The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-13 00:00:00

RUSSIAN PRESS.

ST. PETERSBURG'', AUG. new Ordinance, re-
speeting the Censorship of the Press, has just been pub-
lished, which received the Imperial sanction on the 22d of
june last. It consists of 19 chapters, divided into 230 see..
Linos, printed sheets. • Admiral Schisekoro,
Minister of Public Instruction, is Director General of the
Censorship throughout the Empire. Next to him are the
Ministers of Foreign 'Affairs and of the Interior. A . Ge-
neral Board of Censorship is to be established here, under
the Director General; and there are to be subordinate
Boards at Moscow,'Dorpat, and Wilna. The chief Board
consists of a President,: witha salary of 7,000 rubles; and
six Censors, each with a salary of 4,000 rubles. The other
consists of a President, with a salary of 4,000 rubles; and
three Censors, with As' salary of 3,000 rubles. • The chief
Board has its two Chancery, at the head of which is
Prince SellidoSky-Sehichmatow, Director of the Minis-
ters' owe.: Chancery. -The f'resident of the chief
Boat is. appointed or dismissed only by his Majesty.
Lis3 proposes the
.Censors, whom the Minister is to con-
firm. The other Boards are under the Curators of the
Univers: sic -v..Di
momxto4.- Witom they are to be . nominated and
by the .-Minister, and who will communicate
•
:,ietn the Protestant decisions. The annual expense
of this new Censorship - will be, 90,150 rubles (the
old committee cost only 5,350 rubles), The jurisdiction
of these Boardirextenda to all books and periodicals pub.
tithed in the empire, in the Russian or m foreign lan-
guages. Besides this, the present Committe of Censor-
ship, attached to the General Post-office, shall be continued
for foreign newspapers and other periodicals ; and that at-
tached to the department of the Minister of the,lnterior,
for all foreigut books and writings. The chief Board re,
ceives orders only from the Minister, who directs it; and
has no connexion, with respect to its jurisdiction, with any
Other authority in the empire, and directs the operations of
the other Boards. The latter must lay before the former,
for consideration and decision, all important cases,-political
discussions on the internal and external relations, &e.
Except from the censorship of these Boards, are-;...
(a.) All religious and ecclesiastical writings, relative to
the national religion, which, as heretofore, are to he ex-
amined by the tioly Synod and the Committee of Eccle-
siastical Schools ; theological and dogmatical writings, as
well as catechisms of the Protestant religion, are examined
by the theological faculty of the University of Dorpat; and
other religious works, relative to Protestantiim, by the
Qinsistorial Boards.
(b.) All medical writings are to be examined by the
Medico-Chirurgieal Academy_ here, and by its Branch
Academy at Moscow, as well as by the Medical Council in
the Department of the Interior,
(c.) The orations, dissertations, and writings of all
kinds, read in the- Universities, Academies, &c. under the
Minister of Public Instruction (including the Medico-
Chirurgicul Academy; its branch in Moscow, and the
Medical Council in the Department of the Interior), and
which dissertations, &c, are afterwards printek The
publication must be, howeVer, made in the. name of the
whole University, and not in that of the several authors.
(d.) All periodical Journals published by the Universi-
ies, with the permission of the Minister of Public Instruc-
ion.
(e.) .The Journal de St. Petersburgh, the Journal com-
msed by the Academy of Science, the. Military Journal
The Invalid), remain as hitherto, under the censorship of
he authorities under whose superintendence 'they are
mblished.

(f.) The national and foreign newspapers, as well as pe-
riodical writings, published in the Baltic provinces, remain
under the special superintendence of the Governor-Gene-
ral of those provinces (as ordered by an Imperial Decree of
the 17th March, 1823). Writings on education, the object
of which is the instruction of youth, or better methods of
teaching, must be first examined by the higher learned In-
stitntions, and then, with their approbation, laid before the
, boards of Censorship.