Show EMPEROR IS LIBERAL but will not yield to demands of the while emp emperor nicholas manifesto on russian reforms coupled with the government note of earning arning Ni on the game subject leaves no doubt that it is the firm intention of the emperor to maintain unimpaired the autocratic principle which no observer here ever imagined he would relinquish and not yield to the demand tor for a national legislature the pro gramme of reforms outlined is a broad one and if it had not been preceded by the agitation of the lasi last month probably would have been accepted with u guiver 4 iver sal acclaim in russia as extremely liberal the raising of the peasants to an equality with other of the empire is alone practically second only to the emancipation of the serfs but hardly less important are the guarantees which the manifesto dl di erects to be incorporated in the laws for the protection of the personal lib arties of the people against the abuses of administrative arbitrariness the measures taken under the state of siege are no longer permissible ex capt in cases of crimes against the state the increase of the in depend ence once and scope of the doumas and the as well as the creaton creation of smaller units the definite protection of the jews armenians and other unorthodox sects and the revision of the press laws are all on the line of the demand the ex tre mists of course are not satisfied and many of the moderate liberals are disappointed |