The " Executive Committee " of the Nihilists have addressed
Ti manifesto to the new Czar, which reads like an ultimatum. They speak in temperate words, and declare that " they regret the loss of so much energy and ability, in a work of destruction and sanguinary conflict." They affirm, however, that the -contest must go on, unless the Czar will concede a free Assembly, elected by universal suffrage, with constituent power, an amnesty for all political offences, and free- dom of speech, writing, and public meeting. Failing these coueessions, they will continue the war. lu a manifesto to the peasants, they repeat this proposal, adding that the land must be divided among them, without compensation to the seigneurs, but word their address as if they meant the Central Assembly to be consultative. There is no evidence whatever that they influence the peasantry, but in St. Petersburg a Pro- fessor who said in his lecture to the University that the Czar ought to pardon the assassins of his father produced an over- whelming burst of applause, and this not only among the students. The circumstances being remembered, this incident reveals terrible excitement, as well as immorality, among the educated class.
