ximia.—The Emperor has returned to St. Petersburg, but has taken
no action in the matter of the university emeuter, and the students are being examined by a commission. The university has been reopened, but neither the professors nor the students attend. The students will, it is hoped, be liberated, as the Emperor is by no means exasperated against them • and the correspondent of the Rine: tells an excellent story. General Ignatieff telegraphed an account of the imeute to the Emperor, who replied, "Make every effort to calm the students. Treat them as a father." The possessive pronoun is rarely used in Russian, and the general read the sentence, "Treat them as my father," and on the Emperor reproaching him, excused himself thus : "1 endeavoured, sire, to execute your orders. I ar- rested 283 students last Thursday, and many of them are badly wounded. Your lamented father could scarcely have done more.' The students have been exempted from the charge of publishing the revolutionary paper called Great Russia, for it was issued since they were imprisoned. All the letters in the Times have passed the censorship, a fact very creditable to Admiral Putiatine, who is Chan- cellor of the University and Censor. At Moscow the &mute of the students on the 24th October, which was suppressed by the military, resulted in some thirty students wounded and 300 arrests.
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