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

THE NEW RUSSIAN LOAN.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg publishes the
following Imperial ukase relative to the new
Russian loan. It is addressed to the Minister of
Finances :

"To provide for the extraordinary expenses
which actual circumstances impose upon the trea-
sury of the Empire, we have authorised you, con-
formably to your proposition, to conclude, through
the medium of the commercial house of our
banker, Councillor Baron Stieglitz, of St. Peters-
burg, a loan of 50 millions of silver roubles, on
the conditions confirmed by us, and we order you
consequently to make the following arrange-
ments :

" 1. This loan is to be inscribed on the ledger
(grand-livre) of the public debt of Russia as the
sixth loan at 5 per cent.
" 2. For this loan notes shall be issued of the
Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund (in-
scriptions) to the bearer ; each note to be for 500
silver roubles.

"3. This scrip will bear an annual interest of
5 per cent., dating from the Ist October of the
present year. To each note 20 coupons will be
attached, on the presentation of which the inte-
rest due will be paid to the corresponding time.
"4. The payment of this interest will be made
for each half-year due, from the Ist April to the
Ist June, and from the Ist October to the Ist
December, and there will be paid for each coupon
at St. Petersburg, by the Commission of the
Sinking Fund, 12 roubles 50 copecs silver, or else
through the medium of the bankers, Stieglitz and
Co., 23 florins 60 cents. of the Netherlands, or
26 marks 10 schelings 11 pfennings of the
Hamburg Bank.

" 5. On the expiration of the first 10 years of
the loan, new coupons will be issued for the scrip
then in circulation.

" G. The sinking (ainortissement) of this loan
will commence in 1858, and for this object a
special fund will be assigned, totally distinct from
the other loans, and which will form each year
two per cent. of the nominal capital of the loan.
This sinking-fund, which will increase from the
interests become disposable by the redemption of
scrip, will bo employed to buy up the scrip at the
current rate (au tours) as long as it does not rise
above its nominal value, that is to say, above par.
After 20 years, namely, dating from 11875, the
Government reserves to itself the right of paying
the scrip of this loan, which may then be in cir-
culation, at the rate of its nominal value.

[The original is signed by the proper hand of
his Majesty the Emperor.]

" ALEXANDER.
" St. Petersburg, Nov. 26, 1855.

" Translation approved,
"NESSELRODE, Chancellor of the Empire."

FRANCE.

On the 29th of this month, the 20th, 39th, 50th,
and 97th of the line, together with a division of
the Imperial Guards, will make their triumphal
entry into Paris. These regiments have lately re-
turned from the Crimea, where they have added
fresh glory to their colours by being present at all
the principal engagements, from Alma to the
storming of Sebastopol.
The troops will enter Paris by the Place de la
Bastille, and pass along towards the Rue de Rivoli,
to the Place du Carrousel, when a defile will take
place. His Majesty will head the troops on their
entrance into the city, and her Majesty the Em-
press will be present at the defile.
The whole of the National Guard will be called
out, and line the route by which the heroes of the
Crimea will pass.
The city of Paris is about to contract a new
loan of 50 millions.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, DEC. 16.

The conduct of the Governor of the National
Bank, of which mention was made yesterday, was
so generally and loudly reprobated, that the func-
tion ary in question has considered it advisable to
make the following apology to the public in the
Wiener Zeitung of this morning :
"As is known the National Bank undertook to re-
ceive the subscriptions for shares in the Imperial Royal
Privileged Austrian Cisdit Institution for Commerce
and Trade. In order that this might be done without
interruption to the usual business of the Bank, previous
arrangements were necessary, and some days before the
10th of December, on which date the public subscrip-
tions were to commence, well known tradespeople and
firms were permitted to make their subscriptions and
deposits.
" In consequence of this arrangement, all classes of
people were able to share freely in the subscription on
the 10th of December and following days. The crowd
of applicants for shares was extremely great, and sur-
passed all expectations. A proper feeling for peace and
order was exhibited by the people, and the police and
military force displayed judgment, firmness and calm-
ness. Although thousands of persons were waiting in
the streets, there was neither disorder nor improper
behaviour. In order, however, to be able to receive
the subscriptions of those larger houses which had been
put off until the last day, in order that they might be
able to transact their business with more comfort to
themselves, it was by higher orders made known, by
means of a posted placard, that the subscription, which
had during five days been open to all classes of people,
would be closed on Saturday, the 15th December.
"The results of the subscription are beyond all exiL'c-
tation, and they clearl) show that the object of the
founders of the institution, which was that all classes of
people should participate in it, has been completely at-
tained. From the beginning of the public subscription
to its close on Saturday, at 6 o'clock, a sum of about
644,666,000f1. was subscribed by 25,076 persons.
"JOSEPH PIPITZ, Governor of the Bank.
" Vienna, December 15, 1855.