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

HIGR WATER AT LONDON BRTDGE.

TEIS DAT—Morn. 5 min aft. 12—Evening 28 min. aft. 12
Tn-Mosuow—Morn. 50 min. aft. 12 —Evening 11 min.aft 1

TUE WEATHER—SUN Ormuz. APRIL 22.
THERMOMETER, IN TUE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
49 -lowest this morning and during the night.
53 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30'05 - falling.
Wrirri.—N.W. to W. N.W. ; rather fresh and squally,
with drizzling rain and dull weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1857

As we stated yesterday, the most energetic
efforts are being made to tempt the speculators of
the Stock Exchange into transactions in relation
to the Russian Railway scheme, which has just
been introduced, under the auspices of Messrs.
Rennes, Brothers, and Co., to the English market.
Every inducement is at present held out. Appli-
cations for shares have been forwarded from
France, Belgium, and other countries for English
allotment., which, if bona fide, might be made
under far more favourable circumstances in
the immediate vicinities whore the par-
ties reside. The object, however, is to create
a market by an artificial demand, and, to
achieve that object, considerable sacrifices
will be submitted to in the first instance. The
moment, however, that men have been induced
to deal, to the requisite extent, the illusion will
be dispelled. The Continental " Stags," who
have taken care that they will be indemnified, in
any event will get out of the business on the best
possible terms, and although they may apparently
sustain losses of 2,3, or even 5 per cent., they
will be speedily recouped, with handsome additions
for " the use of their names," and the discredit
that must necessarily attach thereto when the
bubble has burst. The jobbers will then have
the stock thrown on their hands, and have ample
cause to deplore in sackcloth and ashes the ver-
dant credulity that betrayed them into such an
untoward scrape. They may laugh to scorn the
folly of the yokels who are victimised by
the stale tricks of the ring-droppers, skittle
sharpers, and benevolent gentlemen who have
large sums of money to be handed over
to the casual acquaintances of the beer-shop, who
can give proof of respectability by exhibiting sums
of money as a test of respectability. But there
are "ring-droppers" on a gigantic scale, " duffers"
who persuade them that some worthless article
possesses sterling value, and that they can
profitably exchange their hard cash for notes of
the Bank of Elegance, or gilt counters.
As we Stated, the first step is to create a mar- The same may be said of the required guar-
ket ! When that has been accomplished the rest an tees respecting the administration of the
necessarily
and speedily follows. The "green ecclesiastical property and the maintenance of cer-
goose" is virtually plucked at the very moment tain benevolent institutions,
in which CLICQUOT
when he fondly imagines that ho has realised affects to feel an interest. They are merely loop-
handsome profit., and has perhaps
i‘p/acens uxor" to a "duck of a bonnet" or a 1 of the Canton, which can do him no good,
handsome silk dress, on the strength of the ima, but may be highly injurious to the safety
ginary gains. Shares are quoted at a pre- of Switzerland. No good can possibly
mime!, and the gull, feeling assured that he arise from the so-called "protection" so
can obtain an allotment, sells shares which he greatly loved by despots.
It is something
has net in possession, thinking. that he can 1 analogous to the " protection " afforded by the
realise and cut the transaction before the l wolf to the lamb, that invariably ends in the des
inevitable blow-up. But be has reckoned without struction of the nenker hasty. It should, there-
his host. The premium will not he paid before 1 fore, be unhesitatingly rejected by Switzerland.
a settling
She has already yielded too much. If 'firm, she
day has been appointed by the Com-
mittee of the Stock Exchange ; a matter that must be sustained and really " protected" by
may probably be deferred ad circreas Calendas, France and England, notwithstanding the suspi-
or, according to the vernacular, until " to-morrow 1 cious interference of the EMPEROR, or the non-
com() never." Meanwhile, the dupe applies for 1 templated matrimonial alliance between the Prince
an allotment of a far larger number of shares than of Pntessse and the Princess Royal of ENGLAND.
is required for the fulfilment of his contract, in If, then, the problem cannot be satisfactorily
the expectation of getting only a portion of that solved, let her fling diplomacy to the winds and
for which he has asked. The moment the deposit entrench herself firmly in her mountain fortresses.
has been made and the letter despatched his doom , CLIGQUOT will pause befor he assumes the offen-
pronounced, his fate k ealed. Re has actually I
i siva in a matter where he must encounter