Eighteen thousand peasants in the provinces of Poltava and Kharkoff, Russia, are reported to be participating in riots, having sacked 80 estates, where they destroyed everything they could not carry off. The whole region is terrorized, and landowners and stewards are fleeing for safety. The agitation at Moscow continues to be serious, and threatening letters are continually received by the Russian officials. One despatch states that the labor population of the whole central district of Russia is in revolt, and that many encounters have taken place between the troops and workmen. On the part of the troops there seems to be a growing disinclination to act against the people, and troops who have refused to fire on the peasants are being transferred to remote provinces as a punishment. Fifty-seven military officers have recently been arrested by the government. Gen. Nikolai Bobrikoff, the former governor of Finland, who has been Russianizing that province with much severity, has been appointed by the czar Minister of War, succeeding General Kuropatkin. This appointment is interpreted to indicate that the czar will grant no concessions to the liberals.