Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-03-19 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE MURDER OF THE CZ AR. The executioner who, in obedience to the behests of the Parliatnentarians, beheaded Charles I. was said to have struck a blow that resounded throughout the world. Something similar may be affirmed of the terrible bomb which, ou Sunday las t, brought to a sudden end the life of the Czar of All the liessias. It may be said that the telegraph wites, which were immediately used to transmit the intelligence of the shocking event, carried the echo of the ex— plosion to the uttermost ends of the earth. But there was a moral and political significance in the stroke that depri% ed Charles I. of life which p'aces it in an alto. gether different category from the foul murder, secretly schemed by inhuman con• spirators that suddenly and tragically ter— minated the eareer of the Russian Emperor. The men of historic renown who compassed the death of the Firstrharles were no secret conapilators of the Guy Fawkes type. What they did—right or wrong, justifiable or unjustifiable—Wall done in the open day, before the eyes of their fellow countrymen, and in the sight of high heaven. They could ap. peal to posterity, near and remote, to pronounce a verdict upon their deed. But the Nihilists who plotted the assassination of Alexander 11 and who found agents base and brutal enough to execute their commission, do not require to be arraigned before the bar of public opinion as if there was a possinil— ity of anything being plead ii in their justification. They are already universally con. demned. Their atrocious act—the concentration of cowardice, malice, treachery, and oruelty—has excited a shuddering feeling' of abhorrence throughout the civilised world The addressee to the Crown, moved in the Rouses of Lords and Commons on Tuesday night, express the sentiments of the British Parliament and people with reference to the assassination. Though vious attempts had been made by the same revolutionary party to take away the life of the Czar, the intelligence that the foul deed had at least been accomplished came upon everyone with the shock of a surprise, as the Nihilists seemed to have quieted down of late appar— ently cowed by the vigilance and activity of General Melikoff But it is now made known that quite an outburst of renewed revolutionary activity occurred on the eve of the assassination of the Emperor, and that the authorities had succeeded in making some important arrests, but not in time to prevent the tragedy of Sunday last it is even said that General Melikoff, who had got a clue to fresh plots, cautioned the Czar, , though without avail, against exposing himself in public on that fatal day. Since the assassination circumstances have occurred which make it abundantly evident that the Nihilist e have been secretly preparing for 11 another desperate outbreak, and that they ' do not consider the violent death of Alexan. der 11. as the end of their work. In cor— respondence from St. Petersburg it is stated that, on Tuesday, a proclamation was posted up outside the University announcing that I the assassination Wab the work of the lite. I elitism Committee, and that the work was still to go on, A significant indication of the renewed audacity of the Nihilist conspirators was afforded by the fact that when the proclamation—meant no doubt, to be a counter manifesto to that of the new Emperor—was torn down, another took its place within an hour, By declaring that the work is to go on the Nihilists probably intended it to be understood that they will watch a favourable opportunity to make Alexander 111. share the satne face as his father. But the audacious declaration, ostentatiously made so soon after the murder of the Czar, can only have the effect of causing the au— thorities to strain every nerve to extirpate the conspirators who constitute the NixecuI tire Committee. It is impossible now that ' any quarter can be given to Nihilism. If it was constitutional Parliamentary Government, guaranteeing the perfect libe sty of the subject, that the revolutionary party had set their hearts on, they have gone alto• gether the wrong way to accomplish the purpose they had in view. They have driven the abolition of the autocratio form of rule further off than ever. Murderous conspiracies can only bring ruin, sooner or later on all who vainly imagine that, by such un— holy means, they can ensure the accomplishment of political and social reforms. "They that take the sword shall perish by the sword" words which mean that those who commit mimes of violence may lay their account with bringing down retributive yen. geaiace on their own heads.  LOCAL NEWS, RIDING Wyraowr