The latest Russian accounts report that the Chinese con- sider
themselves at war with Russia, and include masses of details as to fighting all along the Amur, at various places in Manchuria, and at Keigan in Mongolia, at Mukden, and at Newchang.• Nowhere have the Russians achieved decided success, nowhere have they saved the railway, while every- where there is proof that the people are against them. The total drift of the evidence, which, of course, comes from Russian sources only, is that the strength of Russia in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria has been absurdly overrated; that St. Peterabwg, probably for reasons of economy, has trusted to the terror of the Russian name rather than to force ; and that the Czar will be compelled to employ a large army in the .reconquest of the road to the Pacific. His 'Majesty probably perceived this early, and hence his anger with Count Monravieff and his reluctance to break formally with the Chinese Court. There are whispers, too, of insur- rections among the Kalmucks and other Tartar tribes, and altogether the situation of Russia in China is, except as regards trade, more dangerous than that of Great Britain. She can, of course, in time more up adequate force, but the Marching must be on foot and the expense will be very great.. • . • •
