7 81st October.
THE news lately. received from Russia, and especially the most recent advices, to the effect that delegates are meeting at Moscow to consider the establishment of an independent government, show that we have not overshot the mark in calling the disturbance in Russia a revolution.. It is noticeable that the serious movement that is now in progress, and that is distinguished from the previous local riots by being evidently a concerted rising, directed by a powerful organisation, was postponed until the conclusion of Hence, the revolutionists being evi-lently patriotic enough not to embarrass their Government too much while the war was going on, Notable is the way in which the revolution is being managed; as a peaceable one by tineans of strikes, which paralyse the action of the Government, modern public opinion, even in Russia, not sanctioning the shooting down of men for merely declining to work. It must be a-curious state of things-to have all ordinary life at a standstill, all newspapers suspended, all schools, colleges, and universities closed, all communications by railway stopped, and yeh the telegraphs still working. Ié will be still more serious if the Czar succeeds in getting away on his yacht, and leaving his country to its fate. The universality of the present movement shows -the miscalculation of those who said that the vast distances and general ignorance of the people in Russia made a general revolution impossible. An education has evidently being going on underground, of which the bureaucracy and police, with all their ubiquity, were much less cognisant than for their own sakes they should have been.
That the revolution was _postponed until after the conclusion of Peace with Japan is doubtless partly due to the fact that in Russia generally the war was extremely" unpopular, Not merely is the peace with Japan welcomed by the enlightened people in Russia, but among them there is no dissatisfaction with the renewed graph told us at first that this alliance Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The tele-
was badly received, because it. was regarded as aimed at Russia. We now learn that it is only the Chan-yinists and the bureaucracy who take this view of the alliance; the onl: fault that the Moderates and Liberals find with it is that it was not made between Russia and England, instead of Jay and England. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Times," writing on the 4th of September, gives the views of the organ of the Liberals in Russia, the " Russ," mentioning that this paper frequently expresses the opinion of high diplomatic quarters. The correspondent continues "Tu the course of an article which forms one of the most interesting contributions on Russia's foreign policy that have appeared for a long time, the 'Russ' after pointing out that the renewal of the treaty. had an undoubted influence in, bringing about peace, says that thus England was more instrumental in that result than another Power whose boasts are unfounded.
"The 'Huss' then proceeds to discuss the various phases of the new treaty as they affect Anglo-Russian relations, and first of all demolishes the foolish talk of reprisals started by the 'Novoe Vremya,' taken up by the 'Bourse Gazette,' and naturally espoused by the Anglophobe " Moscow Gazette" In order to face the coalition of Great. Britain and Japan, the 'Russ' points out, Russia would have to build a navy which would require not ten, but many. more years. The game is not worth the candle. "Putting the screw down upon India becomes an operation both costly and futile, and it will have to be abandoned. In fact, all Asiatic en-bales ay adventtires of the Bezolike -Prince Uihtomeky's in Tibet, razoff kind, say, in Mongolia, tricks thus lose their attractiveness.and become more risky."
"<But, Russia will not be the loser thereby. On the contrary, instead of blundering ingloriously about the back stairs of Asia she. will resume her rightful place in Europe. Only one Power will be displeased and that is the Power which has been conniying at Russia's effacement. Slavs,
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