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suffragan bishop assembled the pulpit and exhorted
/ the people who remained in the church to be calm,
! but they would not listen to him.
1here IS no garrison except ten or twelve vete
( rams IN the town, so that no opposition could be
! made to the mob. When the bishop descended
from the pulpit scarcely credible scene occurred:
the brgand Nindetta, armed with poignard, as
cended 1t, and thus addressed the people: Be pa
! tlent! The good fathers innocent. 1t is | who
stole the Madonna. But will only restore it when
the government, to whom | grant a delay till Mon
day evening, shall have consented to the compact
have proposed to it. Be calm therefore, and shout
no more. warn yOu in conclusion, that nv COM
| panions armed well l." What followed
that harangue we have not vet learned but dep
utatlon of the municipality and chapter of Veletri
have arrived here, and have had an interview with
the Pope. Orders have been issued to dispatch
troop of gendarmes on horseback and a company of
Swiss infantry to Velletr to establish order.
SPAIN.
A Madrid telegram of the Sh informs us that in
the sitting of the Congress the President of the
Council had formally declared that the rumors cur
rent as to the fusion between the two branches of
the royal family were unOunded, no project of the
KIND existing either in Spain or abroad, Queen
Isabella, therefore, has evidently broken through
tne meshes OF the conspirators no. backed bv the
KING, have been for some time endeavoring to OBJ
tam her consent to the fusion. The word "abroad''
inserted in the reply refers to the belief prevaiinU
IN Madrid that the Countess Montiio and her daugh
ter, the Empress of the French, have been busy
| trying to win over the French government to the
fusion.
Mad id letter of the eth instant informs us that
reports OF modification Of the Ministry are cur
rent there. The formation of n Narvaez- Gonzales
Bravo Ministry is spoken of. The reported Carlist
lnsurrecton in Catalonia is contradcted. The spe-
cla commission appointed to examine and report
on the law regulating the dress had nearly com
pleted its laborS All the amendments introduced
by the commission are favorable to the liberty of the
press.
The committee of the Cortes charged to examine
the bill on the press has introduced into amend
ments favorable to freedom of discussion One pro-
VISION OF the bill states that attacks directed against
foreign soveregns shall not be liable to prosecution
unless they apply to the sovereign of a country
where similar law is in force.
ENGLAND
TRIAL OF DIR. BERNARD.
The trial Of DR.. Simon Bernard, under special
commission, for being accessory before the fact
10 the attempt OF OrSni and others to assassnae the
Emperor of the French commenced on Friday last
at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, and has
continued each day, sans intermission, up to the
present moment The verdict will probably be
given tomorrow.
1t may be conceived that the trial has created
considerable interest and that it has been the alb
sorbng topic OF the week, almost to the exclusion
OF every other. Lord Campbell who is the Lord
Ihet justice, presided, and was supported bv Lord
Chief Baron Pollock, Mr. Justice Erie the CITY
Recorder, the Lord Mayor, and others of high
standing at the bar or in the city of London The
LORD Chet Justice addressed the grand jury at con-
evidence laid before them, and returned in the
course OF the afternoon, with four bills two charg
ing Dr. Bernard with being principal in the muir
ders OF persons named Nicholas Batti and Eugene
hl%eur the others charging him with being acces-
sorry before the fact to the commission Of those
murders, ana with consplring to compass the death
OF the Emperor Napoleon The whole of the bills
were returned as true bills.
On Monday morning the court opened for the
actual commencement of the trial, the Lord Chief
Justice and Chief Baron with the other Judges at
tcn"ihg as before. There was an imposing array
Oh counsel. For the prosecution the Attor-
ney General. iSir Ftzroy key) Mr. Macaulay
! z. C., Mr.. Wel2by, Mr.. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk For
Bernard were Mr.. Edwin James, q. c., Mr.. j. 81
mon, an advocate with great reputation at Liver
P1oi' put new to London, Mr. Hawkins, Mr.. Sleigh,
! Mr.. Brewln and MIR. Scoble. The indictments
against the prisoner were for teloniouSly netting
moving procuring, counselling, &c, one Felice Or
SIM and others to commit certain fconies l. @. to
Kill and murder certain parties in Fronca and oI,o
to Kill and murder his Imperial Majesty Louis Napo-
| leon, Emperor OF the French.
| On being called upon to declare himself op;lt, or
not guilty, the prisoner, denying the jurisdiction of
the Court, refused to plead. This was the first i'm
/ pOrtant legal point raised The Court ordared
! plea of not guilty to be entered for him And tLon
! commenced struggle for the iury. ,Jurors ynrn
called and successively cholcE0ed oithor b- ti,o
crown or the counsel for the defence. and Il yyaS
nearly two hours before a iury was imnannelnd and
sworn; and after an application by Mr. lanes for
! copy of the commission the Attorney GannraI
crowded in every part but brcathless silence rros
observed on the commencement of the sneech of
the Attorney General. who recapitulated at great
length, and with circumstantial minuteness ali the
evidence tending to connect the prisoner with the
charges in the Indictment At tbe closn of His
speech, he referred to some leGal noints which tb
! opposite side would probably raise, but he an
swered that he was quite prepared to reply to
them. Lord Campbell said, if any such should be
raised they must be argued before the fifteen
judges. Then commenced the examination of wit
neSses, the number of whom NAV be ouessed when
it is known that four whole days have been occuped
in giving their evidence. They were composed of
| French police agents, English detectives French
tradcsmen or professionals, who witnessed the at
! tempt at assassination, surgeons, manufacturers
| OF firearms, English and French: the gun ma
ker who made the grenades; the chvmsts who
! sold the chemicals of which the Illuminating
mercury was composed; the railway aren't
who sent pistols to Paris: railway clerks
passport agents and consuls: French and BeIoian
cafe keepers and their wives; hired servants inn
Keepers, conveyancers. money changers bankers
clerks, ad lnhnium, all helping to weave chain of
evidence, as complete as circumstantial evidence
can ever nope to be, against the prisoners. The
witness who excited most interest. was Rudios
VIE: She gave her evidence on the latter part
OF Wednesday and early on Thursday morning
IL has been consistent throughout, varying in no
! important degree from that she gave before the
magistrate on the first investigation. Her evidence
! goes to prove that DR.. Bernard engaged her hus-
band to go to Paris, and that he furnished her and
nm with money, the real object for dong which,
| she does not pretend to know. had long con-
versatlon with her on Tuesday, when she gave me
description of her parting interview with her hus-
band. He gave to her all the money he had
some $40. and with that she had to en-
| counter the world with young child to
! support. She told me that she very i'll during
| her journey, and she intimated, rather than said
! that she was more affected at separating from
| her husband, than from his previous conduct to her
! she thought she should have been. There can be
doubt that the purport of DR.. Bernards visit to
| her husband, and the object with which he en-
! ploycd him, were unknown to her. and that she
went down at the request of Bernard after her hus-
| band had left England, to Nottingham. wondering
| what her husband could be occupied in at Paris
| that should bring his name into the papers, Dr.
/ ard how, A., i l