The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-08 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVFNING, DECEMBER 8, 1854.

TO THE ELEOTORS of the BOROUGH of
MARYLEBONE.

GENTLEMEN,
I must in the first place condole with you on the premature de-
cease of your late lamented representative, whose self-sacrificing
liberality and philanthropy have identified the name of Dudley
Stuart with hatred of oppression and sympithy with distress.
Having been unexpectedly honoured with an invitation from a
meeting of electors to make a statement of my political opinions,
with a view to being propose t as a candidate for your borough, I lost
no time in doing se. And lam happy to find that the answer I have
since given to a deputation, in further explanation of my sentiments,
both upon political matters in general, and upon the all•important
question of the war, has led to my receiving from many quarters
assurances of influential support if I should allow myself to be put in
nomination.
Under these circumstances, I have determined to
_solicit the
honour of your suffrAges.
The public questions are few, indeed, on which, in the course of
fifteen years, I have not pronounced an opinion, whether by my votes.
my speeches, or by writings. I shall, however, be happy to answer.
to the best of my ability, any further !aqui:lea you May think fit to
put to me
But I can give no pledge beyond that of my past public life. If
I cannot be retailed as an independent representative, I will not be
returned at all. I never have sat, and I never will sit, on any Other
terms; and I would submit to you that he who could be capable of
sacrificing his convictions for the sake of your votes, would be, on
any convenient occasion, equal!), capable of sacrificing your interests

to h's own.
If you do me the great honour of approving me as the tried
friend of civil, religious, and commercial freedom—as the pro-
moter of good local self-government, and of that efficiency in local
administration which is the only true economy—as the supporter
of extended franchise and general education—and as the advocate
ol' the present just and necessary war—a war undertaken, in concert
with our brave French neighbours, for the purpose of checking the
encroachments of despotism, and of ultimately, with God's bless-
ing, conquering for Europe a safe and honourable peace; if, above
all, you feel with me that we ought to strain every nerve to succour
effectively and at once our struggling forces in the Crimea, the
wasted survivors of that gallant army so lately embarked from our
shores with the pride of health, of equipment, and of numbers ; if
you agree with me that we are hound to reinforce and refit, without
stint, that sadly diminished band of heroes, whose noble prowess and
ill-requited humanity, whose devoted obedience and uncomplaining
endurance make us proud of tile name of Englishmen, but whose
losses, privations, and sufferings it makes our hearts Weed in the
Mithit-9f. t 9 think
If, on those tarns and with-then° sentiments, yon'plaernin in the
proud position of your Representative, I shall endeavour to merit
your approbation, and testify my gratitude by a diligent attention to
my public duties and a sedulous promotion of your local interests.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Grosvenor-square, Dec. 7, 1864. EBRINGTON.

of war, and its strength, the resistance it has
offered to our attack now renders its reduc-
tion an object of tenfold importance. We
hold it to be totally impossible to regard the
security of the East as established while a Russian
fortress and a fleet exist in a position where they
can only serve for purposes of aggression. It can-
not for a moment be supposed that the Allied
Powers will consent to desist from the vast enter-
prise in which they are engaged upon any terms
short of the surrender and demolition of Sebastopol
for till that has been accomplished nothing has
been done for the permauent settlement of these
momentous questions ; and we must also be in a
condition to require that no 15 ueli armaments and
fortifications shall again menace the inland shores
of the Turkish dominions.
Such we conceive to be the minimum of the con-
ditions now required of Russia as preliminaries of
peace ; and, although they may not include all
that may be demanded, a peace ou such terms
would destroy all pretensions put forward by Rus-
sia, and would afford solid guaranteesfor the future
progress and tranquillity of the East. Is it, then,
to be anticipated that. the Emperor Nicholas will
yield to these terms ? In sober reason and mere
prudence it were well for Lim if he did so. He can
at no time expect more favourable conditions. The
number of his antagonists increases, and as yet they
have not put forth half their strength. He wages
that fatal combat of one against all, in which suc-
cess is impossible ; and, if the allied armies suc-
ceed in wresting a province from his grasp, it will
be permanently lost to his empire. The longer the
.struggle is continued, the deeper andAhe .more
certain his loss. But, on the .i)their LaneitAtie has
still enormous military resources, the flower of his
armies has not yet been engaged, and, though his
pride has been wounded, his power has not been
crushed, by defeat. He has throughout misjudged
the strength and determination of Europe ; his re-
sentment against his former allies inflames his pas-
sions and controls his policy ; and, when a sove-
reign of absolute power stands between the two
alternatives which are now before him, the course
he resolves to take is usually the boldest and the
worst. For these reasons we believe that war on a
more extended scale, and not peace, will arise out
of the present conjuncture of affairs.

(Front the Daily News.)
The treaty with Austria will have to " run the
gauntlet," in both Houses of Parliament," on the
first night of the session. Before that eventful
evening it is not probable that any definite, official
account of the contents of the treaty will be allowed

to reach the public. We were enabled, however,
to publish' yesterday, in our second edition, some
particulars obtained by our Paris correspondent
from a reliable authority, which will in all proba-
bility be found to be not very wide of the mark:
In our third edition we published a telegraphic de-
spatch from our correspondent on the Danube,
which seems to show that the treaty has already
borne fruits. Next week 40,000. Turks, of the

veteran army of the Danube, with"-one hundred
guns, will embark at Varna and Baltsehik for the
Crimea. Mussar Paella is tosuperintend the em-

barkation ; and Omer Pacha, is to leave Bucharest
in a few days. A decided step of this nature im-
plies that Omer Pacha—,who certainly is not in-
clined to repose a blind confidence in Austria—and
his Government are satisfied with the attitude
which that power has now assumed. Only one
Turkish regiment is to be left at Bucharest. A
large proportion of Omer Pasha's forces, which
could be of comparatively little service in the
drowned and muddy lands of the Lower Danube
during the winter, is to be added imtnediately to
the Allied armies before Sebastopol. This intelli-
gence will not come unexpectedly upon those who
have been in the habit of perusing the reports of
our corespondent in Bucharest. While the journals
of Vienna, and latterly even the French Moniteur,
have been speaking of au immediate advance by
Onier Pacha's army on Bessarabia, he has con-

stantly warned us not, to expect any military opera-
tions in that quarter before March. The nucleus.
of what may by that time become an invading army
still stands in the immediate vicinity of the Sereth ;
and in the meantime the hostile arma.mbuts destined

,o work the fall of Soba,stopol are rapidly aug-

meriting.

With regard to what we have reasoi to believe
are the terms of the treaty itself, we aro disposed
to say, with our Paris correspondent, that they are
" much better than it was expected Austria would
assent to." Our correspondent, it will b© seen,
speaks with less confidence of the a!leged promise
of the Western Powers to maintain. Austria in the

integrity of her dominions than of the other pro-
visions of the Treaty. This is the point on which
the public mind of England. is most anxious. It
is a point on which we confess our own apprehen-
sions era not yet entirely removed. We are
assured, however, from a quarter likely to be well-
informed, that England stands entirely free from
any such engagement. Between France and Aus-
tria, it is understood that there is some separate
arrangement with regard to their respective posi-
tions in Italy. This is extremely probable,. and
indeed unavoidable. However much we desire to
see the Italians left entirely to themselves—freed
armies—that question is not at present on the
from the presence both of Austrian and* French
tapis. The sovereignty of Austria in Lombardy
and the Venetian territory is a fact Which fortu-
nately cannot be called in question. :The occupa-
tion of Rome by French troops is also a fact of
some tour years' standing. It is better that Rome
should be occupied by French than by Austrian
troops. Indeed, it is probably owing to the pr
sence of French troops iu Romee.;
that the Austrians
do not at this moment hold military possession of
the whole States of the Church, and that they do
not venture upon any encroachments on Sardinia.
It is quite natural that Austria should insist upon
some assurance that a force, the mere presence of
which keeps its ambitious projects fin Italy in
check, shall not be employed to weakeh its position
there. It is most desirable that no rash or prema-
ture movement on the part of Italian patriots
should take place at the present time, when there
is really no prospect of success ; and this being
the case, there can be no practical harm in an
arrangement between France and Austria,
which can have no validity whenever the
state of affairs in Italy undergoes any material
change. Still it is to be hoped that England is no
party given to such an ephemeral understanding
between the other two Powers.
Those details of the Treaty, with respect to which
our correspondent speaks with confidence, are
briefly as follows :—Russia is to be called upon
immediately
to accept of a peace on the basis of the
four points, as interpreted in the Treaty. This in-
terpretation includes the throwing open of the
Black gea to the fleets of the Western Powers.
Russia is not to be allowed to maintain more than
six ships of war in that sea, and France and Eng-
land are each (as we understand it) to be allowed
the same number. An European port is to be
established either at Batoun or Sinope, as a counter-
poise to Sebastopol. As a guarantee for the free
navigation of the Danube, the fortress of Ismail
and all the Russian forts near the mouth of the
river are to be destroyed. Each of the Five Great
Powers is to protect separately its own subjects in
Turkey ; and the protectorate of the Christian sub-
jects of the Porte is to be exercised by them col-
lectively. If these conditions are not accepted by
Russia before the let or 2d of January, the Aus-
trian Minister at St. Petersburg is to be recalled ;
and if Russia continue obstinate till the 2d of
March, Austria will declare war, seed 20,000 men
to the Crimea, and enter Bessarabia with the rest
of its disposable forces.
It is evident, on the most cursory view, that
there are some points in the Treaty; as described
to us, that cannot possibly be permanent. Other
Powers—and in the foremost rank of these the
United States of North America—will claim the
same free access for their ships of war to the Euxiue
that is conceded to the Allies ; and this of itself
will render a modification of the terms of the Con-
vention at an early period inevitable. The joint
protectorate of the Christian subjects of the Porto
will of necessity prove a nullity. The rivalry
of France and Russia, arising out of their respec-
tive protectorates of the Latin arid Greek Christians
in Jerusalem would he a faint type of the incessant
wrangling and intrigues to which a joint protec-
torate exercised by two Protestant, two Roman Ca-
tholic, and one Greek Power would give rise.
There never will be any effectual interference with
the internal government of Turkey on the plea of
religion ; and there ought not to be. But it is
scarcely necessary to argue about the efficacy or
or the probable permanence of the Convention be-
tween Austria and the Western Powers. It is iu
the last degree improbable that Russia will accept
of peace on the terms proposed. They are offered
to the Czar, as the Sybil offered all her books in
the first instance to Tarquin. The obstinate pride
of Nicholas will constrain him to reject the bar-
gain as originally tendered to him, and accept in
the long run a much less advantageous peace at
the price of greater concessions. The importance
of the Treaty to the Western Powers and to Europe

act in
thatseisnse t
it distinctly
a certain en
etxietsdt. AustriaownAustr has
`Austria to
inour
placed itself on the rails, and cannot get off again :
it must go on further than, it at present contem-
plates, or take worse consequences. We have no
great faith in Austria, and we could have wished
a solution of the Eastern difficulties better calcu-
lated to set them at once and permanently at rest
than the terms of the Treaty of Alliance afford.
But the existence of Austria as an independent
State is an obstacle in the way—is a fact that can-
not be got rid of by a cottp•de-main, whatever far-
vent orators and speculative politicians, who re-
construct the European system. of States in tl eir
closets, as they would write a historical romance,
may say. A rock that stands in the line of a pro-
jected road or railway cannot be pushed aside by
one effort ; it must be hewn, and blasted, and re-
moved piecemeal : and so with the obstacles which
the hereditary policy of a State like Austria
opposes to the most desirable organisation of the
European system of States. The Treaty with
Austria—unless our information respecting it is
entirely erroneous—is a step in advance ;it places
tho Liberals of Europe in a more favourable and
commanding position for further operations than
they had ever attained before. A terrible respon-
sibility will rest upon any Liberal who would'rear
the prospect of so fair a political harvest "by
putting in his sickle ere 'tis ripe."

NAY AL AND MILITARY INTELLIGHNOS.

The Neptune, 120, Captain Hutton, sailed from Spit-
head at noon to-day for Queenstown, to embark troops
for the Crimea. The Leopard, 18, paddle-frigate, Cap-
tain Giffard, will follow her about Saturday next.
The St. George, 120, Captain H. Eyres, C. 8., was
paid wages in Plymouth Sound by Rear-Admiral Eden
on Tuesday. Every expedition has been used in pre-
paring her for the reception of troops. Bed places and
mess tables have been fitted, and two extra fire-hearths
have been supplied. She has a quantity of Ordnance
stores on board, and was appointed to sail on Thursday
for Queenstown, to embark troops for the Crimea.
The Orion, 91 gnus, new screw line-of-battle ship,
having had her heavy machinery, masts, and bowsprit
just put into her into the fitting basin at Sheerness, has
been put out, and yesterday preparations were made for
towing her to Chatham for further fitment. ,The African
steam-tug and the Lizard, Lieut. Christopher, were lashed
alongside her. On slipping her from her moorings off the
basin, the wind at the time was blowing very strong from
the north-west, broadside on her hull, and before the
vessels could get steerage-way on ber, she drifted with
the wind and tide foul of the town-pier ; fortunately, the
tide being low, her keel caught on the cant edge off
the pier, and the damage dose on the flowing of
the tide was trifling. She was at the time under pilot
charge of Mr. J. Milbank, Trinity pilot at this port. The
Master-Attendant, the Assistant Master-Attendant, and
a strong party of riggers, were iu attendance; and, after
some time, succeeded in getting her clear and moored at
the outer moorings off the yard. She fouled the For-
midable, guard-ship of ordinary, doing some slight
damage to her, carrying away her starboard, whisker,&c.
The Monarch, 84, Capt. Lyster, sailed yesterday morn-
ing with a splendid breeze from Spithead for Devon-
port.
The Calcutta, 84, Captain James J. Stopfird, still re-
mains at Falmouth trying to complete her complement
by getting seamen to volunteer from the merchant ships
calling at that port. She received a draught et 30 men
from the Impregnable, brought round by the Avon
steamer last Saturday, and these, together with six
volunteers she has got during ber stay at Falmouth,
make her crew up to 620 men, so that she now requires
130 men to complete her complement of 750. It is re-
ported that her officers and crew will be turned over to
a screw ship; most probably the Cornwallis, early in
February. - -
The Melampus, *42, frigate-transport, is under the
sheers at Sheerness. Her lower masts are taken out,
as they were only those of a brig, to make her work
easy from one port to another. Orders have been re-
ceived to fit her with all despatch fur a troop-ship.
The Horatio, 22, screw, Commander Jenner, is still
in Sheerness harbour, waiting Admiralty orders.
The Pylades, 21, screw, is in the graving dock at
Sheerness, and has her coppering nearly finished. Many
artisans are working at her, fitting her with all possible
despatch.
The Leopard, 13, paddle,, Capt. Gifford, got up steam
in the steank basin, yesterday afternoon, to prove engines
and boilers. She will haul out to-day.
The Brisk, 14, screw, Commander Curtis, proceeled
from Falmouth on Thor...day, fur Rio Janeiro sad the
Pacific.
The Hecla, 6, paddle, alongside the jetty at Ports-
mouth, receiving her stores, And making every exertion
to comply with her "sudden orders," although we do
not think it possible she can get away before Sunday.
The Dee, 6, paddle, Lieut, Commander Smith, has
gene out of Portsmouth Harbour, snider orders.
The Porcupine, paddle, Lieut. Commander Jackson,
is in Sheerness Harbour, waiting orders, &c.
The Cuckoo, paddle, is in Sheerness Harbour.