4 JULY 1840, Page 9

The accounts received a day or two since of the

alarming scarcity and dearness of corn in the interior of Russia, together with the un- favourable prospects of the forthcoming harvest, are fullyconfirmed by the advises received via Hamburg. We have a striking instance of the promptitude and desire of the Imperial Government to apply an early remedy to local calamities, by time fact of an ukase, or decree, having been published by the Emperor Nicholas, allowing the importation of foreign corn, duty free, into all the Eastern parts of his territories.— Cuurier.