SUPREME COURT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2262, 2 July 1881, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

SITTINGS IN CHAMBERS. Feiday, July 1. [Before his Honor Mr Justice Johnston.] His Honor sat in the Court Chambers at 11 a.m. EH JOHN SOOONB, DECEASED, Mr Q-resson applied herein for letters of administration to Wm, Sooone, and approval of sureties. His Honor made the order. EE JOSIAH BIECH, DECEASED. On the application of Mr Gresson, His Honor made an order granting probate herein to Bessie Birch, as sole executrix, EE LAND TEANBPEE ACT. Mr Gresson applied herein for a summons under the 122nd section of the Act, service to bo made on the premises, as the lessee had left the colony. His Honor made the order. EE ANDREW PEPPER, DECEASED. Mr Gresson applied herein for an order directing the payment by the Public Trustee of certain monies in his hands belonging to the deceased, which had been received as compensation for taking land under the Public Works Act. Application had been made to the Public Trustee for the money, and the reply was that he would pay it out on order of the Court, His Honor thought it would be bettor for notice to bo served on the Public Trustee. Mr Gresson could take his order nisi returnable on July 22nd. Order accordingly. EE WILD OX FRANCIS Q. QAEBAED. Mr Joynt applied herein for letters of administration to Joseph James Kinsey and for his acceptance as surety. The case stood over for Mr Joynt to look into authorities as to the validity of the will as made. EE GEOEGE COOPEE PAWSEY, DECEASED. On the application of Mr George Harper, his Honor granted letters of administration herein to John Robert Pawsey the elder. BE JOSEPH MOELING, DECEASED, Mr Loughrey applied for probate herein to J. O. Sheppard and Patience Oram Morling as executor and executrix. His Honor made the order. BE JOBBPA HERBERT BUBBOWS, DECEASED, Mr Garrick applied herein for probate to the husband as solo executor under a post nuptial settlement. His Honor granted probate as asked. BE THOMAS KENNEDY, DECEASED. Mr Garrick moved herein for probate to the wife of 8. 8. Kennedy, sole executrix. His Honor granted the order. BB O. T. HBNBY. Mr Salter applied herein for the discharge of the debtor. His Honor made an order granting the discharge as asked for. BBLDY T. PARE. Mr Harper moved herein for leave to enter up an interlocutory judgment for plaintiff by default, and for an injunction restraining the defendant from continuing a nuisance to stand until final judgment.

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. The Paris correspondent of the “ Times " writing on May 10th, says :—Letters which have lately been reaching me from Russia are the most interesting inasmuch as that country seems long likely to be enshrouded in mystery. So inveterate is the feeling of distrust there that it it is rare to find a man able to say wkat is happening who is willing to do so. Hence outsiders are always apt to lean to one extreme or the other in their judgment of Russim events. I have consequently selected from these letters one emanating from a man both well-informed and enlightened, whose remarks will bo read with interest:—

“It is a great mistake to suppose that the fears for the new Emperor’s safety are exaggerattd. It would be more correct to say they were inexplicable, if account were not taken of the influence he undergoes. It is, indeel, strange to see a man of thirty-seven, of robust frame and Herculean strength, a prey to terror, tor the Emperor has extraordimry physical strength, and I remember seeing him bend a horseshoe with his finger; yet such is the case, owing to the influence upon him—he is an excellent husband— of the Empress’s nervousness. His departure for Gatchina was a veritable flight The day when he was to start four Imperial trains were ostentatiously ready at four different stations in St. Petersburg, with all the official and military attendants, and while the four trains were waiting, the Emprror fled in a train, without attendance, which tad been waiting at a siding. Without believing all the exaggerated accounts given, it is pretty 7certain that the Emperor is almost invisible at Gatchina ; that he seldom sees bis Ministers, and the aides-de-camp, who formerly had free access to the Czar’s person, have received a circular intimating to them that they are only to appear twice a week and on special orders. The population of St. Petersburg were greatly impressed at the Emperor’s absence from the 40th day's Mass for his father, the presence of a son on that occasion being more obligatory in Russia than attendance even at the funeral. The Empress was likewise absent. On Easter Sunday, when from time immemorial every Russian could see and oven kiss the Emperor, nobody could catch sight of him, which stupefied all Russia. Do not believe the stories of the late Emperor having signed o Constitution the very day of his death. What he had signed was the appointment of a commission to consider whether provincial institutions might not be widened and when you hear of a Constitution pay no heed to it. It will not and cannot be given. There is in Russia such a variety of races, from the Gorman Poles and Old Russians to savages, that it would bo impossible, nay, insensate, to give them what is called elsewhere a Constitution. How can you give a Constitution to a country where there are still whole provinces which have not a Zemstvo ? An endeavor will be made to create in every province a sort of local council to communicate its wishes to the Central Government at St. Petersburg, and exert a kind of local control over the resources of the province and their employment. Moreover, this will only be done if the liberal influence prevails, for there are two active and ardent influences which by turns get possession of the Czar’s mind, 'and which are represented by Loris Melikoff on the one hand and by Pobedinestchef on the other. At present Melikoff is in the ascendant, but perhaps by the time these lines reach you this will have changed, for Germany is striving with all her might to produce a reaction which would prostrate this country for a long time. No faith can bo placed in the story of the present Czar’s antipathy towards the Germans. He is, on the contrary, more devoted to the Emperor William and more under the influence of Prince Bismarck than his father ever was. Thus, in his first letter to the German Emperor, instead of writing, as his father would have done—‘Dear Brother and dear Great Uncle,’ he wrote, ‘Yery dear Great Uncle and dear Brother,’ thereby marking that he ranked his blood relationship before the official relation. Moreover, before a liberal course could be entered upon, it would be necessary to have a homogeneous Ministry, for at present the orders of the Emperor pass over the heads of the Ministers, and it constantly happens that one of the Ministers, contrary to the collective resolutions of the Cabinet, will take out of his pocket direct orders from the Emperor, and there is an end of the matter. To have a homogeneous Ministry, elements would have to lie eliminated, which are mostly due to the Emperor’s personal choice—lgnatieff, for instance; and this is why, as soon as such a Ministry, really the most essential thing, is talked of, personal stumbling blocks arise on which the Emperor is unyielding, so that the negotiation breaks off. On this personal question, moreover, as on all political science, the Emperor betrays utter inoompetenoy, being now too imperious and now too pliable. Prince Gortschakoff, for example, has always announced that be should retire after twenty-five years’ service. The Emperor accordingly sent him a flattering letter, with a touching keepsake, expecting to receive his resignation in return. Instead of this, the old Chancellor sent a sentimental reply, expressing a hope that he would soon be well enough to resume active service. The Emperor was angry, but ventured to say nothing, and since then seems to be io search of a pretext, which the wily diplomatist will beware of furnishing. As for the Nihilists, despite every investigation, all that is known—and this is the only re-assuring thing is that they have no accomplices in the army or the real nobility nor among the peasantry. They are almost exclusively recruited among the declasses, especially the young men, whose unsatisfied ambition stimulates a fanaticism carried to an incredible pitch. Thus at some previous executions the culprits scandalised the peasants by their irreligion. The watchword was given, and at the last executions the culprits showed respect for the Cross in their last moments. This was obedience in the highest degree. It will be difficult to overcome Nihilism, became it is organised in small groups connected only by one member with each other, so that even those enrolled do not know members of other branches. Thus on the day of the assassination there can be no doubt that the famous mine which was discovered was unconnected with the group that performed the assassination, and that its purpose was not to blow up the Emperor, but to stop his carriage and afford others time to assassinate him, after the fashion of the hay-cart which stopped General Prim’s carriage at Madrid. For instance, it is known that every Nihilist is now obliged not to absent himself from his dwelling more than twelve hours at a time. When that interval is exceeded his accomplices go np to his lodgings and bufn everything that might compromise him. Thus recently a captured Nihilist refused to give his name and address. Then, after a certain time, he consulted hie watch and gave his name and address’. The police hurried to his lodgings and found that two hours before persons had been there and burnt all his papers. Nor must people believe everything our Government has reported on the subject. Thus to-day people are asked to believe that it was the Nihilists who stirred up the peasantry in the district of Elizabethgrad to commit horrors against the Jews which must make every Russian blush. It was simply the fault of the Government, which will neither emancipate those wretched people nor protect them. The Jews of that district long ago warned the authorities that Easter Sunday, which is always a bad day for them in Christian towns, would this year be fatal for them. Nothing was done, and all that is now done to repair these humiliating scenes is to hush them up. I have to-day received the subjoined note from one of the most respectable men I know, and it deserves to be published in proof of the sores which afflict my unhappy country :— ‘ The newspapers say little of Elizabethgrad, and the pen vainly endeavours to depict the situation. A cry of rage and grief is raised from the unhappy district. The town looks as it it had been devastated by the elements. Whole streets have been literally razed. Almost all the Jews’ houses ore sacked and all shops plundered. Bonds have been stolen and oven destroyed. People but yesterday rich, or at least comfortably off, are now beggars. Thousands of Jews are homeless and living on public charity. Many are seriously and others slightly wounded, several were killed. Do not imagine I am exaggerating; the picture is, alas! far bolow the reality, ’ We wished to express our horror by opening a subscription for the victims, but it was forbidden, and a Berlin telegram informs me that the banker, Bleichroder, though Prince Bismarck’s friend, declares ho cannot move in the matter. Such is our position, yet Russia only requires a sagacious, firm, and honest man in order to flourish ; for she has resources of which no idea can bo formed. We spent a milliard and a-half of roubles in the late monstrous war. We lost 40,000 men; wo have had famine, the assassination of the Emperor, the Nihilist

terror, all that can crush a people, and yet the revenue comes in and the Treasury lives and prospers. With a single lofty and clearsighted will we should soon be at the summit of our greatest ambition, but this is just what our neighbors and rivals do not want, and the Nihilists, as well as those who govern us, are working against us and for the benefit of our enemies."