The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-01 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.

pROBABLE CONSEQUENCES.—It is very
probable the Emperor of Russia will get more than be bar-
gained for, and, more probable, he will meet with an interruption
called a complete defeat. The forces of England and France will
probably cut such a figure as will leave no doubt of the consequences
of the affray. All countries look upon the issue with as much in-
terest as all classes feel in witnessing the unity of the skill of Eng-
land, France, and every other nation, as it is displayed by E. MOSES
and SON in their magnificent Spring and Summer Attire, whieh
evinces unparalleled experience Rad inimitable business activity, and
will ensure the most brilliant success for their City and West-end
Establishments. The numberless novelties in materials and designs
in Dress for all classes, and the most economical charges for Attire,
Bespoke or Ready-made, will claim the attention of ladies and gen-
tlemen in every section in society. Whatever conjectures may have
been made respecting the Spring and Summer preparations of E.
MosEs and Sox, fhe most probable consequence is that they are des-
tined to be infinitely surpassed. for at no period• of time and by no
house of business whatever were ever collected such a Splendid,
Fashionable, and Seasonable Stock of Clothing, Hats, Hosiery,
Ladies' Dress Boots and Shoes, &c., as at the Establishments of E.
MosEs and Sox at the present time.
All necasary information is gratuitously supplied by E. Moats
and Sox to Emigrants, and the best and cheapest Outfits to any
country and climate are furnished for Ladies, Gentlemen, and
Families. . .

i.,lkeaes and sox's immense Wholesale Clothing, Shirt, and Boot
and Skoe Department, furnishes the greatest advantages to Mer-
chants, Captains, and Emigrants, in the superior quality, suitability,
and pr ee of the goods.
CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against Imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like
falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's
rho same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have
No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 84
85, and 86, Aldgate,oPposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36. Fargate.
Colonial Branch, M'lbourne, Australia.
Merchant Tailw. Clothiers, clatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and
Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
IMPORTANT.--Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be
exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned
without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest
price, from which no abatement can be made.
The Establishments are closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset
on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock.
A new Book, with illustrations, entitled " The Echo of Pablic Opi-
nion," contatniqg fall lists of prices, our system of self-measure-
ment, &c., &c., may be had on application, or post-free.
A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1854 can be had, gratis,
on application.
Ici l'on parle Franisio.
litor ppricut makboutach.

Qui:srparla Italian.
Aqua se Wax Irdipauo.

Charles Crak e Hamilton, ironmonger, Little Queen-street,
Lincoln's-inn-Fields.
James Mitchell Lawton, dealer and chapman, Manchester.

BANKRUPTS.

Ssliomia Sterne, merchant, Great St. Helen's, to sur-
render, April 5, at two, and May 2, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Graham official assignee ; Norton and
Son, New-street, Bishopsgate.
Henry Wilson the younger, currier and leather seller,
Old-street-road, April 12, at two, and May 9, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ;
Finch and Shepheard, Moorgate-street.
Andrew Burn, tailor, Piccadilly, April 7, at twelve, and
May 12, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Fraser and
May, Dean-sheet.
John Withers, chemist and druggist, Oxford, April 7,
at two, and May 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Holmes,
Bedford-row.
Thomas O'Brien Gleaclah, musicseller, Leamington,
April 11, at two, and May 12, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Moorgate-street ;
Parkinson, Argyle-street, Regent-street,
William Clarke and Thomas Boulton, check manufac-
turers, Manchester, April 10 and May 3, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Man-
chester ; Faulkner, Manchester.
John Lyons, packing-case maker, Alie-place, Goodman's-
fields, and Minories, April 13, at half-past twelve, and
May 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Solomon, Fenchurch-
street.
Henry Gladwell Mortimer, builder, Lee, Kent, April 11
and May 9at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Keigh-
ley, Bo.singhall-street.
I Joseph Scudamore, draper, Gloucester, April 12, and
May 10, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton,
official assignee, Bristol ; Davidson and Bradbury, Lon-
don ; Whittington and Gribble, Bristol.
Robert Thomson, linendraper, Foss-gate, York, April
21 and May 5, at eleven, at, the Leeds District Court.
Young, official assignee, Park-row, Leeds ; Slater, Mosley-
street, Manchester ; and Blackburn, Albion-street, Leeds.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
David Birrell, yarn merchant, Dunfermline.
Robert Tait, Hampson, and Company, merchants,
Glasgow.

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membets a the Cabinet. The interio
Lords presented a more exciting appe:
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In reply to the Earl of RODEN,
The Earl of ABERDEEN said it w the intention of
the Government to advise her hiajes to set apart a
day for national humiliation and pra er to Almighty
God for the success of her arils in the resent war.
The Archbishop of CAitlelIBUR expressed his
satisfaction at the declaration made by the noble earl.
It had been always th4ractice in this conutry to appoint
a day of humiliation ,previous to entering ppon a war,
and never was there a-time when we could more properly
invoke the blessing of God on her Majesty's arms. (Hear.)
WAR WITH R1.:.:-!SIA—HER MAJESTY's
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The Earl of CLARENDON moved that her ISlajesty's
most gracious Message be read. 4
The Royal Message was then read by the reading clerk,
Mr. L. Edmonds, in a tone of voice which seemed to be
purposely inaudible.
The Earl of CLARENDON then rose, and said,—My
lords, in rising to move your lordships to agree to the ad-
dress which I have the honour to propose in answer to the
gracious Message of her Majesty which has just been read,
I trust that it will not be necessary for me to detain the
house at any great length on a subject upon which your
lordships are already so well acquainted, both by the papers
which have been laid before Parliament, and by thedebates
in this house. But, my lords, upon an occasion like the
present—upon an occasion of such solemn and grave im-
portance, when the hopes and anticipations of the last few
months have been dispelled—when the peace which we
have so long laboured to maintain has been terminated—
when war, which we have thought for years past to be im-
possible to be renewed, is about to be commenced—and
when your lordships are now called upon to reply to the
appeal which her Majesty has made to your loyal devotion
and zeal in the struggle which she is about to wage in de-
fence of an injured ally—l cannot approach this subject
without feelings of the greatest anxiety. Ido not shrink
from the expression of this opinion, because it is not
inconsistent with that courage which characterises this
country, it is not inconsistent with that determination of
purpose which in past times has borne us safely through
difficulties and dangers, calmly to contemplate the wide
field of calamity that war opens before us, and to re-
flect upon the various and vast interests that will be
endangered, upon the social progress which will be inter-
rupted, upon the burdens which will be impeded, and the
plans of improvement which will be set aside by this war.
But these considerations presenting themselves, and weigh-
ing heavily, as they must do, on every reflecting mind,
have not proved sufficient either to abate the determination
or to damp the ardour, I would rather say the enthusiasm,
with which this country has risen as one man at the sacred
call -of duty to defend the national honour from unjust
attack and unprovoked aggression. (Hear.) My lords, I
trust that nothing will fall from me this evening to mar
those unanimous feelings with which on every account it is
so important that our proceedings should be characterised,
or that I should impair the great and good effect which I
know has been produced throughout the whole of Europe
by the unanimity of the people of this country and by
the imposing attitude which in consequence England has
assumed since war has appeared to be imminent. But,
my lords, in saying this, 1 am far from intending, as my
noble friend thought on a former and less important occa -
sion, to deprecate discussion or avert inquiry in any and
every stage of these proceedings ; still less have I any
intention to complain of the spirit in which those inquiries
and that criticism have been conducted. Some of your
lordships may have thought that we did not speak out
sufficiently strongly and in good time i others have
thought that , we should have acted mow, vigorously,
and rendered war inevitable in or der t 6 avoid war ;
others have thought that we have disp ed a foolish
4e
confidence in the assurances we have receive while others
14r..-...." ..,,rilef.-iend. I,ele.w mei Earl-Grey) , by power-
ful arguments, endeavoured to establish that e should not
have interfered at all. But, my lords, as as lam able
to ascertain the real state of public opinion., have found
that the verdict of the country has been gi en in our fa-
vour, and that it is because our perseveiing orts to main-
tain peace have been exhausted that the i snimous sup-
port of this powerful nation is now to lip given to us.
It has been, on several occasions, my duty t) explain and
defend the policy of the Government, and I shall not on
the present occasion occupy your lordships' time or weary
you by going over the same ground and repeating the same
facts and arguments. But, my lords, with reference to
that undue confidence which we have been accused of ex-
hibiting in the Emperor of Russia, I do desire to say a few
words, and they will be with reference to tht correspond-
ence which has just been laid on your lordship? table.
My lords, it is unnecessary for me to say that that corres-
pondence would have remained buried in the archives of
the Foreign-office, if we had not been challaeged, and con-
sequently compelled by the Emperor of Ruisia to produce
it. We neither desired nor sought these communications,
bat having received them as confidential, we have behaved
with scrupulous honour to the Emperor of Russia, and I can
give your lordships no better proof than this fact—that in
a despatch that I wrote at the end of April, in which I
recapitulated the various assurances given us by the Em-
peror, I inserted one short extract, not from the despatch
by Sir H. Seymour containing an account of his conver-
sations with the Emperor, but from the memorandum
which the Emperor had caused to be drawn up.. Count
Nesselrode, observing this extract, protested against this
as a breach of confidence, and requested that it might not
be inserted in that despatch when it was laid before Par-
liament. We replied that all communications of this
kind were exceedingly inconvenient to a constitutional
Government—(cheers)—but that if the Emperor thought
he had just cause to complain, we would promise him that
that passage should be withdrawn from the despatch when
it was laid before Parliament. (Hear.) And I can with
confidence appeal to your lordships whether, in the course
of the various discussions which have taken place, there
has been any, the slightest allusion, on the part of the
Government, to the communications made by tke .Em-
peror. (Hear, hear.) But, my lords, as thAt corrfsPond-
ence has been produced, I can only express my satisfaction
that it has seen the light, because I think may sag, with-
out presumption, it proves that we have been honest to
the Sultan, honest to our allies, and honest to the Empe-
ror himself. (Cheers.) The Emperor voluntarikt deve-
loped his ideas, or rather expressed his conviction that the
dissolution of the Ottoman empire was inevitable ' • and we
must remember that this was no singular idea on the part
of the Emperor—that he had no monopoly of it—and that
it was shared by thousands of persons in this country, who,
at this time last year, had no idea of the vital energy and
national spirit which the Turks have since exhibited.
(Hear.) It was proved by books, by pamphlets, by news-
papers, and by a variety of statistical data, that the Otto-
man empire couldnot last. The Emperor of Russia desired to
discuss this matter with us, and to arrange with us what would
be suitable, or rather what would not be suitable, to the
two countries in the event of these prophecies being !ealised.
There was in this nothing more to excite suspicion or
create alarm in 1853 than there was in 1844 or in 1829,
when these ideas were first broached. But if this country
had participated in these ideas of the Emperor—if we had
shown that we believed the dissolution of Turkey to be at
hand—if we had been ready to admit its dismemberment,
or shown a readiness to accept Egypt or Candia, which
were proposed to us—then, I think, the Emperor might
have looked to the realisation of his prophecy. But it
was because we wished to avert that danger, and to bring
the Emperor to our view of the question, that we did not
shrink from his wish that we should discuss the whole
question with him. (Hear, hear.) Wo fully discussed
his arguments ; we gave our reasons for thinking that the
dissolution of the Ottoman empire was not at band ; we
declared that we would not be a party to any underhand
dealings, and that we would have no secrets from our
allies; we dismissed with something like silent contempt
the offer of a territorial bribe—(cheers)—and we pointed
out to the Emperor the course he ought to pursue. Well,
nip lords, the Emperor in return said that Russia was too
great in territorial extent already ; that he desired no in-
crease of territory; that the maintenance of the Ottoman
was a European necessity, and that its dowfall would be i
a European calamity ; and though he said he should in-
sist upon justice being done him by the Sultan upon the
question of the Holy Places, yet he positively asserted
that he had not moved a man or a ship at that time to-
wards Turkey. (Hear,) And, toy lords, these assurances
wore given to us not only upon the word of the Emperor,
but on the word of a gentleman. (Cheers.) His Imperial
Majesty seems to draw some distinction between the two.
(A laugh.) And these assurances were addressed, not
alone to the Government, but to the Queen herself.
(Hear, Lear.) In a memorandum written by the Empe-
ror's own hand, and from his own pen, we received these
assurances :
" The Emperor has, with lively satisfaction, made himself
acquainted with Lord Clarendon's despatch of the 23d of
March. His Majesty congratulates himself on perceiving
that his views and those of the English Cabinet entirely co-
incide on the subject of the political combinations which it
would be chiefly necessary to avoid in the extreme case of
the contingency occurring in the East which Russiaand Eng-
land have equally at heart to prevent, or, at all events, to
delay as long as possible. Sharing generally the opinions ex-
pressed by Lord Clarendon on the necessity of the prolonged
maintenance of the existing state of things in Turkey, the
Emperor, nevertheless, cannot abstain from adverting to a
special point which leads him to suppose that the information
received by the British Government is not altogether in ac-
cordance with ours. It refers to the humanity and the tole-
toleration to be shown by Turkey in her manner of treating
her Christian subjects. Putting aside many other examples
to the contrary of an old date, it is, for all that, notorious that
recently the cruelties committed by the Turks in Bosnia forced
hundreds of Christian families to seek refuge in Austria. In
other respects, without wishing on this occasion to enter upon
a discussion as to the symptoms of decay, more or less evi-
dent, presented 1)y the Ottoman Power, or the greater or less
_ . .