8 DECEMBER 1855, Page 10

' Sir Stafford Northcote, at the express request of his

Dudley consti- tuents, addrested thorn at a public meeting on Wednesday. His main topic was the war. He was for concluding peace if Russia would own her- self in the wrong; and inake amends for violating public law ; and he thought it highly probable that she would be well disposed to make con- siderable concessions for the sake of peace, and for the sake of being re- lieved from the state of exhaustion to which the war has brought her.