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746 hibit a complete ignorance of the proceedings of the French criminal courts. Previous to being arraigned at the "Cour d'Assize," the Procureur•General lays his information before the " Chambre d'Accusation," produces his evidence, and copies are forwarded to the prisoner. Then at his public trial, if he be found guilty, three days are allowed to prefer an appeal before the "Cour de Cassation,"and he is sentenced on the fourth if no appeal be made. The laws of the " Code Napoleon" do not seem to be known to these Liberal journalists, who confound the cri niinal process with the ordinary proceedings of the "police correctionelle," which has only a circum scribed and inferior power. The simple denial of Ledru Rollin is accepted also as a proof of innocence "constate." Palmer and Rush asserted their innocence to the last—were they martyrs ? Campanella is the author of several trea tises on "La Theorie du Poignard." The corre• spondence, also, between Massarenti and Mazzini, furnishing ample details of the huge conspiracy, forms a part of the voluminous evidence. _ _ T. J. S. Thursday Morning. P.S.—I incloso you a copy of the Gazette des Tri• bunaux, containing certain matters furnished to that paper by the authorities relative to the " complot." I can state as positive that a mass of documentary evidence will be produced at the trial which the Procureur-Tinperial thinks it unadvisable to make public before the trial. The Gazette des Tribunaux has the following account : We must await the trial to make known all the circum• stances of this grave affair, but we may nevertheless indicate some of the general facts which form the basis of the accusation. In the first days of June the police learned that several Italians had arrived in Paris from London, after having had frequent communication• with Mazzini and other member', of the Central European Committee. On the 10th June three letters from Genoa, written by Mazzini, were seized ; one was addressed to Campanella, one of Mazzini's fellow•writers in the Italia del Popolo ; another to Massarenti ; and the third, which was only of a few Hues, to Tibaldi. In the letter to Campanella, Mazzini, after instructions which appear to refer to the conp.de•main which has been attempted in Italy, said that the principal matter to be thought of was the affair of Pavia—that it was of urgent and decisive importance— and, in fact, that everything depended on it. He an• nounced that Massarenti had told him that two men had presented themselves ; that if they were good men and trne, and could be depended on, money to enable them to live a month at Paris must be given them, and that to obtain the money application should be made to a banker. He added that there were two others at that moment at Paris, but that it was necessary that each group should act separately, and without communication with the other. The letter concluded by a few words of recommendation to "the Rue Neuve Menilmontant," where, it is said, the necessary arms and ammunition would be found. The person alluded to in these words of recommendation was Tibaldi, who lived in the Rue de Menilmontant. He was arrested, and a search being made in his house, five yoniards and twenty loaded pistols were seized. The letter from Mazzini to Massarenti contained instructions similar to those in the letter to Campanella. As to the letter to Tibaldi, it recommended two men, who were to call on him, and told him that he might place confidence in them. These two men were Bartolotti and Grilli, who had recently arrived from London, where they had had frequent communications with Mazzini before his departure for Genoa. On the day on which Tibaldi was arrested, Bartolotti and Grilli called at his lodgings, and were arrested by police officers who had been placed there in waiting. It appears that the investigation already made has led to the seizure of numerous letters which con firmed the indications contained in the letters seized on the 10th of June. In one of them a complaint is made of the negligence of an accomplice, and it is said that the " old man" had complained and was highly displeased. In the course of the investigation Bartolotti made avowals —he declared that at London he had had two interviews with Mazzini and with a Frenchman who he said was Ledru Rollin, and that it was in consequence of these interviews that he had been sent to Paris with his country man Grilli. His mission, he said, was not to attempt to kill the Emperor, but to be constantly on the watch about the Tuileries, in order to know when the Emperor went out. Grilli at first denied the truth of these revelations, but he afterwards, it is stated, remarked that since Bartolotti had spoken he was relieved from his oath, and would tell all. Ile accordingly admitted that the object of his journey was to attempt the Emperor's life. To prove the truth of his statement he said that two poniards which Tibaldi had given him for himself and Bartolotti would be found secreted in a certain spot which he indicated ; and they were accord. ingly found there. As to Tibaldi, he gives the most positive denials to the charges brought against him. He IS a journeyman engineer, and has resided in Paris for some years. The Thole, after giving some particulars on the same subject, says:—" Bartolotti and Grilli, though at first admitting that they came to Paris with the mission of killing the Emperor, subsequently declared that, not withstanding their promise, they had no intention of c iminitting the crime ; that, being without money or resources, they had accepted the propositions made, but that their sole object was to come to Paris, and to spend in pleasure the money which they had received." The same journal states that amongst the arms seized were Seventeen oouble•barrelled ?Weis ? one of which Wag pc Li. THE PRESS, AUGUST 1,1857. a very peculiar form, the barrels being placed one over the other, and not lying side by side, as is usually seen. It is this arm which i■ generally supposed to be thz fellow of the pistol used by Pianori when he fired at the Emperor in the Champs• Elysees. 4oreign anb 6alanial SPAIN AND MEXICO. We have reason to believe that the serious differences between Spain and Mexico have at length, by the united efforts of France and England, been satisfactorily settled, and that the Duke de Rivas, who has just arrived in Paris from Madrid, is the bearer of despatches confirming this intelligence. FRANCE. The Emperor returned to Paris on Wednesday. His Majesty drove down the Bonlevards unattended by any escort, and was warmly received by the assembled crowds. The Prince of Canino, Lucien Bonaparte, died on Wednesday. The trial of the three Italians, charged with com plicity in the plot against the life of the Emperor, has been fixed for Thursday next. The prisoners, when brought before the President of the Court of Assizes, were asked if they had chosen counsel for their defence. As they had taken no such step, the court appointed counsel to attend to their interests. AUSTRIA. The Emperor will commence his journey into Hungary upon the Bth August. The Austrian Gazette, alluding to the refugee question, observes : The British Government has addressed all the Govern. ments threatened by the intrigue of the revolutionary party, for the purpose of obtaining from them a com• munication of the discoveries by which the crimes of Mazzin► and his comrades have been exposed. But, as the Parliament will adjourn in the course of the ensuing month, the question can only be decided next session. In the meantime, the British Cabinet will have put itself in a position to be able to prove the culpability of the political refugees whose expulsion is desired. The pro ceedings shortly coming on before the' tribunals, respecting the attetrpts at assassination incessantly renewed against the Emperor of the French, against whom the revolu tionary committee of London keep the dagger per petually aimed, will greatly contribute to enlighten public opinion in England about the attempts of the political refugees. A Vienna correspondent of the Cologne Gazette asserts that Sir Hamilton Seymour has made a com munication to the Austrian Government to the effect that although Lord Palmerston does not think it re quisite to propose any measure to Parliament with respect to the political refugees in London, ho has resolved that they shall be subjected to a strict sur veillance, and a warning is to be given them not to abuse the hospitality of England, if they would escape the application of rigorous means. BELGIUM. The marriage of Princess Charlotte of Belgium with the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian was cele brated on Monday at Brussels. At the termination of the civil part of the ceremony, the matrimonial deeds were signed. Immediately after the civil mar riage the Court proceeded to the chapel where the religious part of the ceremony wss performed. The spectacle that here presented itself was magnificent, and the chapel was crowded to excess with royal and distinguished personages. His Royal Highness Prince Albert landed at Antwerp at a very early hour on Monday morning, and was received by the Duke de Brabant and the Count of Flanders and their suite, all of whom had left Laeken before six o'clock. His Royal Highness reached Brussels at nine o'clock. He was received by the groups at the station with loud cries of " \rive le Prince Albert!" Brussels during the week has been very gay with a series of fCtes in commemoration of the marriage. The Archduke Maximilian and his bride are ex pected to arrive at Vienna at the commencement of the ensuing month, and will reside at the chateau of Schoenbrunn until the 18th. They will then pass some weeks in Venice, and in the course of October make a formal entry into Milan. PRUSSIA. The Emperor of Russia left Potsdam on Tuesday night, and embarked at Stettin on the following morning on his return to St. Petersburg. The Queen of Greece was to have arrived at Berlin on Wednesday. The Prussian Government, in reply to questions put on the subject, has officially declared its full approval of the conduct of the Prussian Ccpmis sioper in the Danubian principalitiel, TURKEY. Constantinople journals of the 17th say that the question of the Principalities still continued the leading subject of interest, and appeared to be getting more complicated than ever. On Redscbid Pacha being informed that the representatives of France, Russia, Sardinia, and Prussia refused positively to hold a conference with the ambassadors of England and Austria, he immediately called a meeting of the Council of Ministers, but when the packet left nothing had transpired as to the result of their deliberations. Some idea of the importance of the discussion may be formed, when it is stated that the council did not break up until three o'clock in the morning. The Sardinian, French, Russian, and Prus sian commissioners bad protested against the ilk- gality practised in drawing out the electoral lists in Moldavia. A telegraphic despatch received in Paris states that a great number of the most eminent personages in Moldavia have protested against the elections of July 10. A note, signed by Lord Stratford do Redcliffe and M. Thouvenel, demands— That the Forte shall decree the banishment of the judges who condemned the Jew lately executed at Tunis. 2. That tha tanziman shall be proclaimed at Tunis. 3. That an indemnity shall be granted to the family of the victim. PERSIA. Mr. Murray has consented to make his entry into Teheran without being attended by a large military escort. AMERICA. Under date of Washington, July 17, the New York Herald publishes the following : The President received a telegraphic despatch this morning, dated at Leavenworth yesterday, from Governor Walker, stating that a serious insurrection had broken out at Lawreuce, and that he had called out the United States' troops to suppress it. The Governor had started imme• diately for Lawrence. The cause of the outbreak is not known, but it is supposed to have originated from opposi tion to some of the territorial laws—probably the tax law. Advices from St. Louis of the 17th state that the Democrat has advises from Kansas, announcing that Governor Walker had issued a proclamation declaring his intention to put down all opposition to the terri torial laws by force, and censuring the citizens of Lawrence, and warning them not to organise under the Topeka charter. Seven hundred troops are rumoured to have been ordered to march against Lawrence, and Walker is said to have a design to retain the army in Kansas, and to break up the Utah expedition. wart an* ,rasa. His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon arrived at Osborne on Thursday, upon a visit to her Majesty. Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of the French are expected to arrive at Osborne on Wed nesday next. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, who left Osborne for Antwerp on Sunday last, returns by way of Dover on Tuesday. Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands will shortly visit her Majesty at Osborne. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary have left town for Switzerland and Frankfort. The Court will leave for Scotland on the 24th. His Excellency the French Ambassador left town on Monday evening, for Paris, on receipt of the in telligence of the death of the Duke do Mo.cowa, son of the gallant Marshal Ne e r, and father of the Coun tess Persigny. Valitztal. CABINET COUNCILS were held on Saturday and Wednesday last, all the Ministers attending, with the exception of the Earl of Clarendon on Wednesday. THE ELECTION COMMITTEES continue their labours. The Ipswich and Gloucester Committees have de clared Mr. Adair, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Carden, M.P., duly elected. The Huntingdon scrutiny has resulted in the return of Mr. Fellowes. The Great Yarmouth Committee have unseated Mr. T. M'Cul lagh and Mr. E. W. Watkin, while the Drogheda, Cashel, Beverley, and Dublin Committees are now sitting; and the Sligo Committee have unanimously unseated Mr. J. P. Somers, and have declared the Right Hon. J. Wynne duly elected. BARON ROTHSCHILD has been again returned for London without opposition. The election took place on Tuesday. The Baron was proposed by Mr. M. T. Smith, M.P., and seconded by Mr. Alderman Wire, who expressed his faith in Mr. Dillwyn's pm, Foga to set tho baron resoltition, Pll,ollltool'