THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2665, 12 April 1905, Page 25

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 4.

There is renewed! and serious rioting in Warsaw and Tiflis. The agitation in the Baltic provinces is growing.

A congress of 1000 doctors was held in Moscow, nominally to consider the cholera epidemic, but it was virtually a demonstration against the Government. The president declared) that the people were widely expressing no confidence in the Government.

The High Court tries the late Grand Duke Sergitis's assassin, who proclaims himself to be Prince Cholensky.

April 5. (Fresh assaults have taken place on the Palace officials in Warsaw.

Two companies of infantry searched a revolutionary suburb, seized quantities of incendiary literature, revolveis, and cartridges, and made 63 arrests.

Men entered the Praga Hospital and shot a policeman suffering from injuries received during a riot on the 26th. Other patients awakening, .the assailants escaped. The policeman was hated for his brutality during the riots.

General Trepoff has made wholesale arrests amongst the intellectual "classes of St. Petersburg on the pretext that he is suppressing secret societies.

April 6.

M. Pobiedonostzeff has resigned the procuratorship of the Holy Synod, pronouncing in favotir of certain reforms, also protesting against the bureaucracy controlling the Church. The Synod recommends the summoning of an Assembly of Bishops to elect a patriarch and re-establish the powerful influence abolished by Peter Ihe Great.

The Russian Reformers declare that th.i Czar will submit-jthe question of peace or war to an assembly of 63 bishops in Moscow in May, as the autocracy fears the result of a consultation of the national representativ.es. It is understood that the Czar will consult the bishops as to the minimum of political reforms it would be ■wise to grant, -wishing the Church to act for him owing to their oaths to maintain the autocracy.

A Jacquerie prevails in the Caucasus. The peasants destroyed the liouses of many priests, accusing "them of misusing the public funds.

The latest arrests of Anarchists include the daughter of a former Governor-General of St. Petersburg- Tw.elve secret police agents at tne Palace of Tsarskoe-Selo have been arrested. The Grand Duke Sergius's assassin has b-een identified as a son of Police Inspector Kannies. of Warsaw.

The restrictions have been removed against the State employment of Poles except for higher Ministerial appointments. LONDON, April 6.'

The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent reports that a strange-uniformed Cossack officer attended the Czar's reception at Tsarskoe-Selo Palace on Monday. The discrepancies in his accoutrements aroused suspicion. He was arrested, and in his possession were found two small bombs.

Renter's Agency in St. Petersburg reports that the Government has forbidden the Zemstvos to dr'scuss the steps in connection with the resciipt issued on March convening a Legislative Assembly. April 9.

Several members of the Medical Commission in Moscow have be.en arrested, and further a 1 rests have taken place in St. Petersburg.

CALCUTTA, April 7.

The Times of India states that it' hos received authentic information that Russian troops have been replaced in Bokhara, at all posts in Upper Okus, In. Roshan, and Shingnan, and 4000 detached from Merv have been permanently added to the Kusklie Murghab force. ' The deficiency at Merv will be filled from Orenburg.

The administration of the Russian Empire is entrusted to four great boards or councils, possessing separate functions. The first of these is the Council of the State, ihe second is the Ruling Senate, the third the Holy Synod, and the fourth the Committee of Ministers. The Holy Synod has committed to it the superintendence of the religious affairs of the Empire. It is composed of the three Metropolitans (St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kiev), the Archbishop of Georgia (Caucasus) and several bishops sitting in turn. All its decisions run in the Emperor's name, and have no force until approved by him. The President of the Holy Synod is the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg (Antonius), and the General Procurator Actual Privy Councillor K. P. Pobiedonostzeff, who has just resigned.