The Czar promises a commission, including workingmen, to deal with the labor problem.
Russian conscripts and reserves mutiny in several provinces. Cossacks kill eighteen at Kieff and wound over eighty.
Franz Kossuth, the leader of the Hungarian Independence Party, is received in audience by the Austrian Emperor.
February 13.—The Russian Cabinet decides to adopt reform measures, including some sort of concessions to the workingmen.
Arguments are concluded in the North Sea case before the International Commission at Paris. Decision, it is announced, will be handed down at a later date.
It is reported from Essen that the German coal strike, which has been one of the most important industrial struggles in German history, is ended.
February 14.—King Edward opens the British Parliament. The speech from the throne contains no significant passages.
February 15.—The strike in Warsaw again becomes general.
The Emperor of China approves a plan for a parliament of the empire’s leading officials.
President Castro, of Venezuela, refuses to arbitrate the asphalt claims and other disputes between that country and the United States.