The returns of the primary elections for the Russian Durna,
being still not properly classified, do not shed much light upon the situation. The St. Petersburg results, which we noticed last week, and which showed an overwhelming majority for the more moderate section of the Social Democrats, were apparently not indicative of the feeling of the rest of the country. The returns for four hundred and fifty-four com- munes, in some twenty provinces, show that out of nine hundred and eight Delegates, two hundred and six belong to the Right, six hundred and thirty-one to the Moderate Centre, and seventy-one to the Left. The Right are the Monarchists pure and simple, and the Left the extremists, but the Centre is still an unknown quantity. This is the ordinary classification of the returns, and it carries us little further. The peasimts, who, after all, are numerically the largest class of the population, may, as the Times suggests, be politically supporters of the autocracy and economically supporters of the revolutionaries. Among the so-called Moderates there seems to be a large section who are pledged to Constitutional reform, and there is every chance that the Constitutional Democrats, and others allied with them, may form a strong, Central party which will hold the balance of power in the forthcoming Deem
