The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-03-08 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ANOTHER FRENCH PLOT.— All the French newspapers state that the Princess Mathilde, " accompanied by several members of her household," paid a visit to the Prefect of Police • day or two since to inspect some old records which are kept at the Prefecture. I have reason to think that the object of her visit was very different from the one alleged. About ten days ago, as lam informed on good authority, a person who appeared to be a domestic servant, and was clad in the Imperial livery, presented himself at one —I do not know which—of the railway stations, and asked for three boxes which the Princess expected by a train that hod just come in, and which would be directed " To be left till called for." Ile was told that two boxes only had arrived, and, after repeating that he had expected three, he took the two away. The next day the missing box bearing the same direction, arrived. The railway clerks at once sent it off to the Princess Mathilde's residence in the Rue de Courcelles. The hall porter, on being told the story of the other two boxes, said lie knew nothing about them. The Princess being informed of the message from the railway came down herself into the hall ; the box was opened in her presence, and was found to contain • quantity of bombs, rather smaller than those used by Orsini, but of preetiely the same character. The utmost alarm was naturally felt at the reflection that the other two boxes, containing similar murderous materials, must be concealed in Paris, and in the hands of daring conspirators. lam not sure whether it was on that evening or the next that the Emperor went to the Opera Couiique. It was observed by a correspondent of one of your contemporaries that most extraordinary precautions were taken on this occasion. I now hear that two squadrons of cavalry, a force quite unprecedented as a guard of honour for an ordinary visit to a theatre, were stationed on the Boulevards, and that all the approaches to the theatre were kept clear to an extent altogether unusual. The reasons for these precautions is now evident. There esti scarcely be a doubt that the Princess Mathilde went to the police-office for reasons connected with the alarming discovery above alluded to. It is to be hoped, though I have no information as to this, that she and" her household" may have been called upon to identify the two miming boxes, which it is possible may have been seized. An imperfect vers of the above narrative, cited by soma English journals from the Upinunte of Turin. speaks of • box of explosive shell. having been sent to the Princess Clotilde. I hare scarcely any doubt that the cornet story is the one which I have just told. —Express. Experiments are being made at Paris to explode mines by electricity. The Imperial Guard is to be supj,hiesl in the mune of next iiimith with four batteries of the new ride cannon. The Emperor will, it is said, be present at the trial of the guns at Veniailles. The new boundaries of l'aris are now the fortifications. This raises the population of the inetropolis to 1,525,505. Pori* was before the most populous town on the continent ; it now approaches more nearly to the population of London, which is upwards of 2,606,000.