Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburg says :
A recent measure of the Emperor Alexander
has created a certain sensation here. When crown
prince he had conceived the idea of writing an
authentic history of the events which attended'the
accession to the throne, en the 26th December.

1825, of his father the Emperor Nicholas. With
the consent of the late Emperor, Baron de Korff
was charged to draw up this history. He was
furnished, not only with official documents depo-
sited in the secret archives, but also with auto-
graph observations written by the late Emperor
for his family; likewise with the journal of the
En2preas Dowager, the papers of the late Grand
Dukes Constantine and Michael, brothers of the
Emperor, the private letters of other members of
the Imperial family, and the wriVen observations
of eye witnesses of the affairs of the 20'h Decem-
ber, 1825. The Emperor Alexander, it may be
remembered, pardoned the leaders in .that con-
spiracy, who had been banished for life to
Siberia. Only twenty-five copies of this work were
printed for the members of the Imperial family,
and were kept secret; but the Emperor has now
resolved to share the secret with th►e people, and
has ordered the publication of this curious work,
which the Imperial Library sells for two roubles
each.

ROBBERY OF NUGGETS AT WOLVERHAMPTON.

At the Wolverhampton P lice Court, Reuben Cole and
Samuel Meson were charged with having robbed James
Cole, of the Lye Waste, rear Stourbridge, of 1,000 gold
nuggets, a watch, and £2O in maney. The prisoner Cole
is a brother of the prosecutor, and Mason is James's
news. Mr. Bartleet appeared for the prisoners. The
facts elicited were that the prosecutor and his wire
had, some twenty years ago, been. sent to Australia
at the charge of the Consolidated Pend, and than
the prisoner Reuben Cole bud 'visited Neiw South
Wales under similar circumstance-. Tw o years ago the
prosecutor, after realising some money at " tho diggings"
in Ans. r lia, returned to his dative place, Lye' Waste, near
Stourbridge; but the previous Friday he and his wife set
out for Liverpool, with a view to revisit the El Dorado,
spending the night at Wolv-thempten, The prisoners
accompanied them to Wolverhampton, and after taking
farewell glasses together to such an ext,nt as to get very
decidedly intoxicated. these latter returned to Lye Waste,
and soon after Mrs. Cele, who had kept the property
which the prisoners were charged with stealing, and who
had herself indulged ha the glass very freely, missed a besk.,t
which had contained the nuggets, watch, and money. elei--
geant Brookes end the prosecutor followed the prisoners,and
Lund them het the Lee Weere, in the house of Mason, the
younger I,:,risoner, in which they also discovered the basket
which lad contained the propert srid to be stolen,
tege:i:her with some braces, and a handkerchief, which the
prosecutor and his wifo identified as having been in the
;gasket with the money, and nuggets, and watch. The
prosecutor sail he did not wish to press the charge, and
both he and his wife appeared to give their evidence with
reluctance; but the magistrate did not feel justified in
dismissing the case, For the defence witnesses were cell -d,
who disp ited the identity of the basket. and handkerchief
swore to by the prosecutor and his wife. The prisoners
were committed to the sessions fur trial.—Worcestershire
Chronicle.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS•

[By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.]

SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM, AUG. 26.
The King has returned to the capital ill
better health than was anticipated.