The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-21 00:00:00

RUSSIA IN A STATE OF SIEGE.

TILE Ilioniteur of Thursday, under the date of St. Pe-
tersburg, March the 7th, gives copies of five official
documents, declaring various parts of the Russian domi-
nions to be in a state of siege. Each document is in the
form of an Imperial ukase, dated March the 6th.
The first states that, under present circumstances, his
Majesty thinks it necessary to declare the Government of
Ekatherinowsla and the arrondissement of Taganrog to
be in a state of siege, and places those localities under the
orders of the General of Cavalry M. Khomouloff, with the
privileges granted by the regulations issued on the sth of
December, 1846._

The second ukase declares St: Petersburg to be in a
state of siege, and places the government under the autho-
rity of the Grand Duke, heir to the throne, Commander-
in-Chief of the Guards and Grenadiers, with the preroga-
tives accorded to the Commander-in-Chief of the army.
By the third ukase, the Government of Esthonia and
Livonia are placed in a state of Siege ; Esthonia to be under
the orders .of General Aide-d&Cariip Berg ; and Livonia
under those of the Aide-de-Camp General, Prince of Italy,
Count Suwaroff-Kiminsky, Military Governor of Riga.
The next ukase declares the Government of Archangel
to be in a state of siege, under the orders of Vice-Admiral
Boel, Military-Governor of the place.
By the fifth ukase, the kingdom of Poland, and the
governments of Courland,' Kowno, Wilna, Grodno, Vol-
hynia, and Podolia are declared to be in a state of siege.
The ukase also states that the government of Bessa-
rabia, and that part of the government of Cherson,
situated on the right bank of the Bug, which were de-
clared to be in a state of siege by the ukase of the 19th of
November, 1853, are to be now in a similar position ; and
-that all these places are to be under the authority of
Field-Marshal General Prince of Warsaw, Count Paske-
witsh d'Erivan, Commander-in-Chief of the active army.
The ukase, in addition, states that the Emperor ordains
that the government of Podolia, the part of the govern-
ment of Cherson, situated on the right bank of the Bug,
and the province of Bessarabia, shall, at the same time,
be placed under the authority of the Aide-de-Camp Gene-
ral Prince Gortschakoff, commander of the troops of the
3rd, 4th, and sth corps of infantry, who is to have the
prerogatives granted to the commanders of detached
corps by the ukase of December 6, 1846.

The ukase then provides that the kingdom of Poland
and the governments of Courland, Kowno, Volhynia, and
Grodno, during the absence of the Field-Marshal, shall be
under the authority of General Aide-de-Camp Count Ru-
diger, and that Aide-de-Camp General Baron Osten-Sacken
shall retain in Bessarabia and in the government of Cher-
son the powers granted to the commanders of detached
corps by the ukase of November 19, 1853.

TIIE COAST GITAE.D.—At all the coast guard stations a
boat's crew of the oldest hands were retained, in order
that the stations should not be entirely under the con-
troul in experienced persons.
ABD-EL-KADER.—The Journal d'lndre-et-Loir pub-
lishes the following letter, addressed by Abd-el-Kader to
the Mayor of Amboise, in anlwer to a letter from the
latter, announcing the completion of the monument
erected over the grave of some Arabs who died during
their captivity :—" Praise to the one God ! To our excel-
lent and well-beloved friend, M. Trouve, Mayor of Am-
boise. I salute you, as well as all my friends residing in
your town. May the peace of God be with you. I received
your letter, dated the 6th December last, in which you
announced to me that, according to the orders given by
my illustrious liberator, our august Emperor Napoleon
111., the works are terminated. I thank you for announ-
cing this news to me ; and I shall, therefore, be always
grateful towards the august Emperor.—Salutation.—
ABD-EL-KADMI BEN MAIII-EDDINE.-18th of the Dpmaz-
el-Ouet, 1270 (Feb. 15.")
ATTACK ON A FRENcri VESSEL.—lntelligence has
reached Havre of the pillage and destruction, on the
western coast of Africa, of the Tourville, of that port.
The vessel, it seems, on the 7th of December, ran on a
rock at the mouth of the river Anger, which rock was not
only not marked on the chart, but was not even known
to the natives. The bottom of the Tourville was so
damaged that water rushed in faster than it could be
pumped out. Finding the water gaining constantly on
him, the captain resolved to run the vessel on the coast,
in order, if possible, to save the cargo. No sooner had
he approached the shore than about fifty pirogues, con-
taining armed men, attacked the ship. The captain and
his crew defended themselves for some time, but the
number of assailants increased, and at last they were
obliged to abandon the vessel: they had two men
wounded. They went to a little village, and from thence
proceeded to the Isle of Corisco. As they left, they per-
oeived the blacks fighting on board the Tourville, and
that they had set fire to her: two .of the masts were
already burnt down. When the French .commander of
Cabon was informed of what was taking place, he sent a
force to take vengeance on the bandits. This force de-
stroyed their village and plantations. After these evegts
all the crew,were attacked with fever, and two died. Tht
captain, however, having recovered, had.been appointed
the.command..of a vessel about to sail la _Havre,