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

HAMBURGH MAIL.

ST. PETERSUUGII, 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 where 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.

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6"; These licenses, signed and sealed by the Russian
Board of Admiralty, are drawn up in the Russian,
English, German, and Swedish languages. The cruisers
authorised to exercise the right of search, aro to use a
particular signal Which has been agreed upon by the
contracting parties who signed the treaty of the Bth
(20th) of December."
EIMBECK, DEC. 23.—1 t is reported that the Hano-
verian Government intends to impose a double duty on
all goods produced and purchased in the Duchy of
Brunswick, and those not produced in that Duchy ; and
on all Brunswick commercial travellers for the permission
to carry on their business. From the produce of this
extra duty, the carriers would be repaid the toll levied
on them on the Ammensen or Seeson road. This double
import duty would be injurious to the fair at Brunswick.

THE DEAD ALIVE.—A short time ago the body of
a man in an advanced state of decomposition was found
in the canal of Bruges, near Saint-Michel-le-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 relation, claimed 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. Towards the close
of the afternoon, when gaiety was beginning to assume
the place Of sadness, the man they had mourned in the
morning as dead suddenly appeared in the middle of the
party. The females, taking him for his ghost, fled in
terror, but the men, with all the fortitude of Hamlet, de-
termined they would speak to him ; but instead of its
vanishin., into thin air, they found it was unmelting solid
flesh, able to account for its long absence from Saint
Michel, and also to partake with 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, and the family maintain that,
as the expense was created entirely on his account, they
are not liable. How this knotty point is to be settled re-
mains to be known.

DEATH OF GENERAL LovEDAL—This gallant and
venerable officer, who died at Bath last week, at an ad-
vanced age, hid seen much service in India, and his commis-
sion as Lieutenant-General (local rank) bore date 10th Ja-
nuary, 1837.1 He married Alias D'Esterre, sister to Mr. Nor-
cott D'Esterre, who was killed by Mr. O'Connell in a duel
near Dublin in 1815, by whom he had a numerous family.