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1, DINNER, consisting of Soup, Fish, Entree, Joint,
Sweet, &c., is served daily from 3 to 9, and on Sundays from
5 to 8.30.
Private Rooms for large or small parties,
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The Wellington, St. James's-street.
Entrance, 160, Piccadilly.

rr H 0 X F O R D,
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THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and success-
ful Cantata KING CHRISTMAS, and other Musical Enter-
tainments, supported by the following talented artistes:—
Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry, Tyrrell, %almsley ; Messrs.
Morley, Tivoli, Green, &c.
NOTICE.—In a few days will be produced FAU by M.
Guonod, embracing the entire company of this establishment
with augmented baud and chorus.
Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

UNSWORTFI and EUGENE will make their re-appear-
ance This Evening.
Comedy, by Mr. T. Mael van, W. Randall. G. Hutchenson,
G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Power (the Juvenile comedienne),
&c., Sze.
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Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balmy, is. ; private
bjxcs, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
The Fairy Entertainment, entitled

PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS!
Is written expressly for this establishment by W. F. Vander-
veil, author of the celebrated " Enchanted Hash," and en-
shies Mr. Morton, with the aid of Professor Pepper's Optical
Illusion (ku,svn as the Ghost), to produce effects never before
contemplated, and which have all Leen duly registered by
him and Mr. J. H. Weston under the title of " The Ghost in
the Magic Fountains." By this nenv arrangement, that
which is in reality no'hing but a shadow, becomes to all ap-
pearance endowed with life, and when " Fame" takes her
flight through the burning. Cataracts, and the Naiads seek
their beds in the Cry-tal Waters, form a coup d'mll of beauty
unparalleled even in fairy romance.
Prince Blossom (with the Song of all Nations), Miss Townley.
The Marvellous Illusion will take place every Evening at
half-past Nine o'c ock.
All the wonderful entertainment of the establishment, as
usual, in a idition to the above.
Admission—Area, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls.
Open every Evening.

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MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL
GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar,
Baker-street.

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NEW ADDITION.—A full-length Model of JEFFE ESON
DAVIS, President of the Confederate States; also, a full-
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and from 7 till 10.

ARGYLL ROOM S, Windmill-street,
Piccadilly,
IS OPEN EVERY EVENING.
During the eveninz an unparalleled repertoire of Dance
Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele-
brated Argyll Band, forty in number.
Doors Open et Half-past 8, commence at 9.
Admission ls.
Manager, M. GRENET.

44A, MADDOX-STREET, REGENT-STREET, W.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.
Open daily from 10 till 10. Where may be seen the
Astees ; Bushman and Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant;
Eng and Shang, the SiamesP Twins; and upwards of 3,000
Models, Natural Preparations, &e. Egyptian Mummies,
unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One Shilling (tor
Gentlemen only).

ON CHLORATE OF POTASSA AND ITS USE IN OXYDISING

THE BLOOD.
DR. J. P. SARGEANT, M.R.C.S., and L.S.A.
(18361, will shortly repeat his Lecture on this subject
at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, and will satisfactorily prove
that Chlorate of Potassa, (as prepared by passing chlorine
through a mixture of quick-lime and water, and subsequently
boiling a long time with Chloride of Potassium) is a most
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GUILDHALL, 24th February, 1864. The
COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS
will MEET at GUILDHALL on WEDNESDAY, the
9th March next, at One o'clock kroisely, to receive PRO-
POSALS for a LEASE of the P MUSES, Nos. 71 and 72,
Mark-lane, Fenchurch-street, in the City of London.
A Nan of the Premises may be seen, and Forms of Tender
obtained, upon application at the .Architect't Office, Guild-
hall.
FERDINAND BRAND, comptroller.

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material and i atterns that cannot be exlelled, at
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THE CITY MERCANTILE CLUB
All D

DINING-HALL COMPANY (Limited).

NOTICE.—In the Prelineinary Contract made by the Di-
rectors for securing Premises, is their opinion, particularly
eligible for the Club-house, they were restrained from iden-
tifying the particular premises so purchased until several
thousand shares had been subgcribed tor, and the application
for shares being already far it excess of this r. striction,
the Directors have now much p easure in announcing to the
public that the Premises they have secured comprise the
nob e pile of Buildings, Nos 117 and 10R, Cheapside. imme-
diately opposite to Bow ChurA, and extending to Honey-
ane in the rear, having been erected two years since, from
the designs, and ander the superintendence, of J. L. Knowles,
F.1.8.A.

THE CITY MERCANTILE CLUB and
DINING HALL COMPANY (Limited).
(Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.)
Capital, £BO,OOO, in 8000 shares of £lO each.
Deposit, £1 per Share on application, and £1 on allotment.
Should no allotment be made the &posit will be returned
in full.

DIRECTORS.
A. J. Brook, Esq., Leather Merchant, Holloway.
Captain Capel Coape, Army and Ntvy Club.
Jo'in Sainsbury Davenport, Esq. (Deputy Commissary
General), Clarendon Lodge, Briglion.
Thomas Shann Derham, Esq. (of the firm of Wilkinson
and Co.), flax spinners, Leeds.
Frederick Augustus Legg, Esq., The Willows, South
Norwood.
Thomas Hardwick, Esq., Moorlant-terrace, Leeds.
Thomas King, Esq., 23, St. Pauli-grove, Canonbury.
David Fraser Lnekie, Esq. (Directo7 of the City and County
Assurance Company), 26, Ashley-place, Victoria-street,
Westminster.
Captain Arthur Palliser, Oriental Club.
John Theodoridi, Esq., Merchant, Great Winchester-
street, Old Broad-street, City,
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.—The London and County Bank, Lombard-
street, City, and Hanker-square.
SOLICITOR:.
Messrs. Tippette and Son, 2, Sise-Ime, I3ucklersbury, City.
Messrs. Upton and Yewdall, Leeds,
AUDITORS.
Johnstone, Cooper,Wintle, and Co., SA, Lothbury, London.
H. W. Blackburn, Es , Bradford.
P. BROKER—Alfred Ashton,
sq.,KOld Broad-street,City
SECRETARY (pro. tent.).--Mr. J. W. Tempest.
Temporary Offices-24, Bucklersbury (two doors from the
Mansion Horse.)
In introducing the City Mercantile Club and Dining
Hall Company to the public the Directors have pleasure in
knowing that they are supplying a great public want, it
being universally admitted that—
A Club adapted to the constantly increasing growth and
requirements of the commercial and mercantile world of the
City of London, and
A higher class public dining and refreshment hall are
greatly wanted.
The Club, with its private dining, reading, and smoking-
rooms for the exclusive use of members, will be conducted
under the management of a committee. strictly upon the
principles of similar establishments, with a small entrance
fee and subscription, and a moderate dining-room tariff,
adapted to the views of menof the commercial world. The
establishment will contain from 30 to 40 bed •rooms.
Holders of ten shares and upwards will (subject to the
ballot) be admitted to the membership of the club, without
entrance fee.
The public dining halls will be on a scale worthy of the
City, and capable of comparison with any establishment on
the Continent.
The Directors have purchased in one of the best and most
central situations in the City, in close proximity to the
principal places of business, a magnificent range of buildings
(recently erected under the superintendence of an eminent
architect) in the centre of Cheapaide. having nearly 30,000
feet of floor space, and pre-eminently adapted to the re-
quirements of all branches of the proposed establishment.
It will be for the consideration of the Directors whether
it is desirable to let off the ground and basement floors, the
residue of the premises providing ample space for the re-
quirements of the undertaking, and should these floors be
so let off they will alone command a rental sufficient to
guarantee a substantial dividend upon the paid-np capital.
The Directors have carefully
profits and returns of this undertaking, and their most
moderate calculations show a dividend of from 30 to 40 per
out. considered the probable
The Directors congratulate themselves on having secured
the invaluable co-operation of several gentlemen whose
practical knowledge and experience will be truly desirable.
In consequence of a large amount of shares having been
already applied for (and a most encouraging number of
applications made for Club membership),the Directors are
compelled to add that the list of applications for shares can
remain open for a limited period only.
applications for the unallotted shares must be made to the
Solicitors or Secretary; the required deposit having been
previously paid to the Bankers of the Company.
The Articles of Association can be seen at the Company's
Offices. ln the meantime
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR. SHARES.
No.
To the Directors of the City Mercantile Club and Dining
Hall Company (Limited).
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me
Shares of £lO each, in the above Company, and I enclose a
cheque for the deposit of £1 per Share thereon : and I un-
dertake to pay the further sum of on allotment, to pay
all calls thereon, and to execute the articles of association
when required.
Dated this day of 18
Names in full
Residence .......•
Profession or trade ..............
Place of business ..............

DOUBTFUL WHETHER THE LIBERAL MEMBER
FOR BATH IS "RIGHT AND TITE i"—Colonel Hogg,
Conservative, son of Sir John Weir Hogg, Bart., has an-
nounced his intention of offering himself as a candidate for
the representation of Bath at the next general election.
MUNIFICENT GIFT.—Sir Francis Crossley, Bart.,
M.P., has promised, on behalf of Messrs. J. Crossley
and Sons, of Halifax, to the National Lifeboat Institution,
to defray the cost, amounting to £3OO, of a new lifeboat to
be stationed at Redcar, Yorkshire. The present lifeboat on
that station is the oldest in the kingdom, and in going off
the other day over some rocks to the rescue of the crew of
seven men of the brig Brothers of South Shields, she was
stove in, and subsequently discovered to be affected with
dry rot,

In the vocabulary of the Secret Police the terms
"Mouchard" and " Mouton" are the two which are
most familiar to those who are uninitiated in its
mysteries. The word " Mouchard" is not of modern
origin. A certain Antoine de Mouchy, otherwise
Democharis, a Doctor of Sorbonne, and Canon of
Noyen in 1574, acquired an unenviable notoriety
among his contemporaries by his zeal against the
Reformers, and was appointed "Inquisitor of the
Faith." The Reformers who were persecuted by,
and who naturally hated him, gave the name of
Moucharts to those whom he employed as spies to
hunt out Dissenters. In his " History of the Par
dement of Paris," Voltaire says :—" The famous
Mouchy was in reality an informer, a spy of the
Cardinal de Lorraine, and it was for him that the
nickname of Mouchard was invented, and which
designated all spies. The term has become an in-
sult." Other authorities will have it that it comes
from mouche, a fly, because the mouchard, like the
fly, is ever buzzing about the ears of people.
Mouton is applied to an agent who, a prisoner him-
self, is employed to lead the conversation of his
fellows in plots and conspiracies, and to gradually
tempt them to disclose their plots with the same
apparent frankness he reveals his own. They
follow him as a flock of sheep follow their leader.
Agents of this kind are employed in most political
conspiracies, and, when all is ready, they either
disappear, or may be included among the arrest ~d.
as a matter of form, and when brought to trial in-
form against their accomplices or those who confide
their secrets to them.

When the plot for which the Italian prisoners
will to-morrow be on their trial was discovered the
first thought that occurred to the public was that if
not concocted by police agents, it may have been
fomented and matured by them, and that among
the accused themselves there was probably more
than one who had performed the part of Afouton.
How far that suspicion was founded will be seen
from the following narrative, which I take textu-
Illy from the Acte d'Accusation, or Bill of Indict-
-- lich will be read to-morrow in the Assize
°rocureur Imperial. The Acte d'Ac•

ment, 't-

Court by the ...

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maim begins thus °63., four strangers entered
On 24th December, lc.,
Swiss frontier, and
France at the same time by the
of St. Louis
exhibited to the Police Commissar;
by the
their papers, in which they were designate._
names of Greco, Trabuco, Imperatori, and Masi,.
The Commissary on reading the papers, recollected
that in 1862 amen named Trabuco had been pointed

out to the authorities on the frontier as an Italian

conspirator of a most dangerous character; and
without a moment's delay, he sent word by tele-
graph to the Prefect of Police that the person bear-
ing that name was proceeding to Paris with three
companions by the Mulhouse Railroad. When they
reached the Paris terminus, at half-past sin the

. _
morning of the 25th, a surveillance had been already
organized, and from that moment till their arrest
all their movements were closely watched.

" They got out of the same carriage without ex-
changing a wcrd with each other, and pretended to
take different directions; but the four, Imperatori

and Maspoli in one carriage, Trabuco in another,
and Greco in the railway omnibus, drove to the
Hotel Sainte-Marie, Rue de Rivoli, 83 ; Imperatori,
Maspoli and Greco (under the name of Fioretti)
hired rooms,in which they deposited their luggage.
Trabuco, whose only luggage was a French horn
and a game pouch, quitted the hotel in the course
of the day. He said that ho was going to London
but he went to No. 198, Rae St. Honore, where
Grcco,who had formerly loci ged there, recommended
him and hired a room for him. These arrange-
ments, however, were only temporary. Oa the
29th Greco presented bitzself at the Hotel de
Naple, 176, Rue St. Honore, and hired three rooms,
which were occupied the same day by him, Maspoli
and Trabuco. The last-mentioned, on quitt:.lg the
house, 198, took the precaulion, as he had doh'
when leaving the Hotel Sainte-Marie, to say that
he was starting for London. The next day Greco
brought Imperatori with him, who was placed in a
fourth room;

" In these different lodging-houses the run-
ner and bearing of the four strangers seemed
singular. From the moment of their arrival
they appeared to be hesitating, abstracted, and
mysterious. At the Hotel Sainte Marie Greco
had recommended the waiter to give the key of his
room to nobody,' not even to his own father.' In
the house 178, Rue St. Honor 6, he observed to the
landlady, Madame Musset, that the locks of the
chests of drawers and of other pieces of furniture
were not solid enough; and he went out to buy, at
a trunkmaker's, named Liard, a new box with lock
and key, in which he deposited the contents of his
game pouch. When he installed himself at the
hotel at Naples, Greco had the locks examined by
a locksmith. He himself took up his things to his
room. He waited to the last moment to show his
papers, and those of his friends. It was only on the
Ist of January that the landlady, Madame Thierry,
could get Trabuco, Imperatori, and Maspoli to ex-
hibit their passports; and Greco, who seemed an-
noyed at the thought of the house-register being
examined by the police inspectors, did not put his
name on it till the 2d of January. In a word, the
movements of these men betrayed a feeling of un-
easiness. When they went abroad they managed
so as to leave one of them in watch at the hotel.
The servant who waited on them several times per-
ceived that they kept the doors of their rooms half
open—even during the night—in order to be able to
hear the slightest stir in the house. Out of doors
their conduct was of a still more suspicious charac-

ter. In the hotel they were constantly together.
had long conversations, and their going out and
coming in were combined ; still they took the pre-
caution when in the street to separate, to affect not
to recognise each other, and when they approached
to salute as if they were strangers. The morning
after their arrival in Paris they were seen to observe
with extraordinary care the approaches to the re-
served part of the gardens of the Tuileries. The
same day they drove by the Place de la Concorde,
and the central avenue of the Champs ElysC:es in a
carriage, which by their order moved at a very slow
pace, and they carefully noted every spot they thus
passed over.
" On the 28th of December Trabuco, having
gone to the streets leading to the Opera, and on
the night the Emperor was to visit it, and having
remained some time at the house of a hair-
dresser named Ranciot, in the rue Grange-Bate-
liere, rejoined his frienls. The four then drove to
the corner of the Boulevard and the rue Lepellctier.
They waited at that spot till midnight, when the
Emperor left the Opera; and they were observed to
look about them frequently, and with all the ap-
pearance of mistrust. The following morning Tra-
huco and Greco went to the hairdresser's, ltanciot,
under pretence of getting shaved; they then en-
tered the covered passage or gallery which leads
from the rue Lepellctier, close to the Opera, to the
Boulevard. After waiting some time to see if they
were observed, they set themselves to examine mi-
nutely all the passages, and particularly the private
entrance reserved for the Emperor. In this they
passed half an hour.
" On the 30th Rinciot, the hairdresser, on going
to the Opera with his wife, found his two customers
quder the peristyle, where they seemed to he on
the watch. On the 2d of January Greco, Trabuco,
Irnperatori, and Maspoli visited the approaches to
the Tuileries. But their abstraction of mind was
visibly on the increase. They looked as if they felt
they were watched; took circuitous drives or walks
in the streets ; and when they went on foot they
were ever looking back or aside as if they thought
some one was dogging their steps. They were much
embarrassed when paying their bill at the hotel,
and seemed to be waiting impatiently for a letter
and money. On the 3d of January, atter inquiring

sults—in the room occupied by Trabuco, and id the
drawer of a clothes chest, was found an oilcloth bag
fastened by a lock. Trabuco, when requested to
open it, said at first that the bag was not his, and
that it had been given to him by an Englishman
to take to London. He was searched, and on him
was found the key of the bag, which contained,
rolled up in a handkerchief, a poniard and two bombs
charged with powder, and furnished, the one with
12, the other with six, nipples. With another key,

which was also found on Trabuco, they opened the

wooden box bought at the trunkmaker's, Liard, and

in it were discovered revolver cases, three packages

of percussion caps, and an instrument for adjusting
the nipples of the bombs.
" In the writing table of Greco was found a tra-
velling bag which one of Trabuco's keys opened; it
contained, rolled up in a handkerchief, two bombs
charged with powder, and with 12 nipples. The
bag contained, moreover, an instrument for screwing
on the nipples, two papers of powder, and a formid-
able revolver, ready loaded and primed. They dis-
covered, too, in the possession of (Imo and concealed
in various ways, several documents, some of them
emanating from Mazzini.
" At 7 o'clock the same evening Imperatori and
Maspoli were arrested in a wine shop. They were

conducted to the Hotel de Naples, where a search
was made in their presence. Nothing of a suspicious

kind was found in Imperatori's room ; but the
drawers of Maspoli's clothes chest contained four
bombs charged with powder, each with six nipples,

a revolver loaded and primed, a package of powder,
one of bullets, three boxes of percussion caps, two
poniards, and divers others objects appertaining to

firearms. With these things discovered before their
eyes, it seemed difficult for the accused to deny their
criminal projects. They at first attempted to main-
tain that they had no culpable intention; but they
had eventually to make up their minds to a full

avowal. Greco was the first to do so, and his de-
clarations, now corroborated in the essential part by
his accomplices, unfold in a precise manner, the
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origin and the details of the plot.
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ptetu.ber, 1857, by the Assize Court of the
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Seine, was fours guilty of having formed, with cer-,
,"1
tain persons names Tibaldi, Bartoloti, and others
a plot for the assassination of the Emperor, and has
not ceased to attack, in the person of Napoleon 111.,
the principle of order and authority of which the
revolution is the implacable enemy. During the
trial of 1857 papers were seized which revealed
these plots, and it is requisite to refer to them in
order to show the criminal persistence of the chief
of the party of action in Italy.
d On the 10th of June, 1857, Mazzini wrote to his
fellow-conspirators, Massarenti and Campanella,
these words The carrying out this attempt is a
vital affair for the country. . . . It is nearly
the whole question, . . . The affdir of Paris is

more than ever desirable and urgent.' He recom-
mended them to call to mind all he had told as to
the line of conduct they were to follow; he informed
them of the means of procuring funds ; and he added,
I would give millions, but I cannot.' At this
period he again wrote on the subject of the conspi-
racy•which was to spread over all Italy, but which
he had not been able to bring to maturity, ' The
structure that has been raised with infinite pains
and unhoped-for success up to yesterday has been
overthrown. . . . It is enough to make one
(lash his head against the wall. Ido not do so,
however; we have to begin again?
"Mazzini was preparing for 1863 a vast revolu-

tio,:ary movement, the signal for which was the
assn sinthLion of the Emperor. Greco, a second-class
conspirator, B,:emed to him at once obscure enough
and resolute enough for the matter to be entrusted
to him. Greco,' said Mazzini, in a letter addressed
to the Times on the 14th January last, is an enthu-
siastic patriot, who Jails taken an active part in the
expeditions of 1860 dud 1861 in the South of Italy,
and as such was in relation with me.' The rela-
tions of these two became intimate in April, 1863.
Mazzini was then at Lugono.
" The plan was then arranged, and it was decided
that Greco should proceed to I
of May to examine the state
.:l r
of affairs,
in the beginning
affairs, and when
opportunity offered, to make the att.'mpt. At the
moment of his departure Mazzini wrote, in his pre-
sence, a note to serve as the key of his co:respon-
deuce. In it everything was carefully provide. for
—the relations to be formed in Paris, with a vie

to bafflo the vigilance of the police; the necessity
for money, arms, and assistants ; the notice to be
given on the eve of the attempt. Finally, Mazzini
mentioned, as the place to which letters were to be
addressed to him in London, the house of a woman,
named Rosselly, the daughter of a ma❑ with whom
he had political relations at Lugano. The note was
in these words :

"' From Paris to London.—To Madame Roselly,
58, Myddelton-square, Pentonville, London.—lf you
come in contact with Murat, you are to tell him,
among other things, that you have good hopes as to
your military career. If you are absolutely in want
of arms, you are to ask permission to dedicate to him
a fantasia of your own composition, a rots, for the
piano. If you are absolutely in want of pecuniary
aid, you will tell him to send you, buying it for you,
Balfe's last opera. Address and hour. If there is
great probability of doing the thing, you are to
write an insignificant letter, and conclude, 1 will
write to you in a week, in three or four days. If
there be absolute want of an intimate be pleased to
tell me the price of a Broadwood piano in London.'
This note was one of the documents found in pos-

session of Greco. It is manifestly from the hand of
Mazzici,as an expert has abundantly demonstrated.
Together with this paper Mazzini sent a sum of
money to Greco. Greco then set out for France, by
way of Turin and Mont Cenis, and reached Paris
early in May. Under the name of Fioretti, and
sometimes under his own name, he lodged succes-
sively at the Hotel Saint-Marie, Rue de Rivoii, and
at No. 198, Rue St. Honor 6. He found a pretext,
as had been agreed upon, to present himself at the
house of Prince Murat, one of whose secretaries he
frequently saw ; and he succeeded in this way in
making the police agents, who had at first watched
his movements, believe that their, surveillance was

supPrfluous.
"The Emperor had for a short time left Paris.
It was deciiied, in a correspondence between Greco
and Mezzini, that the attempt should be postponed.
Greco quitted his hotel in July, leaving behind him
a portmanteau containing various articles, and say-
ing he was going to London. He returned to Lu-
gano, where he again found Mazzini. His relation 3
with him were continual.
" In consequence of measures adopted by the Swiss au-
thorities the Mazzinians who resided at Lugano found it
expedient to disperse. Greco retired to Mendrizio, but he
came several times in the week to Mazzini's lodgings. It
was during these interviews the organisation of the conspi-
racy was concluded. Mazzini from the commencement
declares that, having gone to London, he left the address,
written with his own hand, to which letters for him should
be directed, ' M. flowers, '5,
Thurloe-square, London.'
This note was seized, with several other notes signed by
Mszzini with his usual abbreviation' together with four of
his photogr&phs, two of which were signed by him.
" Eight days before Mezzini quitted Lugano he left 1,300
francs with Greco. He next sent him I,ooof. from London,
and again 2,0001. in bank notes. At the same time he col-
lected arms. Greco received 10 bombs, revolvers, and
poniards, through various Mazzinian agents, and particu-
larly through an individual named Mostel, of Genoa.
Finally, Greco selectad, with the approbation of Mazzini.
the comrades who were to accompany him to France.
" lie had already secured the assistance of Imperateri.

" Greco next added Trabuco. This individual had long
led a vagrant life. In 1850 and 1851 he was employed as a
physician, receiving wages on board the French ships Al-
gesiras and Pandore. He disappeared, leaving debts behind
him. He was convicted in Paris on the 14th October, 1857,
and sentenced to imprisonment for one year, for swindling
under the name of Belisario. Having been expelled on the
13th October, 1858, by an administrative decree he went to
Italy, where he served with the Chasseurs of the Appenines,
and thence to London, where he was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment for robbery on the 10th of August,
1861, _

" Greco, who saw him for the first time at Naples in 1860,
met him again at Genoa in November, 1863, and again at
Lugano and Mendrizio in December. Frequent meetings
took place between these two men. Trabuco enjoyed the
reputation of being a daring conspirator; and Quadric), one
of ➢lazzini's secretaries, assured Greco that he should
find in him a devoted auxiliary. He entered into the plot,
in which it la as seen above he took a particularly active
part.

" In fine, three or four days previous to the departure of
Greco for France, Imperatori came to him to present a young
man named Scaglioni, one of ' the Thousand' of Marsala
who had been compelled to quit Paris, a warrant having
been issued against him for some act of violence. Scaglioni
declared he was determined to attempt the Emperor's life.
Greco , in the presence of Imperatori, .to
danger they were about to incur. Imperatori repeated that
for his part he made the sacrifice of his life, and that he was
resolved, inflexible as fate. Scaglioni wished to consider
the matter. He returned, and said he was determined, and
asked to be permitted to join in the plot. Greco admitted
him, assisted him to procure a passport under the name of
:despoil, and they prepared for their departure. The Em-
peror had taken up his residence in Paris for the winter.
" Greco only waited for an air-gun which he was to receive
from Mazzini. This weapon was delivered to him in Decem-
ber. The following day the four prisoners quitted Lugano,
having each in his travelling bag two of the bombs procured
by Greco, who wished to take only eight of the 10 bombs
received from Mazzini. They were provided with other arms
and with gunpowder purchased by Greco in Switzerland.
They crossed the frontiers eight days afterwards.
" The facts avowed by Greco were at first denied by the
other accused. Trabuco pretended in his first interrogatory
that he knew nothing of the use for which the articles found
in his room were intended. But he shortly afterwards asked
to be examined again, and he declared with great violence
of manner, that it would be found in some pages written by
him since his arrest that the bombs seized in his room were
intrusted to him, that ha had brought them to France, and
that he meant to use them to kill the Emperor, whose death
he had sworn since the affair of Aspromonte. He admitted
that Greco showed him a bomb at Lugano, telling him,
this is real justice;' to which he replied, ' it is the truth.'
" Trabuco, with whom were deposited the keys of the
trunks in which the bombs were placed, had been particu-
larly charged to examine the approaches to the Opera, and
it was proved that he obtained information as to the Ern-
paror's habits. Scaglioni, after some denials, fully corrobo-
rated Greco's account, adding that each had threatened the
the others with the disgrace of withdrawing from the plot.
He explained that the bombs were to have been thrown
under the Emperor's carriage, and, if necessary, the Em-
peror was to be put to death by means of poniards and re-
volvers. As for Imperatori, he at first pretended he knew
nothing of the plot, hoping, as nothing was found in his
room, that his position was better than that of his accom-
plices.
" But his letter to Mazzini, seized upon Greco, left no
doubt as to the part ho had performed. He in vain endea-
voured to make it be believed that the letter had not the
bearing attributed to it; next that it had been forced from
him, and that since then he had never ceased to be the vic-
tim of moral constraint. He was at length obliged to admit
his relations with Greco. He admitted that he introduced
Scaglioni, that he was aware of the object of the journey ;
that he assisted is bringing the bombs into France ; and
that he knew Greco had assumed the name of Fioretti. The
other prisoners explained that no arms were found in his
room because the furniture could not be firmly closed.
" Scaglioni had possession of the two bombs which were
to be used by Imperatori. In fact, the proceedings of Im-
peratori in Paris, as proved by the police agents, show that
he was incessant in preparing for the execution of the plot.
As for Mazzini, the protest which, according to custom, ho
made in the foreign press, both on the present conspiracy
and on that of 1857, cannot prevail against the precise and
corroborative declarations, the information, and particularly
the written proofs collected during the preliminary pro-
ceedings.

"Competent judges were appointed to examine the arms
seized on the conspirators. It was ascertained Ly firing
two of the bombs that each of them broke into more than
44 fragments, which would preduce the most terrific results.
As for the poniards, which Greco confessed were poisoned,
a gummy matter was found, and tin sheets which had served
to fix a poisonous substance, but that substance, which had
left a trace on the blades, had evaporated and the experts
could not discover its nature.
" At the time the prisoners were arrested, the execution
of the plot was evidently near at hand. Trabuco was about
to leave. He had announced at his hotel that he was going
to London ; he asked for a hammer and some nails to close
a bex, and he wrote an address for it, which was found in
his room. Scaglioni had written to his family to request
they would send him money to Geneva.
" Greco wrote to London to say that all was going on
well, and asked for money which, in fact, arrived on the
Gth, after his arrest, under the form of a draught for 600 f.,
sup;,lied by a house known to have relations with Mazzini.
In rine, the bombs, which it was agreed should not be
charged unt.'
l the last moment, were filled with gunpowder
re the arrest of the prisoners. This was
the evening bet..:
done by Trabuco ana Greco, with the help of Scaglioni, and
in presence of Imperaton.
for a purpose which it is difficult to under.
stand,''r soughtbu"' to maintain that ho
had not participated in it ;
but, being confronted with his accomplices, he answered,
`'Trabuco,
.
in his last examination, I accept the anSWers given by my
friends.'

" Never was crime more skilfully prepared—never were
conspirators better chosen, and supplied with arms more
terrible and more sure. Never was attempt against society
at large so near its accomplishment, when the vigilance of
the authorities penetrated their designs, foiled their plots,
and delivered over to justice the guilty.

"Wherefore the persons named-Ist. Pascal Greco, aged

28 years, professor of music, born at Pisa (Italy), residing
in Paris, No. 176, Rue St, Honore ; 2d. Raphael Trabuco,
aged 40, born at Citta di Averza (Italy), residing in Paris,
No. 176, Rue St. llonore ; 3d. Natale Agestino Impern-
tori, aged 33, bookbinder, born at Lugano (Switzerland),
same residence; 4th. Angelo Scaglioni, aged 22, student,
born at Sc. Joseph (Italy), same residence; sth. Giuseppe
Mazzini, born in Italy, absent—are accused of baying in
1863 and 1364, with the design concerted and decided be-
tween them, formed a plot having for its object to attempt
the life of the Emperor ; the said plot having been followed
by an act committed or commenced towards its execution;
the said crime being against the 86th and 89th Articles of
the first section of the Penal Code."

REVIVAL OF THE STOCKS.- —On Tuesday after-
noon three boys were kept in the stocks at St. Ives, Corn-
wall, for three hours, for having played marbles on Sun-
day. This mode of punishment had not been adopted in
the town for 30 years, and the novel sight consequently
attracted several hundreds of spectators.
LAUNCH OF A DANISE WAR VESSEL-011
Wednesday afternoon an armour-plated frigate, intended
for the Danish Government, was launched from the build-
ing yard of Messrs. J. and G. Thomson, at Govan. The
length of the vessel is about 280 feet, and she is of 3,500
tons burden and 600 horse power. She is covered from
stem to stern with armour plates 4i inches thick, upon a
strong backing of teak and iron plating. The launch was
witnessed by a large number of persons on both sides of the
river, and was conducted without the occurrence of may
mishap.

A NEW SIIYLOCK.--The Edinburgh papers are
enthusiastic about Mr. Alfred Wigan's performance
of this great Shakespearian character. Ou Monday night,
in the presence of his Royal Highness Prince Alfreiand
suite, this favourite actor appeared for the first time in his
new part, and his impersonation of the fierce, exacting',
greedy, passionate Jew, completely carried away an intelli-
gent ant somewhat critical audience. Mr. Wigan, we un-
derstand, will appear in another of Shakspere's characters
at Liverpool, on occasion of the tercentenary festival to be
celebrated there, playing the part of lago, with Mrs. Wigan
as Emilia. It is another proof of the utter want of taste
and judgment on the part of the committee of management
at Stratford-upon-Avon, that. Mr. Wigan has received no
invitation to attend there. These who can recollect Mr.
'Wigan's performance of Falconbridge at the Princeever
ss's,
certainly one of the best concepnaturall tions of character
may y feel some sur-
realised on the English stage,
prise at the omission of his name from the programme. A.
national dramatic festival, from which our two best artists
in their respective lines—Mr. Phelps and A% igen—will be
absent, will certainly not adequately represent the present
position of the English stage.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 26, 1864.

On the very face of it, the acceptance of this
proposition for a Conference to be held in London
upon the Dano-German Question gives promise of
proving but very little better than a flagrant di-
P'-ernatic fiasco. And it does so quite manifestly, if
for no other reason, for this exceedingly simple one,
that the acceptance of the Conference is not ac-
companied by the acceptance of an Armistice.
Hostilities are still to be continued although
the proposal of a Conference is accepted.
IVhile the Conference is silting, the bloodshed
now desolating, the soil of Denmark is to go on
uninterruptedly. Jutland is yet at this moment the
standing-grow-1d of the Prussian soldiery. So far
from that prevince being evacuated by the German
invaders, the latter have apparently no intention
whatever of withdrawing from it. Yet, in this
most lamentable position of things between the
belligerents, we are expected to exult as at a
most auspicious advance towards a termination of
the we:, upon the announcement of this accept,
anca of the offer of a Conference vu an Arrni..
seice such as could really, alone render any such
Conference feasible as a means towards a pacifica-
tion. Even supposing the telegraphic rumour to be
confirmed, the rumour now intimating categorically
as the bases of the Conference proposed by Eng-
land—First, that the European Powers do really
guarantee the autonomy as well as the indieiti-
bility of the Duchies; and, Secondly, that it is
stipulated by them that the territozial arrangements
hitherto existing are to undergo no change—So long
ES it is understood, no less distinctly, that the war is
to be fiercely continued among the belligerents,
all the while the plenipotentiaries are sitting in
conference herein London—the guarantees aforesaid
go just absolutely for nothing. ,Who can foretell
what stage may not have been arrived at, in the
development of the war, by the time the conference
should be preparing forznally to announce its de.
Gig= ? la tine then embittered state of feeling of

the belligerents, it is probable that all the guaran-
tees in the world might be set aside alike by the
Danes and by the Austro-Prussians. At the best,
the augury to be drawn from this proposed and
accepted Conference is very doubtfully auspicious
indeed. It rests upon so many vague, and shifting,
and unimaginable contingencies. It rests its
chief reliance, in effect—as does the present
Cabinet of England for that matter—upon the
Chapter of Accidents. " Vivo la Bagatelle," almost,
one might take to be the watchword of the Ad-
ministration. And so—lNlinisters are evidently
exulting, as at a signally triumphant man onvre,
over this left-handed acceptance of the offer of a
Conference, the war itself still continuing.

Lord PALMERSTON showed his usual tact and dis-
cernment i❑ coming down to the House last night.
It showed that the noble lord understood the exi-
gericy of the case, and was willing to conform to
the expression of opinion so decidedly expressed
by members on both sides of the House. The
Premier had also good intelligence to communicate
relative to the Tuscaloosa. Here, again, Ministers
have yielded to the pressure of circumstances, and
relinquished their unfair and unjust attempt to in-
terfere with the rights of other nations. Credit is
due to them for sending out those orders for setting
her at liberty, which the noble lord referred to last
night; and it is satisfactory, of course, to obtain
such information. At the same time, it cannot but
occur to the mind, on the receipt of this intelli-
gence, that it would have been better to have acted
with less haste, and to have studied the bearings of
the question a little more carefully before proceed-
ing to such extremities. It is not consonant with
the dignity of the country, it is not consistent for
the reputation of our Government, to be constantly
changing about in this manner. Precipitancy on
one side and recusance on the other, a general dis-
cussion and confusion all around, heartburnings and
murmers of discontent seem to mark the progress of
our Administration. There is one thing reassuring
at all events in this affair, and that is the encourage-
ment given to independent minds to persist in
ferreting out these unjust machinations, and in
setting forward the true state of the case in the
light of day. Had there been a timorous course
pursued in this matter restitution would never
have been made, and a gross injury would have
been perpetrated by our authorities. Lord R.
CECIL very properly asked whether compensation
would be given for the injury, bat Lord PALMER-
STON would not be compromised into giving an
assurance to that effect. This must be the next
cases belea, and the champions of international
rights should strenuously insist on justice being
done to the parties who have sustained a loss by
the hot haste and misjudged partiality of their
assailants. Many may think that too much fuss
has been made about this case altogether, but
nothing can be small which concerns truth and
justice, nothing unimportant that relates to the
honour of our country, and nothing not worth
striving for that results in rendering justice to any
Power or State which has been oppressed or wrong-
fully injured by any mistakes—real or intentional. If
the Ministers hope in any way to retrieve a portion
of their damaged reputation they must finish their
task of making the amende honorable, and imme-
diately bestow that compensation which the Con-
federates have a right to expect. The possession of
that moral right should be as powerful to insure its
reception, as if armed hosts could command the
restitution, or hostile fleets were bound to enforce
the claim.

Lord DERBY last night called attention to the
very strange manner in which the Government are
acting in regard to the production of the papers
asked for by various members in both Houses of the
Legislature. The general result proves, as the
noble Earl remarked, that there is a want of com-
munication between the members of Her MAJESTY'S
Government. It is, indeed, a very peculiar manner
of conducting the affairs of the State, and its effects
must be very prejudicial to the interest of the pub-
lic service. It is very essential that we should have
the papers which have been laid before the Ameri-
can Congress, and Lord DERBY again requested the
Foreign Secretary to state on what grounds he re.
fused to comply with this reasonable demand.
Lord RUSSELL made one of his extraordinary re-
plies. He said that he only withheld those that
related to a question now pending before the courts
of law. The Attorney-General had advised him
not to produce these documents, but he believed he
had since changed his opinion. Can anything be
more unsatisfactory than this dilly-dallying with
questions of so much moment. Lord CHELMSFORD
very properly asked to know when the change had
taken place. •This, however, he was not permitted
to know. It is idle for Earl RUSSELL to attempt to
get himself out of one difficulty by plunging into
another, and he is only laying himself open to re•
newed attacks and redoubled criticism. One
House is refused to be allowed to see the
papers relating to the Saxon, and the
other is put in possession of them. All
this beating about the bush cannot possibly
serve the turn of Ministers, and must sooner or
later overwhelm them with discomfiture. There
are many months of the session yet to run, and it
is preposterous to imagine that the most dexterous
jugglings and complicated combinations can put off
all awkward inquiries, and keep the pertinacious
questioners at bay. Public inquiry will not be
stifled in this fashion, and the voice that now feebly,
perhaps, is heard, will be raised to a pitch, and be
endued with a meaning that Cabinets must hear and
heed. It will not benefit the position of the Govern-
ment to put off the evil day now and alight on a
worse one some weeks hence. They had better
totally alter their tactics, and like men of spirit face
the worst, and not give their opponents such a
handle against them as to say that private interests
are sacrificed to political prejudices, and the dignity
of the country compromised to keep one particular
set of men in office to carry out notions which
militate against the spirit of the age.

Thanks to the spirit of daring and adventure
which especially characterises Englishmen, there
will soon be few spots in the habitable globe with
which we are not in some degree familiarised.
Within the last few years the savage tribes who
inhabit the central tracts of Africa have been
visited fur the first time by white men, and the
sandy wastes which stretch across the great
Southern continent have been expluied by a band
of daring colonists. Englishmen have descended
the Russian mines, have ridden the wild horses of
the Kirghis, have penetrated the mysterious empire
of Japan, and left habitable land behind them on
their voyage northwards. The proceedings of the
Royal Geographical Society have become no sine-
cure, and its meetings have lately become deeply
interesting. It is but a few weeks since the
assembly listened with breathless interest to the
account of the " hairbreadth 'scapes and snares"
of Captains SPERE and GRANT in their expedition
to Lake Nyanza. The recitel of the danger 3 they
encountered from the crafty and covetous kings of
dome of the tribes, the risks through which their
firmness and tact carried them safely, and the
strange scenes and habits of the savage people they
Vent among, enthralled the attention of the
tLe Words of an
listeners, who thus learn: frau

eye-witness his impressions of those races and '
countries where a white man was hitherto un-
known. At the meeting at Burlington House on
Monday evening, the audience were transported to
what might seem almost to be part of another
world. Instead of the rude and primitive usages
of Central Africa—the rough huts and want of
almost the common necessaries of life—there
was called before them a vision of mosques, bazaars,
and handsome cities, of stables full of Nedjed steeds,
of worshippers kneeling to the glowing sun of the
East. Despotism as strict as that of the African
kings prevail in these sunny Arabian scenes, the
tyranny of Islam, supplying the place of the irre-
sponsible will of the black monarch. Mr. PAL-
GRATE, the son of the late Sir FRANCIS PALGRAVE,
whose name is well known to English literature, has
passed the last eighteen years in journeying across
the northern part of Arabia, from Gazo in south-
ern Syria to El Khatif, on the Persian Gulf, and
hence to the kingdom of Oman at the eastern
corner of Arabia. This, expedition, whose exploits
and adventures were happily described by the pre-
sident, as the thousand and second Arabian Knights,
was full of danger and difficulty. A sufficient proof
of the rarity and danger of such a journey is afforded
by the fact that Mr. PALGRAVE'S experience con-
tradicts nearly all the little we were supposed to
know about the countries in question. The general
notion of the more distant parts of Arabia is a wild
expanse of sandy desert, where wandering Bedouins
pitch their tents, and the whole life of the inhabi-
tants is nomadic and desultory. In place of this we
find large and populous cities full of shops, bazaars,
and all the accessories of Arabian life in the better
known districts, with houses of two and three
stories, built with a degree of taste that eclipses
European competition. Nevertheless the ignorance
and misapprehension on these points is not
surprising, for so great is the jealousy with
which the Arabs regard the intrusion of
any Europeans, that it is by no means an uncommon
thing for travellers who have ventured so far to be
put to death. Mr. PALGRAVE assumed the eharac•
ter of a wandering doctor, and his medical know-
ledge stood him in good stead. The whole party
had to disguise themselves at Gaza, and were by
no means reluctant to accept the explanation gene-
rally given of their journey—that Mr. PALGRAVE
committed some civil crime, and had fled from his
native Damascus: In his medical capacity Mr.
PALGRAVE achieved some striking successes, and
once nearly got into serious trouble by doing so.
He had cured a case of partial paralysis by a careful
external application of strychnine. He was then
in the Wahabite territory, and the KING, who heard
of the wonderful cure, sent for him to beg for SOME;
of the marvellous powder. A refusal, founded on
its danger in unpracticed hands, produced no effect,
his MAJESTY hinting that its fatal qualities would
by no means diminish its utility as a political agent.
A stormy scene ensued, after which it was thought
more prudent for the party to effect a secret escape
from the country. At the Wahabite capital, before
this contention, the supposed doctor had been called
upon to attend to one of the Royal steeds, and had
consequently an opportunity of inspecting those
celebrated stables where the finest of the Arab horses
are collected. These beautiful creatures are described
by Mr. PALGRAVE as the beau ideal of the horse. The
state of Oman, at the extreme east of Arabia, is
as strange to E Iropean visitors as the wildest dis-
tricts of Central Africa, being entirely cut off from
the rest of Arabia by vast deserts. It is, according
to his description, the most beautiful part of
Arabia, with a climate resembling that of India,
and traces of the old fire-worship of the country
left lingering among the people. Mr. PALGRAVE
has collected a vast amount of information, as yet,
of course, only given in outline, respecting the reli-
gions, political, 'and social condition of the people.
In addition to thedingers ho met with from hostile
natives, he passed through perils by land and
water, narrowly escaping death in a simoom in the
desert and a shipwreck on the coast of Oman.
Fortunately, however, he has reached home in
safety, after an absence so protracted that his
native tongue has grown strange to him, to be
warmly welcomed by his countrymen, and to add
his rich and varied experience to the stores of our
geographical knowledge.