The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-21 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

RIIBBIA.
THE NOBILITY AND THE EMPEROR.
The latest advice@ from St. Petersburg are of
an interesting character. The correspondent
of the Nord says he has authority for stating
that in the course of the present year,
during the fetes on the occasion of the I,oooth
anniversary of the historical existence of Russia,
the government will have recourse to a system of
national representation ; yet the same informant
is compelled to report numerous arrests for
political offence& He attempts to reconcile these
contradictions by stating that the government
are determined not to let it appear that they are
yielding to force.
Among the addresses to the Russian government
from the nobility of the provinces, which have lately
been presented, not the least remarkable is that of
the noblesse of Tver, which seems to us sufficiently
interesting to be translated in extenso. The docu-
ment is as follows

Sire—Assembled for the first time sines the publication
of the laws of the 19th of Febeuary, 1861, the nobility of
War salutes the sovereign who undertook the liberation of
the paean* and the extirpation of all injustice from the
Russian soil The nobility of Tver solemnly declares its
sympathy with your Imperial Majesty's generous initiative,
and its readiness to follow you in the path which leads to
the wellbeing of the people.
The manifesto of the 19th of February, 1861, proclaimed
the emaselpation of the people, and immured their mate-
rial condition ; but it has not mimed their independence,
nor abolished the abuses inherent in earldom.

The good muse at the people mu soareely reconcile the
liberty proclaimed by your Imperial Majesty with the fact
of their obligations towards the proprietors, and with an
artificial division of chum. The people me that it is only
in the conies of time that they will be freed from com-
pulsory labour, and that they will always be liable to the
villain-tax and to contribution of forced labour, always la
subjection to the proprietors, dimpled under the 09.1110 of
arbitrators. We frankly canton, site, that we do
not at all comprehend this situation. A mis-
understanding of this importance pate society in
an inextricable difficulty, and threatens the safety
of the state. How nu this mil be averted! The
orienpubory dotation of land to the pesos* fez from ap-
pearing to us an infringement on our rights, sum to us the
only means of assuring the safety of the country and of our
own interests. We implore your Majesty at one to carry
out this measure, distributing the burden thereof amongst
the various bodies of the state, and sot placing it on the
peasants alone, wbo are lass responsible than oases for the
existence of serfdom

By virtue of its privileges the nobility has hitherto bus
exempt from various charges. Mr& we believe that it is
• mortal is to live and profit by the beaming el social enier
at the =pore of other classes. An ceder of things which
ocapsi the porn= to pay • rouble, sad snows the rich
to pay Benda& le rot just. It might be tolerated during
the elm al earldm, but it hr sow berme impound&
Ace far ourealvsk we do not desire is sejoy so shameful •
privilege say logger, ace will we wept llca responsibility of
it if it matinees to add. We lovably implore your
Majesty to authorise es to take ear shared tams and
duties which Woo( to ash of va socording to our rupee
ties fates& Bulks ow Maui privilege& we also sajoy
the 11031111‘41 right el supply!'" the masa who govera the
people. We view thin limitation an illegal, sad we beg you.
Ire. to stead **right to all clams,

Eire. we are firmlyperenaded that your Majesty sincerely
&ekes the happiness of haul This is why we believe
it our duty sot to scams! the feet that between the nobility
end your Mainly% government there mita a misunder-
standing, which is prejudicial to the realistic. of your ge-
ammo infantries. la piece of the liberty whits your
Matey had wombed to your peep* the taiselimarke
have invented an °biology easiditioa se Intolerable to the
plessete as to the propriston ; in pies of a compulsory
weatherman of' the serfs into free proprietors,
I they have invented a system of voluatery agreemeat whisk
will ruin both the peewits and the proprietors. They new
End it emissary to preserve the privileges of the
although we ourselves, who are the most interested in that
question, desire their suppression.
This dissent proves this the reforms called for by
the actual state of Wags cannot be moomplished by
the bruseemery. We do not take it upon ourselves
to spook for the whole Banal= people, although
we me soarer to them than the bureaucrats,
bat we are firmly convinced that It does not
seam to have good intent:bee in order to know the wants
of the country— we are coavineed that all the reforms will
ramie vain so long u the people are not consulted. An
amenably ri the deputise of the people is the only MOMS
of solving the questions raised but not settled by the laws
of the 19th of Feirmary, 1861.
In admitting to the judgment of your Imperial Majesty
oar humble prayer that you will maks an appeal to the
country, we hope, sire, that the desire for the public will.
fare which animates the nobility of Tver will not be mime.
presented by malevolent interpretations.
It appears that 16 persons connected with the
judicial government of Tver have been arrested.
The nobility of Tonle have petitioned for special
and elective commissions for the framing of laws.
The nobility of Moscow have asked foe prompt
administrative, judicial, and electoral reform.