The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-08 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROA PARIS.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
Last evening vague rumours were circulated of
an attempt to•aasassinate the Emperor of Russia,
but at first they were not generally believed. The
fact, however, proves to be too true. The Illoniteur
makes this announcement of it :

" After the grand review, in honour of the foreign
Sovereigns, and in the presence of an immense
crowd, animated by indescribable enthusiasm, an
individual, who says he is a Pole, fired a pistol at the
carriage, which was about to return to Paris with
the Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor of Russia,
and his two sons. The ball struck the head of the
horse of the equerry on service riding at the carriage
door. The pistol burst in the hands of the assassin,
who was arrested by the crowd. It was necessary
for the police force to interfere to protect the
assassin from the fury of the people. Nobody was
wounded.

" The Marquis de la Valette, Minister of the
Interior, sent the following account of the infamous
attempt to the Prefects, and it was also posted up
in various parts of Paris :
"At the conclusion of the review in the Bois de
Boulogne, near the grand cascade, a pistol was fired
at the catriage containing the Emperor Alexander,
the Emperor Napoleon, and the Grand Dukes of
Russia. The assassin was immediately arrested.
He says his name is Beregouski, and that he is a
native of Volhyuia."

The Journal des Debats gives a somewhat diffe
rent version. It says :

4, When the pistol had been fired, the Emperor
Napoleon immediately rose and re-assured the
crowd, intimating also that he had not been hurt.
Cries of " Vive l'Empereur " arose, and they were
repeated at times all the way to the Tuileries. The
pistol burst in the hand of the of the assassin, and
carried away three of his fingers. A woman was
wounded. A horse was much injured on the head
by the ball. During the evening crowds of persons
of all ranks inscribed their names at the Tuileries
and the Elysee."
Another account says :
" After the troops had defiled, and at the mo-
ment of the passage of the carriage in which were
the Emperor of Russia, the Emperor Napoleon, and
the two Grand Dukes, a young man fired at the
Czar, at a distance of five paces. The pistol ball,
however, hit the horse of the officer who was riding
by the door of the carriage. The young man was,
of course, immediately arrested. He is a Pole, a
native of Volhynia, hardly twenty years of age,
and is a journeyman mechanic. He was taken to
the Prefecture of Police, where he underwent his
first examination, exhibiting much self-possession
and indifference. He declared that he had not con-
fided his project to any one, and consequently that
he had not any accomplices. On the observation
that he might at the same time have killed the two
Emperors, he declared that he only wished to kill
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The Constitationnel says :
" All Paris was indignant last night. The whole
of France will be indignant to-morrow (to-day.)
Before leaving his Empire, to become the guest of
the Emperor, the Emperor Alexander had signed a
decree of amnesty which promised to lead to the
commencement of a 112 W era for Poland, and it was
on the next day that, in the name of Poland, there
was a wish to strike a blow at him. With a feJling
worthy of a great heart and a great sovereign, the
Czar would not take any personal precaution. He
had no fear to show himself with his breast unco-
vered, under the safeguard of that loyalty which is
one of the traditional virtues of our country. To
make an attempt upon his life under such circum-
stances is not only the most odious of crimes, it is
the most abominable cowardice. The people who
witnessed the attempt considered it in this light,
and it was with difficulty that the assassin was
withdrawn from their just anger. What remorse
and what a lesson for those men who iliflatne the
imagination and excite the public mind, but keep
themselves out of danger."
Even in Paris, where grand sights are very fre-
quent, there has perhaps never been such a splendid
spectacle as that presented at the review at the
Bois de Boulogne yesterday, enhanced too by the