15 APRIL 1865, Page 3

The Czar finds that his press law is not severe

enough ; he has therefore copied Napoleon's. Newspapers may henceforward be suppressed after three warnings, which of course may be administered on three successive days. Any journal, however, which prefers the censorship is at liberty to submit-its proofs as heretofore, and will then be exempt from the new law. We do not know what journalists may do, but newspaper proprietors will most certainly prefer an alternative which limits their freedom but saves their property to one which does neither. It is curious to note that even the Czar hesitates to persecute the press with the fury of the Emperor of the French.