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THE LATE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
THE ff.REACH EMPEROR.

(From the Times.)

That the diabolical plot against the life of the
French Emperor is really viewed with as much br r-
ror in this country as in France itself must by this
time have been made perfectly manifest to the whole
French people. The speeches in both Houses of Par-
liament, the declarations of two successive Minis-
tries, the add, eases of public bodies, and the lan-
guage of public journals, must necessarily have
placed the fact beyond reach of doubt. The only
question between the two nations concerns the re-
spective deficiencies of their police institutions, and
this question we are prepared very confidently to
meet. That we have little reason indeed to shrink
from the comparison we can soon prove to our
readers on both sides of the Channel.
There are two kinds of circumstances, and two
only, through which it may be reasonably assumed
that a ciimin;.lder,izzi euzll-t to br detected by the
proper authorities. If warning is given and sus-
picion aroused, then incidents insignificant in them-
selves should lead to measures of prevention ; or,
on the other hand, if any overt acts are committed,
the cognisance they would provoke might conduce
to the discovery of the whole scheme in contem-
plation. On neither of these points can anything
be alleged against the English police. Thai the per-
sons engaged in this detestable plot had spent a
certain number of months in England is perfectly
true, but here they were not marked men or sus-
picious characters in any way. There was nothing
about the names, or pursuits, or b-haviour of Or-
sini, or Pierri, or Rudio, or Gomez to put an Eng-
lish policeman on the alert, or to induce the least
in, erierence with their movements or proceedings.
As far as we know they conducted themselves peace-
ably and gave no more offence than any other of the
thousand refugees enjoying the protection of these
shores. One of the new M:ni,ters, Sir. J. Pakii,gtoe,
took occasion to remark in his speech to his con,titu-
ents at Droitwich that, as he was informed, Pierri,
duiiit his whole residence at armiughain, was "a
quiet, inoffensive man." It is utterly out of the
question that we should gratuitously fathom the
depths of lanaticism or vindictiveness which may
exist in the breast of a political exile. Had we
been told beforehand that these four men were
dangerous, that they were plotting murder, and
that our utmost vigilance should be exerted in the
way of prevention, the case would have been very
different. As it was, we had no more reason for
suspecting or interfering with these particular
fugitives than we have for arresting any foreigner
who happens to be making this kingdom his home.
But there was the manufacture of the shells ?
Thous was, and this, in its way, was undoubtedly
an overt act These strange and deadly imple-
ments were fashioned by English hands ; but look
at the facts of the case, and see what they arn,unt
to. So apprehensive was Orsini of exciting the
suspicions of our manufacturers in the matter, that
he actually employed the agency of an Englishman
in giving the order, lest his own instructions mi ht
be refused. That a tradesman should take such
an order so conveyed, and should execute it with-
out misgiving, is the most natural thing possible.
Contrivances of this description have been among
the commonest of all projects for the last six years.
The actual improvements iu firearms set every man
with a smatteriiig of science at work to improve
them still more. Long-range shells, monster mor-
tars, invisible catamaran, and fulminating com-
pounds of indescribable power were among the in-
ventions of every successive week. Our columns
contained offers after offers from patriotic projec-
tors to b'ow up Croustadt, to annihilate Sebastopol,
end to save the British Army and Navy all trouble
in terminating the war. We are still at war, too,
and six months ago the same kind of machinery
might have bees devised against Canton, or Delhi,
or Lucknow. There is probably not a manufac-
turer in Birmingham who has not been asked at
some time or other to construct some extraordinary
instrument, avowedly conceived for extraordinary
purposes
of of
his
destruction.ownconseienOcers,ihnai,d except for thein
alarms -
venting any pretext or giving any false colour to his
dealings in this respect. If he sent an older for a
new and formidable grenade calculated to produce

twice as much havoc as any grape, canister, or
shrapnel shot, it would have been but a common-
place and everyday transaction in the eyes of the
tradesman receiving it. So much for the English
share in the business.

We now beg to take the reader acro s the Chan-
nel and introduce him to the circumstances of the
case as it actually stood over there. In France
thrte out of the four prisoners were men marked
for suspicion, and two of them had been under
the bands of the French Rudio is the (silly
one of whom it could not be said that he had,
within the last few years, been in France nadrr
unpleasant circumstances, and even he was a
known political ex le and c-vnspirator—a character
generally notable among the police of the Continent.
Orsini, after an absolute blaze of notoriety, had ap •
peered at Marseilles in 1855. Pierri, after living
for years in three of the most considerable cities of
France, became so distinct an otject of suspicion
that he was expelled from the French territory in
1852. Gomez was brought to trial in a French
court of justice in December, 1855, and locked up
in a French prison till June, 1856. Every one of
these three, therefore, was as soon as he stood upon
French ground, a marked man t© begin with, in-
dependently of any fresh or special source of alarm,
But this fresh alarm was positively given—given
with great circumstantiality, and as much as a
fortnight beforehand. On the first day of the pre-
sent year information was despatched to the French
authorities from Brussels that Pierri, attended by
another conspirator, would be coming to Paris
probably about the 9th of January, with the pur-
pose of assassinating the Emperor. Two days
before the day fixed—that is to say, on the 7th of
January—Pierri did, in accordance with the warn-
ing, leave Brussels fur Paris. At Lille he was joined
by Gomez, and these two men, both of whom had be-
fore fallen under the hands of the police, and who
must necessarily hare ben marked and known, did
enter the French capital with their murderous pur-
pose on the day above mentioned. The very instant
they arrived they joined Orsini, who had been there,
shells and all, ever since the 12th of December ;
and Ruclio presented himself on January the
10th. Here, then, were all the four conspirators
under the eyes of the Parisian police four days be-
fore the attempt was hazarded, and 10 days after
warning had been given. They were all in commu-
nication and correspondence together so overtly
that the Procurenr-General on the trial scarcely
thought that proof was wanting of their intimacy.
On the Bth or 9th of January Orsini went to a gun-
smith in Paris and bought a revolver, and on the
12th, as it required a little alteration, he sent
Gomez to fetch it, who appeared to the shopman to
be in a great hurry and to exhibit considerable im-
patience. Compare all these facts with the utter
absence of any suspicious circumstances over here,
and then say in which of the two countries detec-
tion ought to have been effected.

Again, with respect to the overt evidence pos-
sibly derivable from the sight of the shells. These
implements were seen, handled, and criticised on
:he other side of the Channel by witnesses of all
descriptions. They were first taken into Bel-
gium. At the French frontier they were passed
through the Custom-house as portions of a
new gas apparatus, and pronounced to be of no
dutiable value whatever, so little was there
significant in their appearance. In France, at the
hotel in Paris whtre Orsini first stopped, they were
put into the hands of a wai'er, and regularly laid
out on a sofa until Orsini came and put them away.
Now, there wad no such excuse in France as there
was in Birmingham. A man might very naturally
go to one of our gunsmiths and get half-a dozen
experimental shells made ; but it is quite a diffe-
rent thing to carry these machines from one
ennotry to another. Fr m this ho' el, however,
Orsini removod Icclz,l:T, ant here he
proceeded to dry his fulminating powder, at the
hourly risk of blowing himself and th., whole house
into the air. In this house, with his deadly machi-
nery about him, he resided 30 days Pierri, the

' outlawed refugee, and Gomez, 11. e convict—the
very two men whose arrival and, designs had been
notified to the French police—being in communi-
cation with him all the time after their arrival.
If all this is not enough, we need only carry
our readers to the scene and hour of the attempt
Afi er living in Paris, unler the very noses
of the Parisian police—Orsini for upwards of a
month, Pierri and Gcmez for a week, and Rudio
for four full days; after carrying these shells with
scarce au attempt at concealment- from one place
to another, the conspirators go out into the street
upon their atrocious errand, and Pierri, the iden-
tical man who had been already expelled- from
France, and of whose preseit intent and cowing
warning had been given a fornight
ly-fore, pushes
his way again and again into the ttnperor's private
entrance at the opera-house, and is only driven out
by force after he has insulted and menaced one of
the persons employed there. At last, at the
hour, he certainly was arrested ; but it was then
too late to prevent the catastrophe, and in a few
minutes the explosion was heard. These are the
simple facts o? . he case, and they can only be turned
to the condemnation of our police institutions by
the most fiagtant inversion of justice.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The following officers and troops from the batta-
ions of.infautry at Chatham garrison embarked
yesterday at Gravesend in the Indiana for Calcutta
—viz., Ensign E. T. Pinniger and 13 men of the Bth
(the King's) Regiment ; 30 men of the 19th Regi-
ment Ensign John Aldridge and 14 men of the
20th Regiment ; 68- men of all ranks of. the 23d
Royal Welsh Fusileers ; 29 men of the 24th Regi-
ment ;13 men of the 29th Regiment'; 3g meneof the
35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment ; Ensign G. Auchin-
leek and 65 non-commissioned officers aad men of
the 52d. Light Infantry • 10 men of the 53d Regi-
ment, 41 men of the 64th Regiment ; Lieut. Thos.
Carlisle and 42 men of the 75th Regiment ; 16 men
of the 82d Regiment ; Ensign Chas. T. Horan, and
40 men of the 84th (York and Laneas.er) Regi-
ment ; and 38 men of the 90th Light Infantry—
total, 5 officers and 458 men of all ranks. Staff-
assistant-Surgeons Salter and Hillman proceed in
medical charge of the draughts. A draught con-
sisting of the following officers and men left Col-
chester Camp yesterday, and also embarked on
board the Indiana :—For Calcutta, 1 sergeant and
22 rank and file of the 34th Regiment "of Foot ;
10 rank and file of the 37th Regiment of Feet,
under the command of Ensign Forties ; 9 rank and
file of the 38th Regiment ; 12 rank and file of the
54th Foot ; 23 Tank and file and one sergeant of
the first battalion 60th Rifles ; 60 non-commis-
sioned oflic,rs and men of the 97th Foot, under the
command of Lieutenant Hill ; and 23 rank and
file of the thied battalion of Rifle Brigade. For
Bombay, 1 officer and 19 rank and file of the 56th
Regiment of Foot.
Yesterday orders were received at Chatham from
the War Department, directing Col. H. Jervis,
commanding the Ist battalion, to hold in readino:s
the following officers awl men selected from the
depots under his command to proceed to East-
sergent
a
b urne where they are to be stationed
aanudd
2214
rankmen oafntdh
fie
17et
of
ft Royalhe
2 4Ft
hu 11 7, egri
ras ;ent sergeants
1 ser-
geant, 1 drummer, and 8 men of the 27th Minis-
kil!ens ; 1 serge •nt and 31 privates of the 32d
Regiment ; 1 sergeant and 30 men of the 35th
Regiment; and 1 sergeant and 19 men of the 53d.
Regiment, with the following officeree---ele., Cap-
tain R. H. Price, 35th Regiment ; Lieutenant J.
Lukin, 32d Regiment; and Ensign F, A. Camp-
bell, 27th Regiment ; and Ensign T. Morris, 32d
Regiment.
Detachments of Royal Artillery, consisting of
four sergeants and 101 rank and file, lett Wool-
wich garrison yesterday morning, to embark at
Gravesend for Berobay, to join the 13th and 14th
battalions on service in India. Various detach-
ments of Artillery are also under -orders for Chat-
ham, Alderney, and other outpost stations, for the
reinforcement of the coast defences. Tie model
gun, manufactured in Woolwich Arsenal, and in-
tended f r presentation to the Emperor of the
French, is, together with its appurtenances, now
complete, and awaits the inspection of his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort. The present will be
conveyed to France in charge of a captain of the
Royal Artillery. The inscription on the gun con•
sists simply of the words, "To Napoleon
from Queen Victoria, 1857."
The Admiralty yacht Vivid returned to Wool-
wich yesterday morning, having conveyed the
Siamese Ambassadors to Paris.
The Curacoa' 31, screw frigate, Captain Mason,
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Westward to relieve the windbound merchantmen
in the Channel.
The Duke of Cornwall steamer embarked the
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The Marleorough, 131, Captain the Right Hon.
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The Royal Sovereign, 131, lenperieuse, 51, Mel-
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Capt. Seymour, C.d. • 131e.lheini, 60,
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Majesty, vice Elliot, promoted to a flag.
Second Master—Samuel W. Brown, to the Hannibal
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DESPATCHES :FROM CHINA.

(From a Supplement to the Gazette of last night.)

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCHS, 1858.
The Secretary of State for War has this day re-
ceived Despatches, of which the following are
copies, addressed to Lot d Panmure by Major-Gen.
C. T.' Van Straubenzee, C. 8., commanding her
Majesty's land forces iu China
:
Head Qulrters, Canton, Jan. 14, 1858.
My Lord,—l had the honour by the, last mail
briefly to report the capture of the city of Canton, I
have now the honour t ) forward for your lordship's
inforthation the par, iculare thereof.
It having been decided by their Excellencies
Rear-Admiral Sir Miehael Seymour, K. C. B. Rear-
Admiral Rigault de Genouilly, and myself, thatthe
attack should be made on the north-eastern part of
the walls of the city of Canton, the forces for this
attack were landed on the 28th December as nearly
as possible in the order arranged in a memorandum
forward d to your lordship by the last mail, and at
the place agreed upon, in a creek opposite to the
eastern end of Kuper Island, to which point I pro-
ceeded on the afternoon of, the 27th ult.
On the 27th lilt. 1 directed a covering party of her
Majesty's 50th Regt. to be landed at the point above
named to protect the Royal Engineers, Volunteer
Sapper Company, and working party of the Native
Transport Corps, under Capt. -Mann,-of the Royal
Engineers, whilst constructing jetties for landing
troops and guns, making and widening roads across
the low marshy paddy fields to the hard ground
about 400 yards inland. These works were pro-
ceeded with most actively, and the amount of
labour performed proved the zeal which had been
-devoted to their accomplishment ; indeed, •I feel
much indebted to Capt. Mann, R.E., Lieutenant
Stewart, R.E., and all employed, for the evident
interest taken in their task. The 59th covering party
was under Major Burmester, commanding the 59th
Regt., to whose admirable disposition of his force it
was mainly owing that these works were continued
uninterrnpt,dly during the greater part of the
night.
From the low state of the tide the landing could
not be proceeded with as arranged, simultaneously
with the opening of the bombardment at 6 a.m. on
the 28th ult. ; but about 9 a.m. it was commenced,
and vigorousy carried on under the superintend-
ence of Capt. Hall, C. 8., R.N., Commandant Ray-
naud, Captain° d-) Vaisseau, F.1.N., and Major
the Hon. H. Clifford, Assistant Quartermaster-
General, by whom the whole of the force and a large
am 'tint of material, stores, &c., were lauded befo) e
nightfall, reflecting the greatest credit upon the un-
tiring ext-rtions of these three officers. Great praise
is also due to Capt. Temple, of the 12th Madras
Native Infantry, a most zealous and active officer,
for his arrangements in forwarding to the front the
required ammunition, stores, &c., as soon as landed.
By 10 o'clock a.m. the French force having di-
embarked were pushed on at my request to some
rising ground about half a mile inland, placing a
picket to protect their left on a point which com-
manded a view of the country to the river, and the
village and ground to their front, their right
flank resting on a hill above a paved cau4e way
leading thron4h a village to the East Gate of Can
ton.

On the. French Brigade taking up this position
a fire of jinzalls, matchlocks, and rockets was
opened upon the brigade from the village in front
and fr,:m groups of the enemy formed to its right.
No other troops being yet available, I directed the
portion of the Nth, under Major Burmester, to
be advanced to the right of the French. The enemy
still continuing troublesome, without doing much
mischief, and the eagerness of our allies being diffi-
cult to restrain, their distinguished Commander in-
Cbief ordered one battalion to advance and drive
them from the heights and knolls in front, which
was effected in gallant style. The whole of this
part of the country was undulating, the higher
ground covered with Chinese graves of ,a eirculir
form, rendering it very difficult to cross the lower
parts intersected by paddy fields, many of which
were still under water.

The remainder of the 59th having now
reached the front, it was eoaployd in
driving the enemy back on the right
.of the
French Brigade, and as the whole line approached
nearer to Fort Lin, a smart fire was opened by some
French howitzers, to keep down the fire of the fort,
under cover of which the 59th Regiment moved up
to a joss-house, within 300 yards of the fort, the
French at the same time advancing to the hill in
their front, the whole covered by the 4 2 5 howit-
zers of Capt. Knox's battery, which was fired with
great effect. The fort being thus partially sur-
rounded, the enemy were discovered to be evacuat-
ing it, by our allies, who melted on and °couple I
it, followed by the 59th Regiment.
As there was no prospect of being in a position to
escalade the walls of the city on that day, owing
to the great difficulty and labour required in get-
ting up artillery, ammunition, &c., I decided upon
bivouacking upon the ground we then occupied,
the 59th Regiment in rear and under cover of
Fort Lin, against the right flank of which the
enemy were making good practice with their
guns from the walls of the city ; the French
Naval Brigade to our left having an advanced
picket in a most favourable position in a joss-house
to their front, from which the direct road to
the East Gate was commanded. Lout.-Colonel
LYEGIOLI'S battalion of Royal Marines :o the right
on a range of hill fronting the north-north-w st,
and on I,s right two divisions of the British Naval
B, iga le, under the c unman(' of Comm ,d 're the
lion. C. Elliot, C. 8., who afterwards move 1 one
division to tbe front, under the co imai d of the
lion. Capt. Coctq.ane, C. 8., to a mist admirably
selected and strong position. My object iu this
disposition of the force being to induce a belief on
the part of the enemy that it was my intention to
advance towards Fort Gr•Jugh, in which feint I was
fortunate enough to succeed.
The 3d Division of the British Naval Brigade,
under Capt. Key, C. 8., R.N., was placed in rear
and to the right of the joss-house occupied during
the night by the allied commanders, with one bat-
talion of Col. Holloway's brigade on t:seir left, the
other battalion of the colonel's brigade being 1-4 t
at the landing-place to protect stores, dr.c., and
keep open our communication.

The artillery were partly in position in front of
Fort Lin, the remainder on the ground b elow the tot t,
prepared for an onward move at daylight. The
ladders were also brought to the fort. In the course
of the afternoon the enemy appeared frequently in
considerable force on our front and right. From
the former they were as often driven by our rockets
and artillery fire, from the later by the dashing
onslaughts of the British Naval Brigade. Up to
this time some few of each for,:e were wounded, and
one officer. Lieut. }locket, of the 59th Regiment,
Aide-de-Camp to Col. Graham, whflet carrying an
order, was barbarously murdered by some Chinese,
who had concealed themselves in a grave, two of
whom were shot and one captured and hang.
By daylight on the 29th ult., the largejoss-house,
which had been held on the previous thy in great
force by the enemy, was occupied without a strug-
gle by a portion of the Naval Brigade, under the
orders of those dis*inguished officers, Sir R. Mac-
lure, R.N., and Capt. Osborn, C. 8., supported by
a battalion of Royal Marines, under the command
of that old and deserving officer, Lieut.-Col. Le-
mon. I directed Col. Graham to send the 59th
Regiment, under cover of houses to our left, as
near as practicable to the walls, there to extend and
keep down the fire from the openings in the castel-
lated parapet of the walls ; the Rifle Company of
the 38th Madras Native Infantry to extend on the
right of the 59ch Regiment, which was performed
by both parties to my entire satisfaction. The
artillery I directed to advance across the plain to
the high ground, as near as possible to the wall,
with a view to breaching the light parapet of it,
should it be deemed necessary. The Admiral and I
myself having agreed the previous night that the
bombardment of the eastern line of wall should
continue until nine a.m., so as to afford ample time
to get up ladders, artillery, &c., this was effected
with more despatch than I bad thought possible,
owing to the great exertions of all concerned, par-
ticularly of the officers and men of the Royal and
Royal Marine Artillery, whose energy and zeal
were worthy of high commendation. The inter-
mediate time was employed in more closely re-
connoi' ering the wall. Two guns of Major Bar-
stow's battery were brought close to the ditch, and
together with some of Lieut.-Col. Lemon's batta-
lion of royal marines did effective service in keeping
down a smart fire from the walls, by whiob, how-
ever, I grieve to say, the force lost one of its bright-
est ornaments. Capt. Bate, of her Majesty's ship
Actaeon, who had advanced to the edge of the ditch
or ravine with °Apt. Mann, RE., to examine more
closely theheight of the walls, was mortally wounded,
and expired before be could be removed to the rear.
The enemy now perceiving, I presume, that our
object was not to attack Fort Gough, descended in
large numbers, and compelled lily sending out some
c::m:anies of Lent.-Col. Lemon's battalion to keep
them back and protect our tight, nrd Afterwards to
direct Lieut.-Col. Waleh'e battalion ol< (,)
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