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

NEW COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
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 misde.
tneanour,

A true bill against Stanislaus Tchorewski for tniide-
rneanour, and

A. true bill against Simon Bernard, Thomas Al'sop,
Felice Orsini, Pierri, Gomez, and Carl Radio, for
feloniously attempting " to kill and murder a sovereign
prince, to wit, his Imperial Majesty, Louis Isrspoleon,
Emperor of the French."

.
CHARGE OF AESO2I
401
was indicted for
fire to cartel
William Henry Parker, 32, d': promises situate in
feloniously setting
minster Fire InsurancenCooi i'.:ity.
,
Monk well-street, City,
The prisoner pleadecrled t g.'
f„r the prosecution, and Mr. 1
Mr. Bodkin °PP". d the prisoner.
w i th,.i.rai
nteyri not
the e
srauumd
of el,NOVOeOIt..
dofenae I
Sergeant ParrY .
Opening the case, entered into a state- I
appeared in The
that as there was no person on the pre-
"2 ;Lich have already
m enitrol3l:ifidlic' facts,
.
Sue, au' eathi, alleged offence was committed,the charge
raises when
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 attfr the occurrence, the prisoner cent
in a claim to the fire-office for upwards of 5001., for
dan3age done, which turned out to be a very exorbitrut
claim ; one item in the document being 20/. for brown
paper patterns, which it was now stated were not worth
more than 101., and Yariouu vapicieus circumstances

had induced the Westminster Fire Insurance Compan y
to institute the present proceeding.
James E. Baylis—l am an engineer in the London
Fire Brigade. On the 10th of March I was called at
10 mitaites to 9to a fire in Monkw,ll-street. I broke
the door open and entered the house, but found no per-
son on the premises. The principal part of the Ere
was under the cutting board in the centre of the shop,
but the fire was burning all round. The patterns and
contents of the shop were on fire. There was
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
cuttings of the materials used in the prisoner's trade (a
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 the premises until the prisoner was taken into custody,
but he had free access to the house.
G. dorge Cole, sub-engineer to the London Brigade—l
arrived at the fire shortly after it broke out. On entering
the premi-es I saw a hole in the floor of the shop. I
looked down and saw the gas full on. There was a very
large volume of fl xtue. The height of the fl coring above
the burner was ten inches, and the fire came through
the shop flour. 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. Th•
nippe or burner had been taken out of the branch. The
flame would rise at least ten inches from such an
opening.
oinnsptehcetoloofh C?fitymnaorlciche..
By the Judge—l extinguished the fiame,.,
llytfihettescdretwhes
wejnt'htno FllVoingiewr—elll-satirneeatn
ffooluinr,dd Baylis and alnasdtotwhietrnfierr
aenndthetr,:ee.y lextarice.
soh llvaergetritehdatt them
scsirnecwes,
nbouwt
inet
holesboies hianvethbeeeintnadel
out.

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

LORD NORMANBY.

(Fron?, the Times.)

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
Nermauby writea 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 cud of the =Ver. In the country of
the blind the one-eyed man is king. We are glad,
too, to hear that Lord Ncrmanby is at present in
the enjoyment of as good he.ilth as his friends—
and
call lii)ea,r,ltihiacseumlhaaarsn
iyha—tetidecnottuhi
attention
mdtheissisirileois.n
(saltVtateFe
rulaose•io.neintil,cdotahlbsaeot
since
has never been ncapacitated a single day from the
discharge of its 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 Britiin in the Italian Pen-
insula—for such, in point of fact, the Tuscan En-
voy is, or should be—we should b 3 grieved indeed
to write a word which could give a moment's
pain on personal grounds to so 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 Curd Normanby's failingstrength was correct. The explanation invariably
given of his Tuscan mission was that the real
business was transacted at Vienna, and he more
o!n 'mental 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
la e tepresentativo in Tuscany with his successor
we are heartily sorry that he has been displaced.
By the side of Mr. Howard, Lord Normanby is a
chelieu or a Ta!leyrand. 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 tole Continent of Europe, there
should be a man of vigorous character, of firm will,
and of keen intellect, to act as watchman for Eng-
land in the Italian Peninsula. This Tuscan mission
has ever been treated a 3 an armchair by the
Foreign-office. The post is so area 4ble—th3 city
so pleasant—the works of art collected in it so in-
teresting, that there is really no sput 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.
With 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 bear
witness to the fact that a more coureoaa gentle-
man than Lord Normanby was never engaged in
the service of the country.

The fullovitig is the letter allude (1 to above :

" Snt,—As rsee in au article of the 27th of March
you again allude to my supposei disqualificatio3s
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 Vie enjoyment of perfect health ;
and during the three years and a half I have held
this mission I have never been incapacitated a
single day from the discharge of all its duties. Had
I at any time been in the state you give the public
to suppose, I neither would have accepted nor
retained the appointment.

" As to age, I am 1.4 years younger than the la'e
Premier, who certainly shows no signs of age, and
only two years older than his successor. So much
upon a mere matter of fact ; yuu will not of course
expect that I 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
statement upon a point of a purely puponal cha-
racter, not usually made a subject of attack in fair
political warfare.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
`‘ NORMINBY.
"Florence, April 2."

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