The Press. — 1858-03-27 (London, England)

`',''ati3 anti Volicr.  A POLISH REFUGEE, &anisltlGS Tchorzewski, keeping a bookseller's shop, 39, Rupert-street, Haymarket, was brought before Mr. Jardine on Tuesday, at the Bow street Police-court, upon a warrant executed by Inspector Whicher, of the detective force, charging him with " having on the Ist of March inst. unlawfully printed and published a certain false, scandalous, malicious, seditious, anti defamatory libel concerning his Majesty the Empero. of the French, with intent to incite divers persons to assassinate his said Majesty." Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution on the part of the Crown ; and Mr. Leverson, an attorney, attended for the defendant. The alleged libel is a small pamphlet in French, bearing the signatures of "Le Comite de la Commune Revolutiennaire : Felix Pyat, Besson, et A. Talandier," being the document recently referred to in the parliamentary debates. Mr. Bodkin having briefly stated the case, passages from the pamphlet referred to were read at length. The writer, setting out that the Emperor is "an assassin," proceeds to discuss the legitimacy of assassinating assassins, which he decides in the affirmative. Mr. Bodkin having applied for a committal, Mr. Leverson appealed for a remand, and protested against the use of warrants of arrest, which was overruled by Mr. Jardine : Mr. Jardine: It is a case in which I can take bail.  Mr. Leverson said he :iad one of the bail present. A singular-looking person, with long hair over his shoulders and braided coat (evidently a foreigner), then steppt d into the witness-box.  Mr. Bodkin: Are you the printer of the pamphlet which forms the subject of this prosecution? Witness: Yes, I am.  Mr. Bodkin : Then I object to this person's bail. Mr. Leverson: Then you will drive me to Fend for the greatest philosopher of the age, J. Stuart Mill, who will be bail, and I will send to the India-house for him His name will live when Derby's and Palmerston's are forgotten. Mr. Bodkin : Will you oblige me with the private address of the greatest philosopher of the age ? Mr. Leverson did not know it, but he would undertake to fetch Mr. Mill within twenty-four hours. The greatest philosopher of the age, however, did not make his appearance within the usual time, and his Polish friend was commit•ed, and packed off in the prison van. On Thursday the prisoner was again brought up, and two sureties being given in 501. each, and personal bail for 1001., the prisoner was liberated. The " greatest philosopher of the age" was not one of the sureties, and, from a state ment of Mr. Leverson's, it appeared that Mr. Mill's name had been most unjustifiably used by that gentleman.  A HORRIBLE CASE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUCCESSFUL SUICIDE occurred in the Caledonian-road, Islington, on Sunday evening last. A man named Osborne, a gas-worker, in a fit of well-founded jealousy of his wife, attempted to murder her by cutting her down with a cleaver, and then almost cut his own bead off with a carving-knife. A coroner's inquest was held on Wednesday, when the jury returned a verdict that the deceased had destroyed himself while in an unsound state of mind. There is every probability of the recovery of Mrs. Osborne, notwithstanding the severe injuries she has received. 

Article type: Incident