The struggle between the Government of Russia and the students
still continues. On March 23rd a statist, named Lagovsky fired three bullets through a window behind which .M. Pobiedonostzeff, Procurator of the Holy Synod, was working, 'with intent to kill him. The bullets missed, but M. Pobiedonostzeff was greatly alarmed, and has, it is said, demanded in Council more severe measures of repression. The Czar resists and is inclined to lenity, but it is probable that he willgive way, though the measures taken are already sufficiently severe. The greatest society of Russian authors in. a petition to the Czar declares that the students have been attacked by the police and Cossacks, and many of them' have been wounded; and the Czar, for all reply, has dissolved the society. According to the accounts which reach Vienna, two thousand students• have already been arrested in the great towns, and fresh orders have been issued to the police to prevent absolutely the meeting of large crowds. There are rumours that the peasantry round those towns are becoming refractory, that a secret committee is known to exist which is preparing a revolution, and that officers high in command object to receive the students sentenced to the ranks on the ground that they demoralise the soldiers. None of thcrse rumours are yet confirmed, but it seems certain that Ru: el in official society is perturbed, and that the Czar is annoyed at his Ministers' violence, as well as at that of the students.
