The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-11-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

STARVING RUSSIAN PEASANTS FLOGGED.  Congratulatory addresses offered to the Czar and Czarina upon the occasion of their silver wedding have in several cases been accompanied by MIMS of money in aid of the famished peasants. The Imperial return to St. Petersburg is expected on the 18th of November, when • number of important measures will come before the Council of the Empire. It is expected that a portion or the whole of the land tax will have to be remitted over a third of European Russia. An agitation is going on in the Press in favour of the reform of the system of tars. lion. Owing to the total failure of the crops in the steppes, a vast number of horses have been obliged to be killed. Their carcases are abandoned, except when Tartars buy the flesh. Around Veronesh alone 5,000 carcases were to be seen. The Governor of Simbirsk is suppressing the corn riot among the starving peasantry with a heavy hand. The St. Petersburg correspondent of Doily News says he has had three rioters whipped to death. The Starodub rioters received kW lashes. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Tines learns in the best-informed quarters that a very heavy export Lax will be imposed ,n two or three weeks upon wheat destined for abroad Of course the establishment of such an expect tax will have the same effect as an actual prohib 'ion. The German public have been unpleasant • .uprised by the attitude assumed by the Russian Press towards the proposed contribution from Germany for the relief of the distress in Russia. The appeal which was issued in Germany on behalf Dl the starviue population of the Northern Empire was signed "by Professors von Bergmaun and ilabnaack and l'astors Dalton and Keller, all wellknown public men, who were either born in Russia )r who had lived there for many years, and it contained nothing which could in any way wound the amour propre of the Ruesians. The fact, therefore, that the proffered asaistance has been refused in terms that are little leas than insulting has had a very unfavourable effect on public opinion in Berlin (says the Times correspondent), and it is an extremely bed sign of the bitter relations at present existing between the two countries. It is almost certain that he intended sul,scription will be given up by it. 'remotero n, if h:1,4 now very little chance of being •eseonded  A deepatci u Buenos Ayres reports that a terrible cyclone has devastated the districts of Piedra Tnllo and Frigales. The loss of life is said to be very serious, and the destruction of property immense.  An inquest has been held at Bandy (Beds.), on the body of a schoolboy, aged 11 years, who can- , mitted suicide by drowning. Re attended the National Schools, but, having lately played truant, his father sent a note to the schoolmaster on the subject. The boy afterwards told another boy that he was afraid either to go home or to school, and would drown himself.—The father said he believed that too much work at school unhinged the boy's mind.—The jury found that the lad committed suicide while of unsound mind.  A good cheap popular edition of the complete works of John Greenleaf Whittier will be welcom.d by the host of readers who admire and reverence the veteran poet ol the Abolition movemint and tb. ardent sympathiser with oppreseed peo,yles ad over the v orld. Such an edition is now added to the "Albion "series by Messrs. Warne and Co. Ti volume, which has near 600 pages, closely printed in double columns, contains a prefatory Inemoir 61 the author. together with notes and imit•nces.