RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 337, 23 January 1856, Page 6

RUSSIA.

We find in different German papers the announcement of failures without end atnonjjsl the Russian commercial houses. At Moscow, goreri'inemt manufactories are neinjr closed and companies dissolved ; lor instance, one of the most important, the company for the navigation of the Vulg-a, established "in 1614. The St. Petersburg- correspondent of the Presse observes that since promulgation of the decree forbiddingthe exportation, not onk of Russian gold and silver coin, bin of all Foreign coin even, in circulation within the Empire^ 5' the la*t blow has been •jiven ;.. the commercial connections existing between Russia and lite other states — her neighbors.'' The commercial, industrious, money-jretiins- part of the Russian population, the sii-cailed German element, will, iv all likelihood, ere lon«r, bej^in to think the war too costly. A private letter from St. Petersburg informs us that the Czar had £iveii orders that every inch of jrnsnmi was to be contested at Sebas'opol, and iiiat ;he public building's weie to be b'i..wn up it. case the allies succeeded in passing- the st*cond line >A' defence.