We publish elsewhere an account of some of the facts
elicited at the trial of the Nihilists recently condemned by the military tribunal at Odessa. As-usual in Russia, the actual leader was a thoroughly educated man, but his accomplices or agents were of all grades. He himself was an educated squire ; one follower was a landowner, who had sold his estates to devote the proceeds was a polish Jew ; another was a boat to Conspiracy; another man in the service of the torpedo department. All these men, nevertheless, associated themselves together for a kind of Guy- Fawkes plot, which was only unsuccessful through an accident. It is not difficult, as one reads such accounts, to understand the fury and alarm of the Russian Government ; but, perhaps, the most dangerous symptom is the least noticed. It is stated that these conspirators actually succeeded in a very short period in enlisting 1,200 country peasants in the " cause," --that is, in a conspiracy directly against the Czar.
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