THE NEWS IN RUSSIA.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2740, 3 January 1882, Page 3

THE NEWS IN RUSSIA.

’(’■ ‘i*a .Fro? s«c» C'aconioie- ) A few B'is*.'' ,v Jews, - tfeo advance r-is»ni <■£ s, ii igl.i, hoit that have been ffriven from th< domain, arrived v„ 'A- -n October VHh. They are o« it; •v -v-.I to r '• tradespeople. Ono ’of a:r .-cl thi. a! ¥i?‘V, the rr-Üble nnvi- 0-' ■ ■ ■ itJ( d'Vo-i. • 'No )of - • - T)lcaky. .> A'' ” ;: ler. a • th ■- • V- ■■ was y.cy desuvd- ’■ f v; " .vied. '; >?ijr, siM'tiy n'iiviii asked ■ m or. ■/ iio );>■ . ‘ v : ided ■, U>A rC;jbiO; w 2200 p 5,1” , 1 ” 'wapon r-. : \ --nui y:ur ■'A • <*-d it y . ■■ <-5:, r,-v i> ‘ -..•.into ■ A--- \'h ) •. >0 then Uiv i-i- the ■ vs h< ' ugar, ID: VI ’I - olish* •:»;.« lb. 1 -• )S in ;■ sr il ■ .'r- vv.Jcked, »» tv Ai re ■ '/ocis 1 j i'• ■ . ; i into a<‘ - 3. M. AnV , a.’, war "v"V' ■/ ./ ,-10 or 0 0' : ,o<’o •« nlsA-r. v onairo I';-. a ■ an-' •];- :=■ I. a. night. 'fN; iifipsi-s. 0.-ns Jewish iaiAlv.M *.w.*3 h*-=:=i 1 ' 'as down, fhesi" outrago* •• -> 1 while *;K? )f ih; «my was fiVriirjroi ?i’. 7‘7iN' not aaikii apo.-.to 1 :r and the in oiMosed at the last tc -ay- ' .U>:rs, boys ; fcfcatV eso’ljdij’ but ■ > irv<-.iiid was not sjivaß t«U atter > '-■ >' ! -u of the Jewish hail : ■■••;, <->itraged. Tt'.a timed (at ii"' I Av,.vy ' irnish a wwallcl to wluu •-•••• 1 ?-t other points. rt nv r-i'esfrom Xvif, ?. -if y- N- mts, of whc-pi. ■■ 1 'Ki'.'C->.■ r .a ahoase - r?; .>■,?, ....i; ; • ';i. ' •■ n inhahitn.l v;: ?, :\ ,t* ■>? i a Israel--pcptil-bion •‘ i to leave. At this ?>]•?.(*.• th-.- ! a. • rnpted to help the J-IVS. h- a off by theßuA’-i' csn»<'*f4ry, •.< -re armed n:di.?cy(b;/ ining hooks, &c. At Sitc:A a" I .' > ges occurred. At Sstoni?r cv *. belonging to the Jaw wns!-’!.'. 1 the Synagogue was Isra-itl dtivn hi . he x’entateuch was bnrnedin tl— y :.‘c square. These scenea were repeated in Northern as well as fouthern Russia, and in the remotest borders of Poland. Crops were boned, stores and dwellings 'Set on fire, aid people driven in the streets, and oat of the cities and towns, homeless, stripped of their earthly posses •ions, and terror-stricken. Attacks were made npon the entire people, and hundreds of thousands were compelled te flee for their lives. The outbreak fell upon them with all the more force and, effect because by the laws of Russia they were prohibited from tarrying arms, and they were thus .owerless to help themselves. Tens of thousands of families fled into Austria, and in their flight households became separated. That the persecutions had the sanction of the Russian authorities was evident from the fact not only that the people would not have dared to attack them, if the authorities bad been disposed to protect the Jews, but the further fact that the Governors of several provinces in which the outrages occurred were afterwards promoted to higher posts by the Czar. The opinion of the Jews is that the persecutions was tolerated by the Czar with the hope that the vengeance of the peasantry might be wreaked on them, which would otherwise cast itself against the Government or seek relief in Nihilism. The Russian emigrants seen yesterday said that Nihilism was fast permeating the entire jEmpire, and embraced all classes from nobles do T , ”ougb the police and army to tk_ „„ J . of v~.. common ole.