The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A money panic is spreading through Russia. The new
loan of 60 millions of roubles has been concluded at the
price of 82, with 5 per cent. interest. A third part of it will
be issued at Hamburgh, and the two others at Berlin and Am-
sterdam. At Moscow, at Nichin, and at Astrakan, the dealers'
are refusing bank notes, and are hiding their money.—Accord-
ing to accounts from St. Petersburgh, the new levy in course
of execution throughout almost the whole empire meets with
considerable difficulties. In the districts bordering on Prussia,
for instance, the greatest discontent is expressed. Every pro-
prietor who is called on to furnish 70 men is subjected—as
each man is estimated to be worth 1,000 silver roubles—to a
tribute of 70,000 roubles (the rouble is worth nearly 4f.), and
to this must be added about 7,000 more in money, for the ex-
pense of the first equipment. Desertions are frequent, and the
misery must be very severe to force men to adopt a step which
is attended with such danger. The Imperial Bank of Odessa
has suspended its payments, and is not alone in this condition.
The same has taken place in other government establishments.
When a person presents himself to demand cash for notes, the
clerk inquires the object for so doing. If the person persists,
he is then told that his application must be made known to
the superior authorities before it can be complied with. This
announcement, the meaning of which, in a country like Russia,
is well known, is more that sufficient to dissuade even the most
daring from making any further demand.
The Russian Government has ordained that to facilitate
payments from the State treasury, the normal proportion of
bullion to be held by the Bank against notes in circulation
shall be dismissed. It is feared that the payment of the in.
terest of the public debt will be suspended.
We also read as follows :—" Fourteen successive levies of
recruits have withdrawn from the soil all the robust among
the population, leaving in the villages none but the aged
and infirm. A certain number of the latter have already
been enrolled, and the remainder are threatened with in-
corporation."
INDIA. _ _ _

The overland mail brings correspondence from Bombay
to the 15th, and from Calcutta to the Bth ultimo. There
is no. China mail by this arrival. The letter of the. Times'
correspondent at Calcutta states that the Santal rebellion
has not been subdued. The rebels are still in possession
of Beerbhoom, and are committing great depredations.
The Supreme Council has at last determined to act with
vigour. "Martial law is to be immediately proclaimed. 6,000
troops are to be permanently added to the force stationed in
Bengal. Half of them will be posted at Dinapore, Berham-
phore, and Barrackpore. The other half will be planted in
the centre of the disturbed district. Meanwhile, Gen. Lloyd,
with his force, is marching down the Grand Trunk-road, and
sweeping the Santals southwards. General Bird's force, sta-
tioned at and about Raneegunge, will intercept their flight,
and the savages, thus surrounded, must submit, or be exter-
minated. The cold weather has arrived, and the jungles can
be entered. Meanwile, au act, even more stringent than the
one applied to Malabar, will be passed for the Santals. The
entire tribe will be condemned for ten years to work out their
own subjugation. They will be required to open out by
forced labour the whole of their country, to carry broad roads
into the centre of their fastnesses, to clear the hill side of the
jungle, and to build bridges over the infinity of creeks. Such
a punishment, while it will live for ever in the history of the
tribe, will effectually prevent a second revolt."
The " religious war" in Oude is not ended. The fanatic
Moulavie has about 3,000 followers, a number equal to the
force collected by the Hindoos. He has declared himself an
Imam, and has performed a trick, which he calls a miracle,
in the sight of his troops. It consisted in filling an empty
box with gold, and had the effect of exciting the avarice as
well as the fanaticism of his soldiers. •
Lord Dalhouise is on his way from Ootacamund to Rangoon,
but he is not, however, expected in Calcutta for a month.
The news of the fall of Sebastopol arrived in driblets, and
created therefore no excitement. Indian society, moreover,
is accustomed to battles and sieges, and does not feel inclined
to scream over a loss of 2,000 men.

JAPAN.—Letters from Hokadadi, dated Sep. 19, announces
that on Sep. 3, two French frigates, forming part of the naval.
expedition to the Kamschatka coasts, took possession, in the
name of the Allied Powers, of the Isle of Ouroup, the centre
of Russian commerce in the Kouriles Archipelago, and cap.
tured a Russian cutter laden with furs of great value. The
'island has been christened the "Alliance." The old rules of
the Japanese empire against intercourse with strangers, which
have long since been relaxed for the English and Americans,
hive now for the first time been made to bend in favour of the
French flag. The Sibille, 50 gun frigate, on anchoring in
the port of Hokadadi, was hospitably received by the local
authorities. A Japanese temple was placed at the disposition
of the Captain for the accommodation of his sick. Two French
sailors who died were buried with all the rites of the Roman
Catholic Church, amidst a crowd of natives, who looked on
with no ill-natured curiosity.