SENSATIONAL SITTING.

From Our Special Correspondent. PETROGRAD, Saturday.

The pall is settling still more heavily on Petrograd. The day of the opening of the Constituent Assembly that was to have solved all the problems of the revolution has inaugurated a fresh phase of terror. The Constituent Assembly was actually opened yesterday afternoon. After midnight the Bolsheviks left it. Whether the Assembly will last out to-day or whether it will be forcibly dispersed by bayonets, I do not know. At any rate, the city is sinking hour by hour deeper into the slough of civil war. Yesterday the approaches to the Taurida Palace were lined by sailors and Red Guards. Two guns wore mounted in the snow before the Palace, and shivering Red Guards stood sentinel over them in a bitter wind. Within the building swarmed Red Guards and sailors, who took an active part in all the proceedings. The deputies assembled towards midday and wandered about the building. Tartar deputies in skull-caps gave a faint touch of the picturesque. The Social Revolutionaries numbered about 240, the Bolsheviks over 90, and their allies, the Social Revolutionaries of the Left, over 30. The Cadets, of whom only 15 were elected, were absent, several of their number having been arrested at the last attempt. Neither the imprisoned Cadets nor the Social Revolutionaries who were arrested a few days ago were released for the opening day.