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[The following is a more extended report of the brilliant
speech delivered by Mr. James than appeared in our im-
pression of yesterday :---]
Mr. James at once proceeded to address the j my for the
defence, but in so low a tone of voice that his opening
sentences were quite inaudible in the reporter; box. He
Was understood to commence by urging upon the attention
of the jury the grave importance of the case, and remind-
ing them that in its discussion, and in the verdict they
were about to pronounce, was involved consequences the
most serious, not only to public and private liberty in this
country, but to the cause of freedom and of civilisation
, throughout the world. It had ever been the boast—and no
idle or empty boast it was—that it was the duty as well as
the pleasure of the English bar to render assistance to the
weak against the strong, to the oppressed as against the
oppressor. From that very spot from which he now spoke
the names of Erskine, of Brougham, and of Denman, had
shed the lustre of their eloquence in pleading the cause of
those against whom had been brought to bear the influence
of the Crown for asserting the liberty of the subject. It
might he said, as was by the Roman orator—" Insignia
mcestia pietsidium reis." And last, but not least—if he
might be peemitted to say it in the presence of a judge
whose great learning and sound judgment adorned the
bench—in the last State trial that had taken place the
eloquence of Pollock shed lustre upon the cause he espoused.
The present ease came before the court under peculiar cir-
cumstances. His learned friend the Attorney-General had
opened the case with the moderation and calm dignity
which became its importance and his own high position as
a minister of justice; but he could not but remark that in
that opening there was a portentous silence upon one
point—his learned friend omitted altogether to explain
how it was that now for the first time in the annals of our
jurisprudence a case of this nature had boon brought before
an English jury. His learned friend had never explained
how it was, before they were asked to find a verdict—how
it was that, at the bidding of those who were not con-
tent with the blood of Orsini and Pierri, they were asked
to stain an English scaffold with the blood of the pri-
soner at the bar. It was right they should have it
distinctly stated on what principle it was, on what
ground it was, that this prosecution was based upon
this particular act of Parliament, which he trusted he
eahould be Able to show was perverted, and wrested from
fie object which those who framed it had in view, to serve
a purpose of which they never dreamed. Nor was this his
opinion only. It was the opinion of the most eminent
jurists of the country at the present moment. He wanted
to know how it was that an act of Parliament which had,
never before been made applicable to such circumstances
was thus put in force against the prisoner at the bar. The
Attorney-General had observed a significant silence on this
point, and had carefully abstained from all allusion to the
act of Parliament, or to the circumstances which had
brought about this extraordinary prosecution. He should
be able to satisfy the jury that this was a prosecution not
on account of an , injury of which her Majesty had to com-
plain, or of which any British subject had to complain.—
but it was a prosecution directed by foreign dictation, to
bring about a state of political subserviency to foreign go-
vernments, which the Government of this country had not
the courage to submit to the English House of Commons
and to the English people. The consequence was that the
Treasury solicitor had been directed to ransack the archives
of Parliament to find an act under which a prosecution
and a conviction could be obtained for the crime of wilful
murder against a man—not to vindicate justice, but to
gratify a political object, which the Government of the
day wanted the courage to submit to the consideration of
the English people and the Commons House of Parliament.
The Attorney-General had told the court nothing of the
origin of this prosecution. He had listened in vain to hear
how it had come about --how it was that a charge of con-
spiracy had been brought against the gentlemian at the bar
- -and he was a gentleman by birth, education, and sta-
tion—that charge having been hanging over him for many,
many days, and prosecuted with all that ingenuity which
distinguished one of the ablest criminal lawyers at the bar,
his learned friend Mr. Bodkin—how it was that after
the case had been heard and reheard before the magis-
trate, and the evidence brought for ward in support of it
published all over Europe, the advocate of the Crown had
said, " Let us take that evidence" which he (Mr '
James) considered was not evidence that could he received •
on a charge of wilful murder--" let us take that evidence,
and speculate upon the chances of conviction upon the more
serious charge of murder—let us try and get a verdict
against the prisoner on the capital charge, and that perhaps
will relieve us from a disagreeable political difficulty."
Let them stop for a momout to inquire into the origin of
this transaction. As they all knew an attempt was made
upon the life of the Emperor Napoleon on the 14th of Jan.
1"55. The jury had had pictured to them by the Attorney•
General the vast injury—death in some instances, wounds
in others—that was occasional by this attempt of Orsini's,
and though all that his learned friend had said in that re-
spect mightbe true, the jmy must not forget that it in no
way concerned the prisoner. The prisoner was not present
nor had it been shown that he had taken any part in in-
stigating, or that he had participated in any way in that
most criminal transaction. He needed not to be reminded
of the horror and detestation with which every English-
man
regarded the crime of assassination. He was not there
to say a word in palliition of a crime so cowardly, dark and
dastardly as assassination. He would not on that occasion
(for it was not necessary) enter into any discussion of a
question that attracted the attention of philosophers of all
nations whether it was right to get rid of a tyrant by death.
But there was so much horror attached to the crime of as-
sassination that every Englishman shuddered at it. Ho could
not do better than quote from the speech of one of the most
brilliant advocates of the French bar, M. Jules Fevre, who
defended Orsini, and thank God liberty of speech lingered
at that bar, though -the press was no longer free. The
learned gentleman here quoted from M. Jules Favre's ad-
dress in defending Orsini the passage in which he con-
demned assassination, but said of despotism, " God re-
serves for despots a fate more dreadful than the machi-
nations of the assassin." This was not only the view
of an eloquent man and a philosopher, but it was a
truth which all history taught, and though Providence
in its wisdom might for a time permit tha despot to
trample upon the liberties of a free people, there re-
mained for him an inevitable retribution more certain than
the dagger of the assassin. To suppose that any English
advocates, or any English jury would regard, assassination
as a thing under any circumstances to be tolerated orjusti-
fied, was not ti know the feelings by which Englishmen
and English courts of justice were actuated ; still, looking
at all the features of the case, it was perhaps possible to
understand the sentiment that lingered in the minds of
Italia' s whose liberties had been destroyed by a lalasting
and withering despotism—they might possibly understand
the existence of a sentiment in the minds of those
men whose liberties had been destroyed and trampled upon,
which, thank God, we who enjoyed the blessings of a con-
stitutional Government, and were ruled by a Sovereign who
reigned in the hearts of her people, could never share.
Though we might have a natural horror of the crime of
assassination, we could understand that a people who were
oppressed and tyrannised over—who wore robbed of their
liberties by foreign tyranny, might be justified in availing
themselves of every means to throw off the yoke. Well.
this desperate attempt of Orsini's having become known in
L indon and throughout Europe, then came the demand on
the part of France to deliver up the exiles who had gained
an asylum in England. This was followed by the thr.eaten-
ing language of the French generals, published in the
ilfoniteur, and next came the speech of Louis Napoleon's
ambassador to the citizens of Loudon. Lord Palmerston',
Government was pressed by the demands of a ma n. who
had himself found an asylum in this country from political
persecution. Then came a proposal on the part of Lord
Palmerston to the House of Commons of the Conspiracy
Bill. Let them trace up these matters (which were fresh
in their recollection) one after the other, and say whether
it was not clear that a political purpose was to be answered
by this prosecution, the object the Government had in
view being to concede in this way to the demands of a fo-
reign despot that which they dared not ask the House of
Commons to sanction. Well, Lord Palmerston introduced
the Conspiracy Bill to the House of Commons, but Lord
Palmerston's Government was wrecked upon that measure
on the motion of his (Mr. James's) hon. friend, Mr.
Gibson. The noble and learned lord who was now presid-
ing inthat court judicially, exercising his undoubted privi-
lege in the House of Lords, declared his opinion distinctly
as to the power of the English law in dealing with cases
such as that bill was intended to meet—from which, how-
ever, a very able lawyer in the House of Commons, the
late Attorney-General, differed. It became a subject of
discussion whether or not the law of England enabled the
Government to comply with the demand made upon it by
the Emperor of the French to give up those foreign exiles
which he chose to demand—and the result of that discus-
sion was that the Conspiracy Bill was rejected by the
House of Commons, and a statesman whose name should
never be mentioned without veneration and respect in the
presence of any assembly attached to the principles of civil
and religious freedom—Lord John Russell—said that he
should consider it a shame and a lasting disgrace to the
people of England if such a measure were passed. Nor was
that feeling confined to the noble lord-- it was shared iu by
a large majority of the English House of Commons, who
rejected a bill against which the genius of the English
people rebelled. Lord Palmerston's goverument was
wrecked upon that measure—and the House of Commons,
firm in its constitutional strength, resisted the demands of
one whose dictation might have more effect when directed I
against the comparatively weaker states of Sardinia or
Switzerland. The bill was rejected. Lord Pahnerston's
government was wrecked, and Lord Derby's Government
succeeded—but this prosecution went on. Lord Palmer-
ston's government was thrown out on the 19th February.
At that time the proceedings in this case were going on,
the prisoner having been arrested on the 14th. On thel3th
of March, weeks and weeks after the prisoner bad been in
custody, and after he had been repeatedly examined on
the charge of conspiracy—a charge in reference to which
the opinion of lawyers differed, whether he could be con-
victed or not, without ransacking the statute-book for ,
some forgotten musty old act of Parliament—on the 13th '
March, for the first time, the counsel for the Crown get up
and stated in the pollee-court that the charge of conspiracy
on which all the evidence had been given, was to be—not
abandoned, but cast aside for the moment, and upon that
evidence, which he (Mr. James) contended was not admis-
sible upon a charge of wilful murder—under ad statute that
was never intended to apply to aces° of this kin, the charge
of wilful murder was founded. On March 13 the prisoner
was charged with having been an accessory before the fact
to the crime of murder, and the attempt was made to pro-
ceed against him for the penalty of death. Let them see
what had taken place between the time of the commence-
ment of the prosecution and March 13. Lord Derby had
succeeded to power. What was he to dot The House of
Commons had virtually declared, we will not pass this
Conspiracy Bill. Lord Pahneraton's Government had been
wrecked and shattered upon it. Lord Derby knew very
well that he could not again submit it to the House of Com-
mons. What, then, was to be done ? The demand of the
Emperor Napoleon had been made—the Conspiracy Bill
had been brought in to please him; but the House of Com•
mons rejected it---they would have nothing to do with it
Something must be done, so the Treasury lawyers were
directed to ransack the statute book for some musty act,
which somebody or otherhad heard of, upon which to found
a special commission, to try whether they could enforce an
act of Parliament that was no more intended by its framers
to apply to a case such as this than it was to bring any one
of the jury who were trying it within the meshes of an in-
dictment for treason. By the Conspiracy Bill it was at-
tempted to abolish the right of asylum, which was odious

to and rendered miserable every continental despot. The
Government could not proceed with the Conspiracy Bill,
for the Rouse of Commons rejected it. An able criminal
lawyer, Mr. Bodkin, who had been conducting for weeks
and weeks an inquiry against the prisoner on the charge of
conspiracy, turned round on March 13, and, not abandon-
ing the charge of conspiracy—because they would see pre-
sently it was hanging over the prisoner's head, but Lord
Derby, not daring to bring the bill into the House of Com-
mons, and the Government feeling that the difficulty must
be got rid of—on the 1311 of March, for the first time,
Mr. Bodkin made this charge against the pri over, and it
Ras determined that the prisoner should be tried under a
special commission. Was not that an outline of the history
of this case-? Now, this act of parliament under which the
prisoner was charged had nothing to do with the case, and
had no bearing upon it ' • it was intended to apply to a to-
tally different state of things. They-bad heard tho legal
points which he had submitted to the judges, who would
reserve them if their verdict should ever make that neces-
sary. The act of parliament under which this prisoner
was indicted he would show, when he came to that part
of the case, was never intended for such a case as this.
But this was an experiment on the part of the Crown, to
see if, with their aid, the Government could be delivered
from their difficulty, and if the right of asylum of the
foreign exiles in this country could be destroyed by means
of their verdict. His friend the Attorney-General was
silent about that part of the case; he had filled up that
space which his learned friend let t vacant, and their hearts
and consciences would tell them whether he had right-
fully done so, and they would decide upon the matter. He
was saying that they could not fairly appreciate the
feelings which animated men the liberties of whose coun-
try had been suppressed and destroyed, they might imagine
them, hut they could not realise them. Were they to won-
der, then, that Italians, who had seen the liberties of their
country utterly prostrated, could they wonder that the Ita-
lian, who perhaps had some nilic in his heart of Roman cou-
rage, should desire to take meascres for the deliverance of
his country? Was not allowance to be made for men is such
circumstances ? The attempt which was made upon the life
of the Emperor Napoleon was madechiefly by Italians; and
those who were familiar with contemporaneous history--
knew that everything like freedom of opinion—freedom, be
might almost say, of action— was utterly destroyed in Italy.
The French army kept the Pope upon his throne. Italy,
the seat of the Roman Republic, the mistress of the world
in the middle ages, having municipal institutions which we
had loved to imitate—ltaly, the birthlideee lie might say,
almost of liberty, barbecome now, as retarded' freedom, &
political waste and desert. And although they could not
sanction, perhaps, the combinations which these men en-
tered into, they must look at all the circumstances of the
case, and any attempt to restore their liberties by an organi-
sation of warfare against a tyrent who was oppressing them
—where there was no crime of assassination—any organisa-
tion on the part of the oppressed against the tyrant had ever
been sanctioned in this veuntry. Whenever they had found
a French revolution succeed, journalists who had before
written against it had lauded the patriots who had risen
and thrown 011 the yoke. So much for Italy and the feel-
ings of Italians who were exiles from their country. Then
take for one moment France, and sketch her history very
shortly. See her position now, and let them try if they
could to appreciate the sentiments of Frenchmen. Ever
since the mighty revolution of 17,9, the excesses of which
every philosopher and every human being deplored—ever
since that mighty revolution which overthrew the dynasty
of the Bourbons, there had been contending for the throne
of France, the elder branch of the Bourbons, the Orleanists,
and the Napoleon family ; besides which there was the
great Republican party. Thank God, in this country,
living under the undisputed sway of a sovereign whom
we all loved and adored, we could not well appreciate the
feelings of Frenchmen, but that country had for year! been
kept in a state of politicel excitement and uneasiness. The
Bourbon had been plotting against the Orlesuist, both had
been plotting against the Emperor, and the republican
party had been anxious for the assertion of their feelings
on liberty. These four parties had kept Franco in a state
of political embarrassment from 1781 to the moment that
he was LOW addressing them. In 1143 the government of
Louis Philippe was upset, and a republic was established.
Louis Napoleon, who from this country hal male an at-
tempt on the government of Louis Philippe in 1810, threw
himself upon the free will, or, as he called it, the sove-
reignty of the people and was elected President of the
Republic by fir millions of votes, whereby he was placed
in the grandest position that ever was filled by man.
What might he. have done, placed as he was at the head
of a constitutional government, and surrounded by the
halo of a great name ? Louis Philippe and he changed
places. Louis Napoleon, from being a political exile
in England, became the heal of a constitutional govern-
ment of France, and Louis Philippe, who had been at the
head of a constitutional Government in France, became a
political exile in England. So much for the asylum which
the Conspiracy Bill of Lord Palmeriton sought to destroy,
and which they were asked by their verdict utterly to an-
nihilate. Louis Napoleon had been an exile in Switzer-
lan], which country they would remember had refused to
give him up, notwithstanding the threats of Louis Philippe;
he had been exiled in America, ant then he sought a re-
fuge on the shores of Eng'aad ; and from the banks of the
Rhine and the constitutional shores of England he had
enunciated those principles of liberty which induced the
enlightened people of France tooentide their political desti- i
ems in his hands. Placed at the heal of a oonstitutionalGo-
vernment, he swore to maintain inviolate the freedom of
France, and before the oath was cod on his lips he violated
it. (Cheers, which were immodistely suppressed.) His
learned friend the Attorney-General had tried to enlist their
feelings by talking of 516 wounds which were inflicted on
the byestandere on the 11th of Jan. ; but let him call their
attention to the 2d December, Ibsl. Talk of wounds !
Why, on the 2d December, 1851, the drunken French sol-
diers were turned loose upon an unresisting mob, and men,
women, and children were indiscriminately slaughtered.
Louis Napoleon had determined that he would not govern
constitutionally any longer. There were men in Paris then
who were more attached to order than himself, for they had
never been guilty of treasonable practices against the exist-
ing government. Thera was Cavaignac, than whom no man
ever did more to maintain order in Franco, and than whom a
greater patriot and a greater lover of constitutional freedom
never lived ; and there were Changarnier and Thiere, and
l'm who were lovers of order, but who
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and without reason his drunken soldierybroke into the Cour
de Caseation, where the judges of the court were sitting,
and where au accusation of treason was being made against
him, and these soldiery turned the judges into the streets.
He erected himself a throne, and that went through the
mockery of an election. Upon that occasion, and he was
speaking from history well known, frem able letters from
Paris, which were published in the journals, thousands of
persons were sent to gaol without trial, and transported to
the arid plains of Algiers, or to the deadly marshes of
Cayenne. Such had been the conductof the man who was
the prosecutor in this case, and the/ were asked to con-
vict this prisoner under some absurd aid ridiculous threats
that we were to have a war if he war not executed. The
prisoner was charged with being an accessory before the
fact of the murder of Nicholas Bettie. Of course ho was
not there to contend that if the prisoner and Oreini con-
spired to kill one person, and in the attempt to kill him
kilied another, he was not liable ; bat of course this par-
ticular occurrence mutt bo proved to their satisfaction, and
it must be shown to the exclusion of every reasonable
doubt, that this crime was " instigated, counselled, and
planned," which he believed, were the terms of the in-
dictment, by tle prisoner That was the charge which the
Government bad undertaken to profs; and if it was con-
sistent, as he would show them it vas, with the whole of
this case, twat the prisoner had Waring whatever to do
with this attack upon Napoleon, but that he believed that
what they were about to be engaged in was an insurrec-
tion for the restoration of liberty in Italy, then, according
to the d,ctum of one of the most able judges who ever sat
on the Eaglish bench—Ur. Baron Alderson—the prisoner
with such
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tuary of freedom and of life—that he instigated and coun-
selled this eineute— that he was a party to sending the
grenades which he (Ur. James) said wore intended for any
other object than an attack upon the life of Napoleon. if
they found that many of the facts, as he should show -
and they had never been disputed—wore consistent with
both suppositions, and, as he should show, that the assas-
sination of the Emperor ha I never crossed the prisoner's
mind, but that whenever he had expressed an opinion on
the subject, as he did to King, it was that on Orsini's re-
turn Italy would be free, they would not be justified in
finding the prisoner guilty. Baron Aldersou laid it down
—he was quoting Irons " Russell on Crimes," vol. 2, p.
727--that " where an indictment fpr murder was supported
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at guilt,ttihei6s
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etnutriyet must, before finding the
were inconsistent with the conclusion that any ether than
the prisoner was the guilty person ; aid that a single
circumstance inconsistent with such a conclusion was more
Nor was there any difference between
civil and criminal cases, except that in the former the de-
gree of probability might be more safely adopted, property
only being iu question, than in the latter, which affected
important
of
g u thandt all the rest, because it destroyed the hypo-
life." They must be satisfied in their hearts sod in their
consciences, before they consigned the prisoner at the bar
to an English scaffold, that he was a party in instigating
this particular murder. Now ho held that the facts were
inconsistent with that view. No doubt they had proof
that a murder had been committed in Paris—no doubt that
Rudio and Gomez used the weapons with which they had
eaEmdipffeerroern—t nPolidrPoulet of that. But the
. to commit a sud-
den comea
tptraoevki duepdn,nf
the
prosecution sought to establish the charge against the
prisoner by three general propositious, and although their
witnessea were extremely numerous, many of them having
been brought forward to establish that which nobody
disputed, viz. the facts of the murder in Paris—
they would fir:el a vast deal of that evidence inapplicable
to the three propositions he referred to, and which, as not
bearing upon the salient points of the case, might be rejected
from consideration. His teemed friend the Attorney-General
made out first a connection between the prisoner and All-
sop, the Englishman, and through him with the grenades,
which, it would be rernembere,d, were ordered by Allsop,
and, if they pleased to say so, paid fur by him in the
months of October and November. They wore ordered on
the Gth of October, and delivered on the 23d of Novem-
ber, Tho Crown sought to establish the connection with
the prisoner by means of these grenades, and the case was
this —" You," they said to the prisoner, " went to 0 corgi,
who was keeping the Cafe Suisse in London, and asked
him to takeover the grenades to Brunets." Now no one
could doubt that in this part of their case the Govern-
lent bad utterly failed ; and the woman whom they had
celled on the previous day, and whom they had brought-
over at the last moment from Brussels, had not only not
proved their case, but had proved the direct contrary. But
when they sought to make out the connection by means of
the grenades ordered by Allsop of:Taylor, of Birmingham,
and by the delivery of them to George to be carried to Brus-
sels, they must establish the identity of the grenades, or
there wee ho me. It must be proved to the netiefection of

the j my beyond doubt that those grenades which were
made by Taylor in Birmingham, and which it was proved
did the mischief in Paris, were those which passed through
Dr. Bernard's hands. The Biz grenades manufactured by
Taylor wera those that did the mischief. How was it at-
tempted to trace these grenades to the hand of the prisoner
at the bar. Here were the grenades (exhibiting the speci-
mens in court to the jury.) Taylor, it appeared, made six
of them. There were two sizes, one three and the other
four inches inAiameter. Now, everyone of the six grenades
made by Taylor had 25 holes, and he begged especial atten-
tion to this point. These six grenades were accounted for
in this way. One was found upon Pierri entire, one was
found in the track of Orsini ; three explosions were heard
at the time of the attack, which accounted for three more ;
and one, it was suggested, was used for experiment, and
not take's by Pierri, making the sixth. The prosecution,
in malting out their case, endeavoured to trace from Mr.
Taylor's: manufactory these grenades with 25 holes
which did the mischief ; and in the course of doing so, it
was sought to implicate the prisoner by his visits to Rudie's
house in Batoman's-buildings the moment a difficulty arose
in the course of the examination as to the number of the
holes. It was perfectly clear that they had not connected
the prisoner with any knowledge of these particular gre-
nades. The prisoner believed that2certain instruments were
to be used for a general rising for the liberation of Italy.
That he admitted ; but he had never had a part in the de-
livery or conveyance of these particular missiles by means
of which the murder had been committed. Witnesses had
been tempted to prove by falsehood that be had. Let them
see how the evidence established, not that these were the
grenades given by the prisoner to Georgi, but the direct
negative of that proposition. The first evidence with
which they had to deal was Georgi's. He (Mr. James) ab-
horred imputing perjury to any man ; nor was he about to
do so on the present occasion ; but he could not forget that
this witness came before them under very peculiar circum-
stances, and they found that he had a most elastic memory.
At the present moment there was a mandat d'arret—a state
warrant hanging over the head of the witness; a,nd he
hoped that after his evidence was given, and he had helped
to!convict the unhappy prisoner at the bar, to go back to
Brussels, and find that affair settled —" arranged," as he
expressed it in his evidence. See what cause hehad to make
his evidence agreeable to those by whom he had been
brought there. He had been arrested—had been 26 days
in prison on a charge arising out of thii affair. And now
he was sent over here to give his evidence before an Eng-
lish jury with a Brussels State warrant hanging over his
.head, issued at the instigation of the Emperor of the French,
who he knew well would leave no stone unturned to in-
sure his conviction, unless he bought immunity by his tes-
timony in the present case._ He asked the jury to look at
these grenades. Could they have them in their hands once
without being struck by the peculiarity of their construc-
tion f Examine the top of the cylinder and the space that
was occupied by the 25 holes. What said this witness!
The articles produced as specimens were like this (the
model exhibited). The articles which he brought as speci-
mens were like this (one of the hand grenades), but they
had hot the screw at the end. He showed me five, but they
were not all the same size. Tho specimens he showed me
consisted of tire halves of the instrument produced. There
were three of the upper half of the shell, and two of the
lower half. The latter had several nipple holes, but there
were no nipples in the holes ; the surface was perfectly
smooth. The upper halves had a hole in them, but they were
without the screw. "There were not so m any holes as inthis."
That was in his deposition. In his cross-examination he
said— " I saw no balls with 25 holes in each. There might
have been one with 5 or 6. I never counted them. I might
have seen ono with 5 or 6 holes, but I will not swear." Then
the Attorney-General moat fairly—and no ono could have
discharged the duty which bad devolved upon him with more
fairness or humanity than his hon. and learned friend had
evinced in this case—got up and said to him : " But were
there not 25 holes?" This, bo it remembered, was after the
witness had distinctly sworn to 5 or 6 holes. The thought
of the mandat d'arret flashed on his mind, as a sword hang-
ing in the air, and he immediately swore up to 23. No
doubt this man was under great temptation to stretch his
memory, which appeared naturally servile and elastic, and
remembering before he left the b ,a that his testimony
would not be sufficient unless he swore up to 25 he did so.
(A learned gentleman at the table—No; 15.) He (Mr.
James) was wrong ; he found that the witness only swore
up to 15. The next witness called was Fourmarier, the
boy waiter at the Cafe Suisse. He said, " There were ten
halves, and they appeared to be of three kinds ; two of
them had small boles in them. There were so many as 20
or 25 of these holes in some of them. Five of the holes
were about the size of the one now produced, and I think
there was a screw in every one of them." Upon his cross-
examination be would not swear to 25 or to 15. " Will you
say," asked his learned friend Mr. Hawkins, " that there
were ten ?" "There may have been more, perhaps fewer,"
was the reply; " I don't know." He next came to the evi-
dence of Reghenzi. That witness not only failed to sup-
port the case of the crown. but proved directly the contrary.
Re was in a different position from Georgi—he had no state
warrant hanging over his head. He was free from police
control or state prosecution, and he was at liberty to speak
the truth, without risk or danger to his life or Liberty wheu
he returned. Pie said— " I made a drawing of the article
when it was fresh in my memory, but the specimen put into
my hand does not bring back to my mind the same descrip-
tion of article"—that was the article of which he made a
drawing while it was fresh in his memory. There was in the
drawing seven holes. Here was the evidence of three wit-
nesses. Now, he would take the testimony of Casimir
Zeguers. It appeared that certain articles were given to
him to convey to France, and there could be no question
the.; this man did convey to Franca the articles that did
thelniachief. He had more opportunity of examining the
balls than the other witnesse.. He saw them on the man-
tel-piece in the smoking-room of the cafe. He took them
out one by one in halves, and ho could not, therefore, fail
ta observe how the top of the cylinder was riddled with
holes. He took them out one by one at the frontier; he
put them back again one by one, and he took them out
again when he gave them to Orsini at Paris. He bad thus
four distinct opportunities of examining them. He said,
" They were of this description, but I did not observe any
holes in them." But this being a witness fur the Crown,
the question then arose, what had been his opportunities ;
and having had full opportunities 'of examining them, the
evidence of this witness not only could not satisfy the jury
of the identity, but altogether disproved the fact of their
being the same articles at all. Such was the position in
which the case for the prosecution stood on Wednesday
night. The witnesses to identity had faded, and had
proved the direct contrary of what was required of them.
Then another witness was sent for. That ever übiquitous
Saunders was sent over for the female witness who was ex-
amined yesterday. She made a drawing, which was un-
fortunately left behind, but which by the way was
attached to the deposition which Saunders had brought
over. The deposition was here, but the drawing was left
behind at Brussels.
The Attorney-General—lt was not attached.
Mr. James ---But it was given beyond all doubt to the
juge d'iustruction.
The Attorney-General—lt was produced before the
British consul ; the deposition} was before the j age Win-
struction.
Mr. James said her drawing was not produced, but sho
said she counted them, and there were 25 holes. Then
were they to suppose that Reghenzi could have made a
drawing and not have seen the holes ? This link in the
chain of evidence was wanting. The case for the prosecu-
tion was that Taylor made the grenades at Birmingham,
and that Dr. Bernard was shown to have been in possession
of them. He said they had failed in showing that, but, on
the contrary, the instruments which were seen in the pri-
soner's possession were proved not to have been grenades,
and the prosecution had not only cast a doubt, but had
utterly negatived the evidence as to the identity of them.
And now they came for a moment to the question of the
pistols. These pistols were bought by Orsini and Pierri of
Mr. Hollis, of Birmingham. He was not there to deny
that Orsini was calculating on some great omeute, and was
preparing artna for it, and he was not denying that Dr.
Bernard contributed in that preparation. But he did
deny that Dr. Bernard was aware of this particular
attempt. He wished it to be known, that he denied—and
it could not be proved because it was not the fact—
that he was cognisant of and was privy to this attempt
on the life of the Emperor, but that he and others were
assisting Orsini to bring about an emeute he did not
deny. That was consistent with every portion of
the evidence on the part of the crown, it was
consistent with the evidence that he knew he was as-
sisting in the collection of arms at Paris, but he
denied that the intention to murder Napoleon was
known to, or was canvassed by him. Well, these
pistols were sent, and how were they sent ? King, the
keeper of the office of the South Eeastern railway, at Re-
gent-circus, had known Bernard for some yea s, Bernard
went to him and declared to him, openly, that the parcel
contained two revolvers to be sent to the house of Outre-
quin, in his own name and with his own address. That
he knew that these arms were to be sent to ?Aria there
could be no question, and it was a remarkable characteris-
tic of all Dr. Bernard's acts in this matter, that there was
not one of them in which there was any attempt at con-
cealment except one, the letter to Mrs. Rudio after tho at-
tempt. Ho took out the passport for Belgium in his own
name and address, the pistols were sent by him, and the
notes were changed by him in his own name. When he
took the pistols to King, a conversation took place, in
which he said that he was a proscrit, and there would be
some difficulty, upon which King, who said he had had
dealings with Dr. Bernard before, permitted the parcel to
go without the usual declaration. King asked him when
be thought he should back to his own country, and the se l-
imner replied, "I shall go back when your ally, to whom
you seem so much attached, comes here." He was not dis-
puting that fire-arms were being collected in France, and
that the prisoner was engaged in sending them. But in a
fatal moment Orsini and the men who were there made
an attempt which everybody regretted. Then there
was this letter of Mr. Allsop's of the let of January,
1857. Dr- Bernard was seen with him about rising
money in July, 1857, and that was the only time
on which he was seen with him. But they were not,
as in the time of Sydney, to execute a men because
a paper was found in his desk. Their lordships bad de-
cided that the letter was admissible, and he bowed to that
decision, but the effect—the weight of it—was not for their
lordships to determine. If a letter written a year ago,
found under the table, was to be regarded as proof of the
complicity of the prisoner in a transaction of the 14th
January, 1858, what man was safe ? Let them see what
this letter was? "Riverhead, Kent, January Ist, 1857.
My dear doctor,—Many thanks for the two slips which
you propose sending to the friends of Italy." He paused
here for a moment to remark, that at, the last moment,
without any notice to them, a letter from Orsini was put
in, and there was an intimation that there was some dark
mystery about it ; but of that the jury would judge. But,
to revert to the letter from Allsop--" the communications
which you propose sending to the friends of Italy." No
doubt, there was a vast combination, and, as he said be-
fore, they could not consider that these men, seeing the
liberty that was enjoyed hero, should indulge in aspira-
tions to procure liberty in their own country. It seemed
that some of these men met in a room in Leicester-square,
and Rogers, tho spy, spoke of what the prisoner said there.
He acknowledged, however, that what the prisoner said
amounted to but little, and was not worth a report. The
letter went on to say, "I hope that some answers have
been received in London. I am glad to learn that any
difference of opinion is limited to one point. Difference of
opinion is inevitable ; it exists in every army, but unity
of action is necessary for success. However, I have every
confidence in the future. The abominable miscreaut of.
the 2nd of December seem; to have reached his oil

. ,
The evidence of Eliza Cheney, corroborated by Mrs. Rudio, cc,
went to show that the destination of Rudio was Italy, not pa
France. That was the impression of Dr. Bernard; and
hearing of the attempt of the 14th of January, which thl.
shocked the whole world, he naturally ra,hed down to
Eliza Cneney's house, and soks, " Good God, what has
Radio done ?" What so natural that having been en- tE
gaged in procuring these grenades for another and so to- le
tally different a purpose, he should have felt alarm when he W
heard of the purpose to which those missiles had been ap- p(
plied. Suppose a man had procured a pistol for another in
under the impression that it was to protect hishome against pi
housebreakers, and afterwards heard that the man had II
used it for the purpose of murder, would not he, being
identified with the pistol by which the deed was committed —l3,
feel alarm ? Consistent, therefore, as was the conduct of

the prisoner with the case for the Crown, it was also con- I'l
sistent, and thoroughly consistent, with his own. It e'
might be urged that the smallness of the number was hi• tl
consistent with the supposition that they wore i❑tended h
to be used fur the purposes of war; but, that argil. tl
ment was answered when the difficulty of introducing

into Paris arms intended for a great political .1
object—an expedition for the regeneration of Italy—
spa the absolute necessity that existed of forwarding them ,
in ■mall parcels. If there was any doubt the prisoner was d
entitled to it. They had heard of the letters found on
1)r. Bernard ; had any letters been found on Orsini, or 1:
Tiorri, or Rudio, or Gomez ? They knew the dying decla-
ration of Orsini, it was consistent with the truth, that Dr. 8
Bernard was engaged in an expedition for the regeneration
of Italy, but it was wholly inconsistent with the supposi- t
tion that Dr. Bernard was implicated in an attempt to Hs-
sa,sinate the Emperor of the French. He implored them

seriously to consider this fact, that on him was not only
no letter or scrap of any letter or document found, but that
if there had been any, the French police, which was as
perfect now as it was in the days of Fouchd, when wives
were bribed to betray their husbands—with all the power
of the French police not only was there not found on him
any document, but there was not the trace of any letter
through the post-office, or any communication which
allowed that the prisoner hid any complicity in this
fatal enterprise. lam now, said the learned coun-
sel, corning to the conclusion of my observations en this
extraordinary case, and I ask you is this a case in which
you will wrest the law and give a verdict of guilty ? Is
this a case in which you will consign to death the prisoner
at the bar? I should have thought that under the twilight
of that morning when Orsini and Pierri expiated their
crime on the scaffold enough had been done to vindicate
French justice. 1 should have thought that the vengeance
of Louis Napoleon, whose insulting demands on Sardinia
and Switzerland you have heard so much of, demands
which were also made on this country, but which were re-
slated by the firmness of our Howe of Commons—Lad
been satisfied: But ;you have this unfortunate man in-
dicted for conspiracy and for wilful murder also.- I have
a right to say—and it is not merely my opinion, but the
opinion of jurists more able than myself—that the Act of
Parliament under which ho is indicted does not apply to
this case. I believe that as regards the law this trial is a
mockery and a sham. The great object of the French
government is to establish the principle that the French
exile is not protected in this country. It has been the
pride of Englishmen that this country is the refuge of all.
As Cicero says, " Regutn, popularum, nationum portus et
refulgum." We have had exiled kings here ;we have
had exiled priests and exiled nobles, We have had
monarchs of France in exile here ; and Louie Napoleon him-
self was an exile here. The object of this prosecution is
to make this country no longer the asylum of the exile ;
but I trust you will hesitate long before, by your verdict,
you bring about such a result. I trust that you will find
in this case doubts which will justify, nay compel you to
say that the particular crime which is charged is not proved
to your satisfaction. It has been a great advantage to this
country that it has ever been open to political exiles. The
inquisition, the persecutions of Phillip, and the revocation
of the edict of Nantes, sent to our shores many who en-
riched us by their knowledge of manufactures and arts,
and from these refugees some of our best citizens, amongst
whom I may mention the Laboucheres and the Romillys,
have sprung. Will you destroy that asylum which exiles
have ever enjoyed, and which I trust they will ever con-
tinue to enjoy? No, gentlemen, you will not. I implore
you to pause, because I believe that at present you do not
see the political results of your verdict. Gentlemen, I
have done. I have discharged my duty in regard to this
unhappy gentleman to the best of my ability. I have dis-
charged it as an English advocate, and I trust that I have
discharged it fearlessly, and as 1 should in an English
court of justice. And lam proud to say, that though the
liberty of the press is extinguished in France—though a
man there cannot record his opinion if it be unfavourable
to the imperial government —I am glad that it is the pride
of the French bar that freedom of speech still lingers
there, and that the tyrant cannot destroy it. I have dis-
charged my duty to the best of my ability, little equal to
the magnitude of the case. Let me urge you to discharge
yours fearlessly, conscientiously, and firmly. You will
have the case left in your hands, after the reply of the
Att, roey-General, by one who holds the scales impartially.
Let me implore you to discharge your duty unintimidated
by the French army and by threats of French invasion.
Tell the French Emperor that he cannot intimidate
an English jury. Tell him that the jury-box is
the sanctuary of English liberty. Tell him that on
this spot your predecessors have resisted the power
of the crown backed by the influence of crown•serving
and time-serving judges. Tell him that under every diffi-
culty and danger your predecessors have secured the politi-
csl liberties of the people. Tell him that the verdicts of
English juries are founded on the eternal and immutable
principles of justice. Tell him that panoplied in that
armour no threat of armament or invasion can intimidate
you. Tell him that though 600,000 French bayonets glit-
tered before you, though the roar of French cannon
thundered in your ear, you will return a verdict which
your own hearts and consciences will sanctify and approve,
careless)whether that verdict pleases or displeases a foreign
despot, or secures or shakes and destroys for ever the
throve which a tyrant has built upon the ruins of the
liberties of a once free and mighty people. (Loud cheers
and clapping of hands from all parts of the court, in which
the prisoner joined, but which were suppressed by the
officers of the court.)
The Attorney-General rose to reply on the whole case.
He said—The time had now arrived for him to sum up
to them the evidence for the prosecution, and the time
was not now far distant when they would have to per-
form their part. Iu discharging his duty he would en-
deavour to confine himself within the law and practice
of our courts in questions of this kind. Let it not be
supposed that he censured his friend Mr. James in asking
them, in a strain of eloquence rare in courts of juetico,
..
that he had transgressed the bounds of an advoe I
jit.'thes
though he had introduced a variety of topicsot_uch
comae of his address. He was induced to 1'1.5,11108w whim
because it was not his duty
through them, but endeavour to brtiong
their winds of
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that this trial, befat e
back to the real questions they bisiciatic,rucboorssidthe;ianrudincleis-
the dream of his learned lriena
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learned judges of the
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by
any other the French Government or
instigated or promotedbttt those who were able to direct
such a prosecution
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came before them as a British jury to decide on
the guilt or innocence! of the prisoner ors the evidence •
produced, and not on thefeloqtrence of ere tearnedScouns
sel for the prisoner. He redressed his confidence in
their impartial decision, and said, in reference to the
learned counsel's remarks on the silence of him (the
' leaned Attorney-General), why this charge bad been
made. Happily this was. the first case of its kind that
had occurred in this country, and it was.not to be won-
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would follow. The prisoner was charged as
before the fact, and the lave was, that if any person entire!.
plied any means, by which these persons,' Orsisii, Rudio,
and Pierri could have assassinated the Emperor of the
"French, or attempt to do any grievous bodily harm to
him, and if they, in making that attempt, however nu_
.willing, sacrificed the lives of other parsons, then they
who did that act were guilty of murder, and those
who assisted them as accessories before the fact. It
was perfectly immaterial whether they had any inten-
tion of destroying these particular individuals named in
the indictment, and he (the Attorney-General) charged
the moral responsibility belonging to the guilt of these
wholesale murders to every one of \the parties directly or
indirectly using the implements employed. The learned
counsel at great length and minuteness entered into the
facts detailed in the evidence, pointing out the portions
which he urged completely made out the charge against
the prisoner. Two questions alone were left to them on
the evidence—first, whether the instruments supplied to
Orsini and his assistants were the same grenades
or a portion of them, which Mr. Taylor manufactured,
Allsop paid for, and Orsini and his aissoeiates:commit-
ted the murders, or whether there were other instru-
ments manufactured, purchased, and obtained elsewhere,
and conveyed to Brussels for e . . ''''''. .nt purpose . •
Thai remaining question, however nutnatirly and mercie -• ,
fully they niched to j edge of the prisoner's. conduct, sou S--•
of Which he (the-learned Attorney-General) thought it
was, impossible for them to entertain a shadow of a--
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doubt, was the knowledge of the prisoner of the unlaw-
ful purposes for which these instruments were pro-
cured. The ' learned counsel referred to the
cross-examination of the witnesses, that the shells
were
,mede for_ the improvement of gas, and the
admission of the prisoner's counsel that they were to be
used for a general rising on the continent, and said be
was at a loss to know what was the line of defence relied
on by-the prisoner. He contended that the grenades
which bad been introduced during the trial were the
actual instruments with which the murder was com-
mitted. It was true the witnesses had varied a little
with respect to the form of those missiles, but the evi-
dence had proved to demonstration that such was the
fact. If the prisoner had sent these grenades to Brus-
sels for a lawful purpose what use could there have been
to have resorted to the many subterfuges that had been
sved. It had been suggested that those grenades had
,eh sent to Orsini not for the purpose of assassination
'the Emperor of France, but to aid a general rising in
tale,. He felt great confidence iu stating that there
Ai not a scintilla of evidence eluding to a tieing in any
art of Italy. Now, if they were to be used for such a
iurpese, what in the mind of .man c told account fur
tie transmission to Paris, a place :thesis all others
-awing to f: the activity i of . the police—a police
hal had been much better described by Isis
mined friend than he could hope to do—they
reke most likely to be di-covered. He felt such a sup-
iosrtion was entirely groundless. The grenades were
n fact to be used to assassinate the Emperor and Ein-
webs, and not for the purpose of aiding a revolution of
'tely. There was not even theslightest allu-ion to such
scheme in any of the letters and documents that had
seen produced during the long and protracted inquiry.
le thought the jury would find in going through the
!vidence that these desperate men—proscribed from
heir home—abused the protection here and devised the
io rible plan that had been disclosed. He felt sure that
.he evidence had proved one thing—via., that the
ev•.(soner at the bar was well acquainted with Thomas
sop, and the fact of Allsop', passport being found
on Orsini was a strong point in the evideno,.. The letter
of
AIIA
deop found in the posSession of the prisoner was a
ii et instigation to assassination, and, coupled with the
ra ing of large sums of money by Allsop through the
in trumentality of the prisoner, showed that there was a
a ng identity of feeling between them. When he read
t
114 letter of Allsop of the lit of January which denounced
hie Emperor "as an abominable miscreant" and " one
v o must be killed" he felt a blush .1 shame that an
E glishrnan, and one who bore an English name, could
eeite auch_a letter. Near_ the time of receiving
lie letter Bernard purchased the nitric acid and
alcohol with which the fulminating powder was
made, and Pierri and Orsini proceeded to Bir-
mingham and purchased the revolvsre, so that be-
t4een the 16th of October and the 23rd of November
NO found the grenades, the fulminating powder to
charge them, and the revolvers, in the possession of the ,
Hires men, and everything cornelete with the exception
of forwarding them to Paris, On the 26th of the same
month, Orsini drew a sum of money, 4801. in Bank of
Eingland notes, and gave three of these 201. notes to
the prisoner, and soma of them to the man Pierri. On
the 29th of November, Orsini arrived in Brussels with
a'false passport, and the first thing he did was to for-
Ward the grenades which had been conveyed thither.
This having been accomplished, Pierri and Orairii met
a; the Cafe Suisse. On the 11th of December, Orsini's
horse is conveyed to Paris, along with the grenades.
On the 12th. Orsini was shown to be in Paris, with the
grenades in his possession, and all in readiness for the pro-
j#cted attempt. A few days afterwards we find the four
persons Orsini, Pierri, Gomez, and Rudio, with the re-
volvers and grenades in their possession; and in conjunc-
tion with these facts it must be borne in mind that false
names and false pretences had been used by all parties.
On the '2l of January Bernard changed one of the 201.
notes paid to Orsini at the Bank to pay the carriage of
tvo revolvers to Paris. It had been urged when the
prisoner alluded to the Emperor returning to London
lie alluded to his coming as a refugee, and it was further
urged that that circumstance was strong proof that the '
' drisoner had no intention of taking part in the attempted
ssasmination, but if the jury were of that opinion they
null, in accordance with the directions of the learned
j dge, give the prisoner the benefit of the doubt. If the
heme was not an atte:opt at assassination what need
esl
tas there for Bernard to write, and he did on the
.h of December to Outrequin introducing Orsini
sis Allsop. Why should the fire-arms have been
silent to M. Outrequin with a false statement if
they were to be used for legitimate purposes I
Why did all the letters point to a speedy return to Lon-
don and not contain one word in allusion to the general
rising in Italy, upon which so much stress had been
budb
t Why should the grenades have been sent to
theywhennot
theforcertainP.tri,,Why,were were
dthe
aryto not
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jury,lace wh
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to
put
the most favourable construction on all the circum-
stances, what other conclusion could they arrive at but
that of the assassination of the Emperor Napoleon T
lefore that period arrived, Bernard went to a wretched
!edging in Soho, and finds Radio starving ; and there he
irevailed upon the unfortunate man to leave his wife,
4is children, and the country in which he had sought
shelter to start for Paris and assist Orsini in contriving
all that seas necessary to enable them to carry the
despotic attempt into execution. He went with the
instruments upon him, and was taken into custody with
his ill-gotten wealth upon him.
The prisoner here struck the front of the dock, and
with great energy exclaimed, "Non."
Lord Campbell put up his hand, and the prisoner
bowed and resumed his self-p ssession.
The Attorney-General continued—Rudio was taken
with 2t ofr. upon his person, although ten days before
his wife and child were perishing from starvation and
cold. Bernard had obtained for his wife during his ab-
senceper n
oweek,ld b
1 oaondd
personsthe hired
hassassinnever went
d done
t o m u murder
any harm. On his arrival he undeniably joined
cary
and Orsini, with whom he remained to asriste.:nthe
intaung
the dreadful crime into operation.
and prisoner were
country in which both himself
that Bernard sent over to Paris
t Bernard had be.
fellow-refugees. If after thediadttheembp.i otoePhairmis
be .ill continue to deal
come horror-stricken,
why? One thing was finite cer-
tain,secretly with Rudio's
wifncould never have been
agents in this country.
Such
andhe that w
too
carried a
that this foul offence
h
planned
The arms wore made
be felt sure, would not hag-
here, and the jury, ..
into execution withouthteree,aitdbed
sheme
was
consign punishment the Mall
tbat assistance, and who was the
who had rendered
That was the que t" f s ion or them to :
bar.
prisoner at the
tate in bringing
that duty they would discharge, however
itmight be, fearlesely. If, after a deliberate and
painful mCderation, there was the slightest doubt on
ature is
rn- • ds, they would then return a verdict of not
their min
the contrary should be th •
„eq. But if
guilty-
in obedience to the oath they bad taken—in obedi-
to their God and their country—they would return
decide, and.
once
A verdict of guilty.
At the close of the Attorney-General's speech there
was a faint attempt at applause, but it was immediately
suppressed.
Lord Campbell—Let the court be adjourned until tea
o'clock to-morrow morning.

Sir Clifford and Lady Constable have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel, from Burton Constable.
A Boy SAY SID FROM DROWNING.—On Tharday, about
4 o'clock in the afternoon, three boys were playing by
the ornamental water in the Regent's-park, and one of
them, the youngest, about 5 years of age, in attempting
to catch something out of the water with a small stick,
unfortunately slipped in. A young German, in the em-
ployment of T. P. Fearon, kEsq., 1, Cumberland-place,
Regent's-park, who was passing by the at the time, was
attracted through the alarm given by the two others. Ho
at, once went into the water, and was just in time to savo
the poor boy, who was struggling for his life.

rrIHEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING will be presented the drama of
'IE POOR STROLLERS, in which Madams Celeste, Mr,
B, Webstar, Paul Bedford, and Mr. Wright will perform.
After which, a new operatic spectacle, THE CALIPH
OF BAGDAD, The characters by Mr, Rolfe, Paul Bedford,
J, Bland, and Misses Redm, Keoley, and Arden,

STRAND THE AT RE. —Lessee and Directress,
Miss Swanborough. —This Evening will be
produced the new comedy, by Stirling Coyne, Esq., called
NOTHING- VENTURE, NOTHING WIN. Supported by
Messrs. Belton, Ray, Belfort, Kinloch, and Miss M. Oliver.
After which, the new burlesque of FRA DIAVOLO ; or,
The Beauty and the Brigands. Fra D.avolo, Miss swan-
borough ; Beppo, Mr. C. Young.
To conclude with CITY FRIENDS.

CA.NTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
Inc company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Siteetions from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, D UETS, dm., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs.
Badzey, Miss Brinell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, and
Miss Montague; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jonec,
J. Barker. W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. /lime, Mr.
Badzey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Ball, and Mr. Beraard ; Messrs. T.
Ma,clagan, W. T. Critchfield, John G. Forde, and E. Mackney.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ;
Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock
precisely. Suppers, dre., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening.
Mr. WOODHOUSE (by permission of Ch tries Kean, Esq.)
will have the honour of introducing, every evening, his
highly successful Performance on the now REGULATION
DRUM.

THE WEATHER—Sux OFFICE, APRIL 17.
Tusamommin, Ix tun Snann.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night,
53—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, down to 29.90—n0w up to 30.07.
WIND, North-Easterly ; light, with fair weather. A
heavy storm of rain, lightning, and thunder came on about
tan last night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—lforn., 53 min. aft. 3 —Even., 13 min aft 4
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