7 DECEMBER 1861, Page 2

Ituffia.—The Russians will hold a festival in August at Novog,o-

rod, to celebrate the thousandth year of their existence as a nation. An industrial exhibition has just been closed in St. Petersburg, which exhibited remarkable advance. The show of linens and sheet- iron was remarkably good, and the Russians are becoming skilled in clockwork and jewellery. The cotton-mills are almost all closed. Two pictures are spoken of amongst the many which Russia will send to the English great Exhibition. One of these is the " Destruc- tion of Pompeii," by Bruloff, and the other the "Brazen Serpent," by Bruni, both enormously large. The specialty of the Russian school, as of every other Asiatic school, is low comedy.