The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-26 00:00:00

HOSPITAL STAFF.

Staff Assistant Surgeon Douglas Arthur Reid, M.D., has
been permitted to resign his Commission.
Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, with local rank, Thos.
Ligert wood, M. 8., to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class.

BREVET.
TO BE LIETJTENANT-COLONELS.
Brevet-Major John George Rawatorne, 91st Foot.
Major Robert Henry Lindsell, 28th Foot.
Brevet-Major Tyrrell Byrne, Ist Foot.
Major John A. V. Kirkland, Unattached.
Major James Conolly, Unattached.
Major Frederick Robert Elrington, Rifle Brigade.
Brevet-Major Thomas Henry Clifton, Unattached.
Brevet-Major John Turner, C.B , Royal Artillery.
Major Edward W. D. Bell, 23d Foot.
Major Robert Lockhart Ross, Depot Battalion.
Major Robert William Lowry, 47th Foot.
Major Frederick Spence, 31st Foot.
Major Edward Westby Donovan, 33d Foot.
Brevet-Major J. F. Manners Browne, C. 8., Royal En.
gineers.
Major Robert 0. Bright, 19th Foot.
Brevet-Major S. Delves Broughton, Royal Artillery.
Brevet-Major William A. Fyers, Rifle Brigade.
Brevet-Major Hugh A. B. Campbell, Royal Artillery.
Major William Pretyman, Depot Battalion.
Brevet-Major Henry Robert Carden, 77th Foot.
Brevet-Major George L. Thomson, 4th Foot.
Major David Watson, 82d Foot.
TO BE MAJORS.
Captain Edward E. Haines, 92d Foot.
Captain William Murray, 10th Light Dragoons.
Captain Richard Anderson, 56th Foot.
Captain George Edward Baynes, Bth Foot.
-Captain Henry- Loftus, 71st Foot.
Captain R. J. ROBB O'Connor, 17th Foot.
Captain Richard Rocke, 72d Foot.
Captain William Francis Ring, 87th Foot.
Captain Edward B. Cureton, 12th Light Dragoons.
Captain Hon. Edward S. Plunkett, 95th Foot.
Captain Henry Charles Fitz Gerald, 33d Foot.
Captain Henry W. Campbell, 79th Foot.
Captain Horatio H. Morant, 68th Foot.
Captain William Pole Collingwood, 21st Foot.
Captain H. Bassett Scott, 9th Foot.
Captain Joshua Grant Crosse, 88th Foot.
Captain Frederick C. Bligh, 41st Foot.
Captain William Macdonaid, 53rd Foot.
Captain Thomas Gilley, Adjutant of a Depot Battalion.
Lieutenant and Captain Alexander Viscount Balgenie,
Grenadier Guards.

Lieutenant and Captain Robert James Lindsay, Scots
Fusilier Guards.
Captain George John Forsyth, 57th Foot.
Captain Alexander J. J. Macdonald, 95th Foot.
Captain Coote Buller, Rifle Brigade.
Captain Frederick E. Apr,leyard, 7th Foot.
Captain H. Hope Crealock, 90th Foot.
Paymaster Richard Jellicoe, Half•pay Recruiting Dis-
trict, to be Major in the Army, the rank being honorary
only.

Ile following promotions to take place in consequence
of the death of General the Hon. Wm. Henry Gardner, of
the Royal Artillery,

Lieutenant-General Richard Seeker Brough to b©
General.

Major-General Thos. Dyneley, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-
General.
a Major-General Sir Wm. Fen wick Williams, Bart.,
the Senior Supernumerary General Officer, to be
placed on the fixed establishment.

The undermentioned Officers on the Retired Fug Pay
List of the Royal Artillery, to be Generals, in consequenco
of the promotion of Lieutenant-General Brongh, the Offi-
cer who stood next below them at the time of their retire-
ment, in accordance with the 21st clause of the Royal
Warrant of 3d Nov., 1851, viz. :
Lientenant-General Richard Uniacke, of the late Royal
Irish Artillery.
Lieutenant-General George Irving, of the late Royal
Irish Artillery.
The undermentioned Cadets of the East India Com-
pany's Service, to have the local and temporary rank of
Ensign daring the period of their being placed under the
command of Colonel Sandham, Royal Engineers, at
Chatham, for Field Instructions in the art of Sapping and
Mining :

Juin; Herschel, Gent.
Robert Claude Danbuz, Gent.
Hastings Macsween, Gent.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Warwic!shire Militia, Ist Regiment—Robert Dymock
Vaughton, Esq., to he Adjutant and to rank as Captain,
vice Captain and Adj %taut T. Cassan, resigned. Corn rnis.
mission as Adjutant from the Crown, dated the 7th Nov.,
1856. Commission as Captain, dated the 18th Dec., 1856.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia.—Ensign
John Gurneys Freeman to be Lieutenant, vice Mathew,
promoted.
3d, or Royal Westminster Light Infantry R-giment of
Middlesex _Militia—Ernign John Willcock to be Lieute-
nant, vice Thomas, appointed Quartermaster.

RIFF PIRATES.
Barque "Hymen, of Liverpool, captured by Riff Pirates on
the Moorish Coast in April, 1851 i. ,
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Trade have
received from her Majesty's Consul at Tangier, through
the Foreign-office, bills of exchange amounting to 3,278/. ss,
being the equivalent in sterling of 16,000 dollars, paid by
-the Mo rish Government in satisfaction of the loss occa-
sioned by the pirates.
All persons interested in the above ship, cargo, freight,
wages, &c., are requested to send in their claims, with full
particulars, accompanied with documents and such evidence
of their right as they are able to furnish, to the Board of
Trade, on or before the 20th January, after which the
distribution will be made as soon as sums to which the
respective claimants shall be found to be entitled shall be
ascertained.
Board of Trade, Dec. 22.

•
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(Y0.,45..)_. JERSEY— CLIA.NNEL ISLANDS.

Fixed Light at Verclut. St. Catherine's.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty hereby give
notice, that on and after the Ist day of Jan., 1357, a light
will be exhibited from the light tower recently erected at
the outer extremity of Verclut pier or breakwater, on the
north side of Sit. Catherine's Bay, on the east coast of Jer-
sey, one of the Channel Islands.
The light will be a fixed white light, the illuminating
apparatus a lens of the sixth order. The light is placed at
a height of P.O feet above the mean level of the sea, and
should be visible in ordinary weather from the deck' of a
ship at a distance of from 7 to 1') miles.
The light tower is an octagonal structure of iron, painted
white. It is 30 feet high from base to vane, and.
stands on the outer extremity of the parapet wall of the
pier, in lat. 49 deg. 13 min. sec. 18 N., long. 2 deg. 1 min.
12 sec. west from Greenwich, nearly.
The tide at Jersey rar ges 20 feet at neaps, and 36 feet
at ordinary. springs.
By command of their Lordships,
, JOHN WASHINGTON, Hydrographer.
Hydrographic-office, Admiralty, London,
17th December, 1856.
This notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :
Channel, No. 1,598; Jersey, 11.1. 62; Cape Car-

taret to Cape Frehel, No. 59 • also British Lighthouse
List, No. 23.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Dec. 24.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Russian barque Clio,
captured May 27, 1855 ; the Russian vessel Alku, and the
Russian brig Eros, captured May 28, 1855, by her Majesty's
ships Swallow and Wrangler •—a quantity of Swedish iron
seized in the island of Applo, Oct. 5, 1855, by her Majesty's
ship Falcon ;—the Russian vessel, name unknown, cap-
tured Sept. 19, 1855 ; and the Swedish vessels Active,
Charlotte, and Fernan, captured Nov. 20, 1855, by her
Majesty's ship Gorgon.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the
registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that
the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that
officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the
said Court.
Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, are requested, with as little delay as possi-
ble, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual do-
cuments, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the
" Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
house."
Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the
amount of an individual's share in the respective classes
will be announced.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Torn Fowler Slater, grocer, Bradford.
BANKRUPTS.
George William Jones, milliner, Oxford-street, to sur-
render, Jan. 6, and Feb. 5, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Par-
ker and Lee, St. Paul's-churchyard.
James Wood, cheese factor, Shude-hill, Manchester,
Jan. 7, and 27, at twelve, at the Manchester f )istrict Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Heald, Manchester.
Thomas Wells, grocer, Dorset-place, Clapham-road,
Jan. 7, and Feb. 10, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee ; Richardson and Sadler, Old
Jewry-chambers, City.
Robert Ashworth, cotton spinner, Rossendale, Lanca-
shire, Jan. 9 and Feb. 6, at the Manchester District Court.
Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthing-
ton, and Shipman, Manchester.

. ,
Francis Boyd, grocer and flour dealer, Tynemouth, Jan.
9, and Feb. 13, at half-past twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Mewcastle-
upon-Tyne ; Watson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
John M`Millan, ship owner, Liverpool, Jan. 7 and Feb.
2, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Anderson and Collins, Liver-
pool,
George Gwilliam, wheelwright and blacksmith, Leeds-
street, Liverpool, Jan. 7 and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Li-
verpool ; Pemberton, Liverpool.
Frederick Read Davies, auctioneer and forage dealer,
Union-street, Plymouth, Jan. 12, at eleven, and Feb. 2,
at one, at the Exeter District Court, Plymouth. Hirtzel,
official assignee, Exeter ; Elworthy, Plymouth.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32,
the Week ending on Saturday the 211th day of Dec., 1856.
METE DEPAITIKENT.

Notes issued

$24,378,93 )7.)
31
Dated the 24th day of December

BANKING DE
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ........ ...... 3,240,390
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 6,841,949
Other deposits ...„ .. 9,493,093
Seven Day and other

Bills ••:••• •• ••

822,242

Government debt.... 11,015,10
Other securities 3,459,900
Gold coin and bullion 9,901,930
Silver bunion..

£24,375,930
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier,
1856.

PARTMENT.

435,000,674

Governmentsecuritiet

(lneludg.Dead Weight
Annuity).... . 10,870,431
Other securities 17,654,460
Notes .... 5,863,890
Gold and silver coin., 611,893

£35,000,674
1. MARSHALL, Chief Caabier.
1856.

Dated the.24th day of December

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec.
23, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.
From the British Possessions in America 37 104
Muscovado, the produce of the
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 37 41
Average of the above three descriptions 37 4

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.— THIS DST,
Amsterdam.. .• •• • ... 11 '4% Gibraltar,... .• •••• • • • • ---
Ditto, three months 11 173 Leghorn ..... .• 29 62
Rotterdam •••••• • • •• •• 11 17% Genoa ***** ••• • • •• • •• 25 80
Antwerp .....• ........ 25 35 Milan .......• ---
Brussels .....• ........ 25 37 Venice.
Hamb... . .• •
urgh 13 7 Naples •• • • •.. 42%
iltona .............„ Palermo ..... .... 129
Pari5........ „ ........ 25 25 Messina .. ••• 12951
Ditto, three months .. 25 6731 Lisbon ..
Marseilles 25 67% Oporto .. .••• • • • • 51%
Bourdeaux ............ ltio Janeiro
Frankfort-on- aine 1191 A Buenos Ayres ...... „
Berlin ................ New York,6o days' sight
Vienna 10 44 Philadelphia •• • •
Trieste • 10 46 ' ?aloes or strLucts, Pli

eetersburg 37%
ltadrid. ......... 49,4
Barcelona
„

- oz.
Foreign Gold In Bars £3 17 5
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Silver in bars .. 0 5 1%

TEE BORDER COUNTRY.—An intimation, which has
just appeared in the journals, of an application by the
Duke of Buccieuch to the court to disentail his Gran-
town and Caroline Park baronies, has given very Brea'
satisfaction throughout his wide border domains. It
is hoped he will now extend this judicious movement
to his estates in the south, where the entail laws are
no favourites, and thus the towns, at present suffering
from an odious embargo, will obtain relief. As a
counterpoise to this, however, it is rumoured that a
very extensive emigration is contemplated next spring
from, the duke's Eskdale's estates. This is greatly to
be regretted, and would be quite unnecessary were
a different system of management adopted by the
landlord. That wide range of country comprehends 40,000
acres, and as there are only 104 heads of resident fami-
lies, consequently every one of these might have a com-
fortable holding of 300 acres or so at home, instead of
being driven out of a country in which they receive
little encouragement to remain. But this cannot be
accomplished, owing to a system of favouritism which
prevails in the disposal of farms, to which every consi-
deration must give way. Thus Scotland is losing the
services of a remarkably fine race of men, who would
de honour to any country, and wide tracts in Eskdale,
Liddelsdale, and Teviotdale, at present not half culti-
vated, are doomed, for the present, to remain unim-
proved.—North British Daily Mail.
GABOTTING ET A TICICET-OF-LEAVIC MAN. —On
Christmas-eve a daring gar ote robbery was attempted
near Sheffield by two scoundrels, one of whom has a
ticket of leave, and was captured on the spat. Benjcmin
Buckingham Styring, a scissor-grinder, living in Orchard
treet, was going home between 11 and 12 o'clock, and
just as he turned up an archway leading to his house he
was seized by the neck by a man who was following
him, in the usual manner of garotters. A second mail
immediately went up and commenced rifling his pockets.
Styring struggled and punched at the men with all his
might, and succeeded iu turning round and closing with
the man who had seized him by the throat. Being an
adept at wrestling, he threw the fellow down, and called
out for assistance. His house was within a distance of
20 yards, and his wife, hearing the cry, ran out and
seized the man with whom her husband was struggling
en the ground. The other robber swore at the woman,
and used considerable violence to rescue his companion,
but before he could effect his release a number of neigh-
bours and persons passing along Orchard-street, which
is a very busy thoroughfare, flocked to the assistance of
,he Styrings. One of the robbers ran off as fast as they
approached, leaving his companion—the one who had
seized Styring by the throat—to his fate. The captured
man struggled violently, and severely " punched "
several of his captors, who, however, stuck manfully
to him until the arrival of a policeman. On being
taken to the police-station the robber was recognised as
a ticket-of-leave man, named John Sylvester. The
fellow, though only 21 years of age, has been twice
sentenced to be transported. The first time was about
tee years ago, when he was transported for a term of
seven years, but was released, and returned to Sheffield,
after the lapse of five years. Four years ago he was
again sentenced to be transported for 10 years for a till
robbery, but returned to Sheffield with a ticket of leave
six months ago, since which time he has had to abscond
io consequence of robbing his sister, and only a very
short time ago reappeared in the town.

- -- i ADVERrISgM ,_,ENT. 1 lOEIT AND HEARING SPECTACLES,
POWERFUL TRIMMER, OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE
Geasszs.—Messrs. S. and B. Soloruons, opticians, 39, Albe-
naartc-street, Piccadilly. Observe--opposite the York Hotel.
By leer Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable ano
extraordinary improvements in the most powerful ami
brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per-
spective Glasses, to know the distances. These telescope,
possess such extraordinary powers that some three and a-half
inches, with an extra eye-piece, swill show distinctly Jupiter's
moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the same
telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and 'I
i hi.if distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of
larger and a': sizes, with increasing powers accordingly.—The
Boyar Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, very smal',
powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by whict,
a person can be seen and known li miles distant ; they answer
every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses,
country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles.
They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera,
reee-cotase, ,=nap, and perspective glasses, with wonderful
power. Newly-constetzted Spectacle Lenses of the great-
est transparent power, The valuable advantage derived
from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is
preserved and strengthened, and very aged persona are
seenlepleeioyththese lenses of a much lees magnify'
their
enabledpation_.
cant osight at the most minute occr-
big power—and they do not require the frequent change 4
to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance
Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world,
by sending one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a
letter, and stating, the distance from the eyes they can read
small newspaper print with it; and those who have
not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deaf-
ness. New Discovery. The Organic Vibrator, an ex-
trao:dinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for 1
deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass any-
thing of the kind that has been, or probably ever :an be,
produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not per-
ceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church
sad at public assemblies; the unpleasant sensation of singing
noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the
assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle see. Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1856.

no easy matter. The Emperor had gone to Tula ,
the day before, and was expected back the day
hftef: that on which we intended to start ; and, to
make a long story short, it was 6 o'clock on the
evening of the second day after we intended to start
before four very miserable, lame, limp, little ponies
were sent to our hotel to be fastened to the huge ta-
rantasse, which we were gravely assured they would
whirl away at the rate of 10 or 12 versts an hour. A
verst, be it understood, is about the same measure
of distance as the French kilometre—and may be
practically considered as two-thirds of an English
mile. Leaving the courier, the valet de place (one
Antonio Bellini, au honest Italian who had come
to Moscow as a wild beast proprietor, and had been
rendered bankrupt by the obstinate way in which
his lions and tigers persisted in dying)—and the
English courier to pack up our luggage, we sallied
out to the Hotel de Labardie to dinner, and gave
orders to the driver to call for us as soon as the
operation was completed. It should be premised
that we had laid in a stock of provisions for the
road, as our friends had counselled us to do—tea,
the great Russian wade mecum, which is certainly,
more refreshing and delicious in Russia than any-
where else—white bread, sugar, sherry, ham, saus-
ages, cheese, sardines, potted game, all foreign
except the bread, and in that Moscow can
challenge the bakers of any city, not excepting
Vienna, in the world. And here, before leaving
Moscow most probably for ever, let me, in an-
ticipation of the more general remarks I shall
hereafter have occasion to make, and of the de-
scription of the great establishments connected with
charity and philanthropy in which that strange
city abounds, give some data as to the prices, such
as we found them, at least, during the Coronation.
The impossibility of travelling uninterruptedly,
the annoyances of the passport system in its most
rigid form, and the exaggerated statements respect-
ing the difficulties of obtaining accommodation
which were industriously circulated prevented any
great influx of foreigners to those fetes. It was
imagined that the circulation of those stories would
justify the shopkeepers and lodging-house pro-
prietors in the exorbitant charges they have made
on those who fell within their grasp. A. rouble, or
3s. 2,0., scarcely goes as far as a shilling in the
dearest parts of London. For example, the hire of
an ordinary brougham, with a pair of sorry horses,
for the month is from 651. to 701., and the driver
expects to be paid besides. The common drosky-
drivers ask a rouble and a half an hour, and a
rouble for the shortest drive. The price of a bed-
room and sitting-room for the month has been
about 551., and the most grubby and dingy boar l-
ing-houses charged 10 roubles, or about 1/. 15s: a
day for bed, dinner, and breakfast, without wine
or beer. For washing shirts 12 roubles a dozen
was asked at the outset, and the price was with
difficulty reduced to about ls. each. The price of
a pair of white kid gloves is ss. 6,1. or 6s. There
was a fish soup, very excellent indeed, and of pe-
culiar flavour and richness, served up at the Rus-
sian restaurant at which we dined, which cost 25
roubles, or about four guineas for three persons,
and the same description of soup is sometimes made
so extravagantly that it costs 51. or 6/. a head !
The common price of champagne is 15s. a bottle,
and the quantity the Russian officers consume is
very great. In fact, the luxuries of life, which are
here regarded almost as necessaries, are of enor-
mous cost. The whole price of food was raised very
little, so that these excesses must be regarded as
extortions for the most part, and as the involuntary
contributions which all strangers and travellers are
required to pay to the maintenance of trade and
commerce when they go to see sights beyond their
own country. But what is this roar of distant thun-
der! Oh, the " ekipadge" (the Russians are obliged
to borrow many words from foreign languages to
express those things with which civilisation has
made them acquainted)—the " ekipadge" is at the
door My two friends and myself got inside ;
Walter and our English courier got into a huge
dicky, or rumble, in front ; poor Bellini made
us a warm speech in Italian ; the driver cracked
his whip, and we—were immediately sent with
our head into each other's stomachs with a
lunge so violent and so sharp that we really
should have been justified in thinking the carriage
had blown up. But it was nothing ; our tarantasse
was merely under way, and this was the first roll
over the stones. Before we could utter an exclama-
tion we were pitched violently back with our heads
rap against the hard cushions, while the noise, the
creaking, the rattling of glass, the screaming of
tortured timber, rose high above our cries of dis-
tress. Any one who has ever been buffeting a gale
head to wind in a short sea, and in a short elderly
steamer, will be able to form some notioi of the
motion of our tarantasse over the ill-paved streets
of Moscow and across the huge blocks of stone of
the chausee. The lights in the shops danced like
wildfire before our eyes ; and as the camphine lamps
which illuminate the streets shone in through the
ports of our driving land-ship the features of each
seemed to the other hideously distorted, now pulled
out to an unnatural length, and in an instant flat-
tened, and then extended to twice their breadth.
No one had the moral courage to say it. Each was
waiting for the other to pronounce the fatal word,
but it is my belief that if any of the party had said,
" I really can't stand this ; we must stop !" the
expedition would have been at an end, to the great
joy at that time of the whole socielte. It was at 6.30
p.m., in the dark of a cold, wet, and blowing night,
that the tarantasse weighed and stood for Tula,
driving through the streets of Moscow like a two-
decker rushing through the Downs for her moorings
in a winter breeze. For nearly half an hour the
noise, the clatter, the pitching was most annoying
and sickening, forsolong were wein working through
the enormous city, which revealed itself to us for
the last time shining with rain, and at last died out
in a dim glow which lighted up the heavens far and
wide. Then we got off the pavement, and the
motion was easier ; the perch began to play a little,
and we settled down more readily into our
places. Out of the windowslwe could see nothing;
all
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the side of the entrance, invited us to enter, and
in distant apartments we heard Walter battling
with the Spirit of Evil, or the postmaster, as we
crossed the threshold. The post for four horses
had been paid to Tula, a distance of 180 versts. It
was not very great-21 roubles silver, and 5 roubles
and 46 copecks for turnpikes, for there are said to
be turnpikes in Russia, on to Orel. Passing through
a long and cheer less room, in which a high-smelling
and dingy-looking party of natives wore waiting,
we entered a smaller room, warmed by a stove and
provided with two chairs, and a most uncompro-
mising leather-covered sofa and a card-table, by
way of furniture, and in this we remained worship-
ping the goddess Tchai till the horses were pat to,
and we rushed forth into the darkness once more.
For the somovar, or hot-water urn, the charge was
about 10d. To the yainschik, or driver, the fee
was 30 copecks, or a shilling, for which trifling
consideration he performed a humiliating series of
genuflexions. As the horses were announced Wal-
ter came forth, looking flushed and red in the face
and guilty in the eyes. We knew we had been
telling an awful number of lies on our account ;
but we forgave him in the most generous manner,
as they had not been told to us, and so w• set
forth upon our journey from Berliova.

oi7or some other people. On these grounds you deelare
yoti' dissent from the proposition of the committees, antl
your adhesion to th#,o of Mr. Marcy. The committee
declare their inabilityto comprehend how Otte dimensions
or the amount of any trans,:ctiOn can affect the laws by
which it is governed; how those who seek to maintain the
laws against physical force can be accused of seeking to
institue physical for for the laws ; how those rho are
endeavouring to arrest the rggressions of Great Britain
against a variety of foreign nations should be accused of
wishing to assert her supremacy over some other people.
Still more are they at a loss to conceive how these in-
comprehensible charges become the basis of the conduct
of a public man in striving to put down, not only the
laws of England, but her means of defence ; and, inde-
pendently of thi,, of depriving the nation of all action
and of all care i❑ reference to its own action ; its own
laws and its own existence. This rule, applied to aggro-
gate securities, must come next to apply to individual
securities, and the Bill of Rights, Magna Charta, and
the Trial by Jury, he found no less objectionable to
modern progress and incommensurate with its interests.
On this point the committee beg to refer you to the
leading article in the Manchester Guardian of Saturday
last, which they have rend with pleasure and gratifi-
cation.

"The Spectator of the 13th inst. also corrects a very
grave error into which you have fallen. The editor
says :—' Mr. Cobden confounds two things essentially
distinct. The 'right to search,' that led to the war of
1812 was the right to search United States men-of-war
in order to discover and take British subj..cts ; not the
right to search merchaehnen for goods. The latter was
the right waived in 1854.'
"Notwithstanding all the committee have herein
stated, in the present extinction of all public men and
the fear that has possessed them of hearing their own
voice or seeing their own handwriting, the committee
are bound to thank you for even such an opportunity as
you have affor,led of discussing the question of whether
Eng!ar.d is to sink or not, and they give you the credit
of this, that you are the only politician in England who
—subsequently to the Paris Conferences—would venture
to write a letter upon maritime la v.
"The committee beg to cenelude by repeating their
request with reference to the letter of the Ne,..ca,tle
Cumuli, tee and the report of the Birmingham Conference
on the Right of Search.—Your obedient servant,
"IsAec IRONSIDE, Chairman.
"Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.