The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-05 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

ASSASSINATION OF THE
ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS.

(Rom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY 1101NINO.

The Archbishop of Paris was assassinated at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon, in the Church of Bt.
Etienne du Mont, by a priest who had been inter-
dicted from officiating, named Verges.
The Archbishop died immediately. The assassin
was arrested.

The Ilowitetw narrates this shocking event u
follows:

"A dreadful crime has been committed in the
Church of St. Etienne de Mont. After the proces-
sion had peened, and at the moment when it was
returning into the Sacristy, Monseigneur the Arch-
bishop of Paris was stabbed with a dagger by a
priest named Vents, who was recently interdicted
from officiating.
" The Archbishop was carried to the presbytery
of St. Etienne do Mont, where, almost instantly
afterwards, be breathed his last. The assassin was
immediately arrested.
" We cannot describe the deep emotion which was
felt by the numbers of the faithful who were as em-
bled in the church, or the mournful impression which
was ceased throughout Paris last evening, when the
news spread of the death of this virtuous prelate."
PARIS, Soma Riming°.
The bestand mosteannected account of therm' htfel

murder of the Archbishop of Paris is the following
frees the Droit :

llaamigaseer Sficer, the Archbishop at Perla was mur-
dered to-degie the Church of et. Etiewas-de-West. The
arelsbalsop mat to the chards to thaugerste the religious
coreaceles which ere colebsetsd there deriag the Newsier
al et. Hserrisva At ball-pest by les ledt the choir mod
was proceidlag towards the moiety, whet • mth reeled
Sowards bias, sad paths& ride with tee heed
the erchbielsop's age, old with the ether phased • huge
Cetelsa bath into his brese, crying out, st the seems Cu,
'4 Ms is di/vises (Deere with goddesses). The peat,
staggen ; hie atemdeat prksis eurrowed has sad hold him
up; his face is deadly pole, rase deep groans et.mps him, he
is takes into the secristy, medical sesistasco is st awe pro-
cured, but di lid is to ads, the erebbisbop is *died. The
murderer was a priest who stood moved, his Moody kWh is
head, by the sided his eictls, wham be gamed upon se be
escosmbed, with an menden of thedish joy. This priest
was formerly attached to • pariah to Paris, warn, to cosmo-
gonies of his conduct, be led been. several time
hstedietsd. In the month af November last be
wee at Nelms. The Ada Court of that tows
having to try • lemma charged with leaving primped her
husband, this priest method the ear with the utmost tuto-
red. The Tema was famed godly, sad matemed to bard
Idiom for Ns. (See Drat af Nov. xi, 1666.) This meat
did sot abets the seal al bar protector. Hs timely decand
that she w learoseet, sad to el,. greater publicity to his
protest spalast the verdict, be printed • pamphlet on the
subject, which be woe on the poiat of publideag, whoa the
perreet (paw promestaes ethos) thissired, sad
ordered the pamphlet to be Wald. The numere
was celled for by the protest itself,* aad by the
terms as which ft we worded, Sr it castehosd most serious
accemtkes agaisstthe boacerabiojudgeseholeceoubood the

sealleses. Than Nal and oases -ea; dm to *kW pre-
ambles; is the course ot which the past fa quake mai-
, Sad • total want at self-coutral. The church thought fit
to Warms its authority, and to latimdlot the priori who lad
so imisaarketei llama This isterdietios rosily ene-
mata the Mamba at the party ageism' whoa it
was prosooted. No set, heaver, as his pat lad
to the supporta' that he weld have bees arable it
the crime ark he sow stalesd with blood Ms ohm*
rameasead to tha patroa era of Pais. The lea-
dieted prat mallawl, peread, aid ensestal his aims
ellb a sell.lbelsamo vile Is heal* le Ilia a He
wail lima ail a Oaks kalleaed a het kreg,with
•Meet as lama cl ems Ibis lb lam that an
lbe ban dimmer the .anteing was to akimbo id the
*tea it sL Namme-d•-hoot, he ma tialtsr .at the
salmi raelMat to kill la; and he did kill Wan la
dr alma, and la his pa and seas. Oa brag said
arra he had Sahel the sediklap awe than owe,
he anstresel "Ns nab use; Sr I struck at the hart,
eud I haw that des Wow was meta" "Why did
you ay when you sirs* •as he deism 1" "Be-
ars I do rot balm to the Insane., Catwalks.
I Ira staid any opinion as that &arise tram the pulpit,
rad I wish to potent owe mars egoist that impious war-
alp." Oa bales asked why be hal eased ad this peat
eras, ha said, "lama I was Istadiated, and told that
this time as haredictics woad mat be revoked." The im-
pstarbstaty dew ma after Irvine amanittod mak a erhoe,
aad the eirenustanas thommtere law whkh the mime was
comeated, star iworieleat with a sound sad it
must be braved kw the harm at harmaity:
that the man who was Mara with mardatal taw-
tar was a madman and mot a mamas. The mama was
talus to the mayasky at the twat& arresdisareent. H.

Xipton, the Witatit;de ad the Proseireer W, aid
K. Triaged, judp d livereetics, west there at
calee to ezagehte L. N. Cardin* the Prigtritte
. . . _ _

Iseyertal, sad M. Prete., the Preleet d Peace, tatierepted
tits primer afterwards. The body at the erehlaitop wee
tekesto the peebytesy of the Cart ot at. Ettime-da-ltoat,

sad ahead on a coach In the drawing-nom The welt'rade' ladvaeo were not the he theme& One tithe was
ignorant at whet had pared emit saver have stppesed, en
looking et It* last dr* bed for ever from Net pane
heart. His badly sad Ids roomy hinds Baled to
the death &mbar. We Rut 11•011•011 the irk
at domain the hart-tendlag mew that tea plat*.
In the 00111111 ol the evening the ead sews ekvabded In Pm*
fad all Marta ware 'booked et ItanUg the *WU Gabe.
taithe. In MK an eithlthhop of Pule hi • vletha and
sooty,. In 1537, hie moaner Silb in a aura seder ea
'read''' kWh. Both wean ankh addle la the mambo at

their &vise tandimas, of Med la their seemlota robes.

Nay Oat post tart onoloty my bin, ad,: ialty to as
sad seta alms to mite! Tbs amatawr it al yam
atop. Tba climb at OR ariasztanatcat it dont, lad
will aa be opined tin dla Ms pagandom amaaslimad by
the alma Oat bee bon esimittod in it.

The other legal journal, the Gaza& dee ffkillosenz,
gives an account newly identical with the above.
It states, in addition, that' the usemin allowed
himself to be mated without resistance, sad mama-
tarily gave up his bloody knife. That he bad once
been interdicted tar preaching a memon wriest the
dogma of the Immaculate Conception, sad that the
archbishop had confirmed the interdietica. The
Gamete des Telles...air Glee mays that towards the
end of his examinatim, when the enormity of his
mime was dwelt upon, he mid, " Tea, it is frightful
and shed tears ; he afterwards asked for a
New Testament, saying that he should have
need of it daring the night. Blight vs-
, elation' from both the above accounts are
I given. It is asserted confidently that the aseamin
stabbed the archbishop twice, and even that a sister
of charity, who attempted to ward off the second
blow, wee struck and had three fingers at off. It
is also denied that that the prelate was in his sacer-
dotal robes—he had on, it is said, only the rottlei,
the simplest nudger possible. M. Beret, the Vicar-
General, gave the archbishop absolution immediately.
The church of St. Etienne-du-Mont was hung with
black to day, and is shut up M be purified from blood
—not in a material sense by the mobbing-bre& of

• It to usersary to orphan, that according too French
legal pnitice et more then questkeslale policy, en judges
sappreed to be Infantbie, io to the ern of the Court
el Appeal, sod the:pabge are not allowed So my that any
omit has come to a men diction.
t The erimand Wag • pried, the church oral of entree
make Immure earls to prom that he was not a remonaible
being, butt there Is nothing In the nemstive to burr oat this
wake. He appears to ton Wm warted by a tattled feel-
ing of mews.
j the priudiimmL

a cleanser, but in a moral

rites of the Catholic church.

to the

..-
Monesigseur Biboor was born at Bt. Paul-Trois-
Chateaux, in the diocese of Valence, on April 4,
1792, he was eonoxpiently in his 85th year. He was
consecrated Bishop of Digne, on February 26,1840,
and was appointed Archbishop of Paris by General
Cavaignac, on August 10, 1848, in the place of Mon-
seigneur Mike, who was killed on one of the barri-
cade, of the Faubourg St. Antoine in June, 1848.
Vergis (whose name is spelt in some jaornals,
Verger, but I believe incorrectly) was born at
Neuilly, near Paris.

The body of the deceased archbishop has been
removed to the Archiepiscopal Palace, in the Rue
Grenelle St. Germain. The autopsy took place to-
day. After embalmment the body will lie in state,
and the public will be admitted to see it. The
weapon which the murderer used wa' so long that
it would have been difficult to carry it in a pocket.
It is asserted that he concealed it in a large loupe!,
which he held in his hand as he approached his vic-
tim. Vets& iain Maras prison.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

(From OmliyrlPs Mestelifer.)

Paris was plunged into profound consternation
on Saturday evening by the report that the Arch-
bishop of Paris, whilst officiating in the church of
St. Etienne-du-Mont, had been murdered by a priest.

At first no one oould believe in tho reality of NO
awful a crime, committed in such a place and by
such a band ; but it was soon ascertained, lamentable
to relate, that the sad intelligence was only too true.
The following is a detailed account of this dreadful
crime :

&trod= was:the Ate of Ste. Genevieve, and the arch-
Whop want to the church, weeding to announcement, to
preside over the opening at the =awl *mei= to honour of
the saint, who is pstremeas of the city of Pert.. AP= wi-
pers, and after a serum preached by Mgr. leeanike, bishop
of La Blase-Terre, a procemion waa formed and paraded
round the church in the enittemary way, the mckbishop in
his robes walking at the lead of the lady patronamos of
Ste. Generlive. Just as the archtdshop arrived opposite
the outer door and was about to turn up the nave, •
ova advanced towards him from the crowd of spectators, end
removing the prelates cope with blojeft hand, plunged with
gnat force with his right hand • large Catalan knife into
the prelate's breast, near the heart, exclaiming as he did so,
" Down with the goddess 1" (A 6•r f!/lass.) The arch-
bishop fall back two steps, cried out " 4h, la inalheerms f"
staggered, end fell into the of the priests who
surrounded him. The wounded prelate mooned two or
three times, sa If in great =Siring, and was the
moment after bathed in the blood which flowed from
the wound. He was immediately conveyed into the Toby
and medical ambience sent for ; but all human aid was found
to be useless, as be expired almost immediately. The fatal
blow was snack with each extrionihmary rapidity that it was
impossible to prevent it. The seramin, • young roan of about
thirty years of age, dressed fa dark coloured clothes, made no
attempt to escape, and was imaneediately seized
_; he had it
the moment the knife, home which blood was dropping,
still In his hind. Just before the immemble prelate
breathed him bat, the Abbe Surat, vicar-general, who was
close to him, gave him absolution.

The seessein—wes conveyed to the =Ws of the 12th arron-
dimmest, and M. Holgroa, substitute of the Freemen,
Imperial, and X. Tigard, =whim magistrate, was
immediately ennead, sad commenced an intemegatory.
Y. Cordon* Procuregr Imperial, sad 11. Beni, Prefect
of Polka subespeatly intenmated him also. From
what he mid it appears that be lea print of the &we of
Xmas, named Verges. He bad hem Aar or live times
interdicted he adsooniect, and some menthe back
was spin egareadal for having prmehed aphid the dogma
of the Inecalate Coneoptioa. la. Namable het be dis-
played pest seel in deheding • gramma who we
tried at Heim for poleming her Maimed, sad
though she fres convicted of the aims, sad ocedessimed
to herd faker Re ith, be printed a pamphlet declaring
that she wee Wow; and meting the grommet kapatatioas
ea the Judges imd the pal& promestor. The poughlet
was Weed by the Wharfage before it amid be distributed,
sad it weed a new comphint aping him to be made to his
bishop. A little later, be uttered Imam against a re-
'meted clergyow of the Moore of Peris, who bad done I
him many kindnesses; sad the olergyama dewed it mom
my to make teregmatietka to the police. Oa the 24th of
December, the am ewe to Peel., and took up his madam
at m hotel, N. 2, Re Racine. He was auegetonald
to pm days to the public libraries ; sad eves 1
oa Saturday ha •elet to or as meal. He en-
dammed to abide en appohitmeat is the diner of Paris,
bat it me waled to him that the archbishop weakd not
peat hies one. On ?swim that, be smug to have pro-
jected the death of the prelate, sad he purchased far the pur-
pose a knife at the atop of a cutler In the Rae Deaphim
After be had stated the ravines facts, be wee asked if he
had stabbed the archbishop more then ow, sad he immured
"No; I any pee him one stab, for I Mack
in the heart, and knew the blow we mortaL"
" Why," be we asked, "did yea cry Down
with the gcddees F whoa yea Week the fear Wow P"
" Became I do not believe ta the dentine of the Immaculate
Coaceptiem, spinet which I have preached bres the pulpit
sad I wished to pietist gees mare spinet the impious doe-
Was." " Why did you commit so grave a crime P"
" Brews I we interdicted, and beams the archbishop
had declared that the ialardietion weld not be re-
removal." He then added, after • panes, " A priest can-
ted be allowed to die of boager." He admitted
that he bad pee to the church with the premeditated Intro-
tics of Mbar the archblahop ; and he the several times
cried, with ewe Viallool4 "No, goddess I no, goddess:"
On. of the Fathom who interrogated him, remarked that
the crime which be had ocaugitted woe one of frightful
mormity. "Yes," he eaclanacd, "It is MOAN :" end
this time fell from hie eyes. He begged for a New Teets-
Wiest, sad said, " I shall have peat need of It daring the
WSW
The aswein rephed to thegneetionspat tohbn with celmnees,

said oily displayed agitatka; when lat; referred to the declaim;
of the Ilmeesdate COMMON". Ins ketares we tail at =-
puska I the owes of the embed he wee ocavord to
tho otaetergeets, sad • turnkey tem pieced with his to his
cell. Om ezuelalag hi. dross, Kim printed ps pin troto
found folioed in his toot!

The body et the archbishop, after remaining a sheet time
in the wary of et. Etieres-thr.Yet, was wanoved to the
bore of the ewe, mad plead on n manse in the drawing-
room. The honoree of the wearable palate bad medergone
er slieselon—they ware or oda sad area a. If he WWI
in a aßd 'famine.

The Dalai of this asy glees the details as follows: I
11. de Balm, eme of et. Etienne-do-Moot, preceded the
palate, mad Invited the aseletaata to kneel; he remarked a
eon en hie right who remained standing, but who wpm a
alp ham the emrs, hash with the others.
The archbishop, having retuned on the left side
of the church to blue the childra, this man
suddenly roes, sailed W. Moor ineibly with the right hand,
made him tarn round, sad thus planed a dagger into his
heart. The prelate staggered some steps backwards, at-
chiming, "Li Mdiaerross see tee' and this sank to the
ground. An extraordinary Penult arose and miss of
indignation wee raised by the usistaate, most at
whom were WOOL The mare, thishing that the
Archbishop bad been seised with sudden iadispo-
aides, exerted Weed to calm the mishinte and
abased toenuds the prelate, who he span the
✓g
-dose uttering not mother word. The crowd sur-
rounded the mein, eke was seised sad bees/ by the
rayons do m7k, and Ulm to the swanky of the arron-
dissement. Today the church is hung in Week. ♦ =doe
sand to the dean mesetnces that the Archbishop of Parts
laving been frially wounded by the head of • criminal, the
.nisei will imolai dead until the ceremeny at expiation
has been celebrated. The amok hos deolend that he had
hen watching his opportunity mince the manioc mad he
lad been seen waling maid the church, dourly for the
purpose of selecting the bent piece 6r cannitting

• There paws wee writings whet the leauscalate
Conception, and against the archbishop in ceesesian with ft.

At the comateseesent of the sewn the theatre
IA Atelm, et Mr= ismeally swabs= u may as 1,200 =b-
ombers. This year, Mei to the =pert= visit of the
Simperer of Molds, eon Ns act 800.