The Press. — London, England, 1858-01-23 00:00:00

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A despatch from Berne Federal Council has asked the Geneva authorities to draw up a report on the conduct of the refugees of late. that the BELGIUM. The Belgian Government has laid before the Chamber of Representatives a Police Bill respecting foreigners. It consists, says the Dibats, of two articles, and is simply the prorogation until the Ist March, 1881, of the t xistiug law dated 22nd September, 1835, and modified by the law of 25th December, 1841. THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. DURING the w...ek some carious details have come to light concerning the men Orsini and Pierri, who with Gomez and Rudio have been arrested for the recent attempt to destroy the Emperor Napoleon. It appears that Orsini is the Felice Orsini who recently made his escape from Mantua, and had resided in Paris for about six weeks at No. 10, Rue Monthabor. He passed himself off as an officer in the the English army, and went by the name of Sir Thomas Alsopp. He had bought a horse on which he fre quently rode in the Bois de Boulogne. Three days before the attempt, a pretended domestic, who was Gomez, came to attend him. As the new corner could not be accommodated in the same house as his master, a room was taken for him in the Rue St. Honors, where he slept. During the day he came to the Rue Monthabor, and while pretending to wait on Orsini did very little, and was very lavish in giving cigars and glasses of brandy to the servants of the house. On Thursday evening, the 14th, be was sit ting in the porter's lodge, when he suddenly rose up, and said," It is time for me to attend on my master, who is going to the theatre." He crossed the pas sage, and went into the apartment of Orsini on the ground floor, and soon after left with him and a third person, a friend of his master, and a fourth—the servant of the last•natned—Uomez and this man walking behind the other two. The concierge seeing the two men carrying large packets, wrapped up in pocket handkerchiefs, thought it strange that they should be thus loaded when going to the theatre, and followed them out to the gateway, when he observed that the two pretended domestics, thinking they were not seen, threw off their assumed charac ter, and walk side by side with the others. The Monitetir has told the rest. Both Orsini and Pieni had been intimate in England. Pierri had for long resided at Beth-row, Birmingham, where he followed the profession of a teacher of languages Abcut a fortnight since Orsini came secretly to Birmingham and visited Pierri. The two men held long conferences together, and shortly after Mr. G. R. Collis, the French vice consul in Birmingham, was applied to by Pierri to vise a passport to France• Having known that the person applying to him had resided in the town for several years, Mr. Collis complied with the request. Pierri said he was going to travel for pleasure. He was then asked to perform the same duty for THE PRESS, JAxtrAiir 23, 185 g. Prussia, but for some reason declined. Pierri then wanted the Belgian mark, but this Mr. Collis was not in a position to atilt, but referred the inquirer to Mr. A. Everitt, who is the vice-consul for Belgium. By the latter gentleman the psesport was made available for Belgium. Pierri left Birmingham on Wednes day, the 6th, stating that he was going into Scotland for three weeks. The following details are given of his arrival on the French frontier : About a week ago an Italian, who gave his name as Pierri, arrived at the railway here from Belgium; he carried in his hand a small iron box, which he said con tained tools. He produced a passport perfectly regular, but the commissary expressed a wish to see the use of the box, which appeared of a singular make. Pierri replied very composedly that he was a tuner of pianos, and that the box, as well as its contents, was what he used it, his business. As there was nothing to prevent his entering France he was allowed to continue his journey, but the surprise of the persons who spoke to him may be imagined when they learned afterwards that he was one of the con spirators. Since Pierri's arrest, his house in Bath-row has been searched by the police, and a most voluminous correspondence seized, and transmitted to Sir George Grey. A book was also discovered treating of the construction of grenades, and giving numerous receipts for the manufacture of explosive substances. From other discoveries it would appear that the Spaniard Gomez, who is now in custody as impli cated in the conspiracy, was likewise one of Pierri's visitors. Three of the principals have thus been traced to Birmingham—namely, Pierri, Orsini, and Gomez. The projectiles used to assassinate the Emperor have been examined by a commission composed of artillery officers. It has been ascertained that they ate charged with fulminating mercury. They each produce from seventy to seventy-five explosions. It may easily be imagined what destruction they might occasion. On Pierri's arrest, when M. Hebert, who effected his capture, was handling the bomb found on him, Pierri, alarmed at the consequences which might arise to himself should it explode, exclaimed, " Take care ! Pay attention to what you are doing, or that thing may cause serious accidents." When arrested, Pierri was very violently agitated, but when he heard the detonations he became more calm, and said, "I am taken, but that is now of little conse quence, for the blow has been struck." It appears from the list of the Moniteur that the number of persons killed by the explosion amount to seven, and the wounded to 144. Orsini was arrested in bed ; a large sum of money was found at his lodgings. Rudio is reported to have turned Crown evidence, and to have confessed to the whole plot. Baba! anb Ali lung 3ntellignut. THE following circular has been issued from the Recruiting Department : Horse Guards, Jan. 18. The standard of recruits for all regimenta of infantry serving in India is reduced to five feet three inches until further orders, the age remaining as at present—viz., from eighteen to thirty years. By command of his Royal Highness the General Com- G. A. WITHZRLLL, VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JOHN CoonE, K.C.8., died at his residence in Plymouth on Tuesday night. He was on the reserve list of the 25th of June, 1857, and in receipt of service pension. THE good-service pension rendered vacant by the death of Admiral Downman has been given to Vice- Admiral A. R. Sharpe. FORTIFICATLONS OF THE PORT OF PLYMOUTH.— Major Jarvis, R.E., Assistant Inspector-General of Fortifications, is at present at Plymouth, on special duty, to make arrangements with the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and W. Pole Carew, Esq., , for the pur chase of portions of their land, for the purpose of constructing a chain of fortifications on the western side of Hamoaze. ROYAL VISIT TO WOOLWICH ARSENAL. Ox Thursday the Prince Consort and the Royal Princes now on a visit to the Queen paid a visit to Woolwich, inspected the various de partments of the Royal Arsenal, and attended a parade of the garrison. The Royal party, con sisting of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Prince of Prussia, the Princes Albert, Frederick Charles, Frederick Albert, and Adalbert of Prussia, his Highness the Prince, of Hohenzollern, and their Royal Highnesses Prince William of Baden and the Duke of Saxe Coburg, attended by their respective suites, arrived at the Arsenal shortly after 11 a.m. The Royal party inspected in detail the brass foundry, where two 12-pounder howitzers were cast in their presence, the smithy and the laboratory, where are machines for making the Minie bullets, and which process seemed to excite the interest of the Royal visitors. Like all the machines here, these are per featly automatic. Coils of solid leaden pipin g are hung in it, which it unwinds, etas to the required length, stamps with steel dies into the form of g Minis bullet, and then conveys away into b ox " Each machine has four dies, which out, stamp, a nt i pass into boxes thirty-six bullets a minute, giving for each machine an average of 7,000 per hour. There are four of such machines, which thus each day turn out 300,000 Minis bullets; but, of course, as they never tire, the number produced can at any time b e doubled by leaving them to work all night. 'l'h 7 are so simple in their construction that one m an could easily attend to them all. It was a curious contrast to the silent rapidity with which these deadly messengers were formed to watch a number of men and boys working near them casting round musket-balls for Shrapnel shells in the old style of hand work. By this method two persons can only rough cast seven cwt. of bullets per day, or about 12,500, which it takes two persons another day to trim. From the laboratory they inspected the wheel factory. Here a few unskilled labourers superin tending the machines produce forty complete gun. carriage wheels a day, though all their component parts are made of the hardest woods—viz., elm for the naves, oak spokes, and ash for the felloes. The novelty here was the new mode in which a wheel is fitted together. Instead of by hand, as formerly, the pieces are all laid together on the ground, aril of course in a circle, around the outside of which are six small hydraulic rams, with the head of the piston of each curved so as to form a segment of a circle touching the outside portion of the wheel. One small steam engine pumps the water into all these with au equal pressure, which, as it increases, forces the felloes into the spokes, and the spokes into the nave of the wheel with such f Tee as to compress the whole by a strain of 250 tons into the solidity of one piece. The Prince of Prussia especially seemed much interested by this process and the extraordinary rapidity and con , pleteness with which it was effected. After examining it most minutely he requested that another wheel might be fixed in the machine, which was of course instantly done, and the process repeated. The actual time occupied in pressing the wheel firmly together by this way is rather less than halt a minute. From this workshop, after glancing at the endless handsaws, the Royal party proceeded through the saddlery and the iron gun turnery into the new great toundery for iron guns, where the principle of the peculiar bore of a small, but beau tifully finished, rifled cannon of Mr. Whitworth's was explained. This weapon evidently gave rise to much conversation as to rifled cannon among the Royal party, and several others of an older pattern were afterwards examined while proceeding towards the test-house for bars of iron and steel. Here a bar of iron an inch in diameter was broken with a tension strain of 31,0001 b., or about thirteen tons, and the strength, value, and relative merits of the machine with which this was done were afterwards explained to and canvassed by the visitors. The Royal party after this at once proceeded to the gun wharf, where some thirty or forty horses were provided for all the visitors, and precisely at one o'clock the cortege quitted the Arsenal. After leaving the Arsenal the Royal visitors at once proceeded to the Artillery barracks, where they par- took of luncheon, and came upon the review ground in the centre of the common after a lapse of about half an hour. The inspection of the troops was very brief, the whole affair not exceeding forty minutes, when the Royal party returned to town. Sate ad Valitt. THE Judges have agreed to a general holiday g the Law Courts on Monday next, in consideration of that day being the auspicious day of the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal with Prince Frederick William of Prussia. _ . A RETIRING PENSION of 2,0001. a year has been granted to Sir John Dodson. THE QUESTION OF THE DISALLOWANCE OF FEES TO CORONERS is under the consideration of the Middle sex. magistrates. A special court was held at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, on Thursday, for the purpose of bearing counsel on the point. Mr. Bodkin argued for the coroners. AMONGST the batch of counsel who bare just received silk, and on Mondey last took their seat within the bar, appears the name of Mr. Goldsmid. He is a son of the Baron Goldsmid, and is the first member of the Hebrew persuasion who has yet attained that dignity. THE CASE OF COLONEL WAUGH AND THE EASTERN BANE again came before the Court of Bsnkruptcy on Tuesday, when Mr. Commissioner Evans, upon the representation of Mr. Linklater, ordered a memo• randum to be placed on the proceedings that the bankrupt had not surrendered to the adjudica tion. This proceeding is a virtual proclamation of outlawry.