The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-04-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THE CZAR. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE PRISONER.  An attempt was made upon the life of the Emperor of RussiA on Monday morning. It appears that Hirt MD jesty was taking his customary walk near the Winter Palace, between eight and nine ° el cit, wiun a respectablydressed man, wearing a military cap and cockade, walked towards him, and, drawing a revolver from his pocket, fired four shots at the Emporor. Happily, none of the shots took effect, and, before he could fire again, he was seized by the passers by. He resisted, and daring the struggle he fired a fifth shot, wounding one of the crowd, after which he was overpowered and given into the custody of the police. The Emperor returned to the Palace, and at night the city was illuminated to celebrate His Majesty's providential escape. The Emperor of Germany, on hear. big the news, sent to the Russian Embassy to express his sympathy, and telegraphed to the Czar, congratulating him on his escape. The Journal des Debate of last night vehemently reproaches ' • the detestable Sectaries" with attempting to dishonour the loyal Russian nation, and adds that this attempt on the life of the Emperor will produce profound emotion throughout Russia and in Europe. Other Parisian journals express themselves in the same strain. The news of the attempted assassination was immediately telegraphed to all the Russian Ambassadors and Ministers abroad. A later telegram says the Emperor has not suffered the least ill effects from the outrage. The examination into the circumstances has, already commenced. ST. PETERSBURG, Tuesday morning. It seems that the assassin when arrested attempted to poison himself, with arsenic it is thought. He lies insensible, but is crif pected to rally. Telegraphing from St. PetersburVast night, a correspondent says— I have 1 ned roam a good source that telegrams were received here on Friday and Saturderlast from the secret police in Berlin, stating that during the Easter ho'idays an atteinpt would be made to assassinate either the Emperor or the Czarewitch, or some member of the Im. perial family. In consequence, one of the principal and mostly ssed entrances to the Winter Palace, facing the Government offices, and known as the Entree due Commandant, was ordered to be kept closed, the Emperor being in the habit of using a private door adjoining this entrée, from which four staircases head to all parts of be Palace. The Czarewitch rode to the midsight reception escorted by four Cossacks. 'rill occurrence was unprecedented altogether, the Emperor and his son, and, indeed, most menbers of the Imperial family, habitually driving's:A.& the crowded streets or the less frequented line Of embankment—the quays, as they are called—without any escort, or even attendants. The Emperor, in his one-horse sledge or unpretendine caleche, except on occasions of more or less public interest, is generally quite alone, not even a footman beiug in attendance. The Emperor of Russia, replying to the congratulations of the principal functionaries attributed his escape to the providence of God, and said he regarded it as a sign that his life was still necessary to his beloved fatherland. He added that it would be devoted, as hithsrto, to the country with undirniuishc 1 love. According to a later tele62sm, His Majesty, replying to the congratulatory speech of the Marshal of the Nobility, said he wished to continue to act in accordance with the law, but tl:o audacity of the roc nt attempts at assassination was such that bet found himself compelled " to take extraordinary measures." The name of the would-be assassin is now ascertained to be Alexander Solovieff,and his occupation that of a schoolmaster at Torgpez, in the government of Pleskau. The belief that he had taken poison is not confirmed. The loss of blood from which lie suffered was caused by the ill-treltment he received from the people