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

RUSSIA.

At a recent reception given by the Emperor of
Russia to the nobles at Moscow, his Majesty ad.
dressed them as follows :

" It is particularly agreeable to me, gentlemen, to see you
assembled in our ancient capital, which is doubly dear to
me as it was my cradle. lam satisfied to be able to repeat
to you what I said to the nobles of Novogorod on the day
of the celebration of the thousand anniversary of the Rus-
sian Empire.
" I am accustomed to place my confidence in the senti-
ments of devotion of our nobility—an unshaken devotion to
the Throne and to the country, of which it has so often
given proof by its acts, especially at periods of sad trials for
country, as was only recontly the case.
"I am sure, gentlemen, that our nobility will eontinue
to be the most firm support of the throne, as it always has
been and ought to be. This is why I put my trust in you,
gentlemen, in your unanimity in aiding me in every thing
which tends to the welfare and power of our country. May
God aid us in this task, and may His blessing be with us I
And you, gentlemen, members of the nobility of Moscow,
know that I hold it a special honour to be one of you as
proprietor of this province. I thank you for your cordial
welcome, which I know how to appreciate."

The appeal of the Emperor to the nobles pro-
duced a great effect upon the Assembly. The Grand
Duke Michael, the Emperor's brother, has joined
the Emperor at Moscow. Prince Albert of Prussia,
who is on his return from a tour in the Caucasus,
also proceeds to Moscow.

711 E .130MBAY AND MAU.RITIUS MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.

Tho Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamship
Ellora, Captain J. Kellock, arrived about midnight, bring-
ing the heavy portion of thcoo mail., ii charge of Mr.
Douglas, of the General Post-office. She has 37 passengers,
£549 12s. 7d. in specie, 280 bales and 21 cases of silk, 36
Cases of shawls, 50 chests of oranges, 583 bags of corn,
1,077 bags of wheat, and 131 packages of general merchan-
dise.

The Ellora left Alexandria on the 28th ult., Malta the
2d inst., and Gibraltar the 7th, and has had fine weather
throughout the voyage. She passed her Majesty's ship
St. George in lat. 37.29 N., long. 6 30 E. ; off Finistorre,
passed the hull of a vessel timber laden, waterlogged and
abandoned.

Her Majesty's ships Trident and Firefly were at Alex-
andria; the Marlborough, Trafalgar, Liffey, Phoebe, Alac-
rity, Firebrand, and Scylla at Malta; and the Doris, Procris,
and Redpole at Gibraltar.
Exchanges at Gibraltar on the 6th inst. were as follows :
London, 90 days' date, 501 to 50a ; Pads, ditto, sf. 28c. ;
Marseilles, ditto, sf. 29c. ; Genoa, ditto, sf. 30c. ; Madrid,
8 days' sight, / pm. ; Cadiz, ditto, / dis. ; Seville, ditto,
dis. ; Malaga, ditto, par ; Barcelona, ditto, / pm.; Almeria,
ditto, par; Valencia, ditto, par; Alicante, ditto, dis.
The boat of the late Dutch galliot Finna Gerarda, A.
Struich, master, 23 days from Leghorn, with marble, &c.,
for London, arrived at Gibraltar en the 28th ult. The
vessel sprung a leak on the 26th in a gale, wind W.N. W.,
and sunk three hours atter, 32 miles E. of Cape St. Vincent.
The crew were picked up by the brig Lebanon, W. Hutchin -
son, master, of and from Sunderland, bound to Mahon,
which took them to the entrance of the bay, and proceeded.
The Dutch schooner Stad Appingadam went on shore off
Punta Mala early on the morning of the 30th ult., but was
got afloat a tide or two afterwards.
The Italian brig Carolina landed at Gibraltar J. Espino,
master, crew (16 in number), and five passengers of the late
Spanish ship Ana Teresa, from Cadiz, with olive oil, for Ha •
vana, which vessel sprung a leak and sank in let. 35.16 N.,
lon. 8.36 W. The crew and passengers took to their boats,
and were picked up on the 26th ult. by the Carolina. The
Carolina and the French brig Charles et Victorine put in on
the 30th, from the coast of Barbary, which the bad weather
compelled them to abandon. The latter lost anchors, &c.
The British bark Mary Catherine, which drove on shore
under the Line Wall during the gale of the morning of the
24th ult , would, it was feared, become a total wreck if the
weather continued stormy. All efforts to get her afloat had
been unavailing.
The following British merchant steamers had arrived at
Gibraltar :—Nov. 28th, the Grecian, Capt. A. Flinn, from
Liverpool for Malta and Constantinople ; Dec. Ist, the
lonia, Capt. J. Beggs, from Liverpool for Alexandria ; 3d,
the Massilia, Capt. J. M. Rogers, from Southampton, for
Malta and Alexandria; 4th, the Edith, Capt. W. Cassop,
from Cardiff, for Trieste ; sth, the Laconia, Capt. W. Betts,
from Liverpool, for Malta and Alexandria.

The revenue of California will exceed 50,000,000
dollars this year.
HER MAJESTY AND DR. NORMAN MACLEOD.—
We (Mail) have been informed of another instance of the
affectionate solitude felt by the Queen for those honoured
by her acquaintance. Her Majesty, on reading in the
newspapers of the death of the late lamented Dr. Norman
Macleod of St. Columba's, expressed her deep sympathy
and grief that he had been cut off in the full career of a
life of wide-spread usefulness—a sympathy intensified by
his connection with memories of her visits to Balmoral,
both as wife and widow. One of the ladies in attendance
expressing her Majesty's feeling on the event, the words
fell on the ears of a " Scotch lassie," a servant to Lady
Augusta Bruce, who ventured to remark that it must be
the father of Dr. Norman Macleod of the Barony, and not
the Dr. Macleod who preached before her Majesty at Bal-
moral. The Queen, being informed of this, desired the gill
to be sent into her presence, and the lassie, who comes
from Glasgow or its neighbourhood, having been ushered
in, was asked by her Majesty regarding the whole matter.
She explained the points that she thought inconsistent in
the Alert and inaccurate paragraph her Majesty had been
reading. In consequence, a telegraph was despatched to
Sheriff Sir Archibald Alison of Glasgow, who confirmed the
girl's story; and soon after a feeling letter of qympathy
was sent to Dr. Norman Macleod by the Marchioness of
Ely, by her Majesty's commands. Could we peep behind
the curtain that veils the many similar traits that adorn
the private life of our beloved Queen, the love her subjects
bear to her Majesty would be intensified tenfold, if that
were possible.
The Semaphore of Marseilles states that the effects
of the torrents of rain which fell last week have not yet
entirely ceased. A house on the Boulevard d'Orleans in
that city partially fell two days since, leaving some of the
high walls in such a state that their demolition could not
beor
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erciteed,
found dangerous to the adjoining
the
premises the firemen made a kind of tried,
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ruinsbcttte
buttering-ram,
which they at last brought down without
injury
to life or limb.