The Paris papers contain particulars of an attempt by a
mad woman to injure the King and Queen of France by throwing a stone into their Carriage—
On Friday afternoon a hive o'clock, just as the carriage containing the King, the Queen, and the Princess Adelaide, had arrived. at the end Of the railings on the Quay of the Tuileries, a large stone, hurled with great violence, struck the right carriage-window, which it shivered to atoms, and, having bound m
bounded back from the roof, fell upon the Queen's head, which it bruised severely. The author of this attempt was a W01111111, who WaS immediately. arrested. The King ordered the coachman to stop ; and being assured him- self that no immediate danger was apprehended by the Queen, continued his raute to St. Cloud. A considerable crowd collected round the carriage %%lift it stopped, and seemed to express respectful interest. Their Majesties were cheered as the carriage drove off. The stone which struck the Queen must have passed between the narrow space left by the officer of ordonnanee on horseback, whose body covered the carriagre.door. The stone was large anal nand, and must have been hurled with great violence to break a thick glass at BO great a distance. The woman who was arrested is named Sti.plentie OI ron- &Be, and is a servant out of place. lier head was tied up in a red handker- chief, and her person covered with rags. The first answers which she made to the questions addressed to her by the Prefect of Police, who was on the spot directly after the occurrence, kit him to imagine that she was insane; which opinioe has shire been confirmed. " On her examination, it was remarked to her that the stone thrown into the King's carriage seemed in some sort polished on all its sides, and that it must have required muchtime aud labour to give it that appearance. She answered, with the volubility which characterized all her replies, Ali yes! lhave carried it a lung time ; I know it well ; I know well that it is polished.' The Attorney-General having interrogated her briefly, expressed his conviction thut she was out of her mind. Two eminent physicians, Drs. Chomel and Vignardonne, were accordingly sent for to examine into the state of her mental and bodily health. They declared that she laboured under an absence Of rill intellectual faculty." The Temps having stated that Count Moli is occupied in drawing up some extensive memoirs on the times of the Empire, the Courrier Fran- pais says that this work, as well as another by the same noble author on the Restoration, has been long ago finished, and. that several of the Count's friends have had portions read to them.
Letters from Toulon state that preparations in the naval dockyards were carried on with unusual activity, all the workmen being employed. for extra hours.
Houses have been engaged at Rome a term of several years for eight distinguisl I ed Carlist fianilies. Various bankers have also received iustruetions to open credits for a considerable number of individuals be- longing to the party of Don Carlos. It is hop..4 here that next winter Don Carlos will arrive, and occupy the house of the Spanish Ambassa- dor, on the Piazza di Spagna, which is now yacant.—Lettee ji.om Rome, in the Times.
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