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

RECENT 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 one 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, Sefelage, 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 the King, because he was not capable of effecting the unity of Germany. The Emperor of Austria.—On February 8, 1853, ' at Vienna, Francis Joseph I. 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, 1854, Ferdinand Charles 111., Duke of Parma, returning from an excursion, was hustled by a person, who at the same time stabbed him in the ablomen, left the poniard in the wouud, and subs:quantly escaped. The Duke expired in cruel torture in 23 hours. The Queen of Spain (a second attempt).—On 28, 1856, as Queen Isabella was passing in her carriage along the Rue de l'Arseual at Madrid, a young man named R tymonn Fuentes drew a pistol froni his pocket, and would have discharged it at her head had not his arm been caught, and his weapon taken from him by an agent of the police. The King of Naples.-0a December 8, 1856, while Ferdinand 11. was reviewing his troops at Naples, a soldier named AgCSira3 Milano struck him with his bayonet, and at a later period Garibaldi honoured the memory of the regicide. Napoleon 111.--In October, 1852, when Napoleon, who was on the eve of becoming Emperor, was at Marseilles, there had been prepared an 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 not carried out. On the sth July, 1853, a fresh attempt was made to assassinate him as he was going to the Opera Comique. Twelve Frenchmen were arrested as concerned in the conspiracy. On April 28, 1855, Jean Liveraui fired two shots at the Emrptieror 1857,in tTheibGairdanl i7B lalrvtoe 13out'3tio, of thend Geri: lal imPsCAMEeI Yfsrte from.. England to Faris to assassinate the Emperor, •bat were diEcovered, arrested, tried, and punished. Oa the 14th January, 1858, Orsini, Goines, 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 bad come over from London with the intention of killing the French Emperor, were arrested in  The Queen of Greece.—On September 18, 1862, the Queen of Greece, directing public affairs in the King's absence, was returning from a ride on horseback, when she was fired at, without effect, near the palace, by Aristides Donsios, a student, aged 19 years. Victor Emmanuel ll.—ln 1850 au attempt was made on the life of this Sovereign, and Count Cavour gave an account of it in the sitting of April 16. President Lincoln.—On April 14, 1865, at the theatre of Washington, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, was _assassinated by Booth.  Foreign Mail Packet List.