It was always suspected that the catae trophe of Borki, on 7th October, 1888, when the Russian Imperial family nearly lost their lives, was the result of a Nihilist plot, says the ' Daily News ' Berlin man. This suspicion, according to the 'Kreuz-zeitung,' has now been confirmed. Among tho papers of General Seiiveretoff, who was murdered in Paris by L'adlewsky, were found, besides the photographs of well known Nihilists, those of persons who were quite unknown to the Russian detectives. As General SeliverstofFhad been entrusted with the

Surveillance of the Russian Nihilists' the Russian police endeavoured to find ou _ who the. j o unknown photographs repre 66nted. They were unsuccessful, however' until the Germau police handed over to the Russian authorities a man euepectod of being concernod in Nihilist plots, who, it appeared, had been leitchen boy in the Im perial train, and was believed to have been killed. He made the following confession : —He had placed in the compartment next to the dining saloon of the Imperial train what was ostensibly a Thomas clock, in the shape of a sugar loaf, and lying horizon tally. This was tho machine which Caused the Explosion. As tho sugar loaf moved backwards and forwards with the movements of tho train, however, tho man feared thab it might go on , 'too soon, and therefore placed tho clock in an upright position. This done, he filed out of tho train and got safely across tho frontier. Only there lie learned that tho catastrophe had failed in its object. This failure could only bo explained by the machine Branding in an upright position, as had ib exploded while lying horizontally ib would have destroyed everything neat its own level, and none of the Imperial family would have escaped. Asib was, ib exploded in a downward direction, and that explains j how a deep and wide hole was made in the railway track, which could nob have been caused merely by the train running off the lines.
