The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-31 00:00:00

4511ttton

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

POLAND.

On the Ist of January (old style) the native Cus-
tom-house officials in Russian Poland will be dis-
missed, and replaced by Russians, for whom quarters
are prepared. They will be double the numbers of
the old officials, and have a perfect military or-
ganization. Other measures for Russianising the
Polish provinces are being pressed forward with
vigour. Besides the abolition of the Customs frontier
between Poland and Russia, the Bank of Warsaw
will be suppressed. The Polish credit verein will, in
1852, receive new statutes; the rural judges (dor-
frichter) are to be abolished and replaced by Russian
Pristawis. The resident proprietor or noble was
generally the district magistrate ; instead of them the
strict Russian police system will be introduced with
the Pristawis. The clergy in the Polish provinces
are to give up their landed property to the State, and
for the future will receive a salary from the Govern-
ment, to which the communes are to contribute ac-
cording to their population and wealth. By this
measure the Church will be made wholly depen-
dent on the State ; and though the Catholic clergy in
Poland are not governed by the Synod of St. Peters-
burg, they will still lose the shadow of independence
they have hitherto possessed. The nobility has been
punished for the share it took in the insurrection of 1830
by nineteen years of compulsory military service ; now,
to place it on a footing of equality with the same
caste in Russia, it is exempted from this liability,
which it shared in common with the Russian serfs.
The monopoly of salt is to be abolished, and the cul-
tivation of tobacco freed from restrictions. These
measures may not all be carried out at once, but they
are in contemplation. The abolition of the customs
frontier between Russia and Poland has been already
effected ; in fact, the Russian frontier is now trans-
ferred to the west, and forms the limit of Germany.
The Polish Jews who have become invalided in
the Russian army, or have served out their time, aro
in future to be allowed all the privileges granted to
the Christian soldiers. They are to have the right of
settling in Warsaw and other cities, and those of
them who are agriculturists will be exempted from
an exclusively Jewish tax—the Koschersteuer. They
may also be appointed to any of the posts in the ser-
vice .r the State below those that give the holder the
lowest stage in official rank.

The pest among the cattle, which still rages
violently in the Polish provinces, has, it is calculated,
destroyed more than 200,000 head of oxen.
One of the most splendid castles in Vollaynia, the
roperty of the Radziwill family at Sz3z:Tancw, has
j ust been destroyed by fire. . .

Count Anatole Den:idoff, who is married to Mathilde
Bonaparte, has bee❑ recalled to St. Petersburgh.

COURSE OF EXCIL
Amsterdam .......... 11 15y2
ultco, three months.. 11 17%
Rotterdam •• 11 :7%
Antwerp.... 25 25
Brussels.• 25 25
H unburgh .....•111.8. 13 5%
Paris, 3 days'sight .• 25 0

LNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.. • ........
Ltghorn ........ ••.. • • SO 90
Qc:aoa ............ •... 25 70
• • • • ....

Naples .. .... • • •• 41%
?alerrno,peroz........ 124
Messina .............. 124
53%
Oporto .• .. • • • • .. •• 53%
7.:'.1f) Janeiro ••
Buenos Ayres .. • • ••

Ditto, 3 months .... 25 25
Marseilles • • 25 0
Frankfort on Maine.... 117%
Berlin • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••
Vienna, effec. ffo.• .... 13 50
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 13 50
Petanbargh,Sll.RNe.• 375
Madrid .............. 497 f,
Barcelona • • • • • • •• •• • •
BeTille.• • • • • • . • • • • • • ..

New York, 60 day s'sight
Philadelphia .. .. -. ....

?BAC= OF BULLION, Pll 01,
Foreign Geld in bare.. XII 17 9
rortvgal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
gpan,24 11 Doubloons .. 0 0 0

New Dollars .....• 0 4 11%
Silver In bars ......•• 0 5 1%

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, DEC. 31, 1850.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland unto the undermentioned gentlemen, and the
respective heirs male of their bodies, lawfully begotten,
viz.:—Major-General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert,
G.C.8.; James Matheson, of the Lew:, in the county of
Ross. and of Achany, in the county of Sutherland, Esq.;
and Richard Tut ton, of Appleby Castle, in the county
of Westmoreland, Skipton Castle, in the county of York,
and Hothfield-place, in the county of Kent, Esq.
DOWNING-STREE I', DEC. 31.

The Queen has bean pleased to appoint Sir James
Emerson Tenneut, lint., to be Governor of St. Helena.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint James
Vickery Drysdal, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary, and
Robert G. Mc Hugh, E9q., to be her Mjesty's Trea-
surers for the Island of St. Lucia.

CROWN OFFICE, DEC. 28.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TRIS PRESENT PAR.

LIA MENT.

Borough of St. Albanz—Jacob Bell, Esq., in the room
of Alexander Raphael, Esq., deceased.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 30.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Robert
Frederick Mountain to be Adjutant, vice Barker, pro-
moted, March 19; Stcond Captain Edwin Wodehouse
to be Captain, vice G. W. Bingham, deceased, Nov. 11;
First Lieutenant Lord William Kennedy to be Second
Captain, vice Wodehouse; Second Lieutenant George
Kepple Taylor to be El:lit Lieutenant, vice Lord W.
Kennedy, Dec. 5.
The dates of the promotion of the undermentioned of-
ficers have been altered as follows, viz.:—
Second Captain G. H. L./Milman to 11th Nov., 1850;
Firt Lieutenant H. L. Balfour to 11th Nov. 1850.
Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants—
John Henry Brown ; Frederick Mackenzie Hum-
berston Prosser ; Walter Aston Fox Strang-
ways; Thomas Arthur John Harrison; John
Donald George Higgon ; George] Sisson Harward;
James Meredith Collingwood Vibart; William Booth;
William Lambert Yonge; Edmund John Winn, vice
Leathes, promoted; Charles Booth Brackenbury, vice
Rotton, promoted; Edwin Markham, vice Savage, pro-
moted; Henry Richard Porter, vice Jones, promoted;
Edmund Penrose Bingham Turner, vice Byrne, pro-
moted; Frederick Nurse Cromartie, vice Teddy, pro-
moted; Leonard Sumner Joyce, vice Singer, promoted;
Ralph Gore, vice Tonakinsen, promoted, Doe. 19.
Carps of Royal Engineers—Gentlemen Cadets to be
Second Lieutenants, with temporary rank—Charles
Elwin Harvey, vice Clerke; Robert William Duff, vice
Rice; George Philips, vice Fowler, promoted Dec. 19.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberlandshire.

The Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militil—John
Dixon Fidler, Gent., to be Surgeon, vice Mitchell, do-
ceasNl, Oct. 24.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 16.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Meikle,
of the city of Edinburgh, Gent-, to be a Master Extra-
ordinary in the High Court of Chancery in that pin
•e the Lrai!ed Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
col!led. Scotland.

WHITEHALL, 1J a. 24.
'Tae Lord ChanceLor has appointed John Lrach Ni
cholas, of Monmouth, in the county of Monmouth,
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Cour
of Chancery