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The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Assassination of a French Judge. (search)
Assassination of a French Judge. --The foreign papers relate a startling assassination of M. Poinsot, one of the Judges of the Imperial Court of France, in a railway carriage between Troyes and Paris. M. Poinsot entered one of the compartments in a first-class car by the night train at Troyes, of which he was sole occupant. On arriving at the Paris station he was found dead, having been stabbed to the heart. The French cars are so arranged that no passenger can stop the train, and no immediate clue could be obtained to the murderer.
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letter from Paris. (search)
Letter from Paris. European Politics — the Emperor's New Year's reception — Interview between Napoleon and Mr. Faulkner--the first day of the Year in Paris, &c., &c. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Paris, Friday, Jan. 4, 1861. The first of January is an important occasion in Paris, in both a political and social aspect. It is a traditional custom for the Sovereign of France to receive the New Year felicitations of the great Bodies of State, the foreign diplomatic representatives accredited to the Court of the Tuileries, deputations of the Army, the Navy, the National Guard, the Legion of Honor, the French Academy, and public functionaries of high rank. The general love of parade and display prevalent in France, the necessity of appearing in uniform at Court, and the vast number of persons ushered into the sovereign presence, have always rendered this scene grand and imposing. But an additional gravity attached to the annual reception at the palace