Weekly News. — 1891-05-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS IN RUSSIA.  Political arrests continue, wdites the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Tel eyeaph . A secret society has been discovere i smon4 the students of the Medical Academy, and a pr'eting press was found. with proclamations, pr Sing a connection with the Kharkoff secret society, the existence of which was denied officially by the Government. It is, however, established clearly now. The Minister of War, who is chief of the Medical Academy, threatens to close the institution and expel all students who may refuse to disclaim sympathy with their arrested comrades. It is feared that disturbances will shortly:hreak out afresh at the universities. This is almost certain at the. Kieff and Kharkoff establishments, and hence the Minister of Public Instruction proposes that the lectures shall not be resumed till September. An investigation into the causes that led to the detatinstrations in Warsaw on May 3rd is resulting in disclosures which give great uneasiness to the Government, as hitherto it was believed that General Gurko's rule of iron had broken down definitely the spirit of retellion and had compelled the Poles to yield to the inevitable. It bt eiev eviih lit that wide-sproad disaffection esists. and that ably-organist .1 plans had been moored. the sueceasful expeut kin of which was contingent upon a European war. It is believed that the German Government, although net officially tvgnisalit el these plans, had suspected their existence, and had modified its policy towards the Poles of late in order to establish a claim to Polish sympathy. The Finance Minister, M. Vishnegradski. who spends considerable sums yew ly in gifts to foreign newspapers which discover the strong p bits of Russian finance, and communicate them to Europe, now insists on the establishment of .• large fund, to be distributed to journals and journalists who defend Russia's treatment of the Jews on the ground of the exceptional character of the Russian as distinguished ham other Jews. This proposal has been approved by all the other Ministers, who also sanctioned those payments already effected by anticipation. A certain Consul-General in Russia. who has not yet succeeded in acquiring a knowledge of the language of the country, is said to have already become a life member of the Slavonic Society, to the views of which he is a convert, to the horror of foreign diplomatists. The Emperor has decided, as soon as the Peasant Laws have been tramed and enacted, finally to remove M. Hurnovo from the Ministry of the Interior, and appoint in his place Count Ignatieff, who is now Governor-General of Kieff, and was Governor-General in Siberia when the terrible murders and flogeings took place. His great merit ic to have insisted upon the persecution of the Jews. All his reports since he became GovernorGeneral of Kieff have been inspired with this single object. When in St. Petersburg he stated the case with great force against the Jews, drawing a sensational picture of the pretended results of their influence on the peasantry, and wound up by assuring the Emperor that no measure less effectual than their banishment would save the country from ruin, and that, as a preliminary act, they must all be concentrated in the Western Governments. The Emperor was impressed profoundly by Count Ignatieff's earnestness, but he was sceptical as to the feasibility of the pla.i submitted, and the Count was sent back to Kieff to complete the work begun there.. That done, the Czar promised to give him the opportunity of solving the Jewish question on a large scale. Count Ignatieff, who is supported by the whole Slavonic society, declares that the deliverance of Russia from the Jews is the work of his life, and that if he succeed in freeing Russia he will be this saviour of the Fatherland from a yoke more galling than that of the Tartars. Meanwhile various schemes for Jewish emigration are in the liamls of the Minister of the Interior; but the one whit h has the greatest chance of receiving a trial in the near future aims at creating a Jewish Kingdom or Republic on the land washed by the waters of the Gulf of Akabah, opposite the peninsula of Sinai, and by the Red Sea down to El Wijh. which is nearly co-extensive with the Midian of the Bible. The scheme has been the subject of informal diplomatic negotiations. A German philanthropist is actually in treaty with the Egyptian Government. If the result prove satisfactory—and it is ,confidently expected it will—the French Government has promised to support Nelidoff in obtaining an engagement from the Porte to favour the enterprise, although the Russian Government Av in the background—is really the initiator of this vast project.