NEWS OF THE WEEK.
(11HE Standard published on Monday a telegram, without date or signature, announcing that an attempt had been made on Sunday to assassinate the Czar. Our contemporary vouched for the honesty of its correspondent, who had obviously evaded the Russian censorship, and the date chosen looked significant, Sunday being the sixth anniversary of the Emperor Alexander's murder; but the Russian Embassies everywhere denied the story. It was, however, true. The Emperor had gone to assist in a requiem ceremonial for his father, and was to have driven back through Great Morskaia Prospect on his return to the fortress where he stays when in St. Peters- burg. A student with a heavy book under his arm dropped it as the carriage approached, and began pulling a tape attached -to it; but he had been watched, and was arrested before his book exploded. It was a bomb filled with dynamite or melinite and bullets, and would have killed thirty people. Another student who rushed forward to assist the book-hearer was stopped by the crowd, seized, and found to be carrying a bomb in a green-baize bag. Their lodgings were searched and other explosives discovered, but before the Council the students are obstinately silent. They carried poison, and would, it is supposed, have committed suicide had the bombe exploded; but their arrest was too rapid and too rough.
