The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-15 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburg, of the sth inst., in-
forms us that the difficulties which have arisen be-
tween the committees appointed by the provinces
which desire to constitute themselves into delibe-
rative assemblies and the Government, which is op-
posed to such a measure, have not yet been ar-
ranged. The deputies lately renewed their demand
in an address to the Emperor himself, in which.they
expressed their determinationto engage themselves
on honour, and if necessary by oath, not to occupy
themselves with any question but that of the eman-
cipation of the peasants. The Emperor has not yet
made any reply. In the meantime the idea is spread-
ing among the population that they have a right to
a share in the government of the country, and is
gaining ground in the most distant provinces of the
emnire. The Government is proceeding with cal-
culated circumspection and delay in its political and
social reforms, but at the same time it h adopting
very energetic measures for successfully converting
the cash deposited in the Bank into Government
stock. The new Treasury bonds which are to be
issued next month will secure 5 per cult. interest
to the holder. Accounts from Stockholm, re-
ceived in St. Petersburg, state that the Government
contemplates raising a loan of £1,000,000 for the
construction of railways. Some of the Ministers
recommend that a larger sum should be raised in
order not to have occasion for a second loan. A
resolution has been submitted to the Swedish Diet
by a clergyman named Jansen, enacting that the
entire Swedish clergy shall henceforth have com-
plete control over all printed papers or pamphlets
circulated by hawkers, and that, moreover, severe
punishment shall be inflicted on all laymen who
shall discuss religious subjects without first having
been examined and authorised by a Protestant
clergyman. The proposition was unanimously
adopted, and some members proposed even more
stringent measures.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners will receive tenders to-day
(Thursday) for two vessels—one to proceed to Table Bay,
Cape of Good Hope, and another to Sydney, Now South
Wales ; the former to be ready for the reception of passen-
gers on the 24th of January, and the latter to be ready on
such day as the Commissioners may appoint between the
Ist and Bth of February.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT IN GLASGOW.—Ox Monday
morning, a carter named Thomas Robertson, in the employ-
ment of Mr. Dugald Napier, contractor, was engaged cart-
ing bags of grain from the Edinburgh andi Glasgow Railway
station to a store in James Watt-street. In the court front -
ing the store the bags are carried up to the different stories
by means of a rope, which is drawn by a horse. Robertson
was on his cart hooking on the bags, and when the horse
got the order to start, the hook by some means caught hold
of his clothes, and he was suddenly carried to a height of
three stories. Here he disengaged himself by some means
from the hook, and losing his hold he was precipitated to
the ground. It is not expected that he will recover.—
North British Mail.
WOMEN'S WORK.—If half, or one-hundredth por-
tico of the time bestowed by ladies upon following, with
monotonous labour, those lines and figures which may now
be bought in any country shop were given to invention, in •
stead of servile imitation, what a new and glorious era
would dawn upon our manufacturing; world I So soon as
figures of beauty become so common as to be exhibited in
the windows of every shop, they ought surely to be left to
mere :mechanism to multiply and carry out. The higher
orders of taste and fancy should then invent others, fresh
from those cultivated and expanded minds which have en-
joyed the advantage of observing what art has accomplished
at different times and in different regions of the globe, as
well as of what nature exhibits under its most favourable
aspects. So soon as machinery is able to take up any kind
of work, or even so soon as the poor are able to make a trade
of it, the hand that is not obliged to labour should lay it
down, and take up somethioo•now and better. So soon, also,
as science has invented fresh dyes or new materials the
same hands should assume the office 'of assortment into
fresh patterns and new combinations of such colours and
l higher
principles iso of
busily
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materials, keeping always the highest agency employed
upon the noblest work, and thus maintaining, by a just
bealgaaarntgce, the true economy of labour. Ladies often want
amusement ; here is a wide field open to them—a field of
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some-
thing which shall afford lasting pleasure and improvement
to the beholder.—Once a Week.