The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-24 00:00:00

SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK.

RUSSIA.

The Czas of Cracow says In Volhynia, the
Russian Government is now occupied in organising
an address, to be signed by the peasants, and in
which they are to declare their devotedness and
fidelity to the Emperor. This document will be in
some measure a counter-mecsure to the address of
the nobility of Podolia. Great mystery is observed
in this affair; no written order has been given, and
everything is done verbally."

HARD 7IIIIES FOR 711 E AMERICAN

PRESS.

A letter from New York says a local calamity has hap-
pened that affects us more than all the bad war news. It
is the advance of paper. Every newspaper is on the brink
of ruin. Yesterday all of our daily journals (save one) ad-
vanced the price from two to three cents. It is said that
all must fail, even at these prices, unless paper falls. Even
Bennett, of the Herald, who has accumulated a fortune,
has no idea that he can serve it, except in one way. It is
announced that" James Gordon Bennett goes out of the
Herald on the Ist of January next, and is succeeded by his
son, who takes the whole business. The son is Jas. Gordon.
Bennett, jun." By taking this course, if matters do not
take a favourable turn, the old Bennett may save a portion
of his property, and have something to live upon in hia
declining years. Every paper that his son sells will be
so much loss—meanwhile it becomes evident that his
early rival (from 1835), the Sun, will take away all the ad-
vertising that the Herald has had for some years. It an.
nounced to-day, " The other New York City morning. papers
have raised their prices to 3c,, but the New York Sun will
continue to be sold, as it has been for nearly 30 years past,
at 21c." That is not all. Unless paper can be kept at its
present rate all the journals in the city must fail; they can-
not even issue single sheets. They have all united to make
paper. Here is what they announce :

" To CAPITALISTS AND PAPER-MAKERS,—.The under-
signed, a committee appointed by, and acting for, the Asso-
ciated Press in the city of New York, will receive proposals
for the supply of the whole or any part of 300,0001 b. of
paper per week, for five years, from the Ist of January next
(or as soon thereafter as the necessary arrangements can be
perfected),---M. S, Beach, Sun Office, corner of Nassau and
Fulton-streets; Samuel Sinclair, Tribune Office, corner of
Nassau and Spruce-streets."
All of the weekly papers have raised their price from four
to six cents. The Albion (British) has been raised to ten
cents. The bookmakers and publishers are holding meet,
ins©. They have resolvoa not to publish a book for six
months "unless the price of paper falls below the present
rate."

The Dublin Freeman states that Mr. Edward
Levinge, of the Irish bar, who has been appointed one of
the new Indian judges with a salary of £5,000 per annum,
and a retiring salary of £1,200, is well known by his pro-
fession as the author of the " Irish Justice of the Peace,"
a work of considerable merit. The learned gentleman was
called to the bar in 1848, and is much respected. He is a
younger brother of Sir Richard Levinge, Bart., M.P., for
Westmeath, of Knockdrin Castle.

A POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO PENAL SERVI-
TUDE.—An ex-police officer, named Joseph Scott, has been
sentenced to three years' penal servitude, at the South Lan-
cashire Assizes for forgery, In connexion with the police
force, of which the prisoner was a member, a sick and
burial society had been established, and having been ap-
pointed its secretary, he broke his trust and forged various
certificates of death in order to obtain SUMS 01 money be-
longing to the proprietary,

METAOPOLITAN POLICE..Tbe following orders
from the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police were for-
warded to the various stations last evening :—" All the
men of the X division of police have returned from the
International Exhibition to rejoin the several divisions to
which they were formerly attached, with the exception of
one sergeant and five constables, who will remain at the
building."—" The Commissioners are pleased to state that a
communication has been received from the direct ors of the
General Omnibus Company, acknowledging the very efficien t
manner in which the Metropolitan Police at the Exhibition
performed their duties, which was proved by the fact tha
no accident or injury occurred in the delivery and return or
the millions of visitors."
NEW MODE OF BREAD IVlARtNG.—Experirnents
are now being tried, says the Parity Constitutionnel, at the
central baking establishment of the Administration of Pub-
lic Assistance of a new system of panification, in which the
leaven is replaced by carbonic acid and gas. This gas ,
which is introduced into the dough, gives it all the neces-
sary lightness without exposing the component parts to the t
decomposition which it undergoes in the ordinary fermen-
tation. The bread thus made is said to be agreeable both
to the taste and smell, and it only remains to be seen
whether the acidity produced by the yeast of the ordinary
bread is, as some savants affirm, indispensable for its di-
gestion.

AN ENGLISHMAN IN RUSSIA.—An article in a
French paper, published at St. Petersburg, says :—" Died
at St. Petersburg, on the 26th November, 1862, Mr. Thos.
Budd Shaw, M.A., of Cambridge, Professor of English
Literature in the Imperial Lyceum, and Lecturer upon
the same subject in our University. Mr. Shaw vas only
49 years of age ; he died of an aneurism. This distin-
guished man was one of the most worthy representatives of
the British nation that we have ever had among us, and
leaves behind him the unanimous regrets of the large circle
of persons who had the advantage of knowing him. His
happy and amiable temper, and the firmness of his charac-
ter, acquired for him the attachment of those who were ad-
mittted to his intimacy, whilst his vast erudition, the origi-
nality and vivacity of his great intelligence, his talent as a
writer, and his high moral qualities, to which was added a
are modesty, secured for him universal respect."
A notice has been issued by the Austrian Em-
bassy at Paris, to the effect that no literary or artistical
works of any kind sent to the Emperor Francis• Joseph
without due authorisation, and unless transmitted through
the Embassy, will be received, but will be returned to the
wners at their risk and expense.

It would appear that garotting is beginning to
thrive on the continent as well as in London. The Danube
Gazette states that two Jewish wool-merchants, who had
effected considerable sales at Pesth, had the imprudence to
count their money in an inn. On leaving it they entered a
narrow street, where they were assaulted from behind by
several men, who threw thorn down, stripped them of all
their valuables, and even their clothes, leaving their own
rags in exchange, and then abandoning them on the pave-
ment, bound hand and foot, although not very closely. The
poor men were thus obliged to creep along with great
difficulty, in order to reach a more frequented street, where
they were at length liberated.

During the visit of the Emperor, the signature of
the firm "Rothschild and Sons" devolved by special pro-
curation on the Baron's daughter-in-law, Mdme. Gustave
de Rothschild.—Court Journal.

Why is an advancing band of musicians half a
mile off like two elegant accomplishments P—Because;tis
music at the distance drawing near.—Fun.
DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—On Monday evening,
Alexander Brown, aged about six years, while running
across the street at Jack's Brae, Aberdeen, struck suddenly
and with some violence on the legs of a horse, yoked in a
waggon, which was passing down the brae. The child fell
back, then got up and proceeded a few yards, when he be-
gan to scream. He was taken to the house of his grand-
father in the vicini, y, and within ten minutes he was dead
A political pamphlet, from the pen of M. Eugene
Randu, Chef de Division at the Ministry of Public Instruc-
tion, published under the title of " La Souverainete Ponti-
Scale en Italie," advocates the maintenance of the temporal
power, but points out what appears to the writer to be de-
ective in it.
The British residents at Marseilles have bene-
volently contributed their service to the fund in aid of the
distressed workmen in Lancashire. A collection has been
made by Mr. Mark, the Consul ; and the Rev. M. J
Mayers, H. B. M.'s Chaplain, preached a sermon on San-
day last. The result has been that the British community
in that city will contribute at least £5O.
SLAVERY DOOMED.—Whether the North or the
South be the victor, this is clear—that slavery is doomed.
Supposing the North to will, the time has passed when any
compromise with the "domestic institution" would have
been possible, and abolition must be forced upon. the Go-
vernment whether they like it or not. Supposing the South
to win, abolition will then only be a matter of time. The
Fugitive Slave Law is already repealed, and any slave
making his way into Northern territory is declared to be free,
instead of being restored to his master as before the war.
The independence of the South established, this law would
most certainly not be revived. It may be taken for granted
that the Northerns will do everything in their power to
harass and impoverish their former brethren; and, as far as
slavery is concerned, they will succeed. The repeal of the
Fugitive Slave Law, alone, will be felt, when peace is once
restored, as a severe blow, against which the system can
scarcely stand. It will cause an immediate depreciation in
the value of slave property, will render the slave a burden
instead of a profit to his master, and will have a most de•
pressing effect upon the cotton cultivation. Anticipating,
perhaps, the time when her monopoly of the market must
cease, and bent upon supplying her present. wants as well,
the South has even now, it is stated, laid down, half her cot-
ton lands for the growth of corn--a measure, which already
reduces to a considerable extent the value of the slave—who

is required in ordinary times mainly for the cultivation of

articles of export. Let the slave become still less valuable,
and the South fail to regain her former place in the cotton
market—which she must do unless England be insane
enough to neglect her opportunities of getting supplies from
other quarters—and slavery cannot hold out,—dl fl►
Year ,Ityand.