The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

TILE ALLEGED PLOT AGAINST TILE

LIFE OF THE EMPEROR

OF THE TRIAL.

(MON ens OWN COILZINrur.....-.
PARIS. THU/MOAT EVENTNO.
The long expected trial for the alleged conspiracy
against the life of the Emperor came on to-day.
The court was not excessively crowded, tickets of
admission having been very sparingly issued. Seve-
ral personages of distinction were accommodated
with seats on the bench, and Ferukh Khan, the
Persian Ambassador, with his secretary and inter-
preter, sat immediately under the judges, and nearly
close to the dock. The portmanteau mentioned in
the indictment was brought into court, and the re-
volvers, pistols, and poniards found in it were taken
oat and laid upon a table for the inspection of the
jury. At ten o'clock, the three prisoners were
brought in, and took their seats in the dock, each
between two gendarmes. They are all young men,
neatly dressed, and from their appearance might
be in almost any rank of life. Tibaldi, who first made
his appearance, is fair, with a slight, but well made
figure, blue eyes, thin brown moustache, and no
beard or whiskers. Next to him came Grilli, alias
Faro, who has a remarkably handsome face, of the
Roman type, with rich black hair carefully combed
and parted, a coquettishly turned black moustache,
and a small tuft under the lower lip. Bartolotti is
older than the other two, and not so well-looking.
Ilia eyes, surmounted by shaggy eyebrows, are sunk
in the bead, and he has a short turn-up nose and
broad coarse countenance, He wears a thick beard,
of a light brown colour. Almost at the same time
with the entrance of the prisoners, the judges
(three in number) took their scats. The pre-
siding judge, M. Vanin, commenced the pro-
ceedings by asking the prisoners the usual
preliminary questions, to which Tibaldi replied in
very good French, and the other two in Italian,
through the medium of an interpreter. It appeared
from their answers that their names and descrip-
tions were as follows :-1. Paolo Tibaldi, aged 30
years, born at Viella (Sardinian states), optician, re-
siding at 122, Rue de Menilmontant. 2. Paolo
Grilli, aged 28 years, born at Cesena (Roman States),
hat maker, residing at 82, Faubourg St. Denis. 3.
Giuseppe Bartolotti, aged 34 years, shoemaker, also
residing at 82, Faubourg St. Denis.
The registrar then read the indictment (acts d'ac-
eusation), which has already appeared in the
Express.
The prisoner Tibaldi being interrogated by the
president, said that he bad been in Paris ever since
the latter end of 1830. Previously to that time he
had lived at Viella and Turin. He did not exercise
his trade of an optician at either of them places be
was a sculptor. He had no particular reason for
leaving Viella. As an optician he worked for ma-
nufacturers and not for private individuals. (The
prisoner here mentioned the names of several opti-
cians for whom he had worked.) He went to Eng-
land for a year in 1852. In answer to an observat ion of
the jade that that was not the way to keep his cas-
inos% he said he did not work on his own account
at Gat time. Ile originally knew Bartolotti at
Tads, where he met him every day in a restaurant,
bsi be never knew his name. Bartolotti re-
sageised him on the Boulevards in l'aria,
and asked him to find him a lodging,
which he did. He and Bartolotti subsequently
took walks together in various quarters of
Paris, but he had never shown him the Tuileries for
the purpose of showing him where be was to sta-
tion himself, or for any purpose in particular. Went
to London in 18.57 to dispose of goods. The name
of James Stanifleld, brewer, London, which was
found in his pocket-book, wasnot in his hand-writing.
It was written by a person who had recommended
him to Mr. Stanificld as a gentleman who would in-
troduce him to opticians in London. Ho denied
positively that on his return from London
he had bought the pistols which were found
in his lodgings. He recognised the portmanteau
which had been found at Madame Gallihourg's.
Ms prefect of police, M. Pietri, was mistaken if he
said he had ever denied any knowledge of the port-
manteau. That portmanteau had been left with him
by an Italian named Merighi, so long ago as July,
1836. His reason for asking Madame Girot to take
it somewhere else for safe custody was that ho un-
derstood it contained important papers, and that
young people were constantly coming to his lodg-
ings, who he feared might do some damage to the
contents. Merighi did not leave the key of the
portmanteau with him. If a key of his
had been found to fit it, that must have
been accidental. It was not true that the
trousers and waistcoat, in which the arms found in
the portmanteau were wrapped up, had been made
for him. The police had ordered him to try them
on, but they did not fit him at all. On the applica-
tion of M. Desmarest, the prisoner's counsel, the
president said that the clothes should be tried on
again before the conclusion of tho trial. Madame
Girot and Madame Gallibourg were both mistaken
in saying they had not seen the portmanteau till
&Res his second journey to England in January,
1857. He certainly had the portmanteau in July,
1856, but knew nothing of the contents. Ile did
act know Mazzini, nor Masssrenti. On being shown
the letter attributed to Mazzini, addressed to Cam-
panella, and alluding to " materials" as being to be
bead at Tibaldi's, the prisoner said he was an utter
oboager to everything mentioned in the letter ; it
was last extraordinary that somebody should have
maids address, for it was well known to all the
apse in London. Being called upon to explain
mostleor, letter, said to be written by Mazzini, in
vile be (Tibaldi) is asked to treat two other per-
ms is the same way as he had done Bartolotti and