The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-07 00:00:00

THE CONSPIRACY IN PARIS.

The Journal Offi,iel of Saturday evening publishes
the folbwing statement :
For some time past the police have had clue to a con-
spiracy having for its object to attempt the life of the Em-
peror. Yesterday morning at 9 o'clock the police attached
in the political el,partment of the Prefecture arrested in the
Rne des Moulins a man named BaurC. who had recently ar-
rived from England. He had in his precession a sum of
money, a loadtd revolver, alit a letter dated from L union,
front a person who was among those most deeply implicated
in the plot of Rehm try last This document, as well as the
admission. of Baia& leaves no doubt as to the object of his
return to France, and of his determination inimedia,ely to
make the etesupt he had contemplak d In the evening
other individuals were arrested In the Belleville quarter. At
the house of one of these persons a hot full of bombs, a quan-
tity (d explosive powder, anti the recipe for its preparation
have been seized. This conspiracy appears to be connected
with that which has been under judicial investigation, and
which in nearly ripe for trial."

The Fifiaro of Saturday gives some details of the
arrest of Bauri,, for whom the police had been search-
ing for two or three days, a, he was known to have
left London for Paris early in the week. He was taken
in the apartment of a woman in the Butte des
Nfoulins, and immediately conveyed to the prison of
Mans. A sum of 1001., a loaded six-chambered re-
volver, and a letter signed by a refugee in London,
giving certain instructions respecting the plot, were
found upon him. BaureC, when arrested, made a full
conzession of his designs, and indicated three other
persons as being concerned in the plot, who were im-
mediately taken into custody. The 1001. found upon
him, he said, had been given to him that morning to
as-let him in the perpetration of his crime and to aid
him in subs, (pent flight. Later in the day the police
arrested another man at Belleville, against whom
grave suspicions are entertained, but the man resisted,
and calling for "help to a captured Republican."
a number of roughs came to his assistance, fell Upon
the officers, and succeeded in rescuing the prisoner.
A guard on the Northern Railway has also been
arrested, upon a charge of havirg undertaken to
bring into France from Belgium a large number
of revolvers which were ordered of a manufac-
turer at Liege for French Republicans. The bombs
seized by the police are described as being somewhat
crown-shaped. The centre, instead of being hollow,
is filled in with two iron plates bolted together. The
outer edge of the bomb is perforated with holes to
admit air. Through one of these holes passes the end
of a copper wire, attached to a handle, affording a
sufficient grasp to enable it to be thrown a considerable
distance. Around this metal ball are four tulles of
thin plaits, intended to contain the explosive materials,
and closed with cork. The hollow space within the
bomb is filled up with nails and bits of iron, intended
to scatter death and wounds when the bomb is cast and
the shock has caused the picrate or other material to
explode. The bombe are only about 12 centimetres in
diameter, and therefore may easily be carried in a coat
pocket. The Emperor and Empress on Friday even-
ing traversed the streets of Paris in an open carriage,
and were everywhere received with loud cheers.

The recent arrests and p dice discoveries naturally form
the chief topic of diseuesion in the Pine newspat ere
of Sunday, even the interest felt in the approaching
Plebiscite almost disappe wing for the moment. The
moderate journals strongly denounce such criminal
attempts as not only wicked but useless, and assure
the Government of the sympathy of all right-minded
Frenchmen in their efforts to discover and punish the
authors of the plot. There are, however, doubts,
more or less strongly entertained by many of the papers,
whether the conspiracy be a reality or a police inven-
tion. It is almost needless to say that the Red journals
broadly deny the existence of any 0,4, and they
openly charge the Prefect of Police with inventing it
as a means of producing an effect upon the Plebiscite.

&spurt.

The .Revtil having boldly aeserted that the whole
affair, like the pretended plot of February, was a
police invention, its grant and publiiiher have been
summoned to appear before the Tribunal Correctional
to answer a charge of propagating (align news, Co that
the reality of the plot will probably be speedily ascer-
tained. . . .

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The Journal des Wats expresses indienation at the
contemplated crime, but insists that all doubts con-
cerning it should be immediately removed. It urges,
therefore, that before the plehiscitary vote be taken
the fullest information in possession of the authorities
should be published.
The Temps confines itself to a bare recital of the
facts, remarking that it is evident the information
already rublished in fIOGOO Of the papers most have
been communicated by the Government. The Temps
pronounces no opinion, but awaits further explanations.
The L•to.te regards the conspiracy as an attempt to
overawe the nation, and calls for the most ex topiary
punishment of all who shall be proved to be implicated
in it. In the meantime, a certain amount of uneasi-
ness has been caused in Paris, and the polies have
taken extraordinary precautions to preserve order. All
officers on leave belonging to regiments forming part
of the garrison of Paris have also been ordered to re-
join their corps immediately.
The Gaa',,is relates that on Friday, the Emperor,
having or lered his carriage to be in waiting, said to
General Froiasart, Governor of the Prince Imperial,
Genei al, you must for • time not allow the Prince to
go abroad. I have seen the Prefect of Police. There
are attempts in preparation." "How, 3,re !" replied
the General. "is the Prince's life menaced?" " No,"
answered Napoleon 111., with his well-known smile,
"it only refers to me ; but still, you know, a mistake
might be made in respect of the carriage."

The London police, it appears, warned by telegraph
the authorities in Paris of the intended visit of Seaur4
and of his purpose. This man, who had served in the
7th Regiment of the Line, had been condemned to
imprisonment for making away with a portion i.f his
kit, and then deserted. Tiie amnesty of bist
enabled him to return to Paris. Shortly afterwards
he was again sentenced to two months' imprbonment
for embezzlement, an( after undergoing that punishment
hen e a regular frequenter of the Democratic meetings
at Bel!eville.
The Sieele publishes the following:—
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" Yesteniey's plot reminds us of • forgotten Incident of the
&bele of the .present regirne..in the autumn of 1652 the

President of the Republic went on a provincial tour to give
the rustic an opporunis) of showing their Imperialist feel-
Pr. The reception had been so far chilly, when suddenly, the •
telegraph apprised the country that an lam nal machine had
been dineovered at Marseilles, and that the 'Saviour of Society'
had been providentially saved by the vigilance of the police
The annomicement prod aced a good impression. The machine
was minutely described The timid began once more to
tremble. The westiential tour was henceforth triumphant.
The police announced the arrest of he chief culprit, an in-
dividual named Gaillard. lie was formally examined, and it
was given out that he would he shortly brought to trial. The
presidential tour came to a close. The Scene proclaimed the
President' Empsror ' the people ratified the nomination by
eight millions of votes, and the plot vanished into thin air
The infernal machine and the inac-ine man, the conspirator
and his accomplices, disappeared, and have never been heard
of lance."