The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-26 00:00:00

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 25.
Angy-Belgian I Mauritius

Boulogne and Amiens 8
Bordeaux &Mediterran
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Do. & Cette (Espeleta)
Do. (Mackenzie's)
Liina, and Pa-
cific Coast

Namur and Liege 2%
North Jamaica ...
Orleans and Vierzon
'Orleans and Bordeaux 9%
Over Yssel
Paris 8c Lyons (Laffitte) 24
Ditto (GTlnoron's).

Central of Spain —
Ceylon .
Dernerara
Dendre Valley ...
Dutch Rhenish ......
Dieppe & Paris Juliet.
Dijon and Mulhouse ...
East Indian ........ 1

Ditto (Cabo's)... —1,
Ditto (sad Est)
Paris aid Orleans
Paris and Rouen 353/4
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron'a)
Do. (Aymard's)
Do. (Compte de L'Est)

Faxmoux & Hazebrouk
Grt Northern of France
Constituted lll4
Do. Pepin le Halleur —
Great Paris and Lyons —
Great Western Bengal
Great Western Canada
Jamaica 8. M id. Junction 2
Do. North Midland —
Do. Extension

Parii and St. Quentin: 1%
Rouen and Havre......
Royal Nortk of Spain.
Sambre aid Meuse .... 4%
Strasburg and Basle ...
Teurnay,Jurbise, Lan-
dent, and Hasseit._
Tours and Nantes
(Mackenzie's) 4%
De. ( Lefebvre's) .....

Jersey
Louvain and Jemappe —
Lyons and Avignon —
Luxembourg

Do. (O'Neill's)..
Trinidad......
Verona and Ancona....
West Flanders 3

Madrid and Valencia...

LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S LETTER

ON THE CORN LAWS.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

If the head of the Government has lamentably failed
in his duty at the present alarming crisis, the same can-
not now be said of the leader of the Opposition. Lord J.
Russell, having stood out with desperate courage for a
fixed duty, long after it had been forsaken by all but
a small faction of his party, has now, with a wiser courage,
avowed himself a TOTAL AND IMMEDIATE FREE TRADER.
We knew this must come at last. It comes now with
the greater effect that it has not come sooner,
The statesman, who leading an Opposition,
has for four years studiously, sometimes
almost offensively, repudiated the object to which the
desires of a larger majority of his party than any other
question of the day has brought together, have been
most strongly directed, cannot be suspected, at any rate,
of insincerity or interested motives in his now late con-
cession. Lord John Russell has shown too often, by his
acts, his scorn for the Peel policy of feeding the passions
of an Opposition in order to ease the way to power, to
render it possible to ascribe any•other motive for the re-
markable letter to the electors of London, which we print
in another column, than a conscientious conviction of the
error of his past opinions, and the greatness of the now
impending danger. Letters to constituents seem to be
becoming the great vehicles of political. action. We had
a letter from Lord Ashley, which did its work: we have
now a letter from Lord John Russell, which will do
greater work. It was startling to hear Lord Ashley
say that the corn-laws were doomed. Lord John
Russell has now doomed them irretrievably. We only
wanted all the minds and great names of the Liberal
party united in the cause to ensure victory. Mahomed
has now come to the mountain, which would not go to
him. Lord John Rusrell has now put himself in his
proper place, at the head of, and not aloof from, Mr•
Cobden and Mr. Villiers ; and the corn-laws will not
live another year.

Lord John Russell is a nervous writer ; and we could
have forgiven even a longer halting to end in such a
vigorous condemnation of the bread-tax. " Let us,
then," says Lord John Russell, in words which will
carry joy and hope from one end of the United Kingdom
to the other—" Let us, then, unite to put an end to a
system which has been proved to be the blight of com-
merce, the bane if agriculture, the source of bitter divisions
among classes, the cause of penury, fever,- mortality, and
crime among the people."