The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-31

RUssIA.-The foreign correspondence Of the N.
Y. Commercial Advertiser assigns the following
account of the financial troubles Of the Emperor Of
Russia, as good reasons why he does not interfere
in the affairs Of Germany. IL may direct his con-
duct in the Turkish quarrel.
The Gar has his private reasons for being quiet
His financial affairs are in a bad way. The pro-
visions for the Hungarian army were not paid for
in money bat in Treasury notes. receipts against
future taxes and partly in paper money The re-
turning troops are supplied by forced contributions
with winter stores. At the beginning Of the war,
all the money loaned by the crown on mortgage
was called in. The Russian debt amounted before
the war to the round sum olive hundred and eighty
millions Of silver roubles, and the Gar has been
endeavOring TO contract an additional loan. Inc
maintenance Of the army in time OF peace costs
lhrty-six millions of silver rOubles. 10 Is notorious
ly bad, for in the army as in every other branch
Of public service in Russia, a large portion
of the funds slips through the fingers OF the tune-
tiOnaries. During he war these expenses must
have been greatly Increased. As thegold and sli-
yer We're Tsaulred to pay ne army, ne array con-
miEsaFies purchased with Treasury orders, although
the assignat bank had already issued paper to the
of seven hundred millions of silver rOubles
This immense paper circulation Is proof that the
scarcity Of gold and silver Is felt IN Russia as well
as elsewhere, Notwithstanding its mines and the
difficulty with which lis coin finds its way into
other countries. It is true that large SUMS have
been sent to France for the purchase Of its Injuries,
but these have found their way back N purchases
of grain and -four. In lS47 Russia exported these
articles to the value of seventy-ve millions Of sill
yer roubles. RumOr speaks of immense treasures
in the Peter Paul's Fortress but their eXstence u
quite probematical. The mines of Siberia and The
UFal do not seem TO yield as much as is generally
supposed, although Russia pays annually seven mill
liOns for working them. By Russian accounts, the
gold and silver captured Hungary by the Rus
slams bear TO those taken by the Ausrrians the pro-
portion of 81 to but this exists only IN the brains
Of the writers. There was little gold in Hungary
for any body TO take.
That the Russian debt will continue 20 increase
is evident. The expenditure of the Government
already far exceeds its income. The Russian re-
ceipts taxes, tolls mOnopolies, ec do not exceed
hundred millions of silver roubles, while the ex-
penses for the army for the interior, for the fleet,
the palaces, the royal manufactures the colleges
the police and the spies maintained IN foreign
countries must swell 70 nearly hundred and sixty
millions. The financial distress Of the Gar Is evil
dent from his attempts to raise new loans, from the
suspension Of his railroads and public works, from
the new taxes imposed, from the calling in Of all
debts 10 the state and from the abolition OF various
privileges accorded to towns and cities, which pre-
vented the increase of the Treasury receipts From
these data ] would infer the entire want pl prob
ability in all the rnmors Of war which blow from
the East of Europe. Russia has one Of the wort
systems Of government in Europe, and must Eel
lis bad effects The immense extent Of her territory
and the profound ignorance Of Eur0pe as 20 her IN
ternal strength combine to give exaggerated ideas
of her ffYrpa