It is understood that the governing party in Russia have
resolved to make no changes in consequence of the murder of M. de Plehve. Count Mouravieff, who holds M. de Plehve's opinions, will, it is reported, be his successor ; the Czar in person appeared at the funeral; and it is said that a thousand persons have been arrested on suspicion of holding liberal opinions. The policy of repression is, in fact, to be' continued until a revolution arrives. The Court party are especially indignant at the suggestion that a Parliament should be called and the Press Laws relaxed, both those measures being, as they declare, "wholly unsuited to Russia." Of course, all kinds of rumours are afloat. According to one, the Revolutionist Committees, whose habitat is Geneva, have " sentenced " the Czar and M. Pobiedonostzeff ; but according to another they have informed the Czar that they do not hold him responsible, and will only punish his Ministers. In other words, they think he may be terrorised into concessions. All that is certain is that repression is to go on, and that the revolu- tionaries as yet see no method of resisting it except through the criminal expedient of murder.
