The Press.
London, England, 1855-09-08 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of La Presse,
writing under date of the 27th of August, says :

The Emperor was seriously affected at the disastrous
result of the affair on the Tschernaya, and has ordered a
searching inquiry into the facts connected with the battle.
All the accounts which arrive from the Crimea are unani-
mous on the point of the want of provisions. At Simfe-
ropol, in which the Russian resources are collected, provi-
sions have been measured out to the inhabitants for a long
time put, as if the place was besieged.

General Suchozanett, who has been appointed to
succeed the late General Read in the command of the
2nd army corps, set out for Sebastopol on the 28th
ult. Ho has hitherto held the rank of chief of the
artillery of the active army.
Another levy of conscripts is impending in Russian
Poland. The Government of Kieff, which has been
hitherto subordinated to the commander-in-chief of
the Crimean army, is now placed, with all its military
establishments, under the care of Prince Paskiewitch.
Gun-boats of the allies have appeared at the mouth
of the Danube, the Russians having forbid the naviga-
tion of that river to neutral vessels. Official accounts
from Bessarabia, however, state that neutral vessels
had been authorised to load grain at Ismail.

The intelligence from Odessa announces that
thousands of RUSSiELIA were busy in fortifying and
intercepting the passes communicating with the
Putrid Sea. In the course of the present month
there will be presented the greatest military spectacle
the people of Odessa have ever seen. Forty
battalions of infantry, thirty-two squadrons of cavalry,
and eighteen batteries, will represent the attack and
defence of Odessa, under the superintendence of
General Luders. The lino of attack will extend from
the village of Lustdorf to the Shawachover hill.
The number of sick and wounded from the Crimea
has so increased at Ekaterinoelaw, that the nobility

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have been obliged to give up their magnificent
casino to be converted into an hospital.
In consequence of the war, the University of Hel..
singfors will be closed this year.
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A destructive fire broke out on the 22nd ult., at
St. Peteruburg, in a large establishment belonging
to Prince Dolgorouki, the Councillor of State, and
used for the purpose of drying sourkrout intended
for the troops. The loss of this building is stated
to be severely felt, there being no other establish.
ment of th• kind available for provisioning the troops.
A letter from St. Pewrburg, in the Silesian Gazette,
says : .

At the commencement of the present year there were in
circulation iu this country credit notes to the amount of
556,337,021 silver roubles (the silver rouble is somewhat
over 4f.), being 244,961,440 roubles more than at the be-
ginning of 1853. The cash in hand which is to guarantee
this paper money has only increased during the same pe•
riod by 4,996,137 roubles, haviLg been at the beginning of
1853, 146,794,848, and at the commencement of this year,
151,790,895. The debt of Russia at the beginning of 1853
was as follows :—Due abroad, at fixed periods, 57,449,000
Dutch florins (the Dutch florin is somewhat over 21.) ;
home debt, 10,867,050 silver roubles; debt requiring to
be paid at any moment, 223,861,476 silver roubles, and
8,280,0001. sterling. These figures prove that the financial
situation of Russia is very critical, and that it must get
worse and worse every day, since the expenses caused by
the war are estimated at 20,01:0,000 of silver roubles a
month.