The Kanzas news., 1858-06-19
Correspondence of the wsnderer of Vienna.
Interesting from Russia---Progress of
the Great Reform Movement.

Correspondents of the Wanderer of Vienna.
! Interesting from Russia---Progress Of
the Great Reform Movement.
RUSSIAN FRONTIER, April IS, 1858.
Something has been effected, if not much,
i by the reform agitation in Russia We hear
from st. Petersburg that the minister of
justice, in connection with some of the inn
perial chancellors, has prepared project
/ for the alteration of certain branches of the
| judicial procedure, in which the organiza-
ton and other imperfections of the Russian
courts viii be abolished; and, among others,
the following provisions will be made: /.
Legal records shall be registered in book
kept for that purpose, SO that the parties in
terested can satisfy themselves when and
whether their documents have received prop
er attention. g. In the sessions, the judg-
es shall hand in the reports instead of the
secretaries. as has heretofore been customa-
ry. The Minister considered the introduc-
! ton of law schools as dangerous, however.
| He says: eve must not forget that it might
become injurious and hurtful to the State
to spread deep knowledge of the law
among persons who do not hold offices un-
| der The Government
From the Ostdeutsehe Post, Vienna, April "a
form the greatest obstacle to the Emperor's
magnanimous efforts for reform. While
the immense mass of the people still lack,
for the most part, the very elements of cul-
tiyation, the relatively small number of ed
ucated persons are possessed of ideas the
realization of which is only possible on con-
dition of an organic and general national ed
ucaion. This contrast is melancholy and
injurious In the broad and deep abyss that.
| separates the ignorance of the mass from
| the better class, many of the most.splendid
! plans of the Emperor will doubtless be lost.
| T is condition of affairs is a wretched heir
loom of the ancient system, which cultiva-
| ted foreign manners, like hot-house plants,
in the higher circles, but entirely neglected
the education of the people. The great mat
ter of tie emancipation of the serfs progress
es but slowly.
1t is necessary that the Emperor should
have philosophical patience in order to en-
dure the passive resistance which the work
of philanthropy and political wisdom every
where encounters. The noble does not in
deed dare openly and directly to oppose the
Emperor, but he manages with very little
dissimulation to protract the affair, and en-
deavors with mass of the most opposite
plans and propositions to draw it to its own
destruction, and unfortunately he is power
Il fully aided in this by the press, which is
i everywhere busy in bringing Utopian the
ories to light. The nobility of the Govern
ment of Kiev have lately declared very de-
cidedly in favor of the emancipation. But
2 with that declaration has appeared prop
| osition which, if it gain favor with the 9TH
er committees Of the mobiles, viii open the
} way for new difficulty. The mobiles of
e KEW start with the very correct theory that
e the emancipation of the serfs pre-supposes
judicious organization of the rural police.
r They desire accordingly that the reform be
r completed before the emancipation, and pro.
pose that the mobiles, and not the Govern
ment as heretofore, shall choose and consol-
idate the new police and Judiciary arrange
ments. The far-sightedness of this remar-
tkable proposition is evident. The noble
t wishes to recompense himself for what he
: will lose by the emancipation by getting the
rural jurisdiction and police into his own
!! hands. The Emperor has not disapproved
of this proposition, but he has certainly not
accepted it.
: Correspondence of the Augsburg AIlgemeine lei
tung.
Polish FRONTIER, April 25, 1853.
! 1t appears more clearly every day that the
Russian Emperor is In earnest with his re-
forms, and that the difficulties that were in
e his way, and the obstacles created by the
! adherents of the ancient regime only increase
his zeal and his energy. Not only officials
of the highest rank, but also those in infe-
rior spheres, are dismissed in masses, or
j pensioned, if they are not favorable TO the
innovations; the latter especially is the fate
of the aged public servants, who, it is true,
always receive tokens of the Imperial grace
and respectable, pensions. To the younger
D officials this peaceful revolution is highly
I? agreeable, for not day passes but long lists
Z of them are promoted to high offices and
e higher grades of rank. At the same time.
, the former usage of selecting military men
j, and members of the aristocracy. for such
: preferment is wholly abandoned. Whoever
is remarkable for capacity and activity is
rapidly advanced. What is exceedingly res
markable is that the Russian newspapers are
. allowed to speak without restraint of the ad-
. ministrative system pursued under the late
t Emperor. and to publish and condemn It's
faults. 1t is to be hoped that the monarch
r will not become weary in his efforts, and
E that he viii carry through the great work
| In spite of all hindrances.
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