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

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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 alcohol, the ingredients
used in fulminating mercury. At the conclusion 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 once
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 Madame
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 ":
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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."