On Saturday last it was announced that the projected visit
of the British fleet to Kronstadt had been postponed at the request of the Russian Government. It was considered that political parties both in Britain and Russia would attempt to read into it a political motive, and that in Russia especially the visit might give rise to certain demonstrations on the • part of the revolutionaries which might endanger the future relations between the two Powers. We readily admit the danger, though we think that Sir Edward Grey did well to refuse to take the initiative in cancelling the visit. The Russian Government have behaved with great discretion and I tact, and their example has been followed by the Press, so that the postponement has had no effect on the friendly feeling which is growing up between the two countries. The reception by the Duma of the greeting from the British Rouse of Commons shows the cordial relations between the ' two Parliaments, and we shall soon have an opportunity of welcoming the Russian representatives at an Inter-Parlia- mentary Conference.
