The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 13th ult., in
the Courrier du Havre, announces that the national
funds had rEeently advanced materially in conse-
quence of considerable investments having been made
in them on account of French capitalists. The Five
per Cents. had risen to 103 and 109, and the Six per
COALS. from 125 to 131. The Russian Government
had resolved to carry into execution the project of
establishing a railway from Chartoff to Theodosia, and
had accepted the proposition of a private company for
that purpose, with a capital of fifty millions of
silver roubles (118,750,000 francs), to which the
Government had consented to guarantee an in-
terest of 3 per cent. Chartoff is a city of the
Ukraine, situated 1,030 kilometres S.E. of Sr. Pe-
tersburgh, and Theodosia or liaffa is a port on the
Black Sea, near the straits of Kertch. It is in
contemplation also to establish a railway from Mos-
cow to Chartoff, so that a direct communication will
be ultimately established between Petersburgh and
the Crimea, and the capital of Russia be thus able tc
communicate in a few days with the Black Sea and
Odessa.

COURSE OF EXCH,
Amster:am 11194
Ditto, three months.. 12 A
Rotterdam .... .... 12 1
Antwerp • • .• .......... 25 53
Brussels • • • • .• ~ 25 55
Efambnrgh .... • • M.B. 13 11%
&tone • • ........ • • ....
Paris, 3 days'sight 25 35
Ditto, 3 months • • .. 25 55
Marseilles . • • • • . 25 55

9,N GE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibra1tar............ ••
Leghorn .............. 30 8234
25 67%
Genoa
Milan ..-••••••• ••••••

Naples •• •••••••••••• 40%
l'alerrao,peroz........ 122
'Messina ..•••••••••••• 122

L 1310011.... ..........
Oporto. ••••••••••• •• •• 53%
Rio Janeiro 27
Suenos Ayres •• • .

Bonnles= .. •
Frankfort onlhiaine.... 121%
gerlin•• • . •• • • •••••••.
Vienna, area. flo.• •• 19 45
Trieste, ditto.... 12 45
Peteraburgh.slll.Rble.. 37%
Madrid •• •- -• •• •• ••
Cadiz •• •-,„.• •• •• •• •• 50N,
BarcolOas ............
Sav1110•• •• •• •• •• •• •• 411,

New York .60 dayesigh t
Philadelphia .... • • ....

!Mom) 01 BULLION, Pll ON.
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
eertugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
.spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ...... 0 4 10%
'liver In bars 0 0 0

NATIONAL RLFoRM ASSOCIA-
TION.-(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
_ _

Mr. Foa, while he admired the spirit of the remarks
made by the last speaker, differed from him as to the
correctness of his assertion. If the people were not
with the association, with whom were they ? He
emphatically asserted that they were.— (Cries of
"No. no," and " Hear.") He himself was a Chartist,
and he was sure that if the Chartists went along with
this association they would have a much better chance
of obtaining the objects for which they were striving.
This, however, was not the time for the discussion of
the principles of the ecciety—they had been settled long
ago—it was a meeting for business purposes, and the
object of it was to settle the means by which those
views could be best carried out. What was wanted
now was to effect a coincidence between Parliament and
the people, and that was not done by the present system
of representation. Tho first thing was to purify this
system, the effect of which was to make the mr.jority
subordinate to the minority. What they wanted was
to reverse this; and he thought that the proposed re-
distribuion of Members was the best means of effecting
this. far better than the plan of Lord John Russell.
Mr. G. DAWSON said that he was a thorough Chartist
himself, and had at a meetiug of the association at
Birmingham proposed and carried an amendment
in favour of universe). suffrage. He himself had re-
gretted that the association had not committed itself
to a broad principle on this point. He himself had
always been an enemy to obstructive policies, and he
never would be guilty of it, and for that reason though he
would never give up universal suffrage, he should never
refuse to give help to any who went that same way, but
were nor, yet ready to go quite to far. That was the sense
too of the town of BirmieghaEn

Mr. I‘..inn'trha.tou said that the only claim which he
had to the notice of the re, ociation was, that since the
time he had her'. a neat in Parliement, he had supported
the motion far universal suffrage. He regretted that
more of his countrymen were not present on that
t ceasion, but he could assure the meeting that as far as
his individual cnieticueney want they were altogether in
fevour of the aseccaeoe. Lord De:hy was now in power,
and it wee icapossinlo to tell witar, he meant to de, but
it Was rumoured that he meant to take ,he toecap
loaf from them which !ree-'race had given them. Phe
di I then the time would come when they must j:.;in the
flag of Reform to that of Free-trade, and insist in calling
on i.ei people in e. moss to sly and determine whether
they would have a corn-law or not. The great deject they
had to attain was twat:it:any, without it they could du
nothing.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN said that row the time had come when
the delegates from the different constituencies of the
country would come forward and announca the state of
feeling in their different localities.
• A DELEGATE aftid, that with regard to the question
of Mr. Fox, it the people were not with this association,
where were they? he esserted that the people were
not supporting this reform or that reform, but the
brewers and publicans, the greatest enemies of the
community.—(L')nl laughter.)
Air. GESSIN, of Bedford, said that in his borough the
general feeling was in favour of progressive reform. He
was a memoer of the legal profession, and was
desirous of seeing the practice of the law reformed. He
was not a Chartist—(Cries of " Oh," and laughter)—
bin was desirous of seeing all reform obtained by fair
and peaceful means. He had not, however, the slightest
intention of refinaiog on the Chartists.
Mr. DEAN was en advocate of the rights of man, and
'when any man proved to him what his rights were he
would be the fir:.,, to join in obtaining those riehts.
Mr' DICK, of Fientetry, regretted that ho could not
ant with this a..,s,J!ii‘Aun. They had net the people
great with them, them, heir ever aTeeln have until they recegnised
thprinciple of radii eal suffrage. Ile could not
se:
y a •war cry should be got up against Lord
of Derby,„ihh,eo,llla,,(,l
andde nothing against tae people,—(Cries
'
The
cnAlax.vtilahupter.)
aentlemau a fair gad the conference to give- the
'e hearing, as he appeared as an advocate
of Lard Derby.
Mr. Dim denied that hes was an advocate of Lerd
Derby, Or any bu in Illhi.,
lwr,
jaatievie)r.—(Laughter.) He
weuld not support
iosr
ornfeir)sa,
Parliamentary
are;
ouch, they must embrace the real b 56,1
reform—universal 3etiragp.
of Br '•
Mr. LE BLOI D. , elt,,rii, hoped that the to-sting
would 00t accept Mr. Dick 2,q
lair presentati of he
Presentative
ith the
body. He repudieted as such.
There was a strop..
re-
Bard to the town from which he .
cline, it was a town
where reForna was greatly
bniereded.
branch aseociation there, which
the mother I"
Principles went f-4
beyond
the programme %
with %tether association, but
Wee ready to cn-oPerat possible. ° obtain as great
a measure of reform as 13' • e agreed with
of old.
what had been said, that there 17es a greater danger to
that he was,
was' . a decided
the people from the modern
_aristocracyrist ot' ,
wealth than
there ever had been from the fnidalda
said
The Rev. Mr. PARSONS, of S'r" .'0
as most of the conference knew n.
Chartist, and so were the great majority of the working
men of his neighbourhood. Both he and heY, nuver,
were disposed to aid this associatior, became, eveni it it
did not go the whole booth which they did, it 3
.11 went
the same way with therm' It was felt univr2a.lly,that
the evil lay in the constitution of the House of 1,-,913_2-
MC)7.IS, •.til no good could be done until that assembly
was reformed, arid to obtain that they must Um:o with
t his association.
Mr. HLLYOAKE salf3, that he was one of the Council
of the National Charter Aeseciatiou, and on behalf of
that association he could say that they were ready to
,join in con Federated action with the Parliamentary lice
form Association, us having the same ends, though mo"
dified, with themeelven He had also been long a
worker in associations for social reform, and on behalf of
such associations be could say that they would also aid
in attaining Parliamentary reform.
The Rev. Mr. BURNS said that for the last few years a
conviction had been gaining strength among the Dis-
senters of this country that it was the duty of Christian
iniaisters to mingle to seine extent in politics. A meet-
ing had been held by the Dissiting ministers of the
metropolis, in which a resolution was come to to support
the association.
atr.ERNEST JONES, who was received with loud cheers,
Prnksted against the manner in which the business of
the conference had been conducted, in not allowing a
vote to any but those who they
of ti sir motions, in knew would vote in favour
and confining the speakers to ten
minute?. in that time it was impossible for him to
prove what it was his wish to do, and that was, that the
,
measure which this association- s a was reactionary.
The fact we. that they had cot, would not have
the working clvses with them, and without them they
ca ill do nothing, These two .propositions heiwould end:: r-
tate' to prove, and he challenged tir Joshua Wnitneley,
or any other member of the council, to meet him and
discuss the question.ll"thing but, exnedieney would
compel the Gear ists to jai, this association, and the
general opinion "a"g the Chartists was, that they
mid do better without such an association.
Mr. T. CLARE, of Manchester, then stood forward,
and was received wlth cheers from
~ sr.„ one party, and cries
tleee
no speaker could be heard,
different horn others of "'Traitor,"
a The noise was so
great that for some
although several rose in parts of the conference
Mr. G. THompsog eilFed the
meeting to order. H,;
N Elei Tr. , ~... n his exßerience seen so much violence on
--a . .. 't. , - ere section 0f..6 "ollag tolerated so loug
*kali
• .c, ~rgia. -4,- . • en.

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