The Sun. — 1867-06-14 (London, England)

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. sto 2 agst Fervacques (taken) 6to 1 agst I ady Vane (taken) 7to 1 agst Vixen cult (tttiten)  RECEN7 HISTORY OF ASSASSINATION,  The following curious list of all the attempts at political assassination that have been made since 1850 will be read with interest after the nefarious attempt last Thursday : The Queen of England.—Queen Victoria can count four attempts on her life. On June 28, 1850, she received a violent blow with a stick from ono Robert Plate, a retired lieutenant of the 10th Hussars. The Kings of Prussia.—ln May, 1850, the late King of Prussia received, as he was mounting a railway carriage, a shot from a holster pistol of large bore, in the fore arm ; the assassin, Sefelago, of Wetslow, cried out as he fired, " Liberty for ever !" The life of the present King of Prussia was in danger at Baden on the morning of July 14, 1861. Two pistol shots were fired at him by Oscar Becker, a law student at Leipsic. The regicide declared that he wished to kill tae King, because he was not capable of effecting the unity of Germany. The Emperor of Austria.—On February 8, 1853, at Vienna, Francis Joseph 1. was struck with a knife in the nape of the neck. The murderer's name was Libenny, of Albe, in Hungary, aged 20, resident at Vienna, and a tailor by trade. The Duke of Parma.—On March 20, 1851, Ferdinand Charles 111., Duke of Parma, returning front an excursion, was hustled by a person, who at the same time stabbed him in the abdomen, left the poniard in the wound, and subsequently escaped. The Duke expired in cruel torture in 23 hours. The Queen of Spain (a second attempt).—Ox 28, 1856, as Queen Isabella was passing iu her carriage along the Rue de l'Arsenal at Madrid, a young man named R tymonn Fuentes drew a pistol from hadhispnoockt ehti,saarirdmwboeuelnd chaauvgehisacnlia rdtiesdwiet a from him by an agent of the police. ap ot hae rt ahke eand On DecemhbLier trBo,oplsBsa6t Naples, a soldier named A , with his bayonet, and at a later whTilieleFlericillginaonfdNl7.lwelTreviewing ,ge.sira3 M3ielarnioodstGruacrkibhailadli honoured the memory of the regicide. Napoleon lII.—In October, 1852, when Napoleon, who was on the eve of becoming Emperor, was at Marseilles, there had been prepared au infernal machine, formed of 250 gun-barrels charged with 1,500 balls, intended to go off all at once against the Prince and his cortege. But the attempt was antottenacaprtrNiveasd out made toO nassathsesiesathte Jhiumlya, slhBes3, was fresh s 4 going to the Opera Comique. Twelve Frenchmen were arrested as concerned in the conspiracy. On April 28, 1855, Jean Liverani fired two shots at the Emperor in the Grand Avenue of the Champs Elysees. In 1857, Tibaldi, Bartolotti, and Grilli came from England to Paris to assassinate the Emperor, but were discovered, arrested, tried, and punished. On the 14th January, 1858, Orsini, Gomes, Pieri, and Rudio threw their murderous shells at the Emperor of the French, and shed the blood of a great number of honest citizens in Paris. On December 24, 1863, Greco, Trabucco, Imperatore, and Scaglioni, who had come over from London with the intention of killing the French Emperor, were arrested in Paris. . .