RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 18, 19 June 1885, Page 2

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

DISSATISFACTION IN RUSSU.

The Paris correspondent of the Times on April fith wrote : — '*The prospect of a conflict between England, mid Russia has awakened; many dormant hopes among the oppressed and :. heterogeneous peoples of the great Norern Empire. Tlie echo of this disaffection has t& veiled even to Paris, and ' it seems as if the Russian Government injudiciously contributes to fan the flame. Religious persecution has, at the instigation of the Czar's confidential adviser, the Procurenr of the Holy Synod, Pobedonostzeff, been revived throughout the country/ so that Uniates, Stundists, Protestants and Jews are all oppressed and dissMiisfied." / Aj Georgian, who has good opportunitiesjof judging the feeling of his fellowcouqtryin,cn,»writesff rbm T His >a letter, besejacnihg irie to place kj.ore the British public s-iiiitf expression of the sympathies which tin fJoprgians feel towards England; Tlvt this may be, better under-, stooa", my correspondent recalls the .past history of his country. He allowed how tne i&eorgians, invaded alternatively by the Turks and the Persians, finally accepted the. protection of Russia. But from; the vassals they soon became the victims of the Czar. They soon received little i or no protection, while they were compelled to endure every form of extortion. 1 After recapitulating various his- , toricdl events to snow hdw'Russian functionaries, armed with Russian laws, ride roughshod over the country, crushing dpwn every national instinct, my correspondent insists that the Georgians have now but one object m view — that of throwing off the yoke of foreign domination.