21 DECEMBER 1833, Page 7

It appears by accounts from Russia, that the distress in

the Southern provinces of the empire, from a deficiency of the harvests, is very great. NICHOLAS has ordered a large sum of money to be applied from the-public Treasury to the relief of these provinces. This has probably been done to give a colour to the following declaration made by him in a recent ukase. " Slavery cannot and ought not to be abo- lished. It is the system of government most favourable to the people: it protects-them against indigence and famine."