AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 895, 13 June 1879, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

The following items from the Dunedin dailies are brought by the San Francisco mail : The Chief of Police of Calta, in the Crimea, has been arrested as a Revolutionist. Berlin newspapers assert that Russia has made demands for the extradition of certain Nihilists from England. General Quaroff, prefect of St Petersburg, has resigned because of threats to assassinate him. Marshall law has been proclaimed at Odessa. A Berlin despatch states that the Chief of Police of Archangel has been stabbed. Russian officers on furlough have been recalled in consequence of the repressive measures since the attempt on the life of the Czar. A London despatch states that additional repressive measures have been adopted by Russia against the Nihilists of a most start-

ling character, and a revolutionary outbreak is believed imminent. Simultaneously with Sonloff’s attempt on the Czar’s life, three policemen were shot. Among the assasins were an educated girl, aged 17, and a nobleman. The assassination of another spy, who betrayed the whereabouts of the secret printing office at Taprova, is reported. German newspapers report that the Tartars of Orisk have burned the town and murdered the officials. “000 poisons have been arrested within the last few days at St. Petersburg, including the well-known novelist Targenoff. The Golos reports that it is intended to send 12,000 prisoners with their families from Novgorod to Siberia during the summer. The Czar, who until lately drove out unattended, now has his carriage surrounded by Cossacks. At St. Petersburg the police are openly arresting the people by batches at all’ hours of the day. Hitherto the arrests were made at night. On the slightest suspicion against any, whole families are arrested, and domiciflary visits are made to all their acquaintances. These lead to further apprehensions on the most frivolous grounds. S3 furnished lodging keepers are in prison for not reporting within 2d hours the latest arrivals. There are few pedestrians or carriages in the streets, but an endless line of porters are seated on stools at every door with stout sticks. Covered prison-vans are frequently passing, with police-officers beside the drivers; and General Gourka drives past in an open drosky, escorted by Cossacks cracking their whips. A feeling of gloom prevails. The vigorous police regulations respecting the watching of houses and visits and searches by night are to bo made still more stringent. After 9 o’clock in the evening nobody will be at liberty to show himself in the streets without a certificate, upon which must be written and attested the place from which the bearer comes and to which lie is going. General Gourka, the Governor-General, planned that ordinance. Soon it will not be necessary to light a candle before halfpast 9, yet at 9 o’clock everyone must be indoors, and after 10, as in barracks, every light must be out. Notwithstanding all this the insecurity in St. Petersburg increases every day. Grenades are exploded in the streets. The intention of the Nihilists is believed to be to keep the police in a state of constant excitement, tire them out, or lull them to sleep with the idea that the danger lias been exaggerated. They also reckon on the harsh measures and arrests producing discontent among the people, who, when the time comes for a grand attack on the Government, would go m as Revolutionists.