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

THE 2RLIL OF SIMON BERNARD.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—Arm 16.
(Continued from yesterday's &pron.)
FIFTH DAY.

The Attorney-General, continuing his reply, end—With 1
rehrenoe to Radio being called as a witness, that though 1
there wee en extradition treaty, yet that treaty 1
only related to prisoners who were charged with a 1
crime, and they wire to he given up only for I
the ponce° of trial If Radio had been brought
over here there would have beset no power to take him book. 1
However, Orsini and hie ccafederstse were at Paris with 1
their means of destruction, end a fourth man was wanted, 1
and the prisoner, for whom his learned friend besought their '
sympathy, went to Radio, a poor wretched man without a bed
to lie upon, or food to eat, and this man he prevailed upon to
go to Paris to assist in this foul and deliberate murder.
The Prisoner, with great energy, " Non."
The Attorney-General would say no more but that this
man Rudio went to the lodging provided for him at Paris,
and upon him was found 270 francs in gold. The prisoner
went to that man, and dealt with him by slow degrees. First
he gave him 2s. • then money to pay a little debt ,• then his
clothes ere taken out of pawn; dollies in abundance were
provided him, and this enriched man was sent to Paris. Ask
themselves if Dr. Bernard sent Audio to Paris for an '
innocent purpose, or even for the purpose which was
now avowed, a revolution in Italy. Would not
this man Radio, when the murder of the Emperor was
him, would he not have started back with honor,
and Let to ,
" No • I came here to act for my country and not
to commit a murder of persons against whom I can have no
feeling." Audio, when he went to Pans, proceeded at ones to
the Rue de Montmartre and must have known the crime he
was intended to commit. The conspirators went together
fromOrsini's house, and on Radio was found one of the
grenades, a revolve, and a poinard which, u Ood be thanked
we did not make such thinra is Emland, he did not charge
the prisoner with having furnished him. Then when the
prisoner had heard of the attempt en the life of
the Emperor, why did be Marra such sectary
to Mrs. Radio? He wrote to her saying that sours
benevolent prisons had ma bar 24e., and would
Ow her 12e. a-week, which would be seat to her in the
mese of Within Thompson, it she sontlaned to conduct her-
self era 'They bad, thatufwth this ems begranteg with
thissiteed and .64 with ra.d. Theis iron the air-
etnesteness Solar this ease came before them This
foul end hoed i smear woad new have be committed,
the Byes of times imsemen persons wool& never have been
sacrificed bra for the aid and assislanes el the agents In this
country of wines the primer wee one. It was in this
country that the imearls wee Mild. It was In this coun-
try that the meths' was pleammil, end to all the transaction
in this country they head the prisoner a party. He had
done that hors without which Orsini and his confederates
might have conspired end attempted to execute in vain, and
when asked to vindicate and justify the course which the
crown had been advised to take in patting this man upon his
trial, surely they were bound by the most sacred of obliga
dons kerissely to do justice and to bring the offender
to punishment—lf he were an offender—by whose
means them multiplied murders had been committed upon so
many unoffending persons. They were not dealing with •
political question—they was not there to descent on the
short comings of foreign govenimemta, or to debits upon free
institutions and despotisms. It was perfectly imminent
whether the liberty we so happily enjoyed might be
Dartld-
patd In by the nations of the continent, bat merely wherever
law prevailed, when the human character was respected, were
virtue should rain ; surely it wee due to the character of the
natica to our Sovereign, and to our laws, if combinations
edstd in this country, which had led to the commission of
murders in Paris, and if the prisoner was a party to those
combinations, it would be a reproach to our national charac-
ter, and to those to whom the province was 'reigned of
upholding the laws, if they hesitated to bring him to
decide upon the gnilt or the innocence of the prisoner ; and
if they thought there was any reasonable doubt in his guilty
participation In that which had led to the sad and melan-
choly result of which they had heard so much, they should
give him the full benefit of that doubt, and send him forth
from that court a free and a freed man. But if unhappily
they were satisfied of his guilt, their duty to Clod and to the
country required that they should find a verdict of guilty.
(There were some slight manifestations of applause at the
conclusion of the learned gentleman's address, which were
at onoe suppressed.)
The Court then adjourned to 10 o'clock this morning.
The Court was insufferably hot. It was crowded to excess
both in the body, the galleries, and the bench, and in every
position that could possibly be occupied, the majority of the
spectators being evidently persons of distinction, and about
one-third ladies, elegantly dressed. The prisoner listened
with the most etralned attention to the address of the learned
counsel who defended him, and when the learned gentleman
spoke of the crushed liberties of France, and intro-
duced allusions to the patriotism of the refugees,
Dr. Bernard, drew himself up to his full height, his eyes
Laspeckled with animation, and his whole appearance betokened
ierongest excitement. On the other hand, when
Mr. Junes repudiated the Idea that his client
would have hired an asseseln in a country where
he had taken refuge after being driven from his
native land, the prisoner bowed his resent to the jury in a
calm and dignified manner, and without anything resembling
theatrical display.