AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 171, 27 August 1879, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

The Russian newspapers give the following particulars respecting the revolutionary movements: —“ ‘ Golos’ states that a ymmg lady, governess in a nobleman’s family, lias been apprehended at Moscow in the very act of posting^up proclamations. She was observed first to affix one to the walls of the University. and on being followed she was arrested in the Tvcrskoi street in the act of posting up another. On her wove found a large number of proclamations. The offence took place at two o’clock in the morning. The Klevhmiu under-sf-ndk that DU persons have been arrested at Ivicif on the charge oi being without passports. Of these aie kittle Russians and fifty Jews, bevon have been release.] on bail, and the remainder arc confined in the fortification?. The Kvrijer Warszawsht prints the now regulations of flic policemastoi for the preservation of public safety, which, it remarks, arc identical with those promulgated at the beginning of the insurrection of 1864. Every individual above the age of fourteen is ordered to furnish -the authorities with a form giving full particulars of his antecedents and career, and stating the amount of property he possesses. It is also forbidden throughout Poland'for individuals to retain weapons of any kind in their possession, and'owners of such arc at once to deliver them up to the police-under pain of imprisonment and expulsion from tiieii palace of residence. Students, public scnool pupils, and apprentices are placed especially under the surveillance of the police, who are directed to observe that thev do not keep la to hours and consort with evil and suspicions persons,.

The Kievkmw, in an article on the revolutionary trials at Ivielf. observes: £ The court-martial just conclmlccl have produced in Kieff a iVe’ing of extreme melancholy. As yet the particulars have not been published, but wo may affirm that in no previous examinatin of revolutionists have so many startling facts come to light as during the _ Kioff trials. To our sorrow wo see highlyborn men and women, richly endowed with wealth, making collections not only of breech-loaders, daggers, and revolvers, hat of poisons also, to assist them in carrying out their diabolical schemes. The sight is more fit for an Oriental counivy than for Holy Russia. It is so terrible that wc can hardly realise it to he true.’ The Sovremennt . Isvrsfi hears that the police have discovered that the Nihilists have been distributing subversive pamphlets in the streets in sealed envelopes, pretending them to be oracles of fate, such as are usually sold for five copecks oy fortunetellers' in Russia. The policemaster has consequently forbidden the sale of such articles in the streets of the capital. The Mosco G zeite publishes an account ■ o f the arrest of several students charged with creating d isturbances in the No vinsky Prospect, and assaulting the police who endeavored to eflect their arrest. It appears that, a dvornik. interfered with them first for standingtalking together in front of the house which he was watching, and when lie summoned' the police the students began reviling them for their tyranny, upon which they were taken into custody after a severe struggle. The Tobolsk journal Sibeer says that _ the prisons in Tobolsk contain 1250 exiles, who will shortly be distributed throughout Western Siberia. Recently a disturbance occurred in the principal exile prison. Thirty inmates confined in one of the cells effected a passage under the walls of the building, and were about to break earth outside when one of them divulged the conspiracy to the governor. 'Soldiers were thereupon-sent to the cell to-arrest them, and the conspirstovs being obstinate, a vollev was fired, resulting in several being. wounded end two being Killed. Ratei on, the prisoners, hnvingdiscovcrcd the name of their betrayer, fell upon and beat him to death.