The Press. — London, England, 1858-03-06 00:00:00

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We cannot undertike to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference fur payment in town. Vibx 21!! rtgg4 LONDON. SATURDAY. MARCH 6, 1858. POSTSCRIPT. Rum, Thursday. A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries at half-past ten, and remained sitting for nearly two hours. It was rumoured that the negotiations between England and Turkey in relation to the occupation of the Isle of Perim, had closed by an acceptance of an indemnity by the Ottoman Government. A violent earthquake has laid Corinth in ruins, killing thirty persons. The shocks continue with less violence, but increasing the damage. The reports of the European Commissioners in the Principalities will not he complete before the end of the month of March. The authorities of Genoa have invited the citizens to energetic action, for the suppression of disorder' Nocturnal patrols have been formed, and the best rtsults produced in the restoration of public peace. INDIAN CURRENCY. TO TUE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS." Sir,—When I lately wrote to the Times upon Indian Currency, I had not read your able article on the same subject in THE PRESS of the 21st November last ; but neither had I any idea of claiming the merit of novelty for my proposal that there should be a gold measure of value with a subsidiary silver cur. rency. The reinstatement of gold as a legal tender was recommended by ➢ir. Finlay and objected to by Sir James Melvill in their evidence before the Indian Committee of the House of Commons in :853, and it has since been repeatedly discussed in the Anglo- Indian newspapers. An article from the Bombay Times reprinted in the last Indian News even states that a correspondence is going on in the secretariat of India on the subject of a gold currency. The proposal that the principle of our subsidiary silver currency shoul I ultimately be extended to India may possibly have been made now for the first time, but this merely has reference to a new application of an old and well-tried arrangement. Although your criticism was of the most courteous kind, you will not, I hope, consider this explanation uncalled for.— I am, /cc. INDOPIIILUS. London, March 3rd, 1858. PUBLIC Scitoor. MATCIFES.—In onr recent num bers we have recommended for public support a society that was being formed for the purpose of re establishing the publtc•school matches. As it is not generally known, we now state that all gentlemen desirous of becoming members may obtain every information on the subject from the hon. secretary of the society, Frederick Gale, Esq., 32, Burton. street, Eaton•square. THE PRESS, MARCH 6, 1858. yatu anb Volta. THE LORD CHANCELL''n, Sir F. Thesiger, presided in the Court of Chancery on Monday morning, and took the usual oath of office, which was administered to him by the Master of the Rolls. There were present on the bench all the equity judges, as well as the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir J. Pakington, and Lord J. Manners. After the oath was administered the Queen's Advocate, who was supported on either side by the new Attorney and Solicitor General, moved that it be recorded, which was ordered accord ingly. SIMON BEIINARD was brought up before Mr. Jardine at Bow street for re-examination on Tuesday and on Thursday last. On Tuesday several impor tant witnesses were examined. Joseph de Giorgi, formerly keeper of the Cafe Suisse in Titchhurne street, Leicester•square, and now keeper of a cafe in Brussels, deposed that on the sth and 6th of Decem ber last year he left London for Brussels via Ostend. He had previously seen Bernard in Lou don, and Bernard on this occasion intrusted him " with five pieces of -round iron like half-balls," hol low inside, and with holes for screws. Bernard described them as a " new gas invention." He arrived in Brussels on the 6th of December, and Bernard arrived there a few days after, and ordered the balls to be put in a separate room : Bernard went away. Ido not know where heYwent to. A day or two afterwards he came again, stating, that he had come for the gas-balls. He said he was going to take them to the Cologne•gate. The balls were wrapped up in a piece of the Times newspaper. It was about half•past three or four o'clock in the afternoon. Some days after this he called again and brought the balls back with him. He had the parcel under his arm, and a narrow ball in his hand besides, wrapped up in grey paper. Mr. SLEIGH : how can he say that this was a ball ? Witness: It was the same shape as the others, only larger in size. M. Bernard told me that this one WAS made in the country. He did not say where. He again asked me if M. Bremacker or some one would inspect his new invention, because one day he should like to be Ac quainted with him. I never introduced him, because M. Simon said he would wait until he visited Brussels again. He told me he was going to London, and all the balls were replaced in my room by his direction. He asked me if I knew anyone who would take a horse to Paris, and deliver the balls and the horse to an Englishman there. It was arranged that a man in my employ, named Cassimir Zeguerus, should go. Bernard visited my house several times afterwards, but I never knew where he lived. The day after we arranged about the horse some one sent in for me, and on going to the saloon I found Bernard there, with another gentleman. Bernard, pointing to the latter, said, " This is the Englishman I spoke of." I knew him from seeing him at my caf6 in London with Bernard. He then had a long beard, but now he had whiskers only, and no beard. He said he had left London and was going to Paris. I did not recognise him at tirst, owing to the change in his appearance, but I presently knew him to be Orsini. Other witnesses—Fow•narier, a waiter at the Café Suisse at Brussels, and Kiglwnzi, the proprietor of the same cafe—deposed to the size and pear-like hhape of the halls brought over by Giorgi on the 6th of December last, and taken possession of by Ber nard. The evidence of Cassimir Zeguerns, who took the horse and balls to Paris, was most Important. He deposed : I was waiter at the cafe in December last, and was engaged to take a horse from Brussels to Paris for a gentleman who said he was an Englishman. I carried also some articles from the house where I lived. They were given to me by M. Joseph de Giorgi. There were eight or ten pieces, and made of iron, in the shape of half wills. They were in a carpet bag. I walked from the café to the Hotel de l'Europe, where the ao-called Englishman waited for me and accompanied me to the railway. I now know the gentleman to be Orsini. He gave me a brush and currycomb. We travelled by the same train. I was in the box with the horse. He carried the carpet bag, containing the half-balls and also the brush and currycomb. On arriving at the French frontier, the bag was examined and passed by the autho• ritiea. The train reached Paris between five and six o'clock in the evening. Orsini went away in a cab or carriage, and I followed with the horse. We went to the Lille et Albion Hotel. I took out the iron pieces and brush and currycomb from the carpet-bag, and told the waiter to give them to the gentleman (Orsini). They were placed in the corridor. I then went away to see a sister living in Paris. I returned to the hotel in the evening, and saw Orsini there. He paid me the fare back, and 20f. for my self. I returned to Brussels. I saw M. Bernard after wards at our café, and I told him that the horse had ar rived safe in Paris. He said he knew that. The conduct of the prisoner during the examination of witness was extremely violent. Ho kept up a running commentary upon the evidence given, and now and then burst out into violent exclamations against the infamy of the conduct of all, and de manded loudly that Orsini should he brought over to clear him of the false charge. On Thursday the prisoner was again brought up for examination, when witnesses from Brussels and Paris deposed to the presence of Gomez, Pudic), Pierri, and Orsini, both in Brussels and Paris, Another witness, Parker, of No. 1, Red Lion-court, Watling-street, deposed to having sold Bernard, on the 4th November and 15th December last, certain quantities of nitric acid, quicksilver, and absolute al co h o l , the i ngredients used in fulminating mercury. At th e conc l us i on of the evidence Mr. Bodkin asked for a remand until Thursday next, when he expressed a hope that he should be able to bring the examination to a couch!. sion. Mr. Sleigh intimated that he should at o nce apply to a judge iu chambers for his client's admis sion to bail. Grovaxsr LAN'', the suspected murderer of the French prostitute, Heloise I'haubin, was brought up for examination before Mr. Beadon, at Marlborough. street, on Monday. The evidence given by the different witnesses, inhabitants of the brothel, was a repetition only of that given at the inquest on Satur day afternoon. Julie Levy, a Jewess, and the land lady of the house, 8, Arundel -court, deposed that she was walking in the Haymarket, on Thursday evening week, that Lani addressed her and several other Frenchwomen, but that she declined his overtures. About eleven o'clock that night he came to her house, and, after some conversation with her, de. sired that the servant might be sent out to bring in Heloise Thaubin. Heloise came in, and went np stairs with Lani. At ene in the morning Mad ame Virginie called her down to the family supper. He loise went down to supper, at which was one Virgittio Silvestre, a M. Deschamps, and M. Moutin. At supper, curiously enough, she turned the e, onversa tion upon the occasional robbery and murder of such as herself. She said, when M. Deschamps came in, " Leave the door open, so that this man does not steal my watch. lam afraid of him ": _. She then told us a story of one of her friends in Paris, who had been attempted to be killed by strangulation in the night, and said that her friend not coming down in the morning, the caused her door to be broken open, and there found her swimming in her blood. But she added, " That woman, my friend, recovered of the injuries she received, though she was ill for one yesr afterwards," and she finished by saying—" I hope such a thing will not happen tome; mail j'ai pear; mail j'ai peer." The poor girl from that moment was never seen alive save by her murderer. Virginie Silvestre going up stairs shortly afterwards, stopped at Heloise's door, and asked for a book. Heloise cried out that she was in bed, and Lani got up and handed out the book. About seven o'clock the next morning the prisoner Lani, whotae identity is sworn to by every one of the witnesses, was seen to leave Heloise's room hurriedly. He went out of the house carrying a bundle under his arm. Heloise Thaubin not making her appearance to breakfast nor to dinner, some anxiety was felt by the people in the house. They went to her room ; the door was locked, and the key gone. They called her ; there was no answer. They broke open the door, and found the bedclothes and pillows heaped upon the strangled body of the girl. She bad been foully mur dered fur a few paltry trinkets—a gilt watch chain, a brooch or two, and a few gaudy articles of dress. As soon as intelligence of the murder reached the police stations, the most active efforts were at once made to secure the murderer. In forty-eight hours he was tracked and captured in a ship, the Pride of the Thames, lying off Gravesend, and on the point of sailing for Monte Video. In his portmanteau were found a brooch and a rosewood needle box; while a quantity of women's wearing apparel, which he had given into the care of the captain, was handed over to the police officers. The watch and ring have since been found, and at the close of the examina tion on Monday the prisoner was fully committed for trial. Two CrREEK SAIL Zelphante and Italius, have been convicted at the South Wales assizes of the murder of one of their comrades at Swansea on the oth of October last, and sentenced to death. AIR. GEORGE COOKE, Solicitor and Registrar of the Court of Record at Northampton, was tried on Tuesday before Mr. Justice Coleridge at Northampton, and convicted of having obtained from the Treasury 381. 3s. on false pretences. In consequence of the delicate state of the prisoner's health, his sentence was commuted from imprisonment to a fine of 200/. EDWARD TRUELOVE, a bookseller at 240, Strand, was committed for trial last Saturday for the publi cation of a pamphlet entitled " Tyranncide: is it justifiable ?" The Crown undertook the prosecution for this " scandalous and seditious libel." 4rtlattb. THE EARL OF EormirouN has intimated to Lord Carlisle his intention of arriving iu Dublin in time to preside at St. Patrick's Ball. THREE CONSERV.tTIVE CANDIDATES are in the field for Dublin University, Mr. Gayer, Q.C., Mr. Joy, Q.C., and Mr. A. Lefroy, son of the Chief Justice. — Mr. Napier has been appointed Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Whiteside Attorney-General. Mr. F. Fitz gerat has refused the Solicitor-Generalship. The Attorney-General is unopposed at Enniskillen; Colonel Taylor unopposed in Dublin County ; and Lord Claude Hamilton in Tyrone.