Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-25

the second period is supposed to have been
 one of agitation among the masses in prep aration of the revolt, while the first period consisted simply in the organization of the Nihilistic committees and conspirators.
 The confusion wrought by Meikoff among the criminals has thrown the latter into quarrels among themselves. Thus the
 stNabat' is on bad terms with the Dragama- now, and experience teaches that agitators and central committees usually fall prey to the police. The Nihilists had expected,
 when they began their recent. career of general crimes, that all Russia would rise to destroy the Government, the church. so- ciety and property That expectation was not realized, and the ''Nabat" for one makes the zeal of General Melikof and the apathy of the people responsible for the Nihilistio collapse. It is thought that Nihilism has done it's worst, and that Russia will now see hap
 pier days.
 The final report of the Imperial Chancery
 of Germany upon the manner in which the French war indemnity has been disposed of is interesting The total sum exaeted from France by her conquerors the price of peace amounted, as will be remembered, to considerably more than two hundred mil
 lion pounds, every penny of which had been expended, distributed to the several German States or invested in newly created imperial institutions by it's official administrators be- fore the conclusion of the financial year 1877-8. The imperial share of the indemnity is set down at about ifty-one million five hun dred thousand pounds, six million pounds of which, in coined gold, lie deposited in the Julius tower, at Spandau, and constitute Q fund wherewith the preliminary expenses of Germany's next war may be paid in hard cash. Other twenty eight million pounds have been employed inc founding the im- perial military fund, while the remaining seventeen million pounds odd were spent in strengthening the defenses of Elsass-Loth- ringen, and in remedying the damages done to those provinces during the war of 1S7O- T. The balance of the indemnity, between one hundred and sixty million pounds and one hundred and seventy million pounds, was divided, in exact proportion to the spective numbers of the several populations, among the German States which had partic- ipated in the Franco-German struggle, name ly, the former North German Confederation, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden and Hesse. The portion allotted to the North German Confederation was dedicated by act of Par lament July 8, 1873, to the liquidation of the war loans, the re-armament of the impe- rial forces and the augmentation of the lat ter's numerical strength and fighting capaci- ty. Similar dispositions of their shares in the mighty spoil were made by the minor German States. Prussia spent her surplus in constructing strategical railways and in for tifying the eastern frontier. '"Thus," as the London Telegraph says, 'the colossal sums wrung from France in the hour of defeat and humiliation may be said to have been entirely absorbed by warlike preparations, and to have increased rather than diminished the burden of military harness hitherto man. fully and patiently borne by the long-suffer- ing German people,"