28 APRIL 1906, Page 34

STATES-GENERAL AND DITMA.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—It would seem that the Czar has fixed May 5th as the day for the meeting of the Duma. It is interesting to recall that May 5th marks at once the opening and the close of the French Revolutionary drama. The States-General met at Versailles on May 5th, 1789. Napoleon died at St. Helena on