We are momentarily expecting news of the Japanese occupation of Mukden, and we are all hoping that the Japanese victory, of which we are now assured, may prove decisive. It is not merely that all our sympathies and all our interests are on the side of Japan; but we all want to seo the war brought to an end as speedily as possible. The general belief is that even though thin should once more succeed in beating an orderly retreat, the Czar and his advisers will recognise the bopelaseness of continuing the conflict; but this is by no moans certain. There is, hor no doubt whatever that a decisive victory in this groat battle would and the war. What its effect would be upon the revolutionary movement in Russia it is not so cosy to say. The renewed disturbances which wore expected in 8t. Petersburg last Saturday and Sanday did not take place, and it is the Czar's rescript an-tention to "convene the fresh reports of peasantry against the landed proprietors; and there are serious fears of the effect which the news of a @isgster to the Russian troops at Mukden may have upon the people.
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