The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-10 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

We have received the Sydney papers of April
16, by the Catherine Adamson, which has just
wriivtd. . . . .

Mr. C. Gavin Duffy was entertained with a
banquet is the Prince of Wales' Theatre, at Sydney.
on the 11th of March, and speeches were made, to
which the errors and detects of the Colontal.officw

were freely exposed.
The elections of the fifty-four members of the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly, under the
new oonsitntion, are for the most part decided; and
the new provincial parlismeut was to meet on the
26th of May, but it was not expectec to go to basi-
ns,' with an adjournment of another month, as the
buildings for its accommodation are not yet erected..
'I he total amount of imports into the port of Sydney
during the first quarter of the present year by
British, colonial, and foreign regis•ered ships, hie
been of the declared value of 1,246 83.31. ; the ire.
poi ta in British ships amounting to 890,7661.
The Customs returns of our exports for the quarter
(says the Sydney Morning Ilerad) are not yet con*
plated. We believe that they may be estimated at
about 890,0001., exclusive of gold dust, the amount
of which, exported from the Ist of January to the
31st ultimo, was 5,500 oz. 15 dwte. Our exports for
the quarter may be taken at 1,100,0001.
The grog, amount of the quarter's re f the
province of New South Wales was 229,8331. Ba. 8d.,,
showing a net increase on the corresponding quarter
of 1855 of 21,2251• This increase was at the rate of
10 per cent. The increase on the twelve months
ending the 31st ult. was 111,3381., being an increase
of 12 per cent. on the rat year.

RUSSIAN FINANCE.

(PROM OCR HAI.IIO. RO

HAMBURG, JOLT 6.

About a month ago I informed you that the head
Fatn,rs of was Of oar yr o.t eminent banking firms had
been surnasoned by Os* telegraph to attend a coogress of
bankers at Waite, convened in that city by the Emperor of
Ilseste• court busker, Boron Stieglita, for the purpose of
felting into constderatioa proposals made t ) him at St.

letenburg by the government for the nig ,tiation of a new
his of very great magnitu.le. Nothing further as to the
result has hither found it. way IWO the public papen, but
lus new enabled t eltemeniere to you the following

particular..
The contra* was eery fully attended by the principal
benign sod large capitative of Paris, Amsterdam, Vienne;
Fraakfon, Hamburg, sad Beebe, but they *spar ted with-
int comes to si y eatisfactory conclusion. 1a a statistical
paper on the present sad past souditios of the Buena
b , draws from official source, aod laid before the
congress of losoken, it woe show. that in the you 1713 the
reefs's' of Rana ender Peter the Great antosated to
8,600,000 roubles &nasally. 1. the middle of the last en-
Ivry, wader Catharine 11 . it had rine t 028,080,000 rouble.;
io 1,01, is this reign of Alezaader 1., ha 88,600,000 roubles;
and in la 'O3, under Nichol.' 1., it moulted to 296,959,000
roubles, being equal to 4.92 rosbles ter he ad of the whole
population of this empire. It was further shows that the
rev, ass is mainly derived from the domains, foram, manu-
factories sod other iiclustrisl monopolies enjoyed by the
tr3•ll, smosoting to no len than 221.989,000 roubles,
whilst the dint! lazes produce only 31,688,000 roubles, mod
the indirect tales 36,274,000 r males.

The ordinary e speadst are of 1853 am lusted t 297,350.000,
of which ism more than one-third (104,992,000 roublos)
war. required foe the 'opuses of the army.
With regud to the puhlic debt, it was shown to have
risen from 788,808.000 roubler is 18.53 to 833 millions is
1845, malsone of Poland sod Fitt'end, which lan Moir
Will separate Baanc,el admisistratios. It* however, not to
M wandered at t►at tho national debt should him ineromod
during the war, when it is coasiderod that Me seas re-
quired for the inigencies of the array antosatad ce a mode-
rate computation to 18 or 20 millioce of rubles per mouth.
In 1847 the &moult of ih coined and uneoimid precious
metals deposited M the c-11.es of this fort of 81. Peter and
Bt. Paul at Bt. Petersburg as security for the pawnor's, id
Muulation, wu 101 millions of mad**, bet et the left re-
vision it was found that then wee ooly a slue of 11 millions
really is aafstsaee, slthosgh then ought to ham ban
139 millions. No seplanation had been officially gives mto
what tad boon done with tho musing 128 maltose of roubles
bat thou can ho no doubt that they wore employed towards
meeting tb. =liege's of the war, which would also amidst
tor the comparatively small Malmo in the amount of the
national debt, u shows above.

After considering the Roden proposals la all Unit
beerier, the sessbers of the outgrow of capitalises same
to the coaclasion that is the present state of the ittralisa
Sauces and (stare prospects, the security offered was a-t
saltdrat to lads*, then to agree to the terns and sada-
take to update a loan of each rut usgaituds a the
Ole peepesed, although the nubs' derived from lite Cas-
tes's was offered a. additions' collateral secarity.