The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-06-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RAINS  IDY.  earful war against Tarkeytesilwis belied the Pan-Slaviste as the Lib Mist a the Balkan States. But be felled to tree b' country fret Si. scourge MI Nihibma. notwithstanding the elaborate premmtiosis lis safety devised by his Ministers and Aninetives, and vigorously carried out by esti nissest countless army of poliemar• mad soldiers he was thirteen years literally blown to pieces by a bomb thrown a vengeful conspirator. President Canso had, if possible, a record still more blameless. The grandson of "the organiser of victory," he bore a name held in reverence by all French Republicans and patriots. _ .  As a statesman  sad a Miaiiter  faithfully and consistently worked for the, cause of freedom and of progress. As adslf Magistrate he yielded a loyal respect to the Constitution, he ruled with dignity and with justice, and he kept his reputation for moral integrity unspotted in the midst of many temptations and dangers. Indeed, so successfully and so satisfactorily did he discharge the duties of his high office, and vindicate the good name of the Republican form of government in the presence of the fierce light that beat upon him, that he was, in these, the closing months of his Reptennate, marked out for election for a second term of office. He, however, gave mortal offence to the Anarchists because he refused to coinmute, the sentence of death passed on the miscreant Valliant. It is assumed that the assassin on Sunday night was one of the agents of the conspiracy of assassination who, in their madness and wickedness, think that the only way of curing the evils of society is to introduce a reign of Anarchy and of Terrorism. Of the assassin little is yet known. It is supposed he is an Italian, and he says his name is Cesare Giovanni Santo. His birthplace is believed to have been Monte Visponti, in the province of Milan. Though he has I lived for six months at Cette he is not versed in the French language, , and the presumption therefore is that during his residence at Cette he has associated chiefly with his own countrymen ' living in that town. He arrived in Lyons from Cette on Sunday morning ; and at half-past nine the same evening, when the President hadentered his carriage and was acknowledging . the joyful salutations of the crowd, he jumped on the steps of the vehicle, and dealt the fatal wound. He did his work in the manner of the daring desperado, heedless of his own life if only he accomplished his mission of vengeance. There may be some reason to fear that his crime will tend to increase the animosity which the French population of the Mediterranean towns have long felt towards the Italian immigrants. It may even embitter the feeling of resentment the French people have cherished against the I Italians since King Humbert and his] Government joined the Central Alliance. The crime, however,ought not to be laid at thel door of the 'ltalian people or of the Italian' Government. It is only too obviously an Anarchist outrage, and nowhere will it be more hotly condemned or more sincerely regretted than in Italy by no one will it he more genuinely lamented' than by King Humbert, who only a week ago in congratulating his own Prime Minister on his escape from the pistol of the] assassin, declared he could not have been more shocked if a member of his own family had been the victim of the; outrage. The murder of President Carnet by I an Italian anarchist ought not, therefore, to affect the relations of the Republic with the Peninsula. But it may; and it will inevitably increase the domestic political troubles of France. It, however, will not belpi the cause of the Anarchists. It with quicken the eye and the hand and harden thel heart of civilisation everywhere against the murderous conspirators. By and by it will he found that in slaying the blameless Chief Magistrate of France, Anarchism has inflicted a death-wound on itself.  THII assassin of President