KHIVA.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 121, 20 October 1874, Page 4

KHIVA.

According to a letter from Kasalinsk, in the Goloss, the Khanate of Khiva is in such an unsettled state that its complete annexation by Russia will (says the Fall Mall Gazette) in all probability soon become inevitable. Already last year the Khivan DivanBeghi, Mat-Nias, declared that the Khan had no personal influence whatever, and that the Russians alone would be able to keep him on the throne, as he was incapable of holding the plundering Turcomans in check. Mat-Nias took great pains to a-cer-tain what the commander of the new Russian Amoo-Darya district would do if the Khan abdicated, but he could not obtain any definite answer on this point. Meanwhile, the Khan himself has become more and more convinced of the impossibility of keeping order in the country and of paying the Russian contribution, as his sources of revenue are exhausted and his subjects are poor. The correspondent thinks it not improbable that the Russians will now annex another piece of territory on the left bank of the Amoo in order to protect the unfortunate population from utter ruin. A report is already current that a number of delegates from all parts of the country are about to proceed by order of the Khan to the Russian commander, in order to beg him

to take military possession of the left bank of the river. The same paper says that, according to the last accounts from the kingdom of Poland, the Polish language is to be used in the local tribunals as heretofore until the agricultural population shall have learned Russian in the schools which are to be established by the Government for that purpose. Upon this the Goloss remarks that if the Government really means to postpone the int r oduction of the Russian language in the tribunals until the Polish peasants shall know Russian it will have to wait a long time, and that it would do much better to follow the example of Prussia, where the Poles have to plead in German before the courts of iustice, whether they understand German or not. The Golvss adds that the use of the Polish language is spreading to an extraordinary extent in Podolia and Yolhynia, even in districts where Russian only has hitherto been spoken.