The accounts from Russia grow bewildering. It is said that
another party has sprung" .up, which differs both from the Nihilists and the Revolutionary Committee, and will make war on the autocracy by propagandism among the people, and not by assassination. It recently informed. the Czar, in a printed letter, that he need not fear any longer, for owing to his mea- sures, Russia was getting ripe for a revolution. Two sets of ominous facts have been published this week. One is, that before the Imperial family went to Peterhof, information was received which induced the police to search the Imperial yacht. Three officers were found in possession of dynamite bombs, and it was deemed necessary to make a complete change in the per- sonnel of the ship. Another, very imperfectly reported, is that very extensive arrests indeed have been made among the soldiery. It is quite certain that while the Czar and his family are not so alarmed as is reported, and submit to their virtual imprisonment with something of grim humour, they are con- vinced that their lives, especially the Emperor's, are seriously and immediately threatened. He is, in fact, in as much danger as an Irish landlord who has evicted a non-paying tenant.
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