The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-13 00:00:00

REMARKABLE SPEECH BY A RUSSIAN

MERCHANT.

Among the feasts at Moscow by which the late coro-
nation of the Czar was attended, was one given by M.
Basile Kokoreff to the deputation of peasants and mer-
chants, assembled from the principal cities of Russia.
M. Kokoreff was formerly a peasant, but is now one of
the wealthiest merchants in Russia, and has made him-
self singularly popular throughout the empire by his
profuse generosity and enthusiastic patriotism. The last
occasion upon which his name was brought prominently
before English readers was in connexion with a grand
banquet given by him at Moscow to the soldiers and
sailors returning from the defence of Sebastopol. At
the late dinner to the merchants he delivered a speech
sufficiently remarkable to repay translation.
" It is not long since (he said) that at this very place,
Moscow, the heart of the Russian nationality, the Mus-
covites feted the welcomed and heroic defenders of Se-
bastopol. We were then expecting peace, and were
consoling ourselves with the hope of soon profiting by
its happy results. To-day peace is no leug,rer a hope, it

is a reality; and now again, in the same city £f :Moscow,
we are celebrating, heart and soul, the holy coronation
of our beloved monarch, the author of the peace and so
many other blessings. Here also are united the repre-
sentatives of the whole nation, as well as you also,
gentlemen, the delegates of our bourgeoisie. Let
us, therefore, manifest in unison the sentiments which
we feel at the advent of these recent blessings. Our
gracious sovereign has been pleased to order that our
children should henceforth frequent without any restric-
tion the University course. He has ordered the revision
of the e'ation between Government and commerce ; and
the revision of the tariff; which eannot fail to quicken
our industry. All our relations with foreign nations
are rendered easier. His Majesty has also been pleased
to authorise the foundation of an Industrial Society,
under the patronage of the heir to the throne. Happy
the people and grand its future when its princes apply
themselves betimes to the sacred duty of learning its
wants and studying the means of satisfying them !
Lastly, in the midst of all these events, the 'Society of
Navigation and of the Commerce of the South and of
Russia,' has been established, the aim of which is to ex-
peditl our relations with Europe, and to facilitate our
exports and imports. Russia has always been able to
confess her faults as Well as recognise her merits. Let
us, therefore, frankly declare, gentlemen, that, in point
of commerce and industry, we are, in many respects,
rather behind. Oar merit at present consists in the
desire to improve our curselves by intelligent practice.
It is a fact that in the industrial life of a people, certain
and complete success is less easily obtained by the theo-
retical precapts of books than by a continuous contact
with other peoples. By this contact we acquire experi-
ence, ideas, taste, and establish new relations which are
sura to be maintained because they rest upon common
interests—the only stable securities for treaties of peace.
In order to arrive at this end, the surest means is faci-
lity and rapidity of communication with foreign nations.
The question of steamboats and railways is at present
a question of human interest, because it is by their
means that nations can be united in a community of
interests and in feelings of fraternity. In regard to
commerce, there exists among us the most con-
tradictory opinions. Some still speak of a Chinese
wall ; others of free trade. But be certain, gentlemen,
that such questions are never resolved by extremes :

their true definitions can only result from an interna-
tional exchange of ideas. When by means of steam we
shall be able to unity ourselves more eosely with foreign
merchants, more expert than we are in point of industry,
and exchange with them our ideas, then we shall arrive
at the exact and true definition of the very principles of
commerce—a definition which is deeply interesting to
the whole of Europe. It will then happen that we shall
see here in Moscow, the centre of the internal commerce
of Russia, as well as in the other cities and ports of the
empire, representatives of the principal commercial
houses of Europe. We shall then be able to learn every
day here in Moscow, and at a fixed hour, the progress
of business in Paris, London, and ether places, and be
able, when we are assembled as now, with the glass in
our hands, to learn by telegraph the health of our chil-
dren, who may be placed in foreign countries in Russian
houses of commerce. When I review in Mind all the
pregnant consequences which must infallibly result to
nations from their union, by means of commerce—a
union based on common interests—l cannot refrain from
proposing to you, gentlemen, to drink at once and unani-
mously theer
oh followinge n on
rtoast,
elder `To
brethren European i
n industry, and
commerce,. to
foreign
to my honourable colleagues the merchants of Russia.' "
The above was received by the company with loud
and repeated "hurrahs." The personal appearance of
M. Kokoreff, while delivering. this speech—his long
beard and hair cut a la movik, and his warmth of
manner—did not by any means lessen the effect of his
words.

A postscript to some of the commercial letters from
Brazil, by the last mail, mentions the death of the Mar-
quis at 'Parena, President of the Council and Minister
of Finance.
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