiling coun-
tenance, but it subsequently appeared that, having
scolded her maid and being rudely answered, she
had knocked her down with a chair with so much
violence that two of her front tenth wore broken.
The indignation of the Russians was very great at
the conduct of the Western Powers ; the English
they regard with especial hatred. The authoress
found the manners of her most intimate friends
change perceptibly after the declaration of war.
The exaggeration and misrepresentations of the
Russian reports are almost incredible. The writer
was at St. Petersburg at the time, and read the
proclamation of the Emperor announcing the
astounding fact that the Allied Fleets, mounting
350 cannon, had fired for twelve hours on the town,
killing only four men, and that the people were so
well behaved they did not let the tremendous can-
nonading interrupt their devotions. Added to
which they are told that the fleet was at too great
a distance to be within range of the battery guns ;
that the English ships retired with great damage,
though how this was, when the balls could not
reach them, he does not say.
Among the many volumes of Russian travels,
and works of description recently published, few
have equalled the present in the interest and
variety of the details, which, while rendering full
justice to the good qualities which develops them-
solves under such unfavourable auspices, affords a
full view of the blighting and degrading effect of
such a government. The writer's long intimacy
with Russians, and the opportunity she had, in a
ten years' sojourn in the country, to observe the
different grades of society and their customs and
progress, enable her to invest her work with an air
of reality, and her most extraordinary anecdotes
with an appearance of truth. The thorough insight
which it gives into Russian domestic life renders
it as valuable as a work of information, as the
amount and variety of anecdotes and incidents
makes it in a high degree interesting and enter-
taining.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. I
The progressive increase of traffic on this railway
during the last few years has produced a corresponding
increase in the extensive works at the Brighton termi-
nus. Several new shops have been built ; and there is
still further call for an extension of the works, which
will be carried out as soon as sufficient space can be
procured. In 1847 the company were paying about
7001. per week for wages ; now they are paying more
than double that amount, the number of workmen
exceeding I,oog. All the carriages and the locomotive
engines are manufactured in Brighton ; and we
are assures by persons competent to form an opinion,
that the Brighton. works can compete with any engine
manufactory in England or any other country. Some of
the best workmen in England are employed there. Dur-
ing the past year 10 new engines have been built, and it
is expected that the number to be finished this year will
far exceed that of last year. In addition to the 10 new
engines, the company have increased their stock by add-
ing two of the largest engines in England on any narrow
gauge, namely, the Europa and the Orestes, which were
manufactured by Messrs. Sharp and Company, and are
worked principally is the conveyance of coals and chalk.
Some hundreds of tons of chalk have been removed from
the hill near the cutting, for the purpose of obtaining
more space, and a vast quantity continues to be conveyed
to the various stations, the company having signified to
the agriculturists that they may have as much as they
please at a mere nominal charge. The company have a
very large wharf at Deptford ; and they are about to
fill up the Deptford Viaduct with chalk from the Brigh-
ton cutting.
Latterly there has been a great improvement in the
second class carriages, cushioned seats and backs being
introduced, and they are also much more eommodious
than the old pent-up second class carriages, which latter
we hope to see shortly brought entirely into disuse.
They are fast disappearing from the line, and the second
class carriages will in future have an air of comfort about
them that they had not till lately possessed. it is the
intention of the company to cover the whole of the third
class carriages. Even in the first Blass carriages a con-
siderable improvement has been shown by the space
between the seats.

THE NEGOTIATIONS Pole pgAcg
. R.
, Iv\ g IC‘
With reference to the negotiations at 'tienna,
the Independance Beige, a journal notorious for its
Russian leanings, remarks :—" It would seem that
the negotiations about to open are not to interrupt
the progress of hostilities in the Crimea. On the
contrary, the Western Powers appear determined to
push them with increased vigour ; and this, in our
opinion, constitutes the danger of the situation; this
is the circumstance most likely to compromise the
result of these negotiations." It scarcely required.

this acknowledgment from a Russian organ to con..
♦ince the public of the wisdom of the resolution
adopted by the Western Powers not to intermit for
a moment their warlike operations in the Crimea.
The charge of squadrons and thunder of artillery in
front of Sebastopol will not be heard at Vienna; the
delicate nerves of the diplomatists assembled in.
that capital will not be disturbed by the din of war,
or their deliberations interrupted. But the Russian

In connection with the Brighton Railway Com-
pany steam packets run between Newhaven and
Dieppe. From London to Paris this is much the
shortest route ; and a great number of persons avail
themselves of the time saved on this line. The only
drawback to a much more extended amount of traffic
is the sea voyage, to which many travellers have an
aversion. But in tolerably fine weather the water is
crossed in about five or six hours by first class packets,
and a more delighted aquatic trip it is hardly posgible to
conceive. From Dieppe to Paris, a railway is laid down
the whole distance. Other packets in connection with
the company run between Newhaven and the Channel
Islands ; but during the dull winter months they are
discontinued. That the railway has been, and is, of in-
calculable advantage to the town cannot be disputed;
and we trust that a good understanding will always be
kept up between the inhabitants and the company, which
must necessarily be of advantage to both, for the interest
of the one is the interest of the other. It is matter for
congratulation that no accident of any serious character
has occurred during the past year through the negli-
gence of the company's servants. We believe it will be
generally admitted that the Brighton line is in first-rate
working order, and we trust it will ever continue so.
There is one interesting feature connected with these
railway works, and that is the library, which is supplied
with above 2,000 volumes. In this establishment the
men and apprentices have an opportunity of learning
writing, arithmetic, and drawing ; each Saturday even-
ing a concert takes place for their recreation ; and, since
the opening of this library, the entertainments afforded
by the company, by means of an instrumental band and
a stringed band, &c., have had the effect of weaning
many aman from the low and more grovelling attractions
of the beer-shop. The subscription is low, only is. ld.
per quarter.
The Great Western Company, we believe, started the
_ _

idea of forming a library for the workmen, and we en-
d erstand that there are only a few stations where the
e:nuiiplo has been followed.
Tha branch railway to East Grinstead is in a very for-
ward state, and is expected to be opened in March next.
The Brighton Company have recently built a new
screw steamer, to run between Newcastle and Deptford,
p.n.d have given it the name of the Samuel Laing, in
honour of their chairman. It had only made three voy-
ages when the Government, desirous of obtaining all
tike screw steamers possible, have purchased it.—
Brighton Gazette.

DEATH OF LORD .ROBERTSON.

Minister will have a powerful motive for cutting
short his rigmarole speeches and protocols, when he
knows that every minute he spins out by them
enables the Allies to work additional havoc in the►
Muscovite ranks. The Russian Government and
its partisans flattered themselves that they had
gained an important point when they once more
entangled France and England in negotiations ;
but their hopes begin to abate since they have seen
that these powers can fight and negotiate at the
same time. Undoubtedly their resolution so to dcr
constitutes the danger of the situation ;" but the
danger is all for Russia, not for the cause of na-
tional independence and European tranquillity.
The groan wrung from the Russian organ in the
Belgian press, by the bellicose propensities of the
Western Powers, betrays the arricre-pensea with
which Russia has consented to entertain proposals
for peace on the basis of the Four Points. Russia
still hopes to gain back by diplomacy what it has
lost by arms. There is only one way of meeting

(From the Caledonian Mercury of Thursday.)

We record with infinite sorrow the death of Lord
Robertson, which took place yesterday about 11 o'clock
a.m., at his house in Drummond-place. Yesterday
morning he rose in his usual health, which, however, of
late, has not been good—breakfasted as usual, and re-
ceived by post and read a letter from his son, the gallant
Captain of her Majesty's Fourth Regiment of Foot, re-
cently mentioned in Lord Raglan's despatches, and pro-
moted for distinguished services in the Crimea. Shortly
before 11 o'clock, a friend who has also a eon before
Sebastopol, and who had also received a letter, called
for the purpose of giving and receiving intelligence,
which they were actually engaged in doing, when his
lordship fell back in his chair, and instantaneously ex-
pired. His disease was supposed to be connected with
the vessels of the heart.

Lord Robertson was born in February, 1793, and had
consequently nearly Completed his 62d year. He was
the son of the late Mr. James Robertson, a most re-
spectable and highly employed writer to the Signet of
this city. He became a member of the Faculty of Ad-
vocates in 1815—a Depute-Advocate in 1834—Dean of
the Faculty of Advocates, in room of the present Lord
Wood, in 1842—and was promoted to the bench on the
retirement of the prosent Lord Aleadowbank in 1843.
This is a somewhat meagre record of the life of a man
of genius, for such Lord Robertson assuredly was ; and
yet we fear that after the present generation has passed
away, it is all or nearly all that will remain. By the
present generation in Scotland there was no man more
generally, perhaps so generally, known. For about
a quarter of a century after he came to the bar, there
were few Juries either in the Criminal or Civil Courts
of Session—few members of the various successive
• Reverend Assemblies of the Church of Scotland,
and few, indeed, of his fellow-citizens of Edin-
burgh,—who were not familiar with his manly eloquence,
replete with sound sense, and relieved by never-failing
sallies of irresistible glee. And there was, and there still
is, a class of his admirers—we mean his personal friends,
—now afflicted with profound grief for his loss, to whom

and foiling its finesse ; and that is to propose, in
brief and explicit terms, such conditions of peace
as will give lasting security to Europe against Mus-
covite aggression, and to call upon the Russian
Government to accept or decline them without
higgling or chaffering. The Czar ought to be told
in plain unequivocal language—" Remonstrance is
in vain ; you must do so and so, or the war goes
on." On this head the weighty words with which
an article on " The Conduct of the War," in the
new number of the Quarterly Review, is wound up,
will be endorsed by the great body of the nation :
" Just as these sheets were being printed off, we received
the intelligence that Russia had accepted the Four Points.
If our article had been written with a knowledge of this
circumstance, we should have endeavoured to enforce the
same views we have already expressed, and should not the
less have urged the propriety of some change in the Cabi-
net. We believe indeed that there will be greater need
than ever for vigilance and firmness. We dread the diplo-
macy of Russia more than her arms. We are apprehensive
that her submission is a device for detaching Austria from
the alliance, and for paralysing our preparations for the
next campaign. Hostilities, it is affirmed, are not to be
interrupted ; but we are alarmed lest the Government
should repeat their former errors, and, lulled into false
security by the negotiations, should relax in their efforts
to provide armaments against the spring. Any such sus-
pension in our efforts would be the height of folly and false
economy. The more pecuniary cost of preparing for war
is vastly less than that of war itself, and should Russia
really yield to our demands, it will only be because we
hold ourselves in readiness to exact what she refuses. In
ignorance of the guarantees that will be asked of her, and
the amount of the indemnity which will be required for
the expenditure wo have incurred, we can give no opinion
upon the conditions of peace proposed by our ministers.
We trusted them to provide for the contingencies of war,
and found ourselves deceived. If, taking advantage of the
secresy with which the negotiations must be conducted,
they should again disappoint the reasonable expectations
of the public, and assent to inadequate terms, they will
not, we venture to predict, be able to withstand the storm
of reprobation which is justly due to men who, through
weakness and incapacity, have betrayed their country."
In this warning one important condition to be
exacted from the Czar is touched upon—" the
amount of the indemnity which will be required for
the expenditure we have incurred." It is not to be
endured that the people of France and England
should ultimately pay the expenses of a war forced
upon them by the arrogant injustice of the Russian
Autocrat. Compelling him to refund our outlay out
of his own exchequer will be an act of simple jus-
tice, and at the same time our best guarantee
against a repetition of the offence. To allow him
to escape without this mulct would be, on the part
of our Government, false generosity. It would be
to affect being generous at the expense of their
own people. It would be to fine the innocent
and let the criminal escape scot-free. Russia
ought, by every principle of law and equity, ulti-
timately to bear the whole expenses of the war.
The cession of the Crimea is as much a sine qua nom
as the payment of an indemnity by Russia ; and
the cession of the Aland Isles as the cession of the
Crimea. It is taking too narrow a view of the
causes and objects of the war to confine our at-
tention exclusively to the diminution of the
power of Russia in the Black Sea. England, at
least, has a more direct and immediate interest
in the diminution of the power of Russia in the
Baltic. We have a trade to make in the Euxine,
but wo have a trade to lose in the Baltic. Had
not the breaking out of the- war cut short the
operations required to effect that purpose, Bomar-
sund would have been made as formidable a fortress
as Sebastopol ; and assuredly it will be made so,
if Russia is allowed to retain possession of it. Were
Bomarsund made the Sebastopol of the Baltic, it
would constantly threaten Stockholm in exactly
the same way that the tatter does Constantinople.
Sebastopol, with a strong Russian fleet, made for a
time a Russian lake of the Black Sea ; Bomarsund,
with a strong Russian fleet, would in like manner
make a Russian lake of the Baltic. These pen
feathers—the Aland Isles and the Crimea—must
be plucked from the northern and southern wings
of the Russian eagle, or that insatiate bird of prey
will soon be flying about again, as mischievous and
as great a nuisance as ever. We do not say that
the three conditions we have enumerated above
are all that can or ought to be extracted from
Russia, but our Government should be satisfied
with nothing short of them.—Daily News.

the memories of his intercourse will ever seem the sun-
niest in their calendar. But after all these shall have
disappeared,—afterjuries shall have gone to judgment,
--and reverend assemblies to one still more august, and

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the citizens of this city shall have become citizens of
another,—and the mourning friends shall be mourned
for in their turn,—there will be no memorial left on
earth sufficiently characteristic of this remarkable man.
The genius of Patrick Robertson lay in acute percep-
tion and instantaneous illustration. The false of no kind
or species could ever be palmed upon him for the true,—
no gilding could hide the tinsel, no tarnish could conceal
the gold ; and while he was a merciless denunciator of
pretence in all its moods and genders, he was at the
same time a profound worshipper of excellence. Those
who knew him well know his reverence for Shakspere,
whose works ho had almost committed to memory; while
those who knew him neither well nor wisely, were prone
to imagine that the broad grin or the bitter caricature were
incompatible with the purest admiration of all that was
truly great. The conclusions, almost intuitive, at which
he arrived ; apparently without effort, he could com-
municate and express ih conversation so felicitous, as
almost to partake of the marvellous. None who ever
heard him with the understanding ear can ever forget the
charm, or expect ever to listen to its like again. This
was genius, felt, acknowledged, and appreciated by those
whose good fortune it was to be there ;—the genius of
conversation,—evanescent indeed—leaving no written or
substantial record—only a fleeting wake of applauding
murmurs and approving memories ; but not the less
akin in its universal application to that of the great Eng.
lish master who was ever uppermost in his love. It
could only have been by means of some photographic
process, unhappily as yet unknown, that a record of the
genius Patrick Robertson could have been handed down
to posterity ; to repeat him were as impossible, nearly,
as to forget him ; and, deeply as his loss will be deplored,
it is greatly enhanced by the consideration that so much
that was worthy of a place in the archives of time should
have passed irretrievably away.

Lord Robertson, whose death it is our painful duty to
record, has been the twelfth judge who has died within
the last'
four years. Lord Jeffrey died in the end of
January, 1850, and was followed by Lord Moncreiff,
Lord Mackenzie, Lord Dundrennan, Lord Anderson,
Lord Justice-General Boyle, Lord Fullerton, Lord C ock-
burn, Lord Medwyn, Lord Cuningliame, Lord Ruther-
ford, and Lord Robertson now completes the sad cata-
logue, containing as distinguished names as ever adorned
the bench of this or any other country.

NEW ROUTE BETWEEN DUBLIN AND LONDON.—The
rupture twelve months since of the arrangement between
the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company and the
Chester and Holyhead and North-Western Companies,
by the English managers, has led to an important
arrangement between the Great Western Company and
the Dublin Packet Company, for the " through book-
ing " of passengers and goods between Paddington and
Dublin, via Oxford, Shrewsbury, and Birkenhead. By
these means passengers can book throughout at reduced
fares on three days every week ; but in the season the
accommodation will be daily. This master-stroke of
competition-policy will give the public additional facili-
ties, and open up a new and interesting land route.
The Custom-house list of port wines exported from
Oporto during the past year has been received, from
which it appears that the total quantity was 39,252
pipes, being a decrease of 16,559 pipes from that of 1853.
The principal shippers were Sandemad and Co., 4,050
pipes ; Cockburn and Co., 2,395 ; Martinez and Co.,
2,392 ; J. D. Harris, 2,329 ; Graham and Co., 1,804 ;
Offiey and Co., 1,768 ; Hunt and Co., 1,582 ; Morgan
and Co., 1,148 ; Redpath and Co., 1,056 ; Bruno, Silva,
and Co., 1,006 ; all others figured under 1,000 pipes.
Tho quantities to each country were as follows :—To
Great Britain, 33,831 pipes, against 46,834 in 1853 ;
Brazil, 1,274 ; Canada, 952 ; Hamburg, 814 ; Australia,
639, against 2,521 in 1853 ; Sweden, 444 ; Denmark,
426 ; United States, 326 ; Portuguese possessions, 245 ;
Newfoundland, 182 ; Bremon, 64 ; Prussia, 30 ; France,
15 ; 11911 and; 10.