NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A NEW and very bold attempt has been made on the life of the Czar, with a result even farther removed from suc- cess than is usual in such cases. The railway by which the Emperor in his journey from Livadia approached Moscow had been undermined, in the immediate neighbourhood of Moscow, with dynamite or some other explosive, but not so that the mere passage of the train would, fire the mine. In order, apparently, to avoid all chance in the matter, a house in the immediate neighbourhood of the railway had been pur- chased more than two months ago (in September), the railway undermined from it, and the dynamite or other explosives in the mine connected with the house by a galvanic battery. The trains on the line passed so Close to the house that it was quite possible to set fire to the fuse after the train came in sight, so as to blow up the train just as it passed over the mine; and this apparently was done on Monday evening last, only the operator mistook the Czar's train for his baggage train, and the Czar was safe in Moscow at the time the train following with his baggage and attendants was blown up.
