The nephew of Colonel Soudiakin, who accompanied his uncle when
attacked by the Nihilists, has died of his wounds, without being able to give evidence ; and it is believed that all his assailants have succeeded in quitting Russia. The Police are en- tirely at fault, and the alarm among the highest official circles of St. Petersburg is said to be extreme. Ministers of State move about in hourly expectation of death, and nobnsiness is attended to except police reports upon the Nihilist s. Nevertheless, the Court has returned from Gatschina to St. Petersburg, and there is no sign whatever of any compromise, or concession of popular liber- ties. The Terrorist Committee state that they killed Colonel Soudiakin because he had found out too much—their central place of meeting, for example—and have issued a manifesto, asking all those who would liberate Russia, but are indisposed to employ terror, to join an outer circle of workers, "to whom tasks will be assigned suited to their capacities." Note that the Revolutionists have for a time suspended not only the use of the printing-press, but of the lithograph press, and confine themselves to a kind of manifold letter-writer, a method of distributing dangerous documents long since used in the East, and useful because they can be transmitted as business letters any where.
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