Saturday's outrage has been followed by the short lull which
is usual after such fits of violence. The Labour ex- Members of the Duma are straining every effort to capture the Army and Navy, and have circulated a letter in which Anarchy and Constitutionalism are oddly blended. Soldiers are reminded that they have sworn an oath of loyalty not only to the Czar, but to the Fatherland ; and that the Czar by his dispersion of the Duma. has "deceived the Fatherland." Meanwhile the Government have issued a semi-official mani- festo announcing that terrorism on the part of the revolution- aries will not be met by terrorism on the part of the Govern- ment. They will continue to repress Anarchy, however horrible the threats of the Anarchists. But repression is not their only aim, and their first business is "to prepare Bills for the coming Duma for the settlement of pressing questions." 111. Stolypin, who seems to have recovered from his shock, is said in Thursday's Times to have declared to an inter- viewer that the situation is graver than at the end of the reign of Alexander H. The new Duma, in his opinion, will consist mainly of Moderates, and there will be no revolutionaries. The Left wing, or legal Opposition—the Constitutional Demo- crats and the Socialists—will, he thinks, have about the same representation as the Right wing had in the first Duma. How the Government propose to effect this result does not appear,
unless the basis of election is changed, and a rigorous official oversight is exercised at the polls.
