FRANCE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 9, 21 June 1864, Page 3

FRANCE.

The Court of Assizes ofthe Seine tried Mazzini, by befault, on March 27, for his share in the plol against the life ofthe Emperor for which Greco and his accomplices were condemned in February last. In the course of his address the new proeurcurgeneral not only reiterated the charges made by his late predecessor against Mr. Stansfold, of complicity with Mazzini, but brought forward fresh allegations against him, and also against Mrs. Stansfold. The procureur-gencral averred tliat in 1857, Mazzini indicated toTibaldi and other Italian conspirators against the life of the Emperor tho two principal centres of action— at Paris, the residence oi'Tibaldi; at Loudon, the house of James Stansfold and his wife, whom he designated as " James, the friend at tha brewery," and " Caroline." In Tibaldi's possession was found a memorandum- book contiuiiing the address of Mr. Stansfold, and the former confessed that whon in London lie had been in communication with that intimate friend of Mazzini. Two letters were also seized at the time, addressed fo Mazzini, signed Caroline, the Christian name of Mrs. Stansfold. The first, of June 1(5, said :-— " 1 have received your dear and anxious note by Mr. Nathan, who brought I it lumself." The second, of June 1!), began witli | those words : — " I have received the money, and James will, of course, carry out your instruct ions." In December, 183S, a man named Donati was arrested at Paris on a charge of plotting against the Emperor's life, lie confessed that in 1 lie course of the preceding "May, Mazzini had given him a rendezvous at Stansfold's brewery, and a conversation then took place on (he projected attempt, and on the time and place where the crime might j be more easily consummated. Lastly, in the recent j trial of Greco and liis accomplices, Mazzini again ■ appeared. In May, IS(>3. Greco received in- I structions to address his letters for London to j Rosellv, 58 Middleton-square, the residence of the | banker Nathan, and he drew up with his own hand a detaded note, which was, us it were, tlie vo- j cabulary of the plot; then, in September, !Sfir>, resuming the enterprise after a momentary suspension ; giving again, in his own hand, the now address, Flower, 35 Thnrloe-square. which is the residence of Stansfold, directing the choice? ofthe intimates whom Greco was to accept asr.ocompiic*':'-, sending arms ; and lastly, procuring, through the medium of Nathan, the money which was lo facilitate Ihe flight of the assassins afier the attempt. "Such are the facts," said the pro-cureur-general, "which it is important that you and the world should know. It isnow incumbent on the court to proclaim (he truth respecting tliis conspirator." The court then retired to deliberate, and afterwards it passed a sentence of transportation against Mazzina — a sentence, remarks tlio Gazelle de France, of ths more importance as it enables tbe French Government to apply for his expulsion from England. [Itis, in fact, rumored that the French Government have already pointed out to her Majesty's Ministers that fhe presence of 3'fazziui on British sod was a source of danger and anxiety to fhe Cabinet of the Tuileries, and applied for his expulsion.]