

' largo part of the gm 

 port* 



f (tic capital and tin pi 

 northern Russia will derive advantages from 

 the important new line fr<>tn \ Ardi- 



angel, from one that will furnish an nutlet for 

 the prod u< mi-tit <>f Viatka. from 



one that will run from St. 1'. ;. r-l-uri: to 

 in (.aplnnd. ..-.! from others that h.. 

 \ lin lin< 

 5. Petersburg with tin- in-minus uf i 



if in contemplation. 



tin- Siberian Kail road, 

 ! into 7 s. 



appropriation made fr its 



/..M .'10.4M3 Pttbl I, Ifefl work i- 



being pushc<l from ( 'heliabinsk ami Vladivostok, 



the termini. and from Irkutsk east and west. 



n the eastern sections. which have 



advanced more rapidly than the other 



parts. wan done partly by hired ( him- 



Korean laborers and Daftly ly mnviets. who re- 



ceive immunities ami pay f<>r their labor. Tin- 



work of c-rimiimls on tin- middle section- has 



been satisfactory, but the engineer of the ' 



TCt ion pr> ' . and -.-MI l>aci 



convict* that were sent from Sa-halicn. \- 

 there was an expenditure of 15,000.000 rubles 

 beyond the c-timate on this sect ion. a eommis- 

 SJo'n was appointed to investigate the matter. 



Post* and Telegraphs. Th< I...-T ,,m.-,. in 

 1808 carried 189,^0,000 domestic an.i 



tern, 82,920,000 dome-tic and 

 4^7,000 foreign postal r,03.000 do- 



mestic and 18,108,000 forei-n newspapers and 

 circular*, and 15.2*35.0(10 domestic money letters 

 with a declared value of . " francs. 



The receipts of the jn.st office were 94,10 



' the telegraph service 47.724,882 franc-. 

 while the expenses of both services were 98,851,- 

 n- team ' 



The telegraphs had in 1893 a total length of 

 :.' miles of wire. The 

 numU-r of internal messages was 10.'' 

 of foreign messages 796.111 were sent and 826,- 

 011 received. 



Finland. The (irnnd Duchy of Kinland has 

 a Legislature in which the 4 estates of the n<- 

 tbe clergy, the burghers, and the peasants 

 are represented. Gen. Count ll.-\d.-n is the 

 Governor General and Oommander in chief of 

 the troops of the eireutiiM-ription of Finland. 

 The POJMJ] -IMS of LMI'J.OOO Finns, 



W2.000 Swedes, 6,700 Russians, 1,750 Germans, 

 and 1.140 LAODS. The number (.f marriages in 

 law was KWtt: -f birtl. 

 SS.121 The revenue for 1895 is estim.v 

 07.d5.174 marks or francs and exp-ndii 

 the mm* figure. The public d 1SO,430 



The imports In I-.M wen valued at 

 X) marks, ai I;.(KM.(HHL 



Plltirs and Lrflslation. The new - 

 mad* tt c)ar at the outset thnt he di.l not in- 

 to alter the internal policy instituted l,v 

 i father. Althriijrh Gen Oourko 

 57">r B . . , 



IbTft-. mat.^uCountShuvaloff), 



ili T 1 ," !h " r 



Wjal. ami publicly thanked him for 

 n*d aceompHtwid by his rough met li- 



the way of making Poland Ku i., 



\al of the Jew- from their 



'in- pale was rein-wed fi 

 intermission, atxi the emi-al i"ii iuoveiu< ni ihus 



stimulus. (M 

 elo-iiii; the health resorts ami mineral 



of Rusaift and the Cftooasus t.. HI-IU-I-W ii 



other universities wished to petition the t 

 chanu'e the olin<>\iou> regulation- . 



; in the lu-h. : ,al in-lit 



bill Were c ..... pelled l.y the autllo|-Jt|. 



The poliee hnitally mishandled some i 

 student- in M. \ 

 the poli<-e ntVu-ial- sought t- 

 making many arrests of suppo-ed Nihili 

 .itical |ro-ecuiioii-. \\'h. 

 of /.-m-t\os waited upon th- 

 IIILT ;i de.-laralion i.f lii- -entiinei 

 pirdini: the moot-d <|uc-ti<n of |o,-. 



erninelll. lie e\|.re-.-ed Ililliself to the 



on Jan. 'J!i in a way that li-ap|M.int 



! con-tit ui ioiiali-iii : 



1 illll ]>lell-C'l to M-e here the 



as-eml>lc<l to cxpruHH their ' 

 I believe in the sincerity "f these sent. 



.iwuys IK-CD obi 



Hut 1 uni aware that in certain meetin L r 

 :ive lately ln-eii raised l.y p. 

 away l.y absurd illusions about the pai 



L'ovenniient. Let all know that, in 1 > 



strength t" the Welfare of' the people. I il 



tc.-t the principle of autocracy a> firmly and iii 

 M did my lute and nevl-r-to-bo-rorgotteii 



The (Jovcrnment control over the conni: 

 indu-trial, and social activities of th> 



.MIL:. The pea-ant ry arc I.ein^ assi^^^l 

 new ways, and the financial aiTair- of i 

 bility are l.cin- taken under the -upcrvi- 

 the 'Government. The pawn-hops ha\< 

 brought in :imcnt direction, as > 



the drink tralVp inking law- em 



(Jovi-riimeiit oilicials to dictate to bank- r 

 in^' the management of their atTa 

 loaning "I their fund*. Stringent 



have ftlso been impo-cd Upon tjie o; 



st(M-k speculators and all the transaction- ,,f tho 

 boiir-e. The laws of factory inspect ! 

 regulation, aln-ody very .strict', hav, 

 oii^'h! 



A n'.-w penal code, on which experts ha\ 

 at work since 1881, was completed in l^.'~>. The 

 commi-sjon collated all the penal laws of the 

 empire and tho-e of the mo-i enli^lr 



ami stmlied the theories of scientific 

 and. after preparini: trdicral out 

 their ibmitted it to expci 



various countries for criti- 

 Of the Commission f fl work was tin- enactn 



laws in 1884 and 1885 for -uppn 



- and hou-c- r.f redu-ioi. 

 i-hment in pri-'.n- 9 gated, and 



-t jon of the co mini-- ion laws \v 



.ry and the fraudulent a- t- of : 

 A commercial treaty was r..nc|ude<: 

 Greece; and on June 1 Tone between liu^- 

 Japan was signed ai *burg, similar in 



if- provisions to those already mad" l-y Japan 

 with (treat Britain, the Un .and Italy. 



