The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-30 00:00:00

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" Sir,—l write to evoke your warning voice against
the drain which the great capitalists are preparing for
us by an extension of the railway system in many parts
of Europe. I allude more particularly to the announce.
ment from St. Petersburg regarding the concessions of
the new railways of Russia. A short time back it was
pretended they were to be made with Russian capital.
Let it be so. Use your influence to that effect ; discou-
rage our speculative public from swallowing the gilded
bait which the millionnaire anglers of Paris and London
will no doubt soon offer them. Tell them in your own
way to reckon the cost—a demand for gold, straitened
means, inability to promote legitimate undertakings at
home, and the placing Russia in a position when we are
again opposed in arms to command the one thing want•
ing in the late war—the ability to move her troops with
facility to distant points of her vast empire, and thus to
facilitate her known aggressive policy against our Indian
territories.

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Remind them that every shilling of English capital
so expended in Russia strengthens her at our cost, while
the rich bankers of St. Petersburg will ultimately be
the only parties pecuniarily benefited by the speculation.
"If after we have given support to the legitimate
claims for home investments, where every pound fructi-
fies for our national advantage, we have enough and to
spare, let us look to Turkey, whose advancement is our
safeguard—whose fields for British enterprise are, by
the unanimous voice of all who have visited that impor-
tant country, pronounced to be unequalled by any other
in the world. _

"True, there is much to contend against at present in
the religious prejudices of the people, their want of bu-
siness habits, and the unfortunate jealousies which divide
their rulers ; but all these must give way ere long, and
their natural sagacity will not be slow to discover the
immense advantages which a close alliance, political and
commercial, will certainly secure to them, while it will
not be less beneficial to ourselves.

"Trusting these hastily written remarks may be
thought worthy of a place, and that the subject of them
may receive your w.atchful care,—l am, &c.,
"A CITY MAN."

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