We greatly regret to record a dastardly attempt on the
life of M. Stolypin, the Russian Prime Minister. M. Stolypin is lying seriously wounded. He was with the Tzar at a gala verformance in the theatre in Kieft when two shots were fired by a lawyer named Bogro£ The loss—temporary, at all .events—of M. Stolypin's services, will be, in our opinion, a serious set-back to the orderly progress of constitutional -government in • Russia. It is true that K Stolypin has earned a good flea; of unpopularity by his recent, expedients, but we believe that he was the only man who could have prevented a hopeless reaction in the circumstances. To stifle a revolution as he did and to save constitutional govern- ment at the same time was a wonderful feat. The sym- pathy with M. Stolypin and his relations will be particularly deep among those who recognize exactly what he has achieved. And it will be still further intensified by the memory of the previous outrage, by which thirty persons were killed in M. Stolypin's house and his two daughters terribly injured.
