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 determinationito 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
empire. The Government is proceeding with cal-
culated circumspection and delay in its political and
social reforms, but at the same time it is 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 cent. 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 tnd authorised by a Protestant
clergyman. The proposition was unanimously
adopted, and some members proposed even more
stringent measures.

GOVERNMENT EMIORATION.— Her Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners will receive tenders to-day
(Thursday) for two vessels—one to proceed to Table Bay,
Cape of Good
.Hoe, an another to Sydney, New South
Wales ; the formepr t ©dready for the reception of passen-
gers on the 24th of January, and the latter to be ready on
nt such day as the Coraissioners may appoint between the
Ist and Bth of February.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT IN GLASGOW.-02 Monday
morning, a carter named Thomas Robertson, in the employ-
ment of Mr. Dugald Napier, contractor was engaged cart-
ing bags of grain froratheEdinburgh an 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,
was on his cart ()eking on the bags, and when the horse
which is drawn by a horse. Robertson
got the order to start, fte hook by some means caught hold
of his clothes, and he was suddenly carried to a height of
three stories. Here kedisenga,,ed himself by some means
from the hook, and losing his 7/old he was precipitated to
the ground. It is not expected that he will recover.—.
North firilish Mall.
WOMEN'S WORK.--If half, or one-hundredth por-
Hen 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 ! So soon as
figures of beauty becAtio so common as to be exhibited in
the windows of every shop, they ought surely to be left to
mere anechanisai to multiply and carry out. The higher
orders of taste and Away should then invent others, fresh
from thoss cultivated and expanded minds which have en-
joyed
the advantage of observing what art has accomplished
at different thaws .4.4 in different regions of the globe, as
well as of what -nature Gtliibits under its most favourable
aspects. go soon as machinery fit able to take up any kind
of work, or even ,•:•ci floe nas the poor are all to make a trade
of it, the hand that is iiL4 hbiiged to labour should lay i
down, and take up soinetliioggeW 44c1 better. So soon, also,
as sciett.ee has invented fresh dyss or now materials the
same hands should assmre the office of assortmont into
fresh patterns and ii.aw combinations of such colors ailed
eir;iipioyl
matarials, keeping always tiie
upon the iiiv:blest work, and thus maintatigng, y a Jun.
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ef art must be called au it, 4,4 is 0.9 N4strtlctiou of some-
thin.. which. shall afford lasting p.easur9 atic,i iloproyement
3 pi) tip beholyr.—oicc a ll7celA
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