NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AGREAT and successful crime has startled Europe. The Nihilists, after four known and several unknown attempts, have succeeded in killing the Emperor of Russia. Though warned from abroad, and by his Minister of the Interior, count Melikoff, the Emperor persisted on Sunday in attending -a review. He had nearly returned to the Winter Palace when a bomb exploded beneath his carriage, wounding some Cossacks in attendance behind. The Emperor alighted, and, in spite of
remonstrance from his coachman, insisted on seeing to the wounded, when a second bomb, thrown by a man standing near, fell between his legs, and, exploding, broke both legs, laid open 'the bowels till they protruded, and tore the left eye from its ,socket. From eighteen to twenty other persons were also .seriously wounded. He was rapidly borne to the Palace, but according to the best accounts he never recovered perfect -consciousness, though he whispered, " I am cold," and at lour o'clock lie died. His heir, the Grand Duke Alexander, who was present at his father's bedside, was on the following ,day proclaimed Emperor as Alexander Ill., without disturbance or opposition, and issued a decree in which he announces that ' he assumes the heavy burden which God has imposed upon him," but gives no hint of his policy or plans. A subsequent manifesto issued ou Thursday is equally vague, the Emperor only promising peace and attention to internal affairs. The event has, of course, shocked Europe, and may, it is believed, ,deeply affect all politics, the new Czar differing greatly from his father in character, and being greatly influenced by his wife, the Princess Dagmar of Denmark, who is known to be anti- German, and believed to be pro-Greek.
