The Sun. — 1858-03-06 (London, England)

CHAS. PUO FI, Chief Clerk. EWSANK and PARTINGTON, 3, South-suare, Gray's-inn, Plaintiff's solicitors.  We now beg to take the reader acro-s the Channel and introduce him to the circumstances of the case as it actually stood over there. In France three out of the four prisoners were men marked for suspicion, and two of them had been under the hands of the French police. Rudio is the only one of whom it could not be said that he had, within the last few years, been in France under unpleasant circumstances, and even he was a known political eale and c mspirator—a character generally notable among the police of the Continent. Orsini, after an absolute blaze of notoriety, had appeared at Marseilles in 1855. Pierri, after living for years in three of the most considerable cities of France, became so distinct an object of suspicion that he was expelled from the French territory in 1852. Gomez was brought to trial in a French court of justice in December, 1855, and locked up in a French prison till June, 1856. Every one of these three, therefore, was as soon as he stood upon French ground, a marked man to begin with, independently of any fresh or special source of alarm. But this fresh alarm was positively given—given with great circumstantiality, and as much as a fortnight beforehand. On the first day of the present year information was despatched to the French authorities from Brussels that Pierri, attended by another conspirator, would be coming to Paris probably about the 9th of January, with the purpose of assassinating the Emperor. Two days before the day fixed—that is to say, on the 7th of January—Pierri did, in accordance with the warning, leave Brussels for Paris. AtLille he was joined by Gomez, and these two men, both of whom had before fallen under the hands of the police, and who must necessarily have been marked and known, did enter the French capital with their murderous purpose on the day above mentioned. The very instant they arrived they joined Orsini, who had been V ere, shells and all, ever since the 12th of December; and Rudio presented himself on January the 10th. Here, then, were all the four conspirators under the eyes of the Parisian police four days before the attempt was hazarded, and 10 days after warning bad been given. They were all in communication and correspondence together so overtly that the Procureur-General on the trial scarcely thought that proof was wanting of their intimacy. On the Bth or 9th of January Orsini went to a gunsmith in Paris and bought a revolver, and on the 12th, as it required a little alteration, he sent Gomez to fetch it, who appeared to the shopman to be in a great hurry and to exhibit considerable impatience. Compare all these facts with the utter absence of any suspicious circumstances over hero, and then say in which of the two countries detection ought to have been effected.  Again, with respect to the overt evidence possibly derivable from the sight of the shells. These implements were seen, handled, and criticised on the other side of the Channel by witnesses of all descriptions. They were first taken into Belgium. At the French frontier they were passed through tha Custom-house as portions of a new gas apparatus, and pronounced to be of no dutiable value whatever, so little was there significant in their appearance. In France, at the hotel in Paris where Orsini first stopped, they were put into thy• hands of a wai, er, and regularly laid out on a sofa until Orsini came and put them away. Now, there was no such excuse in France as there was .n Birmingham. A mlti might very naturally ,i 0 to oue of our gunsmiths and get half-a dozen experimental shells made ; but it is quite a different Thing to carry these machines from one country to another. From this ho' el, however, Orsini removed to another lodging, and here he proceeded to dry his fulminating powder, at tie 1,, .ully risk of bl .wing himself and the whole house iato ihe air. In this house, wiih his deadly machinery about him, he resided 30 days ; Pierri, the  ~.,.., ~, . „. , , _ ..., ~,„...,..,.......c..., ~, ...„......„.,...............,„..„,,,L„,„„..4,,,,,,,, „„,,,„,„..,„,,,,,...........,,_ , ~,..„,„=„„„,,„..T„,„ ~..,,..y..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,M, 391....V1C,...