The Press.
London, England, 1855-05-12 00:00:00

TRIAL OF FIANORL

Tea trial of the culprit who attempted to assasinate the
Emperor of the French came on before the Assize Court
at Paris, on Monday. No difference was made in any res-
pect with regard to the proceedings in the case, which was
conducted in exactly the same fashion as if the charge had
been of the most ordinary kind. The trial was completed
in one day, and resulted in the prisoner being found guilty
of "Paricide," and sentenced to death. Many minute
particulars respecting his former carter were stated during
the course of the proceedings, of which the following are
the chief points. The real name of the assassin, it seems ,
is Giovanni Pianori ; it is certain that he was born in the
Pontifical States, though he refused to state the precise
spot. It does not appear that he is a married man. His
business is, according to his own account, that of a shoe-
maker. In the year 1849 he belonged to the insurrectionary
army of Rome, and served as a volunteer under the orders,
it is supposed, of Garabaldi, though he declined giving the
name of his chief. At the conclusion of that struggle he
quitted the Roman territory, and proceeded, in company
with many others in a similar condition, to Piedmont,
where he resided till the beginning of 1804. About that
time he went to Marseilles, where he lived several months
under the name of Livereni. He subsequently visited
several other towns of France, and remained some time
at Lyons and Chalons, and then came to Paris, where he
took out a pt rmis de srjour under the same false designation .
He was recommended to a muster shoemaker named
Mallet, who gave him work. Owing to negligence or to
want of proper skill he was before long discharged. Be
soon after proceeded to London, where he remained about
four months, but it does not appear that it was want of
work which forced hint to quit Paris. He arrived in
London in December last, and after a very short period of
idleness he was put in a situation to earn ftom 50s. to fifts.
a week ; but refused to state from whom he derived that
income, what kind of work he was employed on, and in
what part of London lie resided or was employed. Out
of these earnings he states that he was enabled to save
about Via. per week, and thus endeavoured to account for
the sum of money (bOO francs) which was found upon
him when he was arrested. He quitted London on the
2(lth of March last, and again returned to Paris, where he
took up his lodging in a house on the external Boulevard
Pigale ; and his landlord states that during this period he
did not appear to be occupied in any way. He was remarked
by those who occasionally saw him to be quite different
from what lie had been previously; that he was silent, re•
served, and avoided associating with any one. The large
amount of his earnings in London is a matter of surprise,
inasmach as be had been discharged by his Parisian em-
ployer as an unskilfuliworktean who hardly knew anything
of his craft. It is concluded, therefore, that he was a
shoemaker little more than in name, and that his means
of subsistence never (lid proceed from that source. It was
during the latter part of hie residence in London that ho
purchased for ttl. the double-barrelled pistol which he em-
ployed against the Emperor, and also two other pistols
with single barrels, which were found in his pockets at the
moment of his arrest. The reason he gave for possessing
these firearms was, that he received the two single-barrelled
pistols from a servant for whom he had worked, and wbo,
having no money to give him, offered him those articles
in lieu of payment when he was about to embark for
America. In Paris he spent an entire month in idleness,
and probably in debauchery, for on the eve of his arrest
two prostitutes called on him at his lodging. During that
month he took care to conceal his movements and proceed-
ings, and acted with so much care that he eluded all sur•
veillance. On the 28th of April he left his lodging early In
the morning, fully armed. His double-barrelled
loaded and primed, was suspended to his belt. His
two single•barelled pistols, also loaded and primed,
were concealed in his trousers pocket. His poniard
knife was likewise available, and next to it was a
very sharp razor. Under his coat was found a cap
which would have served as a disgu;se after the perpctra-,
tion of the crime and favored his i scope. Thus prepared
Pianora repaired to the Champs Elysees. He knew that
the Emperor generally rode out in that direction. He
knew also that his Majesty dispensed with an escort, and
showed no want of confidence in those who surrounded
him. The opportunity was the more favorable to the
assassin, who placed himself in ambuscade, and awaited
his intended victim. The incidents which attended and
followed his criminal, and happily unsuccessful attempt,
have already been detailed.

AN account issued from the Treasury on Saturday
shows the estimated gross revenue for the year end-
ing the 31st March, 1850, to amount to 91,024,951/.,
and the estimated net revenue to 80,630,000/. The
items of the estimated net revenue are as follows—
viz., Customs, 22,600,0001.; Excise, 18,071,0001.;
stamps, 7,015,0001.; land and assessed taxes,
2,920,0001.; property and income tax, 14,535,000/.,
Post-office (including the sum of '288,00 for news-
paper), 1,438,0001.; Crown lands, 200,000/.; mis-
cellaneous, 800,0001.; money to be raised by loan,
16,000,000/. ; and by Exchequer-bills, 3,000M001.
The items of expenditure (including the cost of col-
lecting revenue) are as follows—viz.:—Cost of the
funded and unfunded debt, 27,974,000/.; permanent
charges on the Consolidated Fund, 1,750,000.. ; the
army (including the militia and commissariat),
16,214,0001.; the navy (including transports and
packet service), 10,053,00(/.; the Ordnance,
7,808,0001.; the vote of credit for extraordinary ex-
penses of the war, 3,000,000/. ; miscellaneous civil
services, 0,500,0001. ; the loan to Sardinia, 1,000,0001. ;
the cost of collecting the revenue, 4,385,9511. ; the
ways and means bills issued in 1844 45, remaining to
be paid off, 1,000,000/., thus leaving • margin of
4,740,0001. for contingencies out Of the prospeetiie
receipts of the financial year.

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THE EARL OF ELLENBOROUGHS
RESOLUTIONS.
THE following are the resolutions to be proposed in
the House of Lords, on Monday next :
That an humble address be presented to her Majesty,
To assure her Majesty of our continued support in the
prosecution of the just and necessary war in which her
Majesty is engaged:
To declare the sincere gratification with which we have
regarded the perfect community of counsels between her
Majesty and the Emperor of the French, and have seen
friendliness established and increasing between the French
people and our own ; events full of hope for the future to
other nations as well as to ourselves :
To express our admiration of the many deeds of valour
by which the allied forces in the East have illustrated their
brotherhood in arms, and our satisfaction that the brave
army of Piedmont is now called to participate in their
actions and in their fame :
To declare our persuasion that, amidst all their disap-
pointments, the people of this country still retain the gene-
rous feelings which led them at the commencement of the
war willingly to place all the means required from them at
her Majesty's disposal—that they will still protect the
weak against the aggression of the strong—and that they
are not prepared to consent that Russia shall, by her
increasing preponderance, so control the Turkish Govern-
ment as practically to hold Constantinople within her
grasP
To acquaint her Majesty that, while we admit and lament
the privations to which war necessarily subjects all classes
of the people, we yet venture to assure her Majesty that
they would in so just a cause bear those privations without
complaint if they could feel that the war had been well
conducted--that the troops had not been exposed to any
hardships which could have been avoided by forethought—
and that everything had been done to enable them to
achieve decisive success:
Humbly to represent to her Majesty that her people, suf-
fering privations on account of this war, have as yet had no
such consolation ; that, on the contrary, we cannot with-
hold from her Majesty the avowal of our conviction that the
conduct of the war has occasioned general dissatisfaction,
and given rise to just complaints; and that we must hum-
bly lay before her Majesty our deliberate opinion that it is
only through the selection of men for public employment,
without regard to anything but the public service, that the
country can hope to carry on the war successfully, and to
obtain its only legitimate object, a secure and honorable
peace.