The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-22 00:00:00

THE BIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTON.

Mr. Charles Butler having sent to Mr. Glee;
stone a speech of Mr. James Hall, and asking for
an explanation as to the charge made against
therein, Mr. Gladstone replies :
" 11, Carlton House-terrace, April 16' A
" Sir,—l thank you for taking the pains to see"
me an extract from the Gloim newspaper, purport"
ing to be the speech of Mr. James Hall, of Holy
well, at a public meeting recently held in that toWef
which you think should be noticed on my behalf.
" On the occasion of that meeting, the proceed'
ings of which were not, I believe, taken down by
reporters, I made a speech relating to the election
_)1
for Flintshire. A gentleman, who was descrin
to me as Mr. James Hall, made a-speech relAtel,.!
to me, and when he had concluded I replied .7
him. This, you will agree, was the proper neUeo
of his speech to-receive from me.
rae
" I presume from the paper you have sent
_t
that he has subsequently furnished his own acoueu
of that speech, 'and what he considers to have been
its reception. In that I have neither leisure nor
inclination to follow him. The question whetbei
his invective is merited rebuke or unequiyoui"
slander, is happily one of fict—namely, whether
it is true, as he says, that at the period of Mr. Be'
buck's motion Lord Palmerton consented to its
and I, with others, took pretended offence to bP
consenting, and resigned, or whether the truth
that Lord Pahaerston likewiie resigned office is
Jan., 1855, rather than agree to Mr. Roebue,%-
mot ion ; that Lord Palmerston informed me, befof
I joined his Government in February, that he
tended to continue his resistance, and that on
his changing his mind, together with the great tea.jority of his colleagues, whilst I simply adhered' bn
mine, I was deprived of office as a necessary cense-
quence.

" The account of the matter, which I have briefl
given, stands wholly
.upon public record, and
undisputed statements made at the time in th
souse of Commons.
"The spirit (as towards myself) in which Y
wrote has induced me to trouble you with
remarks, of which you are welcmie to make and
use you please. _ _

-"
I have the honour to be, sir,
" Your faithful servant,
" Charles Butler, Esq." W. E. GLADSTOIO"

THE EUPHRATES RAILWAY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 9. —The concession
the Euphrates Railway, obtained by General Cl'
ney, may be considered as a rival of the project °
the Suez Canal. When the latter scheme J.
re:
alised it will also beto the benefit of Europe, but ,'t
has not the same objects in view as the Euphrsty
Railway. It will indeed connect the two CO
nents of Asia and Europe together, but it will
create traffic and intercourse in the interior et
vast district. Now, when the rail way traverses tto
•
country, new life will be generated througn°,.°
or
Trade iu Syria is but a tedious process as yet,
everything has to be brought by caravans to id
sea coast, a most expelisive mode of conveysteei
and exposed to all sorts of risks and hazards.
when the whistle of the locomotive shall be heard'
as fleeter than the dromedary and more untiring.l
speeds from Seleucia, the commerce of Syria, per
and India will come to its call. The distance fro
Bassora to Bombay is only 1,600 English miles
"
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whereas from Suez to the same spot is at least 2,v,;)
miles—making a difference of 1,390 miles and or
same difference is to be taken into account for other
Indian and Chinese ports.
General Chesney's line is traced out, as 033°Iff,
alluded to, from Se'eucia, a small place on ~,
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Syrian coast in the Bay of Antioch ; thence it tea"
run towards the valley of the Oronteg along t,l'
great table-land to Aleppo, and from that PLa
to the Euphrates. The length of the abovg 11.74
is computed at 220 'miles as far as the town:
Bali., from which the road, will extend paraPc.
will]. the Euphrates to Raka, Selibe;
,El-DOl
Abou-Serai, Sura, Anah, and Hit. At this
spot it will leave the bank of the river, strike °0
eastwards towards Bagdad, and traverse the pI3I,
that forms as it were the water-shed between t."O
Euphrates and the Tigris. From Bagdad the livit
will return towards the former river, crossing
below Babylon, so as to touch at the towns of lig
shid A'i, Semara, and Suke Sheyuk, then sweePl_a
on to Korna, where the Tigris and Euphrates b1e,.",,0
into one stream, it will keg) side by side with 'Pit
Chatel Arab river as far as Bassora. The comPa33:l
have no intention, for the present at least/
tos
carrying the line any further • that is to say, for
Persia and Beloochistan, to Ayderabad.

THE RUSSIAN RAILWAY ROBBEIa.

SCHEME.

p o
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The discreditable practices adopted by the sP—t
la' ors interested in the Russian Railway sobean- a
have received further illustration yesterday,
uY
scarcely a doubt appears to be entertained 111,310
quatter that a deliberate plan_has been formed 0
entrap subscribers by inducing respectable pas°
es
to act unsuspectingly the part of decoys. The r 3 it
mentioned on Monday are unquestioned, and,. 1-ea
were necessary, fresh details could be furnis'oo
which would probably fix the responsibility of they)
attempts in a manner to leave no uncertainty 39 e
their design or origin. In consequence of the
posure there has been an almost total disinclinati°,
to-day on the part of the dealers to have
to do with the shares, and the price of to Pro
'ilium was entirely nominal. Such as have idles
bought are believed to have been taken by Pal l„10.
acting upon orders from Vienna. One case i 8133.-0,,.
tionect of a mercantile house writing from Dunkler
on helvilf of a friend—whether a clergyman or c'th.ot
wise is not stated—to know how he could
000/.—apparently the favourite sum—in tlsi he
61Jares in Loudon. The rejoinder was that, a 1:0
is a French purchaser, his best course will be.'
rti
apply for an allotment in Paris, where the qu, „
to be disposed of is known to have been beyourt2eor
capacity of the market, and where, in the unll3 at
he eau
anytlonee:
all events obtain. them on the Bourse.—Times
event of the allotment not being granted, , city
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