stitutional reforms. Serious complications have arisen out of the arrest,
at the instance of the Russian Ministry of Marine, of Captain Klado, the senior officer sent back to represent the Baltic Fleet at the international inquiry, and the author of a series of outspoken articles in the Navoe Vrentya advocating a more energetic prosecution of the war, and in particular the despatch of an additional squadron to reinforce Admiral Rozhdestvensky. Captain Klado, who is charged with deliberate perversion of facts, is, according to the St. Petersburg correspondents of various Paris papers, supported by the Grand Duke .Alexander Mikhailovitch, Chief of the Merchant Marine, and has received a letter from Madame Rozhdestvensky, published in the Novoe Vremya, expressing her sympathy and gratitude, and declaring his statements to be absolutely true. Captain Klado, who indignantly repudiates the charge of falsehood, demands a Court-Martial, but the Grand Duke Alexis has refused his request. The Russ, however, very properly points out that Captain Klado's evidence before the International Court of Inquiry will be discredited in advance unless lie is given a prompt opportunity for vindicating his veracity. Captain Klado, it is further stated, has received heaps of congratu- latory letters and telegrams, and "an exalted personage" has informed M. Gaillard, of the Journal, that Captain Klado is in a fair way "to become our Boulanger, for it is unquestion- able that Bonlangism has come into existence in Russia." If, as is alleged, Grand Ducal influence is cast into the scale, this fresh movement assumes a new and ominous significance. The greatest danger to the existing regime, as we have often contended, is to be apprehended not from a popular but a Court revolution. A Russian Boulanger, backed by the Grand Ducal camarilla, might make history with formidable speed.
