The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-01 00:00:00

WAICEFIELD—Fxs. 21.

A fair show of wheat, but the arrivals of other grain
limited. Wheat declined 2s per qr. from last week's rates;
barley in fair request, and prices slightly improved ; eats
and shelling dull, and rather cheaper; beans steady.

EXETER—FEB. 29.
CORN.—In our market wheat may be quoted from Ss 6d
to Ss 9d. Malting barley, 4s 6d to 5s Od ; grinding do., Os
Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s 3d to 38 6d. Beans, Os Od to Oa
Od. Peas, 0/is Od to 00s Od.
FLOUR. —Fine, 50s Od to 52e Od; seconds, 48a Od to 50s
Od per sack.
CATTLE.—Prime beef, lOs Od per score ; cows and calves
121. to 171. —s; butchers' calves, 60l to 6d per lb., rearing
calves —s to —s each. Sheep, 51cl to G, . Lambs,
Od per lb. Store hogs, large size, 413 s to 655 each ;
185 to 26s ; small, Bs to 125. Rough fat, 4id per lb.
Pork carcases from 9s 6d to lOs 6d per score.

MEM

BRISTOL SITGAR—FEB. 29.
There has been rather mere inquiry this week, both for
pan and scale descriptions, and business to some extent
would have resulted had holders been disposed to sell, but
they declined, anticipating further improved rates aeon.
Refiners' produce a moderate sale, but prime show no kitd
of improvement. For rum the demand has subsided, i►nd
prices have a downward tendency.

COAL MARKE
Prices of Coal por ton at
s. d.
Be.te'sWest Hartley 15 e
Byass's West Hartley l7 '9
Davison's West Hartley 17
Holywell l5 t
Howard's West Hartley

M.—FEB. 29.
the elm of the market.

H. A
Walker Primrose 15 3
West. Riding Hartley _l5 6
,West Wylain ..15 0
Eden
Harvey Wylara 11 0
Hough Hail l5 6
Evonwood 15 6
ißirehgrove Gra.igola 6
Derwentwator Hartley .17 9
Wayne's Merthyr "2 0
'2 I &Ad

Wallsend, &o.

Netherton l7 .0
Longridges Wst Hartley 17 9
New Tanfield 16 0
North Percy Hartley _l5 0
Tanfield Moor l5 3
Tanfield Moor Butes 15 .1,1
Tyne Main 15 3/
Ships at market... 27

Naval and Military L-itelligence.
.0.
The Cressy, Si, Captain •Warron, arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday from the eastward.
The flag of Rear-Admiral I)nndas was rehoisted on board
the Duke of Wellington on Thursday.
The Belleisle. 72, Commander Hoskin, arrived on Friday
morning from Plymouth.
The Transit steam troop-ship, Commander C. R, Johnson,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning. Sho sailed from
Malta, Feb. 14, and arrived at Gibraltar on the 22d.. Sailed
from Gibraltar for Spithead on the 23d ult.

The General Screw Company's steam-ship Jason, Captain
Stewart, transport No. 84, arrived at Southampton yester-
day with invalids, dc., having left Comsta.ntinople on the. Pith
ult., Malta the 12th, and Gibraltar Vas 21st. As she vs-as
leaving Gibraltar the sailing transport Great Tasmania was
being towed through. the Straits, but was obliged to put lack
again from adverse winds, it being her third at tempt to reach
England.
The latest instructions received at Southampton respecting
the General Screw Company's steam-ships Argo and Hydaspes
state that the former vessel is to receive on board. can the sth
inst., the C battery of horse artillery, consisting- of' four effi-
cers, 150 men, and 190 horses, and the latter, on tli.e follow-
ing day, the D troop, comprising 4 officers, 120 wen, and
200 horses. Each vessel will, in addition. as previously stated,
convey 10 tons of heavy and 200 tons of light stores.. Their
destination is said to be the Crimea
The third of the six gun-boats building at the yard of
Messrs. Wigram and Son, at Northam, near Southampton,
was launched on Thursday. She is to be named the Opossum,
The fourth, to be called the Partridge, will be readyfor launch-
ing in the course of a month. The remaining two, the Fawn
and Wave, are in a forward state, .and will be ready for sea in
due time. These vessels have been constructed under the pox.
sonal superintendence of a Goveramont surveyor, and are
each of 232 tons burden and 60-horse power, the engines by
the Messrs. Maudslay. They are launched. with their engines
on hoard, and are, with the exception of the ordnance, ammu-
nition, stores, &c., quite ready for sea. The Opossum left for
Portsmouth yesterday, in tow of a Government steam-tug,
The dimensions of these gun-boats are as follow :—Longth
between perpendiculars, 106 ft. ; keel for tonnage, 93ft. 22in ;
extreme breadth, 22 ft. ; breadth for tonnage, 21 ft. 8 in..;
depth, 8 ft. The mortar-vessel building at the yard of the
Messrs. Langle, at Northam, ik in a forward state, and will
be r.ady to launch in the course of a month.
The gun-boats Charon, Bcuneer, Haughty, Herring, Julia,
and Pelter left Woolwich Arsenal moorings yesterday morn-
ing, completely equipped and stored for service. They pro-
ceeded down the liver oa a trial trip, and are to return to
Greenbithe to have their compasses adjusted, and will sail
thence to augment that portion of the gui-boat flotilla sta-
tioned at Portsmouth.
The steamers Kite and Ardent were yesterday morning re-
moved from the outer to the inner basin at Woolwich, to
complete repairs. The steamer Vesuvius, and the gun-boats
Violet and Louisa, whose repairs and fittings wore in a far-
ward state, were at the same time hauled into the outer-basin.
The despatch gun-boat Intrepid, the paddle-wheel steamer
Niger, the gun-boats Forester and Fervent, were yesterday
morning taken into dry dock to be coppered.
The Marley-hill screw transport, engaged in shipping mili-
tary stores for the army before Sebastopol, is to take out 13
foxhounds, and will be ready to leave Woolwich early nett
week. The Edina transport, which sailed from Woolwich a
few days ago, had 60 hounds on hoard, to be landed at
Balaklava.
On Thursday a deputation of the artisans of the Raraa
Carriage Department at Woolwich Arsenal presented to Mr.
yesterday at the
mark
of their tPheellratetst
,%traoreankedepreesrp,oacth.andsome gold watch, as a
appointments were male
A(Thlmierafoltlyl7lng
Lieut. Arthur Bassot, Lieut. it. Wys-
Lieut. H. C. Lees, to the Pioneer; Lieut. Joshua Berkeley,
Beamish, and Lieut. E. J. Campbell, to
to the Desperate;
;HiV. H. Mallard, master, to the Perseverance ;
the Calcutta;
Lieut. H.
E. H. C. Smith, master's assistant, to the Algiers; F. T.
Holdsworth, Ai, Byles, T. G. Price, A. B. C. Booth,
F. L. Dyer, W. G. P. O'Callaghan, and A. C. W.
Lennox, navel cadets, to the Calcutta; F. C. Baker, naval
cadet, to the London ; A. H. Wilson and. R. P. Moutray,
naval cadets, to the 114xiney ; C. Beadon S. Osborne, and IL
Frceling, midshipmen, to the Calcutta ; B. R. Scott,midship-
man, to the Devastation • S. H. Davies, midshipman, to the
Vesuvius ; J. F.. L. P. X;,clean.,and J. Bruce, midshipman, to
the Victory, for disrCosal ; N. 1. Smith, 11, Dolphin, awl W.
M. Lathup, Midshipmen, to the Algiers.

HIGH WATER, AT LONDON BRIM-IL
TiH DlY—Morn. 32 min.' aft. 7—Evening 7 min. aft. g
To-Itoßnow—Morn. :12 min. aft. B—Evening 40 min. aft. fo

,-, The SULTAN, it should never he forgotten, is an
independent Sovereign, not a Viceroy; and to
i maintain him in that position was one of the main
, objects of the War. With what propriety, then,
could we attempt, during the conclusion of peace,
to convert him into a puppet for the regis-
tration of our decrees, however desirable
' the objects we might have in view in
doing so might be ? Our peremptory
interference with the internal affairs of Turkey,
to be warranted in reason and justice, can only,
under such circumstances, extend to what ob-
viously threatens the stability of the Turkish
empire by promoting disaffection and inviting
foreign aggression, and to that extent we sin-
cerely trust it will be unflinchingly exercised.
Who would undertake to say that, however suc-
cessful in a war with America, it would be our
duty to insist on a proviso for the liberation of
the slave population as a necessary article in a
treaty for peace? Judging, however, by the
question asked by Mr. BIGGS in the House last
evening, individuals, well meaning beyond a
doubt, but too much carried away by their hu-
mane feelings, are to be found who would have
Government exact of an old Ally, whom we have
defended from aggression, occasioned, ostensibly
at least, by his resistance to foreign domination,
what we would refrain from demanding
from a htu-nbled enemy. Yet what compari-
son is there between American and Turkish
slavery ? Bad as the latter is it is a merci-
ful provision when placed in juxtaposition with
that of the United States. The slavery of America
reeks with the blood and cries aloud to Heaven in
the groans of the tortured and overtasked slave.
It puts a veto on the intelligence, casts a elm-
merian pall over the prospects, and levels with
the brutes the humanity of the oppressed negro,
and pleads the sanction of Christianity for a system
against which the New Testament is an undying
protest. The slavery of Turkey, on the contrary,
is to a large extent a slavery of promise, involving
light labour and little ill-usage, and holding out
to the captive better prospects of rising than are
usually the lot of freemen. The Circassian girl is
trained from her earliest years to look forward to
her captivity as the period of her happiness, and
not unfrequently rises to the dignity of a Sultana.
The mother of the present Sultan was a Georgian
slave, and to the mountains and plains of Circassia
Viziers and Pashas have been accustomed to look
for their wives. Middle-aged women from these
districts become trusted domestic servants, and the
men have at every period risen from their servitude
to themost exalted stations. European ambassadors
have met them in the field of diplomacy, and Sove-
reigns have invited them to their presence, and
conferred on them marks of distinction. The
slaves, by sheer intelligence, and the favour of
their easy taskmasters, have elevated themselves
to the rank of freemen, and the highest positions
coveted by them. On the poor Nubian or the
dusky child of Africa the pressure of Turkish
slavery has been most severe ; and heaps of
whitened bones in the desert attest the miseries
this race has had to endure. But even he, on hii
arrival in Turkey, has been blessed in comparison
with the American slave.

Let us not be misunderstood. Under every
form slavery is a curse both tb taskmaster and
slave—an institution which carhact exist without
suffering and grievous Wrong, and is incompatible
in the long run with the stability of any state.
All that we would insist on is that we are not
called upon to demand in the one case

This new and unexpected phase in the Eastern ques-
tion has produced great consternation in Paris, and
caused a further fall in the French funds. It has
also no less surprised and alarmed our own Govern-
ment. They never contemplated the possibility of
matters taking suca a turn. We were last night as-
sured, from a well-informed quarter, that Lord Cowley
is expected to arrive in London this att,2r.noon, to take
the instructions of his Government on the subject.
Russia never, perhaps, played a more cunning game
than she now proposes to do. Ot course we cannot
imagine for a moment that our Government, whatever
course that of France might be disposed to take, will
listen to r,oy such proposition. That would b.:, to throw
the whole game into the hands of Russia at once
With the entire tribe of German despots swarming
round the Congress table—graced also by the presence
of King Bombe, and the whole of the Absolutist frater-
nity oe the Continent--this country would have no voice
at all. England and Sardinia—for there is no use in
concealing it, the predilections of France are on the
other side—woudd, in the contingency of a Congress
being agreed to, have literally to stand alone.
It is deemed not improbable that the result of this
new move of the artful diplomatists of Russia may be
the immediate breaking up of the Conferences.—Morming
A dvertiser.