NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Anarchists continue a feeble, but murderous, campaign in France. Six attempts to place bombs have been dis- covered this week, and of these two were certainly serious and one destroyed life. A man who gave, falsely, the name of Rabardy took a room in the Rue St. Jacques, arranged an explosive above the door, in the " booby-trap " fashion of our school- • aays, and departed to make the same arrangement in another lodging. The landlady of the first lodging grew suspicious, -called in the police, and with their aid forced the door, when -the bomb fell, wounding her so that she died on Thursday, and -injuring two women whose cariosity had induced them to accompany her. In the second instance, an Inspector of Police was summoned to the house by a letter from a man who announced his intention of committing suicide, and on 'his forcing the door, the bomb fell, but did not explode. An Anarchist has also been arrested, who had asked a Deputy for a letter admitting him to the Chamber, but the Deputy fortunately had exhausted his privilege. The re- maining bombs were filled with innocuous substances, and are supposed to be practical jokes ; but it is quite possible -that they are Anarchist contrivances intended to lure the .police into carelessness in opening them. Naturally, the feebler Anarchists would like to kill policemen while them- selves at a distance and invisible. It is clearly an Anarchist object to cow the police, who behave exceedingly well.
