The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-23 00:00:00

THE RUSSIA TRADE.

The following official information was received yester-
d4y by the Governor of the Russian Company, relative to
the increase of the duties on goods imported into Russian
ports, and the mode in which the duties are to be col-
lected :

"SPECIAL UKASE.-'I'() THE DIRECTING SENATE.

" Late events having had the effect, although temporarily,
still to a very considerable extent, of increasing the expenses in
various branches of the Government, it has been found indis-
pensable to equalise the receipts with the expenditure. We have
accordingly judged it expedient, in- accordance with the repre-
sentation of the Ministers of Finance examined by the Imperial
Council, to order that an advance shall be made in the Custom-
house duties.

" In consequence thereof, transmittingherewith to the Direct-
ing Senate the register confirmed by us of the goods, we ordain
that the necessary arrangements be entered into for the fulfil-
ment of the same.

(Signed)
' Dated Moscow, Nov. 1 I (0.5.)"

" NICHOLAS."

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(Then follows an enumeration of the articles on which
the duties are equalised, and which have been published.)
The official document then proceeds as follows :

" The additional per centage duty to be levied according to the
following rules :
" 1. To the duty the quarantine dues shall be added, and then
one-eighth of the whole.
Upon articles where the duty has been increased by the
tariff', the additional duty to be levied on the new rates, and upon
all others, in conformity with the following paragraph :
" 3. The additional duty shall nut be levied on corks, cork-
wood, or brimstone. In like manner it is not to be levied on the
apothecary wares separately enumerated, excepting upon white
and yellow arsenic, as well as those apothecary wares which are
included in the supplement to the general tariff and this regis-
ter, which are liable to the additional duty.
" 4. Accordingly it shall be levied upon the duty only, with-
out the additional per centage, upon goods imported clandes-
tinely, atter the present publication, five times the duty shall
be exacted with the additional per centage. All other penalties
remain as before. . . . . . .

" 5. The additional duty on imports shall be levied in all ports
and Custom-houses upon the European frontier according to the
general tariff ; at Keachta, by the separate tariff; and upon the
Asiatic frontier on those articles only which pay duty by the
European tariff: Duties at the Custom-houses of Redoubt Kale
and Anapa remain as they are ,• but in the clearing foreign goods
coming by way of Redoubt Kale to the Russian Custom-houses
the present regulations shall be in force.
" 6. On goods for consumption in Odessa. to take the addi-
tional per centage upon one-fifth of the duty by the new re-
gulation, and upon goods transported into the interior of the
empire, upon the full duty, or upon the four-fiths if the one-
fifth has been previously paid. In all cases the revenue arising
from the additional per centages shall be carried to the credit
of the Imperial Treasury alone.
" 7. The regulations for the reward of Custom-house officers of
three per cent, shall be taken upon the rate of duty by the last
rates, but not upon the additional per centage.
" Note.—The provisions of this Ukase will commence to be in
force under the following regulations:—
" 1. The advanced duties upon the articles are to be levied only
upon those which will be brought after the Ist ofJanuary, 1832, at
the same time not including those goods which may be forwarded
from foreign countries before this period, or even before the pub-
lication of this order. If in distant places this order is not re-
ceived on the Ist of January, then the additional duty is to be
levied on all goods imported from the Ist of January which may
still be in the Custom-house.
" 2. The additional per centage upon all goods uncleared, or
which may arrive, is to he in force from the day this Ukase is
received at the Custom-houses ; and be it understood that it is
to be levied upon the old duties for all goods remaining in any
Custom-house, and arriving previous to the Ist of January, and
on the new rates on all goods arriving subsequently to the Ist
of January.
(Signed) KOTCHABEY.
" Moscow, Nov. 11 (0.5.), 1831."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TA TTERSALL'S.
THE DERBY, 1532.
9 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Beiram
11 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Non Compos
11 to 1 agst Mr. Dilly's Margrave
11 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Dulcinea colt
10 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Darioletta colt
18 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Folly colt
IS to 1 agst Lord Mountcharles's Minster
20 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Pastille colt

OAKS.
7 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Emiliana
20 to 1 agst Captain Byng's Dryad

The Duke of WELLINGTON, upon inquiry
this morning., passed a very tranquil night, and was then
convalescent.
A deputation of the leaders of the working
clas,es had an interview this day with Lord AUCKLA,..:D, at
the Board of Trade. _ .

The Duke anti Duchess of ST. ALBA N's,
who had arrived on the previous Wednesday from town,
returned thither suddenly on Monday, in consequence of
information that a cheque for 30,0001., bearing the forged
signature of his Grace, had been presented at the bank.
Their Graces are expected in Brighton again this day..
Brighton Gazette.
THE PATENT AND MINOR THEATRES.—
We are given to understand that the whole of the Minors
are in a state of considerable excitement, since notices have
been nerved on them, o❑ behalf of the Patent Theatres.
It has been currently reported in several of the Green-
rooms, that many of the performers at the major theatres
have openly expressed their determination of entering into
a subscription, if necessary, to carry on tie intended pro-
secution of the minor establishments.

EVIL ASSOCIATIONS.—The Duke of CUM-
BERLAND has been so long attached to the huzzas, that
in the House of Loris he naturally identifies himself with
the braros.—Figaro in London.
" THE (LATE) TRAGEDY IN REAL
LIFE."--It will be recollected that about two months
since an organist, named ROBERT HUGHES, first discharged
the contents of a pistol into the bead of his lover, ELIZA-
BETH WESTLEY, aged 60, and then shut himself, at the
house of Mr. BENTLEY, in Lower Etst-Smithfielti. They
were both conveyed to the hospital, and having since re-
covertd, were taken into custody, and, on Wednesday,
examined at Lambeth-street. Mr. BENTLEY, and others,
recapitulated the same facts which have already appeared
in our Paper under the above head. The female prisoner,
in her defence, stated, that iu consequence of receiving
warning from her master, owing to an attempt having
been made to poison him, shecame to the resolution to de-
stroy herself, but not wishing to do it herself, she asked
HUGHES to do it for her, and he, being troubled in his
mind, consented, at the same time saying he would kill
himself. They had a great attachment for each other.
HUGHES made a similar statement. A policeman stated,
that on the prisoners meeting, they flew into each other's
arms, and it was some time before be could separate them
to bring them to the office. He understood it to be their
intention the moment they left tl e hospital to have started
into the country, and live together, though HUGHES had
a wife and family. Mr. HARDWICK observed, that the
prisoners had been guilty of an offence which, by the laws
of the country, subjected them to the forfeiture of their
lives, and remanded them until Tuesday next, giving di-
rections for them to lie kept separate. During the exami-
nation, whenever an opportunity presented itself, the
prisoners embraced each other.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY )

FROM LLOYDS.

DEAL, Dec. 22.—Wind 5.5 W. fresh.—Arrived from the
River and remains the Fanny, Drummond, from the Cape of
Good Hope Sailed his Majesty's ship Wellesley, for Plymouth ;
Talavera, for Sheerness ; Stag and Galatea, for ditto and Leith ;
Curacoa, for Portsmouth and the East Indies ; and Tweed, for
Portsmouth and the West Indies.

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PORTSMOUTH, Dc.e. 22. —Wind S. to S.S.W.
rived his Majesty's ship Charybdis or Cerberus, from the 'Downs.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Wind W.S. W. to W. moderate.—
Arrived the Hermes steam-packet from the Mediterranean,
sailed from Corfu 26th ult., Malta 4th inst., Gibraltar 13th, and
Cadiz 14th; Stanmer packet from Lisbon, sailed the 11th inst.
The Hermes steam-packet spoke the Messenger packet from
Falmouth to the Mediterranean 16th inst. in Ist. 39. long. a,
with damage, and one of the crew washed overboard.
SHEERNE'S, DEc. 22.—Arrived the Doncaster, Hart, from
Quebec.
STANDGATE CREEK, Drc. 22.—Arrived the Sir Edward
Codrington, Child, and Union, Wilson, from St. Petersburgh
Sappho, tenby, from ditto ; and Elbe packet, Glendinning,
from Hamburg.f

MARGATE, Dec. 22.—Arrived the Old Maid, Barker, from
Quebec.
COWES, Dec. 22.—Arrived the Perseverance, Conant, from
Rotterdam.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Thomas, Jones, from
Charleston.

GREENOCK, DEC 'A.—Arrived the Trinidad, Watson, from
Trinidad; Vittoria, Elder, and Helen, Caldwell, from Newfound-
land ; and Dumbarton Castle, from St. Petersburgh.
HOLYHEAD, DEc. 21.—Arrived off port, the Betty, Muir,
from St. John's, N. B.
CORK, Dec. 20.—Arrived the Petersburgh, Mason, from
Quebec ; and Angelica, Illantield, from Gibraltar.
ABERDEEN, DEC. Yo.—Arrived off port, the Aurora, DUD-
Dar, from Quebec.

The Eliza, Cullen, from Algesiras and St. Übe's, t 6 Cork, was
totally wrecked, near Penzance, on Wednesday ; crew saved.
The Salus, from St. Petersburgh to Belfast, was on shore near
the Clyde on Saturday, and bilged.
The Three Friends, and the Perseverance, Swaney, from
Stockton to London, got in contact on Tuesday night off Aldbo-
rough, the former sunk; crew saved; the latter, with damage,
put into Yarmouth.
The Betsey Heron, myth, put into Wivenhoe, with eight. feet
water in her hold, loss of anchor and cables, and must discharge.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of Grain since Wednesday have considerably in-
creased, and there is a large quantity of Flour. The Wheat
trade is excessively dull to-day at Monday's prices. In other
sorts of Grain there is scarcely any business doing. The Flour
trade is extremely dull.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
3,635 qrs 10,175 qrs.
5,870
2,779

English
Irish
F, reign

Oats. Flour.
5,949 qrs. I I,oB4sacks.
11,537

- brls.