The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-04 00:00:00

TEM ATilk3?..'ED ASSASSINATIOY
OF Via FifENCI-1 EMPEROR.

FURTHER EXAMINATION OF M. BERNARD
Simon Bernard, charged with being concerned in
the late attempt to aseassina to the Emperor Napoleon,
was placed at the bar, before Mr. Jardine, for the fourth
time, this day, at 2 o'clock,
Mr. Bodkin appeared on behalf of the prosecution,
and Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoner.
It will be recollected that the points of the former ex-
amination were the connecting the prisoner with the
pistols found on Orsini, and Pierri, and the proceedings
last Tuesday were confined to proving that the prisoner
Bernard conveyed the empty shells to Belgium, from
whence they were taken to Paris by a man whe had not
the slightest knowledge of the purpose for which they
were intended, Bernard alleging that they were to be
used in a new invention about to be applied to gas.
The Court, as on former occasions, was densely
crowded.
Mr. Bodkin—Are all the witnesses bare t
Inspeetor Sounder s—Yes, sir ; I have brought them.
The first witness called was Henri Jourdain, commis-
sioner of the Hotel de l'Europe at Brussels, who said—l
recollect a gentleman, whom I then knew as Allsop,
stopping at the hotel eleven days. laccompanied him to
the railway, when he left on the 11th of December. A
young man rode in the cab with him. I sat on the box.
At the railway, tickets were taken for Paris. A. horse
which had been hired was also taken by the same train.
They started at seven o'clock in the evening. I have
since seen the person I knew as Alliop in a French
prison.

Mr. Bodkin--Did you hear that person called by any
other name !
Mr. Sleigh—l object to the question.,
Mr. Bodkin—Very well—it is of 'no importance. I
will not press it.
Mr. Sleigh—When did you first hear of this matter,
and when were you asked to come and give evidence !
Witness—l first saw the attempt in the newspapers,
and then I was called in by the Juge d'lnstruction.
Mr. Sleigh—Were you arrested.
Witness--No.
Mr. Sleigh—But required to come here and give
evidence.

Witness—l was sent first to Paris, then here.
Mr. Sleigh—By whom
Witness—The Juge d'lnstruction.
Jules Fournarier, the waiter at the Cafe
Suisse, who, at the last examination, described
the balls brought to the hotel, was then shown the gre-
nade brought over by the French officer, and said the
balls he saw were exactly similar to the one produced.
Mr. Sleigh—You cannot swear that the balls produced
are the identical balls you saw in Brussels !
Witness—l cannot.

William Meteyard, managing director of the Hotel de
Europe, at Brussels. I recollect a gentleman coming to
stop at the hotel in December. I knew him by the
name of Al'sop. He was a stranger. He produced a
passport, which I examined. He left it on the
11th; of December. I recommended him to the
Hotel de Lille et Albion, in Paris. I have not
seen that person since,

Susannah Meekenbeim, a native of Sheffield. I
reside in Brussel.. My husband is a Frenchman. I
formerly lived at Birmingham with husband, who was
a manufacturer. I left Birmingham three years ago.
During my residence there, I became acquainted
with a person named Pierri.
He was a professor
of languages. In January of this year, Pierri
came to my residence in Brussels. My
husband saw him. He made some inquiries of him,
and they afterwards left the house. I afterwards
followed, and went to the Caf6 Suisse, where
I met my husband. herd in a short time joined us;
as Pierri left he gave me a small packet wrapped in
brown paper. .

The grenade was here given to witness, who with
some trepidation, took itjinto her hand, said the parcel
Pisrri gave her to carry was not near so heavy as that
she now held.

[To be continued in our last edition.]

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for their extreme accuracy m reporting from beginning
to end every little word they hear, amongst the very
best reporters we have in the gallery.—Punch.
COAL FOUND ON THE GARSCUDE ROAD.—In the
course of digging the trench for depo.iting the large
pipes to convey the water from Loch Katrine, the men
came on an outcrop of excellent coal, about half a mile
on the south side of Maryhill. The mineral was within
four feet of the surface of the Garscube Road. The con-
tractors, who were of course only entitled to excavate
that portion that /ay within the prescribed limits of the
trench, seed the coal so found toheat the melting-pot...—
GU/vow Herald.
DISPOSAL OP CORPORATE PROPERTT TO THE LANCIA
SHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—The Liverpool Town
Conned, at their meeting yesterday, decided to grant a
perpetual lease of land on the site of the old Borough
Gaol, comprising 18,800 square yards, to the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway, at an annual rent of 2s 6LI per
square yard. The company gave the council the alter.
native of selling the land in fee for 2/. 15s per square
yard, but the arrangement of a perpetual lease was pre-
ferred. The land is to be appropriated by the company
to an extension of their warehouse and general traffic
accommodation.

THE PUBLIC EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE GAME
LAws.—According to a Parliamentary return lately
moved for by Mr. Colville, it appears that during the
year 1856 33 women and 126 children were. thrown as
inmates into the various workhouses of England in con-
sequence of the persons by whom they were usually
supported being 0 mfined in gaol for offences against
the game laws, and 197 women and 633 children became
recipients of out door relief from the same cause ; the
total expense of the in and out-door relief thus bestowed
being 6931. Hs. 6d.

nil MURDER IN TRH lIATSARKET.
—Ever since the
alleged murderer, Giovanni Lard, has been removed to
the House of Detention, after his examination at Marl-
borough-street Police-court on Monday last, he has
shown the utmost indifference to his situation, but he
has rendered himself somewhat remarkable by the fre-
quency of his calls for an attendant, by means of a
bell, to request additional food to be brought to him,
but of course such requests were disregarded, food being
only dealt out at specified hours to all prisoners who are
unable to provide it for themselves, Yesterday the Sar
dinian Consul went to the House of Detention and re-
qnested to have an interview with the prisoner, which
was of course immediately granted, aud he informed him
that he should feel it to be his duty to transmit to his
Government in Sardinia, of which country the alleged
murderer is a native, an intimatioa of the occurrence,
and requesting at the same time that be (the prisoner)
would give him the address of his father, and that he
would write a letter for him, to transmit it with his own
to Italy. The prisoner at first altogether declined to do
so, but, on the Consul representing to him that as he
had given hi 4 real name, and as a notice of the murder,
is which he was alleged to be concerned, had appeared
in the newspapers, with a description of his person, that
as soon as those papers reached Turin the article would
be translated and inserted in the Italian papers, he con-
sented to communicate the name and address of his
father. The Consul then promised to write to him. The
father is a Unman, residing a few miles from Turin, and
the son is of the same trade, and he had left Italy for
this country to take ship to Monte Video, and from
there he intended to go to Mexico, where some of his
father's relatives are settled. Before the Consul left, he
questioned him as to the charge, which he positively de-
nied, and in answer to seine questions as to his posses
sion of the deceased Woman's peapeety, he said that he
purchased it of her for 101, and that he was innocent of
auy participation in her murder. gib passport was
examined, and all appeared to be quite regular as to his
leaving Italy en route to this country from Monte Video.
ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—
An alarming accident occurred on Tuesday evening en
the Norfolk section of the Eastern Counties Railway,
between Great Yarmouth and Norwich. In conic-
quenc., of the line between Norwich and London being
o somev e
Norwichn a
more or less delayed, and the down train,
the trains have been
which ought
to la
Yarmouth and Lawee.
toft, did not depart till about (3 p.m.
to
leave
lt e t impeded 4
45 withp. snow,
fo
Between Yarmouth
and Norwich the line runs for the most part through a
and the snow with
wehsioclha t
h , e
a strong wind to a great depth in many places.
By great exertions the rails were cleared where
desolate,
district wasars hvisited country, on Monday was drifted by
they were blocked ; but no sooner was this done than
they were again drifted up by the north-easter, which
bleak,my
continued blowing hard throughout Tuesday. The 6 p.m.
train left the Norwich station, drawn by two engines,
and accomplished the first seven miles of its journey in
safety. When, however, it was about a mile from the
Buckenhain station, one of the engines left the rails in
consequence of the depth of the snow which bad again
covered them. It happened that anu nber of trucks
were passing on the other line at the moment,
and the engine which had run off came into collision
' with some of them. A great crash, of course, took
place, and four or fire trucks were smashed. An
permanent way,
named Chandler, also
inspector of per
had one of his arms broken, and an engine-
driver, named Holroyd, was seriously scalded. No
passenger sustained any injury, but the trains were, as
a matter of course, brought to a stand-still, and the 00.
capants of the carriages were conveyed back to Norwich.
After a delay of about four hours the communication
was again restored by. means of trains ran on each side
to and from the debris which obstructed the line. This
course was also adopted yesterday morning, and great
exertions were made to overcome the difficulties which
existed. Four trucks were forced off the rails in conse-
quence of the accumulations of snow on the Eastern
Tivetshall, and the H 1 th and
Union division, near a eswor
Harleston branches were blocked. Yesterday the
weather happily manifested a tendency to improve.