On the 25th of July last year General Trepoff, head
of the Russian Police, while visiting the prison at St. Petersburg ordered Bogoluboff, a political prisoner, to his cell for impertinence. The young man, indignant, did not salute, and the General ordered him to be flogged with birch-twigs. The order, a singularly cruel one, according to Russian ideas, created great excitement in society, and Vera Sasulitch, a young lady of 26, daughter of an officer in the Line, determined to avenge it. She therefore shot General Trepoff, who fell seriously but not mortally wounded. She was tried on the 19th inst., and acknowledged her crime and its motives, and the jury, among whom were seven persons who either are or have been officials, or are ddcor6s, acquitted her. She was driven away in a carriage, amid a con- siderable riot, and it was supposed she had been sent to Siberia, but she writes herself to state that the attempt to arrest her was made, but that she is in safe concealment. This affair, the political aspect of which is discussed elsewhere, has made a profound sen- sation in St. Petersburg, and has, it is reported, greatly alarmed the Emperor. The educated classes sympathise with the young lady, and so wide-spread is the excitement, that it is deemed necessary to recall the Guard. General Trepoff has been superseded, but in the interest of authority made a Councillor of State.
