RUSSIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 317, 25 December 1862, Page 6

RUSSIA.

The Emperor of Russia while celebrating at Nijni Novgorod the tlioa^'-ulfch anniversary of that empire, >■ has signed a uk tse to relieve from farther onfLca.ion the estates of Polish p ltriote under sentence for poli tk*.al ofiences since 1851. Thossj, h>wevei», whose property; ,has already be^a sold by the g4>rtf rumen t will have no redres*, At the same rime, C»unt Z^imoyski, whom the a*s >inbly of Polish hni.oi'tU io -k' J i u^> to as their leuler. us.* heen haaishel from th" Ozar'.s dctaiui ju« for a:i indefiu^e tiin-j. Ths Grand jiuke (Jouatan mo ha.* qpjtieil tue session of the Council of $t<xte at Warsaw, with an address in the Pojish langa-Jgi\ in which he give the statfstiets of the numbora of persons condemned -op pardoned since the state o.f riexe was dstihlished. He announced, moreover, tfjat the emperor had deigtved h bestow on his f kj»g<Joia of Poland a further measure of *,*Admin strative autonomy,'* by decreeing ** the independence of We po*toflice and higlway-t,'*and he^esa-ed the Council top^ss certain tauc-bilU which the Qovermoeat laid wpyatthftirteWe, , , "-•-

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