REVOLUTIONARY JOURNALS IN RUSSIA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1839, 14 January 1880, Page 3

REVOLUTIONARY JOURNALS IN RUSSIA.

As confident as ever, the Russian revolutionary party have just started a new journal at St. Petersburg. The journal, which purports to be edited by several members of the committee in charge of the discontinued “Zemlya j Yolya,” is called “Narodnaga Volga ” (“ National Liberty ”), and adopts a slightly modified programme. Touching this important change we are told that while the Revolutionary party continue at one respecting the object to be attained, the editors of “Narodnaga Volga” deem it necessary to vary the means under the present circuinstances. Though no detailed information is supplied as to the points on which they differ from the old committee, it is perfectly well known at St. Petersburg that the new managers regard assassination as a penalty to be inflicted only in extreme cases, while the late leaders would pronounce sentence of death as a regular and habitual punishment. The committee then give their readers to understand that the Revolutionary party are as numerous and influential as ever, and that for the present their chief attention will be directed to agitation among the people in reference to an attack upon official personages. After this there is a fiery article upon recent prosecutions and executions, in which Russia is called a large penitentiary whose walls are about to be pulled down by its desperate and enraged denizens. General Todleben’s administrative cruelty at Odessa is illustrated by several instances, and the statement is added that the military loader who beat the Turks has lately distinguished himself by a new display of tactical ingenuity in stationing policemen to watch letter-boxes and arrest the users of them. The customary registry of Government spies is succeeded by the announcement that a special paper, under the title “ Tehorni Peredel” (Anglice, the Black Division), will be commenced, to proclaim the necessity of a re-division of land among the peasantry.