The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-15 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE IN THE BALTIC.

We read in the independance Belge, under date
of Hamburg, Bth inst.

"The land mail of the Russian Baltic provinces
arrived to-day at Hamburg, bringing letters from Revel
of the 2d and from Riga of the 4th inst. The com-
mercial relations of those ports, then free from the ice
which obstructed their entrance a few days before,
hal become extremely active, particularly with
Sweden, Denmark, and the German towns along
the Baltic coast. Several merchantmen belonging
to English houses had already sailed for Rull and
other harbours of Great Britain, with full cargoes of
oil seed, tallow, &c. Or,herA were being loaded for
the same destination, at Baltic Part and adderaa,
in defiance of the proclamation of the Queen of &,g-
-land, declaring traitors the subjects of her Crown
who should trasle with Russia• b,lore peace had re•
established international relations between the two
countries. On the other hand, several cargoes of
English coal had already reached Revel and Riga.
The merchants of those two Russian eities offered
to sell by contract, as usual, quantities of grain
at prices much inferior to the present reduced rates,
but the foreigners evinced no disposition to pur-
chase the article, which was to be delivered next May.
Everybody expects that cereals will undergo a still
greater depression at that period. There are in the
decks.] boats, serving as stores durin; winter, and eta
tioned in all the rivers of the Baltic provinces, immense
supplies of grain and seeds, which are to be landed
in the Russian harbours the moment the thaw sets in.
There will be then such a superabundance of corn that
prices must necessarily experience a further decline, and
this is the principal reason why foreign merchants ab
stain at this moment from making extensive pur-
chases. Your readers may recollect that during the
bombardment of Sweaborg Rear-Admiral Penaud
established a battery of three howitzers of long range
on the small island of Abraham. By order of General
de Berg, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army in
Finland, a number of operatives have been put under
requisition and employed (luring the winter in levelling
the island with the surface of the sea, in order to render
it unfit for the establishment of batteries in the event of
a third campaign in the Gulf of Finland taking place."

ILLEGALITY OF THE MOLDAYIJIN
GOVERNMENT.

The Boyards and clergy of Moldavia have ad-
dressed a petition to the Sultan against the illegal
constitution of the present Government (Divan) of
Moldavia, and of the measures adopted by that
body :
" Sire (says the petition), the situation is a serious
one. As organs of the country, a longer silence on our
part would be an act of culpability towards the sacred
person of your Imperial Majesty and towards our pos-
terity ; and as we are nut hearkened to here, we are under
the necessity of having recourse to the benevolence of
your Imperial Majesty, humbly supplicating you to
deign to prohibit the Government ad hoc from usurp-
ing a character which does not appertain to it, and
to annul all the acts it has committed beyond its
competency, and to ordain that the country and its
interests shall be ruled by the laws which existed here
before this Divan was instituted, until the moment of
reform shall have arrived which was promised to Us by
the Convention of 1341ta-Lituan.

" Sire (it conclude,), we are convinced that the mag-
nanitnous solicitude of your linperial Majesty will not
fail to deliver us from actual sufferings, and that one of
the effects of that solicitude will be to cause to be re-
spected in future the acknowledged rights of our country
in consideration of the_fidelity we have vowed ant! will
always vow to the Sublime Porte."

This petition bears the date of Jassy, 9th Dec.,
1855, and tho signatures of the Archbishop and of
314 Boyards of Moldavia.

CHARGE OF MANSLATIGHTER.—On Wednegcla; Mr. J.
B. Travers, late chief mate of the Mirage, surrendered at
the Thames Police Court, to answer the charge of man-
elanghter, in killing one James Tonson, on the high seas.
At the termination of the case he was fully committed
for trial. Bail to the amount of 8001. was accepted.
AN A BLE IMPOSTOR.--For a period of over eight years
a young lad made Gort the theatre of hie exhibitions as
a "dummy." He was to the good people of Gort their
"man of all works," a very Mercury in his avocations.
A few conning ones suspecting him of playing
the part of dummy only, testing him by threatening
to throw him into the river ; but it was "no go,"
not a word did he utter. He called, however,
a few days ago on the vicar-
genera], and made
a full confession of his imposition. Ile said be
had been compelled by his inotber to act the part of a
mute in order to excite the commiseration of the public.
—Galway Mercury.
THE OMNIBUS MOVEMENT.—The smaller omnibus
proprietors are fast following the example of their larger
brethren, and falling within the
.circle of the London
General Omnibus Company. The suburban amalgama-
tions are becoming numerous. Among these may be
stock, and
timesnoted ,
osince
hire.
hue d sotn
d s repforrotm, t hcea
mv ebhe ircwl
gate to St.
John's-wood, from the Swiss Cottage to London-bridge,
from the Angel, Islingtcl, to Sloane-square, Chelsea,
and from Paddington to the Bank by the New-road ;
those of Mr. Andrews from Kensal-green Cemetery to
London-bridge station ; those of Mr. Stanbrook from
Kilburn-gate to Wbitechapel ; the Royal Blues of
Messrs. Clarke and Ingram (17 in number) from Pimlico
to the Blackwall Railway ;:those of Mr. Seaborne from
Kilburn-gate and the Royal Oak by Paddington to the
Bank ; with Mr. Unett's, which run over the same dis-
trict ; Mr. French's, from Lower Edmonton and Tot-
tenham to Oxford-street ; and Mr. Rickard's Atlas,
New-road, and Royal Oak omnibuses. Mr. Cotton and
1 Mr. Seaborne's short-mile omnibuses from the Marble
Arch to Farringdon-street have also been sold into the
;eneral alliance under the Anglo-French Company,
making in all 320 omnibuses, or three-eighths of the
preout tip,fEo of Loudon.;