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Otago Daily Times, Issue 1134, 9 August 1865, Page 6

History or Assassination. —The Unila Cuttolica gives the following curious list of all the attempts at political assassination that have been made since 1850:—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 Pate, a retired lieutenant of the 18th Hussars.—The King of Prussia: In May, 1859, the late King of Prussia received, as he was mounting a railway carriage, a shot from a holster pistol of largo bore, in the fore arm; the assassin, Sefelagc, of Westlovv, 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 18, 1853, at Vienna, Francis Joseph I, was struck with a knife in the nape of the neck. The murderer's name was Libenny, of Alhe, 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 from 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 at the end of 23 hours.—The Queen of Spain (a second attempt) : On May 28, 1856, as Queen Isabella was passing in her carriage along the Rue de l'Arsenal at Madrid, a young man named Raymond Fuentes drew a pistol from 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: On Bth December, 1856, while Ferdinand 11. was reviewing his troop 3at Naples, a soldier named Agesiras Milano struck him-with his bayonet; and at a later period Garibaldi honored the memory of the regicide - Napoleon III.: la October, 1852, when i Napoleon, who was on the eve of becoming Emperor, was at Marseilles, there had been prepared an infernal machine, formed of 250gun-barrelß charged with 1500 balls, intended to go off all at once against the Prince and hia cortege. But the attempt was not carried out. On the sth of July, 1853, a fresh attempt was made to asaassina.fce Mm as be was going to the Opera

Comique. Twelve Frenchmen were arrested as concerned in the conspiracy. On 28th April, 1855, Jean Lirerani fired two shots at the Emperor in the Grand Avenue of the Champs Elysees. In 1857, Tibadti, Bartolotti and Griilii, came from England to Fans to assassinate the Emperor, bat were discovered, arrested, tried, and punished. On January 14, 1858, Orsini, Gomez, Pieri, and JBudio threw their murderous sheila at the Emperor of the French, and shed the blood of a great number of honest citizens in Parig. On December 24, 1863, Greco, Trabucco, Iraperatore, and Scaglioni, who had come over from London with the intention of killing the French Emperor, were arrested in Pans.—The Queen of Greece-. On September 18, 1862, the Queen of Greece, directing public affairs during the Kind's absence, was returning from a ride on horseback, when she was fired at "without effect, near the palace, by Aristide Dousios, a student, aged 19 years Victor Emanuel II: In 1858, an attempt was made on the life of this Sovereign, and Count Cavbur 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.