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IRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE NING, JANUARY 18, 18N8

E R MAJESTY'S THEATRE. that had been so cruelly and wantonly disturbed.
—The Festival Performances To-Morrow,
The assassins who thirsted for the blood of the
(TUESDAY,) THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, will corn-
inence each Evening, at half-
past 7 o'clock. Doors will be Lucknow fugitives numbered some 50,000 or
open at half-past 6. The Box-office will be closed on the
60,000, and they are still in possession of the
days of performance at 4 o'clock. Applications for boxes
an tickets at the Box-office of the Theatre, and at Mr. mit- capital of Oude, and obtaining new recruits every
chell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street.
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 Futtehpore, too, some 50
miles from the head quarters of Sir CouN
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 Omni. CAMPBELL rendered a
good account of the rebel force, and that his
triumph was ably followed up by Brigadier
HOPE GRANT. 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 on the suc-
ceeding one. It is therefore manifest that we
cannot in any degree relax our efforts until well
assured of the pacification of the disturbed

11-0 R MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
/ler MAJESTY the QUEEN has graci-
ously signhled her intention of HONOURING with her
PRESENCE ,a SERIES of FOUR FESTIVAL PERFORM..
ANCES, intended to be presented at the period of the ap-
proaching NuptiaN of her Royal Highness the PRINCESS
ROYAL with his Royal Highness the Prince FREDERICK
WILLIAM of PRUSSIA.
The general arrangements are under the direction of Mr.
Mitchell, in co-operation with Mr. Lumley, and favoured by
the assistanoe of the following Managers of the Metropolitan
Theatres ;
Mr. Smith Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.
Mr. Byckstone Haymarket Theatre.
Mr. Webster Adelphi Theatre.
Mr. Harrison and Miss Pyne „Lyceum Theatre.
Mr. Robson and Mr. Emden olympic Theatre.
Mr. Phelps Sadler, s Wells Theatre.
The programme will comprise the following Entertain-
scents :
TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, January 19,
MACBETH.
Produced under the direction of Mr. Phelps.
Macbeth. Mr. Phelps ; Lady Macbeth, Miss Helen Fancit.
With Locke's Incidental Music under the direction of
Mr. Benedict.
And Mr. Oxenford's Farce of
TWICE KILLED.
In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform.

THURSDAY, January 21.
Balfe's New Opera,
THE ROSE OF CASTILLE,
By MisB Pyne, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Weiss, and the Operatic
Company of the Lyceum Theatre ; conductor,
Mr. A. Mellon.
With a COMIC AFTERPIECE.

SATURDAY, January 23,
AN ITALIAN OPERA,
By Madlle. Piccolomini, Signor Ginglini, and the Principal
Artistes of Mr. Lumley's Theatre.
And a FESTIVAL CANTATA composed by
Mr. Howard Glover.
With a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT.

districts.

It was long before her MAJESTY'S Government
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
disaffected, and who may cause much trouble.
The great object should be to put down the in-
surrection as promptly and completely as possible.
Under these circumstances, money must be a secon-
dary consideration. If Tndia 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
SMITH 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.

Fourth Performance,
AN ENGLISH COMEDY,

By Mr. Bnckstone's Company of the Haymarket Theatre.
And an AFTERPIECE, in which Mr. Wright and Members
of the Adelphi Company will perform.

Admission to the pit (for which a limited
number of tickets will be issued 10s. 6d.
Gallery stalls (reserved and numbered) 6s. Od.
Gallery 3s. Od.
Applications for boxes, orchestra stalls, and tickets to
be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, and at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE-FESTIVAL
PERFORMANCES, TUESDAY, 19th ;
THURSDAY, 21st ; SATURDAY, 23d; aad FRIDAY, 29th
January, 1858.
REGULATIONS TO PREVENT OBSTRUCTIONS BY
CARRIAGES.
SETTING DOWN.

' 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 th 6 British Bank has not wholly dropped
into oblivion. The incidents connected with the
somewhat parallel careers of Messrs. ROBSON
and REDPATg are not entirely lost to the
general remembrance. Everything 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
tdie 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 un wary." The Learned Recorder
adding, that his allusions signified, of course—
"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.

LATEST NEWS.

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 Fuxin°, 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. Cadorua 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. Lloi 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.

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.

MADRID, JAN. 16.
The President of the new Cabinet, M. Isturitz,
has declared to the Cortes that the Ministerial
programme Will be conformable to the Constitu-
tion of 1845. u•

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

Senate.

Orleans
Northern
New Ditto BO5
Lyon and Mediteran BB5
New Ditto B6O
Geneva

Midi
Western 692,
Strasburg
Grand Central • . 635
Sardinian
Austrian

ITALY.

-
A letter from Lombardy in the Corriere Mercan-
tile of Genoa say :
"Immediately after the death of Marshal Ra-
detzky, some or his servants who would appear to
have enjoyed his entire confidence, since they knew
where he kept his money, took advantage of the
confusion and forgetfulness which the melancholy
event gave rise to, to make off with a con-
siderable sum. The robbery was instantly
discovered, and telegraphic messages were sent in
every direction to put the police on the alert ;
nevertheless the thieves might have escaped, had
they known the country better. Milan is not
more than a' few hours from the frontier, and had
they managed to get into Switzerland or Piedmont,
they might have baffled the police for a long time,
and perhaps got off with impunity ; but, as it was,
they went to the frontier place called Borgo-Ticino,
where they were not allowed to pass, because they
had no passports ; and then they were fools enough
to go to Pavia, hoping to cross the frontier there.
But the telegraph hal done its work ; they were
arrested, and 72,000 florins (upwards of 180,000 fr.)
were found on their persons, in Vienna bank-notes
and new imperial sequins."

THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

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 detente
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 s,,ciety. What
can be more lamentable than a period who such
abominable crimes are conceived and executed ?
How oft n during the last 69 years have the S we-
reigns of Europe been exposed to the blows of mur-
derers ? 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 deo•Pneration 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 b mnbs throws a sinister light over the present
period. Let not this terrible warning be lost ' • let
all classes recognise the danger and multiply their
efforts towards re-establishing the authority of those
great moral and religious laws, the neglect of which
encourages the most frightful disorders and the
most detectable offences."
The following is from the Debats
"All honest men will, like ourselves, be afflicted
at these savage attacks, which are 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, bird
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 widt impunity marshal his
agents and prepare his plots. Are we to be the
nation that plots and suffers the majority of regi-
cides ? we not he delivered from this terra:.
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 di honour a na-
'ion 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 gutrantee 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 ice 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 in secret
communication with the political refugees which
find an asylum and protection in the country of
our allies.
" Further information will teach us what to
think of these matters • we shall without doubt
learn that the attempt of 14th January is ane w
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;
arid of whom the mere apparition makes the heart
shudder with fright, and whose every step
leaves a trace of blood. Such is their fearfu
mission.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the ad-
dresses to the Emperor of the Corps Diplomatique,
of the Senate, Legislative Body, Council of State,
&c., congratulating his Majesty and the Empress
on their escape from assassination. The Papal
Nuneio was the speaker for the diplomatic body.
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 gantle 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 to 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 their egotism. Civilisa'iou 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 cn 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 exce ded all the
hopes of the country. Yes, Sire, God, whose
Prophet exclaimed, Away from we, 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 empress
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 muoh in keeping
with your kindness of heart; and when they see
such abominable attempts concocted abroad, they
ask how it happens that neighboerly 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
key-stone of the arch of public order ; we therefore
entreat you not to follow only the instinct of your
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 lie 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 arid just
common action between two nations, and that these
co wardly 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 jusi
escape•i 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 of 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 t 3 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, be
should not depart f►om that path of firmness and
moderation which he had hitherto followed.

"There is another mission truly worthy of the love
and respect of the people; it isth at which Providence
has confided to the elect of 10th December; it iv
that which stays society pushed by factionscoward-.
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 repo.e and the future of the whop
world."

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 winch has excited indignation
and disgust in every honest heart. Journals of
all opinions unite in rejoicing that the criminals aro
net Frenchmen, and that France has thus been
spared grievous dishonour. In the extracts which
we offer below, we have dwelt almost exclusively
on the articles of that 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

The Droit gives the following details :
" The bombs were of cast-iron, oblong, and in
the form of a pear, and in the widest part from
fcur to five inches irediameter. The shock of one
of the caps, of which each had several, on a hard
substance necessarily caused an explosion. The
bombs were loaded with detonaqng gunpowder.
The first thrown at the carriage f the Emperor,
was just after the vehicle entered the Rue _Le-
pelletier ; it did not touch the Emperor, nor eve:,
the vehicle, but it wounded about twenty
persons. On this the coachman whipped up
his horses, but almost immediately a secoret
bomb burst, and one of the horses being struck
by three projectiles fell to the grounl. 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 wounOed 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
doer of the Emperot's carriage at the moment
of the third explosion, was dangerously wounded.
The carriage itself was yesterday taken into the
courtyard of the Tuileriee, 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 in removing
the woutitled, 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-
donen Procureur-Inaperial, M. Treilhard, Examin-
ing Magistrate, and M. Nmsse,. 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 waa the work of
Italians. M. Tredhard 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 wound,
dressed left without saying anythinc; 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
wounded ; ~f hi mas, er, who had been
and he gave a description of his master's
person, which corresponded with that of the matt
who Lad just left the shop. He was asked the
name of his master, but he then bccarne troubled
and refused to tell it. He was threatened with

arrest, on which he was attacked with a nervoti,

--`i7here remains a consolation for humanity and
for our country : it is the horror inspired by tue
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 ti owe the
triumph of its opinions to murder, to a, mssination.
It is stated, and we are glad to repeat it, that the a 8
sassins are foreigners. All those who, like ourselves,
have at heart our national honour, our ancient and
legitimate reputation for loyalty, will rejoice that

trembling and fainted. On recovering he was pruised
to tell the name of ilia master, and at last declared that
it was Count Orsini. At 3 o'clock in tit.) mornii.L.
Count Orsini was arrested in his lodgings in. the
Rue Monthabor. Ho confess.ll that he threw one

of the bomb,. Two other Italians, who Irbd hist

names and passports, were also arrest d in ill,
night. On the persons arrested or at thyir lodg-
ings important sums of money or securities were
seizA, as were al. o poniards, revolvers, and a bomb
similar to that seized oil Pierii. It is believed that

the i,tv'stigation info the affair will be promptlY
terminated, so that the trial can take place in
rh seaion of the Court of Assizes of the first fort-
night of February. Part of the Rue Lepelletier
was yesterday morning strewed with sand to pre-
veut the hlood 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 rect,ived 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 five are mortally wounded.