ARREST OF A FRENCH POLITICAL

Colonist, Issue 60, 18 May 1858, Page 3

ARREST OF A FRENCH POLITICAL

■/.■•. REFUGEE. On the 14th February a M. Barnard, a French political refugee, who is stated to have resided in this country for some'years,, was arrested at his lodgings in London, by a* warrant procured at the instance of the Homeoffice, on a c'Wg'e of iieing concerned' with Orsini and Pierri in thes recent attempt made on! the lives of the Emperor and Empress ; of the. When Orsini was;in this country! ||1. Barnard was iii the habit of accompanying 'him to the various places at which he delivered lectures. In some quarters he has, been known by the sobriquet of Bai'na'rd the Clubbi'it,- from the leading part he took among a knot of politicians of the ultra-Kepublican school who were wpnt to assemble'at a house in the'-Rue St.' Honore during the revolutionary troubles which succeeded the abdication of Louis Philippe. The present arrest was effected by two EnglLh constables. Barnard treated the matter in a

good-natured way and offered no serious resis-! tance. Being somewhat in deshabille, however, he asked permission to go upstairs to his bedroom for the purpose of changing part of his dress ) but the officers expressed their regret that they could not allow him to do so. Though he repeatedly urged them to comply,,with his reqijest, they refused, and removed liim from the hbu'se in the dress in which he stood. Ort" going afterwards, to the 0 room in which he had slept on the previous night the officers found two revolver pistols loaded, and an instrument called a " knuckle duster," a formidable article, supposed to be of Yankee origin, and mads of brass, which slips easily on to the four fingers of a man's hand, and having a projecting surface across the knuckles is calculated in a.pug'b lisUa encounter to inflict serious injury On the pei son against whom it is directed. In a conversation which the prisoner subsequently had wish; his captors he stated that had they been French instead of English officers he would Have shot them. M. Barnard was conveyed by them in a cab direct to Scotland-yard, where lie was kept in close, confinement during the rest of the day and during the uight. On the following "morning he was examined before the Bow-street magistrate:: Some evidence was brought to -Shew that he sent pistols te a tradesman's address in.Paris. There was no attempt to prove'that the; pistols were identical with the pistols'discovered in Paris on the persons of the conspirators.' M. Barnard was remaiided till the 23ixl February. . , ;;;; ' ,

The Sydney Herald of April SO, publishes the foil owing,'bejng "four days later thaii that received by the usual mail:—;

• . BY .TELEGRAM, ? :'--i;. '~... Via Malta: London, Feb. 19th, 3-30 p.m. Sir Charles Fitzroy (late Governor-General of Australia) died on the IGth instant..

Mr. William Montague Maiming, (late Soli-citor-General of New Soutii Wales) was knighted yesterday. :;: ; :l • i ' * The IriJian Ri 1 was brought in last night; dyes 3.18; noes 173.. . ■ . - ConsblS, 97^. :,!?.;■ . ~? :

Via Malta: London, Fob. '20ih, 210 p.m. In the Hoiise of Comnions, last night, the Ministers were beaten on tlie Alien Bill by 9. There was great excitement ia the House.1 The Times of,thi3 morning says thatPulmerstori's simplest course is to resiga.