The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-03 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Emperor, on leaving St. Petersburg on the
17th inst., did not, as was at first supposed, go
direct to Warsaw, but went round by Moscow,
which he visited in all haste. The most plausible
reason that is at present assigned for this visit to
Moscow, besides the inspection of the preparations
for hisapproaching coronation, is the all-important
question of the direction of the future lines of rail
road. The original plan for connecting the pro-
vinces of Groat Russia with Poland and the Baltic
was to construct a line from Kursk to Dunaburg,
where it would meet the Petersburg-Warsaw and
the Dunaburg-Riga lines. The plan that seems now
to have the Emperor's approbation is to take Smo-
lensk for its starting point, and run to Dunaburg.
This latter line would certainly have the advantage
of opening up an almost direct communication be-
tween Moscow and the western provinces. Another
motive assigned for the visit to Moscow was the
desire of the Emperor personally to examine into
the feasibility of certain plans for the improvement
and embellishment of the town which have been
submitted to him. The main feature of this plan
consists in pulling down and getting rid of the
numerous wooden houses with which the town
abounds. In one part of the town it is decided
that they shall be pulled down at once, and in
another this is to be done at a future time ; and
it is settled once for all that there are to bo no
more houses erected of wood there.
The following is the text of the amnesty just
issued to the Polish exiles, on the occasion of the
Czar's visit to Warsaw. It appears in the Warsaw
Ofiicial Gazette of May 30 :—" H.M. the Emperor,
being desirous of showing his paternal clemency to
those who, having unlawfully left the kingdom of
Poland or the Eastern Governments of the emp;ra,
now regret their fault, and wish to return to their
country, and being, at the same time, willing to
convince them that their previous offences are
forgotten, deigns to authorise his embassies abroad
to receive their petitions for the grant of
a permit to return.
The authorisation to
reenter their country will be immediately granted
to the petitioners, and they will not be subjected
to any further investigation or responsibility to the
Courts of Justice. On the contrary, from the mo-
ment of their return, they will all resume their civil
rights and the privileges of their respective ranks,
and after three years of irreproachable conduct they
will be admissible into the pupil° service, so as to
become useful to their country and to be placed in
a position to prove the sincerity of their sentiments.
Thoso of the emigrants who, by their proceedings,
have constantly shown, and still show, an incorri-
gible hatred towards the Russian Government, are
excepted from this act of his Majesty's mercy."
A correspondent of the Berlin .Bourse Gazette
affects to know positively that the Czar's visit to
the Court of Prussia has been prompted by his de-
sire to see the Danubian Principalities united under
the sovereignty of a German plaice.

PRUOIA•
BERLIN, June I.—Yesterday ;eveningthere was
a so-called Festal performance at tLI Opera-house
—that is to say, one to which the tichTets are for
the most part distributed to the officers a2d men
who had in the morning taken part in the parade.
The Emperor and the King were among those pre-
sent ; the former, as in the morning, iu the Prus-
sian Lancer uniform ; the latter in that of a Rus-
sian General. After the performance at the
Opera the Emperor was present at a review,
nearly as fine as that he had parti3ipated in in
the morning, and with which only the most
satisfactory reflections of the efficiency and
usefulness of the body reviewed can be asso-
ciated. As soon as the opera was over, and the
Court returned to the Schloss, the alarm was tele-
graphed from the palace that a firs had broken out
at the Schloss, and in a few minutes the engines,
followed up by the light vans that transport the
men, and tuns of water running on wheels, came
tearing into the Lustgarten, and the Schloss Platz,
from all quarters and districts of the town, their
torches flaring, and the signal bell that each engine
carries clanging away to warn pedestrians out of
the road. The police assembled also in considerable
force, and kept the ground clear, so that no im-
pediment was offered to the evolutions of the men
while going through all their manoeuvres: The
groups of the firemen, partially lit up by the torches,
while clustering round their dusky-looking vehicles,
and the chain of policemen, on foot and mounted,
that formed the extreme verge of the scene, their
helmets from time to time reflecting the flickering
light, formed a most attractive picture. The Grand
Duke of Oldenburg, to enjoy it nearer, got into
one of the firemen's vans, and drove in and out
among the groups.
In the middle of the day yesterday, after the
parade was over, the Emperor received Baron Man-
teuffel in a private audience at the hotel of the
Russian Embassy. Prince Gortschakoff had already
while the parade was go .33g on paid his visit to the