The Press.
London, England, 1858-03-27 00:00:00

`',''ati3 anti Volicr.

A POLISH REFUGEE, &anisltlGS Tchorzewski, keep-
ing a bookseller's shop, 39, Rupert-street, Hay-
market, was brought before Mr. Jardine on Tuesday,
at the Bow street Police-court, upon a warrant
executed by Inspector Whicher, of the detective
force, charging him with " having on the Ist of
March inst. unlawfully printed and published a
certain false, scandalous, malicious, seditious, anti
defamatory libel concerning his Majesty the Empero.
of the French, with intent to incite divers persons to
assassinate his said Majesty." Mr. Bodkin con-
ducted the prosecution on the part of the Crown ;
and Mr. Leverson, an attorney, attended for the
defendant. The alleged libel is a small pamphlet
in French, bearing the signatures of "Le Comite de
la Commune Revolutiennaire : Felix Pyat, Besson,
et A. Talandier," being the document recently
referred to in the parliamentary debates. Mr.
Bodkin having briefly stated the case, passages from
the pamphlet referred to were read at length. The
writer, setting out that the Emperor is "an assassin,"
proceeds to discuss the legitimacy of assassinating
assassins, which he decides in the affirmative. Mr.
Bodkin having applied for a committal, Mr. Leverson
appealed for a remand, and protested against the
use of warrants of arrest, which was overruled by Mr.
Jardine :
Mr. Jardine: It is a case in which I can take bail.

Mr. Leverson said he :iad one of the bail present.
A singular-looking person, with long hair over his
shoulders and braided coat (evidently a foreigner), then
steppt d into the witness-box.

Mr. Bodkin: Are you the printer of the pamphlet which
forms the subject of this prosecution?
Witness: Yes, I am.

Mr. Bodkin : Then I object to this person's bail.
Mr. Leverson: Then you will drive me to Fend for
the greatest philosopher of the age, J. Stuart Mill, who
will be bail, and I will send to the India-house for him
His name will live when Derby's and Palmerston's are
forgotten.
Mr. Bodkin : Will you oblige me with the private address
of the greatest philosopher of the age ?
Mr. Leverson did not know it, but he would under-
take to fetch Mr. Mill within twenty-four hours.
The greatest philosopher of the age, however, did
not make his appearance within the usual time, and
his Polish friend was commit•ed, and packed off in
the prison van. On Thursday the prisoner was
again brought up, and two sureties being given in
501. each, and personal bail for 1001., the prisoner
was liberated. The " greatest philosopher of the
age" was not one of the sureties, and, from a state
ment of Mr. Leverson's, it appeared that Mr. Mill's
name had been most unjustifiably used by that gen-
tleman.

A HORRIBLE CASE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER AND
SUCCESSFUL SUICIDE occurred in the Caledonian-road,
Islington, on Sunday evening last. A man named
Osborne, a gas-worker, in a fit of well-founded jealousy
of his wife, attempted to murder her by cutting her
down with a cleaver, and then almost cut his own bead
off with a carving-knife. A coroner's inquest was held
on Wednesday, when the jury returned a verdict that
the deceased had destroyed himself while in an un-
sound state of mind. There is every probability of
the recovery of Mrs. Osborne, notwithstanding the
severe injuries she has received.