A third attempt to murder the Czar has been reported,
the criminals this time being a man and a woman, who were arrested at the corner of a street which the Czar was to pass, with bombs concealed in their plaids. The Czar was stopped by a man with a petition just before the couple were arrested. The story is probably more or less true, and other stories thicken. They are all of the same kind,—that revolutionary plots have been discovered in certain regiments, and that numbers of officers have been arrested. It is even asserted in a telegram from Odessa that more than four hundred officers have arrived there, under sentence of deportation to Eastern Asia,—that is, the island of Saghalien, now a place of imprisonment. The number seems incredible, unless it includes serjeants ; but a similar statement was made a little while ago as to the Army of the Caucasus. A hundred officers were then said to have been arrested at once. We doubt all Russian stories till proved ; but it is unquestionable that disaffection has spread to the Army, in which the present Czar is disliked, while the poverty of a large section of the officers is increasingly felt. There is a wild story current that the Revolutionists have fixed their hopes on Prince Dolgoronky, son of the late Czar by his morganatic wife ; but a Duke of Monmouth is always credited with aspiring to the Throne.
