The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-25 00:00:00

RETURN OF TROOPS FROM THE

CRIMEA.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
25TH JUNE, 1856.
The following vessels passed the Bosphorus, on
passage to England, on the 22d and 23d inst. :
Norman—with 66 men of the Ist Dragoon Guards.
Brunswick—with 95th Regiment, and 400 men of
the 20th Regiment.
Majestic—with 18th Regiment.
H.M.S. Exmouth—with 4th Font.
Tonning—with 91 men of the 12th Hassan:, and 86
men of the Royal Artillery.
H.M.S. Leopard—with men of the Land Transport
Corps.
Hispaniola—do. do.

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

There was a very limited supply of English wheat in
to-day's market. For most kinds we had a firm demand,
at prices fully equal to Monday's improvement in the quo-

tations.
We had very little foreign wheat on show. All descrip-
tions met a steady inquiry, and late rates were freely
supported.
Floating cargoes of grain were in request, both for
France and Belgium.
The few samples of barley and malt in the market real-
ised exti eme quotations.
Oats, beans, and peas moved off briskly, at full curren-
cies.
The flour trade was firm, at fully late rates.

Wheat.
820

I ginnr
i 1,350

ARRIVALS THIS WERE-
Barley. I Malt. I Oats.
20 3,190
650 1,140
4 - brb.
'or - I 460 sks

llnialsh ..
Irish ....

Foreign I 4,050 } 1,010
I I

BOROUGH HOP.
Our market is firm and prices generally are well sup-
ported.

WIIITECHAPEL.

Beef from 3s 4d to 4s Si ; mutton, 3s 8d to rs oa ;
lamb, 43 6d to 5s 60 ; veal, 3a 8d to 5s Oil ; pork, 3s 61 to
4s 8d per Sibs., by the carcase. Trade firm.

THE OUTRAGE UPON MR. SUMNER.

The following remarks were made by Mr. R. W. Emer-
son at a meeting at Concord, Mav 26 :—" I sympathise
heartily with the spirit of the resolutions. The events of

the last few years, and months, and days have taught us

the lessons of centuries.

I do not see how a barbarous

community and a civilised community can constitute cne
State. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get
rid of freedom. Life has no purity of value in the free
State and in the Slave State. In one it is adorned with
education, with skilful labour, with arts, with long pro-
spective interests, with sacred family ties, with honour and
justice. In the ther life is a fever ; man is an animal,
given to pleasure, frivolous, irritable, spending his days in
hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend
himself against his slaves, and against his companions
brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such
people live for the moment ; they have properly no future,
and readily' isk on every passion a lire which is of stmll
value to themselves or to others. Many years ago when
Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a ducl

by one of these madcaps, his friends came forward with
prompt good sense, and said such a thing was not to be
thought of ; Mr. Webster's life was the property of his
friends and of the whole country, and was not to berisked

on the turn of a vagabond's ball. Life and life are incom-
mensurate. The whole State of South Carolina does not
now offer any one or any number of parsons who aro to be
weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as
the meanest of them all has now struck down. The very
conditions of thegame must always be the worst life staked
against the best. It is the best whom they desire to kill.
It is only when they cannot answer your reasons that
they wish to knock you down. If, therefore, Massachusetts
could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner
his death would only be so much more quick and certain.
Now, as men's bodily strength or skill. with knives and
guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and
mother wit, but oftener in the inverse ratio, it will only
do to send foolish persons to Washington, if you wish them
to be safe. The outrage is the more shocking from the
singularly pure character of its victim. Mr. Sumner's
position is exceptional in its hononr. He had not taken
his degrees in the caucus and in hack politics. It is noto-
rious that in the long time when his election was pending
ho refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not
so much as go up to the State-house to shako hands with
this or that person, whos3 goo twill $ reckoneJ important
by his friends. He was elected. It was a homage to cha-
racter and talent. In Congress he did not rush into a party
position. He sat long silent and studious. His friends, I
remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of
the world, like the rest; 'tie quite impossible to be at Wash-
ington, and not bend ; he will bend as the rest have done.
Well, be did not bend. He took his position and kept it.
He meekly bore the cold shoulder from some of his New
England colleagues, the hatred of his enemies, the pity of
the indifferent, cheered by the love and respect of good
men with whom he acted, and has stood for the North, a
little in advance of all the North, and therefore without

adequate support. He has never faltered in his maintenance
of justice and freedom. He has gone beyond the large
expectation of his friends in his increasing ability and his
manlier tone. I have heard that some of his political friends
tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make
electioneering speeches, or otherwise to bear his part in
the labour which party organisation requires. I say it to
his honour. But more to his honour aro the faults which
his enemies lay to his charge. I think, sir, if Mr. Sumner
had any vices we should be likely to hear of them. They
have fastened their eyes like microscopes now for five years
on every act, word, manner, and movement, to find a
flaw, and with what result? His opponents accuse him
neither of drunkenness, nor debauchery, nor job, nor pecu-
lation, nor rapacity, ner personal aims of any kind. No ;
but with what? Why, beyond this charge, which it is
impossible was ever sincerely made, that ho broke over
the proprieties of debate, I find him accused of publishing
his opinion of the Nebrasha conspiracy iu a letter to the
people of the United States with discourtesy. Then, that
he is an Abolitionist, as if every sane human was not an
Abolitionist, or .a believer that all men should be free. And
the third crime he stands charged with is that his speeches
were written before they were spoken, which, of course,
must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true of Webster,
of Adams, of Calhoun, of Burke, of Chatham, of Demos-
thenes, of every first-rate speaker that ever lived. It is
the thigh compliment he paysito the intelligence of
.the
Senate and of thecountry. When the same repreach,was cast
upon the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of
his day he said, ' I should be ashamed to come with one
unconsidered word before such an assembly.' Mr. Chair-
man, when I think of these most small faults as the worst
which party hatred could allege, I think I may borrow the
language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac New-
ton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul
I ever knew.' Well, sir, this noble head, so comely and
so wise, must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat
with clubs ! The murderer's brand shall stamp their
foreheads wherever they may wander in the earth. But
I wish, sir, that the high respect of this meeting shall be
expressed to Mr. Sumner ; that a copy of the resolutions
that have been read may be forwarded to him. I wish
that he may know the shudder of terror that ran through
all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.
Let him hear that every man of worth in New England
loves his virtues ; that every friend of freedom thinks him
the friend of freedom. And if our arms at this distance
cannot defend him from assassins, we confide the defence
of a life so precious to all honourable men and true patriots,
and to the Almighty Maker of men."

THE GROUSE.—There are now a good many of the
young grouse on the wing, and they will be a match for
the quickest eye and the steadiest hand by the 12th of
August. There are a good many on the low grounds,
but they are rather deficient on the hills, partly owing
to the snow coming on on the Ist of May. The grouse
have nearly changed their ground within the last few
years. They are all down about the water sides and 4
the corn-fields, and it is no rare thing to see them going
among the barnyard poultry. There has been no burning
of heather on the hills for some years past, and grouse
have diminished every year since the burning was given
up. The deer forest is now well stocked with red deer
—some hundreds may be seen bounding together.—
Brechin Advertiser. Prospects of sportsmen in Caith-
ness-shire for the coming season are unusually good.
Grouse are said to be almost unprecedently numerous,
and in first•rate condition.—Nolhem Ensign.