The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-13 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1832.

TRADE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN
AND RUSSIA.

By the accounts which have been received respecting I
the export and import trade at St. Petersburgh during the
year which has just closed, it appears that the commercial
intercourse between Great Britain and the Baltic ports has
been very extensive. During the whole of the autumn the
imports into St. Petersburgh met with a good demand at
improved prices. The embarrassments with which the
trade had to contend owing to the prevalence of the cho-
lera morbos, Navin, been removed, both the agricultural
and manufacturing interests were, at the date of the last
accounts, placed on a more favourable footing, and an in-
creased demand was anticipated for imported goods as the
winter advanced. In cotton twist imported there had
been, during the last season, a marked deficiency. In cam-
brics the import had fallen off from 134,220 pieces in
1830, to 64,240 pieces in last year. In tnuslins and hand-
kerchiefs imports had declined from 53,700 pieces to
37,400 pieces; and in prints from 21,380 to 503 pieces,
In woollen goods there have been very little variation,
the imports into St. Petersburgh in 1831 averaging
10,845 pieces, and in 1830, 10,500 pieces. The imports
of fair cotton bad fallen off, from 60,531 pools, in 1830,
to 50,200 ponds in the last year; the importation of bad
had much increased ; viz., from 98,272 poods, in 1830,
to 118,530 ponds, in 1831. The imports in coffee bad
greatly increased in the last year, but those in sugar had
decreased about one-third. The speculative demand was
active. In other principal articles of import no remarkable
changes have occurred.
The export trade from St. Fetersburgh to ports of the
United Kingdom, was active during the past year. Ot
tallow 2,204,281 ponds were shipped off for London, and
878,000 poods for the outports, being an increase on the
previous year's import of about 150,000 poods. There
was also a great increase in the exports of hemp, flax,
cordage, potashes, and bar iron. At the end of the last
year there remained on the spot 35,000 poods of tallow.
In the exports of grain to the port of London there was
also an increase in the last year; that i❑ wheat was from
72,511 to 205,206 chetwerts ; and the increase in the ex-
ports to our outports was about 5,000 chetwerts. The
shipment of oats for Great Britain in 1830 was 8,500
chetwerts; and in the last year, 58,000 chetwerts. The
increase in the exports of linseed for British ports was
from 104,000 chetwerts in 1830 to 200,000 in 1831. In
(heals, a great increase in the exports to this country also
occurred—there having been shipped from St. Petersburgb,
in 1830, about 2,000,000 stand of deals, and the last
year 2,500,000 stand of deals. At the close of the
last year there remained on hand at St. Petersburg",
100,000 chetwerts of wheat, 30,000 of rye, and 15,000 of
linseed. The crops both of wheat and rye had proved abun-
dant in Russia last year, and of good quality. The growth
of flax was deficient both in quantity and quality. It is
expected that this year's growth of linseed will be defi-
cient. With respect to the supply of tallow this year, all
the accounts from the interior of Russia represent the
cattle as being in worse condition than last year, and the
supply was consequently expected to be short. Several
large capitalists at Moscow had entered the trade. The
whole quantity contracted for, up to the end of last year,
was about 280,000 ponds. In the course of the last year
1,656 vessels arrived at St. Petersburgh ; 910 British,
687 foreign, and 59 American. No British vessels were
wintering either at St. Petersburgh or Cronstadt.

NOTTINGHAM SPECIAL COMMISSION.

NO TTINGHAM—WEDNESDAY.
The Court met this morning at nine o'clock.
Soon after the Jury was sworn.
ATTEMPT TO BU RN C OLWIC K.. HALL.
Nine prisoners, against whom bills were found for
the capital offence in this case, were put to the bar
and arraigned. They all pleaded " Not Guilty"
with the exception of one, who either did nor, or
would not, understand the question put to him.
However, as it was arranged to take only three
prisoners for trial in the first instance, that party was
put aside for the present.
Charles Berkins, aged 20, Valentine illarshall,
17, and Thomas Whittaker, 24, were then given in
charge for riotously and tumultuously assembling,
with divers others, -on the 10th of October, and
feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house
of John Musters, Esq., and feloniously setting fire
to the same.
Mr. William Musters examined by Mr. CLARKE
--I am the son of Mr. John Musters, the owner of
Colwick-hall. My father is not well enough to
attend here. I remember the 10th of October. 1
saw a mat, coming through the park, and approach
the house. I came from the house and net them.

I can't say how many there were, but they extended
from the house to the park-gate. I spoke to them,
and. hoped they would go away quietly. Some of
those behind reached over those in front, and struck
at me, and pelted me, I received a severe blow on
the arm. I then retired. My mother, my sister,
and a young lady who was staying with us, were in
the house at the time. The mob then advanced to
the house, and commenced by taking up stones and
breaking the windows. They then forced the
shutters in different parts of the house. They had
spikes they brought with them, and they tore down
some of our iron railing. My mother* and sister
were in the drawing-room when the mob came.
The mob began to break and destroy every thing
they could lay hold of. The rooms they entered were
the drawing-room, mine, and my brother's sitting-
room, my mother's bed-room, and my father's bed-
room, and dressing-room. The furniture in all of
those rooms was destroyed. When the mob came
up I went to my mother in the drawing room, and
told her the mob were coming, and that it was im-
possible to say what they might do. My mother
and sister and the young lady went into the ball-
room, and from thence in a short time they went
and hid themselves under some laurels in the shrub-
bery. The mob set fire to the house in several
places. I saw the marks of the fire in several rooms.
They took the bed furniture in my father's room and
threw it on the fire. My mother's room was also
on fire, but tha amount of the damage done to the
rooms themselves was not very great. My mother
had some jewellery which was taken away. I lost
a gold chain. There was a gold comb taken, be-
longing to my mother. The mob were in the house
nearly an hour. It was about five o'clock when
they came, and about six, and very nearly dark, when
they left. I had sent one of the servants to Notting-
ham for assistance. I saw him a short time after
returning, with the mob, who would not let him pro-
ceed. After my mother and sister left their con-
cealment under the laurels, they went to the stable.
They slept that night in the rooms over the stable,
as they were afraid to return to the house.
Cross-examined by Mr. HlLL—During part of
the time the mob was in the house 1 was at the foot
of the stairs in the hall, and I kept moving about
from one place to another. It was impossible I could
remain in any place from which I could see the mob
in front, the danger from the stones thrown in at
the windows was so great. I believe that all the
men servants retired to the stable. The women
servants we sent to the top of the house.
James Lowesby, the groom of Mr. Musters, cor-
roborated the statement of the preceding witness as

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to the coming of the mob, &c.
Rebecca Leigh—l am Mrs. Musters' maid. I re-
member the mob coming on the 10th of October.

I ►►as in my mistress's dressing-room when I saw
them. I came down, and several of the mob went
up. I heard a great noise in my mistress's dressing-
room. I know of several gold chains belonging to
my mistress having been 'taken away. I had seen
them the day before the mob came. When the mob
left the room it was on fire, and many things were
consumed.
John Freeman—l am a shoemaker. I live at
Sneinton, which is about a mile and a half from
Coiwick-hall. I was at Colwick-hall on Monday the
10th of October. I saw Valentine Marshall (iden-
tified that prisoner) with the mob. He had a piece
of wooden fence in his hand. I saw a person named
John King, who had a piece of fence in his hand,
with a piece of red curtain tied to the end of it. The
mob were at that time breaking the windows and
getting into the house. I told a boy name Barnes that I
knew King. I said, " I know that 'ere chap."
There were several other persons there that I knew.
Cross-examined—I am 17 years old. I went

down before the mob. The butler sent me down
to let the family know that they (the mob) were
coming. I was standing within a yard of Marshall.
It was a fortnight or three weeks before I told any
thing to the Magistrates. I can't say whether I
told any person in the interim that I saw Marshall.
I might. I believe I told Whitworth, the constable.
I mentioned several names to him, and I might have
given Marshall's also. I mentioned the names of
King, and Harrison, and Shelton, and of a person
named Shipman. It might be a week before I told
Whitworth.
Samuel Binks—l am 17 years old. I have been
sent to prison on suspicion of being at Col wick-hall,
and I have now come from prison. I live at Bays-
ford, near thin town. I came in. the morning of the
10th of October, and was at the Reform meeting.
After that I went to see my sister, who lives in
town. In the afternoon I went to the market-place,
and to look at some windows which the mob had
broken. I met the mob, and some of them took
hold of my arm and linked me in with them. They
were walking about ten abreast. They said they
were going to Colwick. We went on there : I was
amongst the last who got into the Park. I came
within about 20 yards of the house. There were
several persons had then got into the house. I saw
the prisoner Charles Berkins take off his shirt, light
it, and throw it a-light under the bed. I saw him
also throw chairs and things out of the house, and
break them. I was then 10 or 20 yards from the
house.
Mary Walker—l have known the prisoner Ber-
* Mrs. Musters, the lady here spoken of, was formerly Miss
Chaworth, of Annesley, in this county, celebrated as being the
object of Lord Byron's strongest and most lasting early attach-
ment,—an attachment " which," to use the words of Mr. Moore,
according to his own deliberate persuasion, exercised a lasting
and paramount influence over the whole of his subsequent cha-
racter and career." The Noble Lord was only fifteen when he
indulged in this romantic attachment, of which, however, it ap-
pears, the lady, at that time only two years his senior, was an
indifferent observer. The Noble Lord had a successful rival in
Mr. Musters, her present husband. Mrs. Musters was the
" Mary" in one of the noble author's most interesting poems
" The Dream." "If at any moment," says his biographer,
" he had flattered himself with the hope of being loved by her,
a circumstance mentioned in his memoranda,' as one of the
most painful of those humiliations to which the defect in his
foot had exposed him, must have let the truth in with dreadful
certainty upon his heart. He either was told of, or overheard
Miss Chaworth saying to her maid, Do you think I could care
anything for that lame boy ?' This speech, as he himself de-
scribed it, was like a shot through his heart. Though late at
night when he heard it, he instantly darted out of the house,
and, scarcely knowing whither he ran, never stopped till he
found himself at Newstead,"—Works of Lord Byron, Murray's
new edition, vol, 1., p. SU.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Jan. 10.
WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b.
Red
--- Scotch, Welch, and Manx 9 6 9 8
Irish, White 9 0 9 3
------- Red 8 6 8 9
-- Foreign 9 0 9 4
OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 2 3 4
Irish
Foreign
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Inip. quarter 36 0 98 0
--- Scotch and Irish, per 601bs.
-- Feeding 3lO 4 0
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 44 0
Irish, &c. '3B 0 40 0
Foreign
PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 43 0 45 0
Foreign
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 4B 0 49 0
Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 26 6 27 6
INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. 10 0 34 0
RYE, per Imperial quarter
MALT, per Imperial quarter
IMPORT or GRAIN for the Week ending Jan. 9.
Wheat. Oats. 1 Barley Flour. Oatmeal
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. IForeigl n, Brls. Irish , &c. Scks. Loads.
5,729 7,513 4,686 300 1,146 930

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OF MINA
FROM THE PRISON AT DOYLESTOWN.

(From a New York Paper.)

We are enabled this week to present to our
readers a detailed account of the contrivance by
which the Spaniard Mina effected his escape
from the Doylestown gaol, together with the cir-
cumstances connected with his re-capture.
At the time of his transfer to that prison from
Philadelphia, and for some days afterwards, he
was heavily loaded with irons. It was soon
found advisable to relieve him from the principal
part of them ; leaving him, however, firmly se.
cured by an iron chain about four feet in length,
of which one end was fastened to his ancle, the
other fixed to the floor, near the centre of his
cell. He was accommodated with a fire upon
the hearth, a bench, a bed upon a low bedstead,
two or three books in Spanish or English, and
a trunk containing his clothes. In the course
of his confinement he fell sick, and was attended
by a physician in the village. During his ill-
ness, one of the prisoners lodged with him, that
he might not suffer for want of proper attention.
From this indisposition he recovered, but it was
not long before he again made complaint. This
was readily ascertained by the physician to be a
mere pretence ; and it was very soon after that
the grand design was put in execution.
The prisOn of Doylestown consists of an ob-
long front building, to which are attached two
wings, standing at the rear of_ the former, and
opposite each other, leaving a square recess be-
tween, three sides of which are defined by the
three buildings, the fourth side opening to the
prison yard. The two wings are allotted to the
prisoners ; they are two stories high, and are di-
vided above and below by entries, having •com-
mttnication with cells arrayed on each side. In
the left wing, to the left of the passage, down
stairs, was the cell appropriated to Mina. The
windows of that room are strongly guarded with
iron bars. The entrance has two doors, of
which the inner is a heavy wooden structure,
secured on the outside by a hook ; the outer
door is of iron, with a projecting arm, which is
fastened by a padlock to a staple in the wall.
Considering that in addition to these formidable
securities the prisoner was chained down to the
floor, and that, even if he had passed the thres-
hold of the cell, he had to work his way out of
that part of the building in which he was con-
fined, before he could reach the yard, and that,
when there, he had still a wall to climb, or a
massive padlock to demolish, it may well be
believed that nothing but practised cun-
ning, joined to reckless determination, could
have accomplished the liberation of the contriver.
He found means to secrete a case-knife, pro-
bably afforded him at his meals. The knife
was converted into a saw, with which the rivet
of the shackle around his ankle was cut off.
He concluded the cut by winding a cloth or
; rag around the iron, under the pretence that it
galled his ankle. This is said to have been done
two days previously to his escape. His next
step was to burn a hole in the floor (which