The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

Vbtrb Xibitton

SUN OFFICE, Seven o Clock.

FRANCE.

The Debats gives the following details of the at-
tempted assassination of M. TRIERS :-" It appears
that on some days previously M. TRIERS had re-
ceived anonymous letters containing threats against
his life. The police itself had believed it right
to warn him to be on his guard, and recom-
mended him to change the white hat which he
generally wears, and by which he was known.
M. TRIERS did not think it necessary to take any
notice of this warning. At six o'clock on Satur-
day, the hour at which M. TRIERS almost al ways
returns home, M. MIGNET, who also wears a
white hat, passed through the court-yard of the
house to enter the garden, and was fired at, as
already stated. The Commissary of Police
immediately after went to the spot, and drew up
a proses-verbal of this odious attempt. M. DEVISNE,
the gunsmith, has ascertained that the shot must have
been fired from above, either from the top of the railing
which at that point is shaded by trees, or from the
top of one of the houses surrounding the Place Saint-
Georges. Neither M. MIGNET nor any other person of
the house heard the detonation, from which, as has al-
ready been said, it is assumed that the assassin em-
ployed an air-gun. The gun must either have been
double-barrelled, or charged with several balls, for at
the same moment at which the little girl was wounded,
a window was broken in the house of M. CHEVREUX,
contiguous to that of M. THIERS. Several members of
the National Assembly met yesterday in the Salle des
Conferences, and conversed a good deal on the
attempt against M. TRIERS, and of the threats
which under d fferent forms have also, it is
said, been addressed to some of them. A letter
received on Saturday evening by M. BAVCHART,
President of the Committee of Investigation,
was handed round :—it contained these words,
Your report is only a tissue of infamies. The only
thing which consoles me respecting it is, that it will
be, I hope, your decree of 1794. A bientot:
This letter written with care, and without any error
in spelling, shows that the writer is a man who has
received a certain education. It is signed with the
name of • Wil. Lecointre."

Letters from Lyons of the sth inst. state that
much excitement prevails in that city, and it is added
that the troops have shown symptoms of fraternizing
with the populace. The latter have insisted on the
authorities closing three cafés, frequented, as they
say, by aristocrats. At the departure of the mail a
picket of 100 men of the line were drawn up at the
Croix Rousse, and a piece of cannon was directed
towards the square.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

APPENRADE, AUG. 3.—To-day at noon the intelli-
gence arrived from the north, at the head-quarters,
by a Schleswig-Holstein dragoon, that the Swedes
had withdrawn from Funen, and bad returned to
Sweden. It is supposed that this intelligence
is owing to a Prussian officer, who has re-
turned from the Danish head-quarters, where
he had brought a Danish officer for exchange.
The chief of the General staff, Baron VON STOCK..
HAUSEN, has been removed to Konigsburgh, the chief
of the staff of the Prussian artillery, and Colonel
FIDLER, Minister to Munster ; they have both been
charged with a command. VON STOCKHAUSEN is
succeeded by Colonel VON HAHN. Towards evening
a Danish steamer was seen from the Chaussee,
making for Alsen, and in the far distance a Danish
man-of-war. We are informed that the Danes are
favourably disposed to an interchange of prisoners.
This is the more welcome, as General WRANGEL
declared to the deputation which applied to him,
that after having twice sought an interchange of
prisoners of war without success, he could not do so
again, but would, at the same time, readily attend to
any proposition coming from the part of the Danes.
ECKERNFORDE, AUG. 3. This morning the
steamer Hecla entered this harbour, but after the
neighbourhood had been reconnoitred by the officers,
who were stationed with telescopes on the paddle-
box, it again went to sea.
RENDSBURG, AUG. 4.—Yesterday afternoon it was
reported, not only a Danish man-of-war had ap-
proached the harbour of Eckernforde, but that the
Prince of AUGUSTENBURG'S estate of Not tr-sur-
Eckernforde, was set fire to in four places. We merely
state this as a report.
RENDSEURG, AUG. 3.—The Provincial Government
has authorised the appointed committee for tine con-
struction of a canal for marine and commerce from
Eckernforde, across Schleswig to Hussan, to com•
mence the preliminary preparation.
RENDSBURG, AUG. 3.—Our garrison to-day re-
ceived the official notice that the Alecklenhurg-Stre-
litz battalion of infantry should march northwards on
the 10th, and the two Hanoverian battalions on the
11th. The Schleswig-Holstein troops are to return
to our garrison to be re-organized.—Hamburgh Cor-
respondent, Aug. 4.
The Kieler Correspondenz Blatt states that General
WRANGEL, in answer to the demand of the Burgo-
master, whether the town was to be wholly deprived
of troops, stated that North Schleswig would remain
occupied, but that the forces were to be lessened in
this neighbourhood, in order not to press unduly
upon the inbabitants.—Hamburgh Borsenhalle.