The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-18 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO ENTER
THE TUILERIES.
(nom °us OWN 001111IPONDWAL)
PARD3, MONDAT EVENING.

On Saturday, at about 1 o'clock, a well dressed
man, under 30 years of age, of most gentlemanly
appearance, walked under the arch in the Place
du Carrousel, in the two niches of which there
are sentries on horseback, as at the Horse
Guards, climbed over the railings of the
closed gates with extraordinary dexterity and
celerity, and ran across the spacious court-yard
towards the private entrance to the Tuileries,
on the left hand aide, towards the Seine.
The cavalry sentinels sitting solemnly on their
horses, and never expecting to be called upon for
actual duty, did not know what he was doing. He
was perceived from two guardhouses and pursued,
but having agreat start he got into the Tuileries first.
There he took the Cent Garde on duty by surprise,
and dashed past him, saying he had come on
lurgent business. He got as far as the ante-
room of the Emperor's study before he was
arrested. Then he said, " I must speak to
the ladies." He was lodged in a lock-up
chamber at the corner of the palace, near the
gateat the corner of the gardens surmounted by two
lions. A magistrate was sent for to interrogate
him, but he had not been in confinement more than
a few minutes befor he dashed himself against
a window looking out upon the river, and fell
through upon the quay. When taken up he was
found to have a broken wrist and his forehead
badly lacerated. The Emperor's house-surgeon,
Dr. Pietra Santa, examined him, and after seeing
in what a serious state he was, ordered him to be
taken to the Charitd Hospital, where he now is.
The man is a German—whether a madman or an
assassin is yet a question.
The Courrier Francais, whose principal editor,
M. Vermorel, is now in prison, and has several
prosecutions banging over him, has under-
gone a change of proprietorship, but not of
policy. Before surrendering himself to a
cell in St. Pelagic', M. Verm9rel called a
meeting of shareholders and exhibited a balance
sheet with a deficit of 76,000 fr. They refused to
furnish any more money to such a losing concern
as an opposition journal is likely to be under the
regime of enormous fines established by the
new " liberal " law. But M. Vermorel has
found a man of property in the department. of the
INievre, a M. Pellot, who has wiped off the 76,000 fr.
land undertaken to keep the journal afloat while
its young and courageous editor is in prison. M.
Vermorel has made conditions ensuring him a lead-
ing position on the staff when his personal liberty
is restored to him.

M. Dusantoy, the Emperor's tailor, after having
lost 10,000/. in the:Toque, does not care to risk any
more money in the adventure, and has sold the

paper.

There is a capital caricature by H. D. in the
Charirari, called the "Saving Bank." Every one
of the European powers whose official journals
daily say that peace is quite assured are repre-
sented as busily heaping up immense piles of
cannon balls.

The changeintheregulationa of hackney carriages,
which I noticed a few days ago, is only for the
present optional with the cab owners. I have not
yet seen a single carriage fitted up with the kilome-
tric apparatus. It is a complicated machine,
and there is one clause in the Prefect of Police's
proclamation which I am afraid will not conduce to
its good working. Whenever, says the ordonnance,
the machine is out of order the driver may charge
by the old tariff. Alfons d The public must not
yet be too sanguine about cheaper rides than here-
tofore.

The Bourse was extremely firm. The operators
for the rise look upon the political thermometer as
" set fair," and are assured that the loan will not get
in the way of the settlement for the end of this
month. Rente rose 20c. for cash and 15c. for
account, closing at 69fr. bc. and 69fr. Italian rose
35c., closing at 44fr. 15c. Credit Foncier rose
12fr. 50c. Mobilier left off without change.

WEATHER RSPORT.-(THD3 DAY.)

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