The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-08 00:00:00

BLOCKADE IN THE BLACK SEA.

The following further correspondence between a City
merchant and the Foreign-office, with regard to the
prospects of an efficient blockade being established in
the Black Sea, has been received for publication :
"6, Great Winchester-street, Oct. 30.
"My Lord,—Mere than a month has expired since I
was induced to address your lordship with a view to ascer-
tain whether the expectation might still be entertained of
an effectual blockade of the Russian ports in the Black
Sea and Sea of Azoff which the prior declarations of Go-
vernment had encouraged, and which has consequently
formed the basis of commercial operations to a considerable
extent.

" Although the reply elicited by me was by no means
so conclusive as could have been desired for the future gui-
dance of parties interested in this important question, its
tenon might be presumed to favour the inference that the,
original design of Government, which on more than one
occasion assumed the positive character of an official an-
nouncement of an existing blockade, would at length bo
realised.

" The disposition of the British merchant would there-
fore lead him to persevere in developing other and more
congenial sources of supply in our own colonies and depen-
dencies of such articles of produce as the war with Russia.
might otherwise render comparatively unavailable.
" To prove to your lordship that the impulse already
imparted has not been without result, the fact may be
mentioned that of linseed alone shipments to this market
has e been made at Calcutta, during four months after the
declaration of war with Russia became known there, of no
less than 107,500 quarters, against only 16,500 quarters
exported in the corresponding period of the preceding
year.
" "While such energy and enterprise are being legiti-
mately employed, it does seem rather discouraging that
the still suspended blockade should impair the interests of
the British merchant and shipowner, by permitting a par-
ticular class of alien and (as regards the policy of the war)
inimically disposed merchants located here to compete on
unequal and unusually favourable terms, by the unre-
strained importation of Russian produce in neutral vessels
from the Black Sea.

"It would, however, yield some satisfaction if your
lordship were at least to indicate the intentions of Govern-
ment as regards the blockade, so that contingent mercan-
tile operations may no longer be pursued at haphazard.—
I am, my lord, your most obedient humble servant,

. .. . _
" J. JoRNSON.
" The Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs."

" Foreign-office, Nov. 6.
" Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 30th ult.,
in which you request information as to the intentions of
her Majesty's Government with respect to the blockade of
the Russian ports in the Black Sea and Sea of Azoff, I am
directed by the Earl of Clarendon to state to you that it is
the intention of her Majesty's Government to institute a
rigorous blockade ; but, pending the operations in the
Crimes, no distinct assurance can be given as to the period
when it will be effective.

" I am, sir,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" John Johnson, Esq." " WODEHOINIE."

THE GREEKS IN LONDON.

It has been represented to us that many of the
Greek merchantsresident in London, who probably
owe their lives and certainly their fortunes to the
protection they have enjoyed under the British
flag, have so far forgotten themselves and their
true position as to give vent to their satisfaction at
the result of the late foray of the Russians in a
most indecent manner. We have no desire that
these gentlemen should be exposed to any injury
in consequence of their political opinions ; they are
as free to cast in their lot with the Czar Nicholas
as with Queen Victoria ; but, if such be their reso-
lution, let them at once betake themselves to the
territories of their friends, and evacuate the capital
of their enemies. They would do well to draw a
comparison between their present position and
what it would have been had they been enrolled in
the merchant guilds of Muscovy. They have, no
doubt, as perfect a right as we have ourselves to
political sympathies and opinions. One thing how-
ever, let them remember. England will tolerate no
avowed enemy in her capital at the moment she is
spending her life's blood in contest with
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terate foe. The sea is open to them, e
part without
bd gone from our shores. Theyni tahyody
let or hindrance from us ;
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their own sakes, it would have been as well had
the Greeks waited to ascertain the real foundation
upon which their expressions of satisfaction reposed.
We feel a very sure confidence that ere many days
have elapsed the sympathizers with the Czar—the
men who rejoice that some two or three hundred
Englishmen have been slaughtered in the Crimea,
—will find that their joy was not a little prema-
ture. This, however, is not the point. Whether
one Englishman or' 10,000 Englishmen have been
killed, it matters not ; the Greeks here n London
cannot be permitted to triumph in the destruction
of a single British soldier, though he be but one.
If any Quaker gentleman—Mr. John Bright, for
writiu n „
example—thinks the moment a well-chosen
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