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Show Kussiu'ti Tusk, St. Petersburg, 29. The police are openly anetiug people by batches, at all hours ol the day. Hitherto arreals were made at night, Ou the slightest suspicion against any person bis whole family are arrested and domi ciliary visits are paid to ail their acquaintances, ac-quaintances, these ieding to further appiebeusions on the most frivolous grounds. Eighty-three furnished lodging keeper?, are id prison for not reporting withio twenty tour hours tne lalpst arrivals. JakovlefT, a government gov-ernment official living in the Winter Palace, and h;u eon, an officer in the guards, are among the persons in 1 cus'.ody. Baron Bistroni. deputy commander of the Si. Petersburg garriion, and General Gildenstauh, command int of the Moscow garrison, have been superceded tor insufficient enthusiasm towards the new order of things. There aie few pedestrians or carriages in the streets, but an endless line ol porters are seated on stools at every door with stout sticks. Covered prison vans frequently pass with a uolice officer mounted bendo the driver and General Gourko drives round in an open drosky escorted by Cossacks, crocking their whips. The inhabitants are not accomplices ol cibilisis but apathetic fpectaturs. |