Star.
London, England, 1829-11-07 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

IL Turner, and .1. Wright, Bridge Geld, Cohost, Lancashire,
tanners—G. Horn and T. Horn, Manchester, bricklayers—Bs Mar-
shall and T. Holmes, Lawrence-lane, woollen-drapers—R. Wood-
man and C. C. Steere, Weymouth, surgeons—W. Potts and Co.
Birmingham, brass-founders—B. Binyon and P. Taylor, Blanches-
ter, flax-minuets—E. &snders and Co. Bath, milliners, as far as
regards M. Brunsden—T. Cooke and G. Meggeson, Cannon street,
druggists—W. Birchman & Birch's+ an,Hack ford , Norfolk, brew-
ers—W. Bailey and Co. Lane End, Stoke-upon-Trent. &afford.
shire, china manufacturers-4. Guth and C. Dciagal, Mark-lane,

corn nserchanta—J. Early and R. Early, Wit ney, Oxfordshire,
blanket-manufacturers--G. B. Calow and A. Beattie, Temple-
place, Blackfriars-road, dyers—W. Ackers and 11. Wjlker, Man-

ibester, attoroeyr—J. Bel;b and W. Matitn,Westbromsrich Heath,
Staffordshire, drapers—W. Clark and A. lll'Leod, Aberdeen.
druggists—J. M. Built,ley and C. Higgs, Londoo, merchants—J.
Webb and Co. Inner Templelane. stationers,-T. Morris, sen.
and T. Morris, jun. Coventry, ribbon manufacturers.

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN,
(arnica savanna IMPORTATION),
Far the Week ended Oet. 30, made ap from the Returns of the
Laymen In the different Cities and Towns In England and Wale,.

Imperial General 'Weekly Average.
Wheat 5Ss. 4d. I Oats Ils. Ad. I Beans 375. Td.
Barley 31s. Id. I Rye 30s. 10d. Peas Us. 7d.
Aggregate Average of the Six Weeks which governs Duty.
Wheat Ms 54.1 Oats its. Beano 40s. 01.
Barley 33a. 4d. Rye 325. 4.1.1 Pei/ sos. 04
PRICE OF SUGAR.
_

The AfHMO Price of BLOWN or MOICOVADO stro•ta, computed
fres the Returns made In the Week ending the &I day of Nov
Is2l, Is 25a. cjd. per cwt. exclusive of the Duties of Customs paiti
or payable thereon on the importation theteuf into Great Britain.

ST. PETERSBURGH, Sept. 15 (27.)

IMPERIAL SKETCHES.

It must be owned that Alexander's character had in it a.strange
?asthma& of libertine, despotism, weakness, kindness, appre-
hension, and foppery. There was a pan of his reign when be
seemed willing to trust all improvements---when he wee, as Ma-
dame de Steel called him, a cosateitation—to his people ; but, as
he not unsagaciously rejoined, k was only " a happy accident ;"
and be soon took to his ways, and got frightened at the bounds
himself had made, He had been rather licentious in youth, SP he
became superstitious and sainted as he advanced ; read his Bible.
but was alarmed by Bible Societies ; sighed for what he called
religious instruction. but proceeded to tear up by the roots the
schooh himself had established. He was another Mali from the
moment that Austrian policy took fast hold of his folly and his
fear. Metternich became to him what La Harpe had been, and
he fancied that safety, at least, was on the side of absolute au-
tocracy. Perhaps be erred : at all events, his popularity was fast
leaving him when he left the world. The divinity had sunk down
to mortality, and his name is already overshadowed by that of his
brother, who till be mounted the throne was an absolute nullity.
and from whom nothing like energy or distinctive charectervtas
expected at all.
I did not, I confess. share the general opinion ; but I had epPor-
canines of intercourse with the preceptors and companions of the
Grand Duke, and beard from them enough to show that Nicholas
was acting the wise, while be acted the unobtrusive, part. He iced.
died with netting which could make him un object of jealousy to
Alexander. He strengthened hie position by a most important mud.
modal alliance, and his wife seemed thoroughly imbued with his
own sagacity. Wherever their presence could add lustre to she
Court er give ,pleasure to the person of Alexander the; appeared.
The career of Constantine had been eccentric, net to say alsomi-
sable ; yet, gross and blunt as his excesses were, the extreme
ugliness of his person and impetuosity of his manners bad eoni-
biped with his real misdeeds to give Wm a reputation blacker then
his deserts. He was, in truth, the favourite of nobody ; and.
long before his brother's death. rumours were circulated that he
would " be disposed of " if he ventured to aspire to the throne.
In the mean time he had made a sort of mesefinisce with a Polish
Ind,,
of whom, if only a small portion of the praise is deserved
with which those who know her love to honour her, it would be
difficult to speak in sufficiently laudatory terms. She is said to
have changed the character of Constantine, and to have swayed
his wayward passions by bee well-judging gentleness.
Alexander died—mutiny and in tints were the order of the
day. Over the events of that period the curtain of mystery is
drawn. It is only certain that Constantine yielded to what was
inevitable. The mess of pottage had been somewhere found
which bought the birth-right. The youngtr brother of Alexander
and the daughter of the King of Prussia were Emperor and Ern.
press of Russia. and !hr.'r first-born, the young Merander, was the
recognised heir to the Autocrat's sceptre.
The temper of the Court Is greatly changed since Alexandir's
death. The spirit of economy seems to pervade 'be Imperial Fe•
mily, and the Empress's niggardliness is a topic of not entre-quint
remark among those who, is the scramble for geod things, were
enabled to obtain a greater portion formerly than now. Alexander
was notoriously a petil-menre, fond of all the frivolities of fashion
and of dress, sod the infection of suck a taste now spreads. NS-
cholas has nothing of this. He scent. a man of quiet, sober, but
sagacious mind, bearing about with him more than he stems to
bear. of more agreeable features than t.lexander, whom servile •
knaves flattered as en Adonis. His person has mettle:: of the
Tartar in it, and still less of the Impatient perverseness of his
father, Paul. His habits are active, even laborious; and thougit
there are many topics which seem to have occupied little of his
attention—such as the protection of sciences, arts, and !qtrs., the
public education, the state of the serfs. the commercial relations
of Itussia—l ant given b understaill that when the Turkish fray
is over, he has expressed an intention of devoting himself to them.
For my own pan—and I ant no Russian, no Toyer of despots or
despotism—l cannot but deplore the fact that Constantinople will
Trot be occupied by Russian forces. 1 tare nothing about the
names by which Governments .sre called, provided I see human- •
bappiness Howlett under them, and that tite presence of Russia in,
the heed-veriest of Turkey would have been the source of an le-
calculeble increase of huu,en enjoyment i cannot doubt.
The young Alexander is an impetuous boy, who has required a
pretty strong hand to keep from the exercise et such petty trap-
nits as boyhool is cap:.ble of. On one on-ash= he insulted one *of
his tutors, a milkuy officer of rank, who reproved hint prosy e
sharply. Ou which the Prince said to hen. "If you ate a gg„-.
send, I am a Chief and a Prise'," any continued to oft tedlieoi-
mus language. of which the General to On e.a4m,
who attlemoeid the lad to Mai, and. lass sharply sensemd him,
tore the two epaulettes tremble shoulders, and dung dorm to the

:~

ground, saying, " Thou art no Ciiiiihow, but degraded to be—
sobody !" mad they were not restored till an -appropriate apology
was mad*, and evidence of repentance bad been given. Once,
pauing over one of the squares of Sc. Petersburgb, be came in
contact with an old ofilcer, who unintentionally, and without my
acquaintance with the Prince's person, joked him ; 1M Prince be-
came angry, and, notwithstanding the apologies of the AM. or-
dered hint to be put under arrest for six days. It cants to the
Emperor's ears, who summoned the Ater to the Palace, but the
officer was exceedingly anxious to shield the Prince from punish-
ment, and to find an excuse for his precipitancy. The Emperor,
however, compelled the Tooth to make an ample apology, to solicit
forgiveness, and ordered him to be confined and kept on bread and
water for seven days. Such facts as these are very illustrative of
character, and throw much light upon the social circle of the Im-
perial house.

THE EVENING STAR.

)/(' •
t‘ -4.* •
cL_Nb .
y-
EN 4
ei .0 ATIS 4- ui
•