Daily National Intelligencer

Russian Finances.—It is stated in the English papers that a meeting was held in April, at St. Petersburgh, of the Council of the different establishments of National Credit. The minister of Finance read to them a long exposé relative to the progress of the system of credit and its present state. He took a review of the beneficial effects which had resulted from the Imperial Banks established within the last fifty years and from the solicitude manifested by the government, even amidst all the embarrassment of recent times, to keep faith with regard to the public creditors. He then particularly directed their attention to the financial measures of the last year. The proposed loan had fully answered the expectation of the government, and foreign capitalists had taken a large share of it. It demonstrated the confidence that prevailed abroad in the resources and good faith of the government, and enabled it to improve its system of finance, without diverting too great a portion of native capital from the channels in which it usually flowed. The loan had already produced a sum of 28,000,000 of rubles; by the aid of which and other appropriations, government had been enabled to withdraw from circulation paper money to the amount of 38,000,000 roubles.