The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-08 00:00:00

THE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE

CZAR.

(110 X OUR OWN 0011RINPONDINT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVILNINO.
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The judgment of the Court of Mises en Accusa-
tion, committing Berezowaki for trial, is dated
July 4. The prisoner is described as Antoine
Berezowski, born at Kolrziski (Volhynia), in Russia,
on May 9, 1837, an a justeur mecanicien, residing
at No. 210, Rue Marcadet, Paris ; height, 171 centi-
imetzes ; hair and eyebrows chesnut, high forehead,
brown eyes, middle-sized nose, large mouth,
round chin, full face, and rather dark complexion.
The document narrates the circumstances of the
crime, including the bursting of the pistol and the
achievement of M. Rainibaux, the equerry, without
any material or interesting variation from the
accounts published in the newspapers a month ago.
The following extract contains all the particulars
discovered during the long secret " instruction "
whether from Berezowski's own answers to inter-
rogatories, or the minute researches of the police :
The accused at once accepted the responsibility of the
attempt, of which he admitted himself to be the author. Ho
declared that he bad resolved to kill the Emperor Alexander,
and that it was with that object exclusively that he fired
upon the imperial Gamine. He said that he had confided
his project to no one, and that he stood " alone with his
country," which he desired to avenge by killing the Czar.
In the course of all his examinations he constantly affirmed
that he never meant to hurt the Emperor Napoleon, and
was perfectly certain that the bullets would not touch his
Majesty. Berezowski fought in the ranks of the Polish
insurrection in 1863. After having waited in vain for •
long time in Galicia for an order to resume the campaign,
he sought refuge first in Germany and afterwards in Bel-
gium. He came to Paris in the beginning of November,
1866. He obtained employment in MM. Gouin's factory as
an ajusteur meconicien, with wages of 30 centimes the hour.
He received from the Prefecture of Police a subsidy of 35
franca per month. In order to improve his French he went
for ten months to the Institution Jauffret. Since the 30th of
April last Berezowaki was out of employment until May 27,
when be went to ?dotty in the department of the
Oise to work for a few days, telling his eomeierge that he
should be back on June 1. On that day, which was the
day of the arrival of the Emperor Alexander, he waited
two hours outside the Northern Railway station to see
him pus. On Tuesday, June 4, he again went to see him
as he was leaving the Opera. When the accused bad thus
ascertained that it was not difficult to get near the Czar,
he made up hie mind to take his life, and fixed June 6 for
the execution of his design. On the sth he bought a
double-barrelled pistol, caps, and bullets, at an armourer's
On the Boulevard de Sebastopol. He chose the pistol from
several which he was told had been tried. He still wanted
powder, and as his money was all gone he pawned a
paletot to buy some. On the morning of the 6th he loaded
the pistol, and finding his bullets too small for the
barrels, he made with some le►d two lingots of
cylindrical form, 19 millemetres long, and weighing
16 grammes, which he rammed into the barrels
with a piece of iron. Thus armed, he left his
lodgings at 9 in the morning, and was never seen there
again. He breakfasted at • wine shop in the Rue Mar-
cadet, from whence he proceeded to the railway station
at Bazignolles. Near this he went into another wine shop
and took a glass of Versvnah, and he left behind him a
p►letot, in the pocket of which was found a book, entitled
"A Study of Poland," by Casimir Wolowski. Page 80 of
this book is turned down, and the following passage is
marked Klenaki's oath—l swear to prepare all pos-
sible means to ensure the success of the insurrection."
The accused could not get near the sovereigns during the
review. He took up a position at first on the reeks
of the Cascades, by which he supposed the Czar
would pass. When the filing past of the army
was over, he watched the movements of the im-
perial co►tege with an attentive eye. When he saw that
the carriage in which the sovereigns were had changed its
direction and taken the Chemin de la Vierge, he ran
across the Chemin de la Grande Cascade, and passed on
under the trees and brushwood to the cress roads, which
he reached just as the cortege was coming up. He fired
somewh►t obliquely, being on the left of the carriage, and
a little behind it. If he is to be believed, he aimed at the
Emperor Alexander's bead when he fired.
The court finds that there are sufficient charges esta-
blished against Berezowski to commit him for trial for
having, "on June 6, 1867, in the Bois de Boulogne, wil-
fully and with premeditation committed an attempt at
homicide upon the person of his Majesty the Emperor
Alexander, the which attempt, manifested bye commence-
ment of execution, failed of its effect solely from circum-
stances independent of the will of the author."

The report that the Russian government were
negotiating the sale of the Moscow and fit. Petersburg
Railway seems to have been well founded, and the prioe of
12,000,00(11., payable in instalments spread over three
years, is stated to be the amount agreed upon. The oom•
pletion of the contract will doubtless depend, however, on
the ability of the purchasers to form a company capable of
reiring tkii mould in the Western markets.