The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-27 00:00:00

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.

A further court of governors was held at Christ's
Hospital on Friday last. The minutes of the preceding
meeting having been read, an animated discussion en-
sued upon the subject of the vote of thanks to Dr. Jacob.
This terminated apparently to the satisfaction of all par-
ties, and the vote of thanks, duly acknoWledged in a
letter from Dr. Jacob, was planed upon the minutes.
The committee of almoners presented their annual re-
port of deaths of their body during the present year,
furnishing the names of six gentlemen to supply their
places, when

Mr: Alderman SIDNEY moved, and Mr. DAEBY se-
conded, "That the consideration of such report be ad-
journed till the next court, and the names of gentlemen
recommended to supply the vacancies in the number of
almoners be then taken into consideration, such names
to be printed in the summons calling the court."
After a lengthened discussion, this resolution was
agreed to. This subject is exciting much interest, the
custom for the last hundred years having been for the
committee of almoners to nominate their own friends
to officos, and, without publishiog their names, to get
a. vOlii of court confirming their nomination when the
court has generally been oomposed of a majority of
almoners. Recently the committee of almoners
made a unanimons`report condemnatory of Dr. Jacob,
and the large majority of the general court of gover-
nors having passed a resolution of a contrary nature, it
would appear that the former body should be fused with
other governors who might more truly reprelent every
section of opinions.

RUSSIA AND TETE UNITED STATIS.

(From the Constitutionnel,)

The Americans, with that keen scent for which they
are so remarkable in all matters connected with trade
and navigation, have undertaken to make themselves
the carriers of produce. In fact, from the moment
that they made the Czar admit that merchandise
coming from countries iu a state of war is net liable
to seizure on board neutral vessels, they rendered
the Imperial navy of Russia powerless to prevent
their speculation, which consists in offering to French
and English merchants to take their freights, which
under the neutral flag of the United States would be
secure from the risks of war. This is how in the struggle,
which is going on between civilisation and barbarism, be-
tween liberty and slavery, between the most enlightened
governments of Europe and the Autocrat of all the
pussies, the .merchants of the United States have
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States engaged in the struggle. The Goverments
of France and England have, in fact, adopted such
measures of protection that it is the commerce of the
enemy and not ours which will be threatened, and that
his ships of war, far from venturine, in search of our mer-
chant vessels, will be happy if, in taking refuge behind the
Russian fortifications on shore, they can succeed in
escaping a struggle with the naval forces of the two allied
nations. The French and English vessels stationed in
the Pacific Ocean and in the Chinese seas, united and
sailed together in search of the enemy, which had been
seen at Japan a short time before the departure of the
American squadron, under Commodore Perry, but which
had afterwards disappeard, hidden behind some Se-
bastopel of the sea of Okhost or of Kamtschatka. At
the date of the last accounts, the Russian squad-
ron was, it is said, at Petropaulovski. It is there that
they aro said to have been found, and in part destroyed
on the 4th Sept. last by the Allied squadrons. hleteh,
at least, is the accotent just received in an American
paper. We are not yet in possession of any of the details
of that engagement. It is said only that the batteries of
the fort have been destroyed, and that two vessels,
doubtless frigates, have been taken from the Russians.
This is a terrible blow given to the Russian squadron of
the Pacific ocean. It is, however, difficult to know pre-
cisely the strength of it. If in Europe itself, almost undo.,
our own eyes, the Muscovite Government succeeds
in concealing its resources so as to surprise its as-
sailants, and when the latter think they are in posses-
sion of the best information, how much easier is it for it
to conceal the real state of its naval power behind the ice
and fogs of the Polar seas. This precaution, however,
will not have prevented the success of the attack. We
knew not whether it is the intention Of the Allied
governments to avail themselves of their navalsuperierity
to attack the other posessions of the enemy. The part
of protection which the English and French vessels per-
form is less brilliant than in battle, but it is of the highest
utility, and the effects of that protection is daily revealed
by the feeling of security which prevails in the French
and English ports. Consult our sailers, and their
choice will not be for a moment doubtful—it will be
in favour of the combat. If the hour for an attack
on the Russian establishments in North America shall
one day arrive, the loss of the Russians will be
severe. All the merchandise, all the natural preduc•
tions of the two Americas, and even of Europe, may
find their way to Moscow and St. Petersburg, in spite
of the blockade of the Baltic and of the White Sea, in
passing by New Archangel, where the vessels of the
Russo-American Company transport them to Okhost, in
Siberia, across a closed sea to which they have the key.
In 1829, Lord Sydenham, alluding to the continental
blockade, and to the advantages of the Russians in
America, said, "English merchandise, which was not
admitted into France, found in the Frozen Ocean a
way of
penetrating into the heart of that country.
speak from my own experience when I say that at that
period an uninterrupted line of communication was
established between Archangel and Paris. All ar-
ticles, even those known under the denomination
of cumbersome, such as sugar, were carried as 'easily
by that road as they are now from London and Havre."
These expressions are remarkable, and they indicate the
importance of the result of an eficient blockade to be
established on the Russian coast in the Frozen Ocean.
In the meantime, if the news of the destruction of a part
of the fleet at Petropanlovski be confirmed, it will have
coincided in a remarkable manner with the announce-
ment of the conclusion of the treaty by which the United
States have endeavoured to monopolise the navigation
of the belligerent powers ; and by destroying their hopes
in that respect, it will increase the confidence of com-
merce, the security of which is in all cases sufficiently
guaranted by the force and courage of the Allied
navies,"