2 JULY 1881, Page 2

The new Emperor of Russia, it is said, is determined

to mark in every way that he is a Russian, and not a man " vitiated by the worn-out ideas of the West." He orders that peasant deputations should be introduced first, has commanded the Army to wear beards, and has clothed the St. Petersburg police in the old costume of Russia, known in Western Europe as the " Tartar ". dress. This exactly accords with his conduct in issuing, on his accession, a special address to the peasantry, as if they were the immediate supporters of his throne, and with his rumoured in- tention of transferring his residence to the Kremlin. This attitude should increase the popular regard for him, but then is popular regard of any use, when the educated class is so out of humour that it sympathises with those who employ bullets P The love of a nation is-a great thing, but it did not save Lincoln, though he was attacked only by one man, who had not ascended to the height of using dynamite, glass bombs, and electricity, for assassination.