The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-17 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

On the 9th of June (says the St. Petersburg
Gazette), the number of sick in the hospitals of St.
Petersburg was 3,987. On that day 332 stew patients
were admitted, and 235 left cured ; 96 died ; there
still remain 3,984 under treatment.
The Post du Nord publishes the following details
of the commerce of Odessa :

" Up to the end of April more than 10,000,000
of pouds of agricultural produce were exported from
Odessa ; 433 foreign and trading vessels entered the
port, and 232 coasting vessels ; 400 trading ships
and 335 coasting vessels sailed from Odessa ; mer-
chandise to the value of 8,000,000 roubles was ex-
ported, and articles to the value of 3,750,000 silver
roubles imported."
The Cronstadt 'Gazette publishes the following
On the night of the 12th June Aide-de-Camp
General Novosselsky, Commander-in-Chief of the
port of Cronstadt, hoisted his flag, which indicated
that the fleet in the roadstead was to form into divi-
sions. It will form three squadrons. The first will
consist of ironclads, under Rear-Admiral Likhat-
chew, who will hoist his flag on board the Rurik.
This squadron will consist of the ironclad frigate
Sebastopol, the floating batteriesPrevenetz and Ne-
tronmenia, the double-towered Smertch, and the
monitors Vestchoun, Koldoun, Latnik, Ou-
ragan, Bronenossetz, Tifon, Edinorog, Stre-
the frigates Rurik
laent
dz
Vladimir,
the
Pseerroeuwn
corvette Griden, the
steam clipper Jakhont, the steamer Ilmen, and the
screw steamar Koldountchik. All these vessels will
go through a series of evolutions.
" The second squadron, under Rear-Admiral
Lessowsky, will consist of the screw frigates
Alexandre-Gewsky and Oleg, the screw corvette
Vitiaz, and steam clipper Almaz. These four
vessels the preparing for a review.
" The third squadron will consist of the steam-
frigate Gromoboi, the screw corvette Batan, the
sailing yacht Cadet, and two screw steamers,
which will be under the orders of Rear-Admiral
Rimsky-Korsakow, in command of the Marines.
The screw frigate Amiral-General will be at the
disposal of Rear-Admiral Possiet, in the suite
of the Emperor. The screw ship of the line, 111
guns, Emperor Nicholas 1., employed for gun prac-
tice, accompanied by the screw gunboat Zabiaka,
will proceed to Revel for the usual practice off the
island of Karloss. The screw frigate Perevoet, the
screw corvette Askold, the clipper Izoumroud, and
the screw gunboat Sobol, will enter port to prepare
for a cruise. The screw frigate Dmitry-Donskoi,
recently arrived from the Atlantic, will remain in
the roadstead. The steam clipper Jemtchoug will
act as guardship in the main roadstead. The steam
frigate Smely will proceed to Helsingfors, and the
screw gunboat Gornostai will remain in port for
repairs.

PRISONERS FOR DEBT.—A return ordered on the
20th of March, showing the number of persons in
actual custody in tho prisons of England for debt, or for
contempt, by reason of non-payment of money, gives a list
of 96 such prisoners in Whitecross-street Prison. Three of
them are persons who were removed hither from the
Queen's Prison in the Borough-road when that ceased to
be a debtors' prison. One of these was committed in 1843,
another in 1847 ; the third, who was committed in 1861,
was bailed out of custody in September, 1864, under the
Insolvent Debtors' Act, but remanded into custody at his
own request by the Bankruptcy Court in November. The
country prisons send a list of 316 prisoners, ono committed
in 1862, two in 1863, a few in 1864, but the mass in 1865.
A MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY.—In the Highland
parish of Abernethy, a young man proposes to open
a lottery under the following conditions :—All widows and
maidens who have not attained the age of 32 are invited to
buy of him a ticket at the price of 10s. After 300 tickets
are sold at this figure the draWing will take place. There
will be only one prize, and it will be the right of the fortu-
nate lady who wins it to claim the young gentleman for
her husband, and partake with him the comforts to bo de-
rived from the £l5O produced by the lottery. —Banffshire
Journal.