The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-04 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The official tables for the year 1839 show the exports of
the empire to have been 311,898,679 rub. bane., hei4 tin
:,zee-°:aecoo, over 1838 of 28 372,992 rubles. The im, erleii
amounted to 249,152.476, leaving a difference ?.i
92 746,203 rubles. The importation of gold and silver 01
coin and bullion amounted to 65,752,741 rubles. ,
The principal exports were 7—Grain of all kinds
88,259 596 (4 400.0001.) ; Hemp, 3.571,768 110'11'.'
Flax 2,2:34,826 ditto ; Tallow, 3.994,296 ditto ; i'''''
1.073,908 datu; Leather, 8,715,882 rubles.
The principal imports were—Raw cotton and ts;',
800 649 poods; raw sugar, 1,594 207 poods ; dye stu,
value 20,947,380 rubles (1,000,0001. sterliro,); wi,li
20 288.829 rubles ; silk, cotton, linen, and woollen staffs3B.7oB 377 rubles.
The excess of exports over the imports raised the ele;l
change so high that the ruble banco, which usually rat 1
at about 102. sterling, rose to Is.
To judge from the small quantity of cotton imported W-
the consumption of 60,000,000 of inhabitants, the eull:
gumption of that article of manufacture cannot he greet
And yet the tariff is adapted to protect the home mii.,l4.'
factures of cotton, as well as other stuff, which the 1.,,..
verament always represents as being in a most flJuriilml,
caadition. This year (1840) the manufacturing distriel.
which are supplied with agricultural produce from to
fertile tracts along the \Volga, have greatly suffered feu'
the failure of the crops. Large quantities of grain bah
inconsequence been imported into St. Petersburgh, wl'ico
with the cessation of the demand from England, will to
the .cole seriously in the present year.
The Commercial Gazette of St. Petersburgh gives t'll
result of the fisheries in the Caspian sea as follows :--
At the fishery of Kerganrud off the coast of (Thiftl
the Astrachan merchant, Kaphlanikow, took 2,122 ti,b,
which 1,530 were large sturgeons.
At the fishery of eephindrud, off the coast of the sa'tto.
province, the Astrachan merchant, Hadji Mirb.gY'r9
took in all 90,000 fish, of which 86,450 were sturgel
'2,000 cevriogi (a smaller kind of sturgeon) ; 1 200 salaiu"
15,600 poods caviare ; and 260 poods of isinglass. 1
At the three fishing stations off the coast of Mazinril
the Astrachan merchant, Shoodjacw, took in all 17:14
fi,h, 16,514 of which were sturgeon, vvi,h 2,800 !wag ~,:
caviare. The tonnage of all the vessels employ a
these fisheries amounted to 178,000 poods, about 3,5098
The ancient palace of the Czars at Moscow, the K 1.
lin, is rising magnificently from the ruin into which it,,,'
during the fire of Moscow on the French invasion.
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plan will unite grandeur and comfort with the peculiaritP
of the barbarous Tartaric style. The building will ,1,,
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heated in winter on the Russian plan, by one huge st°l,,a.
constructed in the basement story, from which 250 tuii
convey the hot air to all points of the edifice. For the
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of the Heir Apparent and his young Consort, a S''''
Palace is to be erected at Moscow, near the Kremlin. e 1
Some of the German papers give the figure at cch'i
the new Russian Four per Cent. loan has been take"
86. per cent.
The discontent in Poland and Little Russia is rePtv
rented by private correspondents as very great. lu 1,
latter district (the name of which has been abolished)
tempts have been male to attribute the efferveaceliy
the bad impression made by the abolition of the (..„0
versity, which, some years back, was transferred fed
Krzemeniec to Kiew. The cause must, however, be deg
and has, na doubts some connection with the forced rat',
duction of the Greek orthodox creed into extenshe Pr'
vinces, in which the landowners arc exclusively Catho!li;
and the peasants have for centuries professed the L''''
Greek creed.
In \Vilna things are no better. The conduct of the i't
Governor has eecasioned a panic, which is indescrib4,
The slightest suspicion, an a nbiguous expression in Jo
vate convcrsa'ion even in the family circle, the shig,.,,i,
acquaintance with any even distantly suspected indivi°,'ll:
is sufficient to cause a denunciation from the ontnifiy
sent police The mild conduct of the former
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vernor, Prince Dolgoronki, and which he chiefly' i4l
played on the occasion of the Koniaraki conspiracy',
subject of grateful remembrance for the inhabitalll iry
\Vilna and of Lithuania at large, although these gee,
ments dare not be confessed in the presence of his sucie
sor ; this clemency, together with the fact of his bj::
married to a Polish lady, the Princess Sapieha, are lieu
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have caused his translation to the Government of 01
Count Mzokiewiez is the present Governor, and to hitiltii,
are indebted for the change of system. He raked uPwi,
Koniaraki conspiracy, which all thought had been at l„
for by the blood of the victims which fell on its ae°,"i,
followed the slightest trace of former connections an' iiii
quaintances, and, with the help of countless spies, bas 6iitt
filled the prisons with unhappy numbers to whom el
nearest relatives dare not show the slightest mark of 91104
thy. A great number of the students of the MedicalG° 01
have taken flight, and it is said that this institutielb)'
last relic of Polish nationality left us, will be supil!.
The present system has, at best, the merit of impart.'
in its barbarity, as it seeks and seizes its victims ow,,i‘,
tinguishingly in all classes of society; nay, the gre3l"
number of recruits for Siberia and the dungeons are
nished by the highest classes.
Of
The following occurrence will serve to illustrate the 01,
net in which arrests are now made. A civil officer °' rid!,
M. T---, gave an evening party, at which his son-iu'r#,
who is a professor at the Medical College, was ani°)
the guests. The professor wc:s but three weeks ro'o,l
and his young wife accompanied him. On his (", 0
home the professor was arrested by an ernis°,,' 0
the police, who stood in waiting at his door, and `',,,"ti
once carried off to prison, on the ground of his bei,t'il
acquaintance of another Professor W--, who hart
been arrested. The horror of the young wife and all
relations may be figured by all who know the CO
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course of a Russian police inquiry.
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A very rich Camuldulan convent in the neighboulC,
of Kowno, was lately suppressed by order of the j/,
vernment. The monks are divided and apportioliV
other monasteries, and Greek orthodox monks ,i•
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in their places. The complaints of the families 'jlo
ancestors had founded the monastery were nor listcoe

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT, DEC. 27.—Notwithstanding the sit,--Ifisr
the cold, and the festivities of the season, all is here
tion. The Upper Rhine is quite closed, so that ell
passed on foot, as ,d the bridges are every where brekcol
between Manheim and Cologne, On the 16th lo'd 4,
inst. the thermometer marked, even here, 15 deq.;ice
Reaniur or two degrees below the freezing point 01`„
heft's thermometer. In Stuttgard they had 17 04.:
~se ft.,
and at Munich, in the night, 19 degrees. Still yo
nothing but drilling of troops and breaking in of bor4'pre,
the cavalry and artillery. At Ludwigsburg tizecor
pritions are advancing rapidly, and by the id, IJ
week in Fkbruary the troops are to be re 3
march. What the immediate object of thscosi°
maments is, remains veiled in mystery, and the Get,
Papers are not even uliowed to conjecture their 440
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Brv•aritsn Governmeot has ordered 248 iron gi'llo,,
be C in a,l,iition to 150 battery pieces,
have been sent from diet:cc fur the fortresses of 111!;101
stadt and Germersheim. The latter fortress sad
are the only checks upon Strasburg and the 'Upper '7O;,
for which reason Ittstadt will be immediately foft'd"
and some the Austrian engineers, who constructelibr
recently finished works in the passes of the T)rol, ":/1011,c't
employed to direct the operations. General Bangolll,l.
attended the military consultations at Carlsruhc,'
,
is said, become Minister of War at Stutgardt. I
cusaions which the French papers contain respect
supposed slight offered to the Frailkfort Diet by tbc„t, c`4
communication of the Treaty of London, dare ""io'
course, ha attended to, even to be refuted. I belkve
the measures now taking arc the result of a line of ,„o
which Austria and Prussia have determined upolif.'i
ing, and which tits smaller German States are, ohs;` to'
coincide with, although their own desires tend rach't,,,oo,
wards peace. It is, however, certain that but one 0P1;
prevails throughout Germany respecting tt,o predenc,o4,
of coming to a full and clear understanding with El/
in the speediest possible manner, and thus Austrio to
Prussia find no difficulty in inducing the other Stare`
make common cause with them.

HA 1411 U HO BORSENHALLE, DEc. '2l. ~,ete
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f:XCHANGES ON LONDON.
STC.CKUOLM, DEC. 18 —Seventy-five days. 11. 39,
I,ZObIC, DEC. 21.---TWo MO ths, 6. 11 y 4.
b1A..1:1. DEc. ta —Three months, 6. 16%.
PETir.suuttun, DEC. lg. —Two months, ';IN pence.

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The Cork .Southern Reportersays.,theann,c .:',
k ment of the intended Aggregate Meeting of the pro'o3'A'
of Munster has been received and responded to in I,' 1,0';
: ner that will afford the liveliest gratification to all .%,”
localities, signatures have poured in, and assurance 9 0:1'
received of the anxiety felt by every Liberal to take :tire
tioo of Constitutional Government in Ireland. `-'oo,°
• men desirous of seeing shivered to pieces the cbains `ti'
forging. with unholy :teal, for their country's anslaveniti,e
From Limerick, Tipperary, Tallow, and different t,ol
' to the utrnrst of his power; in the elfin fet the Pre,:je,d
and laity are, coo and a.l, throwing cff the apathy or ,i,7c,'
we linen had occasion, in previous articles on this su"tli'v
to deplore the existence. We hope and think tholor,c;
manifestation of returning life is a real, not a fictitiotof IV
that it will be fcllovved up by practical proja, '9,j tlie
nation's perception of the peril that encompasses, 87'0;11'
duties that become, her. The meeting of the ol", s''
of January will afford one great opportunity of dot
with dignity and effect." liilit
BYRON AND SII A K SPEA RE..---Byrtin, I.'s.
created for his nicinor) ass enviable fellowship vvilatjlot!
of ShAspeare in the minds of at least all the coroP4„iP
of both, who wander through Venice ; for the oftenoV
is continually drawn from the historical recolloctiou'd
place, to the associations awakened by hotk tlic'et o-oo')4;
One heck as if Venice could not be strange groun-Ar belP:,
who from infancy have learned to know its where'ilitio
from the immortal bard, who with, 111 it were, an itt",;o3'
knowledge of the place, its manners and eustomo, "°t- IV
hued our minds with them, and retwered this City 14 o',
' Sat familiar as ou, ho‘;selioid names to us. I cnnld li$:":
more pass the Rialto without thinking of Shaltipear". t0;a?.
I could see the Bridge of sighs without remero'W
Byron.--Lady Blessinyton':v idler in Maly, Vol. I
ilygs
The General - Steam Navigation Corurn or'
vessel the Lord Melville, •Phillipm,-frOrn Scher2niogerricloP
raved off the Custom How,. at II o'clock, OP Sat--
with the Dutch mail. ---.'

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