ASSASSINATION IN RUSSIA.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3033, 4 November 1878, Page 1

ASSASSINATION IN RUSSIA.

The indications of uneasy feeling in Russia are still strong. A riot at Odessa has been followed by another assassination in St. Petersburg. At the former town fire young men and two women were under trial for resisting and wounding some gensdarmes sent to seize a printing press they were working clandestinely in the interests of the Nihilists. Of the men, one was sentenced to be shot, and the others to penal servitude; the women to be exiled to Siberia, one for three years, and, the other, for 12 months. A company of soldiers were sent for to clear the streets, and shots were fired at them from-among the croud. Four soldiers were struck, and two of the crowd were killed by shots from the same revolvers. ' The military, without 'returning the fire of their assailants, at last succeeded in restoring order. The sensation created by this disturbance had scarcely died away when a more alarming, because less explicable. incidenHoccurred in the capital. General de Mesentzoff, chief, of the Police department in the timperor's private Chancellery, was leaving a confectioner's shop at the corner of the Place Michel, when he was attacked by two persons,, and stabbed above the heart. He expired the same evening. The assassins immediately jumped into a drosky waiting for them, and drove off rapidly.. General Makaroff, chief of the corps of gendarmes, who accompanied General Mesentzoff, endeavoured to arrest them; he was fired on, but escaped. An Imperial ukase has since been issued, ordering that, in consesequence of the recent series of attempts upon the. lives of public functionaries, crimes against the state and attack upon Government officials shall for a time be placed under the jurisdiction of the military tribunals, and tried according to the laws in force in time; of war.