CONTINENT OF EUROPE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6780, 12 February 1884, Page 3

CONTINENT OF EUROPE.

It ia denied that the Rothschilds have offered to buy the French Government railways. A company will be formed for the purpose of acquiring them. A Bayonne telegram dates! January the 2nd, states that a revolutionary movement is expected to occur on the FrancoSpanish frontier, and persons are warned to take precautions. Reports from the Spanish Parliament show that it has been turned into a bear garden, and that the patched up alliance between the various Liberal groups is broken. The War Minister's proposal of increased pay to the officers of the army is regarded as forecasting a coup cV etat. Several Republican refugees have disappeared from their places of retreat, and the soldiers in many garrisons have been kept under arms at night, nobody seems to know why. The impression is general that King Alfonso will soon have to fight for his crown. A banquet was given by the freetraders at Madrid on January 15th to celebrate the conclusion of commercial treaties between Spain and various countries. A telegram from Rome, dated January 3rd, states that the Pops' s secretary, Monsignore Boscalli, opened a letter from America addressed to Leo. XIII., containing Fenian threats should the Pope continue supporting England against the National cause in Ireland. The letter stated that the protection which the Italian Government gives the Pope, who is now the only sovereign safe from dynamite, will be of no avail. The Pope is warned that there are priests whom he is bound to receive, who will obtain access to his presence to sustain the cause of the Irish against oppression. M. Tolosi, Russian Minister of the Interior, received a letter on January Bth, stating that he had been sentenced to death by the Nihilists. The letter also intimated the speedy murder of the Chief Public Prosecutor, M. Dofreskousky. The latest version of the accident to the Czar is that on December 17th he was returning from a shooting excursion to Balyina Palace, in Austria. He was accompanied by his suite in eight sledges, with a number of servants. Although darkness was coming on the party noticed ahead six men, apparently peasants. The Czar's aides-de-camp drove forward and ordered the men to clear the way. Tho men saluted the officers and appeared to obey the orders given, but when the Czar's sledge came on a level with them they suddenly wheeled around and fired at him thrice, and two of them ran towards the sledge. The horses attached to the Bledge became frightened and galloped some hundred paces, and the Czar was thrown out of the sledge. A bullet lodged in the Czar's shoulder, but it was not a dangerous wound. The Czar's followers immediately mounted the sledge horses and followed the assassins, who escaped to a neighboring wood, and owing to the depth of snow pursuit was fruitless. One of tho pursuing officors ventured too far and did not return. It ia thought that the attack was an attempt to execute the sentence of death recently passed upon the Czar by the Nihilists. Lieut.-Colonel Sudeikin was murdered at St. Petersburg on December 31st by Nihilists. He was decoyed into one of their secret meeting places, tortured for two hours to compel the divulgence of some police secrets, and when he did at last give them up and they were verified as correct, ho was stabbed to death as a measure of safety to the conspirators. The murder is attributed to the instrumentality of Minne Walkerstein, a sister of the lady who shared in all the attempts against the late Czar, and who was finally hanged. A second account states that Sudeikin was a tall and powerful man, and that to judge from the broken furniture and dehris in the room, he did not die without a desperate struggle. Thirty-seven students were arrested on the 9th of January for complicity in the murder. Sudeikin's nephew, who was with him at the time, was severely wounded, and died on the 17th of January without recovering consciousness. The assassination had a most depressing effect on the Czar, who was on the point of making constitutional concessions, but it is now said he lias firmly resolved on being more Btringent than ever. He sent for Count Tolosti, Minister of the Interior, and violently reproached him for his lack of energy and incapacity. Tolosti thereupon resigned. A telegram dated January 10th states that Court circles in Berlin are excited by a scandal, the alleged culprit being no less a personage than Prince Frederick Charles Nicholas, nephew of the Emperor, and one of the most distinguished generals of the Franco-Prussian war. His wife, the Princess Maria Ann, daughter of Duke Leopold Frederick of Anhalt, recently discovered what she considered ■ conclusive evidence of the Prince's unfaithfulness. The female in the case is a lady who is prominent at tho Court of the Empress Augusta, but whose name has not been allowed to be mentioned publicly. Ifc is almost certain that the Prince's offence, if he has been an offender, is a thing of the past, and that the liason was ended several years ago. The Princess, however, did not think so. She confronted him with proofs oi his guilt, and a J terrible scene resulted. The upshot of the row was that Prince Frederick Charles refused to comply with the demand of the Princess that he should refuse to speak to the lady in question, and that the Princess threatened to sue for a divorce in the public Courts. The Princess submitted the question to the Emperor, and agreed to abide by his decision as head of the Hoenzollern family. The Emperor thereupon issued an order, deciding that a suit for divorce might be arranged after due provision had been made to protect the State rights of the Princess and her offspring.