| Show prospective HE IN 7 I 1 BY iby letter from the french capital we learn that advises advices from russia state that almost the entire country is anxious for a change and more mojo moje or less openly sympathizes with the rev revolution ol ution one report not destined for publication says sacs that tha et the tho revolution is now ripe and hat no human power can prevent I 1 its ta outbreak what has lias already occurred is is represented as a mild foretaste of what haayer has hag yet set to come it is a mistake to suppose that the danger with which the Em emp plire pline lre ire of uhe the czar czan is threatened is likely to bo be confined to the large towns such as st petersburg moscow and alid kiev the same exasperation against the and corruption of authorities exists in every town and village of siberia and in every inhabited habited d part of the steppes of little russia in fact the most remote districts are not free from it u prior to the inauguration of ithe the reign of terror russian malcontents formerly belonged to two distinct categories one of them comprised pris ed people who though di dl satis latis latishie satisfied fie with the existing state of affairs and desirous for a change hoped to attain their end by pacific means they nevertheless had an occult literature of their ond onu i and carried on an active propaganda amongst students and working men this group included a large number of adherents belonging to the betteb better classes and professed to be opposed to means of violence for the tile tion of their theories latterly however ho bo weyer weVer they have rallied to the other group of maicon malcon tents which since its formation has been a party of action they have always gone by the name nanie of nihilists nihilisms lists with comparatively few exceptions they belonged to the middle and arid lower classes they thoy havo have also recruited partisans chiefly from the universities and factories many of them are men of culture gifted with an in iron will and ready for fon every privation and sacrifice in the boing common cause the prospect of b being I 1 n transported in cages like wild beasts to Sag halien marched through the snow to siberia tortured in some prison cell or even executed in tho the citadel of st t petersburg are matters of small consideration for tor the rus sian even the russian peasants who live far from the centres bentres of revo revolutionary lui iti plots and conspiracies have an obstinate dogged way of resisting in the authorities which I 1 is without example in any ath other or part of europe the magistrates appointed by the file czar find the pett peasants santa taciturn and seldom if ever succeeded in obtaining evidence from one against the ot other er on the approach of the the peasant hides all ah he possesses only last year hideous stories were told of russian peasants mutilating themselves in order to shrink th the e army conscription amongst themselves they are honest enough but hut every means is justi justl justinia nia fia ble in their eyed for escaping dr the oppression that poisons th their thein ein eln very existence general loris melikoff Meli mell kolc kolf may 1111 iiii imprison PrIson proscribe and execute but cewill he will neither pacify nor terro terr terrorism terrorise orise onise ri the hydra of bf revolution has been denoose Noose le leti ieti and it has hais a tremendous scope for action |
