The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-19 00:00:00

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THE TRIAL Of 81M0% I:WARD.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-.APAIL 17.

SIXTH DAY.

The foilowieg is • fuTtll;arepore the couolneion of the
above trial lima we were able to give on Saturday
'This," said the leased judge, "is the whole of
the evillseee on the pool of the crown. On the
peel of the amused, you bare heard the impugn
sad eloquent addeen of his learned counsel, end I tried
that you have paid all doe attention to anything
which has been urged which aid 'he merits of this are.
' All theobservations made on the witnesses respeding the
probability or improbability of their statements, sad the
atonal el credit to be given to tbe evidence, all those are
very fit subjects for your conakination, and I earnestly im-
plore you to give weight to those obeervetiona
As to the other topics alluded to by the learned
counsel to which I has already referred, althosgh the
court did not interfere, they were, as I have ahead gated,
totally irrelevant. Whether you admire or o the
conduct and character of the Emperor of the French mann
in the remotest degree influence the decision to which you
should arrive. In the address of the learned counsel for the
prisoner it woo not insisted that these balls were to be applied
to any clammy relative to gas. but be said that they were
not for the purpose of anaanation, bat to be need as lan.-
tants of war. He add that there was in contemplstioa a
revolution in Italy ; that Bernard, with others, was en-
gaged in it ; end that he was insisting in oollecting indrit-
menta of war In Paris for the purpose of that revolution.
Now, gentlemen, If the. grenade.e were for military pa-
posee—lf that should be your opinion—l think your verdict
should be not guilty, bemuse, although it would be au
glace against the la= of this country for either natives or
Iwo to plot is this onestry,
or to
MAIM of alveolus a
country, still that is not the offence now laid
to the charge of the prisoner. The gleam with
which be is charged is that of being aocessory to a plot for
assassinating the Emperor of the French, which produced
the death of Nicholas Bettie, one of the Garde de Pada,
whose life was sacrificed upon that occasion, and unless you
believe that the pnwner was implicated in that conspiracy, I
think he is antltled to your verdict. But it is for you to say
whether you believe, and there is strong evidence to show,
that he, bong acquainted with Alborg, and know=
Allsop had got these grenades—if you believe the
ambled in having them transported to Bruseele—that be
bought the materials foe making the fulminating powder; if
you believe that he in this country—end again I warn you
that you are only to find him guilty of sots committed in this
country—and living in England, owing • temporary alle-
giance to our Sovereign—if you should believe, I say, that
OD the 2nd of January he sent over revolvers with a view to
their being used in consummating the plot which had been
formed against the life of the Emperor of the French—if you
should believe that he engaged with Radio to join the parties
then assembled at Paris, they wishing to have a fourth man to
insist them, and gas money for that purpose, then it will be for
you to sawhether he bad • guilty knowledge of what wee in-
tended. It is for you to draw your own conclusions from the
facts stated in the evidence. The verdict must be yours and
yours alone. You will, without considering our own go-
verament at home or any foreign government, draw your
own conclusion from the evidence. You will likewise con-
sider the letter in the disguised band written after the saw
oktation was attempted, and when all the dramatise's were
known ; and you will consider whether that letter may not
afford evidence of a bygone conclusion and bygone purpose
on the part of the prisoner. I will only advise you not to
allow yourselves to be led away by the notion that if you
come to the conclusion that the party accused had that guilty
knowledge, that be was an accomplice in the conspiracy—
you will sot be deterred from doing your duty by any
sion that a verdict in accordance with that o=
will interfere with that asylum which it bas ever been the
glory of this country to afford to persecuted forgoer&
That glory, I hope, will ever belong to this country. But,
gentlemen, that asylum amounts to this that foreigears
are at liberty to come to our country, to remain in our
country, sod to leave our country at their own will and plea-
sure, and that they cannot be disturbed by the government
of the country, so long as they obey the laws of the country.
They are under the same laws as native-born subjects,
and if they violate those laws they are liable to be prosecuted
and punished in the same manner as any native-born subject
of the Queen. Treat Simon Bernard exactly as though he
were born In the metropolis of the empire to which you
belong—treat him as you would a native-born subject—let
his owe be exactly the saute, for I do not believe, in point of
law, his being a foreigner makes any difference whatever.
At all events, it will be your duty to treat him precisely the
sang es a native-born subject, as if it bed been Allsop ; and
if you find that be was implicated in ibis conspiracy, and
that he had • guilty knowledge sad guilty purpose, sad did
plot with others the death of the Emperor of the French, I
think It will be 'um. duty ho 41 • woodiet el Wfth
these observations I leave the case in your hands. If you
have any reasonable doubt of the guilt of the prieoner give
the prisoner the benefit of that doubt, but if you have not,
then by the duty you owe to yourselves and your country,
you will find the prisoner guilty of the offence with which he
is charged in the indictment."
The jury were then about to retire, when
The prisoner, in • warm and excited manner, and with
violent action, said—l declare the words which Mae been
used by the judge are not correct, and that the bells taut
ky Giorgi to Brunets were not those which were taken to
Paris. I have brought no evidence here, because I em not
accustomed to cocuprontire any pomp. I declare that lam
sot the hirer of assassin, that Radio has declared in
Paris, on his trial, that be asked himself to go to Ondai. I
was not the hirer of sonnies. Of the blood of the victims of
the 14th of January there in nothing on my heart any more
than In any one here. We want only to crush despotism and
tyranny everywhere. I have conspired, I will oomph,
everywhere against those, because it is my duty, my emceed
duty, of every one; bat never, never, will Ibe a
murderer I

At the close of this addreee, so unlike anything one is
accustomed to hear in • criminal court in this country,
The jury retired to consider their verdict, it being then
twenty minutes to three o'clock. They had been absent
upwards of half-an-hour, when the intimation was given that
they bad agreed upon their verdict. Instantly silence wee
restored, the prisoner was placed in the dock, and the audience
waited with breathless interest the announcement which mu
to decide his fate. After a few moments of anxious sus-
te however, it transpired that the jury had not agreed,
urthat the mistake had arisen probably. from their
sending some communication to the judges, and
the prisoner was again removed front the dock. Then
there was another long interval, during which the anxiety
of the crowd seemed to deepen as the time wore on. The
epeotattle which the court then presented was of the mast
animated and exciting description. The small gallery int•
mediately over the dock, and accessible to the general p 1
was densely pecked. In front of it sat several welt dressed
ladles, who had been unable to obtain more agreeable accom-
modation in other parts of the building. All the more
favoured seats on the bench, and in its immediate vicinity,
bad been occupied front an early hour in the morning by
persons of rank and station, many of them ladiee. Others
as the crisis approached, made incessant applications for
even standing room within the precincts of the court, and
the complaisance of the ever-obliging under-aheriffs was
taxed to the utmost to comply with their within. The
members of the bar stood in groups discussing the incidents
of the trial, and speculating on its probable result, sa did also
the greater part of the audience, On the floor of the court
was seen, in conversation with another, a gentleman of
posser• g appearance and manatee, an swat of the Preach
who had defended Piled on his trial in Paris. Precisely
as le clock struck four en intimation was given that the jury
were returning, and in an an instant flatland hum of conversa-
nce which had prevailed for upwards of an hour subsided into
profound silence. The prisoner re-appeared in the dock.
The judges entered and resumed their accustomed places on
the bench, and the jury, who had been absent for an hour
and twenty minutes, answered to their names as they were
called over in the usual way, the prisoner, whose face was
flushed with emotion, looking wistfully in the direction of
the jury-box, as if to discover by anticipation some faint
omen of his fate.
Mr. Clark, the Clerk of the Arraigns, addressing the jury,
raid--Geatletoen, are you agreed upon your verdict ?
The Foreman—We ere.

- -
Nr. Clark—How my you? Is Simon Bernard Guilty or
Not Guilty f
The Foremen—Nei
On the announoement of this &Mei= a ease mounted

unexampled, perhaps, M an English tribinaL From the
gallery test, and then in an indent afterwards from Use
door of the court, proceeded a loud shout of exultation. The
cheering wee again end again repeated—the excitement was
oontarriows—end many of the ladies of quality present waved
their handkerchiefs in token of their delight. Vainly did
the Lord Chief Justice endeavour by voice and gesture is
still the tumult, and as powerless were the Winton= lungs
et Mr. Harker, though exerted to the utmost, to restore
silence. The prisoner, who was extremely excited,
flourished hie whits packet-handkerchief over his head, sod
several times attempted to speak. By this time the verdict
had reached the ears of the crowd metaled outride the
Old Halley, and therepttirous cheer which they raised, and
after repeated, could be distinctly hosed within the court.
The judges, unable, and perhaps unwilling, to cheek this
spontaneous ebullition of popular feeling, but yet not liking
to sanction it by their presence, rose to depart. The look of
Lord Campbell et this moment wee of lied/ • study. Slightly
ruined at the defiance which bad he= shown to his authority
his lordship still retained his good humour, and seem= disposed
to yield a momentary homage to the vox midi. It may be
retwoloblY presumed that he could not thee been =Men=
to the result of a trial in which he had played so coospien-
mu • part ; but whatever his feeling@ may have he= in that
respect it wee Impossible for a spectator to divine them from
his eountenence.
Bernard at length made a =comment attempt to be h. 7
and, addressing the jury, laid, with much vehensmos
manner, " Oentlemen,—That verdict is an CIPIVNiOn of the
truth. I am not guilty, and it proves that is Enema there
Is and always will be bbaty, which win croak tynray,

rwhatever and wherever It may be. All honour to as beer
jurii:
p2ce. %sewed cheers.)
was then removed from this desk. rd the
.W 1..., having abated,
beak.ord Chid Justice rid—Let the prisomw Ile browebt

Bemard mean eteod .t the front of the fah.
einson—There is mother indictment against the peb
senor, en which the evidence would be erectly the Name.
111612100 the Attorney.fhastal will not mooed with it.
The Ahersey.Oeseral—lt ie not the intention of the
mown to proceed herder with that indietenent.
Mr. Ilimon—Perhope the AthrtneyAimeral will Allem a,
verdict of acquittal to betaken. That is the usual mom.
The Attorney-Oemeal—lJademtaading KM the mete
meal coarse, though net the mane course, is to cammt
erdict of acquittal under mob dnorestaaase, I will am,
sent to that vordist beteg imbrue.
The Clark Wee reed the Millotment, charging Mee prisoner
with the murder vellums" Wpm.
The prisoner seemed somewhat setanished at tine proceed-
he, hut his solicitor explained It to bins, ant her pleaded
4. bi,t owity..•
The jug thereupon immediately returned a verdict of Not
The grestat excitement had prevailed in the come glee
them proceedings, and whet the mound reranct was repraed
the cheering re-commenced, and them wee a
ienvniwaniag
of hate mdbandkerchiefe in the galleries. Tie judger were
evidently quite disomcerted, and they made ...hasty reheat
from the court, the Lord Chief Jostles not even &damming
one word to the jury or paying them any compliment' for
their long and patient attendance. The verdict, however,
seemed to give satisfaction to almost every one, and when
th'itr,men got into the street they were loudly cheireli,
T prisoner must, of course, remain in custody underlie
other charge of misdemeanour, for conspiring to asmesinate
the Emperor of the Front*, until ha Inds hell, but it le se-
that an application should be made to • judge gm-
lore step can be taken.
Thus ended the business of this special commiedon. The
proceeding was an unusually novel and important one, ankle
entailed a great deal of additional labour and iDONlVenillSell
upon the ofticials of the court. The under-sheriff", hiesem.
Millard and Parker' were in attendance every wonting before
nine o'clock, and the arrangements they made gave mune&
satisfaction, and they are particularly entitled to the thimble
of the representatives of the pas for the ouurtesy and attem
don they bestowed upon every matter miming to their acts
venience. The fact also ought not to be omitted, that the
City police who were on duty, and who had a great Mel to
contend with from the puttee who were anxious to get into
the court, behaved in a most exemplary manner, end them
we an entire absents of that rudeness and incivility which
haa, at times, been exhibited on each comasione.