The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

HAMBURGH
_MAIL.

ST. PETERSBUGH, DEC. 16.—The following notice has
been issued by the Finance Department
" Conformably to the first article of the treaty, con-
cluded and signed at London on the Bth of December,
1841, between Russia, Great Britain, Austria, and
Prussia, for the total suppression of the slave trade, the
Russian Government has delivered the first license to
English cruisers, by which those cruisers are authorised
in the seas whore the reciprocal right of search may be
exercised, to search and detain, according to the said
treaty, merchantmen sailing under Russian colours,
which are suspected of being concerned in that trade, or
of being fitted out for that purpose, or of having carried
on that trade during the voyage in which they were
stopped by the English cruisers.
"These licenses, signed and scaled by the Russian
Board of Adthiralty, are drawn up in the„ Russian,
English, German, and Swedish langiv.g,s. cruisers
authorised.to exercise the right of search, are- to use a
particular signal which has been agried tip.ai by the
contracting parties who signed the treaty of the Bth
(30th) of December."
EIMBECK: Mx. 23.—1 t is r,!1e that the Hano-
verian Government intends to impose a dotille duty on
all goods produced and purchUsed in the Duchy of
Brunswick, and those not produced in that Duchy ; and
on all Brunswick commercial travuhers for the permission
to carry on 'their business. From the produce of this
extra duty, the carriers would be rupaid the toll lei led
on them on the Ammensen or Seuson road. This double
import duty would be injurious to the fair at Brunswick.

THE DEAD AuvE.—A short time ago the body of
a man in an advanced state of decomposhion was found
in the canal of Bruges, near Saint-Michelle Bruges.
An inhabitant of the town having been missing for a
fortnight, his family came to view the body, and fancy-
ing, from certain fragments of the clothes, that they
were the remains of their lost rclati,u, elaitned them,
and conferred a decent funeral upon them. According
to the custom of the country the attendants adjourned
afterwards to dissipate their grief by the en-
livening effects of a good dinner. 'fun aids the closa
of the afternoon, when gaiety was beginning to assume
his
guest,n t kiloed!
the place of sadness, the man they lout mourned in the
m the
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in
terror, but the men, with all the fortitude of Hamlet, de-
termined they would speak to him ; but instead of its
vanishing into thin air, they found it a as untnelting solid
flesh, able to account for its long absence front Saila,
Michel, and also to partake as lilt good appetite of the
viands spread on the table. A question has since arisen
which may not be easy of solution. Who is to pay for
the funeral meats ? The ghost insists that they cannot
be placed to his charge, alai the family maintain that,
as the expense was created entirely on his account, they
are not liable. How this knotty pt int is to be settled re-
mains to be knawn.

• OHATII OF GENERAL LOVEDAY.--ThiS galhalt and
venerable officer, who died at Bath last week, at an ad-
vanced age, had seen much service in India, and his 'commis-
sion as Lieutenant-General (local rank) bcre date 10111 Ja-
nuai, 1837. He married Miss D'Esterre, sister to Mr. Nor-
cott D'Esterre, who was killed by Mr. O'Cimin 11 in a duel
near Dublin in I blb, by whom he had a nunhieus