The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-25 00:00:00

( From the Daily News.)

A day or two ago we had an Imperial declaration
from St. Petersburg ; to-day we have a circular
addressed to the diplomatic agents of Russia, and
signed Nesselrode, which follows in the wake of the
other as Sancho Panza ambled after Don Quixote.
At an early period of the Turco-Russian disputes,
our ministers embraced an opportunity to pro-
nounce glowing eulogiums upon the pacific and
justice-loving disposition of Count Nesselrode, and
it has since become the fashion to panegyrise him
on all occasions as the one reasonable and honest
man in the St. Petersburg Cabinet. That Count
Nesselrode—who is Aot what the Germans call a
" Stock-Russian," and has long and frequently
mingled in civilised society—should be fully aware
of the preposterous character of his master's claims,
and the hollowness of the overweening estimate
that master has formed of the resources at his com-
mand, and that Count Nesselrode in consequence
may have at sundry times whispered prudent cau-
tious in the Imperial ear, is possible. Still the fact
is obvious, that not a falsehood has been ventured
by the Russian Government which Count Nessel-
rode has not endorsed ; not an act of outrageous
injustice has been perpetrated by it which Count
Nesselrode has not attempted to present in an ex-
tenuating light ; not an Old Bailey quibble of Rus-
sian diplomacy that Count Nesselrode has not shar-
pened his wits to sustain by argument. He has been
throughout the most forward, unscrupulous, literary
hack of his master ; and
if all the while he has
known better, his moral degradation, as compared
with the Menschikoffs--who can at least plead a
certain rude ignorance in extenuation of their bru-
tality—is only the deeper. Other Russian Minis-

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'tors may have sinned in ignorance, but Count
NesSelrode will be handed down to posterity as the
venal, timid slave of a despot whom in his inmost
soul he thoroughly understood and despised. Red
tapists—high or low in station—may admire and
flatter such a character, but it becomes all whose
moral standard has not been dulled and debased by
court intrigues•--who see and feel the misery which
such courtly parasites entail upon humanity—to
brand the Nesselrodes of all times and nations as
they deserve.

The last new piece of dirty work undertaken by
Count Nesselrode, and executed as might have
been anticipated, con amore, is to' bespatter with
praise the wretched intrigues of the Greek Court
and its mercenary incendiaries in Thessaly and
Epirus ; and, if possible, to encourage them to per-
severe in their evil courses. The Count attempts
I to insinuate that the rising in Epirus has been the
consequence of recent oppressions of the Greeks in
that province, and he would make it appear that
the Turks have been stimulated and encouraged in
acts of oppression by the Western Powers. He
speaks of "the position of the Christian popula-
tions subjected to Turkey, and upon whom the
Mussulman Government and people, excited by
fanaticism, and confiding in the sympathy and aid
offered to them with so unjustifiable an eagerness
by the Christian Powers, think themselves autho-
rised to exercise the most cruel vexations." To
this alleged French, English, and Turkish conspi-
racy for the oppression of the Eastern Christians,
Count Nesselrode attributes the recent movements
in Epirus. " Some of these populations, especially
those which border upon independent Greece,
dri von to extremes and losing all hopes of a better
fate, have taken up arms to throw off a yoke which
has become insupportable." What follows could
only emanate from a Cabinet so long hardened in
the practice of audacious falsehoods as that of St.
Petersburg :
"If the rising we hear of should take greater extension
—if it should become a war to the death, and of long dura.
tion, like that of the Greeks in 1821—we do not think
that any Christian power could assist in replacing these
populations under the Ottoman yoke without offnding
its conscience. The Emperor will in no case lend his
hand to it. During our war, as at the period when
peace will be possible, their fate will be the object of the
Emperor's care. We also hope that God will not allow
that, from au unjustanimosity against Russia, Christian
sovereigns shall permit their armies to join in the work
of extermination, which the renegades assembled in the
camp of Omer Paella meditate doubtless at this hour
against those who have taken arms for the defence of
their hearths and their church. Such, sir, is the point
of view in which we think it right to consider the rising
in Epirus, the possible consequences of which we
regret, which we have the consciousness not only not to
have excited, but which we were unable to prevent,
though we desired to do so."
The cant of moderation in these sentences can
be equalled in offensiveness by their daringdefiauce
of truth or probability. It is false that France or
England have encouraged or stimulated Moslem
fanaticism. It is false that recent exactions
or oppressions on the part of the Turkish
Government, or the Turkish people, have given
rise to the insurrectionary movements in Thes-
saly and Epirus. The journals of Athens
do not attempt 'to deny that the rising has been
the work of those worse than the Klophts, who by
a transparent juggle have resigned their commis-
sions under the Greek Government to place them-
selves at the head of the few misled subjects
of the Porte, whom their artifices have in-
volved in insurrection, and the brigands who
have joined them from the Kingdom of
Greece. The only palliation, strongly urged by
the tools of the Greek Government in the press, is,
that the frontiers of independent Greece wore not
sufficiently extended to the north when its separa-
tion from Turkey was declared, and that its Go-
vernment is warranted in seizing the first opportu-
nity to have them widened by any means. Equally
untrue is Count Nesselrode's assertion respecting
the rising in Epirus—" which we have the con-
sciousness not only not to have excited, but which
we were unable to prevent, though we desired to '
do so." There is an important admission in this
sentence : if the Russian Government attempted
to prevent the rising in Epirus, it must have known
of it beforehand. Count Nesselrode has confessed
therefore that his Court was previously aware of
the intended rising ; that it was in communication
with the insurgents or invaders—call them what
you will. Here then we have a light thrown upon
the mission of the military Russian agents who
accompanied Prince Menschikoff to Constantinople,
and proceeded without a day's rest to visit various
districts of independent and Ottoman Greece.
Count Nesselrode has confessed that they were in
communication with the leaders of the insurrection
before it broke out, before the Menschikoff negotia-
tions had transpired, and consequently before aid
could have been offered by the Western Powers to
the Porte. The attempt of Count Nesselrode,
therefore, to attribute to the rising in Epirus an
overweening spirit engendered in the Turks by
their reliance upon their Western allies falls to the
ground. That rising had been resolved upon and
prepared before Prince Menschikoff opened his
batteries against the Divan • and resolved upon
and prepared with the knowledge of the Russian
Government. The assertion thSt Russia desired
to prevent the rising is disproved by the papers
found upon the secret Russian agents subsequently
arrested at Constantinople and elsewhere. Those
papers prove that the leaders of the insurrection
were acting in concert with Russia, anti in other
provinces of Turkey beside Epirus.
With the characteristic self-defeating, over-cun-
ning of his Cabinet, Count Nesselrode has completed
the chain of evidence which proves the insurgents
or invaders in Epirus and Thessaly to be mere
tools of Russia. The allegation that these adven-
turers, with King Otho for their leader, are inspired
by sympathy for the Christians subject to Turkey,
will not hold water. Religion has nothing to do
with the affair ; it is simply an attempt to raise a
Greek Government on the ruins of an Osmanli one.
It is not even a genuine prejudice of race. The
adventurers whom King Otho has hounded upon
Albania care for the name of Greek only in so far
as it affords " political capital" for them to traffic
upon. Their Greek patriotism and nationality is
the exact counterpart of the Irish patriotism and
nationality of our Mitchels and Johns of Tuam.
They have sucked the kingdom of Greece dry, and
are seeking to enlarge its border in order to entrap
more subjects whose pockets may be picked in legal
form for the benefit of King Otho and his pauper
court. They are as shortsighted, too, as they are
unprincipled ; they do not see that in the hands of
Russia they are the mere cat's-paw exposed to
singe itself while poking the chestnuts out of the
fire with which its patron desires hereafter to feed
himself. The Greek Government, we aro told, has
purchased the Russian men-of-war laid up in the
Adriatic ports of Austria. Whence has a bankrupt
Government, which cannot pay its own debts,
money for such a purchase ? Russia, to be sure,
has sold those ships upon credit, intending to take
payment in its own fashion and its own time. The
Emperor of Russia told Sir Hamilton Seymour
I frankly enough his views respecting any extension
of Greek sovereignty.
Were it merely a question as to the additional
power Greece throws into the Russian scale, these
intrigues would scarcely deserve a second t.hOught;
but the awkward and incautious manner in which
the demure Nesselrode has shown his cards de-
serves to be dwelt upon, were it only from a faint
lingering hope that the eyes of our Government
may at last be opened to the true character of the
enemy they have
to dea with. The RusscieannlG
aro;
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vernment, it is clear, shrinks from no incendiary
or revolutionary machinations n other States that
policy
is to promote its selfish ambition. Its po
is that of the man who would set his neighbour's
house on fire to roast his own eggs. In its aggres-
sions Russia knows neither pause nor retreat. Ne-
gotiation is with it merely a device to gain time.
ti War to the knife" must be the rallying cry of
all who have to struggle with it. Till the power
of the Russian Government is effectually and per-
manently paralysed, there can be no hope of repose
for Europe.

BURIAL IN A GARDEN.--yesterday information was
forwarded to Mr. Wakley, the coroner, that the body of
a child, who had been buried under somewhat extraordi-
nary circumstances in the garden of Dr. Griffith Jones,
of the Hydro-Homcepathic establishment, 14, Harring-
ton-square, St. Pancras, had been exhumed. The child,
it appears, had been under the care of the medical gen-
tleman in whose garden the body had been buried, and
having died under his care had been buried in the man-
ner stated. The body was conveyed to the St. Pancras
Workhouse to await the coroner's inquest.
THE MURDER OF A BOILER-MAKER AT BROMLEY.—
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday forenoon, Mr. Wm.
Baker, and a respectable jury, assembled at the St.
Leonard's Arms Tavern, St. Leonard's-road, Bromley
New Town, on view of the body of Thomas Turton, aged
40 years, who it was alleged had been murdered by
Rebecca his wife, on Saturday morning last, by stran-
gling him while asleep with a black silk handkerchief,
some particulars of which appeared in The. Sun yesterday.
The inquiry having lasted upwards of four hours, and
there being a great number of witnesses in addition to
the medical testimony, the learned coroner adjourned the
inquiry for a few days.

PRESTON, April 24.—Yesterday's delegate meeting
was looked forward to with considerable interest, it being
anticipated that there would be a material diminution in
the receipts in consequence of the Easter holidays. At
present I have not been able to ascertain the precise in-
come ; but one thing is certain, that the requisite amount
of money has by some means been maintained, for I find
this morning that the weavers' committee are paying the
hands ss. per head as heretofore. • The probability is,
that another loan has been negotiated,

Mr.. Kinder Smith, of Oldham, presided over the dele-
gates, of whom there was a full attendance. In his
opening speech the chairman remarked, that if sufficient
money did not come in that day, they would get it from
where they could, and pay the hands as before. He did
not care whether the money was borrowed or given, if
they could only accomplish the object for which they had
been so long struggling. They must not be discouraged.
They were not the first party that had been in difficul-
ties. They might be in difficulty now, but they should
get over it. If the people were not prepared to make
any sacrifice lather than give way, they would find
themselves in a thousand times worse position than they
were before. He would sooner stand on the sands of
the Ribble and let the tide wash him away than be a
factory operative in Preston if the manufacturers accom-
plish the object they have in view. They (the opera-
tives) would not surrender until compelled ; then they
would congratulate themselves upon having done their
best, and they would have another "do" with the mas-
ters at some future time. Ho anticipated that before
another week bad elapsed the operatives of Stockport
would have resumed work, and again become contribu-
tors towards the support of their brethren here. And
(added the chairman) we'll not only beat the masters
out of a 10 per cent. in Preston, but we'll get it for
Stockport and all the localities round Preston. (Cheers.)
The Blackburn delegate stated that his constituents
had only been able to collect a little more than 2001., but
they had made it up to about 4001. from their reserved
fund, and had still a little on hand. Reports of a pre-
judicial character had been circulated in Blackburn, and
some little division was thereby caused amongst the
committee ; but this had all been set right by the report
of a. deputation, who returned from Preston on Thurs-
day night. One mill was now on strike in Blackburn ;
the master had ill-used his hands, and they were deter-
mined to cure him. It was hoped that the people of
Preston would be firm ; they might depend upon it that,
in the course of a week or so, the usual amount would
be sent from Blackburn. (Cheers.)
The Darwin delegate brought 1201, He stated that
some of the weavers he represented had only earned
ls. Sd. during the week, and yet they had subscribed ls.
each. (Loud cheers.)
The delegate from A.sliton-under-Lyne announced that
he had brought 120/.-201. more than last week.
The Staley-bridge delegate said it had been reported
'that one of the Preston mills was filled by people from
Stockport. This and the holidays had caused a. diminu-
tion in the subscriptions.
Several other delegates complained of the mischief re-
sulting from the circulation of rumours to the effect that
the Preston struggle was over.
A delegate attended from Rochdale with 4/. He stated
that a committee had just been organised, and it was ex-
pected that from 801, to 1001. a week would be contri-
buted in Rochdale.
The following resolution was passed unanimously :
"That the best thanks of this meeting be given to the
Mediation Committee for the indefatigable exertions they
have made towards settling the question now in dispute
between the employers and employed."
To-day the annexed "Appeal to the Women of Eng-
land" has appeared :
" Wives, Mothers, and Sisters—The time has arrived
when we can no longer remain inactive. For more than
thirty weeks have been heard painfully audible the piercing
groans of the widow, while the rights of the orphans are
ruthlessly trampled upon by those who have reared their
stately mansions, amassed their hoards of wealth, and who
now turn a deaf ear to the cry of suffering humanity,
treating those who have, by the sweat of their brow, ele-
vated them to the present high position, with cold con-
tempt and lofty arrogance, as if they were of a lower
variety of species, or formed from a coarser clay, refusing
to treat either with their own workpeople, their leaders
(whom they affect to despise), of those gentlemen who
have kindly offered their services, actuated, as they them-
selves admit, 'by the most disinterested motives and a
sincere desire to bring this unhappy difference to au end
by mediation or arbitration.'
" All efforts having failed to heal the breach, we are
compelled to appeal to all who possess one spark of hu-
manity within their breasts, and especially to the women
of England, to whom this call is more particularly made,
to arouse from their lethargy, and let that spirit which
ever characterises the females of all ages to shine forth with
redoubled splendour.
" We do so with implicit confidence in the mighty power
and unflinching determination of that sect—degraded into
an inferior class of being by the refinements of the East,
subjected to the tyrannies of Greece and Rome. But here,
in the north, their equality has ever been preserved in-
violate.

" Among our ancestors the Saxons, and also among the
ancient Germans, they were ever looked up to as goddesses
in wisdom as in beauty, beings endowed with a superior
intelligence. They doubtless are, and hence can we ac-
count for their authority being most fully respected in all
matters of religious trust, as well as in the affairs of life
and morals.

" To such we now appeal, in the name of suffering hu-
manity. By the tears of the widow, and the cries of the
orphan, wo earnestly implore your assistance in this trying
season, hoping, as we do, this appeal will not be made in
vain to those who have ever been ready to raise their
voice, and assist with their purse, for the suppression of
foreign despotism.
_ _

" We fearlessly assert that the power of the master was
not more exercised by the feudal lord than is wielded by
the Preston ' Associated Masters' of the 19th century, nor
slavery more revolting during the worst days of the Roman
republic.

Let, then, the same spirit. animate you on behalf of
your suffering sisters of Presten as that displayed when the
women of England- nolilyPmcitehOed. to crush the foreign
despot, thereby elevating tkuite-ipihom God
.has endowed
with minds capable of ;•easoning, to occupy position far
higher than that of the brute creation.
'` Far be it from us to invoke vengeance upon these men.
And, yet, what fountain of 'confidence have they not poi-
soned ? What bond of slavery have they not riveted ?
What recesses of affection have. they not violated ?, In
short, what misery and destitution are they not daily pro-
pagating ?
" Never can domestic, social, civilised man or woman
be safe while such a state of things exists.
" Awake, then, ye daughters of Britain ! Let your
united voices be heard as in days that have gone by.
Withhold not your pence, but join in this mighty struggle
of right against might. Suffer not the Preston operatives
longer to be down-trodden. Help ! help ! and nations yet
unborn will thank you for the effort.
" JOHN MOON, Secretary."

WRECK OFF DEAL.

DEAL, SUNDAY..
This morning at four o'clock a vessel was descried
entangled with the Goodwin Sands, and apparently
abandoned, and with loss of rudder. A boat from Deal
was preparing to launch to render assistance, when a
lugger from Ramsgate was observed proceeding towards
her, and being so much to windward that she could run
with all suitable sail at her, no boat from Deal would
have been of service to the vessel, and they, the boatmen,
gave up the idea of launching, except being in readiness in
case an event should occur to require further aid than
that afforded from the Ramsgate lugger. The vessel in
question drifted in with the tide towards the Gull Stream
light-vessel, and having just then let fall her forsail, it
was conceived that some portion of the crew were on
board, but, from the subjoined particulars, it will be found
that only only one man was on board at the time, and ho
—he alone—made sail as aforesaid at the necessary time,
also steering the vessel. However, the brig entered
the Gull Stream, drifting with her head sometimes
east and sometimes westerly, till she reached the Bunt
Head buoy, when through a tremendous sea and a
violent squall of wind, the Ramsgate lugger crew boarded
her. Many eyes of the early-rising community of Deal
were on this vessel, and it was soon seen that they were
making for the main, for her fast filling was perceptible
to them all. The brig, sailing before the wind, with.
the lugger's punt astern (in case she should suddenly
founder, thus to save all hands on board), was then
headed to our shore ; and at about a quarter to eight
she entered the breakers, and became stranded on Wal-
mer Beach (just to the south of the residence of Mr.
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the vesbel's deck.
At length, a small boat's crew volunteered, and they
succeeded in getting under the bows of the brig, and
rescuing the Ramsgate men and the one poor seaman—
the only one who had remained on board after the others
of the crew left in the ship's boat.
Her name then proved to be the Anemone, of Lon-
don, Ball, master, bound from Sunderland to Oporto, in
which trade she has been regularly employed, and her
cargo consists of railway iron, potash, magnesia, soda,
and a general cargo, from the north country port, which
is being taken into custody by the Messrs. flight, the
Lord Warden's officers, and who are actively exerting
themselves in storiu, that portion which may from time
to time be recovered and landed. These gentlemen
have numerous waggons employed to convey the pro-
perty with the greatest expedition to their stores for
safety ; and every proper measure they are taking to
obtain as much of the cargo and materials as possible.
The remainder of the crew and the captain were
landed at Dover to-day ; and the latter is arrived here
to assist in this unfortunate business. The Anemone
was built in 1849, was a fine clipper burdensome vessel,
and was esteemed in the trade as a regular dry and safe

carrier.
She belongs to Mr. Thomas Ropton and her master,
who, we expect, are insured in the Sunderland Mutual
Marine.

BUSINESS OF THE PORT OF LONDON.—The general
business of the port of London during the past week
has been active. The number of arrivals was 280 ves-
sels, being 132 more than in the previous, week. The
total quantity of grain reported was 84,455 quarters, in-
cluding 28,612 quarters of wheat, in addition to 16,650
barrels and 5,357 sacks 'of flour. There were also re-
ported 49S Mids., 909 casks,' 905 cases, and 29,071 bags
of sugar. The number of vessels cleared outward was
107, being 6 less than in the previous week. Of these,
29 were in ballast, and 10 for the Australian colonies.
The number of ships on the berth loading for Australia
on the 22d inst. was 87, being one more than on the 23d
ult. ; 12 are for Adelaide, 6 for Geelong, 10 for Hobart
Town, 7 for Launceston, 7 for Melbourne, 6 for New
Zealand, 19 for Port Philip, 2 for Portland Bay, 17 for
Sydney, and 1 for Swan liver,

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