The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL MANIFESTO.

The first theeghts of his Maj. r•ty have been fixed upon
the impetus' evertha which marked the c .naosenoemest of
his reign, and upon those dip, at once of trial sad of
glory, when the Hoverer received from his subjects such
unanimous and memorable testimonies of their valour.
their love, and their unshakable fidelity.
His Majesty, in otdrr to eons•er►te the memory of this
fine rti•ude maintained by the Hussies people teroughout
the whole duration of that formidable 'Woggle larch has
jest been so happily ended, boa now deigned, so a mom-
per se of thorn esploits, and also as a token of remembr are,
to institute a oommeaser itive medal, which is to be worn•
according to the regulations, upon the riboad of St. Andrew,
of Bt. George, or of Bt. Vladimir, by all he mobject4 en
gaged in civil or military service who have taken part in
the events of the late war.

These medals, similarly to those which the Emperor has
especially greeted to the heroic defenders of Sebastopol,
who astonished the world by the longest and most obstinate
resistaoce reworded in the noels of satirise, will remind
ear resote.t posterity of the eared trod civic virtues of
which ell &anis ehoweai loch 'temples et the time rf the
great national trial which she has without perturbati.e
undergo...
The soldiers who have shed their blood for their country,
the popular mil:tis which sprang in an nutlet from the
sell cf Russia, the clergy, whose eloquent veva and un-
bounded et snit; sever failed te aid the rational cause, tte
111.-trions Mission ni bdity who,l4ke their encestors, showed
the artelves ones spin as the foremost In the reeks of valour
and devotedness; end, finally, the c-remeroial, mansiso
taring, and working clamps, who made inch gnat and r obis
sacrifices for thar country when it wan threatened—all hay*
equal claims on the Emperor's gratitude, red he solemnly
thanks them all this day, *ailing down upon the whole
nation the hl. sting of most gracious God, in the hop* that
it will soon be voocteefed to F's Klee; to ohliterre even
the lest traces of those public sad private misfortunes which
Mink hes to worthily sustained.
To accomplish this sawed objecr, the Emperor begins by
greuti,g large immunities to the provinces of the Teens, of
Ktarron, of Ekaterinoslav, and of Arebeogel, es well as to
the retire Baltic coast, and in general to all the provinces
which have most eapea'ally borne the Dunkin of the
late campaigns. Moreover, with the aim of extend-
ing es far es p. ibis the &rel. of hi. liberality,
his M j,sty has been willing also to greet to the
whole empire the benefit of • general measure, the import_
once of which can only be compared to the immensity of the
silent which it embraces. The Emperor. consequently,
retee-a. the whale a Bawls from any charge of conserip-
Von sad military recruiting for the term of firer consecutive
years, tunes (which may God forbid!) the exigencies of war
should came to prevent this iinention being carried out.
Faithful to the same idea, the Emperor, in his solicitude
for his subject.' welfare, instructs the Minister of Finance
immediately to effect a new census of the population of the
empire, in order that the isolation tax may be equitably
masa:surd, which sigh• otherwise weigh disproportionately

on certain classes, numbers of which bays barn more or less
sensibly diminished by the war and by the epidemic disuses
which have more particularly hiliC ed them.
In addition to this, his Majesty ordains that different
tiles in artier, the total sweat of which comes to not less
than 24 millions of silver roubles (96 millions of franc.), as
well se the pecaniary flues, shell graciously be remitted
to those from whom they are due.
Then restoring his soveregn clemency to the offenders
smiles by public jellies, hie Majesty grants to all the peni-
tent criminals whose conduct has been blameless since their
lindens/lotion, either full patio* or a cinsiderable comma-
ta•lon of their sentence.

With reined to the political criminals, both those who be•
longed to the went eneinies dine. red la Ruin at dif.
ferent periods and those who tot .k pert in the Polish re-
bellion of 1831, the Enspern orden th t the lot of some shee
be considerably assorgod rn the scene of their ',wanton.
ert "et others shall be ambled to settle In the interior pro.
winces of the empire, and the rest will be restored to full
tinny, with Iran to chores their ow. plan of abode to say
town of the old empire or la the kingdom of Poland,
with the esention of the two capita:a, Wm+ and St.
Petntsbarg.
Finally, tr crown withal his elentrney, the Emperor
deigns to gnat to all the political criminals ro pardoned
their rights of nobility, at also to all their legitimate
children torn sine the cendemnation of their parents,

whether the latter be dead or still living.
Hie bisjesty, desirous of eateedieg to the furthest confines
of his empire the benefits he has deigned to concede to his
people on the mulcts of his eotocatios, he. moreover
deigned to sewed to the iebebitants of Lis western pro.
vineee special favours of peenlier inapertanee. In eors..
puttee the Emperor, by two supplementary ukases addressed
to the directing Senate, nuke, the legidative provisional
seaters that has until now regulated the entrance of the
nobility in the governments of Viloo. Kovno, Grads°,
Minsk, Volhysia. Podrlie, sod Ki,v into official service.
For the future, the crudities, of the public, entice in the
western provinces will be the some se those which eats* fop
the inhabitants of all the other parts of toe empire.
The subjects of Ida Majesty belonging to the Jewish
creed have also been the object of generous clemency on the
part of the Emperor, who has deigned to free them from the
spree bud's' that their recruitment hitherto impend upon
them.

Lastly, the children of the soldiers, seamen, &c. (can-
resists). born during the service period of their fsth•n,
and who have hitherto belonged to the army, will be given
up for the fatten to their parent*, and may take upon them-
selves any condition they think Pt.
finc't are tbo chief regulations in this manifesto, the roost
prominent perm of which have been just aulamsrily
pointed out. A rut many other boons and favours, both
financial and administrative, occupying so less than thirty-
sight upstate articles, relate to details which, although they
are of great national importance, cannot prove of opal la.
twat to lanais mien.