The Russian Government seems to believe that it has at
last discovered the secret of the Nihilist organisation. At least, it has allowed telegrams to be forwarded from which it appears that an acts d'accusation has been published in St. Petersburg, with a history of the plot. As was suspected, the violent sec- tion of the Nihilists numbered very few persons, at whose head was one Goldenberg, a Jew, who assassinated Prince Krapot- kine, the Governor of Kharkoff, and when arrested first made a full confession and then committed suicide. Two other Jews are now under trial, and so convinced is Count Melikoff of the Jewish origin of the conspiracy, that he adheres to the order banishing the Jews from St. Petersburg, in the teeth, it is stated, of remonstrances from all the Continental Ambassadors. He had much better accord to the Jews, who number at least three millions in Russia, all the privileges of Russians. The dislike of the race for the Romanoffs, which is of such standing that it is mentioned in " Coningsby," has become an important factor in Russian politics and finance, and seems to have been intensified by the distinct Jewish friendship for Turkey. An almost maniar.al feeling of hatred for the Russian Government flashes out now and then in the Jewish papers of London, and Jews control or influence half the Press and all the Bourses of the Continent. This is becoming noticed in Ger- many, till an anti-Jewish petition of a very strong kind—it suggests expulsion, we believe, but we have not seen the text— has received 200,000 signatures. Jews "survived the Pharaohs," and are not to be put down by persecution, but their political action is attracting angry attention all over the Continent.
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