'4th December.
APPARENTLY, the Russian bureaucracy, with the Grand Dukes at its head, is trying to make a final struggle for existence. Count Witte has. succeeded in persuading the Czar that the maintenance of his position depends on his granting his people a' constitution with some measure of freedom, including what, along as it retains its vigour, is the greatest-check on the bureaucracy, a per jiava2nt,. Unfortunately Count.
ite does not go far enough for those who are directing the revolution, while going too far for the conservatives; and the Czar's throne and even his life are now threatened by the party above whose level he has risen, and which is led by his own uncles, while he has not shown himself yet liberal enough to. secure the support of his people. It would seem that the bitterest struggle all. is now to he waged. When it became evident that the army was not to be relied on to crush the revolution, it seemed that the reformed government would come into existence. comparatively peaceably. But: now we are told that the Cosegtks of the whole éntpire have been mobilised, and they will, doubtless, be faithful to the old régim~ and utterly unscrupulous in defending it, We have already heard of instances of the regular troops firing. on Cossacks, who have no organisation to make them really formidable "Jif the regulars take sides heartily with the people; but we must expect a terrible orgy of bloodshed before the reactionaries or the revol lutionaries finally succeed; and the outside world will wait with grave anxiety for the curtain to be raised again on the final tableau.
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