21 MAY 1881, Page 2

Something like a social war is breaking out iu Southern

Russia. The common people are in great distress, and disturbed by false promises, and in Kiev, Odessa, and, it is said, twenty other towns, they are attacking the rich. As among the rich the Jews are most unpopular and least protected, and as they are foolish enough to wear a separate and a hated costume, they are the first victims. Their houses are wrecked, their bonds. stolen, and they themselves forced to fly for their lives. They are also, we fear, but poorly defended by the officials, who are not disinclined to see the popular rage expend itself on them ; but it has at last been necessary to order the troops to act. At. first, they were only paraded without arms.