LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3109, 15 June 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

June 8. Alarming discoveries continue to be made of Nihilistic plots to murder the Russian sovereign, and considerable anxiety exists for the safety of the Czar in consequence of the numerous preparations being made to ensure his destruction. One of the latest discoveries made is the existence of a dynamite mine underneath the railway station Gatshira, about one hundred miles from St. Petersburg. The battery was connected by a wire with the telegraph office, and this led to a suspicion that the telegraph clerks were implicated in the plot. All the clerks have therefore been arrested. The police have also discovered dynamite and an infernal machine beneath the Czar's church. The Right Hon. Sir W. Melbourne James, Knight, one of the Lord Justices of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Judicature, is dead. He was 74 years of age. England and Russia have agreed not to interfere in the event of war breaking out in Afghanistan between the Ameer and Ayoub Khan. The French Government has appointed M. Jalien de Court to the position of French Consul in Sydney, in place of M. Balliere, who is about to be transferred to Mauritius. The money market in America is tightening. The London stock market is declining, but the trade returns are very little changed. The most serious riots that have yet been reported from Ireland occurred yesterday in the province of Munster. There were disturbances in various parts of the county, but the most alarming took place at Ballydehohe and Skibberean, County Cork. The bank wag wrecked, and the telegraph lines and bridges were destroyed. In one place the mob holds complete possession of the town. The holding of meetings is prohibited in some parts of the country, and little short of anarchy prevails.

(Bedter's Special to Telegraph.]