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FRfIDAY

EVENING, APRIL 16,

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Peers present—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranwortb,
Lord Wensleydale, Lord Castlemaine, and other
Peers.

APPEAL-ANDERSON (PAUPER) V. ANDERSON (GILL.)
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Th• further hearing of this appeal was resumed this
morning.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Court o
Session in Scotland.

The proceedings arise out of a dispute as to the vali-
dity of an alleged will under which the appellant
claimed as executrix, Dative qua Relict Testamenter, of
her deceased husband. An executrix administratrix of the
testator Alexander Anderson.
It was alleged by the respondents, who are next of
kin of the testator, that the will was a forgery.
The Judges of the First Division of the Court ot Ses-
sion found that the will was a forgery. And against this
decision the appellant appealed to the House of Lords.
Mr. Muir resumed his argument for the appellant in
support of the appeal.
The case rested principally on a comparison of the
testator's handwriting, and the evidence produced
proved that the pretended signature to the will was a
forgery.
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The appellant stated that part of his evidence bad been
improperly excluded, but that the evidence produced
was sufficient to support the will.
It is probable that the arguments of counsel will
occupy the whole of this day.

The ntxt cause in the appeal paper appointed for
hearing before their lordships of the House of Lords, is
the appeal case of the Midland Great Western Railway
Compavy of Ireland against Johnson and another.

CITY SHERIFF'S COURT.
(Before Mr. .Prendergast, Q.C.)
RONSON V. MELHUISII.-QUEEN ACCOUNTS.

The plaintiff is a Licensed Victualler, and sought to
recover the sum of lls. 4d., for beer and bread and
cheese supplied.

Defenda.nt—Well, I know I owe 10s., and that is all.
Plaintiff—l know better ; here is the account, and
hereupon she handed in a piece of wood about six inches
square, which the sum total was exacily the sum claimed.
The production of this original document excited some
merriment.

His Honour—And have you been foolish enough to
come here evera disputed shilling on a publiclouse score?
Defendant— I am willing to pay if I have time.

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Plaintiff—He is a master carpenter and can pay at
OD CO.

Defendant—Not a bit of it. I am only a journeyman.
Plaintiff—Oh, I know better than that; you have
often said how many people you keep.
Defendant—Yes ; I keep eight besides myself, and
little money I have to do it on.
His Hononr.—Master I Well, be does not look
much like one. (To defendant)—Do you mean to say
you keep seven or eight men I
Defendant—No, my lord. Seven or eight men I No,
mine are all children. (Laughter.)
His Honour—Oh, that's quite a different matter. I
am afraid they are a kind of journeymen who eat more
than they earn.
Defendant-,-That is true, your honour.
Plaintiff—Oh, but he has got children in Australia.
Defendant—But I have got eight at home and no
wif'.

His Henour—That is a misfortune ; it would have
been well not to have been without money in your
pocket ' • but this claim is for beer and not for spirits,
and only had at dinner time, as you both agree.
Ae order was made for payment in six weeks.

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

Notwithstanding that the supply of English wheat on
solo here to-clay, coa,twise and by land carriage, was very
moderate, the demand for all kinds was in a very sluggish
state. Compared with Monday, however, no change took
place in prices.
Foreign wheat, the show of which was seassonably ex-
tensive, moved off slowly, but wo have no change to notice
in the quotations.
Floating cargoes of grain commanded very little atten-
tion.

Thera was a steady inquiry for barley, at very full
prices.
Malt sold slowly, yet Monday's prices were supported.
The top quotations were 68s. to 693. per quarter.
Oats wero in moderate supply and fair request, at full
pices.
and flour we had a moderate inquiry, at
rived from the continent.
preFvoiroubseacuu'r, peas, and
Over 2,000 sacks of flour have ar-

ARRIVALS THIS WEER
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
English 1,960 580 3,680

Oats.
570

Flour.
1,840

Irish

Foreign.....

2,750 I 3,800

15,660 12040 ob.
brie

NEWGATE AND LEA.DENHALL.

The supplies of meat here to-day were not to say ezten•
sive; nevertheless, the trade generally ruled heavy, as
follows :--

Per Ms by the carcase.

8. d. a. d. a. d. O. d.
I Beef, Interior 210 3 0 Mutton, Inferior 3 0 :i 6
Do., middling 3 2 3 6 i Do., middling 3 8 310
Do. prime large.. 3 8 3 10 i Do., prime .4 0 4 4
Do., do. small ....3 10 4 0 i Veal 3 8 4 8
Purk, large 3 0 3 8 1 Pork. small 3 10 4 4
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Lamb, 5s Od to 68 Cd•

BOROUGH HOP.

Our market is still extensively supplied with nearly all
kinds of hops. Gold and fine samples continue in fair,
but by no means active request, at bill quotations. Other.
wise, the demand is in a sluggish state, on former terms.
New Mid and East Kent Pockets, 7th to 112 s ; Weald of
Kent do., 54s to 76s ; New Sussex do., 52s to 60s ; Year-
lings, 21s to 50s.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—Thera hart been a rather better inquiry for the
superior kinds for home consumption, but on common
Congon no business of any importance has been reported.
SUGAR.—The Market still remains in.ctive, and the
lower qualities have declined about 81 to is per cwt. In
the Retitled Market business is extremely dull but prices
remain steady.
COFFEE.—.There is a fair inquiry for good qualities of
Plantation Ceylon an I at public sales rather higher rates
have been realised. Native Ceylon ruled very dull, and
at lower quotations.
RICE.--There has been a better demand for most de-
scriptions, and at public sale goo Bengal realised full
values.

RUM.—A fair amount of business has been done at about
previous rates. mi
SALPETRII.---Th market remains very quiet at about
former quotations.
TALLOW.
Increase d &Tim!:as been apparent and
prices have
improved.
on the spot is now
quoted, 565. May and Juua, 51s. 91, and last three
months, 52 63. per annum.
GRUEN FRUIT is in good demand. Two cargoes of
oranges, from St. Michael, sold by Keeling an I Hunt, at
public sale, sustained the prices obtained last week. The
cold weather checked the salo of lemons. There is more
inquiry for nuts. The stock of all kinds of fruit being
light, a firmness exists in the market.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Apri:
breeze, and fino.

-6.—Wind at noon, S,; light

PORTSMOUTH, April 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Hali-
faz, from Gibraltar. Sailed—Liverpool, for Now York;
Her Majesty's steamer Vulcan, for Gibraltar and Malta.
NEWPORT, April 15.—Wind W.—Sailed—Nolson, for
Callao ; Mary Adella, for St. Thomas ; Daedalus, for
Ascension.

SWANSEA, April 15.—wind S.W.—Arrived —Maje-
iian, from Boston, U.S. Sailed--Thomas Daniel, for
Coquimbo.
SUNDERLAND, April 15.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed--Nor-
den for Hong Kong.

QUEENSTOWN, April 13.—Wind S.S. W.—Arrived—
John Ferguson, Mauritius.
SHIELDS, April 15.—Wind S.S.W. Soiled—Taglioni,
for Quebec.
THIGNmoUTH, April 15. —Wind S.S.W.—Sailed—
Abeona, for St. John's, Newfoundland.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.

Calm and fins.
Arrived—Galway Lass, from Swansea; William,
Lyme ' Nancy, Newport ; Duke of Cornwall (a), London ;
Ann, Neath ; Angelian, Cardiff; Clara, Newport;
Atalanta (~), Jcriey ; Emma, James, London ; Venus,
Montrose ; William, Dartmouth; Retriever, Glasgow ;
George, Cardiff.
Sailed--Branch, Waters, John and Isabella, Vectis, and
Bedford—all for Sunderland ; Duke of Cornwall, for
Dublin; Northam, Glocester ; Etna, an d Brothers, Cardiff.
LIVIZRPOOL Fiiday Morning.

preraragnoncea ; Antics, Dunkirk ;
,
Wind N. W.
Rouen ; Sixteenth,
Arrived, April 15.—Ann Mitchell, from Moulmein ;
Nansen, Rio Janeiro; Aurora, New York ; Esperanzs,
SAarlec,onitainlkao, ;
HDamembeunrgze:
ET:
Brichnag ; Maria and No; tune, Eie Grande; Calliope,
New Orleans ; Marie Lacadie, Manzanilla ; Dinah Muloch,
Caldera ; J. M. Hicks, Galveston ; pacific, Madeira ;
Jeannette Melanie, Ostend ; • Frederick, Hamburg ; Per-
severant, Antwerp.
sailed, April 14—Mary, for Aden ; Windhover, Riga;
Netherton, Newfoundland ; Adriatic, Halifax ;
Fergus,
Aalborg ; Boraasia, Cronstadt.
Sailed, April 15—Jane, for Newfoundland; Alix, San-
tander; Emmeline, Narva ; B. Cushing, Charleston.
%ailed, Apia 16—Eleanor, for Calcutta.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Wind ealm ; tide low water; weather fine.
Arrived, Apr;lls,—Riza Pickering, from Rouen ; Ignes
de Castro, steamer, Faro.
Sailed, April 16.—Schawlbe, for Bremen; Thames,
steamer, Hamburg ; Kielmansegge, steamer, Harburg ;
slecha, steamer, Ghent; Sylph, steamer, Bordeaux.
DEAL, Friday Morning.

efwormLato' London ; Tropic, Lon-
Cape Town
n from
Wind S.W., moderato.
Passed, April 15.—City of 13nngor, from Bangor.
anld'aCsslee(mj,
eAnpeer,il
Antigua,i6.—S both
liNh
Lon-
don, Barbadoes ; Laura Ann, London, Swansea ; Milo,
screw steamer, London, Corfu.
Anchored.--Maria Bavaria, from London, for Constan-
tinople.
Sailed, in tow. —Alnwick Castle, for London.

owing to the nit-
'eamer Sitnla being
cetcsranticnetsoffrtoht
mthintneernytoiofnthtielastt.
disabled, the Australian mails despatched from South-
ampton on the 12th, and from Marseilles on the 16'h of
Mara], would be forwarded to Point de Gallo by the
Canaia,, to to conveyed thence to Australia by the Aus-
tralasian, it being anticipated that the latter vessel would
.alum from 14ndras in time for the purpose.

1855.

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION Poland ; and the learned counsel appealed to the jury to
`say if they were suffering in a similar manner they would
not organise a seciety for the regeneration of their
country. No remarks bad ever been known to have
escaped the lips of Bernard to the prejudice of the Etn-
peror of the French. What did Rogers, the spy (and be
fearlessly called him a spy in an English court ofjustice),
say against Dr. Bernard, when he attended the discus-
Floes at Wyld's, in Leicester-square ! Why, that Dr.
Bernard, and those with him, were di cussing the ad-
vantages of constitutions! governments over those of
despotism. Grecious God ! what had they come to.
He warned the jury that, under such circumstances, to
be careful how they attended a public meeting ; and, as
for Rogers, he bad better go and report in the House
of Commons, where he would hear stronger lan-
guage used against the Emperor of the French by those
who had the courage to do so t' a t in Wyld's room a
Leicester-square, and which was delivered from the
hustings in this country in 1843. The case mainly rested
on the evidence of Mrs. Rudio. Her husband was a
ready man and no doubt joined in an expedition with
Orsini, but what his connection with Orsini was no one
but himself, Bernard, and Orsini knew, and now three
months had closed and no explanation could be given,
though Bernard denied having been instrumental in
hiring a man to commit assassination. Interfere I wi!h,
as Mrs Rudio had been by the police, she had given her
evidence with infinite honour, for the efforts of the
prosecution had failed to cause her to swerve from the
truth. But what the transaction in which these men
were engaged might easily have been ascertained
by calling Rudio. He might have been brought here,
and they would have known the real state of the case,
for it was ab• urd to say he could be set at liberty by a
habata cornus, f,r by the extradition treaty he could
have been demanded and must have been given up to
the French authorities. All the circumstances, the
money arid means possessed by Orsini showed the ob-
ject was to arm for rising against a body of troops,
and not for the purpose of committing a miserable
cowardly and dastardly attack on an individual. It was
as touch the surprise of Bernard when he heard of tne
attempt that it was committed by Orsini. It is more
strange that in England the only documents felled on the
prisoner were only letters of an old date, and had no
reference to the attack. Orsini, with the cold band of
death noon him, had made a statement consistent with
Bernard's defence, and as Rudio bad not been called, he
implored them, for the sake of the prisoner's life, to coa-
eider seriously the question that upon either Orsini,
Rudio, and Pierri, no document or scrap of paper
ba.l been found that implicated the prisorer, and,
what was more, that the French system of p
which permeated every home and builling, and was as
complete and perfect now as in the time of
the Committee of Public Safety when the
wife of a man's bosom was bribed to be the spy on his
conduct, had not been able to trace that any commend-
cation had passed between them through the post-office,
to st o v that he knew an) thing of the 'a%ale: t .rprise which
Orsini by the madness of the moment had been lcd to
commit. He thought enough bad been done in the
dim twilight of the morning when Orsini and Prerri were
executed to expiate this crime ; and he called upon the
jury to vindicate the law of England, without fear and
without being deterred by the threats of the French
Emperor—the formation of large armaments—not even
by the dread of 600,000 bayonets.
The !earned counsel's address was listened to through-
out with breathless attention, and at its close was loudly
cheered.
The Court then adjourned for a short time ; on re-
suming,
Tee 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. In 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 justice,
Vott he had transgressed the bounds of an advocate, al-
though he Lad iiwrsolueed a variety of topics in the
cum.: eof his address. He was induce Ito soy so much
because it was not his duty to follow him
through them, but endeavour to bring their minds
back to the real questions they had to consider and de-
cide on. He first proceeded to disabuse their mind of
the dream of his learned friend that this trial, before
;earned judges of the land, in a British court of justice,
and before a British jury, that the pro ecution had been
instigated or promoted by the French Government or
any other persons but those who were able to direct
such a nrosecutiou in this country. The late Attorney,
General instituted this inquiry, from certain circum-
stances laid bi fore him, that there was evidence to show
that the prisoner was implicated with Orsini and others
in a conspiracy to murder. The case was brought before
a magistrate when certain evidence was given, and the
case a sumed an aspect that led the learned counsel "ho
conducted the case and the worthy magistiatte before
whom it was preferred t 3 commit the prisoner as an
accessory before the murder. No musty Act cf
Parliament had been ransacked under which to
bring this charge, for it was one passed in
the last year of the life of George IV., and
tmiltr circumstances which most of them recollected. I 4
was not the Government who made this charge, but the
learned magistrate before whom the prisoner was exa•
mined, believing he was bound to do so under
the terms of the act of Parliament, and it no w
came before them as a British jury to decide on
the guilt or innocence of the prisoner on the evidence
produced, and not on the eloquence of the learned coun-
sel for the prisoner. He expressed his confidence in
their impartial decision, and said, in reference to the
learned counsel's remarks on tbo silence of him (the
kernel Attorney-General), why this charge bad been
made. Happily this was the first case of its kind that
had occurred iu this country, and it was not to be won-
dered at, if this was the first time that the country had
been so disgraced, that this was the first time such a
charge had been pref rred, and he defended his conduct
in conducting the present prosecution. If such ao
attack had been committed in this country on the per-
son of our beleved Qaeen, and many had been wounded,
what would they have said to a foreign G overnment
who had thought fit to refuse ja,tice, on the ground of
dictation ? There was not a person in this country naho
would not be gratified on finding, at the termination of
the trial, that the country had been relieved of the stain
on it, and ho asked the jury to restore hint to libir y
without a etain upon his ammeter, if they belies, d hi u
innocent, but if, on the contrary, then he callad
upon them to discharge their duty irrespective cf a bat
would follow. The prisoner was charged as an accessory
before the fact, and the kw was, that it any person sup-
plied any mean., by which these persons, Orsini, Rudio,
and Pierri coull. 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 u^.-
willing, sacrificed the lives of other persons, then they
who did that act were guilty of murder, and those
who assisted them as accsseries before the fact. It
was perfectly immaterial whether they had any inten-
tion of de.etriying these particular individuals named in
the indictment, and he (the Attorney-General) charged
the moral responsibility belongiug to the guilt of these
wholesale murders to every one of the parties directly or
indirectly using the implements employed. Toe 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 was left to them on
the evidence—first, whether the instruments supplied to
Orsini and hie assistants were the same grenades
or a portion of them, which Mr. Taylor maeufacturid,
Allsop paid fere and Orsini and his associates commit-
ted the murders, or whether there were other instru-
ments manufactured, purchased, and obtained elsewhere,
and conveyed to Brussels for another different purpose.
The remaining question, however humanely and merci-
fully they wished to judge of the prisoner's conduct, arid
of which lie (the learned Attorney-ti eneral) thought it
was impossible for them to entertain a shadow of a
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 witness, that the shells
were made 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 he
was at a loss to know what was the line of defence relied
on by the prisoner. He contended that the grenades
which had 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-
&nee had proved to demonstration that such was the
fact. If the prisoner had sent these grenades to Brue-
eels for a lawful purpose what use could there have been
to have resorted to the many subterfugis that had been
proved. It had been suggested that those grenades had
been sent to Orsini not for the purpose of assassination
of the Emperor of France, but to aid a general rising i
Italy. He felt great confidence in stating that there
was not a scintilla of evidence alluding to a rising in any
part of Italy. Now, if they were to be used for such a
purpose, what in the mind of man c uld account for
the transmission to Paris, a place above all others
—owing to -the activity 4 of the police—a police
that had been much better described by his
learned friend than ho could hope to do—they
were most likely to be discovered. He felt such a cup-
position was entirely groundless. The grenades were
in f set to be used to assassinate the Emperor and Em-
press, and not for the purpose of aiding a revolution of
Italy. There was not even theslightest allusion to such
a scheme in any of the letters and documents that had
been produced during the long and protracted ineui.l7:
He thought the jury would find in going throeugh,df
evidence that these desperate men—proscribed t
their home—abused the protection here arid devised l the ,hat
horrible &an that had been disclosed.
• -___sezo
the evidence had proved one thingud
With Thomas
prisoner at the bar was well Begirt,
;et being found
Alliop, and the fact of Aliso P
He
of
the Tne letter
on Orsini was a strong point
possession
t thuar: h e
of the prisoner wins a
of Allsop found in the posicse:tio,,, and, coupled with the
ones oy Ailsop through the
cf the.oprisonewshowedethat there wee
~elbetween there. When he read
crlairiseientginosftilge'rlgtieonsitnornass"fs
f the let of January which denounced
sepo
. an abebtamfeilntaablbelmusihecr(efantia'
si nt
rsot rpugm identityen ta ityef
the letter of All
sop
the Emperor "
must be .a oi •
one who bore an
eldltetr. Near the time of receiving
English name, could
this letter Bernard purchaeod the nitric acid and
alcohol with which the fulminating powder was
write 7,
made, and Pierri and Orsini proceeded to Ben
tninghaut and purchased the revolvers, so that be-
tw'efounthnde e grenades, 113th ofOncatdoebse,r and the 23rd of November
we the fulminating powder to
charge them, and the revolvers, in the possession of the
three mein and everything complete with the exception
of forwarding them to Paris. Ou the 26th of the swine
mouth, Orini drew a brut of money, 4601. in Bank of