ATTEMPTS ON LIVES OF MONARCHS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 166, 14 July 1879, Page 4

ATTEMPTS ON LIVES OF MONARCHS.

I , — There have been mora than thirty attempts on the lives of kioga and rulers during aa many yean. The Duke of Modena, attacked io 1848; (he Prince of Prussia (now Emperor ] William), at Minden, in June, 1848; the fate Eiog of Prussia in 1852; Qtieea Victoria in 1852 ; an infernal machine wag discovered at Marseilles on Napoleon 111 'a visit in 1852; the Austrian Emperor slightly wounded by the Hungarian Libeoyea, 1853; attack on Eiog Victor Emaouel io 1853; also on Napoleon 111. opposite the Opera Comique; the Duke of Parma mortally stabbed in 1854; Napoleon HI. find at by Pianori in the Chempß Eysees in 1856; a policeman seized Fuenies when a».out to fire at Queen Isabella in 1856; Mllano, a soldier, stabbed King Ferdinand of Naples in 1856; three Italians from London, convicted of conspiracy against Napoleon HI. in 1857; the Qritoi plotagaint Napoleon 111. in 1858; King of Prussia twice fired at,

but^ not hit, by the student Baktr at BaJeo, in 1861; Queen of Greece shot at by the Siudent Brußios in 1862; thiee Italians from Lon.ton arrested f..r fonspiiing agfciuet Napolt.on 111. in 1 869; President Lincoln assassicatod in 1865; the Czar attacked at St Petersburg in 1866 and at Paris in 1867; Prince Itieliael of Strvia, assassinated in 1868; King Amadeus, of Spain, attacked in 1871; Piesident of Peru assassinated in 1872; President of Bolivia in 1873; President of Ecuador in 1875; President of Paraguay in 1877; two attempts on the life} ef the German Emperor 1878, similar attacks upon the Kings of Italy and Spain, aud fiually, the Nihilißt plot against the life of (be Czar.