18 JUNE 1904, Page 13

[To Tin/ EDITOR OF TRU "SPECTA.T0FL1

Emperor Nicholas I perceived that the fall of Sebas- topol, after the desperate effort made to prevent it, had seriously shaken the prestige of the autocracy." Is not the chronology here inaccurate P Nicholas I. died in March, l85; while Sebastopol did not fall till September 8th of the same