Mr. Schuyler has explained in a letter in Wednesday's Daily
News that Mr. Sidgwick's suggestions as to the confusion between New and Old Style contained in his account of the Russian struggle with the Yomuds is correct, and that the story given by M. Gromof is only another rendering of the same story which he had himself given in the previous page. And the editor of the Pall-Wall somewhat tardily admitted, in a letter to the Times of Wednesday, that the presumption was strongly in favour of this--suggestionom the very day when Mr. Schuyler himself confirmed the suggestion in the Daily News. Mr. Schuyler's letter is important-also-imam* while it insists that General Kaufmann's orders were very bloody, and their execution in his opinion cruel, he " does not think that the Russian officers and soldiers are habitually brutal, oruel, or savage ;" and he has "always- considered the Turkoman cam- paign and the Khokand campaign as very exceptional." "I do not believe," he adds, "that I am far wrong in placing the whole blame of the acts I reprobate on General Kaufmann, the com- mander of both expeditions. Personally, Russian soldiers are good-hearted fellows, and I would not for a moment compare them to Bashi-Bazouks, as has of late been very unjustly done." Mr. Schuyler's frankness about General Kaufmann makes his authority all the higher.
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