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Show BOLD APPEAL TO CZAR. Address to Which Signatories Include Many of Nobility. LON'DON, Jnn. 30.-Tho Dally Tele-graph'rf Tele-graph'rf 51 Petersburg dispatches give tho text of a remarkably bold address which has just been voted almost unanimously by tho provincial assembly of Kharkoff lo Emperor Nicholas, congratulating him on the birth of an heir to the throne, and demanding representative government. Tho signatories include marshals' of the ncblllty, noblemen and members of tho Zemstvo who were elected during the Incumbency In-cumbency of tbo Ministry of the Interior by M. Von Plchvo, and who. therefore, are presumably well disposed toward the autocracy. The address refers lo the horrors of war. tho many reverses und other clouds hbiighiK ever tho country, and declares that "long years of bureaucratic oppression oppres-sion anil violence, disfranchisement of ithe people and violation of the freedom of persons, thought and conscience, have created a condition of tilings that Is no longer endurable, and which threatens a storm already visible, and fraught with bloody civil war to the country and the subversion of your throne." It appeals to the Emperor to ward oft tho calamities before it Is too late, nnd no longer trust to negligent, wily servants, but repose higher confidence in representatives of the people convoked us a permanent chamber endowed with legislative powers and qualified to see that tho laws are not broken 4ind that the treasury Is not robbed. |