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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21.

LATEST
NEWS FROM ABROAD

rIANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR
OF RUSSIA.

We have received the Journal de St. Petersbourg,
of the 13th, which contains the following

" MANIFESTO OF H.M. THE EMPEROR:

" We, by the Grace of God, Nicholas 1., Emperor
land Autocrat of All the Amiss, &c., make known—

" Our faithful and well-beloved subjects know how
we desire to arrive, without the employment of the
bras of arms—without further effuaion of blood,—at
the end which we have constantly proposed—
that of defending the rights of our co-religionists,
and of Christians in general in the East. This
wish is equally known to all those who have watched
with attention and impartiality the march of events,
as well as the invari►ble tendency of our acts.
We have been, and still remain, strangers to
every other motive—to any other view—in point
of faith and conscience. To-day, again, faith-
ful to these principles, we have announced
our anent to the opening of negotiations with
the Western Powers, who have formed with the
Ottoman Porte a hostile alliance against us. We be-
lieve it is owing to ourselves to expect on their part
the same sincerity, the same disinterestedness of
intentions, and we do not lose the hope of arriving at
the re-establishment of a peace so desired, so pre-
cious to all Christendom. Nevertheless, in presence
of the forces which they have gathered together, and
of the other preparations which they are making to
struggle against us—preparations which, In spite of
the pending negotiations, are not discontinued, but
even acquire every day, without ceasing, yet vaster
developments—we are constrained on our side to
consider immediately the augmentation of the means
which God has given us to defend our country, to
oppose a firm and powerful barrier to all the hostile
attempts against Russia—to all the projects
which menace its security and its greatness.
This, first of our ditties, we fulfil, and, in-
voking the assistance of the Most High with
an implicit faith in His grace, and with
full confidence in the love of our subjects, animated
with the same sentiments as ourselves, of devotion
to our faith, to the Orthodox Church, and to our
dear country—we address this new appeal to all
classes of our subjects, commanding
"That the formation of a general militia of the
Empire (dune milker 'minds de 'Ervin') be pro-
ceeded with.

"The arrangements relative to the formation and
to the organisation of this militia have been exa-
mined and confirmed by us, and will be found
expounded in detail in a special regulation. They
will everywhere be put into execution with punctu-
ality and zeal.

" More than once already, painful and even cruel
trials have menaced and injured Russia ; but she has
always found her safety in her humble faith in Pro-
vidence, in the close and indissoluble tie which
unites the Monarch to his subjects, his devoted
children. Let it prove the same to-day I
May God, who reads hearts—who blesses pure in-
tentions—grant us his assistance !
" Given at St. Petersburg, the 29th day of the
month of January, in the Year of Grace 1855,
and the Thirtieth Year of our Reign.
—Daily News. (Signed) "NICHOLAS."

The Manilour of yesterday contains a report to
the Emperor by M. Magus, the new minister of
finance. It announces the re-imposition of the duties
on commercial receipts and obligations as they ex-
isted before the law of the 7th August, 1860, and
states that with this aid there will be a surplus of
4,000,000 francs. The advance of 30,000,000 francs
made by the Bank having been reimbursed from the
proceeds of the recent loan, the floating debt is at
this moment nearly the ears* as last yeor, viz.,
697,339,400 francs. The bass du treaor do not ex-
ceed 218,000,000 francs, nor the fonds des cuirass
d'epargne 180,000,000 franca—Daily Naos.

We learn by telegraph from Vienna that Baron
Prokeech Osten, formerly Austrian internuncio at the
Sublime Porte, will be the Austrian special oommis-
dense at the approaching diplomatic conferences.—
bodes* News.