The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-03 00:00:00

£21,164,000

£20,164,000

The above total of imports from Great Britain,
£6,450,000, greatly exceeds our own Board of Trade
statement of the declared value of exports to Russia
in that year, which was only £4,053,563 ; the dif-
ference, therefore, must be ascribed to the mode of
valuation, coupled with the fact that the Russian
figures include frei.tht and importers' profit. Of the
Russian produce taken by Great Britain in 1858
the following were the proportions :
Grain
Tallow
Flax 1,550,000
Linseed and hempseed 1,350,000
Hemp and yarn
Wool
Bristles

Of the different flags visiting the Russian ports in
1858, 1,757 were British, 960 Russian, 940 lurkish,
685 Dutch, 628 Swedish, 529 Austrian, 494 Danish,
and 2,948 other nations. As regards the Russian
trade with China by the Kiahkta frontier, the present
report removes misconceptions which are rather
widely entertained. Tea is almost the only article
imported from that country, and, with the view of
encouraging the exportation of Russian manufac-
tures in return by the Kiakhta route, the quantity
of tea conveyed by sea is limited to one or two car-
goes annually. The consequence is that the price is
so greatly enhanced as to keep down the consump-
tion of tea far below the natural demand, while the
revenue is defrauded by large quar.tities being
smuggled over the frontiers from the German ports.
The town of Kiakhta, where this trade is carried on,
is more than 3,500 miles from Moscow, and the tea
regions are about the same distance from Kiakhta.
Hence the internal conveyance amounts to 7,000
miles, and raises the price of middling tea, duty-
paid, to about Gs. or 7s. the pound, or fully double
that at which it could be obtained from England
via Hamburg. The calculation is that the Russian
public, under this system, pay annually upwards of
£1,500,000 for the encouragement of an export
trade in Russian manufactures valued in the official
returns at less than £1,000,000. Mr. Erskine con-
cludes with some observations on the agriculture of
Russia. Everything in this respect is very back-
ward, but Russia in Europe alone possesses about
275,000,000 acres of arable land under cultivation,
which is half as much again as all the soil of l ranee,
Austria, and Prussia added together, and about 18
per cent. of this consists of the black soil, the pro-
ductive power of which up to the present time has
been limited practically only by the difficulty of
finding a market for the produce either at home or
abroad. In abundant years a great mass of grain
is wasted, while distant regions, owing to the want
of means of communicottion, are afflicted with
scarcity. It is impossible to estimate with certainty
the proporticn in which the produce of an average
harvest exceeds the home demand, but the excess is
far larger than the average amount of grain exported.
The total production of Russia is believed to be
200,000,000 quarters, while during the three years
ending 1853 the mean annual export was only about
5,800,000 quarters. According to one authority the
export of grain from Russia could, if necessary, be
augmented tenfold if the foreign demand were suf-
ficiently steady to induce the grower to improve his
culture and economise his crops, and if means of
internal communication were available.

THE GIIE AT FIRE IN TOOL EY-STREET.

All hopes of finding Mr. Scott are now entirely
gone. Many opinions are entertained as to the
precise manner in which he came by his death, but
the one which seems to be most likely is that when
he saw the wall falling he rushed through a door-
way into a warehouse beyond, which door was
immediately blocked up by the fallen mass of bricks,
and the warehouse itself was a short time later
enveloped in flames. Same dozens of labourers
were yesterday busily engaged in clearing away
the fallen bricks, which they stack in equare piles
of immense size. A vast quantity of wool, hemp,
jute, &c., has likewise been withdrawn from the
different basements ; this likewise is stacked in
solid piles many feet square. The steam floats still
continue to play upon the scerching masses of brick,
which in consequence throw off dense clouds of
white smoke, unlike the dark vapour emitted from
the vaults, in which tallow, bacon, &c., is stored,
anti which, driving to leeward without rising, almost
choke the passengers as they pass along.
It is now 12 days since this disastrous fire broke
out.

TIIREE SOLDIERS DROWNED.—A most sad scene
was witnessed at Scarborough on Sunday. Three men of
the 58th Regiment, now at the castle, went to the "Holmes,"
a tugged and dangerous part of the castle rock, on the north
side, to bathe. The place is full of quicksands, from which
accidents have several times resulted, and the three all fell
victims, their bodies being carried away by the tide. The
sad event cast a general gloom over the town, the visitors
and others asseuibling in great numbers as soon as the
accident became known,

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY.

The Prince of Wales arrived at the Castle at half-
past 3 o'clock yesterday, accompanied by the Lord-
Lieutenant, in an open carriage and four, with out-
riders. A squadron of Dragoons followed the Royal
carriage. The guard of honour of the 19th Regi-
ment presented arms, and the band played the
National Anthem as the Prince entered the Castle-
yard, which was crowded with spectators, who
cheered in the warmest manner. For a considerable
time previous to his arrival St. Patrick's-hall was
densely crowded with the elite of Dublin society,
the most distinguished representatives of its rank,
fashion, and wealth, presenting a brilliant stectacle.
Shortly before the arrival of his Royal Highness
the Lord Mayor and the members of the Corpora-
tion, clothed in their rich and picturesque robes, and
attended by all the insignia which mark the dignity'
of that ancient body, took place on the dais in front
of the throne. The Prince entered the Hall, and
was conducted by theLord-Lieutenant to the throne.
His Royal Highness was accompanied by General
Bruce and Col. Koppel. The Lord-Lieutenant stood
beside the Prince, to whom he presented the Lord
Mayor, who read the following address :
" To HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD,
PRINCE OF WALES.

The Address of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, and Burgesses of Dublin.

"May it please your Royal Highness,—We, the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the city of Dublin,
beg to approach your Royal Highness on the occasion of
your visit to Ireland, and to assure you that your presence
affords to the people of Ireland the most sincere pleasure
and gratification.
" Recognizing in the person of your Royal Highness the
bright and early promise of the many exalted qualities and
virtues which, while adding lustre to the Throne, have so
endeared your Royal mother in the hearts of her devoted
subjects in her vast empire, we trust that your visit to Ire-
land is but one of many which it may be your pleasure to
make to this part of the United Kingdom.
" We venture to express a hope that during your Royal
Highness's stay in Ireland the vast material and industrial
resources of our country may be observed by you; and
that you may feel, when departing from our shores, that
you have derived information and advantage from your stay
among us.

"We can state, on behalf of the citizens of Dublin, that
they would have felt it a high privilege to welcome your
Royal Highness in a more formal manner ; but understand-
ing that it is your wish to abstain as far as possible from
public manifestations during your visit to Ireland on this
occasion, we avail ourselves of this mode of giving expres-
sion to our feelings."

His Royal Highness, in a clear and distinct voice,
and with appropriate emphasis, then read the fol-
lowing gracious reply :
"My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen,—I receive with most
heartfelt pleasure the cordial address, which, emanating as
it does from the Corporation and citizens of the Irish metro-
polis, I venture to regard as expressing sentiments enter-
tained by the country at large. Although, in compliance
with my own wishes, public formalities were in a great
measure dispensed with on the occasion of my landing, the
enthusiastic welcome spontaneously tendered to me by the
vast and important community which you represent was
not only grateful to myself, but afforded the most unequi-
vocal evidence of their affectionate devotion to the Queen,
my mother, and to her family. That you should discern
in me any promise of the virtues and exalted qualities which
have so endeared her Majesty to her subjects is, I fear, due
rather to your generous partiality than to my own deserts.
But you may be assured, at least, that I am profoundly
sensible of their inestimable value, and that to learn to imi-
tate them is my earnest study and fondest desire. I come
here, as I have visited other parts of the country, for the
purpose of self-improvement, and specially on this occasion
to profit by the great advantages which the plains of the
Curragh present as a school for practical military instruc-
tion. My time will be chiefly occupied in this pursuit; but
I am most anxious to acquire a more full acquaintance with
the material and industrial resources of Ireland, and yield
to no one in my sense of their importance and in earnest
desire for their increase and development."

His Royal Highness proceeds to the Curragh to-
day, where he is to remain some time studying the
details of military science.

ECCLESIASTICAL COIIIIIISSION.

If any portion of the reported proceedings of
Parliament may by a license of speech be described
as entertaining reading, it is the discussions on the
Miscellaneous Estimates. The jumble and jostle of
the oddest subjects prepares a succession of little
surprises ; the speeches are so short and jerky, and
the reporters, exercising a discretion too seldom em-
ployed, give only the best things said ; and then, in
the freedom of an unpremeditated debate, what ex-
traordinary notions are let loose upon the House.
The few words said in the House of Commons on
Monday about the Ecclesiastical Commission—a
body instituted to redress the glaring inequalities
of Church endowments, and make the ecclesiastical
property of the nation contribute more effectually to
the object for which it is assigned—were called forth
by a demand upon the public purse for the rent of
its lodgings. Several members said the estate which
the Commission administered ought to bear this
charge ; whereupon Sir Cornewall Lewis and Lord
John Russell, great constitutionalists and good
churchmen, said the State ought to pay the money,
because it had intervened for an object of its own,
which had not been desired by the Church. What is
the fact ? Parliament, in appointing this Commis-
sion, acts simply in the exercise of the trusteeship of
Church property which it has held ever since the
Papists were dispossessed. There is no dictation,
no submission, no compromise. Parliament ex-
ercises its right, and the law is obeyed as a matter
of course. That is, it is obeyed, so far as Parlia-
ment has taken securities for obedience—not an
inch further—witness last year's amalgamation of
the York Deanery. The following sums expended
upon Bishops' palaces, under the authority of the
Commission, demonstrates the profuseness of a body
which comes to Parliament to pay the rent of its
offices :