The Sun.
London, England, 1820-07-22 00:00:00

•
directly or indirectly in manufactures of this Cotsntry, i ba"
brought a couple ofbills on my house, which, by the indorto
ments through some of the Towns of ()crawly, into this
hands of Manufacturers in this Country, will sbew tboillsil. •
in which those are paid for.
[The Witness produces the same for the inspection of theit
Lordships.]
Be so good as to take one of those bilk into your,baode'
and trace the residence of the various persons whose nal;
appear upon it ?The bill is drawn from Riga oil my firs' •
Stephen Thornton, Brothers, and Company, midis succvs"
sleety indorsed at Konigsberg, Berlin, loripiic, into the hands
of an Exporter of British.Nlattufactures from this Couutrl.l,l3
I have occasionally known bills upon my house pass through'
Venice, Trieste, and Constantinople, before they have toseW
filially discharged in this Country.
Ultimately they hare passed into the hands of the &alit'
Manufacturer ?—tiltimately, in all probability. • „,..4(!
On what degree; in your opinion, has the Russian Vs"
been affected by the successively increased duties upon tht
importation of Timber from the Baltic into this Countrv?'l
have no doubt that the operation of those duties bas been
upon the whole prejudicial to the general Trade of Russia*
although, speaking of Russia AS forming one of the sourcc!
of the Timber Trade, 1 should say, that Timber does 11!;
form so large a proportion of the exportable produce f • .-
Russia, as it does of some of the other Northern Powers; "IS
productions, that is, the exportations of Russia, and 111
importations are on a very large scale; they may be estimntc.
as varying from eight to ten millions sterling each, of which
~
a very large proportion is the intercourse with this
Country.
When you speak of an Exporter of British Manufactures •
into whose hands the bill of which you have spoken in pt. •,
former answer ultimately came,is that Exporter a British sior-
ject residing in England ?—A British subject residing here:
and keeping a large warehouse for British Cotton Goods ; j •
believe there are very few trades that employ so large a pro'
portion of British Capital.
Is there any Russian Capital employed in the export of
British manufacture ?—I believe there is a good deal of Ray'
sian Capital employed in the purchase in Russia of the M 3.
nnfactures of this Country.
Is there any Exportation of British Manufactures, schiel'
export is conducted to Russia by Means of Russian Capital'
—1 believe there is some, tint I should say, in general waifs
not a targe proportion.
Can you give the Committee any information as to the -
price at which the consumer in Russia would obtain British
Manufactures according to the circuitous mode you have dr'.
scribed, as compared with the direct intercourse with ILO'
sia I—The circuitous mode of payment, I •conceive, applic!
only to such parts of the Amount of the Russian Exports as
is not balanced by the direct Exportation of British Prodocl
or Manufactures into Russia; I believe that the arnountl
their Exports of raw Produce may in some cases, though,.
ant not aware of the precise extent, exceed what she vecei:
directly from this Country, and it is only in that way that the
circuitous payment to which I have alluded is made. 111;
whole extent of the meaning of my farmer answer is, that 3
the Importation from Russia is paid for directly or eventW;
ally, by the exportation of British Manufactures or Colorer
Produce. ost
When you State the amount of the Russian Exports
Imports to vary between eight and ten millions each way,
include, of course, from, the Black Sea, as well as those

the Baltic
Can you particularise the principal objects of coloolat.l- •
Produce or of British Manufacture fur which there has etil
ed a demand in the Russian Dominions for the last twentf_°A
thirty years ?—I hart souse lists stating some of the princiP;
Wicks of Importation into St. Petersbargh front the fc''
1783, with a few intervals, of which the lists are wautinf.-,i
they do not distinguish the proportion of articles from 64.7,
Britain, but the principal heads will point out that the/

chiefly from this Country.
N. B. The Witness delivered in the same, and the! vict.
read; but the Table is too long for insertion.)

(To be Continued.)

•
On Tuesday last the weights belonging to the
clock which is over the Town Hall at Evesha,,ai;
fell suddenly, and forcing their way through
le
ceiling of the Hall fell immediately upon t%
seats of the Mayor and Deputy Recorder. It ,
a somewhat singular circumstance, that but for
adjournment of the Sessions, these Gentlelvellt
would have occupied their seats at the moment
the weights fell ; in that case their death mg'.
have been inevitable; as the weights were tOr
than two cwt.

An alarming fever, of a very infectious nature'
has manifested itself in the south-east part of fh;
derland. From one house in Silver-street, wes,
buried 3 persons—on Thursday last one daub
ter, and on Sunday last the mother and auot.l",
daughter. The remaining part of the fanvig
consisting of a son and three daughters/ °tit
dangerously ill. The house is put into a !tit
of quarantine, two nurses attend them and
gress is prohibited by order of the Yiagistrate.s
except to the Doctors and Surgeons of the Polo'
pensary, who have made known their inteot
to dispense with the foariality of a ticket fr°l?o,
subscriber when any person is seized with a git
diness of the head, which seems to be the
symptom.—( Tyne ..41ercurjp)