The Newtown bee., 1880-03-10
The Cars Winter Palace.

The seat of the last attempt direeteJ against the czar's life. the private dinin g room of the imperial family, is situated in the wing O. the Winter palace, facing the so-called pal.ece or Admiralty square. vast space of open ground, covered in part by garden and bordered by large buildings almost exclusively occupied by government offices. Directly oppo- site the palace, the foreign office. the are situated. This square surrounds the Winter palace on its southeTn and east ern front. To the west flows the broad stream of the Neva, and to the north the palace is separated from the adjoining building (the barracks of the Preobra- jensky regimenD by deep canal.
 The part of the palace in which the explosion took place is exclusively de- voted to the private apartments of the czar, the empress. and of their younger children. The rooms of the first floor, adjoining to the watch room, which has suffered so severely from the shock, and in which so many lives were lost. was formerly occupied by the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, now Duchess of Edinburg. At present they are occupied by the Countess Tolstoy, the former tutoress Of the duchess, and other ladies of the imperial suite. The basement, beneath whic h the mine had been laid, is inhabited by some of the most devoted and oldest male and female servants ofthe imperial family. The inner court, to which the wires of the mine were traced, IS situated in the heart of the palace, and runs lengthwise from north to south throughout the whole build ing. em arging into narrow passage which runs between the Winter palace and the adjoining and connecting build ing of the Eremitage," where the celebrated imperial art museum and picture gallery are situated In this court 3 busy life and turmoil of couriers coming and going, petty court officials, servants and dcOrniks (porters) attend and part of the nighs. The entrance into this court is severely prohibited to all persons who have no special permis- siIH or business to transact with some of the employees of the palace Here also a constant guard is kept, not only by military watchmen and policemen, but by numberless secret spies and de- tectives, the third section (secret police) having q special department, composed of its shrewdest and most devoted agents, whose sole business consists in watching day and night the palace, its surroundings, and all the movements 9f the czar and his family.
 The huge structure of the Winter pal- ace is inhabited, besides the imperial family, by over 500 persons of the most different stations in life and official posi- ton, ranging from the dror7sib (porter) the iSt0p1sik (stove ighter), and the SkorOchod (messenger). to the ladies of the imperial household and the grand marshal of the court, and ail this great army of attendants is attached by the most vital ties to the interests of the court and of the imperial family. It is next to impossible for revolutionary pal ty to find among this throng sui ficient number of devoted and energetic allies, whereas the fact of court in- trigue, headed bySa member of the i'm perial familyarnd abetted by some high officials ol the empire, finding willing tools among the court servants, would be neither loyal nor original, and has i'm deed become leading feature of Rus sian history. Thus Catherine II. has marched to the throne over the corpse of her husband, Peter III., and Alex ander l., the uncle of the present en- peror, has taken advantage of the trag edy enacted in the palace of Paul l. Nea0 York Stsza-