The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

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Els- & Ida wraps, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2L At Wirth the Wm& Ow $ competent Staff is mint. The regulations jest issued by the Duke of CAMBRIDGE carry into full effect the principles for which we have so keg eon _ . _ . tended. and which mire affirmed in the autumn by a resolution of the Rowe of Commons. Among the many Reforms won by the Pres, few have been fraught with more important benefita to the State than this which concerns Staff appointments. No doubt the disasters in the Crimea originated in many quorten the desire for some such change. But the Report of Milers. Lica and Your-sn showed the reasonableness of that desire, and pointed oat the mode in which it wee to be satisfied. Gross jobbing had been proved ; gross jobbing must be extinguished. The British Army was an capable as any foreign army to famish an able Staff. The difficulty remained to establish some system by which these able officers, however poor, or however humbly connected, should find themselves NI the Staff. Instead of AIIETS and CkOIDONS the public wanted CHAMBERLAIN& HULLO, and HAVELOCK& The problem was Dot difficult. It wee solved by Mr. LAKE and Colonel Yonnisre, and that 'solution was adopted by Sir Dc LACY Erases and affirmed by the House of Com ma% It was simply this : Let no officer be allowell a place es the Staff until he has proved himself to be worthy of it by the concurrent testimony of his Commanding Officer and an independent Bout of Examiners. In rhort, let all officers serving with the army compete against each other for the Stal4 and thenceforth incompetese7 and corrupt influence will beams impossible. The regulation just pals. jibed are intended to carry this simple principle int* effect, and we do hie Royal Highness the Con• 11ASDEE.IN-CEIRF no more than justice when we say that nothing can exceed the loyalty of spirit which he his exhibited in dealing with the subject. The Duke has decreed that the Senior Depart. vent at Sandhurst is to be eonvirted into a Staff I I College. This College is to be open to all arms of the ',mice. There are to be at first 30 etaden% 23 from the Cavalry and Infantry and 3 from the Artillery and Engineers. These 30 officers will thus', be the Rite of the whole British Army. They will be those officer, of three years' standing who can prove their right to admission into the Staff College by a competitive examination. It matters not whether an officer is at home or abroad. If he can procure the sanction of his commanding officer—and that sanction cannot be refused except on grounds distinctly stated—he may enter into competition. Th. previous approval of the Commanding Officer is important, because in no other way would it be pomible to exclude from the Staff those men who are bad regimental officers or hare proved themselves inefficient as practical men. The list of compeutors being fixed, out of all officer, who have served three years, these select men will be examined either in London or by printed papers before • special board on foreign 'totems. This regulation, we may observe, gets rid of the only plausible objection ever made egainst a scheme of competitive exam illib. non, and that in • manner already found practicabh in India. The subjects absolutely essential in thin trial for entrance into the Staff College are mathe matics, military history end geography, and French. The rest are optional. The examination will be con ducted by the Military Caused of Education. The successful candidates will then enter the Staff College. when they will remain two years. During that time t►ey will devote themselves chiefly to the study of =thematic., French, fortification, and gunnery, recanaaiseance, military drawing, military history, military geography, and military adminis tration. In short, they will par through a course of str.ctly military education such r befits men who have to undertake the rosponsible duties of staff officers. Besides monthly reports of the pro gress of each officer to the Council of Military Edu cation, there will he half-yearly examination. And it ia important to observe that the winter examina tion will be redacted by gentlemen independent of the mitabliahment Officers are not to contribute a farthing towards their education at the Staff Coliege, and therefore the authorities are bound to see that they came there for the purpose of prior study. Arcordiegly, it is specially provided that if any officer in the establishment shows either idleness or inferior capacity, he may be removed at any period of hie two years' tarter. Moreover, in order to open the door to Staff Officers u widely am porible, it is provided that an officer may apply for admirion for one year instead of two ; bat to ob tain this privilege he most show himself equal in attainments to those who have already passed one year at Sandhurst. In addition to this, even at the final examination at the clamor the scrod year, any officer in the army ie to be allowed to submit himself to the Examiners, and if he can prove himself superior to those who have ?used through the College, he is to be entitled to his place on the Staff, just se if ha had resided there. The final examinations —the first of which will take place in December, 18;e3--will be held once a year, and the Council of Military Edu cation will submit to the Commander-in-Chief the list of successful candidates in all the classes, with a Afraid report of those who have moat distinguished themselves. This scheme will come into immediate operation, for we learn that after the lit of January, Poio, those officers, and those officers alone, who have obtained die certificate of the Military Council of Education will be entitled to hold Stair appoint incr ti. There are, indeed, two exceptior—tbe first is the cue of officers of peeved ability in the tieid to this there does not seem much Aim. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1857. tion, far service In the field does sometimes call out slumbering genies. The second els*. tion is that of officers who on the Ist of 'tummy, ISO, shall hay. attained the rank of Lieutensat-Colonel. The moon of this is not so obvious. We trust it will be fully explained. However, we are unwilling to find fault with a single detail ins scheme which is in other respects so excellent. To resume, therefore. The candidates for Staff appointments, after having satisfied the Sandhurst Examiners, have still a further worse of education to pass through. The officer who came to college from the Infantry is to be attached to each of the arms in which he has not served. He mast make himself acquainted with the disci pline, the interior economy, the field movements, and the duties of these arms. The same thing most be done by the ca. alry officer, the engineer Aker, and the artillery otheer. Having thus ac quired a thorough knowledge of his profession by three years service in a regiment, two years' atten dance at college, and six mouths with each of the other arms, he will be eligible to a Staff ap pointment. Such are the new regulations for the Staff. They have evidently been drawn up by men who have not only thoroughly studied the best systems adopted in foreign armlet, bat with a due regard to the special characteristics of the British Army. They constitute a Reform the benefits of which it is impossible to ever-estimate. FOll the lag week our good friends and allies across the Channel have been occupied almost ex- elusively with one subject i7 the aiairo Aufusse. The Journals have been filled, conversation has turned, upon the atfoireJesjosst, and upon that only. The quiet town of Evreux, in Normandy, where the remarkable trial hu taken place, has been filled to overflowing by crowds of atizioua visitors. We have given, day by day, the details of the evidence in ear columns, and shall now endeavour to present to oar readers a gamma outline of this singular drama of domestic life. The two Wallies, whose destinies have been in volved in it, reside in the immediate neighbourhood of the little Norman town of Galllon, near Evreoz, The Jurrosaz family, of old, descent and noble lineage, had owned for many generations an ancient elation of the same name, standing in the midst of ancestral woods, and surrounded by its own park wall. The fortunes of the house appear to have been somewhat decayed, and it was probably not without difficulty that the sober dignity of the family was kept up M. on lacrosse, an ancient cavalry officer, who had thrown up his commission in disgust on the ad vent to power of the Citizen King, has been for some years dead. The family, since his death, has consisted of Madame DE lacrosse, his widow, a lady now verging on her fiftieth year; of two sons, En z, , r and ALBIRT, aged reepeetively twenty-five and twenty•two ; and of one daughter, Bumf E, not yet nineteen. The two other members of the household whom names have been prominently mixed up in the affair are the governess, Milk. Lacuna Tnottur, a young Norman lady of two-and-twenty ; and CILE PEL, the gamekeeper, who has been from his boy hood in the service of the family. The two sans were only ocessionaly at the chateau. They resided principally in Pans, where they appear to have gone into Boone speculations, and led generally a rather fast life. At Auberoie, a country house within a very short distance of the chateau, resided Esitte Grittor, the perm whose alleged murder was the subject of the trial. Emma OVILLOT was, in French phrase, 'Monier he had no pedigree, not even a grandfather. His father had amassed a con siderable fortune by trade, and had left EMIL/ what in French provincial life is considered the very handsome income of 1.0001. a year. EMUS Gutman with some of the virtues, appears to have had meat of the foibles of the French character. He was generous, good-humoured, and sociable, bat intensely vain, and, according to English views, thoroughly loom and unprincipled. He had a profound belief that among women he was irresistible; to conquer hearts was his ambition ; to beset of his triumphs his principal delight. The fact that he had some few years since become the husband of a young and charming woman, who appears, in spite of all his faults and infidelities (which were no secret to her), to have been sincerely attached to him—produced DO change in the habits of M. GUILLOT. Such were the two families of JIUTOME sad GLILLOT. It seems to hays 'swain the year 1853 that a close intimacy first sprung up between the two families. They soon became nearly inseparable. No week passed without an interchange of visits between Jettfors and Atibevoie, amounting, as the Act of Accusation is care ful to inform us, to one hundred and five in thermoses of the twelvemonth. Est LE OVILLOT, a keen sports man, made frequent shooting parties with the young men, who occasionally did him the honour to borrow mull sums of money. With the ladies he was on the best terms. Madlle. LAURENCE. • lively Norman girl, soon became the object of his marked attentions. The flirtation became the talk of the neighbourhood. Gutter!' talked of it at the club at Galileo. Old M. DI: Henry, aeries ofleier, old M. TRUTT, for merly vies-consul at Moscow, all the notabilities and resyeetabilities of the little provincial circle, had remarked it, and the subject was mentioned to Ma dame DE in . /CH.M. She treated the thing as a mere piece of idle scandal, sod declined to part with LkI'IMICE on any such ground. It was not long, however, before she felt herself compelled to interfere. It became evident that M. GLILLOT was transferring his homage from Madlle. Ler- RENet: to Msdlle. ELAMC/IF.. How far the young lady of the chateau responded to the passion which be either felt or affected to feel, is left doubtful upon the evidence. On the whole it seem, difficult to avoid the conclusion that she did not discourage him u she ought. Her vanity was no doubt flattered ; her susceptibilities were possibly touched. It appears probable that Madame DE iggl - USSE (though, from motives which it is impossible not to respect, she denied it at the trial) must have seen reason to suspect from her daughter's demeanour that there was danger in her further intimacy with M. OI'ILILOT. But this was not all. The braggart—the scoundrel—had been boasting everywhere that he had triumphed over the virtue of Mdlle. DE JEUPOWIE. He had not con fined his bus exultation even to his own circle ; he had made the young lady's alleged weakness a topic of familiar gossip among the small tradesmen and disreputable hangers-on of the little town. Madame DE JEurossE, on hearing this, took her line at once. She resolved on instantly breaking off all intercourse with the Outtt.nti, Although Madame GUILLOT, with singular oseicefJ, came to assure the justly irritated mother that there could be nothing wrong between EXILE and BLavtote—because Emma had himself confessed to her that his intrigue with Mdlle. LAVitims was still Ong ft—Madame DC JET:MORSE very properly, as all 1 1 war English readers will be of opinion, adhered to her islirminition —and the breach between the two &man IMMO complete. This was at the begin. King of the pronat year. From that moment M. Or iti.of colsested, and down to the time of his death unintermittedly continued, a series of petty persecutions, which gradually became intolerable. Wilmer the hurossz Indies went he contrived to thrust himself WIWI& way, V they Ono cat be ousted out his horses and gavel chase. Whether they • were shopping in the town, or at rnifri, or paying visits, the inenit►hle perseentor was sake to present himself. Elva this was not enough. At night he scaled the park lie horn in the woods—even penetrated into the chateau, disordered the sleeping rooms, upset the chairs, and turned the pictures with their faces to the wall. He did worse : he dropped about in different parts of the park the most passionate bilkts:dous addressed to BLANCHE ; he bragged among his low comrades that the young lady favoured him with midnight assignations, sometimes in her own chamber, sometimes in the grounds; he even took . . ebt Court. WINDSOR, D0c,19. the Queen and Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales, the Primer rigid, Prince Arthur, Prime Leopold, blame Alice, Princess Bolero, Prince*, Louisa. and Prin cess Nark, leh Osborne at 2 o'clock to-day, attended by the Cowen of Oatnaborough, the Hon. Mary hottest. Myer-General the Bon. Charles Grey, Captain Du Plat Mr. 03A*, and the Muter of the Ilanahold, and arrived si Windsor Cattle at twenty-fire sainnfee before six o'clock. A Guard of Honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards with the band of the regiment Irma at the Windsor railway station. The Hon Lucy M. Kan hew arrived as Maid of Honour in Waiting ; Lord Waterpark, sad Major-General Berkeley Drummond have also arrived seLordsad Groom In Waiting, SUWDAY. The Queen and Prim Common, the Prince of Wales, the Prisons Royal, Princess Altos, Primal Helena, sad the Darien cd Heat, the Ladies sad Gentlemen of the Court, sad the Doerstio Rouehold Wooded Divine Service this monies in the Private Chapel. The Hon. mid Very Rev. the Deen of Windsor performed ilesserviee. Deegatehes from the Governors of bong Kong, Ceylon, end the West India Wands were received on Baturdsy at tbe LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA. THE EXISTING INTERREGNUM. The Debate calls attention to the embarrassment likely to Arlan ix Pruett from the continued ill health of the King. According to the most relia ble accounts, he is no better than he was when two months ago he delegated the executive power to the Prince of Prussia. It is stated, indeed, that he is not much worse, and that eminent physician have given an opinion that he may recover ; but no one supposes for a moment that he will be able to attend to hominess by the 23rd of January, at which date the powers which his brother now exercises will require to be renewed. The King is not well (cough to go to Italy, and it is decided that he will pass the winter in Prussia. His memory is affected, and although it returns at intervals, it cannot be relied upon. In this state of things Prue ale feels that she is only half governed. The Prince Royal, is so scrupulous in the exercise of his duty se a mere delegate, that he will not put his hand to the concordat paper which he has reason to think his brother would not sign. The consequence is that the affairs of state in Prussia are to a great extent in abeyance. The con stitution ordains that in the cue of the sovereign being permanently incapacitated from carrying on the government, the nearest agnates to the throne shall constitute himself regent, and then convoke the chambers to sanction his act. It is feared that the prince, out of an excess of delicacy, will shrink from the initiative step which the law enables him to take, and in that case it is expected that the Prussian parliament, when it mute in January, will manifest considerable dissatisfaction with the existing inter regniun. MARRIAGE OP THE MEOWS ROYAL. We read in the Observer :—" The marriage treaty of the Princess Royal with the Prism of Petunia hes been signed at the Faesign•o®oe by the Pr emien Wainer end by Lord Clarendon, sad also by the Archbishop of CAW terbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The mon& of January will be s swat► of festivities is the court circles, her liejesty having resolved to celebrate the nuptials of be Royal Highness the Peinceme of England with gust Met. The early sad brilliant seams, it is hoped, will give a great stimulus to the trade ref the metro polio. A volt number of the most distinguished foreigners are expected in London. The Uses has ordered the whole of Claridge. Hotel (invert's), in Brookatreet, to ha 1•• gaged for the rend= of the guests who cannot be soma. modeled at the palms. There le nothing knows here of the alleged Welton of the Dutch court to demand th e head of the Princess Alice for the Prince of Orange. The 'tory originated to Perle, end may be ranounced totally deatituto of foundatioix" Viscount Palmerston, If public brininess will pos. ably admit, will have town to-day for Broadlaw* Emmy, Hants, for a hw woke Mazatlan at hia country reirshi, hi company with Lady Palmrsion. The Marquis of Lansdowne left Lansdowne Howe, Berkelepaquare, on Saturday for &mood Park, VISA there to receive • large party of visitors during the approaching festive macs. The Earl of Clarendon left town on Saturday for the Oros% sew Watford. The countess has bees resident than since viaiting at Hatfield Muss Ilse Lady Constance Villiers haring been Indisposed, but on Saturday was fast recovering from her innate. Lord l'aamure has gone to Break Castle, N.B. life lordahip Mit oa Saturday tar Sordsad 4 but la aot exposed to be almost from his official duties beyoad du. weritc. The Duke of Argyll, accompanied by the Duchess, left Csearten-hill, Keruington„ on Saturday, for Trentham, to peas the Chrinmse with the Doke mei Duchess of Sutherland. The Earl of Harrowby left town on Saturday, for Bandon Hall, Staffordshire, to Jan the countess and Wail" &de. The C,ountese Dowager of Meath has left Cla ridge's Hotel, foe Leaboth, Dew MtMater, 8111011. Viscount Gornsanston and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Preston mg hog, bate arri►ed at amides Hotel, from Ocasaamta• Carta. We hear that Dr. Hayford will be appointed Registrar, or add Begiabsz of the Coen of Probate. telegram was recei ved yesterday, at Chandas • Howe, announcing the deaths of the Countess Benkendorff, mother of the Countess d'Apponyi, which took place at Dresden on Friday last. The countess was taken 11l In the Bozos carAtal a tow weeks eines, on be. way from Switzer land to Rani& The Countess d'Apponyi, on receipt of the mouraful intelligence, at once left London, and had the eensziation of being present daring the store critical puled d hat matbse's Maw Oa Wednesday lest the Count fappsayl Mendota Howe fret Dresden. The Countess Hailmarlorll use the widow of Count Berekendord, conS &Mid 7mistigier sad *debar of the late Emperor Alexander end the Isle Emperor Nicholas of Runde. The °minter was la be. 70th yew. The Emperor and the imperial family of Ramis returned to the capital en the 6th. It is announced that Baron de Brnnnow is about to replace Count Chreplowitch ea.liquelan aznbeaeador at Landon. A letter from Bt. Petersburg states that there la miry mica to expect that the line of telegraph between that capital and the principal towns In the Crimea will be Tory shortly maple, ct. The whole will have been oonstructed by Reagan workmen, under the troperizttendence of !lumina anghesera A letter from St. Petersburg of the 11th states that a thaw had set in, which had put an end to sledgiag, end that if it oontinued the Neva would be very soon clear dice. The same letter Mates that the town of Nishegorod had been very materially lejured by a violent lire, which had burnt s number of houses. Fortunately all the merchandise which had been tutsold dttriug the late far had been re moved, or the loss would bate been incalculable. At the annual dinner of the Hebrew Benevolent Institution, Portemonth, held in that town on Wednesday last, speeches were delivered by the two members for the county, and one for the borough, via, the Hon. B. Dutton, Sir limbs C. Jervoise, and 81r Junes Elphinstons, Bast. The Hon. Ralph 'Dutton said With reference to the emanclpetioa of the Hebrews, they well know that his vote wee an adverse one, and therefore it was no merit for him to tell them his opinion. He would new conceal hie opinions, and he would tell them that ho opposed it simply from a con scientions feeling. Ile might answer every moment his I Mood had brought forward, with another, If he cared to take up their time and attention by doing so, but be would !simply sak them, would they bare a representative to repre sent their interests, who gave any vote, or who acted in any other manner than from conscientious motives. He would, however, add th►t he thought it wee now a fixe ren conclusion ; be considered the House of Commons bad done with It. It had been decided bye great majority— wisely, perhaps —that the edmisaion of Hebrews into parlia ment shall be eetabilabed. lie was one of those who was willing to bow to the majority. He believed the matter now redid with the House of Lords, bet be would eay that he voted seine the bill at every stage, and not from any jea lousy to the Hebrews, but because It was brought before the house In en unconstitutional form. Re had hoard sentl- incite =premed in the House of Commons, with reformat by the Hones of Lords, which he hardly dared to repeat—sem timente which he considered to be dangerous to the mustily. lion, end he wee determined, whatever might be the molt, to vote against that unconstitutional bill." It is understood the East India Company have received formal notice that it is the Intention of the govern ment to bring in a bill fur the abolition of the double govern ment. —Vous. The Scotsman observes, of the Western Bank There le at heat one of the dieclomres which to more • matter for public or government inquiry than for the share holders, whom interest indeed it may be to pile it over ea lightly ea possible. The notes of the Western Bank In cir culation are 720,0634. The returns made by the Bank put before the stoppage stated the circulation at 431,9831., yam sided for by 182,3221. of coin in addition to the authorised circulation of 337,9381. How the 266,0301. of increase ? how authorise?—how secured? Are there not some ray cent evade in Scotland which would be better inquired into by a commission on the 'pot than by an overworked parliamentary committee r WRECK OF THE COLO/FRC/I.—The French mer chant Mad Elinboth, just &raised at HUTS from Caps Hayti's, took on board at lea the crew of the Columbus, of London, which foundered in 38.26 N. lat., and 41.40 W. long. The captain of the Elisabeth states that en the 6th she saw a vessel lying on her beam ends, and with • rival of dieters flying. On running down on her, he hand her Is a slaking state, and pit bed up the crew, eighteen In number, which bed just left her In their boats, with nothing but • small beg of biscuits, and without any clothes but dime an their back'. Ths easel went down in • short time EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova oing 001 PARIS, SVNDAT Bvwwu. The Patric gives a positive contradiction to a statement which it had itself repeated yesterday from a German journal, that the Turkish Am buwador at Vienna had made a communication to the Austrian government on the subject of the closing by Russia of the eastern ports of the Black Bea. The same journal alsocontradiets an assertion that the Emperor, in consequence of representations made by England, has consented to submit the ques tion of the exportation of negroes from Africa to the French colonies to a conference, to be held in London. The Emperor sad Empress went on Friday last to Neuilly to witness some experiments, conducted by M. Carteron, the inventor of a process for render ing wood tissues of all sorts, theatrical decorations, dce., incombustible. The experiments are reported to have been entirely suceessfuL Ladies' dresses of the most genre-like materials, were set lire to and would not burn. An officer's tent, containing a bed with muslin curtains, resisted the application of numerous flaming torches. A cottage, half of which wu secured by M. Carter:es preparation, and the other half filled with straw, wu set on fire on the unprotected side ; the lames raged with fury, and consumed half of the building, but the fire died away when it reached the prepared part, and left it altogether intact. A theatre, with all its scenery, ropes, and decorations was attempted to be burnt in vain. Their Majesties, who remained upwards of an hour, expressed great satiafaction at what they had witnessed, and the Emperor gave 500 fr. to the workmen employed. . . . . . . The feeling of comparative confidence which has been undoubtedly manifested in French commercial circles, within the last few days, is now spoken of in ecstatic terms by the French government journals. Tho Pays alludes to it with " joy," and ascribes the impunity with which France hes traversed the crisis to the "general policy of the present govern ment." If in France there have been only the aver age number of failures, while other nations have been wildly asking whether they were not "about to perish," the reason is that "God has sent to France one of those great men who take tottering nations by the arm, and guide them in the ways of eivilimation and progress." The Pharamond steam-packet, belonging to the Memageries Imprrialea, is said to have been wrecked on the coast of Itonmelia. A fog of the most intense kind suddenly enve loped Paris about six o'clock yesterday evening. The obscurity wu such that it was impossible to see ten steps in advance. On the bridges and the quays the drivers of carriages were obliged to alight and lead their horses by the head, while they kept calling out to give warning of their approach. The Place du Carrousel was almost impassable—for car riages, when on it, had the greatest difficulty to find their way out. On the bridges and ether places of active circulation, the police officers on . . duty were posted at certain distances with torches. One peculiarity attending the fog was that it was confined to a very short height from the ground, for at a certain distance above, the sky could be seen perfectly clear and the stars shining in all their brilliancy. It was also partial.or confined to par ticular spots. On the Boulevards, near the Ambign, it waa very intense, while at a hundred yards off the atmosphere was perfectly clear.; PARIS, BATUIDAT ETIOMIO. The Jeufosee trial has terminated, as every of acquainted with the temperament of a French jury expected, in a verdict of aequittaL If it were pos sible to submit this verdict to the approbation of universal suffrage in France, then is no doubt that it would be confirmed by an overwhelming majority. All sympathies are enlisted on the side of the honour able family, the sanctity of whose home was violated by the persevering annoyances of a contemptible village Don Juan. At the same time it is impassible to deny that the finding of the jury is against evi dence, and affirms by implication a principle not I admitted in the code of any civilised country. M. Berryer baring spoken emphatically of the publicity given to the case, I feel bound to say, as I was I believe the first to send an account of it to England, that there is no scrap of credible evidence —nor even of what in au English court would be called evidence at all—to affect the character of Mdlle. Blanche de Jeufosse. All is hearsay. And the hearsay evidence, which, such as it is, would prove nothing more than a case of imprudent flirta tion, is all distinctly traceable to the mouth of Cluillot himself. The amatory letter of his, which was read in court, ought not to condemn her. It is quite consistent with the known circumstances of the can that that letter may have been written for the purpose of annoyance, and that the tender inter views to which it refers were imaginary. It was well observed by M. Berryer that no single line written by Blanche to Guillot had been produced or spoken of, and that if she had written to him he, who boasted of her favour to all his boon compa nions, and even to the village barber, would have been sure to have shown her letters. - 11ORoursehasiee; firm all day, and has again improved. The Rente roes 6f. for cash, and 20c. for account, closing at 67.15 and 67.40. Mobilier rose ior. The railway market was animated. Orleans rose 13f„ Lyons 10f., Westerns 7.60, and the other lines from 2.60 to 6. them with him into the woods and made them believe that while they were on the watch he was enjoying stolen interviews with his mistress. It is to be observed that the whole of this part of the case rests solely on the gaseonnade at GUILLOT. No witness is produced who ever saw the young lady in any compromising position, and it is especially worthy of notice that not a single scrap of paper was produced in her handwriting in answer to the pas .. aionate effusion' of OUILLOT. The negative force el thin evidence is almost iosuraronntably strong. Had she really favoured 0011. LOT'S passion, she would have written; whatever she wrote he would have and preeerved ; had there been a single line of hen in possession of the Crown Prosecutor; or the Counsel for Madame Guator, it would have been eagerly produced, for the theory of the prosecution was that the subsequent deed of blood was the deli- berate revenge of a mother for the dishonour of her daughter. The fair conclusion seems to be that Mdlle. nos JISTYO4III3, though she may have been imprudent, was not criminal, and that the whole proceedings of OUILLOT were based on an assump tion which he knew to be false, lb order to gratify the rancour of an unmanly resentment and wasp the wounds of a vulgar vanity. Madame ne Jet josse, evidently a proud, reserved, and sensitive woman, was deeply outraged by these scandalous proceedings. Her eldest son (tie sons play a sorry figure throughout the whole bashing) wrote a foolish letter to EMILE GUILLOT, warning him that orders had been given to fire on the intruder, and a reward offered to any one who should succeed in hitting him. Through out it is observable that in the minds of these young men the notion seems to have been that they could not compromise their sister by Challenging GUILLOT, but that they might lawfully shoot him down. This letter was intercepted by Madame GUILLOT, but her husband was not left without warning and re monstrance. On the 17th of March "the neigh " bourhood " took it up ; the old friends of M. DE lit Fosse met together: OUILLOT wee pent for and expostulated with: be denied much that every one knew to be true, bat declared that fur the future he would carefully abstain from giving annoyance. It would have been fortunate for him if he had kept his word. He probably never meant to do so. At any rate the annoyance almost immediately re commenced, and became worse than ever. The tuilete dour were dropped as before, and brought to Madame or Jet:Fosse. The heart of the mother, the blood of the patrician, were thoroughly roused. She asked a neighbouring magistrate whether the law would permit her to shoot down the midnight violator of her property and her peace. She was assured that it would. From that moment her resolution seems to have been taken. She would avenge the honour of her house, and free herself from a nuisance that had grown absolutely intolerable, in her own way. She directed Caere:, the gamekeeper, to keep strict watch, and fire at the intruder on the first opportunity. Its urged in her defence, and stated, by herself, that her intention and her direction was merely to " pepper" her tormenter, not seriously to wound him. The nature of her subsequent conduct leaves it somewhat doubtful whether she troubled herself mach as to the probable extent of the injury. The doctor who maw her after the man was dead de_ elan@ that she seemed to regard the occurrence u perfectly natural (tout naturel); and the strong pro bability is that she really considered that the law, ander the circumstances, bad invested her with the power of inflicting death—a power which she washy no means indisposed to exercise. CSEPEL had not the determination of his mistress. He watched for weeks without effect; at last she resolved to watch with him. For several nights preceding the cata strophe, she sat at her open window in the chateau; ellen on the lawn beneath with bis doable barrelled gun in his band. On the 12th of June, as they rte thus, a rutting was heard in the shruberies sear the park wall. Omen. advanced—some one retreated. Haire la—tss es mart, cried the game keeper, and tired. The shot was fatal. EMILE Grit.kor fell, with eight slugs in his' body. eaten ran beck instantly to the apsrtmest of Madame Di JEr rOcSI.. Mdlle. LIVIRENCL, alarmed at the report, and distinctly hearing groans, also descended there. Madame DE JEDYGSSE knew that the shot had taken effect. Meanwhile GraLor's servant, who had followed his muter to the park wall, and heard his cries, ran to the chateau for help. The circumstances that follow are the most damaging part of the case for Madame DE Jectrossx. For some time no one attended to the outcries of the servant. At last a single domestic followed him with a lantern to the spot. They arrived there only jut in time to witness the last struggle and hear the declaration of the d) ing man, that it was CREPEL who had shot him. What follows is worse still. The body was left where it lay, grovelling in the dust. It remained there all night, and was found there the next day by the msgistrates who came to investigate the circumstances. Had it not bean for the interposition of M. TRIPE; who with other friends and neighbours hurried to the chateau, not even the decent covering of • sheet would have been provided. All this unquestionably shows the hardness of a haughty and malevolent nature, and has probably had more to do than anything else with turning the current of sympathy against the pri soners. Such were the principal facts brought to light in this remarkable investigation. M. BESIEGE, who defended the JevcossE family with his usual con summate ability, of course omitted no topic which could work on the feelings of the jury or the mind of the judge. His principal argument WM, that Madame DE Jeurossz, under the circumstances, must be regarded as having acted in her own de fence; she was besieged, as it were, in her own house. The article of tho Penal Code, which autho rizes the extreme of armed resistance to a "forcible " and nocturnal entrance," the object of whiclois the spoliation of property, authorises a similar resistance when the object of the intruder is the spoliation of a daughter's virtue. The principal cootention of the counsel for the prosecution was that Madame DE JIL7OBBI had exceeded the measure of resistance which the law allowed, and had by her subsequent conduct evinced a deadliness of animosity sufficient to constitute that malice prepense which forms the principal criterion between justifiable and unjustifi able homicide. The jury have taken the view im pressed upon them by M. BEERY= —and though the morality of their verdict may be called in ques tion, they moat have been more or Is.. that men to hays decided otherwise. NAPLES. (TROY Ova OWN NAPLES, Dma. 15. Yesterday, say my informants, the counsel for the defence went down to Salerno to examine the docu ments which have been drawn up on the *abject of the Eaglish priaoaers, and since the legitimisation of the alto di accusa have been placed in the Chancery for general inspection. The prisoners were also to be formally apprised of the charges brought against them, and of the confirmation of them by the Grand Criminal Court. The trial cannot oome on until the beginning or middle of next month. H.B.M. steamer Centaur, Capt. Clifford, lett Naples on a cruise on Saturday. She will probably return to port to-day, and leave immediately for Palermo. SPAIN. MADRID, Du. 19. Yesterday the Queen transacted business with her ministers for the first time since her confinement. Important measures are looked for. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, 6&TVIDAT ETIIIIINO. • The tone of the Bourse is good, and business eery animated. The receipts of the Austrian railways amount to 66,000 florins more than in the correspond ing week of rut year. LAW INTELLIGENCE, TEM DAY. COURT OF QUKRN'S BERM. Maisie is Nil Prise at Oalklitall—Beima Lad Campbell awd a Spatial Jury.) TEE QUEEN cROBINSON.—EZTRAORDINARY CABE OP ALLEGED rEEJIIRY. This was a pecalcatiou for perjury alleged to have been unmated in a as tain suit in the Ecclesiastical Cast for adultery. The dsleedant pleaded sot guilty. —• • . • - Kr. etwjeant Bylen Mr. Huddieetems, Kr. Hawkins, end Mr. Ramie= were for the pleintif; Kr T. Thesiger, Kr. James, end Mr. Hodgson for the defendant. Mr. Serjesat Bytes, in opening the case, mid the maim manta of perjury amounted, in scheming, to this—that the defendant had bed an improper intimacy with the wife of the mosscutor, both before and after marriage, and that after the marriage he committed adultery with her. The unfortu nate lady wham conduct would be the /abject of in quiry was idle Carrington, the daughter of Mr. Carrington, • gentleman in respectable circumstances, living in Lmedowneterrace, Cheltenham. The defendant (Barmon) was also a gentleman in • respectable position is society. Be had resided at Cheltenham for many yeam, where he weep well known ores msgialrate for the borough. The defendant, sa append from his own depontices, bad been living separately from his wife ter • great camber of years, owing, as he said, and no doubt it was true, to In , compatibility of tamper. While living at Cheltenham the dediendant became extremely intimate with Mr. and Mrs. Carrhigtoo, and also with the lady who afterwards became Mrs. Evans. It would be his painful duty to lay before the jury evidence which would show, beyond doubt, that he had abused that intimacy with Kiss Carrington. It appeared that he need to kiss her and put his arms round bar wain; that be followed her up the stairs, end kissed her on the landing ; that they were in the habit of walking together in her father's garden, and when theme, that the defendant, who was mach older them Miss Carrington, put bin arms round her and kissed her. There could be me doubt, if the case stopped bare, that very improper familiarities had taken place between them. But there wee another incident, with roped to which distinct perjury wee assigned. It would appear that upon one occa sion Mr. Robinson, the defendant, hired a dy in the neigh bourhood of Cheltenham. He desired the driver to drive in the direction of Charlton Park. a rural and somewhat sequestered road, and take ups lady en the way. He accord- Wily did take up a lady, who woe Mee Carrington, and afterwards the defendant. She wee at this time between _ _ ----- twenty-three and twenty-four years of age. The inatructkna received excited the curiosity of the man, and in the our of the drive be turned round end looked through the window, and saw Miss Carrington's bonnet was lying on the seat. Ho also saw h and Mr. Robinson in • position from which it would be for the jury to draw their own inferences. It would seem that Mr. Robinson wee very desirous that Miss Carrington should many woe one, end it would be proved that, eta club in Cheltenham, he expressed his great mtisfaction that at length she was about to be married, end stated that she was going to become the with of Mr. Evens. In 1860, Mr. Evans mode • proposal of marriage to Him Carrington, end It wee socepted. Mr. Evans wee • gentle man of property and station in Gloucestershire, he had been brought up at Eton, and had graduated at Oxford, and dazing the whole of the painful transactions which formed the subject of the present inqui^y, them wee not the slightest imputation on his honour and character. As the jury might easily tempos., a marriage contreoted under such circum• stenos. did not prove a may happy one, and the parties having married very early In the year 1860, • separation took place in March, 1861. He need not eater on all the causes which led to this separation—it would be smacked to say, that on its taking place, Mr. Evans made an allowance to his wife, which ren dered her to • considerable extent independent of her pa rents. The intercourse between Mrs, Evans and the tie fendant, Mr. Robinson, wee then renewed. It would be proved that he took lodgings for her at Seymour•strest, Bryenstonterquare ; that he was in the habit of visiting her daily—she hew • wife separated from her husband, and he (en extremely handsome man, though somewhat older then her) separated from his wife. In June, 1869, lodgings were sada taken by the defendant for Mrs. Evans at 15, Edg were-reed, the house of • Mr. Philips, • tailor in a large way of business, who occupied it with hie wife and one servant. Thom lodgings were taken for a fortnight, and Mrs. Evans resided there en comparative seclusion, no ladies being in the habit of visiting her; but the defendant visited her most constantly. He had himself admitted that his visits were made even twice a day. He was also In the habit of taking hoe to the theatres and other places. There was another thenmstanos which it would he most material to consider. White Mrs. Evans was living them, the defendant requested to be furnished with a latch bey, so that he might be able to let himself in whenever be chase. He should not be able to prove that the defendant was ever seen in Mrs. Evane's bedroom, but he would prove that the defen dant knew where it was, that be had several times gone up On bee bedroom sad tapped at her door while the was there. If this wee an action for criminal conversation that fact alone would be strong evidence before s jury. That occurred In 1853. In the following year he took lodgings for her in Beyanatone-street, but an incident had cornered in the mean wentwhich it would be material to ecumider. Mre Evans to Cheltenham, and the defeedant, he believed, had accompanied her them. She went to reside at her father's residence at Lansdowne-torrece, and it wee net likely that if illicit connexion had takes Oem it would be continued there, the lady residing under her father's roof, and both the parties being well known in Cheltenham. the defendant being the magistrate of the borough. But it would be expected that it would take p le ce somewhere, so ho should lay before them the evidence of a named Munn, who would prove that he saw the M i l. , r nt and Mrs. Evans walking together from the dire& Non of the town of Cheltenham; that his suspicions belie; roused be bad followed them, end that having onneeded hkeeelf behind some trees, he witnemed the act of adultery by a well which bounds the garden of the Rev. Mr. Close, the respected and well known vicar of the pariah. Amin, in June, 1864, the defendant took lodging. fur Mrs. Evens at the boccie of Mrs. King, Ii o. 2, Bryanston-street. It had been arranged that Mrs. Evans's father end mother should come up there, hat the was there a fortnight before they arrived. Rumours of what had been going on had at this time reached the ears of the husband, Mr. Lloyd Evans, and he resolved to employ • detective policemen to setentain the truth of the suspicion' , he had farmed. Ha eecordingly applied to &person named Field—a name probed, well known to the jury. Mr. Field applied to Mrs. Xing to allow him the mains of sacertainiog the footing on which the defendant and Mee. Evans stood with regard to tech other; but she naturally objected, saying, amongst other thiop, that Mrs. Evan'''a fancily were coming up to take the house, and if she mounted to what Mr. Field prepoeed, rho night lose the letting of it. On that he told her that be would mike that all right with the —that he would pay her the sumof 231. down; so that in the event of her not letting her lodgings she would lose nothing, and that he would put a servant of his own choosing into the house to watch the entim 111 ". B K rt i k ir er eo ,rhoacco t.a, rd en in a gl F y illa went mk to fi t ve d wi a th m* Mrs. ot Kin th g e ss lim herse rd vent. There were folding-doors leading from the eittinß 4o " occupied b.v Mrs. Evans end another room , a chest d drawers bdng placed against them. For some time Burka could discover nothing, but at length • bole was b or ed with • gimlet through the fol4ing-doore, commanding a view that part of the room usually occupied by Mrs. Evans mil Mr. Robinson. Her parents, as be had greedy said. we" about to occupy th e house, and previondy to their mend • p It'w Mr. WAN hum r that t7l sars4 lb* II Carel .sea tho.l Mr. Into ic the led 6, Wu cilia nit Evans sompel Which an - ut what SIMS ' .Haar 14 done *se bra - Brag rho= cow* order* claw Sisem.l - 7.14 kW lid pitlie 1 ATrm] proceed The mkt to I eletra mos, I haw b wrda swat QC. Thi• , Steigt, TL• har Um of • 11;: i Norton , -7 1117 . 1) lion trim At 1124 Tha 1 COIMINO CIIIINIVa Johoot toogiatri two for - "NW! address weal • about el robber* bt. Tbr shealat gPlu; An EOM MI • bedza Stanton. coroner, Zirry.-ro