Dr. Harold Williams, the special correspondent of the Daily Chronicle,
telegraphs a long narrative, in which the Tsar is stated to have exclaimed "Thank God!" when he heard of the wish of the people that he should abdicate. The exclamation agrees with an earlier phrase attributed to the Tsar. He is reported to have said to M. Protopopoff a month ago : " I have long been sick and tired of everything." In the various narratives we have read wo have seen nothing to make us suppose that the Tsar has not behaved as a man of honour and conscience. That is exactly
what we should have expected. The telegrams on Thursday morning announced .that both the Tsar and Tsaritsa are under arrest, and probably by this time they are in safe keeping at Tsarskoe Selo. It is very desirable, we think, that the Tsar should be prevented from becoming, however unconsciously, a focus of political mischief, and this can be done only by isolating him or conveying him out of the country. Moreover, it is duo to him to keep him in personal safety as well as to treat Lim with all con- sideration. It might be preferable to send him away altogether, but this may not be an easy thing to do at present.
