Assassinations of Royalty.
THE following has been given as a list of the attempts on the lives of royal personages and rulers during the last thirty years:— The Duke of Modena, attacked in 1848; the Crown Prince of Prussia (now emperor William,) at Minden, in June, 1848; the late King of Prussia, in 1852; Queen Victoria (by an ex-lieutenant,) in 1852; an infernal machine discovered at Marseilles on Napoleon III.'s visit in 1852; Emperor of Austria, slightly wounded by Libenyez (a Hungarian) in 1853; attack on King Victor Immanuel, in 1853; on Napoleon III., opposite the Opera Comique, in 1853; Duke of Parma mortally stabbed in 1854. Napoleon III. fired at by Planori in the Champs Elysees in 1855; attack on Queen Isabella of Spain, by Fuentes, in 1856; King Ferdinand of Naples stabbed by Milano, a soldier, in 1856; conspiracy against Napoleon III. by three Italians in 1857; the Orsini plot against Napoleon III. in 1858; King of Prussia twice fired at, but not hit, by the student Beker, at Baden, in 1861; Queen of Greece shot at by the student, Brusios, in 1862; another conspiracy against Napoleon III. by three Italians in 1862; President Lincoln assassinated in 1865; the Czar attacked at St. Petersburg in 1866 and in Paris in 1867; Prince Michel, of Servia, assassinated in 1868; attempt on the Viceroy of Egypt in 1868; assassination of General Prim in Madrid in 1870; attempt on Senor Zorilla, Spanish Minister of Public Works, in 1870; assassination of Lord Mayo, Governor General of India, in 1872; attempts upon the Mikado of Japan in 1872; attempt on King Amadeus of Spain in 1872; General Melgarijo, Dictator of Bolivia, 1871; President Balta, of Peru, in 1872; attempt upon the life of the Emperor of Germany while visiting St. Petersburg, 1873; attempt upon President Pardo, of Peru, in 1874; President Ecuador in 1875; President Gill, of Paraguay, in 1877; attempts of Hodel and Nobeling upon the life of the Emperor of Germany, 1878; King of Spain, October 24, 1878; King of Italy, November 15, 1878, and the assassination of Prince Krapotkin, Governor of Khardoff, Russia, March, 1879. To the above must now be added the late attempt on the life of the Czar. The frequency of these outbreaks reveals far more than a passing discontent with local administrations. Nor will any mere preference for republican over monarchial or aristocratic institutions account for this deadly and persistent assault upon the men clothed with authority. The cause lies deeper than the distinctions between various forms of Government. It is a malignant revolt against authority, and is aimed no more against those who inherit their offices than against those who are chosen by the suffrages of the people. Parental authority as well as civil goes down before it. It is the fulfilment of those prophetic intimations which tell how, in the last days, men shall be "boasters, proud, disobedient to parents," "despising government, presumptuous, self-willed, not afraid to speak evil of dignities." The Nihilism of Russia is its theory, the Paris Commune its typical form of social order. It is the deadly foe of religion, liberty and human progress, and must be resisted by the only weapons available in such a struggle—justice, charity, education, moral laws impartially enforced, and the influences of pure religion.—Christian Statesman.