The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MiAItCH 8. 1855.

9,600,000/. worth of her exports, or 38 per
cent. of her whole produce ; while France received
8 per cent., and Turkey s:per cent—the Allies,

TEE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S VISIT TO I
TEE CRIMEA.

.LA7CEST NEWS.

A letter received from Paris this morning, con- I
tains the following important intelligence :
" The Emperor's departure is considered certain.
Indeed, it is believed that he will set out to-morrow
for Lyons, with the Empress. There is little doubt
that his journey to the East has more objects in
view than a mere visit to the Crimea, and that
it also has reference to a plan of operations of an
extent commensurate with such a war as the pre-
sent. On the precise nature of this plan of course
much secrecy is observed, but it is nevertheless
stated that a camp of at least 40,000 men will be
established at Constantinople, and that the divisions
of recent formation are destined for it. The closing
of the passage of Perekop, through which the sup-
plies in provisions and men have been so long sent
to Sebastopol, has been always an object of much
interest to the Allies. Could that be effected,
with the force the Turks now have at Eupatoria,
and with the establishment cf a complete invest-
' ment of Sebastopol, the Russian army in the
Crimea would be at the mercy of the Allies. I hear
it is proposed that the Austrian army, under
Coronini, said to be composed of 60,000 men,
will make a junction with the French division
proceeding from Constantinople, no doubt by sea,
and that the point will be on the borders of Mol-
davia. Both armies would thence invade Bessa-
rabia, and take up such a position as would inter-
cept the communications, and of course prevent
any new reinforcements descending to the relief of
the army in the Crimea.
It is positively stated that a twelfth division of
the army in the East is in course of formation.
The forces destined for the East will be composed
of not less than 15 divisions.

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n short, receiving upwards of one-half of the whole

exports of Russia. The cessation of this traffic
alone could not but have had a paralysing effect
on Russia, and common sense indicated the pro-
priety, not to say the necessity, of securing such
cessation. Yet the fact is our importations of
Russian tallow and flax have greatly increased,

MANIFII STO OF THE EMPEROR OF
RUSSIA.

'BERLIN, WEDNESDAY, MAEOLI 7.

A despr itch from Konigsberg►, dated the 7th
inst., give s the following summary of the mani-
festo of th,o new Emperor of Russia :
The n-la.nifesto of Alexander 11. has arrived.
After annormacing the sudden and severe illness of
the Emper or Nicholas, which terminated in his
death, it says that, as the deceased devoted him-
self incessantly for the welfare of his subjects, so
do we ale 0, on ascending th© throne of Russia,
and of Poland and Finland, inseparable from it,
take a so/Almn oath before God to regard the wel-
fare of our empire as our only object. May Pro-
vidence, which has selected us for so high a call-

and during the—first eight months of last year
there was an increase of wheat from 1,600,00 A to
3,000,000 qrs. Hew this has taken place is easily
enough explained. Prussia, the German State;
Holland, and Belgium have bad matters their own
way; and, while affecting neutrality, have been act-
ing as brokers for Russia, at all events facilitating
and profiting by the transit of Russian produce
through their territories. The neutrality of
these States has been our bane.
The most remarkable thing of all, however, is,
that there is every reason to believe that articles
contraband of war Lave been exported largely
from Great Britain and Ireland to foreign ports
since the commencement of the War. It was
bad enough one would have thought to suffer the
enemy's produce to be imported —but to
suffer the very weapons he needs to
fight us with to be exported to Russia,
however indirectly, is worse. For any Govern-
ment official to authorise such exportation is
really monstrous ; and yet, according to the
editor of a Hull paper—as stated by Lord BERNERS
iu the House of Peers the night before last—
fifty tons of lead were shipped from Hull the
other day, via Memel, to St. Petersburg. The
Customs-house authorities at that port, it would
appear, refused to pass the lead as an important
munition of war, but a telegraphic message received
from London authorised them to forward it, and
they did. The reader will imagine this must have
been a blunder. However well persuaded he may
be of the foolish infatuation of men in office, he
will hesitate to believe that the Custom-house
officers at Hull were wrong, and the superior au-
thority they appealed to was right. Yet so it
was. Before the beginning of the War, as Earl
GRANVILLE tells us, the exportation from this
country of arms, ammunition, and naval and
military stores was prohibited by proclamation ;
and, when War was declared, the prohibition was
limited to three classes of articles (1) arms, (2)
gunpowder, saltpetre, and brimstone, and (3)
marine boilers and engines—additional restrictions
being subsequently placed on blue bias and
cement! • Possibly it was thought the Russians
would have trowels to spread the cement, but
arms, gunpowder, and the materials to make
gunpowder being prohibited there could be lie
harm in the lead ! So our neutral enemy Prussia
has been kindly helping us to get rid of it,
thereby serving Russia, and improving her own
finances. All things considered, it was time for
Lord JOHN RUSSELL to interfere and obtain
the renewal of the promises of Prussia
on the subject of contraband trade pass-
ing through her dominions, and the ex-
pression of an intention of rendering more
effectual the means in her power of preventing
such traffic. An imperfect blockade ; Odessa
spared ; Prussia, and other States, suffered to
serve the enemy, under the guise of neutrals ;
thus the prolonged defence of Sebastopol ; the ha-
rassing of cur forces, and the continuance of the
War, are accounted for. Bungling everywhere,
and all throughout. If peace is net speedily
concluded, something should be done in reference
to neutrals. Things cannot go on as they are.

ing, be our guide and protector, that we may
maintain Russia on the highest standard of power
and glory, and in our person accomplish the in-
cessant wishes and views of Peter, of Catherine,
of Alexander, and of our father. May the zeal •f
our subjects assist us therein. We invoke and
command the oath of allegiance to us and to the
heir to the throne, our son Nicholas Alexandre-
witch."

VIENNA, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
Lord John Russell was present at the baptism

of the young Princess.
The Vienna Presse has the following :
Advices from Constantinople of the 26th of
February state that there was very fine weather
at Sebastopol.

The Russians have disappeared from the neigh-
bourhood of Balaklava.
The railroad is nearly completed.
During an insurrection at Aleppo the English
Consul was murdered.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Lord John Russell had a long audience of the

Emperor to-day.
A conference of the Ambassadors took place
yesterday. The debates had for object to fix the
precise meaning of the third of the guarantee
points.

Baron Prokesh has arrived.

The Oesterreichische Correspondenz publishes the

following

SMYRNA, FEB. 28.

A collision has taken place between two steam-
ers of the Messageries. Several persons were dan-
gerously wounded.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 1.

The shock of an earthquake has been felt here.
Broussa has been almost destroyed by an earth-
quake, and 2,000 lives loat.
During the night of the 22d of February the
French destroyed the Russian works near Malak-
hoff Tower, after a sanguinary conflict.

PARIS, THURSDAY.
The Moniteur publishes the following despatch,
dated 7th, 4 p.m. :
" A despatch addressed to Count Boul an-
nounces the recall of Prince Menschikoff, who is
replaced by Prince Gortschakoff, whose command,
in Bessarabia is given to General Luders."

WANTED, a nominative to a verb—the verb

is active, and requires a masculine nominative in
the third person singular. No one unconnected
with the Government or the army need apply.
Address to Messrs. MINTZ, LAYA RD, NEWDEGATE,
ok,C., House of Commons.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.

General von Wedell left Berlin last night for

Paris, with fresh instructions from the King.

We have been led to insert the above adver-
tisement by noting the difficulty in which several
Honoutable Members were placed on Monday
night. They found themselves most inconveniently
restricted in their phraseology ; the passive verb,
generally a plural one, was for ever recurring.
Each speaker wanted to come to masculine gen-
der, nominative case, third person singular, but
nowhere was the desideratum to be found—there
was nothing for it but to play on the everlasting
passive, and that, too, with no cause, agent, or
instrument attached. For instance=" orders
were issued" that no medical man should peach to
the Crimean commissions without permission from
head-quarters. Oh, could Mr. LAYARD but have
phrased it M. N. or N. M. issued orders ! So,
" boots were sent out too little for the men's
feet ; " " crooked sights were fixed " on rifles
which were all but sent to the Crimea. " The
fusees to the shells were so badly made " that
—LAYARD being eye-witness—not more than one
in ten exploded ! and they cost us more than a
each. " The frieze for the men's great-coats was
manufactured" of such wretched quality that it
might be seen through like gauze. The "pat-
tents for the arms were givea out months after
the order ;" consequently, the orders could not be
executed in time. It would seem as if verbs of
administrative offending rejoice in the passive
voice. It is to be hoped, however, that Mr.
ROEBUCK'S Committee will succeed in answering
our advertisement. If so, we shall not fail to
put the mkt delimquendi into the active voice,
with their appropriate third person nominatives.

The following is the complete despatch from
Admiral Bruat, a summary of which appeared in
our edition of yesterday :
" KAMIESH, ON BOARD THE MON-
TEBELLO, FEB. 24.

" The Russians appear to have abandoned the
positions which they occupied opposite to Eupa-
toria ; in their retreat they set fire to the villages
in which they had established themselves.
" In the night between the 22d and 23d of
February the garrison of Sebastopol had estab-
lished important works of counter-approach oppo-
site our works on the counter-fort of the plateau
which descends towards Little Careening Bay.
" The Commander-in-Chief ordered these works
to be carried in the night between the 23d and
24th of February by the troops of the 2d corps.
This affair does the greatest honour to our army,
and increases, if possible, the ascendancy which it
has not ceased to excercise over the enemy.
"Our losses amount, it is said, to 100 wounded.
"The Louis IV. and the Marengo are on the
eve of leaving for France."

THE TURKISH EXPEDITION
IN THE CRIMEA.

EUPATORIA, Feb. 20.—Early this morning, about
4 o'clock, we an had alarm, but a false one. The
cavalry videttes came in with the news that the
Russians wore quite close, but according to one
accoun they had mistaken some Tartars working in
the Russian cemetery for Russians. According to
another version it was only in imagination they
saw the enemy.
The Russians have quite retired out of sight,
except their usual cavalry videttes on some of the
tumuli further on. One could see the greatest
part of their infantry fall back towards Saki, and
the cavalry towards Ovaz, which is supposed to be
their head-quarters. During the late action our
guns have set fire to some buildings behind, but I
cannot tell you what they were.
There are people here who believe that the Rus-
sians have given up the idea of taking the place,
and retired altogether. This seems to me a rather
precipitate conclusion, and I am much more in-
clined to think that they are waiting for reinforce-
ments, having found it impossible to take the place
with the forces they already possess.
But even if this latter supposition be the true
one, the advantage will be on both sides, for we
shall have likewise time to prepare and to strengthen
our position. In this respect a great deal has been
done during the last two days.
In going over the ground to-day I found
all the bodies buried ; numbers of Tartars were
working, under the direction of French soldiers
of marine, to throw down the wall of enclo-
sure of the Russian-Greek cemetery, as well as
of the Turkish burial-ground, both of which had
served the other day as a protection for forming
the columns of attack. Both these cemeteries are
full of solid stone monuments, of several feet in
height, which form an excellent cover for riflemen.
The Tartars were therefore levelling them too.
The parties which have been sent out all over the
field to bury the dead found 453 bodies. If one
reckons now the numbers whom one could see
carried off by the Russians during the battle, their
loss must have been great, considering the short
time the whole affair lasted (about three hours),
and considering that only one attack of infantry,
and that a short one, took place.
Among the Russian dead on the field was found a
woman, the body of the Greek Bishop of Eupatoria,
and of the commander of the Greco-Slave Legion
whic'i had been foim3d by the Russians la't year
out of the Greeks settled in Moldo-Wallachia, and
out of the Bulgarians who followed the Russians
after their retreat from Silistria. Another woman
was likewise killed,, but carried off.
The loss of the Turks amounts to about 300 men,
among whom 70 to 80 killed. Their heaviest loss
is &lira Pasha, the commander of the Egyptian
troops, one of the most distinguished of the Turkish
native officers, a brave man, and much beloved by
his soldiers.

The nation has happily got rid of Lord ABER-
DEEN. Who will abate the intolerable nuisance
of the Peace Society ? Who will, for the tima
being, undertake to muzzle Mr. JOHN BRIGHT on
all matters relating to the War ? The man who
can do so will render important service to the
country—one deserving of the highest recom-
pence that can be offered. We gould be very
unwilling to sanction any impediment to the most
perfect freedom of discussion. On domestic con-
cerns we can tolerate the utmost latitude of
opinion. When parties choose to utterfunmitigated
nonsense, to neglect their own legitimate business
for matters of which they are profoundly ignorant,
the mischief corrects itself—the poison carries
with 'it its own antidote. But it is otherwise in
foreign afairs, more especially in matters relating
to war. They cannot mislead their countrymen,
but they may deceive the enemy—may induce
our opponebts to suppose that the opinions so
prominently put forward, so improperly obtruded
on the community, are participated in by any
but a small and insignificant clique. They well
know that if England were polled from end to end
not one man out of a hundred would be in favour
of the armistice which they suggest; that it must
be fatal to any Ministry by whom it was sanc-
tioned ; and yet, without the possibility of doing
any good, they endeavour to encourage our adver-
saries by gross misrepresentations of the state of
public opinion. This is worse than a mistake—it is
a positive crime. And if something cannot be de-
vised
lo w
to deter them from so impolitic a course—
ifthey cannot be induced to act in a manner
more becoming true-hearted Englishmen a
national demonstration should be made to prove
completely unwarranted they have been in
the unauthorised and incorrect assumptions so im-
y put forward.
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According to the latest information we have to
do with Osten Sacken's corps, under the immediate
command of Lipraudi. Prince Menschikeff him-
self was present in the battle, and, according to an
on dit, in the very carriage which was fired, upon
by the Turks from one of their f atteries, and nar-
rowly escaped being hit. Monschikoff is said to
have returned.

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Fue Zl,—Among the new arrivals are the gun-