The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-16 00:00:00

ASSASSINATION OF A PRINCE.

The further details of the tragedy which has just
occurred at St.' Petersburg throw little light on the
mysterious murder of Prince Louis of Arenberg though
it appears to be now believed that the; t was the
motive of the murder, several articles of jewellery
belonging to the Prince being missing. It will be remem-
bered that the Prince, who was military attache to the
Austrian Legation, was found murdered in his bed. He
had two servants, a valet de chambre and a
groom, who had both been with him for
several years. The groom, on the night of
the murder had gone out on leave to assist at a diplo-
matic entertainment. The house in which the Prince
resided, occupying the grond floor of it, has two
entrances, one of which leads to the yard and stables,
the other opening on the street. The night porter opened
this, the Prince's servants the other. On Friday, May 6,
the Prince told his valet to call him at half-past seven.
On Saturday morning the groom, returning from the
party about five o'clock in the morning, knocked at the
door opening on the yard, but could get no answer. He
then went round to the other door, and was let in by the
porter. The groom went to bed undisturbed, and at half-
past seven the valet went in to call his master. He was
much astonished at the confusion prevailing in the room,
and as he did not see the Prince in the bed, which was
turned upside down, he was frightened, left the room
hastily, and called the groom and the porter, with whom
he returned to his master's bed. Then they found the
Prince's corpse under the pillow cases and
blankets ; life had been extinct some hours ; the body
was tied to the bed by the ropes torn down
from the blinds ; the legs were firmly tied with a
shirt twisted and knouted ; the mouth and the nose were
covered with a neckerchief tied tightly over them. Sub-
sequently it was discovered that the neckerchief had be-
longed to one of the murderers. Count Chotek, the
Austro-Hungarian Minister, was sent for at once ; the
chief of the police was already in the Prince's bed-room.
From the information received, it seems that the Prince
of Arenberg returned home at half-past two, coming from
the Yacht Club. According to his custom, and
to prevent his servants from waiting up for
him, he had let himself in by the door open-
ing on the yard, which he shut after him. He did
not usually lock the door of his apartment, nor the
door of his bedroom. It seems also that when his valet
went to bed he did not lock the entrance of the corridor
leading to a door opening on the yard. Therefore, access
to the victim's bedroom was easy. The state of the body
led to the supposition that the crime had been perpetrated
about half-past three in the morning. Either the
Prince was in his first sleep, or reading a newspaper found
near his bed. Nevertheless, from the state of the room,
it is evident that a serious struggle took place. The lamp
was thrown down, and the contents of a matchbox were
on the carpet. It is very likely that the Prince was
thrown upon his bed, where he was gagged and strangled.
A Moujik, Gouri Chickshow, has been arrested on
serious suspicion. He cannot explain how he spent the
night from Friday to Saturday, and rouble notes, with
blood-spots on them, were found on him. Prince Louis of
Arenberg was the son of Prince Pierre, of Arenberg, and
of Princess Talleyrand de Perigord. He was born in 1837
and he was a twin-brother of the Prince Au_gustus. He
was major in the Austrian regiment of Hussars, and
Chamberlain to the Emperor of Austria. His eldest sister,
Princess Mary, is married to Count Charles de Merode.
The Prince, at the time of the murder, was intending to
make an excursion into the Caucasus with Colonel Blanc,
the English military agent. He had already taken leave
of his friends for that purpose.

A man named Friney has been arrested on suspi-
cion of attempting to assassinate Mr. Shields. The crime
is supposed not to have been agrarian.

A REVOLUTION IN SOUTH AMERICA. - The
steamer La Plata, just arrived at Lisbon from Rio
Janeiro, states that a revolution has broken out in the
province of Entre-Rios, The President, General Urquiza,
had been assassinated by a band of 300 men, led by General
Lopez Jordan. The Argentine Government were send-
ing troops to the scene of action.

THE PRETEIpED PROCLAMATION.---The Siecle
and the Temps have persisted in their assertions that the
proclamation for the publication of which some of the
Irreconcilable journals were seized is an authentic one,
and in proof of their veracity say that its
original is in the Imperial Bibliotheque, and
that it was never denied by its supposed author, or
the other hand, the Patrie declares that the proclamation
is a false one ; but in answer to the above charges explains
that a copy of all printed matter is taken to the Imperial
Bibliotheque, and that the appearance of the docu-
ment in question in such a place is no proof
of its genuine character. It proves that it
has been published, but nothing else. As for
the denial of the proclamation, that was done im-
mediately in the most public manner. So soon as he heard
of this document, whose signature was ascribed to his
cousin, Prince Napoleon, who was at Paris at the time he
wrote to the different journals to declare that the work
was a forgery. Prince Louis Napoleon could not deny
the statement himself, because he was in England at the
time, but the prompt contradiction of his cousin answered
every requisite end.