The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9.

Wnita the Princess Daox.fia is being received in
Russia with an enthusiasm not less nor lees deserved
than that which nearly three years ago greeted her
sister in England, events are going on which present
the reverse aide of the Imperial medal, and which
may give her some serious thoughts as to the cha-
racter of the heritage on which she is entering. The
newsof thetrial and conviction of thirty-four persona
for complicity in the ICARAKOZOFF conspiracy, and
sentences of death and banishment to Siberia, fill up
the intervals in our periodic reports of the Royal and
Imperial progress, and the popular welcome. The
depths which lie beneath the glittering surface are
laid open, and the life of the nation and the life
of the court stand distinguished with painful
variance. The different futures which seem to
lie before the two sisters who are destined to wear,
the one the English, the other the Russian crown,
afford a contrast with which imagination might
busy itself. Before the one lies the prospect of a
partnership in a sovereignty over a free, stable, and
well-ordered society. The throne reserved for the
other is placed, as the Emperor Nicnoxas said,
upon a volcano. While the Princess DAOMAIt is
waiting to become a bride, ninny, who once felt as
she feels now, are being widowed by death or
exile; and the old and bitter jest which described
the Russian Empire as a despotism tempered by
assassination has received new illustration.

Our correspondent at St. Petersburg has given
full details of the conspiracy, which has bad its
first victim, and now we hope claims its
last, in the only way he could, and that
is as the Russian authorities desire that it
should be exhibited to the world, but with due
caution against the acceptance of every statement
as gospel by readers in Western Europe. The whole
truth will not, perhaps, be known to the present
generation, if indeed it be not buried for ever in
the grave of ICARAKOZOPT. The Commission of
Inquiry had its president in General MOURAVIEFF.
If the Jamaica commission had been presided over
by ex-Governor EYRE, hew much should we have
known of what really took place there in the
autumn of last year? The evidence on which
men who have determinedly taken a side can
send their fellows to the gallows ; the fancies
and surmises which they will take for proof
of organized conspiracies for massacre and
spoliation, need no other illustration than that
which our own recent experience gives. The
official disclosures which have been published
in the Northern Post have in many respects an
apocryphal air. They bear a family resem-
blance to some of the most notorious calum-
nies of history. When we read of an
organization framed to " promote socialist
" teaching, to destroy the principles of public
" morality, to shake the faith of the masses
" in religion, and lastly to subvert the established
" order of the State," it is natural to suppose that
the " lastly " contains the gist of the offence, and
that the other heads of the accusation are either
ornamentaladditions, like the imputation of Satanic
inspiration in indictments for high treason, or are
supposed to be corollaries involved in the political
charge. The " Organization "of 1865, according
to the official report, sought its vile ends by means
as vile. If funds from other sources were
insufficient for its purposes, " theft, murder
" of the rich, robbery of post-offices and of other
" Government institutions, and even the heinous
" crime of parricide, were all held to be justifiable
"in view of the object to be attained." One
branch of the Organization, known appropriately
as " Hell," consisted of members each of whom
was pledged to undertake, if need were, the
murder of the EMPEROR, the selected assamin
being bound to destroy himself by poison, that no
clue might be found to his associates. All
this is very shocking ; but worse things than
these were said and believed, and held to be con-
clusively proved, against the Christians under the
Roman Empire, against the Jews, the Templar.,
and heretics in the middle ages, and against
" Papists " in early Protestant times. Even
the orgies and the designs attributed by CICRRO
to CATlLrive and his fellow-conspirators, are
believed now to have been in great part in-
vented by the great orator for reasons of date
and rhetoric, and in fulfilment of the sacred
obligation to provide ne res publiea quid deteiesenti
carat. That General Mouiuvrzry and his Com-
mission may have been influenced ih their
report by considerations drawn from ki haute