The Russian Revolution, we are very glad to say, proceeds
satisfactorily towards a stable State. The Petrograd correspondent of the T imes states in Thursday's paper that " seditious propaganda is fast losing its sway over the minds of the most ignorant." He mentions the very interesting work of the Metropolitan of Petrograd in assuring soldiers that the Tsar's Act of Abdication definitely released them from their old allegiance. The desire of the simple Russian soldier not to be faithless to an oath is characteristic and altogether likeable and creditable. The Metropolitan's labours remind one of what happened in England during the Revolution of 1688, when the highest clergy played their part in proving that sworn fidelity could be conscientious) t transferred to William and Mary. Russia no doubt will have her Nonjurors. But their numbers will dwindle, and some who are Nonjurors now will not remain so if the new Government prospers. They will bo like Thackemy's Lord Castlewood, who "remained a ?Conjuror all his life, nearly." We have written in a leading article of the Russian situation.
