20th June.
'Tue recrudescence of the revolutionary movement in Russia is again causing public attention to be directed to that unhappy country. 'The brighter' outlook which the Imperial sanction of the formation of " national Parliament gave i soon been overclouded, and the latest telegraphic news that the situation is of the gloom-i Outbreaks of a more or less serious nature are occurring in different parts of the country, disastrously affecting the Bourses and causing a fall in' Russian stocks, Moscow is again unsettled, the troops have been increased in the factory quarters of St. Petersburg, and at Bielostok, Lithuania, the scene of the most recent massacre, the outrages, which are said to have been stimulated by the Government, have caused a question in the House of Commons as to the desirability of postponing the proposed naval visly to Cronstadb asa protest. In addition to. these more serious outbreaks there are, no doubt, disturbances on a smaller scale, and it is difficult to take any bub a most pessimistic view of the situation.
The opening of the Dama by the Czar was hailed as the inauguration of an era of liberty for the oppressed and down-trodden people. Ib ig now, over a month since the first Russian legislative assembly began its life, and the hopes of those to whom its convocation gave cause for great satisfaction, seem doomed to disappointment, if we
There may, possibly, have been some may judge from present indications, misconception as to the functions of the Duma, which apparently are in-ended to be deliberative rather then constructive, and therefore, very "different from those of the House of Common and similar legislative assemblies in other countries. The Czar in his speech invited the cooperation of the representatives oP the people in the work of
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