Several English engineers, who, in spite of great obstruction, escaped
from St. Petersburg on the 5th of this month, called at the Admiralty yesterday, by the direction of Lord Bloomfield, for the purpose of seeing Sir James Graham. Sir James was absent, and they were received by Captain Washington, his private secretary. They gave some information respecting the state of St. Petersburg,—to the effect that great hostility is felt towards England; that the Russian steam-boat engineers show little skill; that the Emperor was so greatly altered when they came away that they were shocked on beholding him—he looked twenty years older ; and "he, formerly so conspicuous for his erect carriage, now stooped with age and infirmity." All sorts of ludicrous lies were pub- lished in the St. Petersburg newspapers,—such as that the English people are starving, and that the price of bread in London is a silver rouble (3s. 2d.) per pound.
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