The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-05 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
THIS DAT.

Tbe April miss d the Cadre Critotasl Comet ems
cooed dd. wasted, Were the Right 1104 Sir W. Owls,
my, Low Meyer, die Recorder, Alamos's sir C. Menheil,
manse►, sod sir F. 0. Mom, Mr. Alderman sod Shrift
L males, Mr. Alderooa md ebend AU.., Mr. Coder-
Rya maid, IL,. r ader•Sheriff l'azket, &c., &c.
The kit aid*. ed the ochodor =taloa the sear of
MS prinar••

Thu Reccedlir, in hie dear. to the grand jory, said homes
every to =erne that then =re a eaneidsrable number of pi-
ma., for nisi ►t the presest s•meiem, owing to the mime
hirleg o•aed • Imager mijeurament of the mart than
snot; bet the eases, with a few exontlons, were
ant via very serious character. There was only onn charge
of =nor, • came in which ea Italiaa named Qiovansl Laid
we. accused of murderiog • !.male. The evidence in this
ism wee entirely circamstantial, but it appeared to him that
it meet such 3 nature so would lean them no alternative
but to find a true bill against the accused person. There
were three cues of manslaughter, but in two of them, in
consequence of moms mistake, the depositions had not beet
returned, and he was therefore not AIMS of the nature
of Them; bat in the third, where it appeared that the
death was the remit of a blow given by the
prisoner, the grand jury would in all probability feel it to be
their duty to return a true bill. Thu only other cans to
which he conaidend it neomeary to allude. were charge of
se animal character. A person named Simon Bernard, in
oat one, was charged with conspiring with some other
pwse•t to procure the meemination of his Majesty the
Emperor of the French. With regard to this case, he would
°terve, that If any doe,mt should ultimately arias as to
whether the English law would meet • case of this da•aip-
tiee, it ought not to interfere with the fraud jury In their
ensideratiou of the case, but if they should be satisfied by
the ervidance laid before them, that the offender had ban
committed as charged in the Indictment, it would be their
duty to return a true bill, and the quest on of law would be
dimmed before another tribunal. In such a came they could
see OMNI expert to ban any direct evidence, becalms
perms who ewe desirous of committing such a crime would
ad ettespire in public or in the presence of good ram, and
the trey diner evideace he believed that would be laid before
am would be that of an accomplice, ond they would of
MINS look et his evidenne with caution, and ascertain
whether be we confirmed in soma material particulars before
asp pm effect to his testimony. The general et ;deuce would
ptsebow that on the 14th of January an attempt was.
Mai 19011 the life of his Majesty the Emperor of the
Pesach, by means of grenades, and that the person mumeed
was dealing with such instruments before the occur....,
and that he obtained fulminating powder of which they wen i
composed, and also procured their tranacniarion to Paris, by
way of Belgium. The evidence would also show that
Bernard coo on intimate tempi with two permits named
Orsiai and De Radio, who were concerned in the attempt,
mad that he procured p•seports for the persona in meemad
semen These were the general facts which would be hid
Wore them, and if they should be of opinion that they mode
out a prinall facie ease and= the prisoner, It would be
their duty to find the bill in the form that it would be pre-
meted to them. The other two cane to which ha coneidered
k ascessary to allude were changes simian a poem used
Tr clove mad another named Tchernewsld, of bovine pub.
Med • hiss and tualicirms libel. with MOW is vodfy his
Majesty the Emperor of the French ; and there was also •
eb•rie agaiast the mine parties of having, is the publication
rekned to, "might to incite parties to ee••eia•te the same
einweign. It was clear that in law it was as Amos to pub-
a& any defamatory matter of a foreign sue reign who was
le salty with this country, mid the oely diMeelty is the owe
was to take can that there should be no ktrerfsreeos with
that right of free dimmed= which k bed always ban the
beast of this country to poems in the fart peeshis ensue.
The boundary between fair mid free dieommian regamileg the
ems of persona is authority, whether In this ar • Melia
sentry, could not of MOM be strictly Yard, sad it was
the peculiar province of • b,dy of ma of ehmetkm and le-
Whitens libe the grand Jury, to decide apes the gelation by
readmit oral the *hole subhead's, •ed molar to the his
emicluaion as to the object end negation uf the writer. With
sward to the other portion of the eberge—tbat the parties
•seeded to unite to the commie.= of ainaelisatioa—thin, et
esessis, was utterly olijestillable usher any circumstance* , lei
sad if t►is were made out it would be their duty to find
the bale against all the defendant.. The grand jury them
attired.

peassiatfm d Deward tee be esullaeled by
the ref-Omsnl. Mr. Webby, Mr. Beata, sad
Mr. Chet Mr. Idyls James, Q C., Mr. J. Bi-
wa, of the Northers await, Mr. Melsh, sad
Mr. floottell are to be the counsel for the defence. Mr.
Jams lied ma latintaticm that his rervices would be required
se behalf of the crows, but ea he had already bren retuned
for the defence, he ins compelled to decline to appear os
the prosesethm sal this has wren rim to some observa-
ble' fa legal circles la reformats to the course that Me
ham token by the learned counsel. It appears that mond-
is to the etiquette of the bar sad content, • Qum's aseesel
In set permitted to accept • brief for • primmer without a
epeeist license ihns bow Majesty to do so and a brunt
anermw be owed to made I. former times for such Hamm
Q.lollles mount undertook to defend a primmer.
Latterly, however, It appears that the pewit°, has mot been
weed epos, sad r ati Intimation was even to Mr. Janne
lentil remedy that Ms services would be required for the
sad • ronekterable time after it bad bees publicly
swottedthat he had been »tweed an behalf of the defead-
sate the learned o mead would appear to be perfectly jueti-
Med in to course he has taken in the matter.