The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-29 00:00:00

CONFISCATED PROPERTY IN RUSSIA.

General Kaufmann,commandant of the Lithuanian
provinces, has addressed to the governors placed
under his orders a new circular relative
to the forced sale of confiscated estates,
the proprietors of which have been exiled to
the interior of Russia—estates which, as is known,
can be purchased only by persons of Russian origin,
and who profess the orthodox religion. He calls
she attention of these functionaries to the
tervices which the loan society recently founded
by the government is called to render to the
Russian purchasers in the western provinces. In
order to prevent persons of Polish origin
from acquiring any property in these pro-
vinces, the government has already 3 efused
all assistance on the part of Polish capi-
talists. It goes on to promise the Russian
purchasers divers privileges or immunities. A
loan-office is to be opened very soon at Wilna, an
office to which besides a subvention of five millions
of roubles government awards the product of many
special dues ; also the sale of real property, that is
to say, confiscated estates. Finally, in order to
render the transactions more easy, the Governor-
General has organised at Wilna a bureau
of information and of negotiation between
the actual proprietors, the vendors, and
the Russian purchasers. "It is now for the local
administration," General Kaufmann goes on to
say, " to redouble its efforts to carry out quickly
and exactly the will of the Emperor on
the subject of the introduction of Russian
proprietors into the country. At the desire of his
Majesty, he has taken, in all the branches of the
administration, decisive measures, in order
that the country may become thoroughly Rus-
sian, not only in the historic point of view,
but in all the conditions of its life and
in its local institutions. And as the landed pro-
prietors will be able more than any other class to
restore and to consolidate in the country
the Russian character which formerly pre-
vailed in it, it is necessary that the chiefs
of the provinces should apply themselves with all
their energies to find the means of attracting Rus-
sian proprietors into the western provinces. Besides
these forced sales they ought to encourage friendly
sales and to exercise a rigorous surveillance over
all that is done." The Governor-General adds that
catalogues indicating exactly the number and
the importance of the estates to be sold in
each government will be distributed throughout the
empire. The Invaliele Russe of the 18th September
states that General Kaufmann publishes at Wilna
a sort of manual for the Russian purchaser ; it is a
collection of all the decisions relative to the
acquisition of estates in the western provinces
by persons of Russian origin. Purchasers in it will
find directions as to the steps to take, the forms to
observe, and also the privileges and the assistance
accorded to them by the government. The circular
in conclusion calls the attention of the chiefs of the
governments to the values already put upon pro-
perty which is to be sold. These estimates are
made by the police and the military authorities.

(Brumes TELEGRAMS.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, SETT. 29.

The waters of the Loire and Seine are falling.
The railway service on the Bourlonnais line has
been restored since yesterday.

FRANCE AND GREECE.

TRIESTE, Barr. 27.

Advices received here from Constantinople
state that the Marquis de Moustier had received
a Greek deputation who presented him with a con-
gratulatory address expressing the thanks of the
Greeks for the protection of France. The marquis,
in his reply, said that France had the moral and
intellectual development of Greece at heart, but
that the general state of political affairs in Europe
did not permit her to support any revolutionary
movement against Turkey.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, Szer. 29.

The Bank of Russia has raised the rate of dis-
count on bills and advances to 7 and 8 per cent.
respectively.
The Criminal Court has found Privy Councillor
Gavivsly and the Councillor of State Jakowlem
guilty of embezzling the public, money, and has
sentenced them to transportation to Siberia.