The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-29 00:00:00

THE SUPPLY OF GRAIN, dc.

The following communication has been received
respecting the abundant supplies of grain and other food
available for this country, as well as for the armies in
the Crimea, in the Turkish principalities, but which are
understood to be prevented from reaching U. 3 by the
English and French blockading squadron at the mouth
of the Danube. Although no explanation of the actual
state of affairs at that point was offered during the
recent sitting of Parliament, the question is one of vital
importance not only to merchants and s'uip-owners, but
to the general population, while it also has serious
bearings on the welfare of Turkey. According to current
rumours the Turkish and Austrian Governments are
both anxious that the trade should be opened forthwith,
and statements of this kind increase the general desire
to learn the motives that prompt the allies to an opposite
policy, especially as it is believed that arrangements
could easily be put ill force to enable vessels to enter
in ballast, and to leave with cargoes of produce, under
a system of certificates and examination, such as wholly
obviate any danger of the blockade for war purposes
being infringed :
"61, Moorgate-street, Dec. 27.
"Sir—Having recently perused with much inters t
several communications on the subject of the navigation,
of the Danube, we beg to enclose an extract of a letter
just received from our agent at Galatz, which appears to
us to contain some valuable suggestions as to the extent
to which supplies for our army in the Crimea might be
derived from the Danubian provinces, and which infor-
mation may, perhaps, offer additional inducement to
Government to take measures for raising the blockade
of the Danube.

" We are, your obedient servants,
" CHARLES JOTCE and Co."
(Extract.) _

" Galatz, Dec. 11.
" One of the most important questions awaiting
solution at the present crisis—one to which the allied
Governments cannot too early or too closely devote
their attention—is, undoubtedly, that of thgeuefsrteieonnoar-
vigation of the Danube. Not only is it a
vast importance to the commercial world in general,
as affecting the exportation of grain from Wallachia,
Moldavia, Bulgaria, and Bessarabia, but the circum-
stances appear to have been hitherto overlooked that
these provinces would form one of the nearest and
cheapest markets whence the allied armies in the Crimea
might obtain supplies of provisions of every kind with
the utmost facility. The difficulties put in the way of
the exportation of corn during the past year by the
Russian Government have caused the accumulation of
enormous stocks of all kinds in Moldavia and Wallachia,
and putting entirely out of the question the quantity of
cattle, &c., that might be obtained from Servia and
Bulgaria, the provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia alor.e
are capable of furnishing any quantity that can possibly
be required of flour, barley, kidney beans, potatoes, bar,
wines, spirits, oxen, pigs' preserved meats, &c., for the
supply of an army in the Crimea, or any other point on
the shores of the Black Sea. It is therefore to be hoped
the allied Powers will not lose sight of the incalcu'able
advantages which the immediate re-opening of the
Danube would offer, not only to commerce in ger era' ,
but to their own armies at this moment, and tl at by
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THE LivEr.roor,, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT R AIL-
WAL—A meeting of the contractors was held in the
Ciarendon Rooms, on Wednesday, to devise measures
for improving the facilities for reaching their respfr2tive
abodes on the line, and impressing upon. the Government
the neccspity of making some altvat on to carry out the
desired effect. After some deliberation, the following
resolution was adopted : " That the landowners and
residents upon the line between Liverpool and 'Waterloo
be invited to attend a meeting, to be held as soon as
possible, in Scaforth, Litherland, and Marshland, and
to communicate with a central meeting or committee to
be held in Bootle Village," The meeting then
separated,