The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

SBA BE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

Business
this day.

RAILWAYS.

Closing Prices
this day.

Business done
this day.

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The accounts of the state of business in the manufac-
turing towns during the past week show great general
steadiness, the ill-advised strikes of the operatives having
caused a limitation of production at the precise period
when the markets most required a lessening of supplies.
At Manchester transactions have taken place to a fair
extent, and prices are without alteration. The stoppage
o the mills at Preston has excluded nearly 30,000 people
from employment, and the masters at Burnley and
Bacup have given notice of a similar step at those places
on the 28th inst., by which a still larger number will be
thrown out. At Birmingham, although the quarterly
meetings of the iron trade have ended without any
actual advance in prices, the various firms are indis-
posed to take fresh orders at existing rates, the demand
from all quarters being uninterrupted. The position of
the coal trade still remains uncertain, owing to the pre-
valence of strikes, but the masters hold to their deter-
mination not to yield. In the general business of the
town there is undiminished prosperity, and the orders
for machinery and agricultural implements are particu
larly large. Considerable shipments of furnishing iron
mongery have been made to Australia during the week,
but the indiscriminate exports thither have been entirely
checked. From Nottingham the report states the
market to have been well supported by American buyers,
but dull in other respects. Still there is no want of
confidence, and in many departments more hands would
be employed if they could be found, The ten4ncy to
strike seems, however, to have subsided. In the woollen
districts there has been no variation. The check given
to exports to the continent from the fear of war, and to
Australia from the tenour of the last accounts, creates
continued flatness, although here, as elsewhere, employ-
ment is abundant, and the feeling regarding the future
perfectly satisfactory. In the Irish markets there has
been a reaction in the price of flax, while linen manu-
factures have remained dull at former quotations.

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ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

Yesterday the ordinary quarterly court of the gover-
nors of this institution was held at !the Thatched-house
Tavern, St. James's-street, Vice-Admiral Lord Radstock
in the chair. The court was also attended by Rear-Ad-
miral Sir Watkyn Owen Pell, Captains Richardson and
Dickenson, Commander Marshall, Lieutenants Gardiner
and Bedford, and by several other distinguished officers.
Mr. Skead, the secretary, read the minutes of the last
court, which were duly confirmed.

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Captain Richardson then stated that, having been ap-
pointed chairman of the occasional committee, he was
now, from official experience, able to say that nothing
could be more satisfactory than the manner in which
the institution was conducted, and that no officer could
be more painstaking than Mr. Skead, the secretary.
These facts could not fail, he thought, to be highly grati-
fying to all the members of the institution.
The report stated that the income of the institution
for the last quarter had been 1,2131. 4s. id., including
4611. 12s. 5d., the balance from the last audit ; 5421.
18s. Bd., interest on investments ; and 2081. 135., the
amount of subscriptions and donations. The expendi-
ture for the same period had been 6461. 75., including
the sum of 5471. expended in grants, leaving in hand a
balance of 5661. 17s. id. The invested capital amounted
to 36,195/. 12s. 2d.

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The report was unanimously agreed to, and a resolu-
tion was passed authorising the payment of a bill of
costs due to the honorary solicitor.
The Chairman then said that since their last meeting
it had pleased Providence to deprive the country of two
distinguished officers, who were also vice presidents of
the institution. The loss of such men as the late Sir G.
Cockburn and the late Sir Charles Adam was a sub-
ject of general regret. Their duty, however, now was
to elect two vice presidents in their place ; and he
thought that it would be advisable to name no gentle-
man for that office without a personal assurance that he
would be willing to serve.
Some discussion here took place with respect to the
necessity of electing a trustee in room of the late Sir
G. Cockburn ; after which,

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Upper India Scrip
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Western of France
West. of Switzerland

On the motion of Sir Watkyn Owen Pell, seconded
by Lieutenant Bedford, Rear Admiral I)undas was
elected vice president, in lieu of the late Sir Charles
Adam, K.C.B.

A quantity of routine business was then gone through,
after which the memorials of applicants for the relief of
the institution were taken into consideration.

A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro-
ceedings.

THE NEW COMMISSION ON BANKRUPTCY.—The first
meeting under the new commission appointed to inquire
into the law of bankruptcy, will be held on the Ist of
November.

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MISCELLANEOUS
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20 12 Australsn.Pcific.Mail •••
10 8 Australn. Royal Mail •••
50 386 Brit. American Land 55 —6O xd 55 a d
100 32! Canada .... ........
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20 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar
1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel
10 3 Netherlands Land._ 1 id
20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam
50 all Peninsular& Oriental 696.
50 25 Do.
100 60 Royal Mail Steam
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25 25 South Austral. Land 33 35
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5 2 Univeral Emigration
and Colonization....
100 286 Van Diemen's Land 14i 151 15

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Oct. 18.— Wind this day at Noon, N. ; fresh
breeze, and fine.
RAMSGATE, Oct. 17.—The Iris, from Sarpsborg to liar-
flour, in coming into harbour to-day, got ashore at the
West Pier, but is expected off next tide.
OFF HASTINGS.—Sam, Rio Janeiro.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 17.—Wind,
S.W., blowing hard.
Arrived—Elizabeth, Chepstow, for Woolwich, with loss of
bowsprit and docks started, having been in contact with
the smack Queen Adelaide, which had her broadsides
stove in.

CowEs, Oct. 17.—Wind, W.S.W. to S.S.W. Arrived
—Albrua, Surinam.
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 17.—Sailed—Orinoco (e), West
Indies.

GRIMSBY, Oct. 17.—The Ann, from Cronstadt or Wy-
berg to Hull, which was stranded on the Sperm, has been
got off, after discharging part of cargo, and brought in
hero full of water.

TORBAY, Oct. 17.—Arrived—Minerva, with loss of sails
and bulwarks, and boats stove, during a gale on the 9th
October.

GLOUCESTER, Oct. 17.—Arrived—Worth of Devon,
New York. Sailed—Mary Hannah, New Orleans; John
Walker, Savannah. . _ _

YARMOUTH, Oct. 17.—A brig, laden with patent fuel,
got ashore this morning on the North Scroby Sand ; as-
sistance was taken, but having failed to get her off, she
was abandoned ; the crew and some beachmen have since
gone off to make another attempt.
CARDIFF, Oct. 17.—The Reindeer, from Stockton to
Bristonferry, arrived in Penarth Roads, was dismasted off
Padstow, on the 14th inst.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 17.—The Wm. Money, arrived here
from Bombay, experienced heavy weather, with shifting
winds, Aug. 30 and 31, in lat. 13 N., long. 29 W., with
apparently worse weather in the vicinity.
APPLEDORE, Oct. 16.—Arrived -Rosetta, Dalhousie.
PENZANCE, Oct. 16.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—Odin,
St. Croix, for Copenhagen.
BRID GEW AT ER, Oct. 17.—Arrived—Deutchsland, Memel,
with loss of sails and bulwarks.

WEST HARTEEPOOL, Oct. 14.--Sailed—Ada (a), Mel-
bourne.

LONGHOPE, Oct. 14. —Arrived Seaflower, Davies'
Straits.

NEWHAVEN, Oct. 17.—1 t has blown a gale from W.S.W.
The top of a small case, marked " Keep this side up—
Capt. Booth, barque Planta," and several cocoa nuts, have
been picked up.
SHIELDS, Oct. 16.—The Elswick, of Newcastle, has
been towed in here, with loss of foremast, having been in
contact off Yarmouth.
QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 16.—Arrived—Ann Wise, St. Do-
mingo.
GALATZ, Oct. 3.—The water on the bar at Sulina, on
the let inst., was 8 feet, English.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday, 10,30 a.m.

Wind, N.N.W., moderate, and fine.
I Arrived—Orient, from New York; Montreal, Montreal;
Conqueror, Quebec; Mary, Christiania; Mexico, Windsor,
Nova Scotia. _ _

Off Port—Reward, from Hampton Roads.
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.

The steam-ship Hansa, one of the Gerivan line of steam.
ships between Bremen and the United States, has put into
this port for coals on her way from New York to Bremen.
She left the former port on the 4th inst., and her advices
have been anticipated via Liverpool.
(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPEI.)

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.

CUSTOM-HOUSE RETURN.

Oct. 17.—Arrived—Ino, from Guernsey; Cobden, Gefle.
Sailed—Vesta (s), for iremen.
Oct. 18.—Arrived —Armida, from Oran.
Sailed—Minau, for Hamburgh.
DEAL, Tuesday, 9.27 a.m.
Wind, W., moderate and cloudy.
Passed—Calcutta, from Port Philip for London, in tow;
Nova Tantalira, London for Terceira ; Emily, London for
Bahia • Cambrian, London for Jamaica ; Agincourt, Mar-
gato Roads for Sydney.
Sailed—Coldstream, Dalhousie, Lady Clarke, Spartan,
James Alexander, Mirzapore, Bank of England, Queen of
the East, Sir J. R. Reid, Daring, Anna and Fanny, Emily,
Geelong, Marion, l'aragusy, Africa, Sylph, Onon,jancl
laY Banatyno,

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1853.

LANDLORD SEATS IN PARLIAMENT.

(From the Daily News. )

Those who arc striving to get additional " land-
lord seats" in the House of Commons excuse their
impudent claim by pointing out an alleged disparity
between population and representation in towns as
compared with rural districts. They grumble over
the common-sense arrangements of our forefathers,
who, wanting a body of intelligent and indepen-
dent men to make laws, summoned a certain num-
ber from towns, and another certain number from
the counties. The towns being the centres of in-
telligence, activity, and wealth, have ever shown
by results the wisdom of the ancient arrangement.
Whenever a useful law has been passed, the town-
members will be found in the majority ; whenever
any faction has striven to pass laws dangerous to
the liberty of the people, to the progress of the
nation, the town-members have ever been in
the van of those who have preserved our freedom
and prosperity. The re-actionaries who now seek
to diminish the number of these town-members in
the House of Commons would do so by diminish-
ing, after their own fashion, the disparity they de-
clare exists. But this talk about disparity itself
is based on a false and fraudulent foundation. In
calculating the county populations the Tory statists
quietly "bag" all the inhabitants of unrepresented
towns, and then coolly reckon them in as so many
agriculturists ! The hundred thousand residents
in Chelsea and Kensington, for instance, are
shaken up with the strawberry-gardeners of Isle-
worth and the graziers of Enfield-highway as so
many ill-used, half-represented tenant farmers.
So with the townsmen of such places as Burnley,
of Birkenhead, of Newchurch, of St. Helen's, of
Chorley, of Over Darwen—all are duly entered as
" rural populations." Just the same trick is
played again in Yorkshire, where the honest
townsmen of Barnsley, and Keighley, and Don-
caster—nearly forty thousand strong—are clapped
into the totals and classed as so many quiet vil-
lagers. Everybody else always supposed the places
we have mentioned, with many others we are about
to name, were towns—and towns, moreover, de-
serving Parliamentary recognition as such. "No
such thing," say the men who, with eyes behind
their heads, would always persuade us to go
backward instead of forwards. "No such thing—
the people living in these places are unrepresented
farmers, for whom we want county seats. We will
not let them have members of their own. Cer-
tainly not—that would not suit our purpose, how-
ever well it might suit theirs. But as we, the
dominant landlord class, want a plea for more seats,
we will declare the inhabitants of these centres of
industry to be rural agricultural people, and make
them a stalking-horse, for getting more re-actionary
men into the people's House of Parliament." But
this scheme once understood by the country will
never be permitted to succeed. The Times may
twist, and the Morning Herald exhort, the Globe
be oratorical, and the Edinburgh Review be wordy
and dull, but the people will refuse to be cajoled.
Under any new Reform Bill worthy of the name
all the towns we enumerated on Saturday as un-
represented will be provided with members, and
this change, together with another we would name,
would soon remove any such alleged " disparity"
as the Tories have discovered. We have often
urged that no borough with less than a thousand
voters should enjoy a distinct and separate seat,
but by linking four or five, or even six, places to-
gether, upon the Scottish plan, large and indepen-
dent constituencies may be secured. Every one
of the following towns, for instance, is at least en-
titled to a share in the return of borough members
to parliament—many of them, under an extended
suffrage, might probably claim special members of
their own :

Town. Inhabited
Population. homes.
Colne, Lancashire 8,987 1,729 ,
Leek, Staffordshire
Brentford, Middlesex
Sheerness, Kent
Tredegar, Monmothshire 8,305 1,495
Runcorn, Cheshire 8,049 1,591
Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire 7,934 1,604
Torquay, Devonshire
Stourbridge, Worcestershire 7,847 1,523
Spalding, Lincolnshire 7,627 1,503
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire 7,506 1,561
Accrington, Lancashire
Newton, Cheshire 7,481 1,316
Middlesborough, Yorkshire, N. R 7,431 1,262
Gosport, Hants 7,414 1,465
Prescot, Lancashire
Ryde, Isle of Wight 7,147 1,265
Chesterfield (municipal borough),
Derbyshire 7,101
Redruth, Cornwall
Penrith, Cumberland 6,668
Lowestoft, Suffolk... 6,580
Newbury (municipal borough),
Berks 6,574
Camborne, Cornwall 6,547
Tranmere, Cheshire
Ulverstone, Lancashire 6,433
Rotherham, Yorkshire, W.R 6,317
Rugby, Warwickshire
Kingston-upon-Thames (municipal
borough), Surrey 6,279
Alnvrick, Northumberland
Ely (city), Cambridgeshire
Hinckley, Leicestershire
Worksop, Notts 6,058
Sudbury, Suffolk
Chelmsford, Essex 6,033
Saffron Walden, Essex 5,911
Workington, Cumberland 5,837
Bideford (municipal borough), De-
vonshire
Dartford, Kent 5,763
Middleton, Lancashire 5,740
Maryport, Cumberland 5,698
Halstead, Essex 5,658
Brixham, Devonshire
Ormskirk, Lancashire
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire 5,472
Nantwich, Cheshire
Worthing, Sussex
Hindley, Lancashire 5,285
Bishop Stortford, Herts 5,280
Hitchen, Herts 5,258
Leigh, Lancashire 5,206
Woodbridge, Suffolk 5,161
Kettering, Northamptonshire 5,125
Exmouth. Devonshire
Oldbury, Worcestershire
Selby, Yorkshire, W. R.
Wellingborough,Northamptonshire 5,061
Dewsbury, Yorkshire, W. R. 5,033
Bingley, Yorkshire, W. R. 5,019
Teignmouth, Devonshire
Radcliffe, Lancashire 5,002
Skipton, Yorkshire, W. R. 4,962
Barking, Essex
Horncastle, Lincolnshire
Ware, Hertfordshire 4,882
Nuneaton, Warwickshire 4,859
Oswestry (municipal borough), Salop 4,817
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire 4,797
Cowes, Isle of Wight 4,786
Southport, Lancashire 4,765
Goole, Yorkshire, W.R.
Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 4,683
Atherton, Lancashire
Hexham, Northumberland
Wellington, Salop 4,601
Faversham (municipal borough),
Kent
Tunbridge, Kent 4,539
Todmorden, Yorkshire, W.R 4,532
Otley, Yorkshire, W.R 4,522
Padiham, Lancashire 4,509
Crewe, Cheshire 4,491
Altrincham, Cheshire .
South Molton (municipal borough),
Devonshire 4,482
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire 4,465
Daventry (municipal borough),
Northamptonshire 4,430
Bromsgrove, 'Worcestershire 4,426
Bishop Auckland, Durham
Beccles, Suffolk 4,398
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire 4,391
Barnard Castle, Durham 4,357
Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Basingstoke (municipal borough),

1,455
1,232
1,307
1,265

1,362
1,174
1,187
1,249
1,269
1,103
1,119

907
1,079
1,055
992
961
990
927

9W
963
1,015

Hants .................................. 4,263 892
Bradford,Wigton, 4,244 957
4,240 973
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March, Cambridgeshire ....... . 4,171 731
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Eccles, Lancashire ..................... 4,108 746
Ashford, Kent .......................... 4,092 737
Hero is surely enough for the present to show—
not only that the Tories have swelled the ranks of
their " half-represented agricultural class," by a
wholesale metamorphosis of town into county—but
sufficient also to show that there are quite enough
unrepresented towns in England alone to meet all
difficulty about--What must be done with any town
seats that may be at the disposal of the House of
Commons ?

ROUEN.—The letters from Rouen mention that the
market for manufactures was steady, prices having
throughout the week been well supported.
UNITED STATES.—The accounts from the United
_
States are again satisfactory as regards the tendency of
the rate of exchange on this country, notwiths an
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WARWICK RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SWEEPSTAKES of 5 Sovs., One Mile.
Priam the Third
Five ran.
WELTER CUP.

Janey
Sally

Six ran.
GREAT WARWICK HANDICAP
Little Fawn
Annie Sutherland
Ange 10....................... ........... ..................
Eight ran.
COINIMITTEE STAKES.

g by Sir Isaac
Seven ran.
Course very heavy.

KELSO RACES.

ENTRY FOR CALEDONIAN CUP.—Goorkah, Black Doc-
tor, Dick Turpin, Itch, Mary Aislabie, Friar's Hall,
Haricot, Balrownie, Forest Queen, Tower. All here.
ENTRY FOR QUEEN'S PLATE ; 4 Miles.—Goorkah,
Black Doctor, Dick Turpin, Itch, Haricot, Balrownie,
Braxey, Maley, Pride, Defiance, Audubon, Baron Oswy,
and Mary Aislabie.

LETTER FROM KOSSUTH ON THE FO-
REIGN POLICY OF ENGLAND.

DEAR have just received your letter of Sept.
22, wherein you do me the honour of inviting me to at-
tend the town meeting of Stafford, called for Monday
next, with the view to memorialise her Britannic Ma-
jesty on the matter of Russian invasion of the provinces
of the Turkish empire.

condition to the hatred rule of Austria, she is well aware
that a word from the power which saved her in 1849,
may destroy her fictitious existence.
Yet, it is this Austria with which the Government of
mighty England is so anxious to combine her policy in
the East ; it is this Austria which led England passively
in all the negotiations hitherto carried on ; which have
resulted in Russia's taking possession of the two Turkish
provinces, important in themselves, but more important
yet as a strategical basis for further encroachments, and
affording the sinews of war to Russia against the legiti-
mate suzerain of those same provinces.
Why, Sir, the most untrained novice in diplomacy
might have understood, that if Austria agrees to do
something conjointly with England in regard to Russia,
it is quite as much as if England acted conjointly with
Russia herself, because Austria only can dare to do
what Russia wills. If, therefore, in the resolutions to
be submitted to your meeting, something might have
slipped in by not taking into sufficient consideration the
above-mentioned views, from which your Government,
though professing to agree with your ultimate aim,
might have derived a new pretext for persisting in its
injurious and impracticable " coquetterie with Austria,
I, being present, should have found myself under the
disagreeable necessity of raising my humble voice against
it. Hence it is that, being unacquainted with the con-
tents of the resolutions, I could not accept your invi-
tation. _ . _

Interests the most sacred and the dearest to me—as a
man, as a patriot, as a friend of freedom, and a member
of the great family of mankind—are intimately connected
with the pending complication in the East ; and I owe,
morever, everlasting gratitude to Turkey, for the noble
and manly resolution of the Sultan, by which my life
and the lives of my companions were saved from the
bloodthirsty persecution of Christian despots, after my
fatherland had been overthrown—not by Russian arms,
but by the same policy of which the continuation—in-
deed, the second act of the same tragedy—now rouses
your indignation. I can, therefore, assure you, sir, that
I neither do nor shall neglect to exert all my activity to
serve the legitimate interests of the Turkish empire ac-
cording to my best abilities. Therefore, glad as lam to
see the citizens of Stafford intending to act in the same
direction, I certainly would have thankfully accepted
your invitation, were it not for the following two consi•
derations

Nevertheless, I cannot forbear from expressing the
high gratification I feel in seeing the citizens of Stafford
resolved to claim the constitutional privilege of express-
ing the public opinion of the people of England upon
the policy of the Government ; whereby .if past mis-
chief cannot be cured, at least its future increase may
be prevented.
Popular manifestations are, in my humble opinion,
the more appropriate now, as Parliament is not sitting
to express the will of the nation, and therefore the silence
of the people might be used as an excuse for acting in a
manner adverse to the people's wishes.
I certainly never could understand how it is possible
that the people of England--proud as they are of their
constitutional rights, that is to say, of direct share in
the management of public interests—could so readily
submit to have almost no share at all in the direction of
the foreign policy of the country. In home affairs mis-
takes of legislation may be cured by modifying or re-
versing them, and still the people would not endure the
slightest measure to be introduced without its consent.
But in foreign politics, where a single mistake may en-
gender irreparable mischief, the people are satisfied to
hear that it is incompatible with public interest to let
the people know how its dearestinterests are disposed of.
If your age, sir, claims the credit of civilisation and
progress, it should not submit to imposition of worn-
out prejudices, the toleration of which can be only ex-
cused by the undeveloped condition of the popular in-
tellect. Amongst these prejudices there is none fraught
with more mischievous results to all humanity than
secrecy of diplomacy. Conspirators, Sir, may want
secrecy, and weak nations may be excused for creeping
by stealth into positions which openly they could not
claim. But, be sure of it, Sir, that, with a powerful
nation, which should never claim but what is just and
right, and which has the power to enforce its claims, the
keeping
secret the management of Its national interests
is the surest indication of there being " something rotten
in the state of Denmark;" and that there must be ele-
ments in operation which are likely, if not to betray, at
least to compromise, public weal.

Had I been called upon to address the citizens of
Stafford on the subject, it would have been, from my
position, impossible not to dwell upon the intimate con-
nection of the Turkish question with the prospects of
my own dear fatherland, and upon the advantage which
the cause of freedom might derive from Turkey effec-
tively supported in her resistance to the Czar of Russia
and his confederates.

Now, Sir, I know, on one side, that any particular
explanation of that nature would certainly have been
but an additional claim to the sympathies of the men of
Stafford ; but, unfortunately, I have also reason to
apprehend, on the other hand, that the more successful
I might have been in forwarding that cause, and in
carrying that point, the stronger stimulus I should have
given to the present English Government for pressing
affairs to an issue such as the friends of justice, freedom,
and humanity must deplore.
Sir, by analysing the conduct of the English Govern-
,
ment during the present crisis, it is impossible not to
come to the conclusion that it is not so much either by
fear from, or by a particular predilection for, Russia,
that the English Government has until now rather
served than checked Russia's ambitious designs ; but
that it is rather for fear lest, by encouraging Turkey to
legitimate resistance, an opportunity might be offered to
some successful popular rising in other quarters.
I have, indeed, no hesitation to say that the policy of
England has long since been Russian in its results ;
though not Russian in its motives—it has been worse,
it has been anti-liberal in principle.
In 1848, Russia interfered against the popular move-
ment in Moldo-Wallachia by armed invasion, and thus
prepared the way for the subsequent intervention in
Hungary, as well as for the present occupation of the
Principalities. England did not oppose it.
Soon after, Russia interfered by arms in Hungary,
and gained by it an awful preponderance throughout
the Continent of Europe. The Government of England
' had nothing to object to it.
This Russian intervention being carried on from
Turkish territory, was in itself the grossest violation of
its independence. Turkey was made an iustrurnent for
Russian ambition and for Austrian oppression. It was
permitted that the resources of Turkish provinces,
provisions, money, means of transport, should be made
use of by Russia in her attack on Hungary. The Aus-
trians, beaten, twice found refuge and means of attack
in the same Turkish provinces : which was neither more
nor less than a virtual resignation of the independence of
Turkey. And the Government of England allowed all
this to he done—nay, it checked Turkey in opposing it,
by advising her "not to come into hostile collision with
her STRONGER neighbours"—as the Foreign Secretary of
England had the ridiculous politeness to style that
Austria which we had defeated so often that she was no
longer able to resist us without the aid of Russia, who,
in her turn, had to strain every nerve to effect it.
Now, Sir, has the English Government done all this,
because it liked Russia's striding preponderance ? No ;
it did it because it hated the popular triumph of what
they call " the revolutionary principle."
And now, once more, the Danubian Principalities are
occupied, and their resources made subservient to Russia
in her hostility against the legitimate suzerain of those
provinces; and, again, the English Government is guilty,
before God and the world, of having permitted such
piracy to be perpetrated without resistance. Was this
done because England approved the seizure of Moldo-
Wallachia by the Czar ? No ; but it was not opposed,
because the English Government feared lest any resist-
ance to Russian aggression might lead some of the
oppressed nations to renew their efforts for freedom.
That is the real clue to that policy, against which the
citizens of Stafford are about to record their protest.
The fatal incubus which weighs heavily on the foreign
policy of your Government, is not so much love for the
Czar as fear and hatred of democracy. It would be
vain to dissimulate, Sir, that aristocracy and plutocracy,
as leading elements, will always less fear the despot than
popular liberty.
This is the reason, Sir, that I must decline the honour
of attending your meeting. I should not like, by my
participation in that demonstration, to add a new stimu-
lus to your Government for persisting in its harmful
direction.

The practice of 'secret management engenders care-
lessness towards the most important political problems,
in the solution of which a mighty nation has to claim a
share, and that carelessness is always followed by popular
ignorance of all the matters connected with foreign policy.
It is upon such foundation that statesmen of high stand-
ing can dare to impose upon public credulity, by asser-
tions which history contradicts. Thus, it is possible that
the English people have to hear Francis Joseph of
Austria praised as the hope of the nations whom he op-
presses ; thus, it is possible that another statesman
flatters the English people with the high sounding state-
ment that this country has stood forward many times
" to maintain the independence of weaker nations, and to
preserve to the general family of nations that freedom,
that power of governing themselves, of which others sought
to deprive them, ;" whereas, so far as history is the re-
cord of facts, scarcely a single instance is known of
England's Government having used its interference for
the triumph of popular rights. Certainly not in our
age, and, least of all, in the case of Hungary, though
that neglect was fraught with all the mischief which, if
God and the people of Turkey will not prevent it, is
just about to overwhelm the world. Thus it is pos-
sible that while, one day, one Minister of the Crown
pledges his word that the immediate and complete eva-
cuation of the Danubian Principalities is a condition
sine qua non of any settlement ; another day another
Minister of the Crown reduces this condition, sine
qua non, to the expectation that the " magnani-
mous Czar" will feel inclined to do so spontaneously.
Thus it is possible, that while England's moral dignity is
engaged in the support of Turkey, because it is England
which advised Turkey not to yield to the arrogant dic-
tates of Prince Menschikoff—it is England which presses
upon Turkey to sign conditions which, though more
mildly styled in form, are the same in essence. And thus
we come to the point that we may be doomed to see the
boasted friendship of England for the Porte coming to
the issue, that England may interfere in Turkey just as
Russia did interfere in Hungary, and fight the Turkish
people for daring to resent the encroachments of Russia
upon the honour of the Sultan, and the independenoe of
his empire.
Sir, nobody can charge me with having ever attempted,
whilst I enjoy the protection of English laws, to meddle
with any internal matter of your country. But the ques-
tion now pending in the East, is not a question belonging
to England alone ; it is a question of mankind, of liberty,
of civilisation, and particularly of the future of my coun-
try, and in such matters, I may well claim the right of
having an opinion, and of expressing it. I, therefore, con-
clude by saying, that it is with deep sorrow and in-
tense anxiety that I see the British Government taking
a principal share in a line of policy which the course of
events has already condemned, and which impartial his-
tory will undoubtedly pronounce to have been unbe-
coming the position of England, adverse to the interests
of Great Britain and of humanity ; inefficacious to
achieve its declared design, inconsistent in its bearing,
compromising those it intended to help, and helping
those it professed to oppose.

I am, Sir, with particular regards,
Yours respectfully,
L. KOSSUTH.

William Peplow, Esq., Stafford.

WAGES IN NEW SOUTH TVALES.

My second reason, Sir, for not responding to your
kind invitation, is, that I have no knowledge of the
practical purport of the resolutions intended to he sub-
mitted to the meeting. And this I take to be an essen-
tial point, Sir, because it is not enough to agree in the
ultimate aim, it is equally important to come to a clear
understanding about the most efficient means to attain
that aim, and I should not like to be placed in a false
position in that respect, out of delicacy due to the oc-
casion.

I am led to this remark by the fact, of which I am
well assured, that your Government was led into that
inconsistency—which I and you equally deplore—by an
endeavour to save Austria from her well-merited fate,
and to help her to a position which, even were it con-
sistent with justice and right, as it is certainly not,
would be impracticable.
I know it, Sir, and can prove it if needed, that all the
exertions of English diplomacy in the East have been
not so much prompted by the wish to do what is advan-
tageous to Turkey, as by the consideration what might
be least embarrassing to Austria. There are some who
suppose that this ungrateful task might have been in-
spired by considerations which, however dear to some
private relations, are certainly of no interest to the peo-
ple of England. But it is likewise founded upon a pre-
judice, blindly, without investigation accepted by exist-
ingto
diplomacy ; and that is, that Austria is necessa
Europe, precisely as a barrier for Turkeyagainst
Rus-
sian encroachments. Now, sir, I proclannths_otnr theb
ea
false supposition in the past, and impossible t
future. Austria never has been a barrier
of
that Turkey ia
against Russia, or else, how could it
was
et shaken
spite of that barrier, in a time when
by the universal discontent of theadelldiit as
nations `v her
n extending
Austria rules, Russia has succe
to th° Kuban'• on
conquest upon Turkey on one side which
hmtios
the other to the Danube ; nay,
..thaatt
her iron gran:, the estuary of that
Austria herself ? Austria
De anno
bo
elt,
precisely the life artery o_fu
_,_. she was her ally
was never a barrier to Russia. wars so much so
against Turkey in almost all
, of a mediation between
that even when she made a show of a mediation with
even when she made a sUoViwar which ended with the
sihnethdaidt
it only to disguise her pre-
parations Turkey and Russiad
treaty of Belgrade, she
Russia, as she is doing now
film. in 1828 Austria feigned a feeble oppo-
again.
against Russia, it was only because the bribe
Minister,which he had regularly re-
Czart
of the leading
ceived from the
briberyEmpro Alexander, was withheld by
Nicholas ; the eturned, and the opposition
;shed. No ! Austria was never a barrier. of Turkey
against Russia. It is in complete defiance at history to
repress on her as a barrier ; and, even could she have
been so in the past, she cannot be one in future ; for,
after she had accepted the intervention of Russia—after
the Hungarians had arrived at the consciousness of their
strength, which enables them to destroy her when she is
unsupported by Russia- -after Austria has aroused all her
nations by oppression and treachery—after she has
foolishly unrooted all her vitality —when she has no other
support than an army of doubtful faith, one-half employed
to watch and keep down the other half—after all this
has happened, it is more than ignorance to believe in an
independent Austria ; it is a political blunder. Every
sensible man in the world must feel convinced that Aus-
tria can in no case act but as Russia orders her ; because
by the hold which Russian influence has over the Scla-
, vonic elements of the Austrian empire, and by the readi-
i Ilea of the liungarian nation to accept any imaginable

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,--I send you an abstract of the different rates of
wages given at the Sydney branch of this establishment
up to the 30th of June last

Agricultural labourers, 251. to 301. per annum, and
rations.
Bullock-drivers 301. to 401. per annum, and rations.
Shepherds (single) 251. to 301. per annum, and rations.
Shepherds (married) where wife acts as domestic ser-
vant, or hut-keeper, 251. to 401. per annum, and
double rations.
Shepherds, with families of an age to shepherd and
watch two flocks, 451. to 601. per annum, and three
rations.
Gardeners, 301. to 401. per annum, and single ration.
Married couples, as house servants, 401. to 501. per
annum, and board and lodging.
Married couples, as farm servants, dairy servants,
&c., 351. to 401. per annum, and double rations.
Coachmen and grooms, 26/. to 40/. per annum, and
board and lodging.
COUNTRY MECHANICS.
Blacksmiths, 50/. to 781• per annum, and rations or
board and lodging.
Bricklayers, 551. to 80/. per annum, and rations e r
board and lodging.
Carpenters 501. to 651. per annum, and rations or
board and ldng.
Wheelwrights,o 50gi/. to 651. per annum, and rations or
board and lodging.
r annum, and rations or boar d
Masons, 52/. to 651. per
and lodging.
Millers, 501. to 801. per annum, and rations or board
and lodging.
TOWN MECHANICS.
Black and white smiths, bricklayers, carpenters,
masons, and the other trades connected with the
buildingßrasiiand tinplate
branches,iroafo9uns 9s. 6d. tol2s . per day.
workers,
100. to 12s. 6d. per day.
French polishers, cabinet-makers, and upholsterers,
Piece-work, a sober
greatly to his pay
90. to 120. per day. (As much of the work in
f o nd er s ,
bakers, additionalO s
. thoo hours.)
Butchers andthese
industrioustr a des is performed
man
can as
add
per day ; or by the
year, 521. to 80/., and boardand
Bubtychewrsoraknindg
lodging.
WOMEN.
Cooks, 201. to 40/. per annumand
Farm and dairy servants, 15, board and lodging.
1. to 181. per annum, and
board and lodging,
General house servants, 15/. 12s. to 31 l. 4s. per an-
nual, and board and l
Housemaids, 141, to lodging
1, per annum, and board and
lodging. 2O -
Kite
henmaids, 16/. to 20/. 16s. per annum, and board
and lodging.
Ladies' maids-not wanted as such.
Laundresses,__ 20/. to 31/. 4s. per annum.
Nurses and plain needlewomen, 15/. to 20/. per annum,
and board and lod • ging.
Good needlewomen, 1/. to 1/. ss. per week, and board
and lodging.
A few ladies capable of teaching the accomplishments,
particularly music, of which the "currency lasses" are
devotedly fond, would meet with ready engagements,
at salaries varying from 35/. to 52/. ; but they should
ettlier go out under the protection of their friends or ob-
tain introductions to some of the numerous families of
respectability in the colony.
Much has been said and written against the desira-
bility of New South Wales as a field for the emigration
of women, whether of humble or patrician birth, but a
lengthened residence there has enabled me to affirm, that
in no portion of the world is a well-conducted woman
treated with greater respect, a virtuous woman more
secure, more highly thought of, or her advancement more
certain, than in New South Wales.
I am, sir, yours most obediently,
J. FREDERICK JOHNSON.
New South Wales Labour Office,
28, Bridge-house-place, Southwark, Oct. 17.

- -
THE LONG IrAcAriorr.—On Monday next the long
vacation will terminate, when pleadings in actions in
the superior courts will be resumed. The Common
Law Procedure Act has diminished the force of the
vacation.

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