The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

984,403

Total
so that they constituted more than one-half the value
of the total exports. These figures, so far as woollens,
show an increase over the similar exports of the year
before, though not of much importance. _ _

Silver Roubles.
IB39—export 1,212,364 arschines of
woollens, value
Bnt, as compared with 1830, the export of wool-
lens shows a considerable progress. In that year
the quantity exported did not exceed 144,441
arschines, of the value of 364,0.56 silver rs.
The Chinese imports into Kiakta were composed
almost exclusively of teas. Thus in
roods. Silver Roubles.
1839, tea in chests 141,997-1 value 2,287,112
tea in brick or as some-
times called, tile tea 64,69 S
1840, tea in chests 149,731
tea in brick
Thus of the total value of Chinese exchange
imports in 1839 of
Teas entered for . 2,397,924
And of the imports of 1840 of
Teas for
Exclusive of the entries by Kiatka, however, im-
ports of minor quantities took place through other
quarters.

110,812
- 2,303,859
110,394

'through the country •f the
Kirghises and other tribes
along the line of Siberia, in Poods.
183$, tea in chest - value
tea in brick
1840, tea in chests -
- tea in brick
Through the ports of Southern
Russia, of teas entered, 1839 1,6924 115,202
1840 2,002 97,696
So that the total imports of teas into Russia, and
the consumption, so far as officially known, stood
thus for the years cited, so far as the teas in chests,
Poods. Silver Roubles.
In 1839
1840 - 2,464,218
It is to be observed that a decline in the price of
teas equal to about 4 per cent. occurred at the market
of 1840 as compared with 1839. The following
turns exhibit the progress of the imports and con-
sumption of tea, starting with 1830:
Roubles Assignation.:
In 1830 total quantity 154,554 }
value 6,262,028
poods and 161 chests
Tea in Chests. In Brick.
1836 ... 136,229p00d579,455 8,623,108
1837 ... 135,809 58,161 8,111,043
1838 ... 129,215 71,937 7,864,389

RoublQs.
8,227
19,912
62,663
19,059

1839 ... 143,842 66,426 8,894,438
1840 ... 152,9541 66,0311- 9,077,848
The excess of values here represented apparently, as
compared with preceding amounts in respect of the
same values, arises from the fact,- as will be noted,
that these values are given in rouble assignations, or
paper money, and before in silver roubles. Until:
1840, the financial accounts of the empire were kept'
and reckoned exclusively in the paper, or rouble as-ii
signation money; in that year an order was issued toi
calculate and keep them in future according to the'
silver rouble standard. The relation which each
value bears to the other is however readily rendered ;
one silver rouble is equal to 3} roubles assignation,
that is 350 roubles assignation go to 100 silver
roubles. The tea in brick, that is, made up in the'
shape of bricks, is of a very inferior description, com-.
pounded of all sorts of refuse tea mixed up with' other
ahboerbuatgtewo sandilvcearkreoduttolegsetthe pool together. It, sellsarld i
commonly for'
destined for sale and consumption among is exclusively;
nomadic
tribes in the southern provinces of Russia. From the •'
immense distance, and the consequently heavy charges,
of carriage, with interests of outlay and profit cur-
responding, the nearly 2f millions value in silver
roubles
of teas imported by Kiakta and Siberia, is
on arrival for sale at the great fair of Nijny-Nov-
gorocl, converted into a value realised equal to 2f
times the amount, say between six and seven millions
of roubles. The trade is almost entirely carried on
for account of the enterprising merchants of Moscow,
and its profits serve greatly to enrich them.—Herald.

FALMOUTH.—IMPORTATION OF SPANISH CATTLE.
—On Tuesday last a large brig, called the William
and Ann, of Newcastle, from Corunna, bound for
Southampton, was brought into this harbour by a
Plymouth pilot boat, by which she had been fortu-
nately fallen in with off Plymouth, having lost her
foremast and sustained other damage which rendered
her unmanageable, in which state she had been about
ten days. She leftfitCorunna on Sunday, the 13th
November, and at three o'clock the following morning
lost her mast in a heavy gale. She had on board
eighty head of Spanish oxen, and the state in which
they arrived was truly lamentable. From the severity
of the weather the hatches could not be opened; from
the rolling of the vessel those stowed between decks
were thrown through the hatchways upon those
below, and from want of air and necessaries, together
with the injuries they received, fifty-one were dead,
and several of them remaining alive died after being
landed. The carcases when landed on the quay
on Wednesday were in a putrid state, and were sold
to Mr. Lanyon, tanner, at 255. each. It is said that
the owner of the cargo, who is a butcher at South-
ampton, will not recover the insurance, which he
would have done had the bullocks been thrown over-
board; but the crew had quite as, much as they could
do to keep the vessel from foundering, she having been
for some time on her beam ends. The pilots were
paid 501. for bringing the vessel in. One of the sur-
viving oxen immediately on being landed spread ter-
ror all around. He broke away with part of the
tackling by which he was hoisted out of the vessel,
and evinced a determination to clear the wharfs of the
crowds which occupied them ; a considerable number
being children. He soon traversed the length and
breadth of the town, and was ultimately caught by
means of ropes thrown over his horns. Fortunately
in j ury.—Sherborne and Yeovil
no person received any
Mercury.
Two SHIPS BURNT.—At the East India House, this
day, intelligence was received of the loss of twc vessels
by fire at Bombay—namely, the" Belvidera and Jessy ;
the former loaded with pearls, and insured for about
100,000/. Crews of both saved.

I I /

'TURNBULL ;AND THt 93-
THORITIES OF CUBA. •
,We have received the following communication
from the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society :
"Nassau, N.P., Bahamas, Nov.s, 1542.:
"DgAit. 8114—Being assured that you will feel an
interest in the movements of any who are :enizged,
whether officially •or otherwise, in seeking to break
the' iniquitous bonds of Slavery, and thus:remove from
the earth an evil which is more of an unrningined
curse, perhaps, than any that can be naMed," I tae
the liberty of troubling you with this communication.
There are evils, and great ones, that have some.gopd
arising froin them, but slavery is au evil sui gederisl—
a tree bearing none hut deadly fruit under its-thick
shades. The servant is made a beast, and the Master
a monster.
" The name -of Turnbull you may perhaps be fami-
liar with. It is a name that deserves to be known
and respected. He was our Consul at Havannahl* a
short time,Government
and was no discredit to the
by horn
he was appointed. Proving himself the
enemy of injustice and the friend of the oppressed,,iie
was not the sort of official the Spaniards wanted, and
hence the pro-slavery , clamour for his removal. 'So
strong, indeed, was the current of feeling against him
at"Havannah, that he deemed it unsafe to remain on
shore, and sought refuge on board the Romney, the
depot for captured Africans lying in the harbour. He
was superseded in his office as Consul, but retained
that of ' Protector of liberated Africans.' The fide-
lity with which he discharged the functions of this
important office is proved by the continued and in-
creased enmity of the man-stealing and slave-dealing
Spaniard.
" In August last Mr. Turnbull visited Nassau. He
had received from our Government an official paper
respecting some British subjects held in slavery in
Cuba, who had been carried thither in direct contra-
vention of an Act that had passed the English.Parlia-
meat for the purpose of preventing the exportation, of
slavei to a foreign port or country. The intent of
the Act was clearly obvious, but one section not being
so declaratory as it should have been, these men (the
slave-owners), always distinguished for works of
supererogation, availed themselves of the defect! in
the letter most flagrantly to violate the spirit of the
law. At different times, therefore, hundreds of slaves
were removed to Cuba, where they, or their descend-
ants, still are. • •
"Immediately after Mr. Turnbull's arrival here'lle
commenced his inquiries, in order to learn who had
been carried away, and by whom. A large number
of persons appeared to give evidence, some of whom
had children there, others parents, brothers, and
sisters. Some had themselves been there, and could
give the names of fellow-slaves, whom they left, and
who are now groaning beneath the iron yoke. It
was proved but too clearly, that a gentleman,
holding an office in the Court of Vice-Admiralty,
had British subjects as slaves on his estate at Cuba.
Mr. Turnbull, thinking that he should be able to
identify them, and obtain their liberation, or if not
all some one or two who would extend and increase
the evidence already supplied, and hoping, too,
to be able to visit several islands of the colony
from which people had been carried, and thus
collect more facts' left Nassau in the beginning of
the month of October. On the 16th of the month
they reached Gibara. The sloop did not
enter the harbour until Mr. I'. had been etp shore and
ascertained from the proper officer if she might do
so, to which he at once assented. Accordingly the
sloop entered and was moored, but the crew were not
to be allowed to come on shore. lir. Turnbull was
about to procure the usual securities for the crew, but
the officer, o: commandant, told him that there was
no necessity for his being at the trouble of getting
securities, for that lie himself would be answerable for
them. But all these movements were preconcerted,
for they had been apprised by some at Nassau of his
coming, and of all that lie had done. here.

" Mr.. Turnbull had to go sixty miles inland to visit
the estate. He obtained a horse and was accompanied
by three military men. He soon found that he was a
prisoner, and not at liberty to go where he chose. He
was taken before the Governor of the district, where
his passport was demanded, which he produced, and
this, contrary to all international law, was taken alto--
gether from him, and my informant tells me that it
was only by showing the firmest determination that
he obtained a copy of it.
" No sooner had Mr. T. left the harbour than the
commandant, with his soldiers, boarded the sloop, and
made the crew prisoners. The next day Mr. T.'s
valet, the captain, and the pilot, were taken on shore
and put into the stocks. The day following the rest
of the crew were taken from the sloop and imprisoned.
Two days were these innocent men, British subjects,
confined in a filthy narrow cell, knowing the want
of both bread and water. On Mr. Turnbull's return
from the interior he was made acquainted with the
perfidy of the commandant, and, on his evincing deep
feeling for the unoffending crew, the officials grinned
satisfaction at their sufferings.
" Mr. Turnbull's valet had with him a large num-
ber of books; most, indeed all of them, were religious,
except an English grammar ; he had also a large
number of Spanish tracts, which he had received from
the Baptist mission at Nassau • also a Bible and a
Companion to the Bible. All these they took away
and still retain. • *

" Mr. Turnbull, when the sloop was sent away
from Cuba, was then in the hands of the Spanish au-
thorities, who were about to take him to Ilavannah
to subject him to an examination, and to deal with
him accordingly. Some of the old slave-owners at
Nassau, lam told, were overjoyed at the good news
of his captivity, and his friends are thinlc]ng of the
possible issue with anxious feeling ; but 111 r. T. was
confident that be should be at Nassau about three
weeks from. that date, Oct. 25.

" I shall be happy, if at Nassau when he returns,
to give other and further particulars of this daring
outrage on the liberty,of British subjects, and on
an agent of the British Government. Surely these
blustering slave-owners—these people long notorious
for iron-heartedness, treachery, and faithlessness—wil
not be permitted to insult an accredited officer eF a
mighty people with impunity.
" Some indemnification ought to be made to the
crew for their ten days' suffering in their dark and
filthy cell, during a part of which time their feet were
made fast in the stocks. The offer of a thousand dol-
lars a day, the Captain of the sloop declared in my
hearing, should not induce him to visit Gibara
" am, Sir,

Signed)_' CAPERN, Baptist Missionary."

The lovers of antique-carved furniture have a rich
feast prepared for them at Mr. George Robins's rooms,
in Covent-garden. A collection of beautiful objects
of decorative furniture of the sixteenth century, re-
moved from the Chateau de Westmalle, near Ant-
werp, is about to be brought to the 'Ammer; and are
now on view. Among the objects which attract im-
mediate attention, is a most exquisitely carved oak
bedstead, very elaborately diversified—the carving of
the school of Quellyn ; several noble wardrobes,
buffets in the time of Itubcns, book-cases, carved and

aid with figures of Cariatydes ; ancient tables, con-
soles, glass frames, the carving by Vervoost of Ante
werp; chauferettes, cornices, footstools, arabesques,
etageres, fine figures carved by Quellyn ; and a few
fine marble figures, some from the chisel of Duquisnoy.
There is also a very pleasing collection of paintings,
formed from the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French,.
acid Spanish schools, many of which are chefs d'eezivre
of renowned masters, a list of whose names is put
forth in 'the advertisement. The sale is fixed for
Thursday, the Bth inst. The public view has com-
menced, and continues this day and to-morrow, and
a good deal of excitement is anticipated regarding the
dispersion of the old and curious objects which foan.
the leading attractions of this interesting sale..
TIIE SCILLY IsLEs.—We believe we are correct in
stating that the regular mail communication between
Penzance and the Scilly Isles,• and which has for so
long a time been interrupted, to the great distress, in-
convenience, and danger, both of the inhabitants of
those places and all others elsewhere, having corres-
pondents and business there, will be shortly
resumed,
if, indeed, it may not be said already to have com-
menced. The differences existing between the Post-
office authorities, and the
whichowners
al
lofth. tehe inconvenience'i'Lionesse"
Scillylll
The
dPacket,onessehasand from a
a,
arrthe
,ell 7
barroeughi nfto. rionveder,
the 1.•
from Scilly on Tuesday, the 29th ult., as formerly,
will takean d itwNevhheonpesheanscit
following,an and
nt hoe
fFurriAthl -
ilsbel'aigeave"thoal
interruption will take
inhabitants of these places respectively on the probable
completion of this to them—lmportant
arrangement.
—Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury.
TILE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK EMBEZZLE.
• MENT.—It is remarkable, that the fact of Jordm
laving absconded with a large sum of money, the
,property of the London Joint-Stock Bank, was known
throughout the United Kingdom, and a considerable
portion of the Continent, within the almost incredible
space of forty-eight hours after the occurrence of the
event. This rapid spreading of the information is
mainly attributable to the exertions of the Manager of
the Bank, who, it seems, on missing Jordan,
diately forwarded the particulars of the robbery to .all;
the principal banking-houses and merchants in Eng.
land, Ireland, Scotland, and on the Continent.
ST. PETERSBURGII, Nov. 19.—With a moderate
cold, only three degrees below Zero, the winter re •
turned the day before yesterday, and for the second
time the ice from Lake Tadeja has floated into the
Neva. Yesterday morning it was necessary,
,again to
take up the bridge of boats which connects the city
with up
Ostrof. The communication witlCthe
island is now kept up with great difficulty by meting.
of boats.
, ••
ERRATUM.—11l the summary of Paris news on ,
Saftirdv for the " same journal" read the " former
journal. ' The Presse, it is well known, has not taken a
just view of the Barcelona affair, but the National has.