The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-01
L0ND0N'S FEAR OF BOMBS
EvERY NOOK AND CORNER
swARMING WITH DETECTIVES.

tributed to Political Motives by In
siders-It Was Undoubtedly Placed
by Some One With Personal Grudge
Against Detective Synnot or One of
His Colleagues.
LONDON, Dec. 31.-The uneventfulness of
British holiday life has been shown by the
excitement raised about the explosion near
Dublin castle. There is now little doubt
that the bomb was placed near the detect
ives office by somebody with private
grudge against Detective Synnot. or one of
his colleagues. The explosion would have
received passing notice only had it not been
for the York Times and Standard, whose
editors at once began to beat a big drum
and proclaim with all positiveness that the
Irish bad begun another campaign OF ex-
termination against the English people The
Gladstonians were driven then to accusing
the tories of having originated a dynamite
plot merely to blight the prospects of Mr..
Gladstone's home rule bill.
BITTER PARTY FEUD.
The consequence has been bitter party
feud, during which comparatively,trivin
occurrences have been magnified to political
outrages OF the first dimension. The people
Of London might gat considerable amuse-
ment from this IL the police and officials had
not caught the infection of fear and set
about guarding and spying and prying In
manner unprecedented since the attempt to
blow up the tower. A person cannot even
approach the postal officials to inquire after
lost letters without being subjected to an in
quisition. A man bearing the stamp of SCOT
land Yard stops him at the entrance of the
building to learn his business. If the Wis
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spection or leave it outside. IL he hesitates
at all about stating his business in full to
an apparently unauthorized official, he
must pay for his temerity by giving his
pedigree, his residence, his purpose in Wis
iting London and his plans for the next six
months.
AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
At thelBan of England every step In the
building Is watched. At ST. Pauls cathedral
tourists are so harassed that but half the
usual number of visitors now venture within
its walls. Downing street is a nest of police
meu in citizens clothes. In Westminster
abbey, formerly quite free from police sur
veillance, the most reputable country squire
cannot pass his afternoon in peace, but
must be shadowed at every turn. The
custom house and tower have double the
force of policemen formerly employed. In
short every public building in the CITY ia
the memory of the American residents OF
London. But one or two more explosions
would be needed to inaugurate an official
reign OF terror such as even Paris, with her
Ravachol and Francois, has not known
since 1872.
THE ANARCHIST COLONY.
The fear felt early In the week that an
anarchist colony In London might take ad-
vantage of the situation to set a few bombs
| off hao hna.t hxxk kha a.,
the anarchists who came to this city by
the score last spring from Paris, Berne
and Zurich are quietly slipping back to the
continent. The agitators started for Paris
on Tuesday and Wednesday, and now che
less lurid lights are gradually removing to
the French capital. Neither the London
nor Paris police are In doubt as to the
meaning Of this movement. The explosion
at the prefecture OF police on Thursday
was intended by the anarchists to be the
first gun In q hot campaign against all
order and government in France.
THE DANGER OF PARIS.
The peculiar dauger to Paris from this
campaign comes from nihilistic sources.
The nihilists of Paris have been waiting for
an opportunity to avenge themselves on the
French government for its severity 10 the
Russian nihilists in 1889, when IL prose-
cuted and imprisoned several OF
them for making their bombs within
the French border. They have money
and influence in high quarters, and
have therefore such facilities for spreading
destruction as the anarchists could never
command. From them the anarchists can
procure gratis all the explosives and fn-
fernal machines desired. as well as informa-
tion how the campaign can be conducted
most advantageously. Several nihilists are
believed 10 have been implicated in the ex-
plosion of Thursday, but so far the police
have been unable to lay hands on them.
OBJECT OF THE NIHILIsTs.
The nihflists believe that by overthrow
ing the present government they will not
only show their power, and thus warn other
governments against interfering with them,
but also put an end TO the alliance between
the czar and the French nation. Tho Paris
police have made an effort to conceal the
truth while they work without success by
arresting Boulangist agents. The object of
this move is to bolster up the cabinet The
police believe that by attaching the first
odium OF the explosion TO an anti-govern-
ment party they will strengthen, tempor-
arily at least, the hands of Premier Ribot.
BREAKING UP THE ALLIANCES.
While Russia is swinging from France,
Italy il drifting slowly away from the
triple alliance. The latest developments of
this movement is more friendly attitude
of King Humbert and his cabinet toward the
vatican. In fact on Jan. the govern
ment will have new newspaper organ de-
voted exclusively to the cultivation Of bet
ter relations between the Catholic church
and the Roman state. The name Of the
newspaper will be Public Sentiment.
ABANDONED ALL HOPE.
LONDON. Dec. 3l.-The Orlesnists have by
no means abandoned the hope of regaining
the throne of France. There is thorough
revulson In republican sentiment, caused
by the revelations In the Panama affair.
What the present intentions Of the Oriean-
iats are Ii would be hard to say, but il 10
evident that some project is contemplated
that is intended to lead to the overturning
OF the republic and the establishment OF a
monarchy. The Count OF Paris has tele-
graphed TO his son, the Duke Of Orleans,
who Is now travelling In India and China,
20 hasten his return in order that he may
take part In the deliberations Of the Orleans
party. Within English circles, ite Is be-
iieved, that there 10 no chance OF tho mach
nations OF the French royalists and impe-
rialists proving successful. 1t is thought
that the French government. by pursuing
those implicated In the Panama scandal to
punishment, will establish the republic on
sounder foundations than before and will
render such an evil as the Panama affair
hereafter impossible.