The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-12-06 00:00:00

RUSSIAN TERRORISM.

A profound emotion has been mond by the attempt
on the life of General Tcherevin. It is now nearly
ten °mutts since Europe was startled by the fatal
tragedy wSioli cost Alexander 11. his life. Eines that
dims the revolutionary party have remained compara-
tively passive, and during the summer months there
was such an apparent tranquility that many superficial
observing began to flatter tbem..lvre that the Nihilist
movement had upended it. force. The 81. Petersburg
winter season has now fully opened, and owe more the
report of the revolver M the political usassin is heard.
Notwithstanding the endeavour of the authorities to
calm the public mind, there has been • very uneasy
feeling during the last two or three weeks. All the
old symptoms have re.appearsd. Revolutionary pri-
clanistiocui have bun distributed. New toms of the
Niltillst journals have appeared, msrettats Prue+
hare been discovered, and the Pmvoin engaged
bi working them have resisted the rendannes and
police to the last extremity. Trusonable oommul.
cations have been discovered between sensate of ths
palace and members of the Nihilist party, and rumours
of every sort of plot him bus /manually rife. 111.
acknowledged on all sides that there is s groat upheaval
of Russian society, tbs result of the abolition of serf-
dom and of the sudden istrodnoti xi of that superficial
dailiatlon which moat seeompeny the steam urine
and the electric wire even among s semi berbsroun
pawls. It may be trim that then is • party in Russia
which would desire to see the nation run before it has
yet learnt to walk firmly, but it is squally tree that
there is s powerful party who think the utile must
in walk strings which must never be slackened.
Certain securities for persona liberty which had been
introdeoed hays boss abolished; trials which were
held in public are now carried on with cloud doors;
neither sentence nor verdict is allowed to truimilire
the prisms are fall, though none but • few official,
know who are their outputs. Men disappear, and
It is hupomibis to say whether they have false under
the ouvpicion of the police and hue been arrested, or
what bias become of them. What puniehments are
Indicted or what executions have falcon Oboe I. MP
known., and none can say what persoullties are
concealed beneath the gray oinks and caps of the
convicts, who, surroun&d by the lances of their
Cossack escort., are being driven in horde along
tbedeirirosd.tolilbrca. This is the stets of things
which Count Ignstieff has introduced, and by which the
hae hoped to mon, the safety of the empire. Hs
cannot be congratulated on the result, and he is
probably himself aware of ths failure. For some time
past then have been persistent rumour' as to his
miring the post of Minister of the Interior. There
Is DO doubt that he is anxious to retire from • position
In which be will be held responsible for the danger.
which we too surely threatening. Cosskiering all
theme circuit:Mums, and the natural fondeoq' of
despotic Goverunisots to seek in aggression abroad the
muss of diverting Ike attention from troubles at
home, it is most disquieting to Mune the renewed
vigour of Puslavist agitation. With the evident
micoungiecout of the party is power, ths Panslavists
ars mdpg but little secret of the renewal of their
farigooolithi Beams Pothook,