No doubt whatever is entertained that the explosions were arranged
by American-Irish of the extreme faction,—who, indeed, boast loudly in Paris and New York over their work, and threaten, as usual, that the next explosion shall have far more- serious results. It is probable that it will, the regular course of such attempts when their authors are undiscovered being to culminate in some catastrophe which, through the horror it excites and the energy it develops, ends them. The police are most active in their search ; but whether the intending assassins themselves carry the bombs and then fly to America or France, or employ agents—who doubtless could be hired in London for rewards higher than the ordinary gains, say, of a burglary—is as yet unknown. The latter is the more probable, as the criminals would know that escape by the ports would be most difficult. At present the police are at fault, and probably will remain so until an informer or a death-bed confession gives the clue. London remains entirely without panic, the people know- ing they are safe, and the educated trusting a good deal to the limited area over which the energy of dynamite extends. But a dangerous and unjust feeling of antipathy to the race which does not denounce such crimes on its behalf is growing up in England.
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