The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-20 00:00:00

THE. TRIAL AT LYONS.

EIONT/I DAW.—AI:OI:I2 13.
In the sit tin f of today the examination of the
prisoners was coalmen...A.
gent was firs' questioned. Ile said that he protested
against the i lea that he had been concerned in a plot, the
Obrei or pretest of which was to plunge France into a
civil var. In June, July, and August of last year a good
deal of disquietude was felt by him and his friends respect-
ing the Republic; the dismissal of a general, who passed
for being the pivot of the party of order, and the cries of
Vise l'Euthereur !" Vive Napoleon !•' occasioned that
disquietude. if the situation of the southern departments
wile attentively considered, it would be found quite
natural that he and his friends trembled fur their country.
They could got help dreading as imminent some fatal event.
Ile was devoted to the Republic. 110 had never conspired
against it. Ile had only wished to save it. Ile communicated
la friends the reports that had been addressed to him.
All of them showed that his party expected a coop d-rlat
and were firmly resolved to defend the Republic if it should
be att eked. He had had letters addressed to him in
swanned names, because he knew that the p.dice was suspi-
cons and distrusted the most upright intentions and most
innocent acts. Ile hail done nothing iUetal, but he had
taken precautions. When he was at I.vons, Thourel
called ou him, and they found that their convictions on poli-
tical subjects were the Same. The subject of their con-
versations was that the Republic, if attacked, should be de-
fended. Batt between them there had been no talk of a
emainittee at Lyons or Paris, nor of organisation or plot.
lie denied positively that he had ever belonged to a secret
society called the Carbunari ; nor had be had secret rela-
tions With its members. Ile had never authorised any one
10 write to him on the organisation of a secret society in the
DICIRS. lie did not know the person who had written to
him the letter signed Amitia. In May and June, 1860, he
had had communications with his co-accused Saint-Prix. He
had accompanied him to the prison St. Joseph, to convey
tummy to a political prisoner. His correspondence had not
been so extensive so represented ; he had only received three
or four letters a-weels. It was not astonishing that his
kturs should be addressed to him at Borers, seeing that
borers daughter had since become his wife. With respect
to the manor transmitted to him. the amount was not 203 f.,
a. Hated in the indictment, but 49Sf. 63c.; and he had pro-
cured it for the relief of political prisoners: 50f. of it Asa
been sent to the refugees at Geneva, and another 50f to the
Prison at ltiom ; he lad also made other disbursements.
Ile had made a journey to Geneva, but it was not to con-
spiresiath the refugees there. The accused Longomaxino
End written to him on the state of his department, and he
4441 simply replied that the state of Vaucluse and of the
11.. as
.ses•A
pis Was the same. The superior committees re.
rred to in one of the letters did not exist. When at Geneva
he had not attended any meeting of the refugees. One
',anew said that he was at such a meeting, when another
had said that at that time he was in another place. The
fact was, that on the day in question, the lot October. he
Lash" board a Nlac.in steamer. It was impossible that. if
3.1 been engaged in a conspiracy, he would have been so
'Prudent, as the indictment alleged, as to have said loud
10 a rase to some refugees, " Yost have only to wait six

weeks!" Ile had, however' said to them, " Ile calm, have
patience," but merely as worth of ordinary consolation to
exiles. Ile had not attended a socialist congress at Valence.
Ile had gone to that place to collect evidence on the affair
of aM. Dupont, of whom he Lot heen the advocate. The
first 'arson met at Valence was S..int-Prix, who assiited
him to find the witnesses. After spending the evening at a
eats, Stint-Prix refused to let hist go to an hotel, b-st gave
him a bed in his own house. Saint-Pria's servant was
mistaken in saying that she hail not made an extr t hell that
day. It was possible, however, that she had not seen him,
as she had gaii! away at six n'etock in the eteniie4, and did
not return until after he hail kft the neat morning. Ile
declared that he hail never received any letter from Charles
Iklesillal.e, Letlrtiltollin, or any attar refugee in London.
The accused Bond, being interrogated, said that Bent
hail taken his meals at Ilia 11.111, (ieCU.CiI keeps a rotten-
rant), but huh never slept there. Many persons called to
see him, and he hail received letters fir hint. Gent was
often indisposed, and lay down till the evening in Isis
Odorers) bed. Ile (Buret) hail been to Gap on private
affairs. It was possible that he received 10014. at the Post-
office sent to him by a man named Fr...merit ; the workmen
a ho frequented his house often eharged him to native the it
mon -y. Ile bail paid la. ilk. to the secretary oh' the socia-
list committee of the lthone, but it was tie balance glue en
the dissolution of the committee of which he had been a
member.
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The accused Beli.c.o slid that he had made thr acquaint-
ance of (lent when that per.on .lef,aded one of hi. trienil,
before the court-martial. (Isla had lodged in his Mato.,
bat not secretly. The paper. which haft been burned in
Gent's room were packet. of sociali.t publication., which
had been sent to him (lielimer) by B. ltispail. Ile (11elivi r)
hail burned them because he feared he might be pro.ccuted
for hating violated the laws ow hawking. For the same
rearm he had made a false statement to the police. lle
had not attended any Isolitieal meeting at Lyons. Ile dis-
, tinetly denied the accusation made against him.
Defmclaze said that lie had not been cocci rned in any
plot, and hail never formed part of any. secret society. lie
Not known Gent, wt,•i had written to him. Ile had never
promried his to the secret ...ciety called the
Noun. !le '.‘lontigne. Ile had nne on comni,rial
into iiiirrent department., and had, he ailinitt,ll, a.kvil
Uent for the adirevies of member of their party. lii.oh ,ct
was to net subscription. for three democratic journal.. lle
had not been eat,loyed to transmit the corre.poudence of
his heather, the refugee, to Gent. . . .

Bouvier declared that hr had weer be'onged to a secret
society. lie hard :tone to Lyons on business. lie had called
on Gent to apeak to him on the poli•ical distuthmees in
the prior. Ile ha-I then told Gent that he was sapected
of having caused those disturbances, but Gent denied it. On
his visit to Lyons he (Bouvier) had stopped at Mono, and
(hot to :d him to execute faitbfit!ly what he had been told
to do when at Macon. Gent had also said that an attempt
would shortly be made by the reactionists to overthrow the
constitution. Ile (Bouvier) had gone to Valence on pri-
vate business • but In' knew there was to be a WeiaLA con-
Vv.,. in that place of Mont:Titan: representatives and influ-
ential democrats. Ile had secreted himself to ovoid perse-
cution IKVIIUM3 he had the reputation of being a very art
dent republican, although in fact he was out more republi-
can than other people.
Dupont stated that as the ag•ent of an assurance company
he had been obliged to trate' trans place to place. Ile had
gone to Valence with Bouvier, but it was to treat for the
insurance of a forest. Ile had been tried before a court-
martial at Lyons for a political offence. Ile had haul to lay
a tine, and Saint-Prix had borrowed the money for him.
MottWgut denied that he had ever had any relations with
Gent. lie had, however, written to him on behalf of another
person whose name he would not mention. Th • funds he
had remitted to Sealant were fur a socialist journ .1. IL:
had not been one of the secretauciety calbsd •• Les
though he hail signed a letter in that name.
Gent lamented that Monte,gut refused to say who it was
that dictated the letter which he had written to him, be-
cause the charge which gave him must porn, that of having
asked for money to carry on his eurresponaleng.•, was
founded upon that letter.
Ode, ea-Proeurtur of the Republic at ties, declared
that hr had nut been concerned in the plot under nave-Aiwa-
tion. Ile had earned his living honourably as an advocate.
Ile had not belonged to a secret satiety ut Uses or Nimes.
Ile had written to Gent at Buren,' awl a had addressed the
" letter to Mare." In ono of bin letters be had spoken of
France as a California, but it was because some of the people
of his village had gone out them. (The: accused spoke with
great volubility, entered into irrelevant matter, and fre-
quently protested he was a most honourable man.)
Carle denied that he had belonged to a conspiracy
fur causing an insurrretion in dill -rent towns. lie
had known Gent far several years, and Ode bad been
his sc:eoulfellow. He wet not the person Ude in-
tended by •• Jean" in one of the letters to Gent. Ile had
sent dif. to Lyons. lle had had no communication with at
politieid refugee named Antonin, hut had had coalmen-MI
relations with Beliscer.
Grill said that he had never belonged to any secret
society. Ile could not tell why Munti•gut had seat letters
to hint with the inscription, " For the three Camillus."
All the letters and documents presented to hint were n•la-
tivc his COIOUIvrCe.

The cuurt then adjourned.
NINTU WM—At-GUST li.

The public pros 'stator complained that letters were
handed to some of the accused in the court, which was
contrary to the regulations ; used the President ordered
that this should be prevented.
The accused Barbut,jourie yman cabinet-maker at Nitric%
was interrogated—lle denied that be hull ever conspired
against the state, hut was ready to sacrifice hi. life for the
republic. Hu had never belonged to any secret society.
One of the two letters prownted to hint hail been written
sty him, hut it was not political ; the other (which was of a
compromising character) he denied having written. A
letter signed by a person named Vulcan, asking the receipt
for making gunpowder, had been sent to him, but he knew
no one of that name, and thought the man inu.4 have ;wie
a police spy. Ile had never received a sum of !of. from
Martin Cadet, of the Cerele des Travailleurs of Nimes, but
1114 , btained from the ('cycle 7f. to enable the accused
lieridot to go to Montpellier.
Ilw accused Beridot, a shoemaker, said that he had re-
ceived the if., but denied that his visit to Montpellier was
of a teoldiml nature.
A letter written by Berbut was rend, in which a very
ditlerent account was given of the affair.
Nome, who was next questioned, &elated that he hail
never been accused of being concerned in any plot, and had
never belonged to any secret eockty. It wan true that he
had written a letter asking fur a mould for casting bullets,
but it was fur the purpose of his trade. lie had written a
letter in which he had said he would "convoke" Grill
treasurer of the Cerele des Tramilleurs of Nimes • by that
he had meant that he would invite him to meet his: friends
at his house ; the word was erroneously employed, because
he had no education. More importance was attached to
the word than it deserved. Ile had made gunpowder and
sold it to poachers. Although he had written to Grill he
did nut know him personally.
N. Michel (de liourges) said he wished it to be known
that the accused had been condemned for illegally. selling
gunpowder, but it was to poachers, not to secret societies.
Auriol, ex-journalist of Montpellier, the next accused,
energetically denied that he had ever had any relations
direct or indirect with Gent ; he had never written to him,
or caused him to be written to, and had never received any
communication from him. That he declared on his honour.
He did not know Monte•itut ; he knew something of Car-
rike, end, as a newspapereditor, had received articles from
him. The letter of Carrike to Gent, in which it was mid
that he (Carrikv) had given the address of Gent to
" Al— di III—," could not refer to him. It was the cumin-
ing magistrate of Montpellier who, after making researches
in vain to find out to w hum the designation applied, had
said that Al— de M— could only apply to Auriol of
Montpellier, whom he considered an agitator. That was the
only reason for including him in the prosecution. (Move-
ment.) When he wae arrested he considered it the work of
the polies ;When taken before an examining magistrate that
functionary had told him that a letter addressed to him, and
in which lie was incriminated, had been found; whereas it
turned out that the letter only contained those initials,
Al— de ll—.
Pasta, of Nimes, declared that he had never been to the
Post.olfice at Nimes to seek a letter for Gent, addressed
ander cover of Bonnard.
Isidore Gent, of Nimes, said that be bad not, as charged
in the indictment, burned any papers. He and his wife had
been accustomed to throw bits of rag and paper into the
grate of a room; his wife had accidentally let fall a lighted
match on them, which set them on tire. Finding tinder
and remains of burnt paper in the grate, the Procureur of
the Republic had charged him with destroying documents.
All the documents between him and his brother Alphonse
had been of a private nature, and was almost always uuean-
meted with politics. He had several times sent money to
his brother. He had never belonged to any secret society.
In a letter to his brother he had, it was true, said, " The
revolutionary flood is rising rapidly—rapidly—look out !"
but that was only the opinion of a great number of his
fellow.citisens. The expression used by his brother in one
of his letters to him, " Press on the affair in question—what
can we do if you do nut?" did not refer to the kiyiug of
money from the members of a secret society, but to an affair
at Carpentras. The person indicated by the latter T in cne
of his letters was not the accused Tinseled, but an indi-
vidual living at Cerpentras.
Daillans, an otheier de santir, admitted that he had sent
27f. to Madame Burel, but it was, he said, for the refugees
in Switzerland and London. It had been collected in a
club at Bidarrides. He had addressed the money:to Madiune
Bored because he knew that Isidore Gent often sent money
for his brother to her.
Jouvkse, of Marseilles, said that he had not been the
treasurer of the Nouvelle Montagne. Ile did not know
that a meeting took place at Valence on 29th June, MO,
and did not know Gent. lie had gone to Lyons on 30th
! October, but it was to sec a female. He bad not belonged
1 to the society of the Vieille Montague. Ile had not re-
I calved 120 f. from a society to make a Journey to Lyons.
N. Michel (de Bourges) complained with some warmth

The President fully approved M. Michel (de Bourgesl
complaint. lie would give orders that the cause of it
al Id not be repeated.
The accused Thourel declared that he bail never belonged
to any secret society, and hail never been concerned in any
plot. Ile haul gone to Lyons, and being disappointed in re-
ceiving some money which he had expected, Gent had ad-
vanced him 2001. *lle had subsequently sent the money to
Morel, because Gent had requested him to do so. Ile had
not known Bore' before that time. Before he had gone to
Lyons he had Intl no relations of any kind with Gent. lie
had never written to him under the address "Marc." When
be had wished to communicate with hint, he hod been
olmligisl to oak for his address. Ile had gone to Lyons to
have a conversation with him on the situation of the coun-
try, In rause In considered it very grave. lle had done so
on are:mitt of the esteem in which lie held him. Ile him-
self, being often called on to plead in political cases,lma I
• md a political position of some importance in Provence,
and he had wished on that account to be in morrettpontlence
with Gent, but there hail been no qinstion of establishing a
committee ie the four departments of Provence.
Lougamaxino denied tint he had formed part of a secret
society. lie hail never had any relations with soldiers.
When he had written that a e mipany of the 2.lth regiment
was with them, he had only meant that the men of that
company had voted for democratic candidates, and were
therefore in favour of the constitution and the laws. Ile
i-splointil away the terms of different letters of his that
hat been CAVA, and denied that he had counselled insur-
rection.

Bouvier jai I he !Ind never been in nny secret wwiety, and
did not know lictit. lie 'lid nut know any of the commit-
tees in tho southern of the departments. He went to As i •
Rana to seek suMseriptions for a new,,,Aper. lie did not nt-
tend soy nu•otinq atVaLace on the '9th June.
The wart adjourned.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

COURT OF BANKItUTPCY.
livvoax Ma. 0,1011,010,111 FM10..04114
C.)!CCEALMI:NT OP PHOPEILTV.-AWCONDING OP A

B.\\KNT'\'T.

The hunkrunt. John Latham, jun., wan a pianoforte mann.
facturer, of (lowland-strcet, lotteithant-eourt-road. This
was the meeting fur the last ex:dninatent. The
balance-shett, prep seed by Mr. Putti., of II oinghall-street,
eat. tided user about cialiteen months 'prior to the bank-
ruptcy, and .(towed 4.6001. due to unsecured creditors, with
assets estimated at about 890/. The creditor. 11.111 se-
curity arimuntirm to 173/. ; they had acceptances and other
securities to the amount uf 1,9 MP. There wass no entry of
profit.; the be.es were put down at 1,137/., CZP4:1110,1 of
Yarinnf Mud., 17k11.
Mr. Cooke, Mr the ic use
dm, slid they had di.cnvcred
property 10 considerable amount, which had Will retnoved
by the hankrupt and concealed in various place. The evi-
ileum of the bankrupt's carman, an given at a private meet-
in-4, mid fully cstablitMeil the last that the property had
been lila. &sinew .1 of under the bankrupt's direction. In
rou.equerce of these ili..coveries the were infarnital
it was nit the bankrupt's intentiou to .urreuder to pas his
last examination: . . _

Mr. Juba Latham, sen., the bankrupt's father, said he
wa, able to state the his mni would nut surrenicr. After
the seidenee that tad helm given tonchitt4 the remussl of
property, he W 3.1 afraid of Iwing indicted criminally ; he had
therefore left the country.
Mr. Co..ke—llad he any money in hi. pocae.sign ?
Mr. Latham Only what 1 Raw him.
..., • . .

The Cminti4sione'r—The Cinkrupt, by absconding. has
muunitteil a klony, and is liable to be transported.
The bankrupt's . :twain:Won was then adjourned sine die,
stela warrant was issued for his immediate apprelivusiun.
IK an Mien sm..

The bankrupt 1. V a jeweller, in lioundoliteh. This was
the adjourned certificate meting. Ili* debts acre about
li.b)s. The cave had hem adjourned a vom.i.krable time
ago. for the papa, nt .4 a num of money into tsict, and,
,h a condition haring been complied with, hi, Honour uuw
granted a certificate of the thinl chow.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.

OLD COCLT. EDLIL
THE ATTENIPTY.4 AVIASsINATION IN TILE CITY.
Ifrnry Pale. 30, whu was charged with feloniously shoot-
in2 at John d,roweis Hack., with latent to murder him,
applied to Cw court to pol,lpolir hit trial ou account of the
;iineael• of a lady at Duologue, who he said was a material
itUCSS iu his behalf.

The Court ordered the trial to stand for Friday.

I'o',T-DITIL F. 1101110:11Y.

nowt, Young, 22, and Muzzall, 25, were
indicted fur stealing a letter containing two lig. and one 51.
Bank of England notes, the property of the Postmaster-
General.

Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution.
The prisoners were defended by Mr. Ballautine and Mr.
. . .

- circumstances under which this charge war preferred
against the prisoners were of rat her a corn pl ieded and pee i r
(Ammeter. It appeared that in September, IS4O, a lady manual
rhumb, residing near Southampton, scut a letter addressed
to her husband at the port-othce. Gravesend, to be called
fur, in which she two 101. notes and a 5/. note.
The letter and its contents, there was no doubt, passed
through the London Past-office, and duly arrived ut
liravex•nd, but it never came to the hands of Mr.
Pharuali, and, although the loss was made known, and the
Post-office authorities instituted the necessary inquiries,
no information with regard to the robbery was obtained
for some considerable time afterwards; and then, in
consequence of what transpired, both the prisoners
were taken into oudody. It appeared that they were both
employed at the Gravesend Post-office at the time in ques-
tion, mid thatithe letter must, in the ordinary course of
business, have come into their posoession. '1 he evidence
ag ain't the prisoners consisted of proof being given that on
the Eith November. the 51. note which hail been in the
letter was changed at the shop of a tradesman in Piccadilly,
and the person who, changed it expressed a strung belief
that Young was the man who had vu changed it. The mutt
important evidence against the prisoners, however, was the
testimony of a woman named Volkr, whose evident: was
given under rather singular circumstances. It appeared
that in 1818, the prisoner Muzzail married this person'a
•inter, and that she died in the following year ; and a few
mouths atter death, Muraall married her sister, the person
who was now called as u witness. After they had lived a
short time together, however, Muxsall told her that
he had been " reading some law hooks," and
had discovered that his marriage with her was not
a binding ceremony, and ha at the same time de-
clared that he did not intend to live with her
any longer, and she might sell the furniture and du what
rite pleased. Muzzall accordingly left her, as he had
threatened, and his wife then gave information to the Post-
°dive authorities of such a nature as, if true, left no doubt
that the prisoners were the persona who had stolen the let-
ter in question and its contents. The prisoucrs' counsel ob-
jected to the examination of this person as a witness on the
ground that rile W:l9 the wife of one of them, and that there
was nut sufficient evidence that the prisoner had married
her si,ter, or: that this person really stood in that position
of relationship to the witness.
[This case was not concluded when we went to press.]

NELbON'S COAT.—The recognition of the coat
Nelson wore at Trafalgar depends ou its fulfilling a detail
in the following fact. The present Captain Sir George
Westphal was a midshipman on hosed the Victory, and was
wounded on the back of the head; he was taken into the
eockpit,and placed by the side of Nelson. WhenWe:aphal's
wound was dressed, nothing else being immidiately
Ntlson's coat was rolled up and used as a support to
Westphal's head. Blood flowed trout the wound, and, coa-
gulating, stuck the bullion of one of the epaulettes to the
bandage; it was deemed better to cut off some of the bul-
lion curls to liberate the coat; so that the cut Nelson wore
on that day will be found minus of bullion in one of the
epaulettes.--Euxurcr.—From Notes sad Queries,

II DERSTORM AT BRP-NTWOOD.—On Sunday
afternoon a heavy storm passed over this town, and in its
journey eastward a flash of lightning set fire to a shed on
the farm of Mr. Barton, Windbarns, Shenfield. The flames
speedily communicated to a long range of sheds and a gra-
nary, and in a short space of time the • hole were burnt to
till ground ; the live stock had fortunately been turned
out only a few minutes before. The damage is estimated at
about 001.—k:saes herald.

FIRE AT KNIGIITSBRIDGE.—At half-past twelve
o'clock yesterday (midnight) a destructive the broke out iu
the neighbourhood of Kuightsbridge-grecti, and was at.
tended with con,iderable loss of property. It originated in
• double back house in the joint occupation of Mrs. Allum,
confectioner, and Mr. Cuthbertson, bookseller and stationer,
situate at No. 3411rompton-road. The inmates fortunateiy
escaped without injury. Although the engines from
Knightsbridge barracks with a quantity of soldiers were on
the spot within a few minutes of the outbreak, it was ern-
, os.ible to arrest the progress of the flames, and the pre-
mises WeTe for the most part destroyed. Fsnr.o of the ad-
joining houses sustaiucd injury. Part only of the property
was insured.

WEST CORNW.U.L ILAILWAT.—It has been found
impracticable to open the extension of this line (rum Hay-
Lai to Penzance by the Gist week in November, as was ex
Pe
; hut the p.nti /avf it to Itedruth will, it is thought,
camp!, tell mad op. n.,el by that tiai^. It is understood
that tLe difference: that remained un,ettitd in eannesion
with the litigation between the directors and Mr. Muwatt
have within the last few days been finally adjusted.

The general feeling of the share market is again
better to-day, more dispositisn to purchase having
been evinced. Some of the " bears" arc stated to
have oversold themselves, operations for the fall
having been carried on to an unusual extent
in certain descriptions of late. The improvement to-
day is most marked in London and South Westerns,
and Midlands, but London and North Westerns,
Great Westerns, and Lancashire and Yorkshires
have also been the turn dearer. The full improve-
ment, however, has not been maintained, the market
up to this neunent being a shade weaker. The
lighter descriptions of shares have not vm•ied much
from yesterday's rates.