The Press.
London, England, 1858-04-17 00:00:00

TRIAL OF SIMON BERNARD.

Tin trial of M. Bernard, under Special Commis-
sion, took place on Monday, at the Central Criminal
Court, before the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord Chief
Baron, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Justice Crowder, and
the Recorder. Several noblemen and gentlemen,
including Prince Tcherkosky, Secretary to the Sar-
dinian Legation, and M. Gautier, of the French
Embassy, occupied seats on the bench. The
prisoner having declined to plead to the indictment,
a plea of " Not Guilty " was entered. The jury were
sworn, and the Attorney-General rose and opened
the case for the prosecution.
Sir Rumor KELLY, who confined himself to a
strict statement of facts, prefaced his address by a
brief allusion to the fatal results of the attempt of
the 14th of January, by which eight persons were
killed and 156 wounded, and said that the persons
whom he charged with complicity in this murder
were six Allsop, Bernard, Orsini, Pierri, Rudio,
and Gomez. Of these the first four designed and
projected the murder in this country. On the 16th
of October last Allsop proceeded to Birmingham,
and applied to Mr. Taylor, a manufacturer there, to
sake for him six oval hand-grenades, of which he
gave a most minute description. Certain written
communications passed between Allsop and Taylor
with respect to the construction of these instruments,
which were completed between the 16th of October
and the 23rd of the November following. These
grenades were intended to operate by means of fulmi-
nating mercury, which is composed of tree ingredients
—absolute alcohol, nitric acid, and mercury. Bernard
sometime during the month of November purchased
of a warehouseman named Parker a quantity of ab-
solute alcohol and of pure nitric acid. Between the
26th and 28th of November Orsini, then residing in
Grafton-street, Kentish-town, left London for Brus-
sels with a passport in the name of Allsop. On the
3rd of December Bernard proceeded to the Cafe
Suisse, in Tichborne-street, Haymarket, kept by a
man named Giorgi, and, producing two halves of
these grenades, then empty and unfitted with nipples
or caps, and representing them to be a new gas in-
vention, asked Giorgi if he could take them over to
Brussels to the Cafe Suisse, where an English gentle-
man would call for them. Giorgi consented, and the
next day took over to Brussels five of these halves. A
few days afterwards Bernard himself went over to
the Cafe Suisse in Brussels, and there met Orsini,
whom he introduced to Giorgi as Allsop. For some
days Bernard and Orsini were together in Brussels.
Bernard at length applied to Giorgi to find a person
who would take Orsini's horse to Paris. Giorgi re-
commended Zeguerus, a waiter at the Cafe Suisse, and
on the night of the 11th Zeguerus, with the bombs in
halves, and packed in a carpet bag, started with
Orsini for Paris, where they arrived the following
morning. About the same time that the grenades
were being manufactured in Birmingham, Pierri,
accompanied by Orsini (on the 29th of October),
bought of Mr. Hollis, a firearms manufacturer at
Birmingham, two revolvers, which Bernard on the
2nd of January took to King, the clerk at the South-
Eastern Railway Company's oi; ce in Regent street,
to be transmitted to Paris to a M. Outrequin, to
whom also Bernard wrote, introducing Orsini as a
young Englishman by the name of Allsop, and pre.
Paring Outrequin for Allsop to call upon him, and
suggesting that if he wished to have the revolvers,
Outrequin was to 1‘ give them to him directly," and
to say nothing about the price, which " will be ar-
ranged between him and me." Orsini, as Allsop,
did call, saw the revolvers, and took them
We have now, therefore, Orsini in Paris, having travelled
there under a false passport as Thomas Allsop, the English.
man, and having previously met with Bernard in Brussels,
and received from him those grenades which Bernard had
Possessed himself of, and which he had sent to Brussels,
as 1 ha" detailed to M. I must aow—and I will do so

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