The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-03-02

LONDON, March 1.
The attempt to assasslnate the Queen yes.
terday caused intense excitement. An official
statement of the affair was made 10 the
House of Lords by Earl Granville, at whose
instance the proceedings of the body were sus.
pended. Earl Granville then informed the
peers that, at halfpast five o'clock In the eve.
ming, the Queen was returning from drive in
Hyde Park, and, when the carriage reached
the gates of Buckingham Palace, young
mon ran up and presented pistol at the
Queens head. Her Majesty bent forward to
avoid the shot, but the pistol did not explode.
The man was at once seized by the equerries,
and secured.
The would-be reglcide Is said to be Fenian,
and his name is Alfred 0'Connor. In hishand
he grasped a bundle Of papers relating to the
Fenfan prisoners. His account of his conduct
and object Is very incoherent, but he is under.
Queen on Thanksgiving day, and that bis Idea
was to induce her Majesty to grant the imprls-
oned FenlaHs free pardon.
Another account says that OConnor held the
pistol at the Queens head, bidding her Sign or
Die What lie hoped for was to irlghten the
Queen into doing justice to Ireland.
The pistol is said to have been unloaded. and
of 80 old pattern that, If loaded, 1t could not
easily be discharged.
The Oneen was perfectly calm. This being
the third attempt to murder her, she Is always
prepared for any emergency. i. 1t is singular
coincidence that the boy Jones, who fired at
the Queen many years ago, near the scene OF
O'Connor's mad exploit, died only few weeks
since. An attempt will be made to prove that
O'Connor Is ineane, in which case he will, like
a. no. IN Inn
lum for life. O'Connor Ia under twenty years
old, and his behavior at the police station
was very Wild.
The approaches to Bow street police station,
where O'Connor Is held, were jammed with
sight-seera, and the public houses In the neigh
borhood did an immense business. No evil
dence has been obtained to connect any other
persons with O'Connor's crime.
A High Joint Rises TO Explain.
LONDON, March 1.
Sir Stafford Northcote, one of the high Joint
commissioners, writes to the LONDON Glooe
that the ex commissioners are silent upon the
charges of negligence, slovenliness and the
other faults which have been made against
them, from disposition not to further COM
plicate the unfortunate difficulty, which he
trusts may yet be satisfactorily solved.
The French Assembly.
PARIS, February 20.
Theirs has again offered the Pope the hospi.
talities OF France, and Austria mas tenoered
his Holiness the Salzburg Castle for resi-
dence. The committee on capitulatlon OF Inc
National Assembly Ia still engaged In exami-
ming into the facts connected with the sur.
render of the Notifications of Metz by Marshal
Bazaine during the late war with Germany;
A delegation from the Municipal Council OF
Metz has arrived In Paris, en- route to YER
sailles, where they intend to testify against
the marshal. The committee will hear the
testimony of the delegation on the 6tn OF
March.
The Assembly adjourns on March 20th.
Count de Chambord has LETT Dordrecnt ior
Breda.
The German Government are extending the
forliacations of Metz and Strasbourg..
An Army for Italy.
--RoME, February 20.
General Maguau1, miniorcr uf- -rnr, iiao to'
1uested the chamber of deputies to vote an
appropriation of 10000, 900 livres, 10 enable MIN
10 provide for the proper training of the army
and the erection o. buildings for the accom-
mediation of troops. General Garlbaldi puo'
fishes a denial of the report that he Is con-
nected with the International Society.
A FrightfuI Accident In Frankfort.
FRANKFORT, March l.
A building, wherein a large NUMBER ol
persons resided, fell In to-day, burying the 10,
mates. Fourteen corpses have been founo
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