The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-06 00:00:00

THE SUS, LONDON, THURSDAY. EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1870.

REPORTED CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE
EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.
The There de la Loire contains the following :—" Let-
ters from St. Petersburg state that a vast conspiracy has
been discovered against the life of the Czar. The centre
of action of the conspirators was the city of Odessa. The
pupils of the University Papich andYcremichew are prin-
cipally inculpated. In order to carry out their object, the
conspirators had resolved to tear up the rails of the
line aring the journey of the Emperor from Odessa to
St. Petersburg ; but the rigorous surveillance exercised
over the whole line the Czar was to use prevented them
from executing their project. The police did not even
suspect that the rails had been removedby such dangerous
conspirators. This offence was attributed to the peasants
of the neighbourhood, v. Ito, Nvhen in want of iron, .have
recourse to robbery in order to obtain it. The most rigor-
ous surveillance is powerless to repress this kind of theft,
and this deplorable cupidity of the ignorant peasants
exposes the lives of the travellers who take the line from
Balta to Odessa, to grave danger. The conspirators
arrested 1 elong without exception to the Russian nation-
ality. A largo number of Looks, pamphlets, and revolu-
tionary proclamations, emanating from Russian printing
offices abroad, were found in their possession. The Rus-
sians are much astonished that no Pole was affiliated to
the cons' iracy, although the I'olish nationality is repro
sented by a large number of young men at the Univer-
sity of Odessa. The police have also discovered a con-
spiracy at :St. Petersburg. Several young men are
accused of having disseminated revolutionary proclama-
tions. It appears, however, that this second conspiracy
is a mere childish affair, and the young people mixed up
in it will be tried in public. Lists of proscriptions, upon
which figures, among others, M. Katkoff, the famous editor
of the Moscow Gazette, have also been discovered. The Go-
vernment of the Czar is anxious to ascertain whether these
plots were fomented by the Russian exiles in Switzerland.
The conspiracy, ramifications of which were discovered at
Moscow and St. Petersburg, has nothing in common with
the Odessa plot.

FOREIGN NOTES.

TIM FIASCO L'l SPAIN.

At Madrid of course the one topic of interest Is the re-
fusal of the King'of Italy to allow the Duke of Genoa to
become King of Spain, and the resignation of the Prim
Ministry in consequence. The Politica, the journal which
first announced the King's refusal, says that afterthegreat
efforts made by the principal men of the Revolution to esta-
blish the supremo power of a king, after General Prim is con-
vinced that it is impossible to enthrone in Spain the
exotic boy he desires to elevate to the head of the State,
without considering that that head would be the most un-
conscious subject of the Regent, the tutor, the interpreter,
and the Ministers—after, in short, seeing that it is im
possible for the three parties to agree respecting a Roya:
candidate—it seems they have resolved to establish
the empire of the interim, the conqueror cl
Alcolea remaining as Regent, Marshal Prim Presi-
dent of the Council, Brigadier Topete
of Marine, the Cortes being declared ordinary and
consequently dissoluble, and proceeding instantly to the
election of the Senate. The Epoca strongly advocates the
Prince of Asturias, under the regency of Montpensier.
There is, it affirms, no other solution but the Republic.
The Catholic journals coincide in this belief, but prefer
the alternative of a Republic, which they declare they see
coming.