Show Religion In Russia The first warning which Prince Uchtomsky the proprietor and editorial edi-torial director of the Sl Petersburg Vlcdomostl has received from the censor cen-sor Is due to the altitude of that jour alltlde nal on the question ot religious tolerance toler-ance In Russia At a recent congress of the Orthodox Greek church In Ore n nobleman named Staehoultch made a speech 1 strongly denouncing the oppression of other sects In BuiSla He urged that It I should cease to bci a criminal offense of-fense for any one to leave the orthodox I ortho-dox church and Join a sect regarded n heterodox by lie holy synod This de mandfor religious tolerance was keenly keen-ly I resented by a majority of those present at the congress and clerical organs all over Russia l have since then been denouncing Lde Stachovvltch with extraordinary vqhemence The St Petersburg rledomosll alone among all the newspapers of Russia has had the courage1to support the demand for rellglous tolerance and to denounce the narrow bigotry of the holy synod and the priests of the Orthodox Or-thodox Greek church The hold synod has therefore brought pressure to hear on the censor to address a first warning warn-ing to Prince Uchtomsky The Incident serves to show that the power of some of the Emperors advisors ad-visors and especially of M Pobled onoszeff Is In some respects greater than that 6f his Majesty himself Prince Uchtomsky Is a personal friend of the Emperor and accompanied him on the Journey which he made as Czar owltz to India Japan and through Siberia Si-beria This fact however does not protect Prince Uchtomsky from the attacks at-tacks of M PobledonosK ff St Petersburg Pe-tersburg Correspondence London Post |