The Paris correspondent of the Times, who has sometimes information
outside his particular department of news, ends a letter about the relations of Germany with Russia with the following remarkable sentence :—" Unless all the information received from trustworthy sources in Russia be wrong, a domestic crisis of some kind is rapidly maturing, and is, indeed, according to some people, comparatively close at hand." That is, we believe, the impression of many men wlio know Russia very well ; but it must be accepted in conjunction with this other fact, that no one mentions, or even hints at, the kind of " crisis " expected. Is it to be a popular revolt, or a military mutiny, or a palace revolution ? These are very different things, and would produce widely different con- sequences. The German Emperor, according to the corre- spondent, certainly expects none of them, for he has given the Czar assurances as to the safety of the Polish frontier which enable his friend to strip Poland of her great garrison and use it to form the second army for the Far East.
