The desire of the Russian Government to " purify "
Poland of Germans continues intense. According to the Vienna correspondent of the Times, the authorities have ascertained that eleven thousand Germans and Austrians still remain in the province, and orders have been issued for their immediate -expulsion, The amount of misery thus caused will be pro- digious; and it is gratuitous, the immigrants being among the most industrious and quiet of the population, and, so far as is known, not particularly disliked by their neighbours. They do not lower civilisation, as the Russian Jews are said to do in East London ; they raise it. The act is contrary to some special treaties, as well as to ordinary international custom ; but there is no doubt that the three Partitioning. Powers maintain, and have always maintained, secret understandings about Poland which influence them much more than the published treaties. Prince Bismarck, for instance, drove all Russian Jews out of Posen back into Russia without any remonstrance from St. Petersburg. The irritation created among the countrymen of the expelled classes by such high- handed acts is, however, very great, and will at some convenient season find expression.
