The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-17 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

We find the following in the St. Petersburgh
Journal of the 6th :—" The pernicious doctrines
which produced disturbance and revolt in the whole
of Western Eqrope, and which threatened the com-
plete destruction of the order and prosperity of na-
tions, have unfortunately produced an echo, although
a feeble one, in .our country. But in Russia.
where a holy faith, love for the I\lml:eh and de-
votedness to the throne, based on the national cha-
racter, have remained unshaken in all hearts, the
evil intentions of a handful of men of no influence,
most of them young and without morality, who had
dre lined the possibility of trampling under foot the
most sacred rights of religion, law, and propriety,
would only heve assumed a dangerous developement
in the event of the vigilance of the Government not
having discovered the evil in its origin. It results,
from the investigatione which have taken place, that
a certain number af young men, some completely
perverted in heart and mind, others vie ims of impru-
dent and perfi.lious insinuations, had formed a secret
sockty whose object was the violent overthrow of our
political organization and to substitute for it one of
their own fashion, which would only have been
anarchy. lalaspnemies and audacious speeches
against the sacred person of the Emperor, false
interpretations of the acts of the Government, such
was the programme of these meetings, such were
the questions agitated whilst waiting for the mo-
ment to execute their sinister projects. By order of
his Majesty the Emperor a commission of inquiry
was instituted. This commission having made its
report at the end of a f.,,w months of the most careful
investigations, his I:nperial Majesty deigned to grant
a full and entire amnesty to all the persons who had
been seduced into this criminal plot either from
chance or want of reflection. As to the true crimi-
nals they were tried by a military commission, whose
decision was referred to the tribunal, which declared
the accused guilty of the crime of conspiracy to
overthrow the existing laws and political order
of the empire, and condemned them to the
punishment of death. They are as follows :—Michael
Boutaschevitch, Petraschevoky, honorary councillor;
Nicholas Spesckneff, gentlernaneno longer in service ;
Nicholas Mombelli, lieutenant in the guards ; Ni-
cholas Grigorietf, lieutenant in the guards ; Theodore
Lvoff, captain in the guards; Nicolas Pilippoff, stu-
dent of the University of St. Petersburgh ; Dmitry
Akhs chasroumoff, bachelor in letters ; Alexander
Khanikoff, pupil of the University of St. Peters-
burgh ; Theodore Dostrievsky, retired assessor of a
college ; Constantine Desbout, councillor of a college ;
Hippolyte Desbout, secretary of Government ; Felix
Toll, master of Russian literature, without rank in
the service ; John Jastyembsk', honorary coun-
cillor ; Alexander Plestcheioff, gentleman not in the
service ; Nicholas Keschkine, honorary councillor ;
Basil Golovinski, honorary councillor; Alexander
Perms, lieutenant in the guards ; Constantine Tim-
kowsky, honorary councillor; A'exander Europens,
retired secretary of a college; Peter Schaposchnikoff,
citizen. His Majesty the Emperor after having read
the report in question of the Supreme Tribunal,
deigned to turn his attention to the circumstances,
which to a certain extent might warrant the miti-
gation of the sentence, and has in consequence
ordered what follows :—The judgment shall be read
to the condemned in presence of the troops assembled,
and after all the preliminaries for the execution of the
penalty of death *hall have been accomplished, it shall
be announced to them that the Emperor spares their
lives, and that instead of undergoing the penalty cf
death, they shall be declared to have forfeited all their
civil rights, and be condemned, according to their dif-
ferent degrees of guilt, to hard labour in the mine.,
to hard la ,our in the fortres'es, or to be incorporated
in different corps of the army, af er having under-
gone periods of detention more or less long. Thus
the guilty men who had incurred the penalty of death
according to the law, but whose penalty has been
mitigated by the inexhaustible clemency of the Em-
peror, will he subjected to a just chastisement. May
this guilty attempt serve as a warning and salutary
example to young men, already misled perhaps, but
not yet criminal. Let parents especially pay serious
attention to the moral education of their children, and
endeavour to convince them from their earliest age
that holy faith, love for the Sovereign, devotedness to
the throne, and obedience to the laws and established
authoritie-, are the only immoveable bases of the trim-
quillity of states, and of public and private prosperity.'

ITALY.
In the sitting of the 11th of the Chamber of De
puties c f Turin, the Bill for the subdivision of
electoral colleges was vat d by 87 to 43, after two
days dis.cussion, but with some amendments,
among which one by M. Torelli, enacting
that no section shall contain lets than 40 voters,
In the same sitting of the Senate the Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs presented the Bill for the
ratification of the treaty of peace with Austria,
which had already been adopted by the Chamber of
Deputies. Senator Balbi Piovera moved that, in
compliance with the urgency demanded by Ministers,
the Senate do adjourn immediately to the bureaux,
and vote the law afterwards without discussion. but
several senators having objected to this course, the
Chamber passed to the order of the day,
The military commandant of Leghorn has issued a i
notificAtiOD, Ulforcing tba police regulotioa by which I

innkeepers and landlords are:directed to inform the
police within twenty-four hours of the names of the
strangers lodging► in their houses.
The Statuto cf Florence of the Bth doubts the ac-
curacy of the statement lately given by the Risorgi-
mento to Turin, concerning a treaty between the
Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Austrian Govern-
ment for the indefinite occupations of Tuscany by
imperial troops.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussxu, Jan. 15.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •••• • • •• ...
Loan of 1840, Five per Cent .. •• • • 97%
Loan of Thirty Millions,FonrporCent •• ••
Ditto Threeper Cent ••••• • • • • • ........
Ditto Thirty-sevenMillions,ditto .•• • .•
Ditto,ditte,lB4B •• •• ••••••••• • • • " • •
Ditto,lB42, 5 per Cent •••• • • • • .• 97%
Ditto, 1844, 4% per Cent• • • • • • • • .• 90%
Ditto, 1836, 4 per Cent •• •• ••• • •• .• 85
Ditto, 1838, 3 per Cent. ••• • • • • • • . 66%
Ditto, 1848, 5 per Cent............... 9i%
Ditto of the City,lB32 •••••• •• • • •• •
Ditto, 1843 . • • • • • • • • • • • .• 6%
Bank of Beigium• ••• .....•• • • 79i
lame of 1841 ......... ........ •• • .... 107
Exchange on London, 25.47%.

HAJIBURGII FUNDS, Jan. 12.
Bills. Money,
Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent. .• .. 106% 106

Ditto, 3% per Cent. .. •• • .••• • • • •
Bank Shares •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • •
Prussian 5 per Cent. ••••.. • • • ...... 106% 106
Anglo-Russian Loan •••• • • • ..... .. 106% 106
Ilamburgh, 3' per Cent .. • • •.. •..... 86% 8634
Lubeck Loan (18.10) .... • • .... ..... 97% 97%
Russian 5 per Cent. Certificates.. •• .. 99%
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • •
Ditto Stleglit: •••••• • • • • • • .......... 83 84%
Belgian Loan,23( per Cent. •••••• • • • • •
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •••• .. 71 70%
Ditto, in 1001. Shares —••— • • ...... 72 71%
Ditto,s per cent. ...... •• • • ........ 96 93%
Anglo-Swedish Loan .. ••.. • • ........ 98
Ditto, Transport Loan • •
East Gothland 4 per Cents • ....... 94 94
Norwegian Loan, 1848 •• •• ••• • . .... 99% 9914
Spanish New 5 per Cent •••••• • • 12 11%
Ditto, 3 per Cents. ...• .. •• •• ...... 29 % 29
Ditto, 1846••••••••••••••••••••••-•
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent••
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ••• • •
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • •• •• ••
National Bank Shares •••••••• .. • • ••
American, 6 per Cent. •• • • ........ 1051,4 105%