The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-19 00:00:00

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE EMPEROR

NAPOLEON.
The following telegram has been received, dated Paris,
Thursday, Jan. 14, 10 p.m. :
" The Emperor was fired at this evening at half-past
9 o'clock while he was entering the Italian Opera in the
Hue Lepelletier. Some persons in the street were
wounded. The Emperor showed himself to the people
at the doors of the Opera-house. He was received with
enthusiastic cheering. He remained till the end of the
opera. On his return at midnight he was hailed by the
enthusiastic cheers of an immense multitude, which was
waiting for him in the streets."
The dfoniteur gives the following details :--On their
Majesties arriving at the Opera, three explosions coming
from hollow projectiles were heard. A considerable
number of persons, who were stationed before the theatre,
including some soldiers of the escort and of the Guard
of Para, were wounded, two of them mortally. The
hat of the Emperor was pierced by • projectile, and
General Roguet, aid-de-camp to his Majesty, who was
on the front of the carriage, was slightly wounded in the
nape of the neck. Two footmen were also wounded.
One of the horses in the carriage of his ldajesty was
killed, and the carriage broken by the projectiles. In-
struction has been given to make several arrests. At
the Tuileries their Majesties found • great number of
persons, amongst them the English ambassador."
A 4th edition of the Morning Post contains the follow-
ing:—
Our Paris correspondent telegraphs :—" On inquiry
at the Tuileries, I find that the Emperor and Empress
are perfectly wrilL The Emperor's face is slightly
wretched by fragments of glass. At this hour (twelve
o'clock) the Imperial family are attending • solemn
mass with Ministers of State. The conspirators are
Italians, Four of them have been arrested ; they came
from England and belong to the sect of assassins.
Fifty-two persons were wounded by the shells thrown at
the carriage, some dangerously."
The Globe's Paris correspondent gives the following
version of the attack on the Emperor :
PARIS, 1.50 p.m.
" Sixty persons were wounded, including the
comptroller of the opera, an officer of the police, and
two ladies at • window. Amongst those arrested are
three foreigners. The projectiles used were conical.
'Three persons were killed. The Emperor's hat was
smashed. As the Emperor returned from the theatre
the Boulevards were illuminated."
Influenza has been very prevalent in France, and one
of its victims has been the Empress Eugenie. The first
ball of the season at the Tuileries was very thinly at-
tended. in consequence of this malady.
The funeral of Mdlle. Rachel took place at Paris Mon-
day morning. At 11 o'clock a large crowd attended in
the Place Royale, where the deceased resided. The re-
mains arrived on Saturday night, and were, in con-
formity with the Hebrew ritual, watched by two women,
who recited prayers by the side of the coffin. At 12
o'clock the body was deposited in a hearse drawn by six
horses; the coffin was covered with a white pall
sprinkled with silver stars, and on it a crown of ismer-
teUes. The Grand Rabbi of the Jewish Consistory of
Paris, dressed in a black gown or soutane, with a cinc-
ture of the same colour, walked immediately after the
hearse. The chief mourners were the father, the
brother, and the two sons of Mlle. Rachel. The corners
of the pall were held by Alexandre Dumas, pert; Baron
'Taylor; H. Magnet, President of the Society of Dra-
matic Authors • and Geoffroy, of the Theatre Fran-
cais. The cortege, consisting of 16 mourning and a con-
siderable number of private carriages, moved on to the
Jewish burial wend, which is at the extreme end of
Pere Is Chaise, by the Place Royale, the Rae Pas de is
Mule, and the Chemise-Vest. An immense crowd,
among whom were all who are most celebrated in art
and letters, followed. All the theatres in Paris were
represented by deputations composed of the principal
artistes. On arriving at the gate of the cemetery the
ooffin was laid on the ground, and the Rabbi recited, in
Hebrew and in French, the Prayer of the Resurrection,
after which it was borne to the grave, the Rabbi chant-
ing the 91st Psalm. When the coffin was lowered into
the earth he repeated aloud and in Hebrew the prayer
called liaskabe, and then a prayer in French. Speeches
were made by MM. Jules Janin Maine and Maquet.
That of M. Janin was particularly effective when he
alluded to the loss within so short a time of all that was
celebrated, glorious, and free; and he expressed his re-
gret that the deceased was not eulogised by a man who
alone was competent to do so, but who was now in
exile, namely, M. Victor Hugo. The family of the de-
ceased then threw handbills of earth on the coffin, the
grave was filled up, and all was over. The crowd was
immense, and several detachments of cavalry were on
the spot to keep order.