Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-02-28 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

VERIE. GERIORT which disputes authority with the Czka in his own palace that the next attempt would be made in the Winter Palace itself. We have read in intelligence from the Russian I",apital of special precautions having been taken in consequence, of suspicious persons having been arrested, of plans of the Winter Palace having been seized, and so forth. But. in spits of the fore.arming which is said to be ;Lie result of fore-warning, the Nihilist agents have found means to carry out their murderous intentions to an extent which appears only accidentally to have fallen short of the complete fruition desired. A mine was laid beneath the military guard-room of the Palace, above which room again was the Imperial dining-hall. The mine was fired after the usual time for commencing dinner, and to such horrid effect that out of 55 soh:lima in the guard-room 8 were killed outright and nearly 48 more or less seer. ously wounded, while a large gap was rent in the floor of the dining-ball, and a servant who happened to be in the hall was killed oy the fall of the chandelier. In all probability the lives of the EMPEROR, of members of his family, and of guests were only saved by the mere fortuiteue postponement of dinner, because His MAJESTY had gone to receive the Prince of HESS& As it is, the ruthless execution of a diabolical plot has only succeeded in killing or maiming a number of inoffensive men, perfectly innocent of any participation in political matters, but the survivors of whom have excited admiration for their tone and simple heroism in refusing to leave the scene of their duty until formally relieved, although they might have well apprehended another explosion. Whatever may be the faults in the Russian mode of government, or whatever the grievances of the people, such horrible outrages as this can ex. cite nothing but detestation in all well-regulated minds- Everybody but the infatuated conspirators perceives the futility, as well as the criminality, of these regicidal plots. If one of them chanced to succeed in destroying the life of the present sovereign of Russia, that would not put an end to a system of which he is as much a victim as is the meanest of his subjects, while it can hardly be thought that, in default of assassinating the Emesitoa, intimidation will drive him into making large and sudden constitutional concessions and administrative reforms. The vast majority of Ruesians themselves, including many patriotic would-be reformers, will acknowledge the painful necessity of still severer repressive measures in view of these intolerable crimes. " Order in heaven's first law," said Porn; and the preservation of order is the first and chief duty of a government. If the Russian Government attempted just now to conciliate its enemies by political changes, its concessions would only be taken as a proof of weakness and timidity, and the demands upon it would become still more exaeting and impracticable of satisfaction. Neither the foreign nor the domestic policy of the Oxalis Government are such sate win much approval or friendly feeling in this country; bin, nevertheless, it will be generally recognised here that for some time past Nihilist conspiracies have prevented the practicability of carrying out political reforms in the Empire. even it the Sovereign were included to carry oat other such liberal measures as those which distinguished the early part of Me ...en.  No boom iA couplet* without owe if W. It KNOWLES; 1"1•110FoilTi8, HARMONIUMS, Si Os; SUSi—Wasskeses ikstist-plass Roalma.