A united, well organised Russia is not the kind of Russia Japan wishes to see established.

Russia was an unwieldy giant who had shown signs of madness long before the actual revolution.

After a short but stubbornly contested conflict, Russia and the little countries were victors.

* Russia is an enormous plain across which wander mischievous men.

I am therefore of opinion that it is perfectly possible for Russia to remain a spectator in the Austro-Servian war without drawing Europe into the most terrible war it has ever seen.

In view, too, of many words and acts of the present Emperor, it is not too much to hope, that, ere many years, Russia will become a constitutional monarchy.

Russia was the cynosure of all eyes at that moment, and on her throne sat the most ambitious, the most daring, the most brilliant, and the most successful queen the world has ever seen.

German papers and public speakers retorted that Russia is the patron and protector of assassinsa calculated distortion of the facts intended to have due effect on public opinion.

A cherished article of their faith is that Russia is England's irreconcileable foe, and that war between the two is certain.

But it was obvious that Russia was the main preoccupation.

England is to you the competitor in the commerce of the East; and competitors may well have a fair field for them both; but Russia is not a competitor there, she is an enemy.

Russia is no longer the great power that she once was supposed to be.

England has become our mortal enemy, just as Russia is Austria's.

Russia is therefore the motherland of the Children of Israel; though, perhaps, the phrase step-motherland would express more truly the actual relationship, both in its origin and its character.

You see already how they are preparing for this blowthat Russia may become mistress of Constantinople, by Constantinople mistress of the Mediterranean, and by the Mediterranean of three-quarters of the globe.

Russia as the great revolution-queller, reading the Riot Act to the liberals of Europe, and sending one hundred and fifty thousand men to "crush out" the nationality of Hungary, and to revivify the power of Austria, was to them an object of reverence; but Russia the liberator of serfs, and the backer of France in the Italian War, became an object of hate and fear.

"After all, Russia is not such a pleasant place as I thought it yesterday.

Because Russia is only thirty hours' distance from Hungary, and one of her large armies stands prepared to move at any time against the liberties of our people, before we could have time to develop our resources.

That power is Russia; and how can you blame these people, if in such circumstances, they are disposed to say, Russia is our friend?

Russia and England, in conceding something to liberty, were yet as earnest and sincere advocates of legitimacy as Prussia and Austria; for constitutional rights may exist under a monarchy as well as under a republic.

"The landlord took our part, and declared it was hard enough on simple travellers like ourselves to be stopped in such a way, and that Russia was the only country in Europe which was rigid in that respect.

JOHN JACKOL "Russia is the rock against which the sigh for freedom breaks," said Kossuth, the great statesman and patriot of Hungary.

For a moment all Russia was united, all classes, rich and poor, high and low.

"Will the Young Turks emulate the self-sacrifice of these men?" Russia and Persia are the fields marked out for such activity: "In some places ordinary propaganda is sufficient, but in hotly-contested territory recourse is to be had to the more violent measures used in Macedonia.

But Russia is the most patient nation on earth; his "manifest destiny" is to sit in the ancient seat of dominion on the Bosporus.