NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Czar got through alive. That is, in blunt language, the foreign event of the week. Either the Revolutionary party were daunted by the enthusiasm of Moscow, or they waited to see if any concessions would be forthcoming, or the precautions of the Russian police were most successful. At all events, the Czar was crowned on Sunday, in the regular place, and with full formalities, dined in state clad in robes and crown, and drove out, unescorted, among his people, and suffered nothing worse than tedium. Not only was he not blown up, but no attempt was made upon his life, and to all external appearance he was as safe in his capital as any other European Sovereign. His escape will be a sore blow to the Nihilists, whose hold upon the public mind is based upon the belief that they can always, when -resolved, find agents who will at least attempt to perform their task. This is evidently not the case, and the revelation deprives the party of much of its evil fascination. It should be observed, moreover, that although great precautions were taken, the Emperor was not secluded. He rode miles through the city in procession, he walked round the tower of Ivan the Great under -thousands of eyes, he attended the opera, and he drove out to see the illuminations nominally, at all events, unattended. Still, he was unassailed, and must be pronounced in the pitched battle with the Nihilists, on ground they themselves chose, com- pletely victorious. Even if they should assassinate him after- wards, they failed to keep their threat that if the Emperor remained obdurate, he should never be crowned.
