Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-06-17
INTERESTING FROM RUSSIA.
Progress OF the Refom Movement.
EMANCIPATION AnV NcING.


CORRESPONDENT o I the w aTIderer oil Vlenna
RUSSIAN FRONTIER, April I3, 1858
Something has been effected, il not much
by the reform agitation in Russia. We
hear from ST. Petersburgh that the minister
of Justice, in connection with some of the
imperial chancellors, has prepared project
for the alteration OF certain branches oi
the judicial procedure, iE which the or
ganization and other imperfections of the
Russian courts will be abolished; and, among
others, the following provis isions will be
made: l. Legal records shall be registered
in book kept for that purpose, so that the
arties interested can satisfy themselves
when and whether their documents have re-
ceived proper attention. 2. In the sessions,
the Judges shall hand in the reports instead
of the secretaries, as has heretofore been
customary. The Minister considered the
introduction of law schools as dangerous,
howe He says: We must no: forget
that it might become injurious and hurtlul
to the State to spread deep knowledge OF
the law amo; g persons who do not hold Of
fees under the Government.
[From the Ostdentsache Post. Vienna, April "a
The social condition OF the country will
form the greatest obstacle TO the Emperor's
maon,nlmous efforts for reform. While the
immense mass of the people sill lack. for
the most part, the very elements OF cultiva-
ton, the relatively small number OF educat-
ed persons are possessed ui ideas, The. real
izstion of which is ony possible on CON
dition of an organic and general national
education. This contrast is melancholy
and injurious. In the broad and deep abyss
that separates the ignorance OF the uas>
from the overcuture of the better class
many of the most splendid plans of the
Enparor will doubtless be lost. This con-
ditloD of affairs is a wretched heirloom OF
the ancient system, which cultivated foreign
manners like hot-house plants. in the high
erlcrces but entirely neglected The educa-
ton OF the people. The great matter of the
emanci patton of the serls progresses but
slowly.
1t is necessary that the Emperor should
have a philosophical patience in order to en-
dure the passive resistance which the work
of philanthropy and political wisdom every
where encounters. TIE n-blr does not in
deed dare opeL y and directly to oppose the
Emperor, but he manages with very little
dissimulation to protect the atftir, and en-
d, avors with a mass of the most opposite
, plans and propositions t. draw it to lis own
destruction, and unfortunately he is power
fully aided in this by the press, which :
everywhere busy in bringing Uiopiar the
ories to light. The nobility of the Govern
II ent of Kiev have lately declared very de-
cidedly in favor of the emancipati on. But
with that declaration has appeared pro-
position which, il it gain favor with sthe
other committees of the mobiles, will open
Kev start with the very correct theory that
the emancipation OF the serfs pre-supooses
a iudicious nrganiza,ion of the rural police.
They desire, accordingly, that this reform
be completed before the emancipation, aud
propose that the mobiles, and not the Cow
ernment, as heretofore, shall choose and
consolidate the new police and judiciary ar
r,ngements. The far-sighedness of this
remarkable proposition is evident The
noble wishes to recOmpense himself for
what ne will lose BY the cmsncipaiion, by
getting the jurisdiction and police into his
own hands. The Emperor has not dsap-
proved of this proposition, but he has Ger
| tainly not accepted it.
Correspondence Of the Augsburg Allgemeine
ZeitunI.
POLISH FRONTIER, April 25, 1858.
II appears more clearly every day, that
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