The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-21 00:00:00

BRITISH TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

The following correspondence has been forwarded
;o us for publication :
Purlwell, Batley, near Dewsbury, Oct. 4.

My Lord,—l beg to ask your lordship whether
British merchants can and do freely trade with the
people of Carcassia along the coast of the Black
Sea, according to the 11th, 12th, and 13th articles
contained in the Treaty of Paris of April 27, 1856,
without stoppage, annoyance, or hindrance from
Russian vessels of war ?—I have the honour to be,
my lord, your lordship's obedient servant,

THOS. WRIGHT FENTON.
To the Right Hon. Earl Russell.
Foreign-office, Oct. 16.

Sir,—l ar--, instructed by Lord Russell to acknow-
ledge receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, in-
quiring whether British merchants can freely trade
with the people of Circassia along the coast of the
Black Sea ; and I am to state to you, in reply, that
on referring to the Russian Government, in the
year 1858, her Majesty's Government ascertained
that every commercial undertaking that was not
destined for one of the five ports of Anapa, Sou-
koum, and Redoubt Kale, Poti, and St. Nicholas,
which were legally open to foreign commerce on
the Asiatic seaboard, would be contrary to the re-
gulations of health, customs, and police which the
Imperial Government observed and enforced; and
that every merchant ship or steam vessel making
for any point of the eastern coast,
where the cus-
toms and sanitary services were not duly orga-
nised and had not been officially notified, would
act in contravention of the established laws, and
consequently the Russian cruizers charged to watch
the coasts would prevent such vessels from trans-
gressing the regulations of customs, health, and
police to which commerce in the Black Sea
is
legally subjected.
Such being the case, Lord Russell is of
opinion
that British vessels would not be secure from in-
terference on the part of Russian cruisers, if they
made for any point of the eastern coast of Cir-
cassia between the ports which have been opened
by Russia to foreign commerce ; and consequently
any attempt to open
communication with any
port would only bring
about complications with the
Russian Government, and result in losses to the
persons engaged
in such an enterprise..—l am, sir,
G. HAMmoND'
IT. W. Fenton, Esq.

ExTENSIVE INCENDIARY FIRES NEAR SHEFFIELD.
_For some weeks past the farmers on the north .eastern
side of Sheffield have been greatly alarmed by the occur-
rence of a number of fires in farmyards generally resulting
in considerable destruction of preperty. The first of the
series was at Barbot Hall, near Rotherham, where the
stacks and farm buildings were set on fire, and £l,OOO
damage done. The second was at Utley, in the same neigh-
bourhood, and property to the value of £lOO was destroyed.
The third was at Hansworth Woodhouse, about three
miles from the town, and there several stacks were set on
fire. The proprietors of the two last-mentioned farms had
received threatening notices. The fourth fire occurred at an
early hour on Sunday morning, on the extensive farm pre-
mises of Mr. Thos. Ward, at Handsworth Woodhouse, Six
stacks, comprising one each of oats, wheat, barley, straw,
and two of hay, were placed in the yard, close to each other.
About 1 o'clock in the morning, a person who was passing
the yard did not notice anything to excite suspicion, but in
about half an hour afterwards a light was seen in the stack
yard, and persons who hastened to the spot found all the
six stacks in flames. The greater part of the stacks were
totally destroyed. The owner had incured to the amount of
£2OO, but that will leave him a heavy loser.

" From the moment when I assumed the regency
and put myself at the head of the Government, I
placed my firm hope in the confidence of the people.
But my words at that period have often been mis-
interpreted, because a misleading press had Eatered
them. lam deeply convinced of the necessity' of
undertaking a task wholly belonging to me, the re-
form of the army, and of finishing it. It is
against this very task, which is mine, that the
most unexpected obstacles have been raised.
" But what can avail all present wealth, all the
development of industry—what can avail all the
good things that God has given us, if there is no
means of protecting them when they are threatened?
" Seldom has any enterprise been attacked as that
task has
been which I began with a view to the pro-
tectionand the prosperity of my country 9 It is
I true visa obliged to ask for it sacrifices on the part
of my people, but I am fully convinced that those
sacrifices were not excessive, as the financial state-
ment demonstrates,

" Where the demands might appear in reality too
onerous I was ready to lighten them. To that end
I consented to the suppression of the additions to
the taxes. But has there been gratitude for this P
On the contrary, the Chamber of Deputies voted
an address which contained anything but thanks.
This causes me much pain.
"As you have remarked, it is not the transfor-
mation of the army which forms the point of attack
properly speaking ; but the mark is elsewhere. The
intentions, at first disguised, have become partly
unmasked.

" I wish to conserve the constitution integrally
to my' people ; but it is also my invincible determi-
nation to keep unimpaired the crown transmitted
to me by my ancestors, and the constitutional rights
of that crown; this is necessary to the interest of
my people.
" For this, as well ss for the protection of the
good things mentioned above, there must be a per-
manent well-constituted army, and not a pretended
popular army, which as a Prussian has not feared
to say, is to be the support of the Parliament. I
am firmly resolved to yield nothing more of the
rights which have been transmitted to me. Tell
this to your constituents.
" You krzOw now, and you understand, what I
think on this subject. Let every one take pains to
make this mode of viewing matters prevail as widely
as possible. If this takes place, things will take
the best turn. Almighty God has always watched
over Prussia. He will also protect her in the
future, for the future 'of, Prussia is in the motto :
With God for King and country."
Now that the Chambers are closed, the Govern-
ment is proceeding with great severity against the
political press. In a letter from Berlin, published
in the Cologne Gazette, we read :—" Last night the
Evening Gazette was seized ; this morning, the
Tribune; this evening, the National Gazette. The
Augsburg Gazette and the -German Gazette were
stopped this morning at the post-office. A strong
military detachment mounts guard at Babelsberg,
where the King is living."

CIRCULAR OF M. DiiOUYN DE LIIUYS.

The Moniteur publishes the following circular,
addressed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys to the diplo-
matic agents of France abroad

" Paris, Oct. 18, 1862.

" Sir,—On taking possession of the post to which
the Emperor has deigned to call me anew, I
think it useful to tell you in what spirit I have
accepted the mission which has been confided to me.
I need not revert with you to the anterior acts
and proceedings of the Imperial Government in
the Roman question. His Majesty has, however,
more particularly manifested his way of thinking
by a letter addressed to my predecessor, which the
Moniteur of the 25th Sept. last has made public.
This document sums up the Emperor's views with
an authority which any commentary could but
' weaken, and I cannot do better than refer to it to-
day. In all the phases through which the ques-
tion has passed in thirteen years his Majesty's con-
stant object, as he has himself taken care to esta-
blish, has been to reconcile the great interests he
found divided; and the more serious those dissen-
sions became the more the Emperor deemed that his
Government ought to labour to appease them, with-
out however sacrificing anything of the principles
which have been the permanent rule of his resolu-
tions. The policy defined with such exalted and
impartial reason has undergone no change. It re-
mains animated by the same sentiments as hitherto
for two causes upon which it has lavished in equal
measure the testimonies of its solicitude. The Ro-
man question touches the highest interests of reli-
gion and policy ; it arouses on all points of the
globe scruples the most worthy of respect; and in
examining the difficulties by which it is surrounded
the Emperor's Government regards it as its first
duty to guard itself against whatever might seem
like precipitation on its part, or might make it de-
viate from the line of conduct it has marked out for
I itself.

" Such is the point of view at which I have placed
myself in accepting the directions of foreign affairs.
I do not think it either necessary or opportune to
enter into longer developments on this head. It will
suffice for me to have summarily indicated to you
the order of ideas from which I purpose to draw my
own inspirations for the fulfilment of the Emperor's
intentions. Invariably faithful to the principles
which have guided it hitherto, his Majesty's Go-
vernment will continue to devote all its efforts to the
work of conciliation which it has undertaken in
Italy, labouring at it with a full sense of the diffi-
culty and the grandeur of the task, without dis-
couragement and without impatience.—Accept, &C.,

" DROUYN DE LHUYS."

POST-OFFICE IN INDIA.—An amusing and novel
method of cheating the post-office is occasionally attempted
by the natives; they not unfrequently send letters unpaid,
with the communication written outside, and of course " tio
not desire that the addresses should receive or; pay the
postage on them. All such letters are, therefore, ignored
or refused by the addressees." This practice, one would
suppose, might easily be stopped, if the post-office autho-
rities, instead of the addressees, were to ignore, or refuse
to deliver, all such letters. But what a fund of amusement
for the clerks, especially if suuch letters as are occasionally
read in trials for breach of promise of marriage are sent in
this way. The extent of the practice may be observed from
the fact that last year more than a quarter of a million of
letters, postage unpaid, were refused by the addressees, and
consequently returned to the dead-letter office.—Social
Science Review.

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CLOTHING FUND for the RELIEF of the
LANCASHIRE and CHESHIRE OPERATIVES.
The Lord Mayor and Committee beg to announce that, by
the kindness of the Governors of Bridewell, a portion of that
Building has been placed at their disposal for the RECEP-
TION of CLOTHING for the use of the SUFFERING
POPULATION in the DISTRESSED DISTRICTS.
They therefore invite contributions of Clothing of all kinds
and of Blankets, and request that they may be sent to the
above-mentioned place, viz.:
Bridewell, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, E.C., for the
Committee.
Mansion House, E.C., ISth Oct., 1862.

CRYSTAL PALACE-AFTERNOON VISITS.
This ileing the Last Fortnight of the International Exhi-
bition, and in anticipation that many Excursionists and other
Visitors, whose time is limited, would wish to see the Palace
also, it will remain open during the above period from Nine
in the Morning until Seven in the Evening.
At dusk the Palace will be lighted by the new gas standards
erected in the naves by Messrs. Defries.

CRYSTAL, PALACE.-GREAT
FOUNTAINS.—LAST TIME THIS SEASON, TO-
MORROW, at Three o'clock.
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CRYSTAL PALACE.—La of the GREAT
FOUNTAINS this Season, TO-MORROW, at Three
o'clock. This Display will comprise the following :
The Six Fountains on the Upper Terrace.
The Two Prince of Wales' Fountains.
The Large Central Baset k Fountain.
The Two Graceful Water Temples.
The Forty-eight Tazza Fountains.
The Six Boiling; Fountains.
The Grand Cascades and Waterfalls.
The Eight Dancing Fountains.
And the whole of the varied and beautifully designed Foun-
tains and Cascades of the GREAT LOWER BASIN' S which
alone cover a surface of five acres, numbering Twelve Thou
sand Jets, discharging One Million Nine Hundred Thousand
Gallons
of Water, including Les GRANDES EAUX, which
attain the altitude of 234 feet.

• For full particulars of amusements see first page.
ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
This Evening, Wallace's opera of EURLINE.
Commence at 8.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Thies Evening, at Seven, THE COLLEEN BAWN. And
at half-past Nine THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
This Evening, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. After which,
OUR AMF.RICAN CO USIN. DU
And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTONWith.CK HUNTING.
Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
This Evening., THE GREEN BUSHES. Followed by
THE SHILLING DACo Y.
mmence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
This Event= DELICATE GROUND. After which, at 8,
Sheridan Knowles' Play of LOVE. With PERFECTION.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
This Eveninfr, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR-
NEY. Conclude with IT MUST BE MITE, 'TWAS IN
THE PAPERS.

Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
This Evening, MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scones in the Circle.
i,'oncluding with a Comic, Ballet.
Commence at 7.

W, S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES,
Polygraphic Ball, King William-street, Charing-cross. -,
Commence at 8.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay.
market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing.

CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.—
Grand Operatic Selection and Cantata -Unsworth, Eugene,
and Duley, the great comic trio, Bre.
Commence at 7.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STRXET, EVERY
EDEN ING.—Donizetti's "Don Sebastien," and other grand
Operatic Selections, with full band and chorus .—The
's comic
performance of Miss Caroline Parkes—Mr. Maclagan En-
tertainment Drew Dean, the youthful Flutist—Unsworth,
the original of "any other man," &c.
Commence at 7.