"RELIGIOUS TOLERATION" IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 273, 26 July 1878, Page 11

"RELIGIOUS TOLERATION" IN RUSSIA.

JonW tw £ ?v r ?° P( \ tlhet I he Em P eror of Russia has not hesitated to bv^lftonl t gloiaS \ olCrationisiu liussia a Principe hallowed by political traditions and national Customs." We know what the world would say if some letter of PLiiip 11.. containing a simitar Dryasdust discovered at Lambeth or the Vatican a communication E U Sf t0 rr f f ° PC G F**? XV -' or Urban VIIL, aSZgiX iw? ?g?? g ?^ dls Imis1 miss 1fl;om1 fl ; om his mind, as utterly unfounded, all iloatinstories about the harsh treatment of Catholics in England in the first custom," wEo^ 1P -i al -°T e(i } J Political trad^°as and national disbelief of others, in the genuineness of a document so plainly 3°£ **}• Neit J?r Philip nor our British Solomo/would have been deterred from making a statement because ib happened not anZJ ?^Sf faCt ,\ Bu V hen + thedive^ encem^ t^& P patentto vIT/A 'rJ °\ hQ T h altoa l to § ive tho Ue direct to the statement ISSJ^t T 1 "T dl , ct ' surely ' lt was safer t0 hazard false statements two or three hundred years ago than it ought to be now Ihe notoriety which now attach* to thl current events of contemporary history all over Europe (lid not then exist. Even public Events of importance might then often remain unknown to the P inhabitants tltSSS?t ! h? aitae^ ar b M S ° im P erfec «y understood that mis? cp ™ tations of them could easily pass muster. Nevertheless it is in our own XJX epo °^ ° f tele e rams > s P^ial correspondents, diplomatic K£™ f'• °T Ul f re £ orts ' book 9of tl>avel of all kinds, that we find SSl?^ the best pertained facts made S a calm coolness which almost defies the evidence of our senses Let ZZT^ OUrsel ; c + l iQ Im P<* ial Rome, some nightmoreE eighteen w™™^S°>. and that we had been present at one of Nero's awful performances m the circus. Were that mild-mannered and veracious EPI?E P l?h a , S T eUSth . at the Whole thin £ was a ; that ?h1 Sfw? *? ? iaDS} W^ a - on y we had seen > wh °se tortured shrieks We ? ab f lutel y charmed and untouched; that the story was a slander, for he would not hurt a fly, the first Imperial s^sor.-SLt GV C<J tban tbe stateiQent attributed to his latest