Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-02-23
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The Diamond Making Process Not


LONDON. Feb 23-Prof. Roscoe of Owens col
lege, Manchester. says he regards the evidence
thus far submitted by Mr.. j. Ballantyne Hanney
as Insufficient TO establish the conclusion that
he has discovered process for making dia-
monds.
The Mansion House Relief Fund.
DUBLIN Feb. 23-The Mansion House Relief
Committee announce that the total amount of
subscriptions to date is GA, sol. Seventy-one
grants have been made since the last meeting,
amounting to e2,4I5. Seventy-fiye hundred
pounds have been received from sydney, New
South Wales; 81 ,000 from Adelaide, South Aus
tralia: LOCO from Madras, India; eco from
OKeefe Sons of Toronto, Ont, and csc from
New Market, ont.
The Irish Relief Committee i'm
Paris.
LONDON, Feb. ga dispatch from Paris to
the Times says: 1.-The Irish relief committee
here, headed by Cardinal Guibert, archbishop
of Paris, composed exclusively of royalistS and
Bonapartists. numbering forty, in an appeal to
the press committee, diSclaim any political mo-
tive. and say they Will undertake to divide the
funds between the two committees and the
Irish bishops"
British, Rule i'm Afghanistan.
LONDON, Feb. pa dispatch from Caoul to
the Times says: The letters carried by Mustanfi
Khan from General Roberts TO Mohammed Jan,
hammed Jan to General Roberts. which were
sent with the evident object OF coming to terms.
The situation has. therefore so far improved
that competent Judges believe that any less
thorough settlement than the acceptance Of
MooSa Khan, son of Yakoob Khan, as heir TO
| the AmeerShip ana the government of the coun
| try by England during his minority, viii only
| lead to farther disturbances. No further news
| mas been received Of Abdurrahman Khan.
Fearful Threat of the Nihilists.
| LONDON, Feb. pa st. Petersburg dispatch
| to the Daily Te,egraph says: General Courko,
| governor general OF st. Petersburg; General
| Dreuteln chief of imperial police and General
| Zouron, project OF the police of ST. Petersburg,
| have received notices from NfhiliSt committee
| informing them that they need not trouble
themselves to make arrangements for illumina-
as the revolutionists are preparing for such an
Illumination as has not been seen since Nero
burned Rome.
A Princes Account Of the Winter
Palace Explosion.
LONDON, Feb. ga portion OF letter from
Prince Alexander Of HesSe, to his Wife, dated st.
Petersburg, Feb. 18th, and published here, says:
Il was received at the railway station by an the
| sons Of the Emperor and by Prince Alexandero OF
Bulgaria, (he writer's own sony and was thence
| conducted to the Winter Palace. The Emperor
! awaited me at the stair case. We were proceed
| ing through the large corridor to his ma1eStyS
| apartments, when suddenly fearful detona-
! ton was heard, the flooring was raised as oy an
| earthquake the gas eXtinguished, and we were
| left in total darkness. AT the same time a nor
rible dust and smell Of gun powder or dynamite
| filled the corridor. Some one shouted to us
that the chandelier had fallen down In the So.
| loon where the table was laid for dinner. l
| hastened thither with the CZarewltch ana une
| Grand Duke Vladimir, while Count Adlerperg,
| in doubt as to what might happen, held pacK
| the Emperor. We found all the windows pro-
ken and the walls In ruins Ihe dinnsr i nad
| been delayed half an hour for my arrival, ana
| it was owing to this circumstance that the I'M
perial family had not yet assembled In the
| dining hail.