The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-13 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg has the follow-
ing :—" On the night between the 16th and 17th
of September a great calamity occurred on the
Walkhow, opposite the .town of Novaia-Ladoga,
where, at the mouth of the Ladoga Canal, num-
bers of vessels laden with merchandise and timber
assemble. Shortly after midnight a tempest arose,
and one of the vessels caught fire. The flames,
fanned by the wind, spread to some other vessels
which had run ashore. The greatest disorder pre-
vailed. The vessels were dashed one against
another, and many of them sank. It was impos-
sible to give them any assistance, and everything
in the direction of the wind near the island and
right shore was either burnt or sunk. The wind,
coming from the lake, kept along the right shore ;
this circumstance saved alt the vessels on the other
side. It is estimated that about 200 vessels of
different sizes were destroyed."
A Warsaw letter of the Bth says :—" The Em-
peror and Empress arrived yesterday evtning at
the chateau of Skierniewice. An immense con-
course of people from the city and environs were
assembled to welcome their majesties. The park
was brilliantly illuminated, and the Emperor and
the Empress drove slowly through the vast alleys
of the park In an open carriage amidst the most en-
thusiastic cheers. At ten o'clock this morning,
their Majesties made their public entry into War_
saw. All the streets through which they passed
were hung with garlands of flowers, and the railw,ly
station was decorated with great taste and magni-
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The Emperor was on horseback, and rode
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first to the Greek cathedral, and then to the La-
zienki palace. The crowd everywhere hailed their
Majesties with acclamation.

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the
30th ult ,
in the Occelte du Midi, says :
"Accour is from Tiflis gave reason to suppose that or e
of thaql interventions of which England has so frequenti,
given an txanq.le in India has just been effected by ti e
Russians. Mingrelia was lately under the rule of thr
Princess Dadian, who exercised the regency during the
minority of her sun. This Princess, who went to Moscow
at the time of the c.ironation of the Emperor, received the
most honourable wehome. About a month ago accounts
reached Constantinople that a popular tumult had broken
out in the States of the Princess and that the peasanti
had refused to submit to the tribunals of the country.
The Russian authorities of Tiflis did not then take any
part in what was going on at Zuugdidi, the cap
tal of Mingrelia. According to the accounts just re-
received it appears that the Russians have interfered,
and it was announced at. Tiflis that the princess had

been deprived of her sovereign rights. The Prase
d'Orient says :—' When the princess was, in the month
of August, at her summer residence at Gerdi, her palace
was searched and a great number of her papers seized.
It is thought that the princess regent will be requested
to establish her residence either at St. Petersburg or
Yloscow. The guardianship of the young prince has
been confided to a Russian general, and when he has
attained the age of 21 the population of Mingrelia will,
it is said, be consulted on the subject of his assuming
government.' These facts will throw some little light on,
the titles given to P,ince Bariatinski, which is styled
lieutenant of the Emperor in the Caucasus and governor•
general of Georgia, Imeritia, the Couriel and Min-
grelia."