St. Petersburg, Feb. 14.
The affair want of importance which befalls any news not covered by the regaler telegraphic services is shown by the almost complete silence maintained by the newspapers apropos of the great pogrom " in Bukhara towards the end of last month, though, according to correspondent of the Russkoe Slovo no less than 500 people lost their lives in that "event," a8 the Russian papers call it, a greater number than perished io the Constautiouple happenings of April last, which, it will ba remembered, claimed the attention of the world.
The Bokhara massacre was dae to the same causes as led to the frequent Tomiah "io Rosia som years sg", that is, to religious differ fences between the Persians and thr natives of the country and to the exploitation of the loiter by th" former Semitic race extranrdins i financial matters. But there was ale the root of the disturbances sxme of that strange craze" for constitutional government which, daring the last few years, has passed like a strong wind
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