The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-01 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The fallowing letter has been received from St.
Petersburg, dated the 20th :—" The situation of the
Turkish empire particularly occupies the attention
of our Government at present. The news from
Turkey is of the most alarming character. Bosnia
and the Herzegovina are in a state of complete fer-
mentation. Prince Daniel of .Montenegro meditates
an extension of his territory. Prince Milosch, rely-
ing on a courageous and determined army, openly
refuses obedience. The Hospodar Couza governs
the Danubian provinces like an independent sove-
reign, and he forcibly expelled the Turkish garri-
sons from the islands in the Danube. Nevertheless,
although this description is not reassuring, nothing
authorises me to believe that the integrity of the Ot-
toman empire is menaced for the present. If the
Eastern question is really to occupy the first rank
in the councils of the European Cabinets, it is be-
lieved here that the crisis will be caused by unex-
pected circumstances, or rat her by the tendencies of
the new French policy, which are here considered
both mysterious and inexplicable. The citizens of
Moscow are at present giving splendid fetes in
hononr of the new Field-Marshal Prince Bariatinski,
who is on his way to Tiflis to resume the functions of
the Emperor's Lieutenant-General in the Caucasus.
After the conquest of the Caucasus the Russian Go-
vernment is about to occupy itself earnestly with
Central Asia. The construction of new fortifica-
tions on the river Syr-Bari is about to be commenced,
in order to complete the line of forts already raised.
The author of the gigantic project of a railway from
Moscow to Tiflis, through Kiew, is at present here.
M. Lubanski has gone to Paris, in the hope of con-
stituting a committee to carry out this plan. The
principal committee is to hold its meetings in St.
Petersburg. The idea of uniting Europe with
Central Asia by a railway has acquired a real im-
portance since the complete conquest of the Cau-
casus. Additional gold mines have been disco-
vered in Eastern Siberia, in the distiicts of Verch-
nesudinsk and Minominski. The financial position
of the country is the most serious ques-
tion at present. It occupies public attention even
more than the emancipation of the peasants, which
is, however, sufficiently serious. I have to announce
to you the death of Gen. Rostowzeff, who was mixed
up in so sad a manner with the remarkable conspi-
racy of Dec. 26, 1825. The information given by
the general contributed to the failure of the conspi-
rators, although the Emperor Nicholas had a nar-
row escape of losing the throne on which he had
scarcely been seated. Gen. Rostowzeff was loaded
with dignities and honours. He was placed at the
head of all the military institutions of the empire,
and, in late years, was appointed President of the
Superior Committee of Emancipation. II? died after
a tedious and painful illness. The Emperor Alexan-
der, hearing that the general's end was approach-
ing, quitted a- ball to attend at his last moments.
The Emperor is profoundly afflicted at the death of
General Rostowzeff, and has ordered that his fune-
ral shall be on the grandest scale."

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