The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-28 00:00:00

RUSSIAN FINANCES.

A Frenchjourual publishes an interesting article
on the financial situation of Russia, from Which we
extract the following :

. .
"The Russi.ui—Government, if kept for any time in
check, will be shortly .placed in the alternative, either of
becoming haukrup.,, ur of bearing the weight of all the
individual ilistatets which its policy shall have provoked.
And let it be well remarked, that the qnestion is not of
a temporary embarrassment for Rosa t; the question is
of a war unprecedented for her with two great marl-
lime of a war, which from the commtneement
obliges her to keep up from seven to eight corps d'armee,
at three or four hundred leagues' distbnce Irian each
other, and t ) make an extraordinary levy of 400,000
nen, ad serfs, who have become free without any indent.,
,pity to their lords ; of a war, in shunt, wl.ich deprives
these same lords, the propri,t •rs of the soil, not only of
their instruments of labour, but of the produce of their
•work, in corn, fl.tx, hemp, wool, tallow, timber, metals,
dEc.
al u of
elciouoi
vOat..
therefore Tile eairir.:itgsnec vi
laid landed
cut 713,veyas,et,:r
xfsio..::efosofs.oil,art estimated
rt. atnhns
of
capital Toe serf mu-t, morever, be completely equipped
y lord.
is Calculate the cost of this equipment at
•ody 2001. each, awl you have a further tax of 100

"The returns of the Customs for 1852 state that the
expfprtg of Rusgia, by the Baltic and the Black'. Sea
amounted to more than 325 miilions of francs. The
presence of the combined fleets in those seas, therefore,
without striking a blow, inflicts a loss on the fortune of
Rus•ua of 350 ►oiiltons.

" What a want of money will be, therefore, caused by
such a state of things . every. family ; what perturbs-
.ion iii every interest, and what a perspective for the
Impe. ial establishments.,in
,which are concentrated, in
the shape of &posits payable on demand, the greater
part of the Ravings of the country !
" If any one considers the contrast which exists, in .a
firianci.4l and economical p.orit'of view between the Go-
vernment of S% Petersburg and those of France and
England, the dilf rence is a marked one. flow light
iii comparison is the charge which would weigh on these
hitter, in lase the war should continue ! In Russia, all
the productive resources have been , paralysed, whereas
they have remained intact with the Czar's adversaries.
The capital absorbed in the struggle will be repro-
duced by the incessant activity of business in France and
England. Here, the ploughs turn up the soil, whilst
in Russia they remain inactive. Raw matelia:a ar-
rive from abroa I to our manufactor;es and feed the
public treasury ; goods are exported with the same
facility ; institutions of credit are in full operation;
railways are being completed; all the works of, puode
utility folloW their course without- impediment ; it
lepends even on the confi lence of capitalists, and on
the initiative of the public authorities both at London
and at Paris, togive theme, more lively impulse; wherein;
in Russia, neither the Government, absolute as it is, nor
public confidence, nor the fanaticism of the population
can
diminish the absolute ruin of all men's fortunes or ward
off the crisis. Does not this contrastsuffice to show under
a new light the excellent strength of the position which
the Western Powers have assumed ? The Czar WO
been caught in his own snare. Let us, then, perseveli
and independently of the military glory which we ought
to be eager to pursne, after having been so long de-
prived of it. perseverance alone will ensure to us con-
siderable siderable advantages over the common enemy. He who
pretended at the commencement to wear out our P
Lience by his diplomatic combinations will, before long,
fuel the full weight of so unequal a struggle."