EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 125, 31 May 1881, Page 2

EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

THE CONDITION ov IBISS LABORERS. EXECUTION oF THE CZAR'S ASSASSINS. [united press association. I London, Bth Mny. In consequence of deaths and resignations, the entire National Rifle Association Committee is dofnnot. The London society journal, Truth, has been mulcted in .£5OO for libel' orf a gentleman named W. F. G. Shanks. The suit was for £50,000. Earl Desart, the new editor of Vanity Fair, has married the wqalfchy M)M BisohoffB^eim. \. (• * The Catholic Congress, to be hold in October at Madrid, will be attended by' Catholio notables from every part of fhe world. Hughenden Church is to be deoorated as a memdrtit to the Earl of Beaconsfield. MinttSa/Pinnes, of Grosley, Colorado, has aocepted-a challenge from Miss M. B. Williams, of England, for a twenty-mile race for £200 a Bide. >'• In the House of Commons last night a motion was 4 g*6&i to to the effect that something should be done to improve the dwellings of laborers •in Ireland. Mr. tJTorster, Chief Secretary^ Ireland, stated "that if the Government cotilel see any way of proposing anything to effect too object of the motion in the Land Bill, it would gladly do so. The Times says : — " We understand there isa^strong desire at the Vatican for some direct and authoritative moans of communication with England, with a view of gaining more authentic knowledge on social questions, especially those connected with Ireland." All the Nihilists, exoept the woman Holf> mann, have been condemned to death ibv being connected with the late Czar* assassination, namely —Russakoff, .Michaolkoff, Kilalloohitisk, Jelloboff, and Sophie Piooffsky. They were hanged on the morning of 15th April. Michaelkoff's rope broke twice. Appeals from Russakoff and Michaelkoff were submitted to the Czar, but his reply was that the sentence must be carried out. All the prisoners rooeived the ministrations of priests, and kissed the cross and each other, they were all firm except Bussakoff, who fainted at the last moment. Order was pot disturbed. Many thousands of people passed the nighfcat the place of execution, in order to get a good vi«w of the soene. Tho reprieved ooriviot prisoners weWi otaveyed from the fortrosaintwo carts with their baoks >£o the horses and thoir hands tied <SW boards on their breasts bearing the word " regicide," te&trgo totters. ~- The Empress is suffering from severe hysteric attloktu She was threatened with death of the most horrible description, should Sophia PieoffsJri and Hossy Halftfiann, the two women implicated in the assassination, be executed. She made strenuous efforts to' obtain th j ir pardon, and received a promise, but did not discover the deceptive character of the promise until after the execution of Pieoffski, and that disco very, throw hw into violent paroxysms. On Easter Day, * re volutionary proclamation from tho LancT and Liberty, party was found enclosed in Eastor eggs distributed in the streets of Moscow. Tho proclamation urges tho peasantry to seize lands and rcfuso to pay taxes or Berve in tho army. .