The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-19 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

BERLLN, Dec. 16.—There is talk here of a cir-
cular note having been addressed by Count Nes-
selrode to the representatives of Russia at the
different Courts that have made representations to
Russia on the subject of peace. The contents of
this circular, as represented by those who pretend
to know all about it, resemble Eo much the views
put forward by the representatives of Russia at tht
Vienna Conferences that, if true, the "the powers
that be" in Russia still look upon her position as
unchanged for the worse since then, or else that
nothing is to be got out of her by diplomatic
mea us.
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matists there. It is related that as General Can.-
robert one evening returned somewhat earlier than
usual to his ape,rtm.Aits in the Hotel d'Angle-
terre he found a stra u,go man standing at his secre-
taire, which had been broken open, or opened
with a false key, and so busily occupied in examin.
ing his papers that he did not observe the General's
entrance. In high indignation the latter is repre-
sented to have seized a candlestick, or, as others
say, some sharp cutting object, and to have flung
it at his head. The stranger, turning round, re-
ceived a severe wound in the head, iu the neigh-
bourhood of the eye, or, as others say, had his eye
knocked out. That is the story ; the fact is, that
that same evening a valet de place was conveyed
from the Hotel d'Augleterre to the ho:pital, where
he seems to be under some danger of losing his eye
from a hurt he has received.

The Invalide of the Bth inst., announces officially
that the betrothal of the Grand Duke Nicholas with
the Princess Alexandra took place on Nov. 26. "This
joyful match of affection," says the Invalide, " will
serve to diminish the grief at the loss which the
Imperial family and the whole empire sustained in
'the beginning of the year."
On the 4th inst. the Dowager Queen of the
Netherlands, Anna Paulowna, sister of the late
Emperor and aunt of the present, had a solemn
reception of all the high dignitaries of State, both
civil and military, together with their ladies, in
her apartments in the Winter Palace.
The Persian Ambassador, Seif-ul-Mjulk-Miri-
Pindisch-Abbas-Kuli-Khan, was at the date of the
last advises from St. Petersburg looked for
anxiously there ; he had arrived at Moscow on the
30th of November.

A private letter from Moscow at the end of No-
vember speaks of the confidence of the petty trades-
men in the Russian paper currency being much
shaken; that cases frequently occur now, more par-
ticularly in Moscow, Nichni, Astrakhan, Asc., of
their refusing to take it, while, on the other hand,
they keep back and hide their silver money. Sil-
ver continues to rise there in price, a great deal of
it being smuggled out of the country, then melted
down, and brought back at an advance. The
" pairiotic contributions" to the war fund are
made for the most part in kind, consisting of ma-
nufaAured goods, produce of the soil, pictures of
saints, the paper money issued by various monetary
institutions or their coupons, so that the Treasury
itself is not much the richer for them.

An ukase of November 30 exempts the Jews of
Bessarabia from the approaching conscription inci-
dentally to the exemption pronounced in favour of
the governments of Poltava, Tchernigov, Char-
kow, Ekaterinoslav, Cherson, and Taurida, as the
ukase says, " on account of the great sacrifices and.
exertions which the present state of war has already
imposed upon them."