Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-04-04
LATER PROM EUROPE.

! L he expedition VIII start about the MI DIE
oi March, il not before.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
The packet ship, Utica has arrived al N.
York, from Havre, whence she sailed on the
25lh of Feb.
PARIS, Feb. %, 1887.
A new project has been discovered
against the Kings life; and the author OF
| il, named Champion, after being arrested,
committed suicide al the Prefecture.
His scheme was an imitation, or n small
scale, OF Fieschi's. He made small mod
! el ola chest OF drawers, one foot high only,
and ten riches deep, which contained three
ranges Of pistol barrels, pointing in differ
ent directions, and all capable OF being DIS
charged by a common train Of powder
His scheme was TO employ a common pDr-
ter, with hand-barrow, on which he
would put load Of furniture, as if movi,g,
and on the top of that, The machine, cover
cd with a mattress.
The porter and himself were then To
take the Neully road, along which the
K ing passes, and when his carriage appear
ed, setting down the load, the spring Tor
striking fire was to be touched, and from
The elevation Of four or five feet at which
the shots would tell in The carriage.
The royal palace al Naples was COM
pletely destroyed by fire in The beginning
Of Feb. The spread OF the flames was so
rapid that it was with difficulty The Prince
ofSyrncuse could be rescued. He was Ia
ken lainting from his beG.
1 he fort of Casaba, at Bona, was de-
stroyed by the explosion Of the magazine
on the 30th January, and 105 officers and
men were killed, and 1873 wounded, by the
disaster. The officer commanding, Capt.
Bernard, was, with his wife, among The
victims. The commander Of the station,
Gen. Trezel. had made a report to the
Minister Of War al Paris, from which il
would appear TO have resulted from some
unexplained cause, a sergeant and an ar
lillery soldier being. at the moment of the
explosion, in The magazine with a close
lantern.-.Hlds.
Colonel Gusta lson, Ex-King Of Sweden,
(Gustavus IV) died on the 7th Feb. at 81.
Gall, in Switzerland. Ii is said that his de-
thronement could not cede away the rights
of his son, and that Bernadotie's rule is
no,o an usurpalon. But he has seven
points of the law in his lavor-"possess
ion." Gustsvus ~. on bis deuth-bcd re-
quested his son not 10 attempt to recover
his throne.
1t is said, via Paris, that Spain is 10 have
a second legislative chamber, 10 be called
" the Senate" Each election 10 be for
life, by the people choosing three names,
from which the Queen will selec, one
II it have not earlier reached you through
some other source, you will moi be sorry To
learn that the PHcha of Egypt has made
commercial treaty with the u. S. by which
some peculiar privileges are coded 10 A.
mercans in the ports ui Egypt, Gambia &
Syria.-N. Y. Star.
RUSSIA. 1t is stated in late German
journals, that immense warlike prepara-
lions are going on in Russia among 9th
man in five, and large contracts Tor cannon
in Sweden. The war in the Caucasus,
which has hitherto excited but little inter
est, begins 10 assume serious aspect, and
the Russian government is becoming ap-
prehensive of its consequence. --Nolwith-
standing the vigilance of Russia, and the
injunction OF the Turkish and Persian gov
ernments, iorbidding the inhabitants, 10
hold any communication with the mum
ia ineers of Caucasus, the later received
through the Kara Papacks, the Kudes and
the Tuocomans, all they stand in need of
10 carry on a war. Several tribes of ire
Lesghts, lhe most mplacabie enemies oltbe
Russians, have joined The Teherkes, and il
is believed that the latter have among them
some distinguished foreign officers, so that
war is now carried on systematically, and
moi as formerly by mere parties Of brig.
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