Two very curious telegrams have been received by the Times
last week and this, which perhaps contain even more important prognos- tics for the future of Russia than any of the events of the great war- in which she is engaged. The first was a telegram in the Times of Friday week, dated Ziirich, September 20, which stated that "the steamer Louise,' of 60 horse-power, Captain Dahl, which sailed on the 18th July from Hull for the Obi mouth, arrived to-day at Tobolsk, Siberia, all well. The vessel belongs to Alexander Trapeznikoff, Moscow." The other was the following, in the Times of Wednesday, dated Paris, September 25 :—" A vessel belonging- to M. Sidoroff, Captain Schwanenberg, arrived at Verde [in Jut- land], on the 16th September, after a passage of 21 days from the mouth of the Jenisei ; and the steamer 4 Trazer,' belonging to M. Sibiriakoff, Captain Dahlmann, which sailed from Bremen on the 28th July for the mouth of the Jenisei, returned to Hammerfest yesterday,"—meaning, as we suppose, returned to Hammerfest after successfully reaching the mouth of the Jenisei. This means not only that Siberia is accessible by a sea-voyage of a month or so- from the great commercial ports of the West, but that by at least one of the rivers of Siberia, the Obi, access may be had into the very centre of Asiatic Russia, Tobolsk being on the 58th parallel of latitude, or thereabouts. If for anything like half the year- Siberia can keep up so easy a traffic with Western Europe, the whole prospect of that part of the Russian Empire will be changed for the better.
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