The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-11 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 31st ult., in
the Debats, contains the following :—" According
to what is generally said on the Bourse, nothing is
definitively known hero on the subject of the loan,
more or less considerable, which the Russian Go-
vernment proposes to contract abroad, nor on the
subject of establishing in some of the great com-
mercial towns of the empire privileged banks, in
shares, or financial institutions of credit mobi-
her. As it is usual with us to proceed prudently
and deliberately in all matters, it is not proba-
ble that any important financial decision will be
come to before the return of the Emperor here
from Riga and Revel. Nevertheless, the Minister of
Finance receives daily from a number of foreign
companies the most favourable propositions for
the establishment of banks under denom'rtations
hitherto unknown in Russia. At all events, it is
thought that if the Emperor consents to grant
bank chasters to foreign capitalists, it will be on
the condition of a simultaneous establishment of
banks at St. Petersburg, Mcscow, and Odessa,
which are regarded as the great centres of the
commerce and industry of the empire. Hitherto
our capitalists and rich landed proprietors have
displayed no eagerness to interest themselves in
these institutions of public credit ; it is possible
that, once the impulse given by foreigners, it
will spread rapidly from one extremity to the
other of this vast empire, as experience has
shown us in other matters. Accounts from
Stockholm report that the Swedish Cabinet is
engaged in selecting an Ambassador to our
Court in place of General Nordin, who has left
Rus§ja. It is expected that another military man,
Maj#General Peyron, will be chosen, and this
selection will be approved of here, where he is
much respected, as likewise in his own country.
The loss sustained by private individuals at Sebas-
topol and Kertah has been valued at no less than
three million roubles, which is the sum demanded
as an indemnity by the inhabitants. The indem-
nity granted will not exceed a third of that sum."
A letter from St.. Petersburg of the 30th ult.
states that the Emperor Alexander before his de-
parture for Germany ordered the ship of the line
the Bosphorus, now in course of construction at
Nicola,ieff, to be called the Sinopo, and the line-of-
battle ship ordered in the United States, the Em-
press Marie. The same letter says :—" The Rus-
sian Government is endeavouring to promote com-
mercial relations with foreign states. The firm of
Rafalowitch, of Odessa, has lately received permis-
sion to establish a house at Berlin ; and M.
Schwebe, of Revel, has been authorised to found a
firm at Antwerp, the permission to exist until the
31st of December, 1860."

PRUSSIA.
The Bourse Gazette of Berlin states :—" The
passport regulations which had been re-established
in Russia with all their severity will shortly be
modified. They had been re-established only be-
cause the new dispositions bad excited a certain
confusion, which it is wished to avoid for the
future."

A letter from Berlin, in the Post Ampt Gazette,
states :—" The Piing and Princess of Prussia will
leave for London in the commencement of July.
The solemn betrothal of Prince Frederick William
with the Princess Royal of England will take place
during their stly in that country. Prince Adal-
bert, Grand Admiral of Prussia, has selected in
the island of Rugen a spot for the establishment
of a military post."
The Bourse Gazette of Berlin states that the
hopes entertained respecting the important modifi-
cations in the Russian customs system are prema-
ture. The modifications will consist, it says, only
in insignificant reductions of the tariff.
M. de Westphalen, the Prussian Minister of the
Interior, published an ordinance on the 7th pro-
hibiting the editors of all the political journals of
the capital from publishing any account of the de-
liberations and resolutions of Cabinet Councils, as
such. accounts, he declares, must either be pure
invention or obtained by the guilty indiscretion of
an employ 6.