May Day, which was so dreaded that thousands left the
city, passed off quietly in St. Petersburg ; but in Warsaw orders had evidently been received to suppress any popular movement by an appeal to naked military force. A pro- cession of workmen, for instance, which may or may not have carried red flags, but was neither attacking nor threatening anybody, was allowed to pass a body of 17hlans in peace, but when infantry were marched up, was ferociously assailed. According to the Times correspondents, sixty-two persons were shot down, many of them women and children, and no less than two hundred wounded. The soldiers hunted the crowd after it had begun to fly, and even searched for and killed victims hiding in the courtyards. In other towns such as Lodz disturbances produced similar scenes, though there are no means of counting the dead accurately. The Poles, of course, are furiously enraged, a general strike has been pro- claimed, and threats are uttered of killing the men of the offending regiment seriatim ; but the strike is futile, as it cannot be kept up, and the menaces to the soldiery only justify their ferocity to their own eyes. Nothing, in fact, can be done to resist the officials until either the soldiers or the peasantry rebel, and it is this truth which is the strength of the party of assassination. The revolution, if it is to oome, must come in some other way than through local risings, which only serve to increase the sum of local misery, and to frighten local officials into acts of ferocity. The Czardom, though beaten in war and condemned universally by the educated, still possesses immense force.
The King's incognito visit to Paris, which ended on
