A report of the debate in the Diet of Nobles
for the pro- vince of Moscow on an address to the Crown has reached Lon- don. The principal speaker was Count Orloff, Grand Master of the Ceremonies to the Emperor, and grandson, we believe, of the chief conspirator in the plot which ended in the death of Czar Paul. The extreme party in the Diet, headed by M. Golokhrastoff, had proposed at petition for a representative assembly, and the Conservatives another, asking for a Chamber of nobles—only two from each province. Count Orloff proposed to combine both pro- posals by asking for a deliberative council of two Chambers, one representative and the other hereditary. He defended his proposal in a remarkable speech, commented on elsewhere, and it was carried, to the great alarm of the courtiers. The nobles having the right of petition, it was impossible to prohibit the address, but the Diet had excluded certain members from voting, and the Senate availed itself of this loophole to annul all the proceedings of the meeting. Another session will be held two months hence.
