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TIRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 18N5

that had been so cruelly and wantonly disturbed.
The assassins who thirsted for the blood of the
Lucknow fugitives numbered some 50,000 or
60,000, and they are still in possession of the
capital of Oude, and obtaining new recruits every
day from a warlike people. Even as a scattered
banditti, wandering from place to place, they
would be formidable, and many valuable
lives would still be endangered by their
machinations. At Fattehpore, too, some 50
miles from the head quarters of Sir COLIN
CAMPBELL, the garrison have been threatened by
an overwhelming force, and compelled to abandon
a portion of their entrenchments, and to take up
another and more secure position. The proceed-
ings of the Gwalior contingent, and the victory
obtained over General WINDHAM, prove that we
should not rely too strongly on prestige, but
should take every precaution, in order effectu-
ally to put down such daring opponents. It
is true that Sir CoLIN CAMPBELL rendered a
good account of the rebel force, and that his
triumph was ably followed up by Brigadier
Hopi Ga&NT. But still it was shown how rapidly
reinforcements could be obtained, and new artil-
lery and stores provided, even after a serious
defeat, and that those who were fugitives one
day might become a powerful force ou the sue•
ceeding one. It is therefore manifest that we
cannot in any degree relax our efforts until well
assured of the pacification of the disturbed
districts.

It was long before her MAJESTY'S Governmen
could be fully aroused to the extent of the
actual danger. Mr. VERNON SMITH treated the
revolt with levity for some time, and much valu-
able time was lost in sending reinforcements by
tardy modes of conveyance, and disregarding the
facilities afforded by the Overland route, and the
friendly dispositions of the SULTAN and the PACHA,
and also by steam transports. Had it not been
for the troops previously despatched to China, and
which were diverted from their original destination,
and the aid supplied from Ceylon, the Mauritius,
and the Cape, very terrible results might have
followed, and the wide-spread conspiracy might
have been more effectual than we are at present
willing to admit.
We only recall these matters to prevent the
Home Government from falling into another
mistake that might possibly prove no less detri-
mental to our interests in Hindostan. We must
not pride ourselves too greatly on the triumphs
already accomplished, or suppose thst because
matters are going on favourably that every peril
has been averted—every difficulty overcome.
It is no time for cheese-paring economy, or
counting the cost of efficient and adequate
forces. India is worth preserving ; and more
important even than that splendid empire
which constitutes one of the brightest gems
in the Imperial diadem, is the safety of our own
fellow-subjects spread over that broad domain.
We should fully profit by the painful lesson we
have received, and not for the future repose in
undue confidence or placid security, that might at
any moment be rudely disturbed.
The war will now chiefly be carried on in Oude.
There we have a hostile population. The muti-
neers are surrounded by relatives and friends,
ready to afford every possible assistance. The rebels
are well aware of that fact, and whenever they
are placed in difficulties naturally turn towards
that quarter. Lucknow, and, indeed, the entire
country, with the exception of the road from
Cawnpore to the Alumbagh, are in their hands.
There are also numerous detached posts and petty
proprietors, or zemindars, almost all of whom are
wlio may cause much trouble.
The 2reat object should be w pu.
surrection yrompily and completely as possible.
Under these circumstances, money must be a secon-
dary consideration. If India is worth keeping, it is
worth the expense of saving it, and any parsimony
under existing circumstances would be treason
against our own power and prestige. The more
speedily the necessary steps can be taken the
better. If Lord PALMERSTON and Mr. VERNON
SMITEI will not adopt the necessary measures of
their own accord, they may receive very rough
remedies when the reassembling of Parliament
will again expose them to the interrogatories and
comments of the staunch representatives of inde-
pendent constituencies.

SUDDEN DEATH OF TEIZ DUKE OF

DEVONSHIRE.

It is a sufficiently significant circumstanc9, we
take it, that the mercantile immorality of the pre-
sent age has been very lately, and vary sternly
reprobated by two eminent chiefs among that
most conspicuous class of Observers, the Novelists
of our generation. The one speaking from the
judicial bench with juridical authority. The other
addressing himself to the community at large from
the literary rostrum of one of the most popular
and influential of our weekly periodicals. The
circumstance, we say, of these two men, so speak-
ing, is, we repeat it, in itself, in every way, to
say the least of it, sufficiently significant. Not
that the coincident opinions thus expressed by them
can be regarded as having been, in any particular,
requisite to "point the moral" of so many recent
exposures, or as having been in any way needed
to illustrate further the necessity fur some ener-
getic change for the better inaugurated by the
Legislature. That necessity has been long among
the more reflective, all but universally re•
cognized. It is satisfactory, however, to find it
proclaimed anew now thus pointedly and authorita-
tively. " Within a certain circle, of which the
Royal Exchange is the centre," writes Mr. DICKENS,
In a recent number of _Household Words, lie
the ruins of a great paper city. Its chiefs—solid
and substantial as they appear to the eye—are
made of paper. They ride in paper carriages ;
they marry paper wives, and unto them are
born paper children ; their food is paper,
their thoughts are paper, and all they touch is
transformed to paper. They buy paper and they
sell paper ; they borrow paper, and they lend
paper,—a paper that shrinks and withers in the
grasp like the leaves of the sensitive plant ;
and the stately-looking palaces in which
they live and trade are built of paper,—.
small oblong pieces of paper, which, like
the cardboard houses of our ohildhood, fall with a
single breath. That breath has overtaken them,
and they lie in the dust." Not a syllable of all
this--wo every one of us feel—we every one of us
perfectly well know, from our own experience, as
merely watchful contemporaries—is iu any, even
the slightest degree, exaggerated. We admit the
factso readily, so instantaneously—the fact of there
being, not a hundred thousand miles away from
us, this curious world of "Unlimited Papet"
that we scarcely needed the satirical demonstr2-
tion of that "fact " of its existence, afforded by
Mr. DIcuENS'S inimitably satirical description of
the great houses of COLLAPS, VORTEX, DOCKET,
and Company ; of STRIWBOY and RAG ; of Fos-
SIL, INGOT, and BAG-STOCK ; above all of CHAOS,
itoTeru, and CLAY, with their managing man,
Mr. M‘Vactruar, of the Etna and Vesuvius Joint
Stock Bank, Filch-lane, London. With the his-
tory of these, and numerous other kindred firms,
the public at large are long since familiar.
People have not quite forgotten the frauds of the
house of STRIIIIN, Palm, and Company, any
more than they are disposed just now to over-

look, as matter merely of indifferent interest to
them the romantic annals of a certain Gallant
Colonel, late of Branksea Island and Campden
House, Kensington. The narrative of the rise
and fall of the British Bank has not wholly dropped
into oblivion. The incidents connected with the
somewhat parallel careers of Messrs. ROBSON
and RIDPATM are not entirely lost to the
general remembrance. Every thing combines,
in fact, to remind us that commercial
affairs far and wide throughout the
United Kingdom have of late proved in reality
to be, after all, little better than a repetition,
here, there, and everywhere, of the domestic in-
cidents of the famous Lyceum play called "The
Game of Speculation." Only—with this one
marked difference in all their repetitions—that
the rascal SPARROW never, in any one single in-
stance, turned up again at the right moment op-
portunely. Wisely and resolutely was it remarked,
a few days since at Kingston-upon-Hull, by the
learned Recorder of that borough, " that the ex-
isting state of matters mercantile, afford such
facilities for fraud as are a scandal to the intelli-
gence, as well as the integrity, of the age in which
we live ; and for that scandal, an indolent
Legislature is largely responsible." With the
recognition of that responsibility will come
Vie certainty, please GOD, of energetic
reforms, resulting in rapid and com-
prehensive improvement. Hereupon, more-
over—let us observe at once—it was impressively
explained by Mr. WARREN that the facilities to
which he was alluding, while they were daily in
disastrous action, were "at once temptations to
the honest, encouragements to the dishonest, and
' snares to the unwary." The Learned Recorder
adding, that his allusions signified, of course—•
14 the shameful but systematic abuse of the machi-
nery of negotiable instruments, debasing their
character, and prostituting them to discreditable
and mischievous purposes ; the abuse of banking
facilities, and of joint-stock companies. The
paper produce of all these sets of machinery, so
far from furthering the objects of legitimate com-
merce, is too often nothing more than the cards
and dice—the packed cards, the loaded dice of
the mercantile gambler." Here, precisely, are
enumerated in plain words some of the deadliest
ills for which, during the approaching Session, the
Legislative sagacity ought in reason to strive to
discover some wholesome and effective medicament.
Earnestly, very earnestly, do we hope that these
Monster Necessities may not be overlooked in any
important particular in the midst of all our press-
ing anxiety in regard to the revision of the
Indian Government.

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

We have been favoured by the Peninsular and
Oriental Company with the following despatch,
received by them from Marseilles this (Monday)

morning
" The steam-ship Euxine, with the Bombay
mails, arrived at Marseilles at 10 p.m. yesterday.
" The mails left for London at 10.30 p.m."

TURIN, SATURDAY EVENING.

The Chamber of Deputies in its sitting of this
day, elected M. Cadorn& President of the Assem-
bly, by 88 votes against 44 for M, Arnulfo, can-
didate of the Right,

COPENHAGEN, JAN. 15.

Among the projets de ,loi announced by the
King of Denmark, in his speech at the opening of
the session of the Supreme Council, are several
intended for the organisation and strengthening
of the means of national defence.

A. customs' tariff is also announced.
Professor Madvig is :named. President of the
Council by the King, and Baron Buckdorff,
Danish Ambassador at Berlin, Vice-President.

BERLIN, SATURDAY.

MADRID, JAN. 16.

The President of the new Cabinet, M. Isturitz,
has declared to the Cortes that the Ministeria
programme will be conformable to the Constitu•
Lion of 1845.

Senate.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY.

The Duke of Devonshire died at Hardwick Hall
la,t night suddenly. His Grace had been out in
his carriage during the day.
William Spencer-Cavendish, D.C.L., Duke of
Devonshire, Marquis of Hartington, Earl of Devon•
shire, Baron Cavendish of Hardwicke, Baron Clif-
ford of Lauesborough, K. G., K. S.A., and K.A.N. ;
born, May 21, 1790 ; succeeded to the title, as Gth
duke, on the demise of his father, July 29, 1811.
His Grace was nominated Ambassador-Extraordi-
nary, in 1826, from his Britannic Majesty, to
assist at the coronationlof the Emperor Nicholas of
Russia. The deceased nobleman was lord lieu•
tenant and custos rotuloram of the city of Derby.
The noble family of Cavendish, of which, in the
last century, two branches attained dukedoms, laid
the foundation of its greatness originally on the
share of abbey lands obtained at the dissolution of
the monasteries by Sir William Cavendish, who
bad been gentleman-usher to Cardinal Wolsey.
The dukedom was created in 1794.
The deceased nobleman is succeeded in the title
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THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.

The illustrious guests invited to be present at the
approaching royal nuptials continue to arrive in rapid
succession.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Cobourg Gotha
reached Buckingham Palace shortly before midnight en
Friday, from Paris ; and on Saturday evening, at 10
o'clock, the Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha arrived
direct from Germany.
His Royal Highness Prince William of Baden also
arrived in London on Saturday, and proceeded direct to
Buckingham Palace. The gentlemen of his suite are
staying at Farrance's Hotel.
Oa Saturday afternoon her Royal Highness the
Princess of Prussia, mother of Prince Frederick William,
arrived at Buckingham Palace, from Berlin. The Count
Boos Waldeck and other members of her Royal High-
ness's suite are provided with rooms at Fenton's H...tel.
Yesterday his Majesty the King of the B,lgiane,
accompanied by the Duke de Brabant and the Count de
Flandres, arrived at Calais by special train from
Brussels. The royal party were received at the railway
station with military honours, and escorted to Dessin s
Hotel, where they passed the night. The King will
leave Calais. at eight o'clock this morning in one of the
Belgi‘n Government steam packets, and his Majesty
may be expected to arrive in London about midday.
The preparations at St. James's Palace baying been
finally completed on Satarday, it is expected that the
Queen will pay a visit of inspection in the course of this
day.

The Countess Bernstoff has issued cards for an
assembly at Prustiia House o❑ Saturday next to meet
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Prussia.

ROYAL VISIT TO THE CITY.—On Saturday the Prince
of Wales, with the Princes of Prussia and the Prince of
Hohenzollern, paid a visit to the Lord Mayor at the
Mansion Hansa. After viewing the Egyptian Hall and
other apartments of the civic mansion, their royal high-
nesses proceeded to the Bank of England, and, under
conduct of the governor, inspected the internal arrange.
ments and machinery of that vast establishment. From
the Bank the Princes went to Guildhall, where the Lord
Mayor again met them—now accompanied by Alderman
Copeland, Alderman Wilson, the sheriffs and under
sheriff, &c. After passing through the various courts,
the Princes were led to the Chamberlain's-office, where
the Lord Mayor's sceptre, the ancient civic purse (now
empty), and the civic seals were exhibitel to their royal
highnesses. Gog and Magog came in for a fall share of
observation, and the young Prince of Wales facetiously
described to his Prussian cousins the legendary history
of these two stalwart champions of the city. The crypt
in which her Majesty supped in 1851, was next visited,
and then the library, where the royal party were shown
Schedel's "Nuremberg Chronicle of the World," dated
1493, Shakspere's autograph to a lease of the ground on
which the Globe Theatre stood, and the sword of the ad-
miral left in command of the French fleet after the battle of
the Nile, presented to the corporation by Lord Nelson.
The visiting book was now signed, and the usual cere-
mony of introduction having been gone through, the
royal visitors re-entered their carriages, and drove away
amidst the most enthusiastic greetings of a crowd of
spectators.
HIS EXC,ELLENCY FEEUICHKEIAN.—This distinguished
diplomatist, who has for many months past divided his
time between Paris and London, having completed the
objects of his mission, finally left Claridge's Hotel yester-
day morning for Paris, on his return to Persia. His
Excellency, who was accompanied by Capt. Lynch, and
attended by a numerous suite, before leaving the hotel
expressed to the proprietor his great satisfaction with
the arrangements which had been made for his comfort
during his residence in the establishment. His Excel.
lency left London by the morning mafl express for
Dover.
HIS EXCELLENCY BARON BRUNOW. The Dover
Chronicle says it has been suggested that on the arrival
of Baron Brnnow, early in February next, again to
take up his residence in this country as Anabassaior from
the Court of St. Petersburg, it would not be out of place
for the corporation of Dover, upon his Excellency's
landing, to meet 11'm with an address of congratulation.
There is no doubt that in doing this the Dover authorities
would be but expressing the unanimous feeling of every
one who has ever had the slightest relations with
Baron Brunose, eearcely any representative of a foreign
power having gained the seine measure of e,teeea which
fell to the siiaro of his Excellency during his residence
among us prior to the events which unfortunately ren-
dered his departure necessary.
DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM MATJLE.—This eminent
lawyer and able judge died on Saturday morning in
the 73,1 year of his age, at his residence, 22, Hyd--
park-gardens, from the effects of bronchitis, wit,,
which he was seized on Monday last. The deceased
was a fellow of Trieity College, Cambridge ; senior
wrangler and first Smith's priz3 man in 1810 ; led
the Oxford circuit for many years; was M.P. for
Carlow 'from 1837 to 1839 ; was appointed a justice of
the Court of Common Pleas, which position he resigned
in 1856, and was succeeded by Mr. Justice Willey. He
never held the post of attorney or solicitor-general, but
wee a Q.C. when he was raised to the bench. He was
made a' privy councillor in 1855. The deceased was a
" Whig and something more," and was a staunch sup.
porter of Government during the short period he was in
Parliament.

ATTEMPT TO
LA W THE
TEST NEW S.! THE EMPEROR NAPOLEONASSASSINATE.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the ad-
dresses to the Emperor of the Corps Diplomatique,
of the Senate, Legislative Body, Council of State,
kc., congratulating his Majesty and the Empress
on their escape from assassination. The Papal
Nuncio was the speaker for the diplomatic body.

The Bank of Prussia has again lowered its
rate of discount. It is to be in future five per
cent. on inland bills, and six per cent. for foreign
bills of exchange.

M. Miraflores and the Marquis de Viluma are
named as candidates for the Presidentship of the

The Emperor drove along the Boulevards this
afternoon at half-past 3 o'clock. He had an orderly
officer out of uniform by his side, and two servants
behind, otherwise ho was unaccompanied ; not even
an outrider preceded the carriage. This proof of
confidence in the Parisian population is received as
it deserves. He was saluted everywhere, and by
all classes, with the greatest respect.
When Pierri was taken to the guard-house, near
the spot where he was arrested, the explosion had
not yet taken place. In two minutes, however,
it reached his ear ; he cried out to the guard, " Do
what you like with me ; I am content—the blow
is struck !" He appeared certain that it had taken
effect, but was dismayed when he heard of the
Emperor's escape.
The person named Orsini is, it seems, the same
whose extraordinary escape from the prison of
Mantua, as recounted in the papers about a year
ago, excited so much curiosity. He had been
condemned to death by the Austrian tribunals.
He had taken a very active part in the Italian
revolution in 1848.
The Paris papers are, as might be expected,
wholly occupied with the recent dastardly attempt
on the lives of the Emperor and Empress.
The Countess de Morny has given birth to a son.
The Cour Imperial° has pronounced a judgment
annulling the decision of the Tribunal of Commerce,
and declaring Auguste Thurneyssen, of the house of
Stieglitz, not comprised in the failure of his son
Charles. _ _

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this crime was not premeditated and executed by
Frenchmen."

The Union throws upon society at large the
responsibility of crimes such as the one we now
deplore. It says :
" Assassination is a cowardly crime, that excites
horror in every honest mind, and that is detested
by every loyal and sincere political party. In
uniting our voice to the general expression of in-
dignation, we cannot abstain from offering a pain-
ful reflection on the state of our society. What
can be more lamentable than a period when such
abominable crimes are conceived and executed
How oft'n during the last 60 years have the Sove-
reigns of Europe been exposed to the blows of mur-
derers 7 And this not only in France, but in all
Europe, as if to prove that the venom of crime had
penetrated all the veins of the modern social body.
Who will deny the Wicked influence exercised by
doctrines of disorder and destruction ? Who will
deny the decline of faith, the loss of respect, the
worship of success, the contempt for the essential
laws of justice, the degeneration of morals, the
rage of cupidity and ambition ? Thence proceeds
the element which perverts and depraves the
souls of mankind. Let, then, the fanatical breath
of passion pass over the dregs of society, and,
alas ! docile instruments are not found want-
ing ! In this sense, the gloomy spectacle of daggers
and bombs throws a sinister light over the present
period. Let not this terrible warning be lost • let
all classes recognise the danger and multiply ;heir
efforts towards re-establishingthe authority of those
great moral and religious laws, the neglect of which
encourages the most frightful disorders and the
most detestable offences."

The President of the Senate addressed their
Majesties as follows :
" Sire,—After having given vent to the painful
emotions of our indignant hearts—after having ren-
dered thanks to Providence which miraculously
shielded the lives of your Majesties, the Senate
turned its thoughts towards the future, not with -a
feeling of alarm, but to rally with still greater
confidence round a throne beyond which we see
nothing but danger. Sire, dynasties are not
founded without trials, and and we are all ac-
quainted with the difficulties and troubles of the
first ten years of the glorious House which now sits
so firmly on the throne of England. It is not in
France that these conspiracies are hatched—not in
France, which three times gave you a popular
ovation, and which has always responded to your
appeals. She perseveres in her resolutions, and
rejoices to see at her head a Prince who while re-
establishing her power at the same time revives
all the sources of her greatness. Let us
continue, then, in the principle of autho-
rity which France has personified in you. Your
Majesty will find the Senate ready to sup-
port you in all legitimate consequences ; for it is
through the breach of weakened powers that revo-
lutions rush, and France wishes to remain upright,
firm, great, and united, not to descend to party
squabbles nor to degenerate into the saturnalia of
anarchy. But there is something more than this.
The revolutionary spirit having been driven from
France has been settled down abroad, has become
cosmopolite. It is from foreign strongholds erected
against Europe, situated in the centre of Europe,
that fanatical hired assassins are sent with fire and
steel against the Prince who bears on his powerful
arm the buckler of European order ; execrable
conspirators, whose policy is assassination, and who
even assault gentle women, unaware that some of
them have the hearts of heroes ! But how comes
it that, as these implacable Revolutionists trample
all the duties of hospitality under foot, and are
united in their mad plans of destruction, foreign
Governments and peoples do not take measures to
give a legitimate support lo the cause of order ?
The law of nations authorises it ; justice and common
interests make it a duty. It is especially due to
the moderation shown by France, to the wisdom of
her Sovereign, and to the invaluable services
rendered by her policy. Such, Sire, is the cry now
raised by France ; such is the wish of the Senate.
The days are gone by when nations stood isolated
in thoir egotism. Civilisation has so bound them up
together that the sufferings of the one are the
sufferings of the other. Let them, then, assist
each other in carrying out the common work—
that is to say, the consolidation of peace
and the stability of society, so deeply stirred at the
close of the last half-century. It is on this condi-
tion that Providence will give them support in their
turn in the difficulties from which none of them are
exempt. As far as we are concerned, Sire, our
most ardent hopes will be realized if God, who leads
empires, preserves to us the Prince whom the love
of the people sought in a land of exile to intrust its
destinies to him, and who has exceeded all the
hopes of the country. Yes, Sire, God, whose
Prophet exclaimed, Away from me, ye blood-
thirsty men will not allow crime to interrupt, be-
fore it is completed, the mission of order, restora-
tion, and progress which He has intrusted to you."
The President of the Legislative Body spoke as
follows :
" Sire,—We have waited upon you to express
to you how we have rendered thanks to Providence
for having preserved your life and that of the Em-
press ; but we also thought that you would allow
us to give expression to a legitimate indignation
arising from deep attachment to your dynasty. We
cannot conceal it, Sire, the populations we have
recently visited are anxious on account of the effects
of your clemency, which is too much in keeping
with your kindness of heart; and when they see
such abominable attempts concocted abroad, they
ask how it happens that neighboarly and friendly
Governments have not the power to destroy those
nests of assassins, and how the sacred laws of hos-
pitality are applicable to wild beasts.
" Sire, your government, which is founded on two
principles, authority and the protection of honest
men, must at all cost put a stop to these periodical
convulsions. To attain this end the support of
the Legislative Body is at your command.
" You are only thus attacked because you are the
Aim n mil of nublic order ; we therefore
natural courage, and not to forget that when you
risk your person you risk also the peace of France.
" Sire, I am naturally the mouthpiece of the De-
puties, yet I have but feebly expressed their senti-
ments."
The President of the Council of State spoke as
follows :

"Sire,--France has just escaped an immense
danger, and Divine Providence, by miraculously
preserving your days and those of the Empress, has
given another striking proof of the protection it
gives to the Emperor and to the empire.
" The indignation felt by every Frenchman at
this cowardly attempt will be shared by all Europe.
" Those incorrigible men who to satisfy their
passions do not hesitate to cause desolation and
death in the public thoroughfares, are not only the
mortal enemies of France—they conspire against
the peace of Europe, and against civilisation itself.
" Who does not shudder at the thought of the
evils which their odious victory would entail upon
our country, and which would soon spread over
the rest of Europe ?
" Let us hope that this feeling of a common
danger will ultimately lead to a great and just
common action between two nations, and that these
cowardly assassins, who abuse the hospitality
granted them in friendly States, and the protection
of their laws, to organise conspiracies and construct
infernal machines, will at last be cast out of civilised
Europe, of which they are at the same time the
shame and the danger.
" Sire, at a moment when your Majesty has just
escaped this criminal attempt, the French people,
trembling at the risk it has incurred, feels its affec-
tion and devotion to your person increase.
" The hatred of your enemies, their cowardly
attempts, only draw closer the bonds which unite
the French nation to the Imperial family, all the
members of which it includes in the same devotion
and in the same hope.
" France, so often and so painfully moved, feels,
however, reassured at beholding at your side that
noble Empress, your consolation in these sad trials,
and who unites to all the virtues of a woman and
a mother a courage and an energy superior to all
danger.
" She thinks with fond love upon that young
child, the precious pledge of the future, already
associated to his father in our hopes and affection ;
upon those noble Princes always ready to rally
round your Majesty, and to defend, if necessary,
your Crown and that of your son. France, placing
her full confidence in God, devoted to the present,
relying upon the future, exclaims with joy that the
Imperial. dynasty shall not perish.
" Sire, your Council of State, called by your
Majesty's confidence to aid, under your high guid-
ance, in the development and consolidation o the
Imperial institutions, shall not be found behind-
hand in its duties.
" No matter what happens, its zeal and love for
you will always be on a level with the high mission
you have intrusted ti it."
The Emperor, in reply to the great bodies of the
State, expressed his firm cenfidence and reliance in
their support and devotion, His Majesty added,
that at the same time that he was resolved to adopt
such measures as might be deemed advisable, ho
should not depart from that path of firmness and
moderation which he had hitherto followed.

OPINIONS OF THE PARISIAN PRESS.
With sincere feelings of satisfaction do we record
the unanimity with which the Paris press has de-
nounced the dastardly attempt on the lives of their
Imperial Majesties. Party spirit has been quench-
ed in the blood of the innocent men and women who
have fallen victims to the savage indifference of the
murderers, while political animosity has silenced
itself before a crime which has excited indignation
and disgust in every honest heart. Journals of
all opinions unite in rejoicing that the criminals are
net Frenchmen, and that France has thus been
spared grievous dishonour. In the extracts which
we offer below, we have dwelt almost exclusively
o. n the articles of th a portion of the press which is
Independent of Government influence, and whose
opinion is consequently of peculiar interest and
value at the present moment. We read in the
Siecle ;
"There remains a consolation for humanity find
for our country : it is the horror inspired by the
guilty—it is the unanimous aversion for such crimes
entertained by the nation. We are proud to think
and to say that there does not exist in France a
single political party that would consent to owe the
triumph of its opinions to murder, toa aysination.
It is stated, and we are glad to repeat it, that the as
sassins are foreigners. All those who, like ourselves,
have at heart our national honour, our ancient and
legitimate reputation fur loyalty, will rejoice that

the investigation into the affair will be promptly
terminated, so that the trial can take place in
the session of the Court of Aseizes of the first fort-
night of February. Part of the Rue Lepelletier
was yesterday morning strewed with sand to pre-
vent the lsloocl with which it was covered from be-
ing seen."
According to the Moniteur, the number of
wounded up to the present time is 102, thus divided
—47 civilians, 12 Lancers of the Imperial Guard,
11 of the Municipal Guard of Paris, 28 police agents
of different ranks, and 4 belonging to the household
of their Majesties. Of the 12 men of the Lancers,
7 received serious wounds ; the 5 others are only
slightly injured. Of the 11 of the Municipal Guard
1 is wounded mortally, four seriously, and 6
slightly. Three of the footmen who were behind
the carriage of their Majesties were struck by seve-
ral projectiles ; their injuries, though serious, do
not inspire any uneasiness. The Emperor's coach-
man, slightly wounded, displayed much presence
of mind. Of the civilians several are wounded
seriously. One of them died on reaching the Hos-
pital de la Riboissiere. Twenty horses, belonging
to the Lancers, were struck. Two were killed on
the spot, and rive are mortally wounded.

The following is from the Debats :
"All honest men will, like ourselves, be afflicted
at these savage attacks, which ara so contrary to
the loyalty of our character, and to the mild nature
of our habits. The authors of this last crime are,
we are assured, in the hands of justice, and consola-
tion has been derived from the fact that, up to the
present moment, no French hand has been detected
in this dastardly plot."
The following is from the Univers ;--
" France will experience a deep sentiment of
consternation and shame on learning the fresh
attempt on the life of the Emperor. The sect of
assassins which exists amongst us is the most dis-
tressing humiliation of our epoch and of our
country. The attempt of the 14th January, 1858,
will rank amongst the most atrocious misdeeds. It
is the second attempt of the kind made within the
last 25 years. Can it be conceived that the same
generation should witness two such monstrous and
dastardly crimes ; that the perversity of Fiesohi and
of Morey should have found imitators ! God
persists (s'obstine !) in saving us. The Emperor
has escaped unhurt from the crater opened
beneath his feet. France would have been
assassinated with him. What terror would at this
moment reign in Paris, in France, in the world, had
this one man perished ! Should the assassins have
issued from the spot from where they have before
proceeded, the den must be swept. For the honour
of France, and for the security of the world, no
spot should be allowed to exist on earth where the
prince of assassins can with impunity marshal his
agents and prepare his plots. Are we to be the
nation that plots and suffers the majority of regi-
cides ? Shall we not be delivered from this terror
and from this disgrace ?"
The Courrier de Paris exclaims :
" What was the object of these assassins ! Did
they suppose that France would permit one of those
governments without name which dishonour a na-
tion to be imposed on her after a night of crime
France is firmly attached to the Imperial dynasty,
which is to her the symbol and the guarantee of all
the ideas bequeathed to us by our fathers of 1789."
The Pays says :
" The indignation produced by the horrible
attempt which has just ensanguined our streets,
and plunged more than a hundred families into
mourning, becomes more and more profound as the
details become known of this infernal machination.
Every one is anxious to see the pl Lee in which the
event occurred, and since yesterday evening the
crowd has not ceased to encumber the streets in the
neighbourhood of the Opera.
"It is asked how men can conceive such a crime
and deliberately execute it in the midst of a crowd
of inoffensive creatures, spreading certain death
among women and children.
" Whoever be the authors of so detestable a
crime, they will be for ever attached to the pillory
of public opinion, and the object of the execration
of all honest people. Assassins, cowardly and
cruel, without heart and compassion, they have not
even the audacity that belongs to their enterprise ;
they glide amongst their victims, and slink behind
their bodies for protection.
" The first arrests have placed in the hands of
justice one of the chiefs of this band of murderers,
an Italian partizan of Mazzini, known for his de-
magogic fanaticism and criminal antecedents..
Pierri oame from England, where he was iu secret
communication with the political refugees which
our allies. end protection in the country of
" Further information will teach us what to
think of these matters ; we shall without doubt
learn that the attempt of the 14th January is a new
and bloody page to add to the murderous history
of demagogues, of those men who call themselves
the saviours of the people, the apostles of humanity;
and of whom the mere apparition makes the heart
shudder with fright, and whose every step
leaves a trace of blood. Suck is their fearful
mission.
"There is another mission truly worthy of the love
and respect of the people; it isthat which Providence
has confided to the elect of 10th December ; it is
that which stays society pushed by factions towards
the abyss of anarchy ; this holy mission God de
fends with his visible protection, and against this
mission evil passions cannot prevail, for it is
planted on the repose and the future of the whole
world."
The Droit gives the following details :
" The bombs were of cast-iron, oblong, and iu
the form of a pear, and in the widest part from
four to five inches in diameter. The shock of one
of the caps, of which each hail several, on a hard
substance necessarily -caused an explosion. The
bombs were loaded with detonating gunpowder.
The first thrown at the carriage of the Emperor
was just after the vehicle entered the Rue Le-
pelletier ; it did not touch the Emperor, nor even
the vehicle, but it wounded about twenty
persons. On this the coachman whipped up
his horses, but almost immediately a second
bomb burst, and one of the horses being struck
by three projectiles fell to the groan 1. A
third bomb, thrown with more precision, fell
beneath the carriage itself and burst with tre-
mendous force, smashing part of it in pieces. The
splinters of this bomb wounded the second horse,
which expired some hours after. The coachman,
named Ledoux, was wounded in the head. The only
person in the carriage with the Emperor and Em-
press was General Roguet, and he, as already stated,
received a slight injury. The escape of their Majes-
ties was quite miraculous. The Emperor received
a slight cut on the side of the nose by a piece of
glass from the carriage window. Another piece of
glass struck the Empress at the corner of the
left eye, but left no trace. Superintendent
Herbert, of the police, who opened the
door of the Emperor's carriage at the moment
of the third explosion, was dangerously wounded.
The carriage itself was' yesterday taken into the
courtyard of the Tuileries, and visited by great
numbers of persons. All under the part and front
of the carriage had the appearance of being blown
to pieces. The Abbe Melanie, chaplain of the ship-
of-the-line the Ulm, who was in the vicinity of the
Opera at the moment of the attempt, manifested
great zeal and devotedness, assisting iu removing
the wounded, addressing to them words of consola-
tion, and giving absolution to the dying. He
did not leave the scene of the disaster until
after every one of the injured had been taken
taken care of. At eleven o'clock at night,
M. Billault, Minister of the Interior, M. Royer,
Minister of Justice, M. Pietri, Prefect of Police, M.
Chaix d'Estange, Procureur-General, M. de Cur-
douen, Procureur-Imperial, M. Treilhard, Examin-
ing Magistrate, and M. Nurse, Assistant to the
Prefect of Police, assembled at the Prefecture of
Police, and commenced an investigation which
lasted all night. The result of this investigation
was the discoverythat no Frenchman was concerned
in the atrocious crime, but that it was the work of
Italians. M. Treilhard was all yesterday engaged
in examining witnesses, and has interrogated
Pierri. It has been ascertained that in the
course of the evening of the attempt a wounded
man called at the druggist's shop in the Rue Lepel-
letier, and after having had his wounds
dressed left without saying anything of who he was.
A short time after another man entered the shop
in great agitation and asked the shopmen if they
could tell him anything of his master, who had been
wounded ; and he gave a description of his mister's
person, which corresponded with that of the man
who had just left the shop. He was asked the
name of his master, but he then became troubled
and refused to tell it. He was threatened with
art est, on which he was attacked with a nervous
trembling and fainted. On recovering he was pressed
to tell the name of his master, and at last declared that
it was Count Orsini. At 3 o'clock in the morning
Count Orsini was arrested in his lodgings in the
Rue Monthabor. He confessed that he threw one
of the bombs. Two other Italians, who had false
names and passports, were also arrested iu the
night. On the persons arrested or at their lodg-
ings important sums of money or securities were
seized, as were also poniards, revolvers, and a bomb
similar to that seized on Pierri. It is believed that