The Nihilists are believed to have killed another Chief of
Police, General Michael Seliverskoff having on Wed- nesday been found murdered in his rooms in Paris. He was head of the Secret Police in 1878, and was noted for severity so extreme that Alexander II. rejected his plan for crushing the Nihilists, and he resigned in dudgeon. He has since been cloth-contractor to the Russian Army, and, it is suspected, head of the Russian police in Paris. It has been suggested that he was an object of private vengeance ; but he had always dreaded assassination, and the French police evidently believe that he was killed by a Nihilist named Padlewaki, who followed him from St. Petersburg to Paris, and obtained admission to his room as bearer of a letter of invitation. He was, when found, sitting in his chair with a bullet in his brain, fired from a revolver so small that its sound did not penetrate through the doors of the room. Nothing was taken either from his pockets or his desk, though in both there was much money, the latter, indeed, containing £1,000. The murder will, of course, produce the usual con- sequences,—more severity in the government of Russia, and a diminished chance of any reform.
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