The Berlin Correspondent of the Times telegraphs . that the disabilities
of the Raskolniki, the Nonconforming sects of,Russia, have at last been removed by decree. They do not aeicnOwledge the Patriarchate of the Czar, though acknowledging his civil authority, or use the modern Russian liturgy, and have hitherto been treated almost as enemies of the State, their marriages being de- clared illegal, their children illegitimate; and their property on death forfeited to the State,—the latter penalty, however, being evaded. Henceforward they are to be treated as other Russians, and as their number is variously estimated at from nine to four- teen millions, the concession is an immense one. The obstinacy of these sects, whose dissidence commenced in the reign of Peter the Great, has been of the immovable, passive kind, and has at last worn out the Government, which, moreover, saw in them the - only powerful body of disaffected men within the limits of the Empire.
