Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-24
The Troubles in Europe.


Napoleon made significant speech at Auxerre.
France. the 9Th instant, in which he said he de-
tested the treaty of 1875 The Paris Bourse accepted
it as signal for war. Severe pancs set in and
Rentes fell two per cent.
The following is the speech in full:
l see with peasure that the memory of the first
empire has not been effaced from your mi nds. Be-
lieve me, for my own part have inherited the eel
ings entertained by the chief of my family for this
energetic and patriotic population, who sustained
the Emperor in good as in evil fortune.
Il have debt Of gratitude to discharge towards
YOnne. This department was the first to give its
suffrage in lS4S because it knew, with the majority
terests, and that ietested equaliy ch then, those
treaties Of 1878 Utc Il IS sought to make the sole
basis Of our foreign policy thank for tho SEN
ulnents you have expressed towards me.
Among you | breathe freely, for it is among the
working population, both in town and country that
l find the real genius of France"
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF BISMARCK.
An attempt upon the life of Count Bismarck was
made at five O'Clock in the afternoon of the 9Th in
slant, as the Count was returning foot along the
Unter den Linden. in Berlin after having had an au-
dience with the King. Upon reaching the Schadow-
strasse he was fired at from behind by a man, who
discharged at him two barrels of revolver. Both
shots, however, missed the Count, who Immediately
turned and seized the man.
In the struggle which epsued between them the
assassin hred three more shots from his revolver.
Count Bismarck, remained unhurt, with the excep-
ton of slight confusion. His clothes were also
burned by the nearness of the three last dschorqes
The assassin. who was Immediately arrested by the
police. is man tbirty-two years of age. 1t appears
that he came from Hohenheim, in Wurtemberg with
tho deliberate intention Of assassinating Count Bis
marck.
The London Daily Neo0s states that "the family of
Karl Blind have been profoundly afflicted by the
intelligence from Berlin. The earliest telegrams
state that Count Bismarcks assaiant who has since
died. was a son of Karl Blind; and subsequently
Others have been received denying the relationship.
In truth, he was the of Mrs Blind by former
husband but has borne his step-father's name. He
Twenty-Five years of age, and left England four
years ago, but paid visit to this country years
since. When here he was rife volunteer. and won
prizo at Wimbledon. For the last two years he has
been studying political economy at Hohenheim in
Wurtembprg. His family had so little reason to sup
pose that he engaged in desperate projects that
they were expecting shortly to see him, having
lately received a letter announcing that he was
coming to England.
In the absence of direct and authentic informa-
ton they can only suppose that living in that part
of Germany where Count Bismarck is hated perhaps
more intensely than anywhere else on earth be was
carried away by, the political influences that sur
rounded him, and led to commit act to be repro
bated by all honorah BILE men, and regretted by none
more than the patriot whose name he had been per-
mitted to bear"