News and Miscellany

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 14, 1867

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.

PARIS, June 6—Evening.—An attempt upon the life of the Czar of Russia was made to-day. While he was returning from the grand review in the Champ de Mars, given in his honor, by Napoleon, the emperor of the French, who also accompanied him, a shot was fired at the carriage by some person in the crowd. Neither of the Emperors was injured, but the incident created great excitement and confusion for a time, which was, however, quieted when it was found that the intended assassin had failed. He has not yet been arrested, but cannot long escape.

LONDON, June 6—Evening.—Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland, announced in the House of Commons to-night that the sentences of all convicted Fenians had been commuted.

Advices from the Continent report a rising against the authority of the Porte in both Bulgaria and Servia.

—Russia is reported to be concentrating troops in her southern and western provinces—probably with reference to the settlement of the Eastern question.

ATHENS, June 6—Information from Crete confirms the previous reports that the Turks are everywhere badly defeated, and the Cretan insurgents uniformly successful.