The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-14

intermediate state of probation they were to under
20 until they had made their payments. Here in st.
Petersburg, where the nobility, who belong mostly
to the weather. class, were among the first to ac
cede to the proposals Of government after the nitia
tive taken by the Lithuanian provinces the meeting
of delegates called for the purpose of carrying them
into effect has been sitting for some time,
and rather stormy debates are said to have taken
place; but an agreement has at length been to,
and will be published as it receives the i'm
perial sanction unless it be thought advisable that
the forms and conditions to which the eniranchise-
ment Of the peasantry is subject should be promul
gated simultaneously for the whole empire. At
Moscow the first number of q new monthly has just
been issued, which treats exclusively Of the enamel
patton question, and endeavors to show that the in
teress OF the rural population will continue bound
up with those OF their former masters; that the lat
ter will gain quite as much as the former by their
mutual relations being placed on more satisfactory
footing, and that in the end they will find more
advantageous, even in pecuniary point OF view,
to have their estates cultivated by free aborers than
by sullen and indolent serfs.
In consequence of the treaty concluded with the
japanese government by Count Putiatin, consul
has been appointed to Japan in the person of M.
Goshkevitch who proceeded thithera few days SINCE
via Siberia and the Amoor. He will reside at
HakOdadi, in the island of Yeso or Matsma, which
has been selected as being contiguous to the
Kouriles and the other Russian possessions in East
Il
gust who spent ten years at Pekn with the Russian
ecclesiastical mission and afterwards accompanied
Putiatn on his first expedition to Japan in the capa
city ofnterpreter. After the wreck of the frgate
Diana in the great earthquake at Simoda, he en-
baTked for kamschatka on board of German mer-
chairman, but was captured in transtu by British
cruiser and conveyed to Hong Kong, from whence he
returned to Russia the conclusion of peace
with the Western Powers He brought with
him Japanese, named TatsibOvava Koosa
who has been converted to Christianity, and with
whose assistance he compiled japanese dictionary,
which has lately been published here by the Asiatc
Department of the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, and
is declared by our critics to be the best work Of the
kind eXtant. NJ. Goshkevtch is accompanied to ia
pan by his wife, who will be the first European fe
male that has ever resided in that country. The
Dutch, who for the last two centuries were the only
foreigners admitted to trade with the subjects of the
SeogoOn, and had footing on the island of Desiva
were never allowed to bring their wives with them
though they were literally supplied with native con-
cubines. What arrangements Commodore Perry
may have made on this head you will know better
than can tell you.
The attention of enterprising men con-
tnues to be directed to the new colonies
on the AMOR which are destined at remote date
to figure among the great emporiums of trade, con-
Meeting Siberia and Central Asia with China, Japan,
California and the whole Pacific. company has
recently been formed with capital of one million
roubles to carry on commercial operations between
the AMOR and the adjoining regions, to run line
of steamers that river and its tributaries and to
work the rich coal and other mines that exist in
various parts of the country Considering the vic-
nifty of the great Siberian pIacers there be no
doubt hut that gold will be found too although the
immense fields of anthracite on the island of Seq
tain aud elsewhere will turn out eventually to he
more prolific sources OF wealth than what is usually
termed the precious metas-the same as the
black diamonds of England have proved infinitely
more valuable than the real diamonds of Brazil.
The chief drawback on the future prosperity
of the Amoor is the climate, which, though
much milder than other parts OF Eastern Siberia
is still excessively severe, the river being frozen up
at its mouth for nearly eight months in the year.
This necessarily confines the maritime intercourse of
Ncolaevsk with the rest of the world TO very brief
period and serious contemplation therefore to
transfer the seat of government of the Territory
TO CastIes Bay, or some other point on the Gulf of
Tartary where the navigation is but rarely impeded
by floating ice According TO our last accounts from
Ncolaievsk, the whole place was completely showed
up. and the inhabitants suffering greatly from
the want of fresh provisions, their diet being limited
almost exclusively to fish, immense quantities of
which are brought from the Gulf of Tartary. They
were looking anxiously TO the approach Of spring,
and the arripA Of ships from California, which,
however, could mol he expected before the beginning
of June. From Admiral Putatin we had dispatches
not long since dated from Macao, anu giving an
count OF the taking of Canton by the allies, which is
represented as mere farce. the Chinese " braves
having hoed at the first shot. | understand he has
arranged all the difficulties between Russia and
China; at any rate, the manner in which he has
conducted the negotiations must have given entire
satisfaction here, he has just been decorated with
the grand Gordon of st. Alexander Neosky.
This has been quite brilliant season for our
beau monde At court marrying and giving in
marriage is the order of the day. The Empress
maids Of honor have been particularly fortunate in
this respect; the young Countess Panin, daughter
TO the Minister ofJusce, married the other day
TO Count Levashof. one OF the Emperors aidesde-
camp, and now Nile. Pashkof is afIianced to Prince
Vladimir Galtzn, colonel of the regiment OF gardes
d chtrdi, and Mile. Ohenburg, "A sister Of the re.
nowned Princess kotchenbey, to Baron konventz,
Saxon Charge d'Afairs
A general gloom, however, was spread in eur
aTistocrac circles by the death of Count AlsonfriG
Grand Steward Of the Household and an especial
favorite Of the Emperor, VINO expired rather sud-
denly at Rome, where he had gone for the benefit of
his health.
The Alleged Label the Emperor or the
French ~ London.
From the London Tines, March 20
The Polish bookseller, named Stanislaus Tchor-
zewskwski, who stands charged with publishing the
pamphlet entitled Lettre Parchment ct Ia Pres-e'
melting to the assassination Of the Emperor of the