The letter of the preceding day ran thus: "Sovereign.

We fear the ministers have not told you the whole truth.
Your children, trusting in you, have resolved to come to the Winter Palace tomorrow at 2 P.M.to tell you of their needs.

Appear before us and receive our address of devotion." Had these 8,000 or 10,000 men been marching to the Winter-Palace with rifles in their hands, or with weapons of any sort indicating a violent purpose, there might have been cause for alarm.

But absolutely unarmed, even for their own defence, led by an orthodox priest carrying an icon, these humble petitioners were met by a volley of rapid fire from repeating rifles, were cut down by sabres and trampled by cavalry, until "policing" had become an indiscriminate massacre of innocent people upon the streets, regardless of age or sex.

Before midnight the Tsar was miles away at his Palace Tsarskoe-Selo; and there was a new cry heard in St.Petersburg, a cry unfamiliar to Russian ears,--"Down with the Tsar!" Those blood-stains in Nevski Prospect will be long in effacing! The long-looked-for Baltic fleet, commanded by Admiral Rojestvenski, was detained at the outset of its voyage by an untoward incident, having fired into a fleet of British fishermen, which was mistaken for the enemy in disguise.