The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-12-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TELEGRAM FROM THE QUEEN.  The Queen has telegraphed congratulating the Czar ou his escape, and all the Embassieg iu London have forwarded expressions of sympathy through the Russian Embassy to his Imperial Majesty.  The Tinua says the Russians may well ask what they have gained in exchange for their enormous losses in the field, which left so many homes in mourning, and for their financial burdens, which are grievously felt, by the highest and meanest of the Emperor's 'Ojai:its. A keen sense of disappointment prevails, and it is only to be feared that un ?rise counsels may tempt the Russian .Government to combat this dangerous feeling once again by a warlike policy gratifying to national vanity. Russia will not be at peace with herself any more than with her neighbours until she recognises the fact that an aggressive policy is at once profitless and perilous. All the western nations are willing that the energies of Russia should be steadily developed within the wide limits of the empire, and the Russians should work out for themselves the problems of political progress. But Europe is determined that those limits shall not be overpassed. If a policy of peace prevails in St. Petersburg, whether it be guided by a Prince Gortschakoff, , or M. Giers, or Baron Joritini, or M. Walujeff —such a policy as is known to be congenial Ito the ex himself—it is certain that prosperity 11 return to Russia. As the nation prospe and turns aside from vain dreams to prac cal realities, domestic tranquility and reform will become possible. The irritation and the disappointment which now prevail, and which stimulate Nihilist fanaticism to crimes like the attempt on the Czar's life, will gradually but surely fade out of the popular mind if they be not unwisely revived.  The Daily News observes that reforms in Russia would not act perhaps at once upon the revolutionary class, but they would probably sot upon them indirectly through the surrounding social opinion which they might favourably affect. Meanwhile the public discontent—the ignorant, aimless discontent —of the people, has no policy except to make its existence known. The most emphatic way o‘ doing that is to keep striking at the Czar—a being once almost, if not quite, sacred in the eyes of his humbler subjects. One can readily believe that to the Czar this disloyalty mu•it be more painful than even the incessant apprehension of death. He is a ruler who has at various times and in various ways shown that he loves his people. The Standard hopes that Alexander 11. will not be scared into unnecessarily arbitrary enactments by the disloyalty and ingratitude of a portion of his subjects. The emancipation of a backward community, which has caught a contagions passion for freedom from more advanced States, is one of the most difficult problems of statecraft. Whether freedom be withheld or whether it be given, a certain amount of disorder must be looked for. It is impossible to concede full liberty all at once, yet to grant an instalmentsis to stimulate the inexperienced appetite beyond the capacity of other and equally important funotions. A greater, because more enduring, danger, however, attowls the resolute denial of freedom to a people whoeee it flourishing beyond their borders. The Post remarks that it is not easy to understand what the RussiaL Nihilists hope to gain by the murder of the present Czar. If by his death the Czardom came to an end, and the government of Russia passed into the hands of the leaders of the revolutionary ' party, the crime would at all events have the merit of being intelligible. But surely it will be well known to the oonspirators that they would have in the Czarewitch a ruler of the same type as his father. Another Czar would reign in Russia—that would be all the difference. If Alexander has provoked the enmity of the Nihilists, it is not by his per. soual faults, but simply because he is the representative of a system. . The Daily Telegraph hinks that one promising sign in Russi has been the t revival of a prcject so often opted, and not In this country alone, of frai ing a Constitution. Whatever latent strength may have underlain the moderate agitation among the isoliticie.ns of St. Petersburg will have been swept away by the blast of dynamite near Moscow.