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residence of the gentlemen referred to, and he said
he could. Prisoner Victor said he could prove all he
had stated and he then asked me if he should get
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a reward.

I told him if it was true he

would, as the information was very valu-
able. I next saw him at his lodgings in
Whitechapel, where he repeated his statement;
and I then asked him if he could introduce me to
the other men who knew Emerick, but he said he
could not. I next saw Victor on the 15th, when
he asked me to recommend him to the Prussian Am-
bassador for some clothes, as he could not prove
his statement without he was respectably dressed.
Ile told me he used to go to the houses of Baron

Blom and the two German gentlemen very fre-
quently. I asked him if he could give me the
Baron's address, and he said Eaton-place, which I
knew was not the case. I saw the prisoner again
on the 16th of January at the Prussian Embassy,
and he there repeated his statement. I, accom-
panied Mr. Kneip to the Cafe Royal a few days
ago, and whilst there I saw Victor put his head iu.
I went out, when Victor said, I can now introduce
you to another gentleman who knew limerick.
Victor took 1113 to the London Pavilion,
and on our way he told me he had
found out the house where the two
gentlemen lived of whom he had spoken.

I asked him if he had been there, to which he re-
plied he had. We saw a Polish Jew at the Pavi-
lion, and he gave me a description of Emerick, but
it differed entirely from that given by the prisoner
Victor. This man said Emerick lived in Leicester-
square. I observed that Victor and the man we
were talking with were making signs, and then I
watched them more narrowly. I asked the Jew
for his address, when he said a letter would find him

if left at Gatti's. The next time I went to the
Prussian Embassy I raw the other prisoner,
Fordore, there. I asked him what he did there, and
he said he had come from his friend Victor. I
asked him where Victor was, to which he replied,
he's come up from IVhitechapel, and that he was
close by in a public-house in King-street. I
said, what's he doing there, to which he said he only
wrote the letter which he had just delivered. I
said then you know the contents of the letter, and ho
replied in the affirmative. I then deft the house in
company with Fordore, taking with me a bag con-
taining clothes as a blind to insure Victor speaking to
me. I saw Victor, and feeling that I could not ap-
prebend both, I made an excuse to get them both
back to the Prussian Embassy, and on arriving
there I told both prisoners I was a police officer,
and that I should take them into custody on a
charge of conspiring to defraud the Prussian A-
mbassador. After I had cautioned them Victor said,
" That is no charge at all, and I will make some-
body pay for this." On Fordore I found a letter, in
Victor's handwriting.
Fordore said all he knew about the matter was
that he took a letter from Victor, and that he did
not know that there was anything wrong in it.
Mr. Flower said that all that was said against
the prisoner Fordore, was that he had carried the
letters, which any innocent person might bay e
done.

The constable said he thought the prisoner was
merely the tool of the other prisoner, Victor.
Mr. Abrams was quite prepared to leave Fordore

,o be dealt with at once.

Mr. Flower said there was nothing to implicate
him seriously in the case, therefore he should order
him to be discharged.

Mr. Abrams —That is all the evidence I have to
offer.

Mr. Flower then fully committed the prisoner
Victor for trial.
Mr. Lewis then charged the prisoner with falsely
libelling Baron Blom, and called some of the former
witnesses to repeat their evidence.
Baron SchmithaLs—l am secretary to the Prus-
sian Embassy—On the Bth of July the prisoner
made the following statement to me at the Em-
bassy, which he afterwards signed :
" I lodged here in London for upwards of six
months with a certain Wilhelm Emerick, who stated
himself to be an Hanoverian officer, and that he had
arrived from Paris. At first this person was en-
tirely without means, but after awhile he received
money from various sources, amongst others from
a certain Hanoverian baron, who resides in Eaton-
place. Latterly Emerick became certainly more
mysterious, and talked about a duty he had to
fulfil- he must avenge George, his King, upon the
King of Prussia. I drew his attention to the fact
that in reality Count Bismarck was the instigator,
hut he persisted in his view. Yesterday, now, he
has suddenly started for Berlin, and I. have just
now received a letter from him. As Emerick is a
desperate man, and asserts himself to be in pos-
session of Orsini shells, I feel myself in duty bound
to give information about his criminal inten-
tions. Further interest in the matter I
have not, as lam not a Prussian subject. Emerick
was a member of the society of " Faithful Hano-
verians," and lived here without work ; funds, I
believe, have been placed at his disposal.
(Signed) " GUSTAV VICTOR."
" The Baron of whom I mentioned yesterday is,
as 1 have just ascertained, the Baron Blom. I was
myself with Etnerick at Baron Blom's about three
weeks ago, and watched outside the house. Ido
not know if Emrick had any previous interviews
with Baron Blom. The interview he had three
weeks ago lasted about one hour. Emerick had on
that occasion doubtless received considerable assist-
ance from Baron Blom, as he changed, directly on
leaving, a sovereign, at a public house.
(Signed) GUS2AV VICTOR."
Baron Otto Blom—Previous to the last Prussian
war I represented the King of Hanover in this coun-
try at the Court of the Queen. King George of
Hanover was by force dethroned, and by some it
is idleged that he has no longer a right to the
Crown. I think the prisoner Las been in my house.
I never had any conversation with a person named
Emerick. I never gave him any money. Emerick
was never inmy company at all. 'indignantly deny
having had anything to dowith the allegedsupplying
him with Orsini bombs or anything else. I never
had any conversation with Emerick or anybody
else for the assassination of the King of Prussia. I
was not a member of a society called the " Faithful
Hanoverians." I have never, either directly or
indirectly, supplied money to any person, or class
of persons, having for their object the assassination
of the King of Prussia.
Mr. Lewis—l have been obliged, Baron,you to ask
those questions to disprove the statement of the
prisoner.
Baron Blom—l quite understandthteriarelasonont
his
your putting the questions. The prisoner was fully committed for
charge also.

THE IRISHMANELEGRAPH AND THE DAILY
T,

At the Court of Queen's Bench, this day, Mr.
Campbell Foster applied on behalf of Mr. Richard
Pigott, proprietor of the Irishman newspaper, pub-
lished in Dublin, for a rule nisi for a criminal in-
formation against Mr. Joseph Ellis, publisher of
the Daily Telegraph, for an alleged libel which ap-
peared in that journal on the 11th of January last
severely commenting on certain articles in the
columns of the Irishman with reference to Feni-
anism and the conduct of the English Government
in instituting criminal proceedings against Mr.
Pigott. The applicant contended that the tendency
of the article in question was such as to prevent his
having a fair trial. _ _

The Court, after hearing the article read, and
also those forming the basis of the prosecution
against Mr. Pigott, unanimously refused the ap-
plication.