The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The St. Petersburgh Gazette of the Ist publishes
the following ukase, suppressing the customs' line
between Poland and Russia :

"In cur constant solicitude for the development of
commerce and industry, we have judged it advisable, in
order to facilitate as much our own commercial relations
with the foreigner as those of between cur faithful sub.
jects of the empire of Russia and the kingdom of Poland,
to publish for both a general tariff of customs' duties,
and at the same time to abolish the intermediate customs'
line, which has hitherto existed between the empire of
Russia and the kingdom of Poland.

"We have consequently given our approval to the
general tariff drawn np by the kingdom of Poland, and
the governor of the Caucasian provinces, and reviewed
by the council of the empire and the committee of the
Caucasus, and we ordain, while transmitting this tariff
to the executive senate:

" 1. That this tariff stall come into operation in the
empire, as well as in the kingdom of Poland, on and
after the Ist (13th) of January, 1851.
" 2. The simultaneous abolition of the intermediate
customs' line existing between the empire and the king-
dom, and the introduction into the latter of the Russian
customs' administration.
"3. The application :of these new duties to such
merchandise as shall, on the Ist (13th) of January,
remai❑ in the warehouses of Russia or Poland, and shall
not have 3 et paid tax, but to apply to such merchandise
the old duties, if those of the new tariff are not high
enough.
" The executive senate will take the measures neces-
sary tor the carrying out of this ordinance."

ITALY.
Letters from Rome of the 7th state that the anti-
Papist demonstrations in England had created great
alarm among the directors of the Obscurantist con-
spiracy, and that orders had been sent to Cardinal
WISEMAN to abstain from taking any further pro-
ceedings in the matter until the affair should have
somewhat blown over. The French garrison is to be
diminished to a battalion idthe Castle of St. Angelo,
and two battalions at Civita Vecchia. The military
posts in the country are to be occupied by Neapoli-
tan troops.

The Tuscan Monitore of the 7th publishes the terms
and the ratifications of the postal- treaty lately con-
cluded between Austria and Tuscany. Besides this
treaty, a special fundamental convention has been
signed between the two Governments for an Austro-
Italian postal league, which all the other Govern..
ments may join.
On the 9th the Court of Appeal of Turin acquitted
MM. BIANCHI GIOVINI and ROMBALDO, both editors
of the Opinione, who had been condemned by the
lower tribunals to a fortnight's imprisonment and a
fine of 300 francs, for an article on the Roman
question, which had been considered insulting to tha
POPE.

THE LATE WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLE CHASE.—
The veterinary surgeons appointed to examine Vain hope's
mouth have declared " that he is five years old."
The Rosal West India Mail Steam Paciset Com-
pany will, we understand, be prohibited by the Government
from taking passengers and cargo for Lisbon by their Bra-
zilian packets, in order that they may not interfere with the
trade of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's mail
steamers. The object of the Brazilian packets calling at
Lisbon is to secure the traffic between Portugal, the Cape de
Verds, Madeira, and the Brazils.

THE MAIL. FOIL THE CAPE OF GOOD ITOPE.—On
the occasion of the dispatch of the first mail for the Cape of
Good Hope the people of Plymouth intend to make a grand
demonstration by a procession, a grand dinner, &c. 'The
corporation of Plymouth and Devonport will iteet the direc-
tors of the company to which the steamers belong, and pre-
sent an address.

DEATH OF THE ZION. AND REV. ROBERT WILSON.
—This lion. and Rev. Gentleman died at Ashwell Thorp
Park, Norfolk, on Thursday, in his forty- ninth year.