| Show froba proui the loulan london tim almee e j THE thousandth BIRTHDAY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE letters from st petersburg inform us that russia celebrated her thousandth on the nit uit there were great rejoicings rejo icings at st petersburg and aio Alo moscow scow but the chief f festival ca was held at Nov gorod which as a 9 our readers are aware is regarded by na native t ive lve hb h B tona s as the cradle of the russian empire though the tha poles assign a more modern origin to what is 13 now called russia and look 1001 upon it merely merey as an aggrandizement angrand bement of 0 the grand duchy of or dios Alos moscow cows whose tartar traditions it continued and has nt nit ni t yet entirely in departed de arted from but bat if the political origin t of modern russia is 13 to be found in od old II 11 blu Alu and if bad the misfortune to be subjected for two centuries and more to the tartars to whom she never would have been abandoned by western europe had bad she consented to abjure her ancient religion and acknowledge the supremacy of the pope that is burely surely no reason why the rus Ras russians oi of the pres present elit eitt day should not look back to the period before the tartar invasions invasion and trace their history through various v anous ch channels nuels to its true arting starting et Bt point th a founder of st petersburg was of the same game race as the founder ot of MOSCOW and the founder of moscow was lineally descended from rune the great russo rasso norman who when the republicans of Nov gorod were disgusted with liberty kindly went over to them a thousand years ago to teach them the ble bie blessings 8 bings of despotism As in spite of this more or less friendly invasions invasion the lana iana retained their popular institutions until many centuries afterward when they were destroyed by liy the moscow azars czars it is clear that despot sm in russia was of a milder character in in the ninth century than it has shown itself on several occa occasional occasions siona in the nineteenth F for or this reason and on account of the reflections which Nov Noi gorod gorol u aust surest it is well that tuat that city arnould anould have beer been chosen chasen for the great commemorative festival that has just been held about half a thousand years jears lave bave now elapse i since the establishment is of the czar ate ata of bio Alo moscow scow and according to many his I 1 it is there where the great bell of Nov gorod is served as a trophy atrophy taken fron from the tree city after the Iber massacre massac rc of its inhabitants bi bita tants rits that the russian emp re ought to cele celebrate Ls Is birthdays any deor departure ture tuie how ver ever from muscovite traditions is desirable and ind no man not eyen even an emperor can la be ekpo expo expected acted in in recalling his bis ancestors to dwell upon the merits of those who are known to have been the least merit meritorious erious whatever strict historians may say it is better that russia should regard nov gorod and not moscow as the cradle of the ious itus russian sian bian monarchy besides in plain pam truth russia has not note inherited tartar tartara 1 muscovite traditions aiona alona Nov gorod and the other duchies in which ro representative institutions were maintained wire wife were not without their effect on the central duchy which destroyed ard absorbed them at the beginning of the century the first of the Roma was elected by the states G general iierda of russia and in accepting the crown accepted also a constitution which was abolished by P peter ter the great but which since his bis death has been constantly re demanded in the reigns of nicholasj nicholas alexander 1 L catherine and her predecessors I 1 by conspirator in that of alexander 11 II by the lobi robi nobility lity of thi the empire in open asal assembly ably we have not yet heard that the uncovering of the Nov gorod memorial was accompanied by the publications of any new concessions either to the nobility or the peasantry though the former are said to have expected that it would be made the occasion of jot granting them certain political privileges while the latter are known leonn to be in constant anticipation of such a change chango in the law lav of emancipation as will give them for nothing the tha land they have hitherto cultivated on condition of elther cither working or paying for it our letters state that on the esth dinst the tb emperor the empress the heir to the throne and the grand dukes aexander alexander vladimir I 1 alexis michael and nicholas with them the tbt grand duchesses Du cheses mane made and olga proceeded by the moscow railway to Sot and thence by steamer to Nov gorod where they were received by the nobility 0 of the provie province the merchants of the city and tie tle tte elders eiders of 1 the village communes the banks of the river were wire lined with peasantry who are said to have haie exhibited tile the greatest entha and to have filled the air with their shouts as tha the imperial steamer passed on sunday at the news was received by telegraph at st petersburg that the thre commemorative monument had bad been nn mn covered at Nov gorod this was announced to the city by a di discharge mcharge of tillery artillery a fromi the c citadel i A tc te deum was sung in thi cathedral of or st isaac where divine serviced servi service cep cei had already been performed by the arch arah bishop of riga in presence of the chief min mint tary and civil authorities the square sluane of or alt st isaac was filled fill d with troops of all bran branches chii chig of the service who after the te deum paraded by the general Governo the peasantry were in in a very excited state 41 1 but wherever gen the tha emperors Emper Empe rora artif represent representative lye ire appeared ho was with ith acclamations st SL petersburg was illuminated in the evon even ing and gratuitous performances 1 were 1 e re given at the grand opera the maria the theatre 1 t re rub russian opera Oper fi aud and two other theatres theartres the atres oct ort side the kazan church monue L ment was reproduced in illumination lamps monday alunday was wag aioo aleo to be kept as a as holiday none of the russian rat appeared on San sanday daynor nor were expected to appear on monday x the following letter from froat st petersburg ct of the or of september contains a of the festivities which took place there on oas ons the occasion of tha the anniversary of thae the establishment of the russian empire i t irga iiga A grand felig religious ious lous service was performed at the church of st irene salvos or artillery were fired at the moment the monument ofa ot Nov gorod was uncovered in p presence cresence of alif trl alt imperial family the theatres theartres the atres were omenea free to the people and all the public buildings building gd were illuminated the emperor harangues harangued haran gues lues the deputations from frola the nobility and from troia the magistrates S he reminded the latter of the affair of thee thirteen justices of telling them thenn at thet that same time that he reckoned on the active anav airl devoted operation cooperation co of their body to l the emancipation ot of the serfs he tol toi toll told a deputat deputation ioa ion from the peasants that the they should not expect any further liberty than what he had granted to them and that they ought to hasten to make terms with their lor ds it is said that the grand duke con st antine is to receive the title of viceroy 0 the kingdom of poland on the occasion of tb the anniversary just celebrated 2 I 1 A supplement to the journal de st pelen peters bourget bour bourg rot gut of the list bast ii st publishes the following we have just received the following 0 telegraphic dispatch j 96 saturday evening h ath sept it their imperial majesties on arriving arriving here received with indexer indes cra crp bable enthusiasm this thib morning the ipa ira aaion rational of the monument took place ta festival was superb the vr eather was ma maga cincent nin cent there was waa a crand erand aan aad and military ceremony the crowd was waa ia I 1 mense rafter lafter the review a dinner was given yen 1 ledi the open air to the troops by tha the merch merchants aritt arlIt their majesties took part in it they wey continually cheered evereth Ever n ng has baa passed over with perfect success th this s evening there is a ba banquet t fur fer the court an and d a general il illumination illuminations ilon tion q 5 1 A union soldier in general grants a thinks the next CoB CoR gress grebs should not riot adjoua without doin doln doing one thing and that ia is I 1 kaaha ak the d d biggers a lesil leril k gal tc taldor t lder ider it |
