The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-19 00:00:00

BAUrICTItADIC

Comparative Returns of the Number of Shipping which
passed through the Sound to and from the Baltic during the
Years 1823 and 1824 :

1823. 1824.
Number. Increase. Decrease.
British - 3016 - 3540 - 524
Hanoverian - 316 . 358 - 42 :
Danish - 637 - 756 - 119
Swedish - 1133 - 1302 - 169 - -
Norwegian - 946 - 715 - - - 231
Prussian - - 1535 - 2081 - 546 -
Russian - - 306 - 369 - 63 - -
Dutch . 461 - 399 - 62
French - - 32 - 51 - 19 -•—
Mecklenburg - 496 - 557 - 61
Hamburg - 23 - 29 - 6
Bremen - 41 - 33 8
Lubeck - - 59 - 115 - 56 .
Oldenburg - 42 - 30 - - 12
American - 158 - 177 - 19 - -
Portuguese - 2 - 6 - 4 -

0203 10,518 1317

Copy of a Letter received yesterday from Sir DANIFL BAY'
LEY, addressed to SAMUEL THORNTON, Esq. Chairman
of the Russia Company, dated
" St. Petersburg, Dec.l6-23, Mt.
" Srn—ln my dispatch, No. 41, I took occasion to mention
that I had good rounds for supposing that the New Edi-
tion of and alterations in the Tariff would be postponed for the
present.
" It has sirce been deemed expedient to publish a Supple-
ment to the Tariff now in force, but in which I find nothing
particularly interesting to the commerce of Great Britain with
the country.
" The duties on manufactured silks are augmented from 33
roubles silver per pound to 4 roubles. The colours of cloths
prohibited are rather more clearly and particularly defined-
Linens of several kinds--that is to say, ravenducks, fierns,
and sail.cloths, and dressed hides, are to be exported duty free.
—These appear for the present to be the only articles worth
4oticing to you. I shall, however, take the earliest opportunity
in my power to transmit to you a translation of the whole Sup-
plement, and of the Ukase which accompanies it.
" The weather has been most uncommonly tempestuous and
changeable, and we have had several alarms of high water
within the last ten days, but, thank God, without any mis-
chief being done. There are reports in town of great damage
having been sustained at the town and port of Liebau, but I
am as yet without any official accounts.
" I have the honour to he, &c
• " DANIEL BAYLEY.
" To Samuel Thornton, Esq." _

ATTEMPT AT MURDEIt.-011 Saturcb c v(.11-
ing last, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Jennings, of Ne•,, •1*
Stowey, was returning homewards from Taunton-market,l‘l:e
about 100 yards clown the lane from Buncombe-hill, he I
a rustling in the hedge on his right hand, and presently a
whisper, and as he came opposite the spot, a pistol
.shot Wai
fired across before him ; he heard the ball plainly whiz past
him. Thinking it might be the act of poachers, he cried out,
" Hallo ! you'll shoot people passing the road," and thought
no more of it; hut when he came to the entrance of Hawkeridge-
common he saw two men standing on the left side of the
road, and as he came opposite them, one fired another pistol at
him, the ball of which passed so close that he thought it
struck his hat ; being alarmed, he took out his penknife,
the only weapon he had, and rode as fast as he could until
he came to the top of the hill towards Mansfield, when one
of the same men laid hold of his horse's bridle with his left
hand, and his side with the right hand, whilst the other at-
tempted to jump over the hedge, but in doing so fell violently
on the ground with a groan ; Mr. Jennings then with his left
hand struck the man holding his bridle a smart blow with
his whip across the face, having his penknife open in the same
hand, by which he let go his hold, and put up both hands to
his face, when Mr. Jennings seizing the moment, rode off, but
heard the fellow exclaim, " d—n his old eyes, it is not him
now." It is supposed the thieves mistook Mr. Jennings for
another person who had that day been to Taunton market.--
( Cheltenham Journal

The plan which has lately been carried into
execution for purifying the unwholesome atmo-
sphere of the Sessions House, at Clerkenwell, ap-
pears to have entirely failed ; the difference
between hot and fetid air being scarcely wortlt
the experiment,

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