RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 433, 27 December 1856, Page 5

RUSSIA.

Private accounts from St. Petersburg state* that great as was the attention that was paid to Marshal Marmont, who represented Charles X. at the coronation of the late Emperor, in 1826, it was nothing to the reception that M. de Morneyhas enjoyed in St. Petersburg and Peterhoff at the Imperial hands. On several occasions it has been emphatically mentioned in the highest | circles that in M. de Momy they recognize not simply a high officer of State, but a private lriend of the Emperor of the French. Under the auspices of this favoured diplomatist there is a certain circle, or coterie, or Court, in course of formation, which the representatives of States even of second rank do 'not disdain to frequent —for. instance, the representative of Sardinia, Count Broglia di Casalborgone. A sort of contrast to this conleur de rose picture is. formed by the very quiet, calm, and reserved manner in which our representative, Lord Granville,pursues the even tenour of his way; he is said, however, to be by no means neglected or slighted by the Imperial Court, but to be treated with a much colder style of politeness than his more favoured colleague. Lord Granville also is described as having his own circle and coterie, and his salons ,as by, no means left empty or unvisited. Count Esterhazy, who will still'be recollected in England as having represented his Court there some 20 years ago, is now 70 years old, and, as he has been selected for this mission of representing his Emperor at the coronation more on account of his rank and his wealth, his position in St. Petersburg seems to have less of a political nature than that of the other two representatives ; he, too, has his salons and his circle, which keeps tolerably distinct from those of the other two ; but the political element is less prominent under his auspices, and a more genial.tone pei> vades the circle that is presided over by this cheerful old gentleman. In his splendid uniform of a Hungarian General of Hussars he mighteasily be mistakehfor an old soldier,though as yet his sword has never been drawn in anger from its golden scabbard. The background and intervening points of this picture are filled up by the numerous German Princes, who being all young, with the exception of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, and not being oppressed by any weighty political mission, look upon the whole episode as a party of pleasure in connection with a family event, and enjoy themselves accordingly. The Russians seem to be showing themselves in the most amiable' colours ; hospitality, which is a sort of religious duty with them, is being exhibited to the fullest extent, and the man most prominent in the exercise, of this graceful virtue is the Emperor himself. The Emperor of Russia made his solemn entry into Moscow on the 29th of August. Preparations are beginning to be made now in St. Petersburg for the festal amusements _ that are to be tin-own open to the people there simultaneously with the solemnities in Moscow. The chief point of attraction for the out-door amusements will be the Champ de Mars, where buildings have been erected for carousals' and eques.trian performances, which the liberality of theEmperor or of the city, or even the generosity of guilds and private individuals, have provided the funds for. On the 26th inst. half St, Petersburg was on foot, and assembled on the spot where the Seine was moored, for the purpose of seeing her start on her homeward voyage. This vessel, the reader wall recollect, conveyed the carriages, horses, and entire stable establishment of Count de Momy to St. Petersburg, and now that the equipages, the horses, the grooms, the piqueurs, the masters of the horse, have all found where to lay their heads in St. Petersburg, the Seine returned to Havre.