The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-08 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LIVERPOOL, SATIIIID.AY
The following has boon received by the Tagus :
"LISBON., MARCH 2.
" The House of Pears approved the reply to
the King's speech yesterday without a division,
after having wasted 20 days in the premature dis-
cussion of the now measures which have not yet
been laid before it."

Russr4 TvEran-gp IN THE BALA.VCIE--
EXPEASES OF THE TVL

Upon the principle of doing to Russia as she has
done to others when she has hal the power, it may
not be amiss at this moment to state what were
the provisions for indemnification she made when
the Sultan Mahmond submittea to receive peace
at her hands in 1829,
Her successes 'were certainly not then greater
than those of the Allies have been in the present
war, nor ihrleed so great, for with the exception of
her
117..iumph at Kars, where the work was done for
tier, Russia has failed in every encounter, whether
opposed by English, French, Sardinians, or Turks.
Her position, therefore, is not less helpless now
than was that of the Porte in 1829. Judged, then,
by her own measure of clemency, she ought clearly
to be compelled to "pay the bill." The indemnities
demanded by her from Turkey were, in the first
place, 1,500,000 ducats of Holland, for the commer-
cial losses sustained by Russian subjects, in conse-
quence of certaii measures adcpted by the Porte re-
specting the navigation of the Bosphorus.
This sum, it was stipulated, was to be paid by
four different instalments, in the course of eighteen
months ; and, to make assurance doubly sure, it
was agreed that Russia should held a material
guarantee, with which sbe was to part piece by
piece, according as the instalments wore paid.
Upon the payment of the first, and the fulfilment
of certain other stipulations, she was to evacuate
Adrianople' Kirk-Kilissa, Burgos, Arc. On the
pay rent of the second, the Russian army was .to
retreat over the Balkan ; and on the plyment of
the third, Bulgaria, and all the towns between the
Danube and the Euxine, were to be evacuated.
But this was not enough. The military bill was
to be settled. The indemnity for the expanse to
which Russia had been put in carrying on the war
was fixed at ten millions of ducats, to be paid in.
such a manner as the Emperor of Russia should
determine on an appeal of the Porte to his gene-
rosity and magnanimity. In proof of these virtues,
the Emperor consented to take in part payment
such an equivalent in goods as might be agreed
upon. But until this penalty was paid, it was
stipulated that the Russians should hold the for-
tress of Silistria and the principalities of Moldavia
and Wallachia.

When we consider the condition of Turkey at the
time—bher fleet so recently destroyed at the battle of
liavarino, and her treasury exhausted by her long
struggle, not only against Russia, lsut previously,
to maintain her authority in Greece—the indemnity
demanded by the late Czar did not redound much
to the credit of his generosity and magnanimity.
But besides this, Russia, by the treaty of Adria-
nople, gained important commercial advantages,
which in themselves amounted to a sufficient oom-
pensaticm for the cost to which she had been put,
especially when it is remembered within how com-
parative ly brief a space she had deprived Turkey
of the "'Ukraine, the Crimea, and Bessarabia.—
rain; Advertiser.

BLEACCING WORKS BILL.—A bill prepared by Mr.
Isaac But t, Lord J. Manners, Lord Goderioh, and Mr.
Crook ern eta that after the Ist of February next no child
shall be e; nployed in any bleaching work in preparing,
cleaning, t :couring, bleaching, dyeing, oalendering, finish-
ing, mang ling, dressing, embossing, or tambouring any
woven faluric, or twist, or yarn, or in packing, carrying,
or conveying, or in aiding in any other labour or process
connected with 'bleaching, dyeing, or finishing. Children
under 11 years a t age, however, may be SO employed in
their parents' lin uses. Women and young persons must
not be enaployel in any bleaching operation before six
axe. or after six: p.m., and there must be an interval of
one half-hour for breakfast and one hour for dinner.
There must be nn work carried on after two o'clock p.m.
on Saturdays. A penalty of 101. is denounced against
the violators of the act. Full power is given to the
factory inspectors to enforce the act. After-work ivill
be lawful in cases of necessity, upon proof of that neces-
sity being given. With this exception, the hours of
labour are limited to 101, hours per day, or 60 hours pct. week.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, March 7.—At a congregl %-
Con holden this day the degree of M.A. was content:. I
on %V. S. P. Wolferstan, King's College; Edraurli: I
Thompson, St. Peter's College; A. R. D. Ash, J ega
College; that of LL.B. on Daniel Thomas Grin
,ton
Triuiy ; and that of B.A. on Robert Drap'
son, St. John's College ; James Clarke RoberiadrX`---,
of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, was admitted 44 t,
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