The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-17 00:00:00

BLOCKADE OF RUSSIAN PORTS.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 16.
It is hereby notified, that a,communication has been re-
ceived by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, from
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, commanding her Ma-
jesty's naval forces in the Baltic, dated Hango Bay, 28th
May, 1854, informing their Lordships that the ports of
Liban and Windau, on the coast of Courland, and other
ports, roads, havens, or creeks, from lat. 55° 53' north, to
as far north as Cape Dagger Ort, including the ports of
Riga, Pernau, and all other ports, roads, havens, or creeks
in the Gulf of Riga were then in a state of blockade by a
competent force ;
That all ports, roads, havens, or creeks, eastward from
Cape Dager Ort, including Hapsal, Wormso Island, Port
Baltic, Revel, and other intermediate ports on the coast of
Esthonia, as far as Ekhohn Light [situated in lat. 59° 43'
north, long. 25° 48' east]; and from thence in a north-
west direction as far as east; and Sveaborg, on the
coast of Finland ; continuing westward, Baro Sound,
Hango Head, Oro, and Abo, including the Aland Archi-
pelago and intermediate ports ; from thence north, includ-
ing Nystad, Biorneborg, Christinestadt, Vasa, Walgrund
Islands, Little Carleby, lacobstad, Great Carleby, Lahts,
Kalawki, Brahestad, Uleaborg, Karle Island, Tio, Ges-
tila, Tornea, Ned. Tornea, [situated in lat. (about) 65° 50'
north, long. 24° 15' east,' and all intermediate Russian
ports, havens, and creeks in the Gulf of Bothnia, and all
the before-mentioned ports and places, are and were then
in a state of strict blockade by a competent force.
And it is hereby further notified that all the measures
authorised by the laws of nations and the respective trea-
ties between her Majesty and the different neutral powers,
will be adopted and executed with respect to all vessels
which may attempt to violate the same blockade.

MOUSTACHES AND LADIES' BONNETS.—Amongst the
social follies of the day the moustache movement is ex-
tending to all ranks and conditions of men, to which
no inconsiderable number add beards, some actually
covering three-fourths of their faces with hair. Me-
chanics are nearly all adopting the moustache, and it is
spreading to cabmen, cads of omnibuses, carmen, and
all the oinnium gatierum of the lower class of society.
It seems that the clerks of the Bank of England caught
the infection, whereon each young gentleman so affected
received a circular from head-quarters, politely inti-
mating that unless he appeared next morning with the
objectionable appendage removed, he would be kind
enough to send in his resignation. There was some
grumbling, but, of course, every upper-lip appeared next
day as clean as a lady's. The differences between the
different styles of adorning the upper-lip is striking—some
gentlemen curl up the ends, some curl them down, and
some who are in the happy possession of good whiskers
unite them with the upper lip. Others go to the ex-
tent of a beard, some are short and bristly, some are
long, and cultivated with much care ; but the most,
miserable things are the downy and hardly distinguish-
able emanations issuing from the upper-lips of gentle-
men with excessively light hair ! These belong to the
class of the strivers after the impossible. Scarcely less
curious is it to see the condition of the ladies' bonnets not
much bigger than tidy little caps, which the Parisian
grisettes wear on the back of their heads. The neat little net
or perchance lace border, just coming over the crown, were
introduced by the Empress of France. In a week they
were all over Paris ; in a month all over France. Of
course, they crossed the Channel in about twenty-four
hours after their first debut in the windows of the
Boulevard modistes ; and at this moment there is only,
say, one woman in fifty through all London who have
bonnets on their heads, that has not rushed to
be
tobenbe-
netmaker's, and imperatively demanded allthe o
perched on the back of them. Vain is satire—
vain are all the jokes—vain even are the labours of
Punch—the mania seems spreading day by ay, and the
bonnets getting smaller than ever. There may be,
of an excuse for per-
haps, some slight shadow yboung l dies
who possess beautiful black or fe
locksairare lo beginning
ut there is
none for old maids, whos to ex-
hibit a palpable tinge of grey ; and there is no excuse
for respectable married ladies. from thirty to forty-five
setting a bad example to their daughters. But every
lady and every woman in London will have the tiny
bonnet, and servants slip out on the sly with them, and
the veriest carroty-headed damsels will insist on ex-
posing the beauty of their locks to mankind.—London
Correspondent of Inverness Courier.
THE RUSSIAN PRIESTHOOD.—" The following fact,"
says the Pays, "will give an idea of the state of degra-
dation into which the lower class of the Muscovite
clergy has fallen. A. Russian gentleman relates that
when passing one day through a village, he saw a num-
ber of peasants assembled, and stopped to inquire the
Cause. Oh,' replied one of them, it is only the priest
whom we are going to lock up in the barn.' And why
do you do that ?' Because it is Saturday. The priest
is a drunkard, and we always lock him up on a Satur-
day, in order that he may be in a condition to perform
Divine service on Sunday. On the Monday he is free to
drink as he likes for the other days in the week.
ELOPEMENT AND CAPTURE.—John M. Goff, one of the
Irish constabulary, eloped during the past week with a
young woman, named Ann Curran, whose parents reside
near Bushaltown, county Carlow, Ireland. The lady,
on leaving her father's house, took With her upwards of
2001. Information of the robbery having been for-
warded to Liverpool, the lady and her lover were taken
into custody on their arrival here, en route for Australia,
on Wednesday morning. - Liverpool Xercury.