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London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

and now absconded (au fuite)—proceeds to narrate
the well-known events of the 14th of January. It
has been judicially ascertained, says that func•
tionary, that 156 persons were struck, and the
number of wounds, according to medical reports,
amounted to five hundred and eleven by the
explosions on the 14th of January. In this long
list of victims were comprised twenty-one women,
eleven children, thirteen lancers, eleven Gerdes de
Paris, and thirty-one police agents. It must be
added, to complete the picture which the Rue
Lepelletier presented at this moment, that besides
the two horses of the imperial carriage, twenty-four
belonging to the lancers were struck, two of which
died on the spot, and three more the next day. The
circumstances connected with the arrest of the
prisoners are then described, and their personal
histories sketched, and from which we draw the fol-
lowing conclusions—viz., that Orsini, who for thirteen
years has been follov►ing the career of a conspirator,
lived iv England nearly two years ; Pierri, out of
wenty• four years' active life, lived for some five in
England ; while Rudio and Gomez had resided in
England for some eighteen months only. The latest
declarations made by the accused who are present
in France enables us to trace their origin, and follow
the development of the plot which ended in the
attempt of Jan. 14. Orsini himself says that in
October, 1857, they talked of assassinating the
Emperor :

In October, 1857, Gomez baring met Orsini and Ber-
nard in a street in London, the former asked him to call
upon him at No. 2, Grafton-street. " During this visit,"
says Gomez, " Orsini told him that the Prophet (meaning
itturzini) was losing his power, and that all his efforts only
ended in getting men shot to no purpose ; and then he
propoaed to him to join in a plan which he (Orsini) had
invented, to get up a rising in Italy." From this period
they began to consider how to get some shells manufac-
tured with which to kill the Emperor. Orsini had got a
model made in wood by a turner, but, being a foreigner, it
was feared that he would not easily find a manufacturer in
England who would make the real shells, and consequently
this task was confided to the Englishman Allsop. Allsop
applied to Mr. Taylor, an engineer at Birmingham. At
the dictation of Orsini, Bernard wrote a note containing
instructions for Mr. Taylor. This note, dated the 16th of
October, 1857, is annexed to the proceedings, and the
details contained in it correspond exactly with the descrip-
tion already given of the shells that were used on January
14. Four letters written by Allsop were addressed to
Taylor to hasten the manufacture of the " models," as they
were called. These letters are dated from Ginger's Hotel,
where Allsop was staring in London, and bear date the
17th, 19th, 21st, and 23rd of November, 1857. In a sub-
sequent letter, dated November 28, Allsop sent to Mr.
Taylor a post-office order for 21. 6s. 6d. in payment of the
work be bad done. Gomez, however, appeared to be
somewhat mistrusted by the leaders of the plot. Orsini
sent himitolßirrningham, where Pierri was to watch him.
From Birmingham, on November 3, 1837, Gomez wrote
to Orsini a letter in which he protests his devotedness,
and the terms of which, though enveloped in a certain
disguise, sufficiently prove that he fully knew what was to
be done.
The passage we have marked in italics offers a
o triouti comment. upon recent remarks which have
b !en made againit England for her encourage-
ment to assassins.

At the time when the correspondence was going on
between Pierri and De Rudio, Orsini, under the false
name of Allsop, had already left England for Paris.
He had obtained in London a Belgian visa for
Thomas Allsop's passport on November 24th, and a
French visa on the 28th :
On the 29th we find him at Brussels, at the Hotel de
I'Europe, Place Royale, No. 1. A few days later Bernard
a-rived at Brussels with a passport for Belgium, delivered
01 December 7by the French Consul in London. He it
WAR who had undertaken to get the shells manufactured
be Mr. Taylor brought to Brussels. For this purpose he
had recourse to M. Joseph George, whose brother keeps
tie Café Suisse on the Place de la Monnaie, at Brussels.
Joseph George came to Brussels by way of Ostend on
December 6, 1857. When he left London Bernard had
handed to him ten half shells in cast metal, that is to say,
live shells divided into ten pieces, telling him at the same
time that they were part of a newly-invented gas apparatus,
and that an Englishman who lived at Liege would come to
fetch them at the Cafe Suisse. George did, in fact, declare
these things at the Ostend Custom-house es gas apparatus ;
be paid the duty which was asked for; he expected in vain
the Englishman who was to come t i the Café Suisse ;
but one day Bernard presented himself there and took them
away. Orsini (passing as Allsop) had told the people of
the Hotel de l'Europe that he was going to Paris, but that
he was waiting for a friend. This friend was no other
than Bernard, and the moment he arrived in Brussels
Allsop prepared to depart. He had bought a horse of an
officer of the Guides, and he sent the shells to Paris by
the man who took the horse. At the request of Bernard
and Orsini, George mentioned the name of Zeguero, one
of the waiters at the Café Suisse. On December 11, the
horse having been placed in a box on the railway, Zeguero
was, just as he was starting, told by George to take a bag
containing the ten half shells in question, and to give the
bag to the owner of the horse in Paris. It is thus that
the shells, of which such a criminal use was to be made,
were introduced into France. Zeguero (following the
instructions he had received) declared them at the
Custom-house as a new kind of gas apparatus, and they
Imo thought to be of such small value that no duty was
asked for them at the French frontier. Orsini went to