Show the russian north pacific possessions the splendid fortress of Alexandr opol is now in full way of construction and wui will be completed during next year the bay of cast Cas castries castrios tries ri on the orders borders of which it is erected will ill iii to then be a naval establishment of the greatest iacoi eat e st importance this bay which was discovered ered by la perouse is situated in channel on the eastern coast of the Mant choos country and forms a magnificent anchorage general amdursky governor general of eastern siberia traveled last spring for several months all over the country in order to establish the liew new boundaries of the ru russian isian asian possess possessions ions lons of the amoor and the deliverance of the territories newly acquired from china situated in that part of mongolia which is crossed by that large river the amoor country will in future be divided into tw two distl distinct nc t proy provinces inces one called the maritime province 01 of eastern siberia and the other the pro province vince of amoor the latter latte r will now include all the terr jerr ato ries situated on the I 1 left eft bank of the amoor from the confluence of the rivers ard iagoune up to the confluence of the Ous the city of will be its capital it will be the residence of the military governor who will have command of the regular troops and of the cossacks to be called cossacks of the amoor I 1 the maritime province of eastern siberia will include six districts viz and sophiek recently organized petro losk and according Accordi Dg to a notice of general those new divisions are constituted by an imperial ukase which goes into force on the of oid october tober 1859 the preceding 0 enumeration is ruffic sufficient lent t ta s show how the extent 0 of f the russia russian n possessions h in upper asia they advance across the mant choloria ch even including a portion of Mongolia and it may be predicted that before long they will reach kinhan mountains besides the these possessions will have the advantage of being I 1 un united cited through siberia with I 1 the rest of the empire this circumstance has permitted jh the establishment of a mail service sen ice by la landbo abe tween pekin and st petersburg and tius tins ser seri sers vice has been working regularly fora fon for several months y A recent imperial decree forbids core fore foreign 1 merchants bradin trading a above so Soph lisk ilsk on onjel f t amoor river B by y the brov provisions I 1 1 s ans of libe I 1 cree all the interior co commerce of Mant Mantch choon borl bori and siberia will have to fa be conducted b by russian ulan merchants ali uli 0 lf y |