The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-09 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

BERLIN, June 5.
The Emperor Alexander, with his suite, arrived
at Konigsberg at 5 o'oclock p.m. of Tuesday, the
3d inst., where he took dinner. All official recep-
tions on the road had been forbidden, and the
Emperor travelled over this part of the journey,
from Berlin to the Prussian frontier, as simply as
any mere officer of rank in the Prussian service
could have done.

Ihe high road '4, tcl'n.g from Konigsberg to Taurog-
gen, which is thi route laid down for the Emperor.
has for the last few days been the scene of unusual
life and bustle, which increases three and four fold
on passing the frontier. The Emperor was to sleep
at Tauroggen on Tuesday evening, where, how-
ever, there is no other building to receive him
than the Custom-house. This bulldog has been
fitted up in all haste by workmen sent over from
Tilsit, and with the assistance of copious supplies
of flowers made to look somewhat habitable.
This total want of accommodation arises from the
circumstance that the line of communication be-
tween the two countries generally lies across the
frontier atTilsit, that being the more direct road to
St. Petersburg. On the present occasion the Em-
peror is going to visit the Baltic ports, and conse-
quently keeps nearer to the coast. At Riga and
' Revel he is to spend two days each, andvery grand
preparations have been made to receive him.
It has been ordained by an Imperial ukase that
the colours of the various druschines of the militia
now disbanded shall be deposited in the cathedrals
of the respective capital towns of each govern-
ment. Those of the St. Petersburg Militia are for
the present to be put for safety into the Isaac
Chapel, attached to the Admiralty, and as soon as
the Isaac Cathedral is finished and consecrated
they are to be placed there. In Moscow the colours
are to be placed provisionally in the Tschuden
Monastery, and when the Cal hedral of Christ the
Saviour is finished to be removed thither.
According to general report in St. Petersburg
Admiral Putiatin is to have the command of the
Pacific Ocean fleet, which is to be put on an im-
' posing footing. Captain Winck, the chief of the
Black Sea Marine Brigade, left St. Petersburg
again on the 23d ult. for the Crimea. Colonel
Bronewsky, lately superior officer of the commis-
sariat in Rostow, has been degraded to the ranks
and deprived entirely of his patent of nobility for
dishonesty.
The Russian Danubian flotilla is represented to
be in such a wretched state that the larger vessels
more especially cannot be considered seaworthy.
The two largest steamers are intended to be sta-
tioned off the mouth of the Sulina, together with
the guard-ships of the other contracting Powers
parties to the late treaty of March 30.
According to statements in the Russian papers,
the two Bessarabian fortresses of Ismail and Kilia
were blown up and destroyed towards the end of
April. On the other hand, it seems to be intended
on the part of Russia to select a point between
Bender and Akerman for the erection of a fcrtress.
Kiubourn is also to be destroyed, as r2cent experi-
ence and careful surveys have shown it to be un-
tenable against any considerable attack by sea.
The negotiations that have been going on for
some time past between Russia and Persia are,
stated to have special reference to Russia's posi-
tion in Asia. Persia is represented as not disin-
clined to cede to Russia certain tracts of land on
the south shores of the Caspian Sea, under certain
contingencies ; to obtain this has been from timo
immemorial a favourite plan with Russia, and
as far back as 1722 Peter the Great succeeded
in procuring from Scharr Hassan the cession
of the provinces Ghilan and Mazinderan, but
which he was obliged subsequently to relin-
quish. The Persian army in Herat is described
in the last advices as standing in considerable
jeopardy, and in urgent want of succour. San-
guine expectations had been formed of internal
disorders breaking out in Affghanistan, but which
have not turned out to be of such a nature as to
procure Persia any increase of adherents.
Two joint-stock companies have received the Im-
perial concession ; one, with a capital of one mil-
lion roubles, in 2,000 shares of 500 each, takes the
sugar refinery erected by Biron Stieglitz at Cath-
arinenhoff ; the, second, with a capital of the same
amount, is founded by the Exchange Committee of
Riga, for the purpose of insuring vessels floating
in " seas, rivers, harbours, and roads," and is to
bear the name of " First Marine Insurance Com-
pany of Riga."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has notified that
for the present Russian mercantile interest in Eng-
lish ports will be cared for by the Danish Consuls,

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, June s.—The only local news worth
mentioning is that the Episcopal Conferences will
be at en end in 10 days or a fortnight. Austria is
resolved to go through "thick and thin" with the
Papal chair, and the Concordat will be carried out
to the very letter. Yesterday there was a sitting
of the Concordat Commission, which lasted four
hours, and it is said that there was little or no dif-
ference of opinion between the temporal and spi-
ritual advisers of his Majesty the Emperor.
The unjustifiable conversion of the 10 per cent.
tanteme of the founders of the Austro-French Rail-
road Company into a capital of 44,000 shares has
produced a perfect panic among the private specu-
lators in Austrian railway shares.

SARDINIA.
TURIN, June 4.—The Treaty or convention for
the loan of a second million, on account of the
war expenses, by the English to the Sardinian
Government, was signed here yesterday by Count
Cavour and Sir James Hudson.

The Opinione of Turin says :—" We learnt rom
Paris that M. Hubner has really presented a note
to the French Government, reflecting severely on
Piedmont.. But, contrary to the assertions of the
Belgian press, these reflections have not been re-

ceived with favour; the latest French notes ad-
dressed to the Government of Turiu are conceived
in the most friendly language, and by no moos
bear out the insinuations of certain journals fa'
vourable to Austria."
General de la Marmora arrived at Turin on tbe.
Ist, and was received at the station by the
nisters and many senators, deputies, and members
of the municipal council.
The bill for a grant of land to General de la,
Marmora, as a national recompence, was adopted
unanimously on the 2d in the Piedmontese Senate.
The Piedmontese Gazette, of the 2d, publishes
Royal decree, promulgating the treaty concluded
between Sardinia and Spain on the 3d of April last,
for the purpose of defining the powers and attri"
butions of the consuls of the two countries.

The following letter has been received frcira
Vienna, dated the sth :--
"Letters which I have just received from Sisehe°
off
state that the Russians are pushing on very actively the
evacuation of the portion of Bessarabia destinent
to be detached from the Russian territory. Af
this moment there remains at Ismail only a garrison e.
150 men. The Russian flotilla is disarmed, and is aon!
to be taken to the Don, and the guns are in course
removal from Reni. The terrible brigandage by eibler
Hungary is ravaged, and especially the districts near.
Croatia, have obliged the Government to proclaim Trabe
tial law, and to send thither large bodies of troops. -110
number of forged bank notes, particularly those
kreutzers, is so great in Transylvania as to have II"
rally paralysed business at the fair of Kronstadt."