The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1854;

LINES LEASED AT FMB]) RENTALS.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

THE LATE LORD DUDLEY STUART.

Leasing
Company.'

(:losing. Prices
yesterday.

Basines,
this day.

( Frain the Mining Jortr;zal of this day.)
MINES.--The principal Lusiness in the mining market
this week has been in the large dividend stocks, many
of which had fallen considerably in price, and with-
out, it is considered adequate cause. Boilers have
been done at 5701. io 590/. ; a few months since the
shares were 1,2001., and the dividends paid this year
have amounted to 2101. per share. Bassets, though
they rose to 5801. to 600/. last week, have been done
this week at 5301. to 5401., ex. div. of 201., declared on
Monday, and making 1351. per share paid this year.
Cliffords have been in demand at 1901. to 2101.,. but the
shares are held firmly, and sellers scarcely to be found.
United Mines, 1201. to 1301.; West Bassets, notwith-
standing a further discovery e mine, have been done
at 291. 10s. to 301. 10s.; North Bassets, 201.105. to 211.;
Bedford United, 9/. 153. to 101.; East Gunnis Lake have
been inquired after, at 11., there being a prospect of the
mine making regular returns before long ; Sortridges
have fluctuated from 21. 17a. 6d. to 3/. 2s. 6d.,
and left off rather flat ; North Robert, 191. to. 201. ;
West Stray Park, 101. to 121., and sought after ; Clijah
and. Wentwworth, 141. to 141. lOs. ; in Great Alfred
there has been a good business doing, and shares advan6ed
from 231. to 28/. ; Alfred Consols, 171. 10s. to 181. ; East
Tamar 123. 6d. to 15s. ; South Caradon, 2901. ; Gona-
mena, 11/. 108. to 121. 10s. ; Trewetha, 31. 2s. 6d. to 3/.
7s. 6d. ; Wheal Wrey, 4/. lOs. ; West Providence, 201.
to 211.

The following is an address of condolence from
the Polish exiles in this country to the Countess
of Harrowby, and her ladyship's reply :

" TO THE BIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF
HARROWBT.

" MADAM, —We are au:Lions, before the tomb closes
over the remains of our friend, to express to your lady-
ship, as one of his nearest relatives, in the name of our
countrymen and in our own, our deep sorrow at the
awful calamity which befell Poland in the untimely
death of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, President of the
Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and to
pay the tribute of our gratitude for his attachment
to our cause, our admiration for his virtues and
talents, and our respect for his sacred memory.
" This melancholy event has deprived the Polish nation
of an ardent and unflinching champion, the exiles of their
most generous benefactor, and the world of its most use-
ful citizen and brightest ornament.
" After the last catastrophe in Poland in 1331, when
the country lay bleeding at the feet of the oppressor—
when thousands of her children who had fought in vain
for liberty were deemed to tread the path of exile, and to
undergo the sufferings attending it, and sill hope seemed
dead—Providence raised up for us, in the person of
Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, one of those heroic characters
who are ever ready to do battle against all wrong, even
single handed if it be necessary, and the inalienable
rights of Poland found a defender fin England, whose
eloquent and earnest voice soon -called forth a response
from many a heart, and the hard fate of the proscribed
was soothed by sympathy and alleviated by generous
benevolence.

"Imbued with the most noble and elevated senti-
ments at an early age, already the wrongs of Poland
made an indelible impression on the mind of Lord Dudley
Coutte Stuart, and devoting himself with inimitable dis-
interestedness to a cause which seemed abandoned by
all the mighty of the earth, and carrying out with un-
tiring perseverance his difficult, self-imposed mission for
many years, he earnestly pleaded the Polish cause, both
in Parliament and before the tribunal of public opinion
in England.

"To those strenuous efforts the Literary Association of
the Friends of Poland, of which, in his capacity of its
president, he was the soul and the heart, chiefly owns its
prolonged existence. In the midst of its severest trials,
and when its maintenance was problematical, he stood
foremost, undaunted by any difficulty, encouraging, ani-
mating, and supporting it munificently, passing days and
nights in irksome work, sparing no trouble or anxiety,
assigning to himself the largest share of labour, and
never shrinking from the performance of the highest or
the humblest duties.

"Too zealous and ardent to circumscribe his activity
within the limits of his own country he proceeded to
distant lands, where he saw the possibility of serving the
cause of Poland, and was struck down by the hand of
death while carrying out in one of them two
generous missions. His last thought was for
the comfort of the homeless exiles, whose dis-
tress it had ever been hii happiness to relieve. With
truth may it be said that ho died a martyr to the cause
for which he so nobly lived, and that .his death was but
the crowning event of the beautiful consistency of his
life.

" It has pleased Providence to call him from this to
another and a better world, there to reap the reward of
a life spent for the good of his fellow•creatures, and of
the many ennobling virtues which adorned his character.
He has not been permitted to witness the realisation of
his long-cherished wishes in the triumph of the cause he
hal so warmly espoused ; but whatever may be its issue,
the name of Lord Dudley eJutts Stuart will ever be en-
shrined in every true Polish heart, and his services will
be a theme of national gratitude.

"It would be superfluous to dwell at greater length
on OA merits of a man so uni►ersally known, beloved,
and respected. To you, madam, who have so often
assisted in forwarding his bene►olent objects, who of all
others must poignantly feel the irreparable loss which
all in any way connected with bhn have to deplore, we
have considered it our duty to make this brief allusion
to his unswer►ing devotion to Poland, to the exalted
example of his life, which sheds a lustre over our coun-
try and does honour to hunutpity.—We remain, madam,
your ladyship's most obedient and humble servants, the
Committee of the Polish Exiles resident in Great Britain
and Ireland.

" IGNATIUS JACKOWSKI, President.
" K. Lien SZYRMA.
" CHARLES SZULCZEWSKI.

" JOHN TCELECIEI.
"JOSEPH GLEINICH.
"December 6, 1554.
"10, Duke-street, St. James's."

" Grosvenor square, Dec. 7, 1854.

"Dear Sir,—l hare received with feelings which I
can but ill express the communication which you have
forwarded to me from the coinutittee of the Polish exiles
on the occasion of my present great sorrow, and the ir-
reparable loss we have all sustaified in the death of my
beloved brother.

"Hie ardent attachment to the Polish nation, i■
which I have always warmly participated, and his noble
devotion to her cans!), are too familiar to me not to render
such an expression of grateful affection towards him,
and of kind sympathy with me, his sister, to he pecu-
liarly touching to me. I highly appreciate this tribute
of love and respect to his memory. Nothing could be
more gratifying to me. I feel that the address before
me is not a mere form, but the genuine outpouring of
the feelings of many a devoted heart. I gratefully and
warmly accept it at their hands, and shall remember it
as long as I live with feelings of pride, and with deep
and heartfelt satisfaction.

" I must beg you to convey to the committee this
feeble acknowledgment of their goodness to me, and to
accept the same yourself.—l am, dear Sir, your very
faithful servant, "FRANCES HARROWBY.
"To Lieutenant C. Szulczewski."

NEGLIGENCE AT DEVONPORT DOCK-

YARD.

TO TIIE EDITOR. OP THE SUN.

Sir,—As you have on all occasions, which in your
judgment you have deemed favourable and fitting, de-
monstrated your anxiety to promote' the interests of the
public service, through the agency of your valuable
periodical, I beg to avail myself of its medium to ask
the authorities of the Admiralty, and of our Devonport
dock-yard, one or two questions, not altogether indiffer-
ent er unimportant in the present peculiar exigencies of
the country.
How cams it that when the Exmouth line-of-battle
ship, ordered alongside our dock-yard to be rigged and
got with all despatch ready for sea, the rigging appro-
priated for her turned out to have been to some serious
extent a misfit, and a considerable part was returned to
the rigging-store ; whilst, to meet this defect, several
sets had to be overhauled, and a part taken from one set
and a part from another, thus consuming a large portion
of valuable time and labour, which might have been
otberwise advantageously applied ? Mark, too, the
waste of material caused by this cutting and botching,
as though the public purse were a never-ending, inex-
haustible fund, to be frittered or fooled away at pleasure.
I would ask at whose door lies the blame of this dis-
creditable occurrence ? Is it the result of mismanage-
ment merely, or consequent on the entire absence of all
management in the department where it originated ?
It does not, however, appear to have been a mere
accident that might occur once and not again. It does
not stand isolated. and alone, a solitary and conspicuous
beacon to warn and to teach in the future, for, if we are
rightly informed, it is far from an uncommon circum-
stance at onr Devonport dock-yard, where these in-
stances of misfit are all but numerically equals to the
ships ordered here to be rigged.
However frequently or easily such cases might pass
unnoticed, er deemed of trivial importance in a time of
peace, they assume another aspeCt in a time of war—
when, in the fitting out of a ship destined to play some
master-part in the momentous drama now playing before
Europe and the world, the delay even of a day might
mar a victory or insure a defeat.
A VOICE FROM THE COCKPIT.
Devonport, Dec. 7, 1854.

IMPORTATION OF WINE AND SPIRITS
TO FRANCE.

The Moniteur supplies the following particulars re-
specting the extent and source of the importations into
France of wines, spirits, and liqueurs, (hiring the mouth
of October last. The duties on spirits and liqueurs,
it is to be noticed, were reduced by the decrees of
Sept. 22 and Oct. 5 last. The following, according to
the authority quoted, wore the importations ; the figures
represent hectolitres
Table or Oral-
LI
nary Wines. gums.
From tho German

Spirits.

Zollverein
Netherlands
Belgium
Hanseatic Towns
England
Spain
Sardinian States
Switzerlanid

3,528 - 280
- - 656
- ... 1,641
- „, 247
253 „, 79 „, 3,567
30,559 ,„ 14; ,„ 242
438
•••
260

Spanish possessions
in America......
Guadaloupe ......
Martinique.........

.- 282
-. 798
-. 2,758
-., 23 -. 64

Other producing
countries ......

Total 35,262 ... 424 10,971

TRECZAR AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

(Prom the Pays •)

I We have no hope that Russia will yield to simple
diplomatic ultimatums, however energetic they may be
supposed to be. Notwithstanding the pacific rumours
which are in circulation in Germany, and the sincere and
ardent desire which we have for seeing peace reestablished
among modern states, we neither believe in the modera-
tion nor in the submission of the Czar. Let the note
which M. de Nesselrode has just addressed in his name
to the Court of Berlin be read attentively, and there will
be still seen in it the same haughty and irreconcilable
spirit ; still the same pretensions. If the Emperor Nicho-
las makes some concessions, which are much more ap-
parent than real, it is in some measure out of compassion
for Germany ; it is in a tone of humiliating pity which
we are convinced will be deeply felt beyond the
Rhine. Can any serious man, can any statesman attach
importance to these pretended concessions, which still
maintain all the treaties between Russia and the Otto-
man empire, and to seek to stifle still more surely the
independence of the Sultan under the common protec-
torate of Europe, and consider them as the possible
basis of fresh negotiations ? Certainly not. The Em-
peror Nicholas will not yield I It is only, as we have
often said, the disasters of his empire, and the coalesced
arms of the whole of Europe that will compel him.
Austria labours under no illusion , on this point, and,
unfortunately, it is not with any hope of success that
she will address a last injunction to the Court of
Russia. God, who inspires the kings of the earth,
may doubtless suddenly change the feelings of the
Czar, in the same manner as reasons of State ought
to counsel him, no longer to brave the justice of Europe
in arms in defence of its independence and stability ;
but who can flatter himself with the hope of this pacific
solution ? In signing the treaty of the 2d December
the high contracting powers have certainly had in view
the re-establishment of peace ; they think, and with
reason, that they will more promptly and surely obtain
it when Russia shall be more isolated, and when the
forces united against her shall be more numerous and
more formidable, but it would be a deceitful illusion to
imagine that this treaty is about to reopen negotiations.
There is in fact no longer any need of negotiations with
Russia. No dilatory subterfuge on the part of the Court of
Saint-Petersburg will be admitted ; no commentary similar
to that which caused the failure of the famous note of
Vienna will be submitted to. The Czar knows the essen-

tial conditions on which peace is still possible for
him. Every day that pass.... modifies the state of
the question, and consequently the exigencies of the bel-
ligent powers. Austria herself is well aware that what
may be acceptable to-day will not be so to-morrow. In
allying herself to the Western Powers, she implicitly en-
gages to adhere to all the natural and legitimate conse-
quences which the prolongation of the state of war may
give rise to, with a view to the re-establishment of peace.
Russia has therefore no longer to negotiate ; she will not
obtain peace, unless she accepts immediately, without
reserve, and more particularly without comment, the
conditions which the interest of Europe impose on her.
It is because we have no hope in this sudden return to
reason and this immediate submission to necessity ; it is
because the statesmen of Austria cannot entertain any

illusion on this subject, that the treaty of the 2d Dec.
appears to us to be a decisive step in the path of a com•
mon action of the three Powers to restrain by coercive
means the resistance of Russia."

THE CONTINENTAL PRESS AND THE
NEW TREATY.
The Prussian Coa respondence of Berlin, of the
sth, says :
" It is said that the treaty of alliance of Austria with
the Western Powers will be followed by a summons from
that Government to the Court of St. Petersburg, which
will contain the four points set forth in a precise form,
and the unreserved acceptance of which will be de-
manded. Tile Austrian Cabinet is in a position to have
peace concluded if Russia accept the propositions which
will be made to her, but it engages, in the event of the
refusal of Russia, to break off all diplomatic negotiations
and to support actively the Western Powers. Hopes
appear to be entertained at Vienna that this last attempt
at conciliation Will he inure successful than the previous
ones."

A letter from Berlin, sth, in the Independance
of Brussels, on the same subject, says :
" Before signing the treaty of alliance with France
and England the Austrian Government thought proper
to communicate it to the Prussian Cabinet. From in•
formation which I believe to be well founded, the treaty
calls to mind, in the first place, the declarations and
engagements of the principal acts of the Conference of
Vienna, and the notes exchanged en the Bth August
between the contracting parties. It also brings forward
the four guarantees considered as the indispensable basis
of a good peace, admitting to each power the faculty of
developing them by additional conditions. Austria
renews with France and England the engagement
which she made with Turkey by the treaty of June
11 to occupy the Principalities and to repulse the Rue-
sians by force if they should attempt to re-enter them.
She proclaims the right of Turkey and the Allied Powers
to move their troops in Moldavia as they may think
proper, either against the armies or the territory of
Russia. If Austria should find herself in a state of war
with Russia either in consequence of a return of the
Russians into the principalities or on any other point,
the offensive and defensive alliance will be established
de facto between her and France and England. If before
the end of the present year Russia shall not have made
acceptable prepositions for peace, and if a good and
durable peace be not secured, the three contracting par-
ties will take COMIIiOn counsel as to the means nece-sary
to obtain it. The high contracting parties engage that
no propositions of peace made by Russia shall be accepted
by either of them until they shall have been deliberated
on in common. It is generally thought here that Prussia,
under the pressure of public opinion and the force of
circumstances, cannot avoid adhering to the treaty of
the three powers."
The official publication of the conclusion of the triple
alliance gives occasion for a leading article in the Ost
Deutsche Post respecting Austriffs policy. The following
is a summary of this article Austria has again
taken upon herself her office of guardian of the rights
and independence of Europe. She is the rock upon
which the Russo-Byzantine lust of conquest breaks,
as once the Osman-Byzantine invasion broke. And,
in taking this step Austria has imposed great sacri-
fices upon herself ; but she has taken it after the
most mature deliberation and consideration of her
duty to Europe, to Germany, and to herself. Her
course has been slow, but sure, and she has pursued
it undeterred by menaces, and unchecked by intrigues.
She has given herself time to prepare for the deci-
sive step, and not a moment of this interval has
been lost in idleness. The army has been put on a war
footing, well equipped, and established at points of
strategical- importance. Notwithstanding difficulties
caused by the state of the finances, means have been
found to collect the stores of provisions and munitions
necessary for the successful carrying on of a war.
Besides having her own cares to provide for, Austria
has still another care. Austiia is a part of Germany,
and Germany is also a part of Austria. The profound
solidarity of both is better understood and comprehended
at Vienna than—alas ! that it should be said—by any
other Cabinet of Germany. The treaty of alliance which
was signed on the 2d might have been concluded long
since, and the numerous summonses, invitations, offers,
&e., dispensed with. But Austria could not leave Germany
excluded from that treaty, and exposed to demands for
indemnity being made on her ' • for " Austria takes no
Rhineless interest in the German than Prussia, and if
the matter is treated lightly at Berlin, the more carefully
must it he treated at Vienna." Austria opened the way
for Prussia and the Bund to take part in the treaty of
alliance, by inducing them to adopt the minimum of the
European demands. " She conducted the preliminary
labours with the Bund as a German Power, while eight
days later she could have appeared as a European Power
in alliance with two other great Powers." If Austria
had selfish.objects in view, she would certainly have
taken a contrary course. She would have first con-
cluded the treaty with the Western Powers, and then
negotiated with Prussia and the Bund as the proxy
of her allies. How much easier this course would
have been I But the Austrian Cabinet has not allowed
itself to deviate from the path pointed out by the position
of Austria as a Power of Germany. It has ignored
suspicious, forgotten injuries, conquered numerous dif-
ficulties, until by patience and endurance it has suc-
ceeded in its abject ; and then, this Sisyphus-like
labour completed, Austria has catered into an alliance
with the other great Powers.
The Lloyd has the following short leading article upon
the same subject :
"The great event of the time is before the eyes of the
world. The alliance of France with England, and then of
France with Austria, indicate a turning-point in the
European policy. Russia, who for more than a century
has been increasing her own greatness on the foundation
of the disunion of her neighbours—who baited Sweden,
Turkey, and Poland against each other until two of
these countries lost the half of their possessions, and no-
thing remained of the third—Russia sees herself at once
face to face with united Europe. The jealousy between
England and France, France and Austria, Austria and
Prussia, was to be the principal factor of a future 'uni-
versal Russian monarchy. That jealousy exists no more.
The foresight of Europe recognised the danger, and
seized the only sufficient shield—union. More than a
battle was won on the 2d of December—the certainty of
an honourable and secure peace. A traditional policy,
glittering with false brilliancy, a policy which was to
Russia's advantage alone, has received a blow from which
it cannot recover ;
and a mass of prejudices
Whatever which age
could not sanctify has fallen to the grourrndive
at a
pt
and
eace,
course may new be taken in order tio a
of this we are certain, that the peep
ies of the Wes
the peoples of central Europe will pursue t with courage
and enthusiasm." '
The Lithographic Correspondence, of Lejolivet (Paris),
contains the following :
" One of our correspondents in Germany, whom we
know to be well•inforined, sends us the following info',
ma n respecting the treaty signed by Austria,
France,ti and England on the 2d inst. By the terms
of that treaty the three contracting parties form an
alliance to impose on the Russian Government the
acceptance of the four points interpreted as fol-
lows :—lf Russia does not accept the four paints by
January 2, 1855, Austria will recal her ambassador from
St. Petersburg, and will deliver his passports to Prince
Gortschakoff, the Russian ambassador at the Court of
Vienna. If Russia has not ceded by the 2d of March
next, Austria will declare war on her, will enter with
large forces into' Bessarabia, and will send 20.000 men to
the Crimea. The three contracting Powers interpret the
four points in the following manner :—The liberty of the
Black Sea will be recognised and maintained by perma-
nent cruise of six vessels of war belonging to each of the
great Powers. In addition a seaport will be opposed to Se-