Eaton Democrat

Domestic Troubles of the Czar.

The following private letter, dated the 8th inst., has been received from St. Petersburg:

"In consequence of the receipt of the affair of the 5th of November, the Empress has had a serious and even alarming relapse. The courier found the Emperor in the apartment of the Empress, awaiting the news with feverish impatience, and when the truth was declared to him he could not restrain his feelings, but broke out into the strongest expression of dissatisfaction and anger against his generals and his army. One exclamation which escaped him, respecting his sons greatly alarmed the empress, who was aware that they were with the army at Sebastopol. She feared that some terrible calamity had befallen them, seeing the agitation of her husband, and she fainted away. She remained for some time insensible, and it was with much difficulty that the emperor and attendants succeeded in restoring her to animation. She became more calm when informed that nothing had occurred to her sons; but her health has seriously suffered from the shock caused by the defeat of the army at Inkermann, and she has now to struggle against an increase of debility and a low fever.

"As to Austria, every one here is furious against her, particularly since the communication which was made by Prince Gortsakoff.

"Russia will never forget to forgive her perfidy," cried a lady the other evening in the saloon of M—."For my part I am ready to give at this moment, as a contribution, one hundred of my serfs for the regiment of Chasseurs." Three days after, the niece of the lady in question was appointed one of the ladies in waiting to the Empress, but the Emperor at the same time had an admonition conveyed to her to be cautious how she spoke of politics in society, and particularly in the saloons which the attaches of the Russian Embassy frequented."