The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-11 00:00:00

RUSSIAN FINANCE.

his Majesty the Emperor has addressed the follow-
ing ukase to the Minister of Finance :
t ,"Taking into consideration that the projected forma-
tion of a railroad from St. Petersbutgh to Moscow,
at the expense of the State, will require during the
progress of the work the sum of forty or fifty millions
of silver roubles, according to the calculated estimate,
we have thought fit to negotiate a foreign loan on the
following basis :
" 1. lor the expenses necessary for the construc-
tion of the above-mentioned railroad during the year
1843, the loan is fixed at eight millions of silver rou-
bles. During the following years, the amount of the
loan is to be regulated according to the progress of
the work.

" 2. This loan is to be inscribed in the great book
of the public debt of Russia, under the title of the
second loan at 4 per cent.
"'There shall be delivered for this loan inscriptions
of 500 silver roubles each. They shall be distributed
in 320 series of 50 inscriptions each.
"These inscriptions shall bear an annual rent of
5 per cent., to be dated from the Ist of August of
this present year. 20 coupons shall be attached to
each inscription, on the presentation of which the rent
due at the corresponding term shall be paid. The
payment of this rent shall take place at St. Peters -
burgh, at the Commission of the Sinking Fund.
half-yearly, from the Ist to the 15th of February,
and the Ist to the 15th of August, inclusive.
" At the expiration of the first ten years of the loan,
fresh coupons shall be issued for the inscriptions
still in circulation.

"'3. For the sinking fund of these inscriptions,a spe-
cial fund shall be assigned, which cannot be con-
founded with other loans, and will form, fur each of
the two first years, commencing with 1843, 75,000
silver roubles yearly,- and for the following years,
commencing with 1845, 200,000 silver roubles, or 2.3
per cent. of the nominal capital of this loan, yearly.
" This fund, as for the first loan at 4 per cent., shall
be effected at the reimbursement of the inscriptions
belonging to the series, which are to be drawn by lot,
so that for each inscription drawn by lot, there shall
be paid 500 silver roubles. To this effect the inscrip-
tion shall be recommitted to the Commission for the
sinking fund, with the coupons, the terms of payment
for which shall not. yet have expired.
"4. The realisation of the loan for the construc-
tion of the railroad between St. Petersburgh and
Moscow is confided to the commercial house of our
banker, Baron Stieglitz, at St. Petersburgh, who has
shown a laudable zeal on this occasion, for the ac-
complishment of this important national undertaking.
The firm of Stieglitz and Co. will realise this loan,
according as circumstances shall require, and con-
formably with your notification.
" .5. As this loan is intended for the said railroad
alone, the money arising therefrom cannot be appro-
priated to any other purpose, but must be placed sepa
rately from all other revenues and expenses of the
State. (Signed) "NICHOLAS."

MRS. ALFRED SIIAW.—A paragraph which ap-
peared in our yesterday's impression, copied from the
Dramatic and Musical Review, and alleging that this
justly celebrated vocalist had been originally a " fac-
tory girl," and proceeds to give some other particu-
lars of her progress, has sent forth several some-
what indignant contradictions from this lady's friends.
We are assured that there was no kind of foundation
for the paragraph above mentioned, that Mrs. Shaw's
friends are and have always been of the highest re-
spectability, and that so far from having received
musical instruction only when the rich quality of her
voice had attracted attention, she has had from the
first every advantage that could assist her in the
improvement of her talent.
PRISON DISCIPLINE.—DEATH OF MRS. SIIEEN.
escapedaaam
against
the i consequences
the
fer a
of his
capitalhi
s cchild,
in-
dictmentsome
time
o aid
nowing s tcon an
Counsel,
fAolurn. dc
Clarkson,
throughtsnn,
fi
has breathed her last.
legal subtlety
dieerscsrOipllt,
fitted up two houses of a certain
Some time after the escape
ionl,rsa.nSdble-neal!
naged to make a great deal of money, until about two
years ago, when she was apprehended as an extensive
receiver of stolen property,
and fully committed for
trial. On her trial •it was proved that she bad pus
chased
a waistcoat from a youth, who had stolen it
from his parents, for sixpence, Which a few days
before cost 155.; and on an officer going to her
house a quantity of stolen property was found
there. She was convicted at the Old Bailey, and sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation. Previous to
the trial, however, she made over her property to her
favourite son "Bill,".so as to secure it from the gray
of the Sheriff in the event .of conviction. The pro-
perty, consisting of Bank Stock and houses to a con-
siderable amount, was taken possession of by Bill, and
Mrs. Sheen being considered too old to be sent "over
the water," was transmitted to the Millbank Peniten-
tiary instead of New South IVales. Owing, it is
said, to the prison discipline, and being deprived of
those luxuries she had been in the habit of enjoying,
her health gradually gave way, and at length hor ill-
ness assumed so alarming a character that a fortnight
ago her sentence was wholly commuted, and she was
discharged from the prison. She was taken home in
a cab to the house of her son, where she gradually got
worse, and expired on Saturday last. —Morning
vertiser.
MORE CONVICTS TRANSPORTED TO ENGLAND.—
At the sitting of the Guernsey Court, on Saturday
last, Richard Mayne and James Dashwood, convicted
of having stolen some pears, were condemned to one
month's solitary confinement, and afterwards to be
banished to England for the term of five years. It is
generally understood that Southampton will b 0
was
convicted with these fellows.—Elizabeth llaWard .as
convicted of the same crime, and was condemnedto
a fortnight's imprisonment, and then to be trans-
ported for three years. She will be shipped
Southampton also, and there left to findi
Devonshire.—Frederick Westbrook, foundter way to
stealing a pair of boots and a shirt, guilty of
to two months' imprisonment, and was condemned
five years' banish-
ment to England. Winchester
honoured with Mr. We b will doubtless be
st rook's
company.— Jersey
News.

PRESENT FROM PRINCE ALBERT TO MR. 11IA BLE.—
We (Perthshire Advertiser) saw yesterday, in the shop
of Mr. Macgregor, jeweller and lapidary, George-
street, a beautiful silver povvder flask, enclosed in a
handsome morocco case, which was presented by Prince
Albert to our distin
upon his Royal Highness leaving Taymouth Cnt
1 1;;
guished representative, Mr. Mauls,
Upon the one side of the flask is the letter At, Ivi!:
Imperial Crown (and accompanying motto) very
.finely,,i
executed ; and, on the other side has been gg.,7"1/.
the'following inscription :—" The gift of il. 1
1842:'
Prince Albert, to the Right Honourable Fox Islaule,
M.P., Taymouth, September 10,

wAr
We think it might be productive ()Violist got.
if' the Government would print, upon a 1) (1
sheet, and circulate us widely as possible in -0461ty,
part of the manufacturing districts, th6..ltadras!:,
of Lord Chief Justice Tindal at tli opening of
the Stafford Special Commission,:iSo..far as the
Government could diffuse that address among
the people, it would be really diffusing useiVl
knowledge. ore think., too, that it would pro-
bably be.reoeleilvvith reverence, because it was
spoken by:;the Chief Justice upon 'suds an occtt-
s.on. The great difficulty with the English com-
mon people is to make them receive any advice
with reverence. There is more chance of that
reverence in the case of an address spoken by a
J udge than in any other. The viruleece
of Dissent has made such progress among
them, that any advice from the alsthorities
,f the Church might, perhaps, be treated With
little respect. Indeed, it is to be fi:arvel tleet
they noutd be taught and exhorted not to regard
any such advice, because the Church had sent it
But the power and authority of a great
criminhin
rsiatet.i I.:, jtlhltiLedtge conscious,iiapplicabletis iiaat:i;aa(i tpdtatillb:niiell
information, what att ge
!Sa lodf wwaisi cs
h
they
utttoug
k his advice, and
mation, and warning,
effect.
Would not such .a passage us the following
for instance (immediately after the admissioti
that workpeople possessed the right of yithhulds
lug their own, labour, it' discontented), be likelv
to produce a strong impression ?
" You will have many cases where large bodies
discontented workmen, by personal violence and
threats, and intimidation, compelled others who wele
content with their callings, and willing "to work for
their rate of wages, to leave their work against their
own will, and add to the number of discontented.
snore glaring act of despotic tyranny one man or set
of men cannot perpetrate against others. If there is
one right to which a man is entitled, it is the right of
exercising his own skill, knowledge, and labour, willA
a will free and unshackled by any control or dicta-
tion; yet, strange to say, this right, - which the dis-
contented claim for themselves to the fullest extent,
they, by.a stranger perversity and unmeaning sel-
fishness, refuse to others. Such proceedings, so un-
reasonab:e as they are—so injurious as they are tD.the
interests of society—so detrimental as they afek to th'e
rights of trade—so oppressive against the rights of
the poor—and which are such gross, flagitious, viola-
tions of the law—must be put down by prompt fact-
sures, and severely punished as soon as the get AfirtAt
parties practising it is established."
Such a lesson as this might be most useful, tui44
not the hiss so the strong warning against t*
selfish miscreants who, for the promotion of
their own vile purposes, go about intlansurg tbe-
minds of the common people, and teaching &eta
irreverence for religion, and disregard of the
laws:—
"Ile who delivers addresses to the poor working
classes, or to the unemployed, brooding over real or
imaginary wrongs, will soon have acrowded auditory
and shall not want hearers ready to perform any aer
of mischief. You will, in such cases, consider the
language used on that occasion. If it consist A
broad assertions, unfounded in facts—if, in speaking
on religious topics you find him sprightly and fate=
tious on subjects which snake good and wise men
serious; and it, instead of arguments, you find him to
deal in sneers and sarcasms, it will be for you to con-
sider whether he be an honest but mistaken man, or
whether he is wickedly intent to bring into contempt
the Government, the laws, and the religion of the
country, and all that honest men hold in respect and
veneration."

Such sentiments as these would probably pro-
duce a strong- impression when read as the words
of the Chief Justice. And his concluding sug-
gestion that the only effectual method of con-
qnering the wicked attempts of designing men
to undermine the principles of the working
people, is the diffusion of a sound religious
knowledge, in which there can be no excess,
might, under the blessing of Providence,. have
the effect of sending many deluded people to
seek for that knowledge, and so to become peace-
able, well-disposed members of society.—Post.