, 1894-03-24

room in the Rue st. jacques, arranged an
explosive above the door,in the "booby-trap"
ashton of our sclooldays, and departed to
make the same arrangement in another lodg-
ing. The landlady of the first lodging grew
suspicious, called in the police, with their
aud forced the door, when the bomb fell,
wounding her so that she died on Thursday,
and injured two women whose curiosity had
induced them to accompany her. In the
second instance, an Inspector Of Police was
summoned to the house by d letter from a
man who announced his intention of COM
hitting suicide, aud on his forcing the door,
the bomb fell, but did not explode. An
Anarchist has also been arrested. who had
asked a Deputy for a letter admitting him
10 the Chamber, but the De putty ortunately
had exhausted his privilege. The Remaining
bombs were filled with inI.ocuous substances.
and are supposed to be practical Jokes; but
e it is quite possible that they are Anarchist
comtrivances intended to lure the police into
carelessntss in opening them. Naturally the
freble1 Anarchists would like to kill police.
III Il while themselves at a distance aud in
visible. 1t is clearly All Anarchist object to
COW the police, who behave exceedingly vel.
There was a curious S enc in the Commons
III 1 USbudN WI. NldlAlOut naQ given notice
that he would move that the Lords reasons
and Lords amendments 10 the Commons
amendments to the Lords amendments ~on'
the Employers Liability Bill be laid aside"
II appeared however, that the Speaker rul-
ed out this motion as against the precedents,
this form Of motion being justified only
when the Lords amendments had invaded the
privileges Of the House Of Commons, which
IN this case was not asserted. Under these
circumstances, the form Of the motion had to
he altered; but none the less,a fighting speech
against the Loras was expected from Mr..
Gladstone. and was not made. On the con
trary, Mr.. Gladstone made as mild and con
~clllatory a speech as il was, under the cir
cumstances of a final reach with the Lords
on the subject of the Contracting out clause.
possible TO deliver. The Daily Chronicle
characterised ii as a speech which took all the
heart out Of the Radical Party and vehement.
Iy challenged Mr.. Gladstone to say whether
he would resign a leadership which he found
too burdensome, or aSsail the Lords as his
Radical followers wished them to be assailed,
to which challenge Of course, there has
been no reply. But it probably represents
the views OF some sixty OF eighty Radicals.
Nothing of any Importance has come out
about Martial Bourdin-the man whose bomb
exploded and killed him in Greenwich Park
beyond the fact that lie was not carrying
a bottle, but a well-made bomb, and must,
at the moment Of explosion, have been pre-
pairing it for action of some kind. In reply
to inquiries in the House of Commons. the
Home Secretary has stated that the Govern
nent has no power to expel foreigners, and
no intention Of asking for q new statute.
Mr.. Asquitb, however, has forbidden the
Anarchists to turn tho funeral of Bourdin.
which ought to be a melancholy and silent
burial, into a triumphant Qualification. The
designed procession was prohibited, and no
~orations permitted at the grave. This is wise.
as the rough population of the neighbourhood
..Finchley-might save make a counter de-
monstratiOn, which would have been fatal
to the public peace but speaking broadly,
we should be inclined TO let funerals alone.
The lesson that designs of murder leads to
death is taught there pretty strongly, more
strongly, perhaps, than orators who do NOT use
English are able to unteach.
The a-ProtectiOnists in France have
sustained something of Il defeat. M. M6line.
the head of the party and President of the
Customs Committee, proposed to raise the
tax on imported wheat FROM 8 fir. to s fir. per
%quintal. The Russians, however, remonstrat-