The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE

EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

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DINT 0! MB DAILY NSW& )
PARIS, SUNDAY EYIIIIIIO.

After collating the various narrative, which I have
heard in the coarse of the day I believe I may give
the following as, is the maio, a correct amount of the
circumstances relative to the abortive crime noticed

is my letter yesterday
At about half-past five yesterday (Saturday)
evening the Emperor was proceeding at a slow pace
tip the grand of the Clumps Elysees, at:com-
pelled only by his aide-de-camp, Count Edgar Ney,
and Colonel Valabrigue. It was a chilly evening,
and there were not many people on the promenade at
the time. His Majesty had just posed by the Cha-
teau des Fleury, and was nearly opposite No. 146 in
the Champs Elyskes, when the •seassio, leaning
agai•st a lamp-post to steady his aim, fired a pistol
at him. The Emperor slightly ducked his
hied and spurred his horse. An instant
afterwards the mai rushed toward, sod when
within • few paces of his Majesty—some say
10 cc 12 paces, others 4 or 6—fired a second shot.
The ball, I am told positively, pulsed through the
liafarees hat Immediately after the second shot
varied the regicide was seised by two men in
idiom~ who looked like operatives, but were, in fact,
ageete employed by M. Balestrino, the director of the
eseret police. Almost at the same moment a gendarme,
a votive of Corsica, named Akesandrini, who, in the
sagacity of what is commonly termed a " ball dog,"
was following the Emperor in a brougham, accom-
panied by M. Hirevoy, a commissary of police,
rushed out of the carriage with a drawn
poniard, sad flew at the murderer, who, it appears,
resisted violently. Whether as a means of
disabling him, or whether accidentally while laying
hold of him, may perhaps be doubtful—but the fact
is certain that Alemandrini wounded the man with
his

poniard. All accounts agree that we wound was.
inflicted in the small of the back, and I am told fur-
ther that a second stab pierced his shoulder.
Liverani must have been hurt oensiderably, beams
several bystanders saw him lying on his back, app.
ready exhausted. His wounds were, however, not
serious, for he was able to answer the interrogatories
of the magistrates a short time afterwards. I learn
from many witnesses that, immediately after the se
wad shot, the Emperor made his horse Gaper, and
raised his hat several times, smiling, to show
that he was not hurt. I am told, and I be-
lieve correctly, that he, knowing the men in
blouses to be policemen, checked the seal of Aleman-
drini, the Corsican, and told him rather sharply not to
hart the man with his poniard. A few minutes after
the event Liverani was placed in a hack carriage and
conveyed to the guard-house outside the Barridre de
l'Etoile. A man in a blouse got into a cab with him,
bat this was one of the men who assisted in effecting
the arrest, and not, as was erroneously supposed by

some of the spectators, an accomplice. The Emperor
proceeded on towards the Bois de Boulogne, and a
few yards outside the Arc de l'Etoile he met
the Empress in a carriage. He turned his
horns and accompanied her back to the Tuile-
ries down the grand avenue of the Champ Elyskes.
The Empress did not appear to comprehend the
meaning of the unusually loud cheers which greeted
the Emperor as be passed along, and from her appa-
rent gaiety people supposed that the Emperor had
not told L. what had passed.
The prisoner was taken to the prefecture of police
and there, in the presence of M. Billault, the Minis-
ter of the Interior, and M. Collet Meygret, the Direc
tor of Public Safety, was interrogated in the
Italian language, first by M. Pietri, the pre-
fect of police, and secondly by M. Abbattncci,
the Minister of Justice. He expressed his regret
for his crime. He denied that he had any accom-
plices, but said that numbers had sworn an oath to
do what be only had yet had the courage to attempt.
He declared that he had nourished the project ever
sines the siege of Rome.
The name of the assassin is Liveranl. He was
born at Fame, in the States of the Church, and
kept a shoemaker's shop at Rome, which he was
obliged to quit when the city was taken by the
French army in 1849. He is described as a man of
from 30 to 33 years of age, well dressed, wearing a
black frock coat and polished leather boots. His hat, of
English manufacture, contained in the lining a print
of the Crystal Palace—the sign, probably, of the
shop at which he bought it. He had in his pocket
when arrested five Napoleons in gold.

It is rumoured that many arrests were made last
night, but I have only heard epecifloally of one. A
M. Danesi, an Italian refugee, who was an acquaint
atm of Liverani, and in the habit of meeting hint at
the Café de France, near the Paleis Royal, is in cus-
tody. Danesi protest. his innocence, and entire
ignorance of Liverani's projects.
The police was enpertnonence in the Rue de Jeru-
salem last night. At one in the morning 100
Serge= de Ville took refreshmenta at Madame
Morean's preserved fruit shop.

The Archbishop of Paris ias ordered a To Deum
in all the churches this evening.
The Pays, after repeating that the object of M.
Inronyn de Lhuys prolonged sojourn in Vienna was

Ito tree t with Aua trii woos ming the measures Dv

to be taken u a consequence of the treaty of Dee. 2,
says that the departure of that minister "permits the
belief" that these questions must have received a
satisfactory solution. The tone of the Find*
German papers "seems to indicate" this conclusion.
But, after this very weak profession of faith in
Austria, the Pays notices one remarkeble ex-
ception to the "apparent" concert of opinion in the
German press. The Correspondence Antrickienne,
which happens to be the semi-ofticial organ of the
Austrian government, explains the departure of Lord
John Russell and M. Dronyn de Lhays by suggest-
ing that they merely left Vienna " in order to explain
to their governments the true position of affairs, and
thus facilitate the conclusion of peace." This, as the
Pays justly says, is not serious. The French and
English governments are in no need of further en-
lightenment in regard to the sit Aden. "AU hope
of peace," it adds, ais adjourned." At the same time,
I must notice that the other government journal, the
Constitutionnel, inserts in its leading columns two

long argumentative letters from Vienus, very much
in the tone of the Austrian Corrupt:ravage, and i
in one of which it is represented that Lord
John Russell merely left because he was wanted
at home, but that the negotiatioas for peen wen in a
most promising state at the moment of his departure.
The publication of this correspondence is only an in-
dication thut the moment has not yet come far the
French government to avow that its trust in Austria
has been misplaced. A smooth appearance will be
presented to the public as long as possible. lam
positively assured tolsy that a military convection
with Austria has bees actually signed, and although
I doubt the fact, I shall not be greatly surprised if it
turns oat to be tree. But then I remain convinced
of this, that although there may be marching and
countermarching, and telegraphic amounts of move-
r ments!of General Hess rind his aiderde-eamp, which
r waylay. a great inflames upon the buds, hart*
will Dot light with Rode.