The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-03 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The prohibition against the export of corn from
Russia to Gallicia has, says a letter from Lemberg,
extended to all the corn which bad been contracted
for before the prohibition.

A letter froin St. Petersburg, of the 20th ult.,
in the Constitutionnet, says
:--
"The health of the Empress of Russia is very bad.
Her sons, Nicholas and Michael, have, on her
pressing solicitations, been recalled from the Cri-
mea by a special order from the Emperor. They
went direct to Gatchina, where the court is re-
siding, and are only to leave in a few days. The
aide-de-camp of the Grand-Duke Michael, who was
wounded at Inkerman, has received leave of absence for
eight months' to recover his health. He protected the
Prince against the enemy's bath/' and was at last seri•
ously wounded. Dining the last few days the Emperor
has not come to St. Petersburg. Christmas will not be
very gay this year. The furious enemies of the West
make declamations in the Russian journals against the
purchase of French and English articles for presents.
The prices of these articles bays risen incredibly high.
To make up the deficit resulting from the Treasury
by the diminution of the duties on foreign imports,
the Minister of Finance, M. de Brock, has had recourse
to various expedients. The price of salt, for example,
has been considerably increased in a great part of the
Empire ; and a recent ukase provides for the augmen•
tation of the revenue from the monopoly of tobacco.
The Minister of the Interior, Count Panin, on his part,
animated with the same financial zeal, excites by different
measures, and especially by the direct action of the go-
vernment functionaries, and the clergy, the patriotic
enthusiasm of the people, so as to cause them to make
voluntary donations. Thus, for example, when in a
province, a contractor for the sale of liquors, which is
a government monopoly, does not make a voluntary
sacrifice of some hundred quarts of spirits of wine
for the troops on the march, it is certain that the con-
tract will not be prolonged. The fanaticism of the peo-
ple is excited by different means; but a great many peo-
ple aro now already learning to make a distinction be-
tween the interests of the country and those of Czarism.
It is only when the Government fears to cause misery
and famine that it lessens somewhat of the rigour of its
fiscal measures. Thus, in Finland, it has not dared yet
to prohibit the exportation of hemp, flax, pitch, and tim-
ber, as it has prohibited the export of the raw material
of the south of Russia. The Government appears de•
cided to defend Sebastopol with all its disposable forces.
The Ministers Nesselrode, Dolgrould, and Panin have a
great deal to do. The former has had to abandon his
favourite pleasure of playing at whist and hombre ; Del-
gorouki is required topresent everyday an increase of the
army ; and Panin to present a new register of voluntary
donations. Unfortunately most of these augmentations
only figure on paper."
A letter from Kisclieneff, in Bessarabia, 2i t.li
ultimo, in the Emancipation of Bru-:sels, says :--
"The export of corn into Austria is exceptionally
authorised by the Russian Government for such
corn as had been purchased before the decree of
prolsibition. There is an abundance of provisions
in all the provinces of the south of Russia. The
Muscovite forces in Bessarabia will soon amount to
150,000 men, but the most of them are raw re-

cruits. An attack from the Turks is no longer
thought of, although the latter appear to be march-
ing to the north."

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, DEC. 31.—Colonel IVianteuffel returned
this morning from his mission to Vienna, perfectly
satisfied with the attention paid to him personally.
If the Government be further satisfied is extremely
questionable.

- A letter in the Breslau Gazette says :—" It is
reported that the autograph letter of the King of
Prussia which has been delivered to the Emperor
of Austria by Colonel Manteuffel points out the
motives which prevent Prussia from acceding to
the treaty of the 2d December, and warmly urges
the Emperor to avoid a rupture with Russia."
The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort quotes a
letter from Beriin of the 29th ultimo, which
says :—" A note from Count Nesselrode ar-
rived at Vienna the day before yesterday, the
contents of which have also been communicated
to our Cabinet. In this note Russia declares that
it accepts the principle of the four points in their
integrity and without reserve. These declarations,
which have become known at Vienna, are of such
a nature that Austria has considered them calcu-
lated to offer a basis for negotiation. It is espe-
cially the third point, however, which will present
difficulties in the details ; and the negotiations
which will take place at Vienna on the revision of
the treaty of 1841 will be of the same nature as
those now going on at London between M. de
Usedom and Lord Clarendon."