31 DECEMBER 1853, Page 10

The letters from St- Petersburg reach to the 29th instant,

and quote the rate of exchange slightly more unfavourable for England. A considerable business bad taken place in exports for next year. With regard to poli- tics, the only remark is that the preparations going on in all quartets are such as to denote that they are made with a view to more serious con- tingencies than that of a war merely with Turkey.-2Veres, City Article.