The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-16

| Count Schouvaloff, formerly Russian embas-
| sador to Great Britain, will start from St
Petersburg for London at once 1t is believed
| that he has an official mission.
| Orders have been received at the arsenals and
| docks at Nicolaieff and Sebastapol to work night
| aud day in order to complete men ofwar.
n
The Effect on the Money Markets.
LONDON, April 15.-The stock market closed
| buoyant at about the best quotations Of the day
The fortnightly settlement has been concluded
| without the occurrence of any failures. Consols
| and Russians were very firm at the close.
American railroad properties generally showed a
decline of fraction, with the exception Of
| Grand Trunks, which were 0a higher.
| The Paris bourse closed firm, owing to the
better political outlook, although failure was
| announced, which will cause other heavy losses.
| At Berlin there was pronounced advance in
| prices on the bourse on favorable advices from
| Paris and London.
| The rebound of stocks is chiefly due to pre-
valent belief that England is about to conclude
an alliance with Turkey, which it is thought will
| prove an effectual damper to Russian arrogance
| This belief is based, however, on mere surnise
Russia's Internal Policy-Population of the
Empire.
"Gath's" New York Letter.
| recent publication by German speaking
of the agitations in Russia following her disap-
pointment in the recent Turkish war, remarked:
The follies of the Russian national party have
caused the Russo German alliance to be dis
solved, and have forced Prince Bismarck to turn
to Austria the old and natural ally of every SEN
sible German and of every reasonable English
statesman. The emperor has retained his hith-
erto advisers and their same vicious system. The
| government persists in foreign policy intended
solely and necessarily to distract the attention
! of the national party toward abroad All the do
mestic events in Russia, which have so immeas-
| urably increased the severity of her present
crisis and threaten to make it fatal. are closely
connected with the question Of her foreign
| policy; if all other remedies are found of no
avail, an attempt will be made, after the
well known French method, to occupy
the feverish elements Of society by a
| foreign war. Such war is most eagerly de-
sired by the discontented themselves, and the
:! first use which emancipated Russian society
would make of its liberty would consist in taking
up again the policy of Eastern conquest, forcibly
arrested by the Berlin Congress, and declaring a
| war of revenge against those who brought that
| Congress about" The author concludes "If
England shall become Indifferent to continental
interests, France would reach her hand to Russia
|
whole of Europe would be taught to know, what
only few know at present, that the revolution
| now imminent in Russia implies q terrible dan
| ger to European peace and civilization"
1t may be asked what is the population of
| Russia. By the census of 1870 Russia contained
ten individuals to the square mile in Europe she
| had nearly S0,0 900 inhabitants, or, say
ore quarter more than the United States; in
Asia she had only 1000, 900 inhabitants making
her total population some 81, ,000, 900 of people,
10 oh t0 pr;f -,
and the - United States, lit
| tie less The most populous provinces
of Russia are not in tho north, aroundSt Peters
burg, but in the middle and south. She has a
State called Tamboy, between the Don and the
Volga with two and quarter millions of peo-
pie. and the next State below that the Don
has over two millions and about two millions
also live i'll koursk which is within a few hours
| OF the Crmea. These States somewhat corre-
spond to our Mississippi and Alabama. Little
Russia, which lies in the vicinity of Odessa, on
the Black sea, or little to the north of 1t, is
composed of four States, which are as populous
as New York and Pennsylvania put together.
Then there are fifteen million Russians living
in me Volga provinces, and six millions more
live about the Crimea, and in western Russia
ten millions, and about St Petersburg. on the
Baltic are three millions and half There are
six million Poles in Russia. nearly two million
Firms and over million and a half people in the
Caucasus, down by the Caspian. Beyond the
Caucasus mountains, in the new con0uests of
Russia called Trans Caucasus, there livethree and
a half millions more. Indeed, the Russians claim
that In their three Caucasian districts, namely,
the base of the mountains, the mountains and
over the mountains, they have II coo 900 people.
Then in Asia they count up 4, ,OOO, 900 in Siberia
and 100000 toward Tartary. The Russian
cities are not as large as ours or those of West
ern Europe. st. Petersburg has not over 700,-
900 people, and is, therefore, hardly bigger than
Chicago. Moscow is about tho population of
Brooklyn, or 100000, and Warsaw, the third
city, is no bigger than Cleveland. or $50, 600.
Odessa is about as large as Newark, N. j., or
162, 900.
Only few years ago Russia contained the as
tonishing number of %, ,OO0, 600 serfs belonging
to private owners, and %, O0O 600 more who were
crown peasants. Here are nearly As, 000, 600 peo
pie who received their liberty between 1860 and
1865, identical with that period in the United
States when only 1000, 600 of people were set
free from slavery. Can we wonder that eleven
times the number of our emancipated people,
and those all of the white race, should make
somewhat more commotion than has been seen
in our Southern Statesa And yet if life is meas
ured by life it is probable that more people have
been killed by violence in late slave States
since 1865 than have met with violence in the
whole of Russia.