The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-16 00:00:00

SUSPENDED WRITS.

Mr. STANLEY wished to ask Lord John Russell
if he intends to bring in any bill to amend the represen-
tation of the borough of liarn.staple, previous to the issu-
ing of a new writ, or to disfranchise the 255 electors
who have been proved bef ire the Commissioners to have
been bribed at the last election
Lord J. RUSSELL replied in the affirmative.
THE WAR QUESTION.
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Mr. DISRAELI wished to ask the noble lord the
member for the City of London a question bearing upon
our diplomatic relations with France. The house was
no doubt aware that a letter had appeared in the public
prints purporting to have been addressed by the Em-
peror of the French to the Emperor of Russia. and appa-
rently with the sanction and confidence of this country.
He wished the noble lord to inform the house whether
the letter was authentic, and, if so, whether any com-
munication hail taken place between the Government of
France and her M ijesty's Government relative to the
letter, and if it had been transmited to the person to
whom it was addressed with the sanction of her Majesty's
Government ? (Hear, hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL in answer to these questions,
stated in the first place, that he had every reason to
believe that the document alluded to, and as published
in the Moniteur, was an authentic document. With
regard to the second question, he should•state that
her Majesty's Government had received a communi-
cation from the Government of France, stating that the
Emperor of France thlught it desirable that he
should make a last appeal to the Emperor of Russia
in an autograph letter to terminate the unfortu-
nate dispute between Russia and Turkey so as
to r, prevent future hostilities. The reply of her
Majesty's Ministers was, that they had no objection to
4uch a step being taken, provided the terms proposed to
he Emperor of Russia were in conformity with those
proposed at the conference-of Vienna. A copy of the
letter was communicated to her Majesty's aivernment
tt the time its sanction was asked, and they suggested
:ertain modifications in the !etter, which were after-
yards adopted before it was despatched to St. Peters-
.nirg, though he should add, that her Majesty's Go-
vernment had no opportunity of receiving the letter in
its amended form before it was transmitted. Her
ijesty's Government were, however, responsible for
the substance of the letter as it had been printed, though
he could not go the length of saying that they approved
'f every word and phrase that appeared in it, but he had
no hesitation in saying that they entirely approved of
the step which had been taken by the Empero r
~f the French, and they hoped it would ultimately be
attended with success. No answer had been received to
the letter at the time the last information was de-
patched from Paris.
Mr. BENTINCK said a paragraph appeared in a
morning print of this day, which professed to come from
Vienna, and which was to this effect :—" Austria con-
siders the armed intervention of the Western Powers
in Turkey as dangerous, but she has full confidence in
the loyalty and rectitude of the Emperor of Russia, and
she thinks it necessary to take the necessary step of
securing her frontier." Now he wished to ask the noble
lord if the Government had received any information to
the same effect ?

Lord J. RUSSELL conceived that this was one of
those reports which were constantly being conveyed by
the electric telegraph, but for which no authority what-
ever could be given. He could not be answerable for
these telegraphic inessageA, tha majority of which were
false, though occasionally some of them might be true.
(Hear, hear.)
ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE DUTY.

Lord R. GROSVENOR Wighed to state, before the
house proceede•l to the businezi of the day, that he land
been instructed by the Law Society, to say that, in the
present state of our fureign relations, it was not their in-
tention to introduce a measure for the repeal of the At-
torneys' Certificate Duty. (hear, hear.) He there-
fore gave notice that he should not ask leave this year
to brine in such a measure. (Hear, hear.)