"hard Times" In Russia

A letter from St. Petersburg in the Vienna TügblOU say6 Mie distress among tiu lower classes iu Bussia is daily incrriLsiiiíí. The commercial crisis, wMoh Oaused the failure of munerons banking and merciuitile houses, has buen followecl by au industria] crisis. Some of the Lirgest factorics have boc-n closed, aud thousiuids of men and women are out of work. In Kt. Petersburg and vicinity uo Eewer thnn 90,000 artisaus depend on the Government or private benevolenoe for the luuaus of existenee; and at Moscow, the center of liussian industry, 40,000 workmen have been redneed to beggary - to say nothing of the. multitude of clcrku who have lost their cmployment in consequenee ot' the olosdng of bauks and merchante' ollices. Tlie general dis;ress has been much inereased by the nimdution which ooourred in varions parte of the empire last month.