The National tribune., 1883-03-22
THE OLD WORLD.
Something About WHAT'S Going on In other Lands
Than Ours.


Lady Florence Dixie was attacked at Wind
sor on the 18th inst. by two men disguised in
women's clothes. Her dress was cut with dag
gers in several places, but she received no in
Jury Lady Florence was walking in a Sc
Guided spot, near the woods when the two
men asked her what time it was. She replied
that she had no watch, and afterward noticed
that though they wore women's clothes, their
faces had been shaved. Much alarmed, she
started to walk away and was followed by the
men, one of whom seized her. She struggled
to escape, but, seeing their daggers fell In a
swoon This took place at o'clock in the
afternoon, and she did not recover her senses
until 4:45 p. IN. The saving of her life is at
tributed to her st. Bernard dog, which it is sup
posed protected her while she lay in the swoon.
Lady Florence had no reason to suspect imme-
date danger, although she had been somewhat
fearful since the receipt of letters about the
land league. One of the men wore a green
dress and large hat with veil.-The fune-
raj of the late Prince Gortschakof took place
from the Russian chapel in Baden Baden on
the 14th inst. The physician who attended
Prince Gortschakof states that there were
enough grounds for suspeeting that the Prince
had been poisoned. The evidence of the Princes
German mistress at whose villa he died. and
of his valet confirms this suspicion. In his
will made on the death bed, the Prince requests
the authorities to suppress any inquiry as to
whether he had been poisoned. The intestines
have, however, been sent to Freiburg to be
analyzed-Fhe annual boat race between
crews from Cambridge and Oxford Universities
took place on the Thames on the afternoon of
the 18th inst The 0xfords had the best of an
uneven start and won as they pleased. The
race was rowed through snow and rain storm
At the start the Cambridge crew We're fayorites
at to "a deliberate attempt was made on
the night of the 18th inst to blow up that part
T Il
by Sir Charles Dixie and the local government
board. At o'clock a great detonation was
heard followed by the crash of glass from
thousands of windows. Westminster Abbey,
the Houses of Parliament the immense public
Offices and club and dwelling houses within
large radius were shaken. The dynamite was
placed on the window sill inside the balustrade,
where the fuse when burning would be con-
Cealed from the view of any one passing. The
force of the explosion was terrific. The great
stone balustrade was obliterated, the massive
masonry rent to fragments and the pavement
shattered and ground to powder. A wooden
structure opposite was blown into splinters,
and mass OF stone was driven through the
wall of the house beyond it. Everywhere the
greatest CONSERVATION prevailed. People poured
out of their houses, the broken glass cracking
under their feet. In the House of Commons
the alarm was general. Many members left
Immediately, the lobby was empted, and peO-
pie rushed out9of Westminster Hall. On the
following day an enormous crowd assembled at
the scene of the explosion. A government in
spector has made an examination of the portion
Of the building damaged by the explosion, and
places the loss at $2G,0o0. No arrests have yet
been made, and the government has offered a
reward of e 900 for the discovery of the au-
thors of the crime. The london press attributes
the explosion to Irish xtremsts.-Mr Par
nell is in PARIS, and will probably pay d visit
to America