New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-28
RUSSIA.
A NEW STEP IN THE EMANCIPATION OF
THE SERFS.

No important pronotone vee made on me Enfe-
| rors birthday, excepting that OF Prince Wasshtchi-
kog who was raised 70 the post Of Assistant Minister
Of War. WITH The charge of the Ministry during the sb
,erce Of General Soukhozanett, VIII is obgecto
the country on account o. his health A colleague has
also been given 70 the Minister OF Public losirGc-
ton. Several military projections have taken pace
| ard a amber of badges and orders have beet be-
slowed tt e nomination O. Prince Wassltchikor mas
beer received with universal satisfaction Ills rep@'a-
ton was confirmed by his bravery a. Sevastopo!,
where he was second in command to Prince Gortcha'
| kcf whose entire confidence he possessed
The following is brief abstract q: the Imperial
ukase containing the measures to be adopted by tle
| Committees Of Emancipation.
TIE uksse declares IN the frs: Place, thst 1t wac
sgreed upon in the presence of the Emperor IN Grand
| Committee the Grand Duke Constantine assisting, as
usua Il then sets forth the object Of the proceedings
Of the Committees appointed in the Governments
traces their progress and enons them to corc'1de Id
six months, when the regulations viii be Submitted to
The approval Of tie Emperor, 20 be put Immediately
into execution.
The uksse, after having recognized the necessity Of
taking Into consideration, Ill the regulations OF the
PROVINCES the various modifying local circumstances
s.ates that there is need of Loral regulation which
shall serve as general basis. This normal regulation
is composed Of ten chapters, Of which the following
| are the titles
l. Obligatory Transitional condition OF the peasant.
,. Definition Of this condition.
3. Territorial rights OF proprietors.
T. Regulation concerning the Enclosures Of peasants
). Principles TO follow in the bss.owal of lands Oh
peasants.
b. Rents of the peasants.
4 Sr.ie NJ ne Inl1 ~
and their families who live ID the masters house with
| out any specified seNice).
g. Constitution Of the lew communities.
9. The rights of propretors. and the connection Of
| these with their peasants.
TO- MsILer and means Of enforcing th regulation.
Each of these articles is then separately explained.
We can draw from them the general idea that serfdom
forever abolished in Russia and can never again be
established there under any form whatever. The con-
don of the peasants, when the regulations are once
COL trmed will be a par with that Of the other
| classes of citizens.
The name of seigneuria peasants will be changed to
peasants by contract that IT, they will treat freely and
at their pleasure with the propretors concerning
the conditions of their work. But until the con6rma-
ton Of definite regulations they must be made to under
stand that they must be submissive and cannot leave
the lard. Then the ukase orders regulation to be
prepared according to which the peasants can change
their condition to enter for instance into the class
of citizens Next the dura.ion-and it must in every
Gaze be short of this transition state preceding their
| trial emancipation-is to be determined.
And finally the Imperial ukase peremptorily com.
mands that there be inherited in the new regulations
cause compelling the propietors to cede to their sers
the Enclosures which they occupy together with their
house, beside certain quantity of cultvable land,
| greater or smaller according to circumstances.
| CorrespondeIce Of the rieana Waadoe.
RUSSIAN Frontier, April 80, 1885,
II s estimated that in 1851 there were 22OOO,O0
serfs exclusive of thoee belonging to the Crown in
the u.s. 600 GOO inhabitants CT Russia. The distribution
of the serfs in the different governments is follows:
Kiev, 5l1 ,554 Podolis, 472,553 Tooa, 4O3,649;
Riszan, 39l 49, Smoensk, 37S,aSs; Orel, 374,63l;
Tver 362, ~ Tsmbov, 3d. l42; Volhynia &c., O92i
Koorsk, $50 96S Nischni Novgere, 34l lDl; Vladi-
mir 800 765; Poltava, 325,753; Saratov, 30, O9S;
Kslooga 3O7, 746; Moscow, 800, 1903; Kosroma 295,-
1853; Mnsk, 2ss, 1855; Mohiev, 2s6, u.s. Tchenigov,
2Sl ,S44; PenZ, 264, 967 Peru $50 5Sl Vory-
nezk, 243 500 KhaIkov, 223 I4O Witebsk, PIC, 752;
Simbrsk, 2l2 Ss9; Novgorod 1893 49I Pskov, 1856 $751;
Yeka.erinOslov, Isl, 3O7: Kherson, Isl go in the
district of the Don COssacks, 1891; Samsrs,
10S 2jl; Kszsn, 99,5SS; Orebburg, 5,56l Tsurds,
2O677; viatka, 1916; Stavopol, S,3l; Astrsksn,
6.2Il; wilma, l97, 1863 Grodno, l9s us Kovno,
III ,3lS; and st. Petersburg, l25 Alb.
Very few of these belong to the Governments stu
ated outside of Europe, for instance in kutaisk,
where there lie Only one serf
Core pondeuce Of the Ag9sbu,gty AHgmeiae Zeituag.
ST. PETERSBURG May l.
In the sst number of the journal OF the Minister of
the Interior, there is mention made Of the commence
ment of proceedings in several Governments by the
Committees appointed to arrange the emancipation Of
the sers. ST. Petersburg madethe beginning Jan. %;
wilma and Nishni Novgorod followed the day Of the
insuguratiop and Grodno and Kovno on the 10Th and
18th of March. The discussion of the details i'm
mediately commenced, but nothing is yet published
concerning it. Nssimoff, Governor. General Of Wilma,
Grodno and Kovno, arrived here few days SINCE But
few promotions announced for the Emperor birth
day. Controller Adjutant. General Annenkof is made
Generate Of Infantry. Lieutenant General Prince Wassi
sbikof formerly Chief Chancellor of the War Depart
ment created Assistant Minister of War, and lie re-
placed by Major. General Tchacthef. Muravief, Min
lister of the Domains has received the Order Of Via
dimir The construction of the Moscow and Ssratow
road which connects this latter place with the
Lower Vogs be seriously contemplated.
State Councillor Dorpg and Mr. Hsine, Russian and
Belgian engineer, left last mouth for Ssratow. The
measures that since the official career Of Count Schu
vaof have been adopted agsint master -workmen who
neglect their apprentices attended with the best
suits The apprentices have sometimes left the shops
in body and cnr.d their complaints to the police
Office ard if found TO be well grounded, the employers
have been punished by fines ceDsure and exposure.
Couepond'nse Of the -fug'sHygey .m9emeiae zeitus9