ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF THE FRENCH.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 82, 26 December 1846, Page 3

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF THE FRENCH.

[From the Examiner, August I.] An. extraordinary express from Paris reached town on Thursday evening, with the painful intelligence that another attempt had' been made on the life of His, Majesty Louis Phillipe. Itpccurred on Wednesday evening,, at the, palace of the Tuilleres, where his Majesty aud the royal family had arrived from Neuilly in the morning to be present at the celebration of the fetes of the 29th July, the anniversary, of the revolution which established the present dynasty in France. A large crowd was on that evening assembled in the Tuileries, enjojing the concert of military music which was being performed in the gardens, at which time his Majesty was tranquilly walking in the balcony, showing himself to the assembled multitude. This was the moment eagerly seized upon by the diabolical regicide to attempt the murder of the King, The villain mixed in the crowd, fired two shots at his Majesty, but providentially without effect. The Journal Dcs Debats says : " The King, with the admirable samjfroid wbieh has never tailed him under similar circumstances, reassured the Queen and' the Princess,, presented.himself to the people, to, remove t!ieirapprehensions,;and.then gave orders to continue the conceit:- .'The assassin was ' immediately apprehended by the persons who stood near him. He offered no resistance. /On being interrogated, be declared his name to be Joseph Henri. He is fifty one years of age, and a manufacturer of sleel ornaments. A perquisition was afterwards made in his domicile. He confessed his crime and recognised as belonging to him, the pistols he. had used to commit the attempt. It appears, moreover, that he had long entertained tha^projeet^for, he declared that he contemplated yl its execution.on the Ist July,— -the day upon which he performed duty as a national Guard at the Tuilleries. ,The pistols, are of- a rather powerful calibre, and the, assassin men: tioned having loaded them with an ingot. He is small and delicate in appearance. He^ was very neatly dressed, even approaching to elegance

HO francs in gold were found in his /pocket.— The Council of Ministeis wash eld in the evening at the Palace, at which it was decided that he should be tried by the Court of Peers. The King returned, after the Council, to the Chateau of Neuilly, and was to leave on Thursday for the Chateau of Eu "' The Epoque gives (he following account : — " A fresh atrocious attempt has again afflicted today the population of Paris, and will cause every honest heart,, to grieve. Thii evening, at half-past seven o'clock, a wretched assassin-— a madman— who bad stationed himself not far from the Pavillion de l'Horlorge in the garden of the Tuileries, took advantage of /.the moment when the King, surrounded by the Royal Family, had p]aced himself at the balcony, and was preparing to attend to the concert, and. fired two pistol shoti at his Majesty. At the noise of this double explosion, the guardians of the chateau immediately ran to the spot, but the assassin, pointed out by the King himself, had already been arrested by the indignant crowd. The King and Royal Family.who, by a providential chance, had not been, struck, remained! on the balcony, and had at least this good fortune, to hear shouted,, with redoubled energy, the cries of Viveleßoi, which had welcomed their arrival. This touching mark of love arid devoted ness affected his Majesty most profoundly.—* He forgot at that moment, the, hatred of. a few wretches, and thought only of the manifestations of gratitude and veneration which an entire people laid at .his feet to console him for so many and such odious acts of ingratitude. . The King, .Queen, and Royal Family, only, entered the Hall of the Marsballs when the concert was over, to pass through the apartments of the,,^avillion,,de Flore, where his Majesty gave, as usual, andj'as if nothing had occurred, the signal for the fireworks to begin. * The assassin, who escaped with difficulty the general indignation, was .conducted, into the Salle dcs Aides de-Camp by the citizens and soldiers, who had arrested him. There he was immediately searched, and the two pistols found with which he had committed the crime, consummation of which Providence, for . the seventh time did not permit., .The assassin who declared his name to be Joseph. Henri, did not attempt to deny his crime, and acknowledged the fire-arms to belong, to him., ,He is about tiftj years old, of low stature, and his countenance bears the truce of profound ,grief. He i« by trade a manufacturer of fancy articles, and. lived at No. 8. Rue Limoges, in Paris. , 100, francs, in gold were found in his possession. On his first interrogatory, Joseph Henri pretended that no political or private vengeance had instigated him* The desire, of terminating a miserable existence, and to be .talked of hereafter, had alone inspired him to commit the crime, although, as we have already mentioned, rather an important sum was found, on him. • „ t , , ,', . , He declared,' besides, that for & month past he had entertained tbedesignhe executed to.-day,: and that, on the 30th of June last, being on guard at the Post dn Drapeau, he had only been prevented by the dishonour which, might have, resulted to the company of the National Guard ho belonged to (!) from perpetrating the crime.

:—: — r ~ r ~i — vn . -„.,<• i n >-i > i 'Missi,ONAßX> STAiis,Tic!s.-i-The>;R'ev.i.Kr.' I Venn « {secretary to the Church Missionary Society has recently drawn >a comparison, ; based upon authentic data, illustrativeuof ( the; relative pro 1 - Sress of missionary labour between .two- foreign, stations and two districts of the metropolis. Ift does not say much for the state of religion in.this country. The stations selected were the colony of Sierra Leone and the northern ; part of NewZealand. The Jw.o districts in England selected for the comparison were— first, that . in which the Church Missionary , House is situate, including the parish of St. Bride's Fleet. Street ; Si. Dunstan's-in-the-West, the Liberty of the Rolls, Trinity distiict (St. Bride's), St. Andrew's, Hol-s | born ; and St. Ann's Blackfriars ; the second district was the parish of Islington, the scene of the • present Bishop .of Calcutta's early labours* and in which there are now a great number of zealous and efficient clergymen. The result of the comparison between the two foreign missionary stations, inhabited by a semi-savage population, and those two metropolitan districts, representing so large an, aggregate amount o£ wealth and intelligence, is, that considered with regard to the relative population religion has madeniore.pt ogress in the, savage than in the civilized districts. The population of the London district (St, Bride's) is estimated at 29,000 ; the population of Sierra Leone at 41,058. The attendants on public worship in the former were 5670 ; in the latter, S6S6. Tlie communicants in the former, 1026 j in the latter, 1648. The proportion between the whole population and the attendants on public worship in, the city district was as 1 in 5, while in Sierra Leone it was lin 4J. The proportion of communicants ia the city district was J in,2B.j in Sierra Leone' I 'm 25. The population, of Islington wasi6o,ooo jof New Zealand, 110,000. The , attendants on public worship in the former- were 15,500'; i» the latter 40,000. Of communicants in the former 2063 *» in the latter, 4103. The piopor'tion between the whole population and the attendants on public worship in the Islington district was I in 4; and in New Zealand, l.in 3^., - The, proportion ', of communicants was in Islington, > iii New Zealand 1 in 29. ,It will be ohseijyed tfiatf the comparison , instituted has di act (£ reference. to districts which may be assumed to le,; one ;I oC the most civilized, the other the most savage; and' such- are t he results obtained.— English Paper.

It is stated that Heki, the New Zealand chief! who has given such opposition to the British*, authority in that colony, is a native of the county] ,qf, Tipperary. His real narae, 1 is i Uickey, jemigiated from It eland some years agoy.aH'dcftva'sl shipwrecked on the coast of New, lZenlatui Vl he* was taken' mto 1 the interior ofUhej/island by -ahunting party of the iiatives,)andi"«dld fes'a slave *" to one of tha^chiefs; who adopted 'hi in as liis; ison,got him tattooed ,'a'ml gaveMiiu'/his daughter in marriage. On the. death of the old 'cbielV'hisj' jlrish son-in-law was chosen as His successpf,' 6n account of his skill in war, Previous to the ele-, ration to the high rank he no 1 * holds, he changed, his name from Hi«key to Ueki 5 the latter harmonizing better withjhe Janguage of the Abo--'rigines I ! ! — Tipperary Free Press.