COLOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3480, 19 February 1880, Page 2

COLOGRAMS.

(Better's Special to Press Agency).

London, February 16. Arrived : The Malesgatc from Adelaide, having left on November 4Lh.

Sailed: The steamship Chiniborazo from Plymouth, but a small portion of her cargo, which was damaged by the recent accident, had to be left behind. February 17. Three per cent, consols, 98. Advance in Price of "Wool. The new series of Colonial wool auctions opened to-day. 8,000 bales were catalogued for the opening sale. There was a firm and active demand, and Australian wools at the close, of the day showed an advance of* ten per cent, compared with the last auctions. There was a large attendance of home and foreign buyers. St. Petersburg]!, February 17. Attempt to destroy the Czar and the Imperial Family. Fire Guards 'killed and thirty others wounded. Intense excitement has been occasioned iv this city in consequence of the renewal of the dastardly attempts to destroy the Czar and entire Imperial family. From particulars which have at .present transpired it appears that at about the time at which the guests were invited to a grand dinner at the Winter Palace, a mine fired by electricity was suddenly exploded under the guard room, which is situated immediately beneath the grand dining hall.

A terrific explosion took place causing a large rent in the flooring of the dining hall where the Imperial family were supposed'- to- be congregated. Most providentially however they had - not assembled, and all the members of the family consequently-escaped. TJie guard room, however, was completely destroyed, five of the guards being killed on the spot, and no. less; than thirty others more or less seriously wounded. , - Not the slightest doubt is entertained: but that a deliberate attempt was made to assassinate the Czar and Imperial family, and the act is believed to be connected with the plot to destroy the palace which was dispovered some time ago.