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murder committed by Orsini and others upon Nioholas Battle and a person wune unknown , and that it has no jurisdiction to try the prisoner on the charge of wilful murder as principal . Ninth , that the 4 th and 6 th counts , which charge the prisoner as a prinoipal , set forth that the alleged murder was committed in Paris out of the Queen ' s dominions , and that the prisoner , being an alien , cannot be tried as a principal for an offence so committed , " The Lord Chief Justice : " There appears to be no objection to reserving any of those points except the seventh ; but that point , as you must be aware , was argued before us , and we were unanimously of opinion that the letter was admissible . ' The Court then adjourned . Mr . Edwin James delivered his speech for the defence yesterday . He denounced in eloquent terms the changing of the charge against the prisoner from misdemeanour to felony , and said that the Government had sought , by means of a musty old law , to obtain from an English jury what they durst not demand from the representatives of the people in Parliament . Louis Napoleon the real prosecutor—had himself conspired under shelter of this country ; and now he sought to punish the victims of his own tyranny for doing the same thing . What was the crime committed by Orsini compared with that of Louis Napoleon , who had let loose a drunken and infuriated soldiery on an unarmed mob , and who waded through blood to the second Empire ? " He did not deny that the prisoner had assisted Orsini in obtaining grenades ; but that act was not inconsistent with the idea that he was taking part in the preliminaries for a general rising in Italy . Be that , however , as it might , before he could be convicted the prosecution must' show beyond all doubt that the grenades used in Paris were those with which the prisoner was connected . Now , had they done this ? He contended that the identity of the grenades had entirely failed . None of the witnesses could swear that the grenades produced in the course of the trial were like those which the prisoner produced in London and Brussels . The evidence of identity was in one respect suspicious , because the witness was under arrest in Belgium , and on the whole entirely defective . The descriptions given by the witnesses of those which were connected with the prisoners did not correspond with those found in Paris and now produced . After the attempt of the 14 th of January there was no disguise or attempt at concealment on the part of the prisoner . He took the pistols to the bookingoffice . He gave his own name . He declared the contents of the box , and while doing so he made a remark wholly inconsistent with the belief that he was a party to the insane act of Orsini . It was said , however , that there was a letter found at the prisoner ' s lodgings , which went to prove that he must have had some knowledge of it . This letter referred to a society called the Friends of Italy , and despite what might be said in courts of law about the illegality of such combinations , there could be no doubt that they do exist . And who could in his heart condemn them ? " Mr . James contended that the letter from Mr . Allsop proved nothing whatever against the prisonor . Mrs . Kudio , notwithstanding the drilling of the police , had given her evidence in a very straightforward manner . Why was not her husband brought over ? " Why , because he would have told the jury that like Orsini he had aspirations for liberty , although a poor man , and he had joined an expedition to regenerate his native country ; but that in a moment of impulse Orsini , who had undertaken its direction , turned away from the original purpose and made the cruel and dastardly attempt on the life of the Emperor . " The statements of tho wretched prisoners in Franco exculpated Devniml , and the evidence for the prosecution did not make out the charge . It had always been the boast of this country that the exile is here safe . Let it now bo seen that an English jury would do its duty , even though bIx hundred thousand bayonets were glistening on our shores . —These closing remarks were received with applause . The court then adjourned for half an hour . On its reassembling , the Attorney-General replied on the whole case , and in the course of bis observations denied that the indictment was founded upon an old act of Parliament . It was pasued in tlio last year of George IV ., and the reason it had nover been noted upon before was clear enough . Happily , this was the first case of this nature that hud over occurred in this country , and that wua why tho act had remained n dead letter until now . The Government had not acted on any foreign representations , but on its own sonso of right . The charge was changed whon tho cuse was before tho Bow-street magistrate , because now facts were elicited . SirFltzroy reviewed tho wholo of tlio evidonce , a . £ . 4 jL ? Jlt _ end e ^ , _^ Tn « court then adjourned . The verdict will probably be returned to-day .
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THE ASSIZES . A ' rouoh island story ' was unfojdod in an action triad h low days ago at Bristol , before Mr . Justice Crowdor . There i « . a email inland in the Bristol Channel culled the 3 te « p Holmes , which Is farmed by an innkeeper named Harris , who with his family , are tho only
occupants of the island , which is the resort of pleasureseekers . On tho 7 th of September , » party of ladies and gentlemen went to the island , among whom was a young Italian lady , named Besozzi . Accompanied by a gentleman , she went through a certain door pointed out by the daughter of the hotel-keeper , ascended some steps , and took one of two paths which ' before them . There was nothing to indicate any danger ; but suddenly a large bear leaped out of a kennel in which he was tied up , but which was close to the path , threw the young lady down , and bit her through her clothes and flesh to the very bone of the thigh . Mv . Gully , the friend of the lady , was quite unarmed ; but he seized hold of the bear with his hands and tried to drag him off . The animal , however , retained hl 3 hold , and the screams of the victim brought up another gentleman with an umbrella . Still , the bear could not be beaten off , and it was not till a third gentleman arrived with a stick that the young lady was rescued . The beast then turned on tho rescuer , who saved himself by rapidly leaping back . The young lady was terribly injured ; she was confined to her bed for nine weeks ; her nervous system was seriously shaken ; and it was feared that she would be lame for life . The defence was that the bear was generally quite tame , but had been irritated that day ; and that the young lady brought the attack on herself by going too near the kennel . The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff , damages , 50 / . A woman has perished in a fire which burst out on Sunday night at a tavern in Bath . She had only come in on the previous evening , when she was discharged from the hospital as an incurable .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Charles Bexnett , alias Townsend , carpenter ; Eliza Jones ,- spinster ; Richard Tutt , dealer ; and William Jones , dealer , were indicted last Saturday , the female prisoner for stealing watches , jewellery , and plate , valued at 90 / ., the property of Henry Carloss , her master ; the male prisoners with receiving the same property , knowing it to have been stolen . The woman Jones had obtained a situation as servant at the house , of Mr . Carloss , by means of a false character . Mr . Carloss is a plater and gilder in Clerkenwell ; and , after being in his house about a week , the woman absconded , taking with her a large amount of property . " Other robberies of the same kind appear to have been committed by the gang . The jury Acquitted Tutt , and convicted Jones and Bennett ; the girl Eliza Jones pleaded Guilt }' . Tutt was then tried and convicted of having in his possession a watch stolen from a gentleman named Andrew Hay upon the occasion of the Princess Royal ' s departure , and found by the police at Tutt ' s house hidden under some barley in ajar upon a shelf in the parlour . The trials of persons charged with passing base coin were brought to a close last Saturday . They had occupied the time of the Common Serjeant three entire days . The list of prisoners so charged was fifty-two—just onethird of the whole number sent for trial this session , and the largest ever known . The cases were all of the usual character , and the counterfeits in circulation represented each class of coin , those of the lesser value preponderating . In one case , a prisoner was charged with passing two farthings of the reign of George III . altered to represent shillings . The plan adopted was this : the farthinga were beaten out the size of a shilling ; the edge was then filed circular , and afterwards milled ; the obverse or Britannia side was completely obliterated , and each piece was rubbed with a preparation of mercury . Mr . Edward Auchmuty Glover 1 ms been found Guilty of the charge of giving a false account of his property qualification to sit as a member of Parliament- Ho was returned for Beverloy at the last general election , but was unseated on this ground . Ho is now sent to Newgate as a misdemeanant for four months .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Turkic persons , described as warehousemen , wore tried at the Middlesox Sessions last Saturday on a charge of obtaining goods undor falsa pretences from a Mr . William Learoyd . That gentleman is a manufacturer at Huddcrsiicld , and towards the close of February ho received a letter , signed , by one of tho prisoners , but purporting to comuirom tlio linn of iiosanquet and Proscott , general warehousomqn , Crona-street , Ilatton-gurdcn , roquesting to be supplied with certain goods . TIiobo wore sent , but it was afterwards ascertained that tho prisoners pawned the property directly it arrived iu London . Mr . Learoyd , coining to town , ascertained that tho " general warehousemen " had only / in apartment at tho dairy , and tho wholo fraud wan soon discovered . Tlio prisoners were triad at tho last suasion on a charge of stealing the gOoUH , Jbut-tho , judgo . dirccted-thut ^ that ^ form-of-iiidi « t-. mont could not bo sustained . The defence now not up wu 8 that tho transaction was merely one of debtor and creditor ; but they woro found Guilty , and sentonce was deferred till next session . In tho Bath County Court , on Saturday , before Mr . J . G . Smith and a special jury , tin action was brought by Mr . Wilson , M . P ., of Clavertoii Manor , near Bath , mo of tlio Secretaries of the Treasury undor Lord Pal- * inorston ' n administration , against William Holwull , a nlllor , " of Wostbury Leigh , Mill , for tho rocovcry of
23 f . 16 a . 6 d ., two years' rent of land rented by him in the parish of Westbury . The defence was an extrao , dinary one—that Mr . Wilson had promised , at the eleT tion of 1852 , to let the defendant have the land free of rent , if he would vote for him , or if he should be iivjured or lose his customers in consequence of voting for him Bolwell , who had no legal adviser , was confirmed in his statements by his wife , who said she was present during certain alleged interviews . On the other hand , Mr Wilson swore that no such promise had been given " The jury at once returned a verdict for plaintiff , and the foreman added , that they wished to express their uuanimous opinion that no imputation rested in the slightes t j degree upon Mr . Wilson . His Honour thought the jury ! were quite right in so expressing themselves . j Mr . Alfred Firminger , a merchant , was tried at the . City Quarter Sessions last Saturday on a charge of as-• saulting , on the Corn Exchange , a Mr . William Mug . ' geridge , brother of Alderman Sir H . Muggeridge , on the ! 26 th of Februarj ' . The facts have already appeared iu j the Leader . The jury found the defeudant Guilty , and ; the court sentenced him to pay a fine of 20 / ., and to [ euter into recognizances to keep the peace for a year . ! The money was at once paid . I William Ash , described , as a photographic artist ; : Hannah Ash , his wife ; and Charles Eaton , alias Montrae | ' were tried on Monday at the Middlesex Sessions ou a | charge of breaking into the house of William Steward , ' a jeweller and watchmaker iu High-street , Islington , [ on the 24 th of February , an d stealing a large amount of property , valued at about 850 / . At the same time , John Bosworth , a hawker , was indicted for feloniously ' ¦ receiving part of the same property . The robbery had been contemplated for some few months , and tbe premises had been watched night after night in order to ascertain whether they were left unguarded . Some delay also was caused in order that the confederates-might have the assistance of an expert hand , named Ike , who , when the robbery was first designed , was in Maidstone gaol . This worthy having regained his liberty , and joined his friends in London , the robbery was effected . Jessie Norton , an ' unfortunate , ' who lived at the time in Airs . Ash ' s house , gave ' a singular account of the business in ¦ the course of her evidence . Ou the night of the robbery , about one o ' clock , Mrs . Ash came in with a large bundle under her arm . " She came into my room , '' said the witness , " _ put down a shilling' , and said , ' Get something to drink ; it ' s been a long time about , but it has come off at last . ' She had a ring on , ami I said it was a nice one . She said it was from tlio shop at Islington . She told me it would not have come oil ; only Oliver purposely quarrelled with a prostitute and got her locked up , which was to get the policeman ou duty off his beat while the job was done . 'While tin . * policeman was gone to the station-house , the robbery was done . They sat up all night drinking and arranging to dispose of the property . Next morning she told me they had been having pints of ginger brandy and old ale all night , and she expected a gentleman whom the corporal' [ Elton ] was gone for to call , as he ' was going to buy the things . Presently the ' corporal came with a gentlemanly-looking man , who went upstairs with them . The ' corporal' came in first , and left the door opon ; the gentleman followed , and went into Ash ' s room . He was there two hours , ami then went away . Mrs . Ash gave me some ginger brandy , and theu said , ' I must go up-stairs , as they nro dividing the money . ' She had shown me a diamond ring . fc > liu had coucouled some of tho things from the others in her bosom . She showed me the marks left on her uroasts by her keepiug them there . Mra . Oliver did tho same , and they were going to divide the proceeds between themselves . A woman immud Jeffries caims with Mrs . Olivor , but Mrs . Ash would not let her in , as sliu waa afraid that , being drunk , ahe would make a noi . ii " , iw « tho police might come in . She laid hold ol Mrs . Jeffries , dragged her into the passage , and forcibly tooK something out of her bosom , which slio hail conucalcu . That was part of the plundor . " All tlio prisoner * wore found Guilty , and it was proved that Ash and tlton were old and notorious burglars . They were sentenced to penal servitude for fifteen years ; the woman wus sentenced to ten years , and Bosworth to Unco yours .
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MI 8 CKLLANEOUS . Tub Ooi / ut .- — The Queen and Court roturnoil to UueKingliam Puluco from Windsor on Monday . The l ' nnce of Wales , attended by Captain tho Hon . Dudley do Kos , Mr . Gibbs , and Mr . Mintor , U . N ., left Windsor last Saturday for Ireland . Ho will inako a tour o » about ton days in tho neighbourhood of Killariioy Lukes . —Tho Quoon has been ploasod to soml t" » l ll' ° " eonts of tho King of Siuin for public exhibition « t tlio South Kensington Musoum , and Lord l ' nliuuratou luis added to thoni the Siamese sword of state which was tho Queen will viait Birmingham in tho middlo ol . i ni . She will be tho guest of Lord Loigli , « t SioiiuU > itS » Abbey . —Tho Quoon hold a Lovco on Wednesday uliuinooii at St . James ' s Puluco . . MAiu , uoKouau Coi . i . Kam . — -The Council of j « ' » " borough Collugo have appointud Goorgo Granvillu Jruuloy , M . A ., assistant master of ltugby School , ami >" « IMlpw of University College , Oxford , to buJMa » tor « i Mailborough College , iu tho room of tho Bishop JX '» iB " nato of Calcutta .
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a 70 THE LEADER , [ No . 421 , April 17 , 185 S .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 17, 1858, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2239/page/10/
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