CONTINENTAL ITEMS. London, 25th September.
GormiHhmrdeville. who- belongs totjaeof tho oklost tainilios of tho French Legitimist nobility, has boon arrcßted for stealing a carriagj and hor3oß, at Spa, in Belgium, selling thom> and leaving tho country. The Nihilist organ, Will of the People, has re-appeared at St. Petersburg^ •' The numbers Issued contain various-- notices warning Bpie3 of their fate, • 'a list of donations to the Revolutionary Fund' amounting to 50UO roubleo, a list of 400 Nihilists arrested titice November, and an article oondomniug the CzatOri polioy, aud threatening to deal the enomy a " final blow," ' ' Baron Boronoff , JPrefoot of Poltce, waited on the Czar on- the sth September, < to warn him that a great movement was to" be made by the Nihili6ta in two or three m6nths. Ho was snubbed " Ycur successor, Kasloff," replied the Czar, "haß energy and wit enough to triumph" over them.' 1 110 then turned hia back oh Boronoff. • One hundred Jews have escaped -• from Russia and arrived in America. ¦•' 1 ¦'¦¦ Fivo hundred and h'fty-iotir Jewish workpeople at Kicff tobaooo factory, have been ordered to quit tho t iwn immediately v. fcixty-one persons wore burned' to death recently in forest fires in Algeria^ cttiA many were injured ; GB2 dwellings were burned. Count Herbert Bißmarok has been appointed Minister at Washington, parsonal and family affairs making his employment boyond fche sea expedient. A cdmpiehensive conspiracy 'was recently disclosed at tho French island St. Piorre, situated at the entrance to Fortune .Bay, mar tst. John's, Newfoundland. The colony is used as a penal settlement by tho French Government, and has a population of 5200 persons Sooial and Stato offenders are known as dieciplinaires, and tho batch at present undergoing purgation are of unparal'eled turpitude. Among them are several representatives of tho aristooratio order in France '1 heir purpose was to burn tho city, murder -tho officers, and everyone in their way, seize two vessolß in port and escape. The plan was well arranged, and might havo been successful had it not been discovered before it arrived at full maturity. ' '
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, 17 October 1881, Page 2
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341CONTINENTAL ITEMS. London, 25th September. Evening Post, Volume XXII, 17 October 1881, Page 2
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