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INCREASE OF PAPER MONEY IN RUSSIA.

The following are the terms of the ukase issued by the
Emperor of Russia for an increase of paper money. It
appears that out of an augmentation to the extent of
30,000,000 of roubles, or about 4,800,0001., authorised
in 1841, the sum of 1,600,0001. remains to be put forth,
and that this is now to be used, while an additional total
of 40,000,000 of roubles, or 6,400,0001., is to be created
and held at the service of the Finance'Minister upon his
receiving the Imperial sanction for its disbursement.
Against this new issue, as in the case of the former one,
specie in the proportion of one-sixth is to be deposited ;
but, as the quarter whence it is to be obtained is not
designated, the conjecture arises that the operation will
be contrived merely by a nominal removal to a special
account of some portion of the treasure already held.
Even under the more favourable suppoiiition that a por-
tion of the new issue will be employed to purchase the
guaranteed amount of bullion, so as to create to that
extent a real instead of a fictitious security, it is evident
that the measure is pregnant with the most disastrous
consequences to the trade and credit of the country, and
that a course is now commenced calculated to end in all
the evils of a depreciated, currency, and to cause the St.
Petersburg Exchange to undergo, from the consequences
of distrust, what has been so long experienced at Vienna.
Since 1839, when,Russia compromised as an insolvent,
and paid the holders of her notes less than 30 per cent.,
her currency, although not absolutely convertible at
pleasure, has been maintained at._par, owing to its
being limited to a specific amount. The propor-
tion of notes to - the legitimate requirements of
trade having at length, however, been infringed
the notification that one-sixth of their amount in specie
is safely locked in the hands of the Government will have
little effect in convincing the holders of their value when
they require not only that that sixth, but also the re-
maining five-sixths, should be handed them in coin to
enable them to pay for foreign goods. The precedent.
moreover, even if it had been introduced at first on a far
more limited scale, is fatal to the financial existence of
any nation, from the certainty it inspires that, once re-
sorted to, the dangerous facility is almost sure to be
employed till confidence of every kind has been 'anni-
hilated.

." By a ukase of his Imperial Majesty, issued to the Ad-
ministrative Senate on the 17th of December last, under
his Imperial Majesty's sign-manual, it was set forth,—
"'To facilitate the operations of the imperial credit
establishments, our manifest of the lst of July, 1841, di-
rected the issue of 30,000,000 roubles of credit notes, with
the condition that at each delivery of the same the Trea-
suries and the Loan Bank should deposit in specie a sum
equivalent to not less than the sixth part of the notes issued.
" Of the said amount of 30,000,000 roubles, by our
manifest of the Ist of-June, 1813, 10,000,000 roubles were
placed to the credit of the active capital of the credit
establishments, and 20,000,000 roubles were reckoned as a
reserve, and their issue submitted thenceforth to our own
supervision.
' In pursuance of authority, of our ukase to the Senate,
given on the 9th of March, 1849, there were issued out of
this reserve capital credit notes for 10,000,000 roubles for
the purpose of strengthening the operations of the Trea-
suries and the Loan Bank.
" At present, in consequence of the great extension
during the past year of the operations of the imperial
credit establishments, we have deemed it good, in accor-
dance with the representation of the Minister of Finance,
examined by the Council of State, to decide upon the
issue from the reserve capital of the remaining ten millions
of roubles ' • and, in order to provide in future sufficient
means to the said credit establishment for ,the uninter-
rupted conduct and extension of their operations, to con-
stitute for them a new reserve capital on the previous
bases.

" In pursuance whereof we ordain :
" 1. The remaining ten millions of credit notes attri-
buted by our manifest of June 1,1843, to the reserve capi-
tal of the credit establishments shall be delivered to the
Treasuries and the Loan Bank, to be distributed among
them according to their requirements.
" '2. A new reserve capital of 40,000,030 roubles of cre-
dit notes shall be formed for the imperial credit establish-
ments. _ _ .

—;Ti. The delivery of notes from this reserve capital
shall take place in the event of an actual necessity to
strengthen the imperial credit establishments, upon the
presentation each time of a petition of the Minister of Fi-
nance for our decision thereupon.
" 4. Equivalent to the sixth part of the credit notes
issued shall be transferred in specie from the credit esta-
blishments named to the office of imperial credit notes, to
be added to the fund attributed to the credit notes.
" 5. The completion of this fund, in case of need, shall
be carried out on the same basis as fixed by our said mani-
fest of June 1, 1843.
" The Administrative Senate is to take the necessary
measures for the execution hereof."

TTNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JAN. 31.

In a Convocation holden this day, at two o'clock, the
following delegacy was appointed to consider the ques-
tion of erecting a museum, with particular reference to
the principle of constructing a building surrounding
three sides of an area, whicif should be covered in and
applied to the purpose of a general museum, receiving
light from the roof ; the report of such delegacy to be
submitted to the approval or disapproval of house :
—The President of St. John's ; Principal of New Inn
Hall; Warden of New College ; Master of. Pembroke ;
Dr. Daubeny, Magdalen College ; Dr. Acland, All
Souls ; B. Price, M.A., Pembroke, Professor of Natural
Philosophy ; John Phillips, M.A., Magdalen College,
Deputy Reader in Geology ; Manuel Johnson, M.A.,
Magdalen Hall, Radcliffe Observer ; Thomas Chaffers,
M.A., Vice Principal of Brasenose ; William Hedley,
M.A., University ; G. Butler, M.A., Exeter ; John
Burgon, M.A., Oriel.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB, I.
CLASSICAL TRIPOS.

Candidates for the classical tripos are requested to
send in their names to Mr. E. H. Perowne, Corpus
Christi College, on or before Saturday, Feb. 11.

THE ARMY.

INCREASE OF THE BRITISH ARMY.—We are enabled
to state that the army estimates for the ensuing financial
year provide for an increase to the forces of no less than
10,000 men.
STRENGTH OF THE ARMY AND CAVALRY MOVEMENTS
IN IRELAND.—CavaIry, 2,679 ; infantry, 17.450 ; artil
lery, 1,347: total, 21,476. Besides recruiting parties
of various regiments, and 16,750 constabulary and staffs
of militia. The Ist Dragoon Guards move from New-
bridge to Scotland ; 2d Dragoon Guards, from Dublin
to Dundalk ; 3d Dragoon Guards, from Longford to
Dublin ; 4th Dragoon Guards, from Dundalk to Long-
ford ; sth Dragoon Guards, from Cork to Newbridge ;
7th Dragoon Guards, from Cahir to England ; Ist Dra-
goons, from Manchester to Cahir ; 11th Hussars, from
Dublin to Cork ; 13th Dragoons, from Birmingham to
Dublin ; and 16th Lancers, from Dublin to Newbridge,
with a squadron remaining in Dublin—United Service
Gazette.
CHATHAM, MONDAY.—The under-named officers at
this garrison have obtained leave of absence from their
respective corps'for the periods herein stated. 25th
Foot—Captain H. T. Walker, from Feb. 1 to Feb. 27.
81st Foot—Ensign Floyd, from March 1 to March 9.
15th Hussars—Ensign Muir, from Jan. 27 to April 7.
38th Foot—Colonel Sir John Campbell, Bart., to Feb.l
to March 10. The under-named medical officers have
been relieved from the duty at this station for the rea-
sons herein specified. Staff Assistant Surgeon Ovens is
to proceed to Fermoy, in Ireland, to join the 9th Regi-
ment of Foot ; and Staff Assistant Surgeon Young is
also to proceed to Fermoy, to join the 62d Foot.
ROYAL ARTILLERY, -It is currently reported that two
additional battalions will be added to this distinguished
corps at the commencement of tne financial year (the Ist
of April) ; and that an increase of three or four com-
panies will shortly reinforce our establishments in the
Mediterranean.

MILITARY FORCES IN KENT. —The county of Kent
now contains more troops than it has done for several
years past. We have endeavoured to give a summary
of their numbers, not altogether vouching for their accu-
racy, as changes so often occur ; but we believe we are
tolerably correct :
Cavalry .
Artillery
590
Sappers and Miners
Marines
**************
**********
******** 6,420 ,
Infantry , .................

Total ................................. 11,824
In addition to which there are several companies of en-
rolled pensioners regularly trained at Canterbury, Maid-
stbne, Chatham, and Woolwich, and the permanent staff
of the three Kent militias, stationed in Dover, Canter-
bury, and Maidstone.

at
touthampton a scarcity of fuel
ehtihictsehreaPprwepvaseajazlsannce for 17 weeks, now no collier
SCARCITY OF COAL AT SOUTHAMPTON.—It is now 30
years
collierke s thatmin made
the present time. There no
which left the north at the beginning of this month has
reached Southampton. The price of coal now in the
town is 3 guineas per ton. People are paying 2s. 6d. a
hundred for the scrapings of the coal yards and cellars.
Owing to the usual good supply of coal in the winter at
-loutliampton a large number of persons neglected to
take in a stock last fall, and are now put to the greatest
inconvenience. Numbers cannot taste roast joints, hav-
ing nothing but wood and coke to burn. The steam-
packet companies are causing coal to be brought all the
way from Wales by rail. The gas company are obliged
to buy up anything at any price in the shape of coals,
and then go to extra expense to purify the gas.
PASSENGERS' BAGGAGE.—IMPORTANT NEW REGULA-
TIONS.—The Customs authorities have determined on
sanctioning the receipt of diities at the different baggage
warehouses at the docks for dutiable articles contained
in the baggage and effects of passengers arriving from
foreign and distant parts of the world. This arrange.
ment will no doubt be found of material service to the
public and acceptable to passengers, and to parties in
this country recipients of presents from Australia, the
East and West Indies, and other parts of the globe.
The authorities have directed the new arrangement to
take effect from the Ist inst., and to be in the first
instance confined to the London and East India, Docks,
and if it be found to work satisfactorily it will be subse-
sequently extended to the baggage warehouses at the
other dock establishments,