The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Ryles.)
THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE
EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

The grand jury entered the court at a quarter past
one, and announced they had found,
A. true bill against Edward Truelove for rnisdeH

meanour,
A true bill against Stanislaus Toher
ineanour, and
A true bill against Simon Bernard,car,
Radio, for
Felice Orsini, Pierri, Gomez,
and murder a sovereign
feloniously attempting " to oval for
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od ep
,
km
a j e a t y, Louis Napoleon,
prince, to wit,
Emperor of the French.
°l2,AdnesalNervglailindicted for
parker,
certain premises situate in
with intent to defraud the West-
his Imperial
1,0001.
M°"—we Ineuracniilcerimpany of the sum of
minster
prisonerFirepleaded not guilty.
The . appeared fur the prosecution, and Mr.
feloniously
k
etetenitigyeity,
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Mr. 13r„ry defended the prisoner.
Sergeant
11.1 r. Bodkin, in opening the case, entered into a state-
ment of the facts, which have already appeared in The
Sun, and said that as there was no person on the pre-
mises when this alleged offence was committed, the charge
against the prisoner would not effect his life. The fire,
it will be recollected, occurred on the 10th of last month;
and in a few days after the occurrence, the prisoner sent
in a claim to the fire-office for upwards of 500/., for
damage done, which turned out to be a very exorbitrnt
claim ; one item in the document being 2601. for brown
paper patterns, which it was now stated were not worth
more than 10(,, and various suspicious circumstances

•
had induced the Weetrninsi-er Fire Insurance Compan y
to institue,e the preeert proceeding,.
eeT aseeeeti E.oßeielis+4 and an engi.peor in the London
Fire Brigade. On the 10th of March ,I was inekei at
19 niirutes to 9to a fire in Moi.iw it street, I tell
the dour open and entered the LIOLI,ie, but fotnit nep r-
i .ion on the premises. The principal part of he fire
was ueder the cutting board in the centre of the shop,
but the fire was burning all round. The patterns and
Icontents of the shop were on fire. There wag
no gas burning in the shop, neither was there
a fire-place or stove, There was a door to the
cutting-'board, that covered a bin which received the
cultines of the materials used in the prisoner's trade (is
mantle-maker). The fire when it reached this spot would
communicate with the shop. The fire was burning in the
cellar under the cutting-board. I remained in possession
of thepremi,le,
~es until the prisoner was taken into custody,
but be had free access to the house.
George e
sub-engineer to the London Brigade—l
arrived at the fire sherhtloyleaftieurtihtebrflokaoeronott.
the
en
sehnotperiogi the premises I saw a
looked down and saw the gas full on. There was a very
large volume of Rime. The height of the fl coring above
the burner was ten inches, and the fire came through
the shop floor. I found a gas branch in the cellar
unscrewed from its place, and the burner turned
upwards towards the shop floor. I found three screws
on the cellar floor. They fitted the screw holes in the
post from which the branch had been removed. The
nipple or burner bad been taken out of the branch. The
flame would rice at least tan inches from such an
opening.
By the Judge—l extinguished the flame.
John Foulger—l am an inspector of City police. I
went to Menkwell.street on the 10. h of March. I
found Baylis and other firemen there. I tried the screws
found by the last witness, and they exacly fitted the
holes in the post I have tried them since, but the
holes have been made so large that the screws now fall
out.

[We shall give the conclusion in our last edition.]

LORD NOR_lld NBY.-

(From time Tines,)

Lord Normanby has addressed to this journal a
few lines from Florence, in which he wishes us to
give publicity to the fact that he is in no wise dis-
qualified, either by age or infirmity, for the dis-
charge of the duties of his late office. The ques-
tion of age is one purely of fact, and when Lord
Norrnanby writes to inform the British public,
through our columns, that he is fourteen years
younger than Lord Palmerston, and but two years
older than Lord Derby, of course it is so, and
there is an end of the matter. In the country, of
the blind the one-eyed man is king. We are glad,
too, to hear that Lord Normanby is at present in
the enjoyment of as good health as his friends—
and he has many—could desire. We would also
particular attention to his statement, that
since " he has held this mission (at Florence) he
has never been inc tpacitated a single day from the
&stellar g. of i s duties." Now, although we believe
that Lord Normanby is an entirely unfit person
for the discharge of so serious a duty as that of the
representative of Great Brit,in in the Italian Pen-
insula—for such, in point of fact, the Tuscan
iEu-
voy s•, or should be—we should be grieved indeed
to write a word which could give a moment's
pain on personal grounds to si amiable and
des, rvedly popular a man. Considering what
our Italian diplomacy has been for some time
past, we thought we were adopting the more
merciful supposition in presuming that the popular
rumour which spoke of Lord Normauby's failing
strength was correct. The explanation invariably
given of his Tuscan mission was that the real
busiLess was transacted at Vienna, and the more
otinmental duties at Florence. From his duties
Lord Normanby tells us he has never been absent,
and his word is worthy of all respect. We may add
with peifect sincerity, that when we compare our
late representative in Tuscany with his successor
we are heartily sorry that he has been displaced.
By the side of Mr. Howard, Lord Normanby is a
R•chelieu or a Talleyrand. This, however, is the
only ground on which his removal can be regretted;
for it is clear enough that with the turn things are
now taking on the Continent of Europe, there
should tie a man of vigorous character, of firm will,
and of keen intellect, to a'.,t as watchman for Eng-
land in the Italian Peninsula. This Tuscan mission
has ever been treated as an armchair by the
Foreign-office. The post is so areeable—the city
so pleasant—the works of art collected in it so in-
teresting, that there is really no spot on the Con-
tinent of Europe where an elderly gentleman can
spend the autumn of his days more entirely to his
own satisfaction than at the capital of the Medici.
Wilt the Neapolitan mission cancelled, the Roman
mission non-existing, and Lombardy, diplomatically
speaking, a blank, it is obvious that if diplomacy be
not an idle farce, we ought to be better represented at
the Court of Tuscany than we are, or have been
for some time past. This we say on public grounds;
if we were allowed to consider the question as one
of private relations, we should be happy to boar
witness to the fact that a more courteous gentle-
man than Lord Normanby was never engaged in
the service of the country.

The following is the letter alluded to above :
" Sir,—As I see in au article of the 27th of March
you again allude to my supposed disqualifications
on account of advanced age and infirmities, I am
sure you will be glad to hear that, although I had
a severe attack of illness, attributed to overwork
and anxiety of mind, soon after my return from
Paris, I am now in ttie enjoyment of perfect health ;
and during tho three years and a half I have held
this mission have never been incapacitated a
single day from the discharge of all its duties. Had
I at any time been iu the state you give the public
to suppose, I neither would have accepted nor
retained the appointment.
" As to age, I ant 14 years younger than the laic)
Premier, who certainly shows no signs of age, and
only two years older than his successor. So much
upon a mere matter of fact ; you will not of course
expect that f should enter with you into any of the
other topics treated in that article. I limit myself
exclusively to the request that you will give the
same publicity to this letter as to your erroneous
statetnent upon a point of a purely personal cha-
racter, not usually made a subject of attack in fair
political warfare.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
, NoR

"Florence, April 2."