The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-01 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1856.

The Royal Speech has been delivered, and de-
bates have followed in due course. Some infor-
mation has been obtained, but not to the extent
which Parliament and the country had a right to
anticipate. We know. that the negotiations are
to take place at Paris, and that the honour and
interests of Great Britain are to be confided to
the charge of the Earl of CLARENDON. We
are also told that there shall be no relaxa-
tion of our naval or military preparations
until a satisfactory treaty of peace shall
have been concluded. This, however, we
fear, is more than can be hoped for under
existing circumstances. The mysterious fifth
article must indeed be largely developed if the
final arrangements are to prove satisfactory to the
British nation or conducive to its honour and in-
torests.

In the Upper House, Lord DERBY spoke out
boldly and intelligibly on the subject of Kars, and
thus gracefully repaired a grave omission in the
opening address. A few words of praise and
sympathy might well have been bestowed on our
gallant countrymen, of whose brilliant exploits
and patient endurance we may well be proud, but
who were at length obliged to succumb—not to
the overwhelming numbers of the enemy, but to
the still more unconquerable force of sheer famine.
That is truly a question which should raise a
blush of shame on the cheek of the Minister,
which should cause him to hesitate, and be
paralysed, when the subject was alluded to. The
cause of this deplorable, and, we regret to be
obliged to add, scandalous transaction must be
strictly investigated, so that the real criminal
or criminals may be discovered, and sub-
jected to the severe punishment and universal
condemnation which ho or they have so
greatly deserved. We do not believe that it
can be traced to any feeling of paltry jealousy on
the part of our august Ally. We fear that the
delinquents will be found nearer home, and that
England, in vindication of its own character and
its own interests, will have to determine on a
very summary but decided course in reference to
the offenders.

We regret, however, to find that Lord DIME;
as well as Mr. DISRAELI in the other House, ad-
" the policy of abstention ;" or, in other
vocated
words, of refraining from any comments, sugges-
tions, or observations respecting the progress of
the negotiations. We confess that we greatly
prefer. the manly and straightforward course in-
whose admirable speech
dicated by Mr. RoEBucK)
Was all that could be desired. The Honourable
Gentleman, pointed out that, as the honour and
interests of England are in the keeping of the
House, it is our imperative duty to watch over
the negotiations, and to know every step that is
taken,. and every proposition that is made. In
his emphatic words, the House must watch care-
fully and vigilantly over the negotiators and the
negotiations of Paris. tl

The proceedings of yesterday will materially
add to the reputation of JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK.
He previously stood high in the estimation of his
countrymen. He has
greatly elevated his posi-
tion. He has shown that England can boast of
At least one man who will fearlessly utter unwel-
come truths without demclirg to personal con-

siderations. It would no doubt have been greatly
to Mr. ROEBUCK'S personal advantage if be could
conscientiously have maintained silence, and ac-
quiesced in the arrangements now on the tapis.
But he honestly judged and nobly discharged his
duty as a high-minded Englishman. He proved
beyond the possibility of doubt that we obtain no
real guarantee from Russia ; and that the lives
of our gallant countrymen, and enormous sums of
money, have been uselessly sacrificed. He asked
what the country also requires to be informed on.
He said—" I want to know if we had another
campaign, if we drove Russia out of the
Crimea, and if, discarding that pretended liberality
which says that we are not going to take any ter-
ritory from Russia, we were to take the Crimea
from her, and erect the Principalities, including
Bessarabia, into a kingdom—l ask, if we did
that, should we not then have some protection
against Russia ?" These spirited interrogatories
will reverberate throughout the length and
breadth of the land—will be repeated in the
palaces of the wealthy, the commodious dwellings
of the middle classes, and in the cottages of
the great body of the people. They will
judge, with JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK, that the
War has been brought, or rather has been at-
tempted to be brought, to a most lame and im-
potent conclusion, and will visit with just con-
demnation the parties responsible for the national
disgrace.

One of our contemporaries has thought proper
to make a sharp attack on Mr. ROEBUCK for that
which merited the highest applause. We cannot
forget the well-merited praise that appeared in
the columns of the Times, last year, of Mr. ROE-
BECK'S efficient and disinterested exertions. He
is now the bete noir whom it is striving to
crush. But it will fail in the attempt. Wherever
high-minded independence and undeviating
consistency is respected, the name• of JOHN AR-
TFIUB, ROEBUCK will be honoured as one of which
England may well be proud. Had we but a
dozen such men in Parliament, we should expect
to see Red-tapeism speedily and completely over-
thrown, and the nation placed in the position with
respect to foreign powers which she has a right to,
but does not occupy.

We are obviously expected to make peace with
Russia, if Russia will only benignantly permit us

so to make peace—upon the conditions following.
Firstly=lren2ember that !-upon condition, not
that the enemy shall indemnify the Allies for the
enormous expenditure consequent upon the CZAR'S

lawless aggression upon the Principalities, but
actually upon condition that the Black Sea shall
be "neutralised !" As though Muscovite ambi-
tion were a sort of political acid in the European
system to be neutralised by certain diplomatic
alkalies ! Or as though the triumph of the neu-
trals so far deserved celebration upon the very
head and front of the proposed compromis3 as to
authorise the coining of a phrase for its more
signal perpetuation ! Secondly, we are ex-
pected to make peace with Russia if Russia
will only magnanimouSly permit us upon
condition, not that the Crimea shall be re-
stored to Turkey, not that the Danubian
Provinces shall be erected into a kingdom,
not that a broader barrier than over shall
be reared against the possibility of further en-
croachments of barbarism from beyond the fron-
tiers of Bessarabia, but positively—remember
this too !—upon condition that a fleet now rotting
ingloriously at the bottom of the Euxine shall not
be reconstructel for the desolation of another

Sinope, anti that the shores of the same waters
shall never again bristle with the guns of a refor-
tified robber-stronghold like Sebastopol ! And so
forth—and so forth—the " material guarantees"
to be insisted 'tpnrk by tho Western Powers, under
the auspices of the guidance of Austrian diplomacy
dwindling away, "point " by " point," by nega-
tive upon negative ! Is this all ? Literally, is
this all? Is nothing else than this to bo really
gained (when everything is said and done) as the
result of the grand contest raging for two years

between the barbaric might of Russia aid the war-
like supremacy looked for as the inevitable con-
sequence of the glorious and heroic alliance ce-
mented between the presumed arbitrers of the
world the British and Gallic Governments ?
Positively we ask again—is this all ? Has the
terrible winter campaign of 1854-55 to have no
more consolatory pendant than a trumped-up
compromise ? Are the tattered banners of France
and England, smoke blackened and bloodstained,
riddled by ball and bayonet, and emblazoned with
the memories of Alma, and Inkerman, and the
Redan, and the Malakhoff, to be smoothed into a
patchwork tablecloth for the elbows of plenipo-
tentiaries, or, still worse, to be spread open as a
carpet for the feet of neutral Sovereigns t Actu-
ally, this, and nothing better than this, is fore-
shadowed at the present moment by more than one
sinister prognostication. By the peddling prelimi-
naries of a discreditable pacification! By the diluted
platitudes of what Lord DERBY facetiously desig-
nated a kind of " water-gruel " Speech from the
Throne ! By a first-night's debate in the House
of Commons, for the most part so timorous in
tone, so subdued in spirit, so hushed, and stut-
tering, and shamefaced, and blushing, and flus-
tered, that it might perhaps, after all, be most
accurately defined, as the great Scotch critic
once upon a time defined the Wilfred of
Sir WALTER'S " Rok eby, " in a memorable review
in the Edinburgh, namely, as—" that tame
rabbit boiled to rags ! " Elsewhere, however, we
take occasion in our impression of this evening to
carve, deliberately and piecemeal, " that tame
rabbit boiled to rags," the WILFRED of the session
of 1856, yesterday's discussion in the popular
branch of the Legislative Chambers at West-
minster. The immediate design of these
present remarks of ours being almost
exclusively devoted to the enforcement of what
we conceive to be the paramount duty at this mo-
mentous crisis in the affairs, not merely of Britain
herself, but of Europe generally, the paramount
duty and indefeasible right of every patriot Eng-
lishman ! That of observing, vigilantly observing,
every variable and even maybe momentary phase in
these now rapidly-approaching negotiations. The
duty and the right, be it remarked, not simply of
watching, but also of discussing these same negotia-
tions, as befits the free citizens of a State exquisitely
alive to the exigencies of a time like the present,
an age of transition as well as an epoch of achieve-
meat. Otherwise than by the exercise of some
such perfectly justifiable watchfulness, England
may find herself, when too late, involved in the
toils of those wily tricksters, who would palter
her honour for the bribe of a disgraceful treaty,
a'id sully her reputation by the infamy of a
shameless compromise. Sa surely,however, as
Peace were built up upon any such unstable
foundations, so surely would the present struggle
prove in the end to hare been but the precursor
of one in every way more sanguinary, more disas-
trous, and mere appalling. Over the smouldering
ashes of the War tins hastily buried under the
lowering mound of a precipitate pacification
might be inscribed in one word its most appro-
priate epitaph—ltesurgam !

MISS EMMA STANLEY.—"The Seven Ages of Woman"
increases nightly in popularity. Miss Emma Stanley
has been honoured by a numerous attendance of the
highe ,t classes. Her entertainment verifies the old say-
ing, " What everybody bays must be true," and her per-
formance has been pronounced by all as the most unique
and clever ever offered to the public.

LATEST NEWS.I

VIENNA, THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 10 A.M.

The Turkish Embassy in this city has been em-
powered to sign the Protocol if necessary.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.

The Austrian Ambassador, Count Esterhazy,
has communicated to the Prussian Cabinet the

projected proposal of Austria to the German Diet
for its accession to the accepted preliminaries.
The Saxon Prime Minister, Debeust, bas ar-

rived at Berlin.

Our intelligence from Russia is to the effect
that, whilst the peace is heartily welcomed at
St. Petersburg, the feeling is very different at

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1856.

to affirm the acceptance by Rusia of the proposi-
tions of Austria. Prince Gortschakoff has now
r received the despatch of M. de Nesselrode, which
states that acceptance and the authorisation to sign
the act common to the five Powers, for all the five
Powers who were present at the last diplomatic
I conferences will take part in it. As soon as the
Plenipotentiaries of France, Enghnd, and Turkey
shall have received authorisation from their respec-
tive Governments, they will be cinvoked by M. de
Buol, and in the. presence of Pince Gortschakoff
he will read to them the note wlich contains the
conditions proposed by Austria ; Prince Gorscha-
koff, on his part, will read the despatch of M. de
Nesselrode, and a protocol of these two readings
will be drawn up, which will be signed by the five
representatives. Prussia and Piedmont will take
no part in it, as this protocol be as a comple-
ment to those of the Conference of Vienna, the last
of which bears the date of thi 4th June, 1855.
This protocol was to have been signed on the 25th
January, but the signature had not taken place on
the 27th. Great impatience is felt for the accom-
plishment of this formality, which is regarded as
the first of the preliminaries."

BOURSE, Jan, 31.—The following were the quo
tations :

Ca3h. Pr. e.
4i per Cents ::45 50
3 per Cents 7O 60
Now Loan 72 5

End of Month.
—f. —c.
70 80

Bank Shares 3275 Roman
Credit Mobilior 1530 Austrian
Bolgian Fivos — Spanish Throes
Piedmontese (5) BB 50 Home Debt

RAILWAYS—ZOE CASE.
fr. c. fr. o.
(Minns ... 1237 50 'Western 835
Northern
Lyons -...... 1225 Now Ditio BlO
hlediterranean 1360 Grand Central 6lO
Lyons Geneva 725 Teste -
Cate 727 50 Austrian Com. ...... 857 50

PORTUGAL.
The steamer Cintra arrived at Liverpool, yester-
day, with adviees from Lisbon to the 26th iust.
The same day, at 5 p.m., she pasSed the Sultan
going into Li ion.

•
Our correspondent writes on' Alio 26th :—The
Cortes resumed their sittings on the 19th inst., be-
ing engaged in the election of councillors. Nothing
of public interest had taken place. A bill to extend
the period of old coina(Y6e will be discussed to-day,
when it is expected the Finance Minister will bring
forward his report, and bills respecting contracts
and loans for railway construction.
Although the heavy gales upon the coast have
subsided for the last few days, rain continues to fall
in great abundance. The Donna Maria steamer
has been linable to take in her cargo, and her de-
parture for the Brazils is put off to the 6th of
February.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings at Westminster, before Lord Chief• Justice

- Campbell and a Special Jury.)
GRAVES V. SOIVERDY AND ANOTHER.
This was an action for false imprisonment brought
under the following circumstances. The plaintiff is a
young lady, an assistant in the establishment of Madam
Decon, milliner, &c., 11, Bruton-street, Bond-street, and
the defendants linen drapers of Regent-street. It ap•
peered from the evidence that on the evening of the 16th
October last the plaintiff went to the defendants' shop
about eight o'clock in the evening, and purchased several
small articles amounting to 33.9 d., tendering in payment
two half-crowns, which the cashier declared to be bad ;
called in a policeraau, and gave her into custody for passing
bad money. She was then taken by the policeman,
through a crowd of persons who had assembled round
the door, down Oxford-street, to the police-station in
St. Giles. At the defendants' shop she asserted her
innocence, gave her address, the name of the lady in
whose employ she was, and also that of her sister, who
resided in George street, Hanover-square, whom she re-
quested might be sent for. The defendants, however,
refused to send to the parties named, or make
any inquiries as to tne truth of the plaintiff's
statements. At the police-station the plaintiff was
searched by the female searcher, after being
charged with passing bad money. Everything she had
on was taken off, and she was compelled to open her
mouth to show that she had nothing concealed under
her tongue, and the result of the search was the
searcher fuund no other coin of a doubtful character,
and expressed her opinion that the plaintiff was a re-
spectable person, and at her request she was placed in
a separate cell instead of being locked up with felons
and characters of the worst description. The half-crowns
were tested and believed to be good, and it subse-
quently appeared the plaintiff had received them
from her sister, who had had quicksilver in
her pocket in a paper, some of which had got
out, discoloured the coin, caused them to feel smooth,
and gave them the appearance complained of. On the
following day the plaintiff was brought before Mr.
Bingham, at Marlborough-street, and the coins being
found to be good she was discharged. Subsequently
an apology was published in two cf the morning papers,
and the defendants had further offered the young lady
5/., and then 101., as compeiriatio'b but which she re-
fused. The plaintiff's case bavi!‘t; been proved, the
learned counsel for the defendants ;said their object was
to stand right with regard to this transaction, and with-
out troubling the jury be would consent to take a verdict
from his lordship. _ _

The plaintiff; counsel having assented to this course,
Lord Campbell said that he did not consider 10/. a
sufficient amount of compensation for the wrong done
the plaintiff. He thought the defendants had acted
very harshly towards her. The defendant was a
person who carried respectability in her appearance ;
and he must ray that during his experience at
the bar and sinus at the bench, be had never
seen a witness whose conduct was so unexceptionable in
the box as hers. No doubt her demeanour was the
saute at the defendants' shop, and the defendant hal
done wrong in not sending fur her friends before subject-
ing her to the indignity of being in custody and searched.
The sum of 101. offered by the defendants sinco the com-
mitment of the action was insufficient, and he gave a
verdict for the plaintiff for 207.

Accounts from
the inhabitants of that province as being reduced
Algarve represent two-thirds of
to the greatest misery. The rains and storms have
stopped the fisheries, inundated lands, and many
houses have fallen there in consequence of the wet
season and shocks of earthquake.
The sufferings upon the banks of the Tagus and
other rivers are also very great.
We are sorry to report the distressing loss of the
Port iruese brig Orient, Captain Faria, out 61 days
from Loanda, at daybreak on the 21st., upon a
rock called the Guinche, near the Rock of Lisbon.
The fog was so intense that the vessel was almost
upon the rock it split upon before it was perceived,
and only 6of the crew were saved. Those lost
include the captain, who was a son of the owner,
two passengers, and seven sailors. One of the pas-
sengers, atter being lodged upon the rock, was
washed off again while in the act of kneeling in
thankfulness for his short-lived preservation.
News has just been received here of the loss of
the English brig Standard, Capt. Byrne, from
Alexandria, with beans, and last from Cadiz, bound
for Cork.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Before the Chief Baron.)
DICKER V. JACKSON.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff against
the defendant for unlawfully takinz possession of a
butcher's shop, situated in Leonard's square, Hoxton.
The transaction dates as far back as 1851. It appears
the agreement fur taking the shop had been entirely ht
tween the son of the defendant and the plaintiff, and
that consequently it was pleaded that whatever respon-
sibility existed in the case was the responsibility of
the defendant's son. It was elicited during the
examination of the witnesses acd the defendant, that o❑
April 17th, I'sl, the defendant and his son brought a
cart load of meat to the shop in Leonard's-square. Not
finding any one in the place, and the shutters only put
up loosely, they bad taken them down and placed the
meat in the shop. While so occupied, Mr. Dodge, the
agent of the plaintiff, who hal charge of the premises,
returned, and it was proved that no remonstrance was
made by the a;teit to the defendant and his son fur
having entered the premises, knowing that to be the day
on which possession had been agreed to be taken.
The Chief Baron, in a idressing the jury, said it ap-
peared to him that no real grounds for action for
trespass existed in this ' case. The defendant and his
son had gone to the shop and had been told by the
neighbours that the agent of the plaintiff had gone out
t a seek a lodging (knowing that he had to give up pos-
session to the defendant's son), and had left word for
them to take down the shutters and. take possession.
The defendant's son being proved to be under age at
the time of the transaction was not the point the jery
had to consider : it was whether an agreement had been
entered into between the plaintiff and defendant.
The jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict
fer the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)
BRAY V. CHANDLER.

This was an action brougut by the plaintiff to recover
damages for having been dismissed from his situation as
the agent of the defendant, in the management of an
estate in Park-lane, Tottenham. The defendant
bald been engaged for; two and a half years, at
a salary of 2001. per annum, in the early part of 1853,
to look after the erection and letting of certain houses on
the estate. On the part of the plaintiff it was contended
that he had fuifilied his duties in such a manner as to
have greatly enhanced the value of the property, and
that no cause existed for his dismissal. Mr. Byles, for
the defendant, stated that an agreement bad been en-
tered into between the plaintiff and defendant, in which
it was stipulated that the plaintiff was not to receive
any moneys on account of the defendant. He should
prove by witnesses that this stipulation had been infringed
on in more than one instance, the money so received hav-
ing been applied by the plaintiff to his own purposes as a
part of the salary due to him. He should also prove
that the plaintiff had neglected his duties in being ab-
sent on many occasions during the greater part of several
consecutive days, whereby the interests of the defen-
dant had suffered, and also that the plaintiff had pur-
chased building materials on account of the defendant,
an act also in opposition to the terms of the agreement.
[The case had not concluded when we went to press.]

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

Meeting This Day.

Tbo Commissioners met this day in the Council Cham-
ber, Guildhall, for the purpose of proceeding with the
business on the paper before the board—Mr. John
Thwaites in the chair.
Mr. Wilkinson took his seat for St. Pancras.
Mr. DIFFANuErt wished to put a question relative to
a statement made by Mr. Bazelgette, that one-half of
the management of the Thame Valley Canal had been
under his control, and the remarks that had been made
in the newspapers.
After a discussion the CHAIRMAN said he was of opi-
nion that the question to be put to Mr. Bazelgette was
one he ought to have an opportunity of answering.
A division ultimately took place as to whether Mr.
Bazelgette should answer the question.
Mr. BAZELGETTE said, in explanation of his statement,
what he had said was not that he had sole charge of one-
half of the Thame Valley Canal, but that he had the
charge under Mr. How, another gentleman.
The bye-law regulating the width of streets and alleys
made by the board on the 25th inst. was then read and
confirmed.

The bye-law empowering the chairman to pay the
contractors as they proceeded out of the funds lodged
in the London and Westminster Bank was also con-
firmed.

The board was occupied the remaining portion of
its sitting is considering the necessity of appoint-
ing a solicitor to the board ; a motion by Mr.
Davies relative to the appointment of the subordi-
nate officers of the board ; and another by Mr. Corrie
referring to a committee whether it was desirable
to proceed to make the sewers and works mentioned in
the 35th clause of the act before some changes had been
made in the powers of borrowing money, and to report
the changes, if any, which they considered necessary.