The Press. — 1858-04-17 (London, England)

TRIAL OF SIMON BERNARD.  Tin trial of M. Bernard, under Special Commission, took place on Monday, at the Central Criminal Court, before the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Justice Crowder, and the Recorder. Several noblemen and gentlemen, including Prince Tcherkosky, Secretary to the Sardinian Legation, and M. Gautier, of the French Embassy, occupied seats on the bench. The prisoner having declined to plead to the indictment, a plea of " Not Guilty " was entered. The jury were sworn, and the Attorney-General rose and opened the case for the prosecution. Sir Rumor KELLY, who confined himself to a strict statement of facts, prefaced his address by a brief allusion to the fatal results of the attempt of the 14th of January, by which eight persons were killed and 156 wounded, and said that the persons whom he charged with complicity in this murder were six Allsop, Bernard, Orsini, Pierri, Rudio, and Gomez. Of these the first four designed and projected the murder in this country. On the 16th of October last Allsop proceeded to Birmingham, and applied to Mr. Taylor, a manufacturer there, to sake for him six oval hand-grenades, of which he gave a most minute description. Certain written communications passed between Allsop and Taylor with respect to the construction of these instruments, which were completed between the 16th of October and the 23rd of the November following. These grenades were intended to operate by means of fulminating mercury, which is composed of tree ingredients —absolute alcohol, nitric acid, and mercury. Bernard sometime during the month of November purchased of a warehouseman named Parker a quantity of absolute alcohol and of pure nitric acid. Between the 26th and 28th of November Orsini, then residing in Grafton-street, Kentish-town, left London for Brussels with a passport in the name of Allsop. On the 3rd of December Bernard proceeded to the Cafe Suisse, in Tichborne-street, Haymarket, kept by a man named Giorgi, and, producing two halves of these grenades, then empty and unfitted with nipples or caps, and representing them to be a new gas invention, asked Giorgi if he could take them over to Brussels to the Cafe Suisse, where an English gentleman would call for them. Giorgi consented, and the next day took over to Brussels five of these halves. A few days afterwards Bernard himself went over to the Cafe Suisse in Brussels, and there met Orsini, whom he introduced to Giorgi as Allsop. For some days Bernard and Orsini were together in Brussels. Bernard at length applied to Giorgi to find a person who would take Orsini's horse to Paris. Giorgi recommended Zeguerus, a waiter at the Cafe Suisse, and on the night of the 11th Zeguerus, with the bombs in halves, and packed in a carpet bag, started with Orsini for Paris, where they arrived the following morning. About the same time that the grenades were being manufactured in Birmingham, Pierri, accompanied by Orsini (on the 29th of October), bought of Mr. Hollis, a firearms manufacturer at Birmingham, two revolvers, which Bernard on the 2nd of January took to King, the clerk at the SouthEastern Railway Company's oi; ce in Regent street, to be transmitted to Paris to a M. Outrequin, to whom also Bernard wrote, introducing Orsini as a young Englishman by the name of Allsop, and pre. Paring Outrequin for Allsop to call upon him, and suggesting that if he wished to have the revolvers, Outrequin was to 1‘ give them to him directly," and to say nothing about the price, which " will be arranged between him and me." Orsini, as Allsop, did call, saw the revolvers, and took them We have now, therefore, Orsini in Paris, having travelled there under a false passport as Thomas Allsop, the English. man, and having previously met with Bernard in Brussels, and received from him those grenades which Bernard had Possessed himself of, and which he had sent to Brussels, as 1 ha" detailed to M. I must aow—and I will do so  - - w••.. ••-••• ••• ~--••• ••- • V