We have discussed elsewhere the campaign which the Governments have
been carrying on against the Anarchists, but may mention here the incidents of the week. A doctor's house has been blown up in Austria, two attempts at explosion are reported from Spain, and one bomb has been found unex- ploded in a street of Paris. Threats of vengeance have been received by the authorities in Paris, Barcelona, and Madrid, and in the last-named place the police were so sure that bombs would be thrown into the opera-house, that the Queen-Regent was advised not to attend. The executioner in Paris has been threatened with death if he executes Valliant, and has resigned; and the Magistrate who con- ducts the inquiry into that case is inundated with menacing letters. For the present, the Governments are devoting themselves to inquiry, the French Home Office having created a special police for the occasion, with large powers in all police districts; while in Spain the police have discovered the authors of the massacre in the Barcelona theatre, have found the Anarchists' secret laboratory—a deep cavern—and think they now know every important man in the party. It appears to be certain that the active Anarchists are betraying one another, and that their prominent men are under great alarm. The effort to seize M. Reclus, nephew of the geographer, who is suspected of supplying money and chemicals, and who is undoubtedly of Anarchist opinions, has hitherto failed.
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