The Express. — London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

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Bt Came and Seca t. —And Two Parte ot THE LILT-HANDED SLAILLIAGL an. &Lana. and TEE GEZAT GHOST 1312CT.—Coinnianoe at 61. HIM VAT'S AT 110110091 samea. MO DaT Iferiana. 4111. 17m.....Mtaseas.OR O. T 041014011 Mandy& ft. Ma.. .Alleraisis. '20.4. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 19. AT length LA Pommsams, the French doctor, has been found guilty of poisoning Madame DE PACW, without " extenuating circumstances," and has been condemned to death. It is difficult to believe that the jury could have come to any other conclusion. Only a few days ago, however, a man, who had been proved to have murdered his mother-in-law, appealed to the jury on the ground that for tweaty-five years she had lived in his house, and in answer to his appeal the jury qualified their verdict by finding "extenuating cir cumstances." It would have excited little surprise, therefore, if the ingenuity of L► PonxestAis had suggested some equally available excuse. Following the ordinary practice of French tri bunals, the President of the Court, with the fine dramatic instinct and epigrammatic smartness of his race, questioned LA POMNERAIS as to his life and actions during the whole of two days. He seems to have been turned out of medical societies—he had applied through a friend to the POPE for some holy decoration—had adver tised for a wife—and had succeeded in marrying a girl of some fortune by borrowing shares from a friend, of which he represented himself to be the proprietor. The man seems to have been a philo sopher in his way. He professed the grossest mate rialism—denied the existence of a future state— and gave the strictest injunction that if he were ill no priest should on any account be admitted to his bedside. But he was something worse. For having taken advantage of the passionate love with which be had inspired poor Madame DE PAuw, to obtain a fortune by robbing the insurance offices, he de nounced her as an abandoned profligate. LA Povt- MERAIS' conduct during the trial exhibited a cool ness and audacity that roes with the occasion. In prison he seems to have written a comedy, in which he caricatured the witnesses produced against him ; and when the President told him that he had attempted to commit suicide by putting some copper pieces into vinegar in order to generate poison, the prisoner said :—" You may add also " that I endeavoured to open my vein', but failed " in the attempt." The case against LA PestmzeAm was so strong, that escape was almost hopeless. He was de fended by M. LACHAED, who also defended Ma dame LArrAsoe, and who probably made the most of a hopeless case. The facts stated in the in dictment were conclusive, and the prosecution seems to have succeeded in establishing the mate• rial portion of them. One great difficulty which M. LAI HAL L, had to explain was the fact that LA POMMERAIS had insured Madame DE PAEW'S life for 20,0001. What possible explanation can be given of so singular a proceeding f Here was a miserable woman living in a garret in Paris with her two children. Assume that she was the mistress of LA PoicezaAns--admit that he gave her money—how could he be her creditor I As the Advocate-General said, "the loan of money " to a mistress ! c.- West pas Francais. No one lends " to a woman whom he loves or ever has loved." But even if such a thing could be, he had given her only some five and twenty pounds, and for that the infatuated wretch had bartered her body and her soul Indeed, LA POMMERAIS himself did not venture toclaim more than 400/. And what creditor for 4001. would insure his debtor's life for 20,000/. 1' Very true, said M. LACRAI:D. it is absurd to sup pose that LA POMMERAIS was a creditor of his mis tress. But:then Madame DE Par,/ knew the whole matter was a swindle. And she was ready to join in a conspiracy to defraud the Insurance Companies. If Madame DE PArw, by feigning illness, could manage to extract an income out of those com panies, she would not only gratify her paramour, but would raise herself to comparative comfort. That Madame DE PAEW did feign illness is ad mitted on her own confession. The only question was whether she died by poison. The proof is somewhat singular. It was impossible to find by analysis any traces of the poison. The body was examined by the physicians. They could fiud no trace of organic disease. The organs wera all apparently healthy. Bat there were certain appearan ea which denoted that Madame DE Pant/ had not died a natural death. She had bean in perfect health up to the night before she expired. On that night LA Pomasitais had had an interview with her which lasted a long time. The wretched woman was thoroughly disarmed, and eaten up with passion for Ls POMMERAIS. There is something loathsome and yet pathetic in the poor wretch decking herself in her worn-out finery to receive her paramour, who in the dalliance of a simulated passion was about to administer poison. Did LA POMMERAIS administer this poison ? What evidence was there of the fact? Recourse was bad to a horrible experiment. Part of the body of the dead woman was administered to a dog. The " poor dog," as the counsel said, was sick, but he recovered. Nevertheless the symptoms which he exhibited were consistent with the effect which would have been produced by the subtle poison " digitalis." Not satisfied with this experiment, M. TARDIEU collected together the matter which had been ejected on the floor of the room by Madame DE PACW. A decoction was made of it, and in twenty-two hours another dog, to which it was administered, died. It is impossible in a few lines to present an ana lysis of the evidence of the physicians and chemists on the question as to how the poor woman met her death. But it is certain that the jury believed the opinions delivered by the scientific witnesses for the prosecution. It is not often that such a crime as that com mitted by Le Poirmee•is has been, or indeed can be, perpetrated. It is next to impossible that it should be perpetrated with impunity. There is perhaps nothing very singular, in France at least, in the circumstance that a man's friend should carry on an intrigue with his wife after his death. But in this case, unless LA PuKMERAIS had been a physician well versed in poisons, r . -r n i k.l 4o l4 _ been blinded and inflamed with avarice, and vas= the woman had been so absorbed in passion for her paramour as to be ready to do his bidding, the murder would never have been committed. It was • strange hallucination in La PossitasAis to believe that the insurance offices would pay 20,000/. without some sort of inquiry, or that the sus picions of Madame DC Pauw's family would not be excited by her sudden dowses& On the other hand, La POMMULAIS displayed an almost heroic confidence in his own powers over his mistress, when he dared to bring her to the gates of death without eliciting from her the slightest remon strance. She was living in her own hone—she was surrounded by her friends and her children. It is seldom that Death, violent and stealthy, approeches all at once without striking some presentment in his victim. If, indeed, as we may assume, the woman died of poison ad ministered by the hand of La PoismintArs, it is singular that no word should have escaped from the lips of Madame DC Paves that he administered anything whatever. According to the prosecution, she was in excellent health until the evening which immediately preceded her death. Next morning she was dying. She must have felt herself sinking. Yet it is most certain that she never spoke one word from which it could be in ferred that is Poinczasis gave her a morsel to eat, or even a cup of water to drink. Ls Pox. maws!' knew the woman he had to deal with, and he dealt with her accordingly. But his sin has found him out, as he ought to have expected if he had reflected calmly on the subject. Widows do not die suddenly without exciting suspicion. Married men do not insure the lives of their cast off mistresses, who are living in abject poverty, for 20,0001. ; nor do insurance offices pay such demands without reasonable inquiry. Ott Coun. BALMORAL, MAY 16. The Queen drove in the morning with the Princess Louise. In the aft/raw* her Majesty weal to the Forest with the Prince sad Primer Leanings& The Princess Halms went out ridik Th. Prism of wales rode on horseback yesterday morn ing, attended by Major Teesdale. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by Lady Marton. The Prises of Wales wait to St. Jamee'shall in the evening, and presided at the dinner of the Royal Literary Fund. His Royal Highness was attended by Lord Alfred Hervey. Lieut.•Genorel Koollys, sod Major Teesdale. The Princess of Wales, attended by Lady Morton and Lord Harris, honoured Her Molested Theatre with her pressen it the evening. Lady Mertes ham soceseled the Hoe. Mra, W. Grey as Lady in Waiting to the Princess of Wales. VISIT OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO ST. JAMENS.HALL.-(THIS DAY.) This morning a Grand Fancy Dress Bazaar was hold at St. Jaasea's-hall *a behalf of the Free Protestant Frisch Schools, situate In Garrard•etreet, Soho. Her Boyel Highaess the Princess of Wake., alcoinpanied by the Princess Mary of Cambridge, lAdy Jocelyn, and other ladies, paid the bazaar • visit, and was received by the Countess Berustorff, the Duchess of Argyll, the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, the Viscountess Ingestre, the Marchioness of Ely, the Counters of Salisbury, &c. The Princes walked through the ball, which wu Wed up in admirable style, contributions having been soot from Paris, Geneva, and elsewhere, for the benefit of the schools. There were also many drawings by istinguished Bag. Leh and foreign artists. The stalls were pre sided over by the Marchioness of Aileebury, the Marchioness of Ely. the Countess of Salisbury, the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Visoounteas Ingest», Lady Charles Bruce, the Viscountess Grey de Wilton, Mrs. Leask, Mrs. Bantiock. Lady Bylea, the Hon. Mrs. Hoary King, Mrs. Alfred Buckley, and Madame de Hamel de Marin. The art stall was held by Mrs. W. P. Frith, and the literary stall by Mrs. Henry Wood. The bands of the Greoadier Guarda and of the 60th Royal Rifled, from the Tower, were in attendance during the day. His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Monday next. We are thankful to hear that Lord Palmerston is mush bettor, mid that &Loge of air has already dose him great good.—Reconi. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleucb are about to give a series of pirties at their temporary resideseo ia Bolivar* square. The Earl and Countess of Rome and family have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from !relied, for the wears. Mrs. Disraeli will have au afternoon party on the MI inst., et her house et Greevenor-pte, oa the occasion of the review of the volunteer corps by the Prince of Wales in Hyde-perk. The Earl and Counteac of Zetland entertained at dinner last arming, at thiCr residence is Arlington street, the Earl and Countess Cathcart, Lord and Lady Abercromby, Lord Avelaad and the Hon. Mile Heath. rote, Hoc. Mimes Canning (2), Lady Williamson, Hon. Frock. Brut, Count Maffei, Mr. Victor Williamaoa, Mr. Morgan, ke. The marriage of Miss Harriette Anne Curzon, second daughter of the Hon. Edward Curzon, with Major Boars:bier, late of the 52nd Light Infantry, me of the late General &metier, was solemnised yesterday at the pariah churoh, Kensington, in the presence of a small circle of the relatives and friends of both families. The marriage of the Count de Paris with the aided daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Noetpensier is appointed to take place oa the 30th iast., and not the 31st, as announced. An article in the North British Deity Mail, ad vocating the claims of Ireland to some consideration as well as Scotland in the selection of • royal residence for • portion of the year, has given great satisfaction in Dublin. "11 there were • palace built here," writes • Dublin correspondent, "and her Majesty could occupy it for • few weeks every year, it would have • wonderfully healing effect on the feelings of all classes. The article, however, indicates a good spirit in the Scotch, and as such it will be warmly appreciated." Mr. Roger Cunliffe, the head of the firm of Roger Canliffe, Sons, and Co., of Bucklarsbury, bankers and mosey dealers, died yesterday at hie residuum it. High bury-place. Yesterday Sir J. D. If. Elphiostone, M.P., and the other members of the committee on dockyaad manage meet, be , appointed by the House of Commons, visited Chat ham Dockyard, and commeeced their investigations at that establishment. Dariog their visit to the naval barrscks, the committee expressed themselves in as unfavourable manner of the system of crowding in the building, one of the rooms which was only 61 for 100 being required to accommodate 300 seamen. A fraud has lately been practised on some of the Irish basks by a person who calls epos tradesmen in the populous towns, sayisg that he baa arrived too late to pro. cure a back order to send by post, sad would be glad if they would give him a check in exchange for coati. He then alters the amount to a larger sum, and presents it the next morning. He has been successful in many instances, and is believed now to have left Ireland for Socatad. The Exhibition of Irish M►nufactures at Dublin is to be opened on the 25th lost. The arrangements are nearly completed, the moon tickets are going off rapidly, and the undertaking promises to be decidedly successful in a pecuniary as well as in a national point of view. The pic ture gallery will probably be the moat attractive feature of the Exhibition. To this there are numerous contributors, the chief of sheen are the Earl of Carlisle and Sir Robert Peel. The present occupant of the civic chair is to give a banquet on the day of the opening. He has invited to meet him the Lord Lieutenant and a great Dumber of coeds. Among them are the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of Loudon, the Lord Mayor of York, the Lords Provost of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the mayors of the principal cities is England. Several distinguished members of parliament are also invited, and among them Mr. Cobden acid Mr. Bright. =Vat.. •TfrtlitSDA.T _t A a erzei r gtrTELLAENci - AUSTRIAN HOSTILITY TO ENGL&III2 Asa specimen of the kind of stories just aer afloat in the German press, and of the vindictive language used towards England, we translate the following passages from the Botadtafter of the 14th instant : The more we gather al the details al the naval engage meet of the 9th of May * better sae we dimes the ignominy of the wan* of the English. "We are a sateen of pbuies i " exclaimed Urquhart is • rare moment of lucidity which he had at • meeting in London. The English have again behaved like pirates. After the Bleak Eagle had kept on the look-out and annotweed to the DUNS the approach of the Anstro-Pruseiso squadron, the Aware took on itself to accomp►ny its friend' the Dame, sad for • long time to prevent by its manoeuvres the Eedetcki from taking en active part in the combat. Never to. • several flog been se shamefully abused ; never was intermit/sal law treated with Inch deriaioa. Germany will sever forget the 9th of May. We saints in our memory this day, which puts the climax to all the outrages, to all the insolent acts of England against the German natio.. The English have now rocateded in kindling against them • fire of hatted from one mid of Germany to the other. They have wished it -Ist them take the oonesquenoce. A day will corns in which we shall cut up accounts with our arrogant neighbour" woes the ChanneL It will not be so difficult, is is imagined, to take our revenge on the English. To do it, we have only to mooed the policy of France in the Mediterranean and in the Levant. For this price we shall be sun of en under standing with France, and it will only cost us the surmount ing al a few prejudices. As will have been seen already by telegram, the Austrian admiral who commanded the squadron has not allowed the absurd story as to the Aurora to go unoontradiated. In a letter to the Baran hal& he states that during the whole of the contest the Aurora was at anchor. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The following are the chief points of the bill for electoral reform presented by Prince Courrs in the Danubian Principalities : An primary electors all Roumania aged 25 year., who can reed and write, and prove the payment of anneal taxes to the amount of four deltas (llfr. 80a seek). May be chosen direst electors, without having to justify the merest l of taxes of four ducats, parkh priests, prolamine in academia and colleges, doctors and licentiates of different faculties, barristers, enemas, architects bohling diplomas delivered or recognised by the go verment, teachers of primary schools, and civil and military functionaries, who will be entitled to a pension of at least 3,000 piastres (about 750 fr.). To be eligible for the General Assembly throughout Roumania isulistinctively, a man most let, be born a Rountain, or have re ceived fall naturalisation ; 2nd, be an elector in an urban or Tyra commune ; 3rd, be turned 30 years of age ; and 4th, know bow to read and write. Each commune names a direst elector for every primary hundred elation. The sketion to the Chamber of Deputies will take piece by two degrees. (aztrina's maos.Ans.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 19. The Crown Prince of Prussia has been appointed to the command of the 2nd army corps. Field-Marshal von Wrangel has been raised to the rank of a count. It is asserted upon good authority that Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia has been appointed commander-in-chief in the Duchies. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, MAT 18, 11.50 sat. The Prussian commander at Veile has prohibited the departure of any ships from that port GERMANY AND SWEDEN. OPENING SECRET DRSPATCHES OF A NEUTRAL POWER, STOCKHOLM, MAT 18. Count Manderstrom, Minister for Foreign Affairs, hesitated that on the 18th April he sent secret instructions to General Wachtmeister, in London, and that these despatches were opened in Germany. THE FRENCH MINISTRY. PARIS, MAY 19. _ _ The Maniteur of this morning says :—" The jour nals, in circulating a rumour of an intended modi fication of the ministry, comment upon a letter alleged to have been written by M. Rouher to the Emperor, pointing out the necessity of a reorganisa tion of the government. Such a letter does not exist, and there is no question of any change in the ministry." M. de Beust is expected to arrive in Paris on Friday next. The Princess Clotbilde has entered the seventh month of her pregnancy. THE BOMBAY MAIL MALTA, NAT 18. The Poonah leaves at 10 a.m. for Southampton, where she may be expected about the 27th inst. The Euxine leaves at midnight for Marseilles. OUTWARD MAIL OF THE 4-10 MAY. The Syria, from Southampton, reached Malta on the 13th, at 2 p.m., and sailed at 8 p.m. for Alexandria. The Ripon, from Marseillon, left Malta at Bp.m. on the 14th for Alexandria. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : SUEZ, M* 19. The Golconda, with the above mails, reached Suez at 4 a.m. this day. "The day of the departure of the court to Fon tainebleau," says the Sport, " is not yet fired. The hunting equipages have arrived there. The itinerary of their Majes ties will, it is said, be nearly the same ea but year. 1 bey will stay at Fontainebleau till the end of June. The Em peror will then go to Vichy and the camp of Chalons, and return to St. Cloud ; he will then proceed to Biarritz, where the Empress sod the Prince Imperial, who will reside at St. Cloud during the Emperor 'a absence, will have preceded his Majesty by a few days. A subscription opened in Denmark for the widows, orphans, and wounded of the war produced in • single duet Copenhagen alone upwards of 300,000 fr. The Xing put his name down for 12,000 fr. • year during • period of ten years. A German journal relates the following : "About a year ago, at Potsdam, the Prise* Royal had invited to dinner the corps of officers, without including his 00Inill Priem Frederio-Charles, The latter, in ordor to revenge himself for the slight, cease the generale to be beaten just at the moment when the party were about to sit down at table, and all the officers, including the Prince Royal es general of division, were obliged to leave the 'rookies dishes sod hasten to the pleas of master, This trick was the mem of Moos Frederic. Charles being en eluded from court for sin months." A statue erected by the inhabitants of Frankfort is honor of Schiller. who died in IN4, has just been inaugurated io that city. The burgomaatere in office. the node, the legislative body, and the civil and military aut►orities were present et the eeremour. M. de Olsiabee- Minims, • grandson of the poet, attended. Several Amuses were swag by the different musical sooieties of the My, and appropriate 'Niches were delivered. The Corriere Mercantile states from Jesi, that when Cardinal Morichini, on being set at liberty, returned to that town, the mat of bin diocese, the people received him with hisses, and threw stories at him, as well as at the episcopal palace and at certain houses belonging to his partisans who bad illuminated on the occasion of his niters. XtliWk f lOgrilt =PRESS F R PARIS. MAY ENGLISH CRICKETERS IN PARIS. (nod coos owa ooaaavoroar.) PARIS, WIDINEDAY KVIII(11143. Sir Robert Clifton's Nottingham cricketers have beaten the Paris amateurs (all Englishmen) into fits. The first match, played on Monday, was won by the Nottingham men in one innings. Paris went in first and scored only 21. Nottingham then seared 175. Heavy beta bad been made that Paris in its second innings would not get "more" than 30 runs ; and singularly enough 30 was the exact score. The three last wickets were bowled down without a single run. Yesterday was devoted to practising. To-day the return match was played. When I left the ground at 4 o'clock Paris had ob tained 24 runs in a drat inning*, and Nottingham had scored 80, with only three wickets down. Mr. Hoyle, who was not out, bad made 38 off his own bat. There can, therefore, not be the slightest doubt as to the result of this day's play ing. The Paris Club take. its beating with perfect good-humour, and is delighted to try its strength with such worthy representatives of the old English game as the Nottingham eleven are. One of the beet players on the Paris side is Sir Henry Brom ley, who, although • welter weight, is particularly active in the field and bats welL The ground is • pretty lawn surrounded with copse wood, in that part of the Bois de Boulogne known by the name of Madrid. A great deal of rolling and watering, and other painstaking, would be required to make it • good ground. The soil is naturally hard at all times, and particularly so in this dry weather. A disadvantage for the Notting ham men is that by agreement every ball that goes into the bruahwood, which is 'rather too near, counts for orly two runs, whereas it is certain that in a sufficiently large field they would fre_ quently get three and four runs against the Paris bowling. An ornament to the ground to-day was a very fat umpire, a rare specimen of a John Bull, who I understand to be Mr. Ridding, the keeper of the Trent-bridge Ground at Nottingham. The utmost good feeling pre- veils between the Paris cricketers and their younger and more practised opponents. The Nottingham men, for the most part, T believe, artisans of the town, do great credit to their coun try both in appearance and conduct. They dine every day under the auspices of Sir R. J. Clifton, at Hill's English Tavern, on the Boulevard des Capucines, where their wiry, agile, graceful forms, white flannel jackets, and military-looking cape bound with rose-coloured riband, excite no small amount of curiosity. Nothing could be more quiet, orderly, and dignified than their demeanour in the midst of a capital so full of temptation, and con taining so much to turn the bead of a stranger un used to travel. I look upon their visit as a very great event, and have no doubt that it is the pre cursor of many more friendly matches of the same kind. Owing to some misunderstanding sufficient publicity was not given to the match, and in con sequence the number of spectators was very small. The Bourse does not recover. Rents was weaker than yesterday, and fell 15c. for account. Mobi lise fell 12fr. 50c. All the reports state that when the wretched man Le Pommerais was condemned to death he raised his hand in the attitude used in the French form of taking an oath, and said, " I swear I am innocent." The Moniker adds that he left the dock with a look of rage. A curious question will now arise with the insurance offices. The verdict obviously does not affect the right of Madame Pauw's children to claim as heirs of their mother. She bad, it may be assumed, fraudulent views, when she allowed the insurance to be effected, but her fraud did not contemplate her own death by poison. It is by no means clear that the policies are vitiated in regard to her representatives, because she intended to simulate illness, in order that they might be cancelled in consideration of a life annuity. It will be a strange thing if the neglected children of this poor woman shall now, by reason of a crime, come into the large fortune of 22,0001. FUNERAL OF BACON SALOMON DE ROTIISCHILD.— Tlie funeral of Baron Salomon de Rothschild, at Buis. on Tuesday, was attended by an immense concourse of persons, including the principal celebrities in science, arta, and literature. Baron James de Rothschild, the father, and Barons Alphonse and Gustave, brothers of the deceased, were oresent as chief mourners. There were also to be ems M. Fonld, Minister of Finance ; Marshal Megalith, the Duke de Moray, the Duke de Persigsy, Count Walewski IL Vaitry. governor of the Bank, M. F orth & de 1.; Roquette, Y, Thins, M. Berry'''. General Cheapener, he. All the persons belonging to the firm of MM. de Rothschild and to the Northern and Strasburg Railways, and the pupils of the Jewish schools, followed in the cortige. At 10 o'clock the body wee placed on • beans, draw' by two horses, which proceeded along the Boulevard to Phe la Chaise, followed by • number of mourning cameos. is which numerous friends of the family were seated. After the usual prayers by the Grand Rabbi of the Gemmel Goo sister, and the Rabbi of Paris, the mortal remains of the deceased were de posited is the family vault, SUICIDE IN dntore.—A highly interesting paper was received a few days ago by the AoarNmis de Medecine from M. Legoyt, Director of the Office of Statistics of France, on the number of suicides in Europe. From this laborious work it appears that suicides increase is a more rapid ratio than the population and mortality is general in Bavaria, Denmark, France, Hanover, Mecklenburg, Prussia, the kingdom of Saxony, and Sweden. Suicides are most frequent is Northern Germany and in the various parts of Denmark. Swed en an d N orway, though belonging to the same race, are proportionally inferior to Denmark in that respect. Oontrary to a gene rally adopted opinion, England stands Dearly at the bottom of the scale ; and so do Belgium, Austria, and Spain. Fumes holds an intermediate position ; she would reek with the three last-named oceetries„ were it possible to eliminate the suicides of Paris, which are one-seventh of the total number in France. Generally, for every 100 suicides or men there are from 29 to 10 of women. The number of suicides increases with the age of individuals, at least until the age of 60. The number of suicides is gene rally lowest in Jensen. and highest in July. As to the causes, iosanity and physical suffering are about as active in producing suicide among men as among women ; as to the rest, the latter yield more to grief moa t sicced by moral causes than men, who are chisdy affected by material afilictioo, such as loss of property. bankruptcy. he. Drunkenness and debauchery only form an insigoifi coot item among the causes impelling women to suicide. In Denmark, Spain. and Saxony, the only countries when it has bees possible to obtain reliable information on the sub ject, married people are least subject to commit suicide, sod widowers on the contrary are most liable to it; but suicides occur most frequently among married people that have been divorced or separated. In Prime ' in the course of two years, there were 153 suicide' of protestants per million, 51 of lerosilitee, and only 47 of catholic., per minim s of each, Suicides are much more numerous in capital cities than is the country. The general result of all these investigations shows a universal sod rapid increase of suicides. The author is of opinion that the is attributable to unlimited competition, to the immoderate thirst after wealth, to the progress of public instruction which excites ambition, to political agitation, and to speculation. SALE OP THE EARL OF ELOIN't4 EEFECTS..—yes_ today. at their rooms in King-street, St. James's, Messrs. Christie, Menem), and Woods disposed of • portion of the choice objects of art collected in China and Japan by the late Earl of file°, and which were recently exhibited at I the Kensington Melee= Amoogst the articles which at- traded most attention were an incense burner of extraor dinary rise, on three feet, surmounted by masks of metal gilt, and with mask and ring beadles, enamelled with dowers in colours on turquoise ground ; a Chinese skull lined with gold ; two Odom* menthes formed of twisted cases ; a small hexagonal tAspot, chased with landscapes ; as opium pip e sad Came; a Japanese clock of singular comersieties ; • curious male tiros of metal, with enamel drapery, support ing a circular enamel steed ; • cylindrical seal of stole, surmounted by a group of kyliss ; a figurers( • Cri e r ' , es stand, formed of the root of a tree ; three cups of soap. rose. carved with flowers in high relief ; and • ergo sum her of jade slabs. basins. and bowls. The sale was attended by a large majority of the aristocracy, who wen sexism to obtain possession of some ineenseto of the late Governor- General of India. B. T. Nabs 10:55 &birdies '10.1151 Wei 11.1111 Ardrolue KU el 6r440•1414.. 10.221 Gahm,..... 30.24 40 ampoaor 70.18 61 goeselers. 20 .06 ■ LA=66.}664 26.22 67! Pembroke 30 SU Pessemee 110.25 MI Soot 201672 , 20.1272 Rochefort 20.12'66 Plymouth 110.2267 Weymouth 20.24 67 t Portsmouth 10./ft 66 louden SO. t 7 416 Dover So.t. Tmleoath 110.9 57 Sorrhoroesk. 20.2911 Iblekto Hollgolood JO 17 51 IRIDAY. ON 11010111.11 SATURDAY. N.W. ridable W. to N.Z. sad back, GOYS.N.N.W. te .S.W., . ode. moderate a W few shown N.N.W. to 1..N.E. and Wlntrun. N. to W., light to freak back, tight to made- abowees In places. rata, ens. to N. and N.W., 1301WRZY. NIL to N W., mods. light to moderate, rata, doe. In.. Aa next above. LOME Z. to N. sod W., cart. aids, moderate, One. Western=lmam& Wales. sod ad miestward isglamd m Ameba lloatbara=od lioetat Boa ragikh Mussel sad Itiaosa Bay. Meters Mr. Lumley, formerly manager of her Majesty's Theatre, end who has been for sane time residing in Paris, had an audience of the Emperor on Monday, preparatory to his returning to Ragland, where, it is maid, b. istends resuming his profewion an a solicitor. The Bch:, de Vesone states that M. de Tonnens, ex-Bing of Araucania and Patagonia, who le now staying at Perigneux, has recently received letter from his old kingdom assuring turn that his return is impatiently expected by the populations, and that he may rely on an enthusiastic recep tion if he will return. ' DEATH or SIR A. MURRAY TULLOCH, 8.C.8. ' —We have to record the death of Sir Alexander Murray Tsilech, K.C.R, who died on Monday morning after a short illness. The gallant caber only left town this day week to see a newly purchased property in Doruetahire. The Dews • of his death yesterday morning at the War Department oe „ mimed much regret among the. persons with whom he was associated in official matters. The late Sir Alexander Talloch was educated at Edinburgh, and afterwards went I to the Military College et Sandhurst, where be obtained the highest honours in the senior department of that military ' seminary. He entered the army as ensign in the 45th rep meat in 1826. The late general occupied anent important administrative offices in the War De ' partineet. For some time be was in eharge of the statistical breech of the War-offiee, and was latterly Assistant Military Superintendent of Pen timers. He obtained the honour of a Keight Commander of the Bath for hes civil services as Commerioser, in con junction with Sir Jobe M'Nedl, C.C.S., in the inquiry sent oat to the Crimea by the government in 1855. on the management of the British army during the campaign in I the Eat. The care and diligence in drawing up the joint , report is generally isonaidered due to the discretion of Sir Alex. Tulloch ; and, as was afterwards declared in puha, main, " he was a faithful exposer of the errors which then brought our military orimaketion into disrepute." 1 LICT-NuED VILITALLNRS' ASYLIT3I.—The thirty ' sixth anniversary (ultra of the subscribers to this testi- sution was held at the Crystal Palace yesterday, when moms , three or four hundred members of the society dined toge ther. Mr. Hedworth Barclay, of the firm of Barclay, Per kins, and Co., presided. From a printed address of the ' committee it appears that the large addition to the asylum, which has been for some time in progress, is now completed, sod that the thirties houses which constitute the addit , on and make up a total of 160 separate habitations upon the asylum grounds, have been supplied with occu pants. The chairman addressed the meeting at some length, advocating the claims of the society, sod at that ' dem of hie speech Mr. Thomas Jones, the secretary, read ' a list of subscription., which included 2101. from the firm of Barclay and Co., 6561. Is. from individual members of the firm, and 5234 from Mr. Kemplay. Mr. Locke, the mem ber for Southwark, in responding to the taut of the House of Commons, congratulated the assemblage on the sum mary, disposal of Mr. Semen's bill for dosing public-brews ' oe Sundays by ref magi' to grant him leave to bring it in, and stated that he had himself voted against its Weeds°. ' tiou, an annourkemeet which we hardly need my was loudly cheered. Mr. Kemplay, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Oran; and several other gentlemen, also addreAsed the meeting in support of the °ejecta of the institution. THE MARS IN WORKHOUB/13.—The committee of the Protestant Allianos have sent to all the curious is the kingdom a paper (No. LXVL) entitled "Tile Boarish Pried, and the Main is the Workhouse." Tbey state that the Weet committee of the House of Commerce, originally appointed in 1861 to inquire into the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor, ix about to make its report. Among other matters, the committee will, it is believed, reounmeed the appointment of Boorish priests as chap lains, sod the celebration of maim in union workhouses. The proposal, if adopted, would produce much evil and in volve a large annual expenditure, and Merriam very seriously the burdens on ratepayers, and, at the same time, the guardians would have no control over the persons ap pointed, nor eves the right of appointing the priests. The Alliance suggests a foes of a petition against the appoint ment of Roman catholic chaplains and the celebration of the mare in uoiou workhouses. The subject was brought op ► at the meeting of the guardians of the Wert London Union, held on Tuesday, Mr. J. W. Butterworth moved the adoption of the petition, which was seconded by Mr. Capel, After some discussion the oonsideration of the question was adj2urned. THE PARTNERSHIP LAW AMENDMENT BILL.—A special meeting of the members of the Birmingham Cham ber of Commerce was held on Tuesday evening for the pur pose of taking into consideration the amendments intro duced into the Partnership Low Amendment Bill, Dow before parliament. The attendance was small, there Dot being more than fourteen or fifteen persons present. The discussion which took place tamed chiefly on Mr. Baring's amendment to clause 3, which provides that the word " registered " shall be used to distinguish limited liability partnerships. A ribeidoticst was moved to the effect that Mr. Sebolefield be re quested to make every possible effort to have the • ameodment " on clause 3 reversed, and in the event of hie exertions proving fruitless, that he be desired not to proceed with the bill. This resolution, and an amendment upon it., were both negatived, and ultimately the following , was adopted :—" That notwithstanding the provision of the addition of the word "registered" to the name of the firm in clause 3, this chamber respectfully recommends Mr. Scholeheld to proceed with the bill." In a letter read from the hoc. gentleman, be said he was not without hope of being able to induce the government to bring in a bill of their own on this subject. E....cmoaterreet SPLINDOUIL—A ocuitempurary gives a description of the recent elseerraace of the com memoration day at Christ Church, Clapham. There were 1 no less than three celebrations of Holy Communion. The ' church was profusely embellished with flowers, Le. Withie ' I the chancel stood a throne, draped, with massive canopy of velvet, and embroidered with gold, for the right rev. prelate who was to he the preacher io the eremite. At [ evensong a proceisioa moved from the schools, headed by a ' surpliced acolyte bearing a banner. on which was an "Aeons Doi," and surmounted by a cram followed by some 25 choristers and men in surplices chanting, and shout 12 clergymen and the right row. prelate (Bishop Forbes of Bra c hi a ), who wore the rocket and other episcopal vest. I meats, as also a large scarlet cape which fell over either ; shoulder and down the beck. The deny wore whit* I ' damask steles, with gold enemas. Four priests conducted the barytes, which was wholly Oregon... CITY OF LONDON COLLKOZ, LEADENHALL•XTRIET. , —On the nominations of Earl Greaville and the Society of Arts, Mr. Arthur R. Answer, who gained the Ist French prime, and Mr. Norge M. No rris. let English composition 1 primate, have just received appoiatineets in the Privy tiouecil-office. There are above 150 more students at the college this term than there were during Foster term last . year. . IS6a. %a' `~.'. THE NEW ALLIANCE IN THE FRENCH ACADEMY. The foide of to-day has the following :—" On Thursdolasl sa 'van assumed In the Frisch Aesdemy, at 'Web some Jeanie/a have bad the whale to be samaishol., bat which severthelese is the simplest, the most natural, the toast Dermal, he, that can be imagined. The question was the adjudging of the Bordia prise for the beat literary work daring the year. As good ewes never sksolutely loses all its rights even is the hall of the ilthuin Palms, the scademicians had named the excellent work of M. Was, ' The History of English Literature.' But this would have been • scandal ; for M. Taine is a friend of free inquiry, a man of liberal mind. Happily N. Dapsaloup, warned is time, arrives and hastens to show what the academy would lose if it crowned IL Tains. The academy, however reside. The Bishop of Orleans, then, seeks two auxiliaries. Whom? Guess out of a thothand—out of ten thoasaad. 11. Cousin first—Y. Cousin the philthopber, sad the Proctireur- Oesaral Dupla, the author of ' The Liberties of the Ca tholic Church,' the defender of Stranger, the adversary of the Restoration. These three carried the place by assault, and Y. Tiler has not had the Bordin prim. We repeat, all this is logical. When the devils grow old they become hermits. St. Dupin, St. Cousin, and St. Depanleup, pray for us." WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) THUISDAY, MAY 19, 9 LIL I B. & IMPERIAL PINANCIALCOMPANX--(THIS DA At a special meeting of shareholders in this company, held tacky at the Louden Tavern, Mr. Join CHAPLIN is the chair, a resolution was uneniMously passed, aathcr au amakastation with the Memaatile Credit As. seriatim TIN smalgareatiom u to date tram ths lat of June, each company dividing its profits up to that date ; the capital of the arealpenated company to mead of 100,000 shares of 50/. sash, 00,0008U:ea to be allotted to the share. holden of the Imperial Financial Company at U. premium in proportion to their holdiap (share for share) in that company, and the remelting 50,000 to the shareholders of the Mercantile Credit Association, at the IMMO premium in proportion to their holdings (fire for every two shares) in that association. The capital of this oompany would then stand at 100,000 shams of with 51. paid up, sod the 1/. premium would form a reser►e of 100,0001. Some discussion took Awe with Newt to the premium, several sharshoLlers speaking of it as, in fact, a call of 1/. per than, and the chairman stated that the necessity for the reserve wee still an open question, and the directors would consult with the board of the lleroantile Credit Associatios upon the subject. MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATIoN. (THIS DAY). An extraordinary general meeting of the share. holden was held an soon, at the Logsdon Tavern, Alderman DMUS in the chair, to oossider a special resolution set out in a circular sent to each member of the emaciation, the object of that resolution being to into effect an amal. isolation with thelmpirial Financial pan y. The CIWILIIAN, in the adoption of the resolatioo, observed that is • and financial matters periods of prosperity ware succeeded by periods of calm, and the great object of boards of director should he to look rather to permanent than temponay prospeeity. (Hear, hear.) Hence it was that the arnagematecmad bees proposed. Sup. posies the resolution were carried, the satire receipts made by the Mercantile Credit Association would be divided among the sousting _shareholders. The precise amount of profit depended on calculations which could sot be made at preent, but it would be very hand. some and satisfactory. The new share capital of the nailed company would be betted at owe in 100,000 shared 501. each, maids/ a total capital of 5,000,0001. The amount which would he placed at the item& dimmed of the directors was 500,0004, with a reserve of 100,0001. Tim existing capital of the Mercantile Com. piny would, under the err t proposed, be about equal to that of the Imperial mousy, and he believed the results would be satisfactory to both alums of shareholder+. (Cheers.) dors opposed the motion on the ground that the advantages would be agilely on the side of the Imperial Company, and moved the adfowainest of the meeting foe six meek., in order, as he mid, that the &embolden might learn in the interval at the half yearly meeting what via the financial poetical of the company. 11r. Geo. CLAIR, is secoading the malice, observed that the Imperial Ccsepsay had brought out only on. company, and that was an exact copy of the Land Mortgage Bank of India. He did not believe the Imperial Company ever ie. tended to do business oa its own account. After male discussion the ameadment was put and jeettd by a majority of . 17 votes to 2 ; atter which Lb. ori ginal ;notion was aped, and the proosedisp terminated tim usual manner. GENERAL CREDIT AND FINANCE COMPANY. (THIS DAY.) A epectal general meeting of the shareholders was held at 1 o'clock at the Leedos Tavern, Mr. S. LAING is the chair, to madder the following resolutions :—" That the capitol of the company be Mermaid to 5,000,0001., by the issue of 125,000 new shares of 201. each, with 44 paid, to be o• precisely the semi footing in all respects as the old shares, as to dividend, from Jan. 1, 1844, nod otherwise. 2. That such new shares be issued at 11. sa. per share pre. mium, to include interest oo all payments subsequent to the Ist of January, mad be offered in mooed/ace with the articles of ase mastics, the directors being empowered to dispose of any shares which may not be take° within fifteen days at sot less thaw 14 ss. premium. 3. That the par meet as such new share be doe as follows, vise. : —24 ss. cis allotment, and 34 on the 30th of July.' The CHALLIEJA in moving the adoption of these resole. tier, mid the object of the first meeting was so satidae. tory that it was onneeemary for him to my more than • few wo rds. The board had at last to congratulate the shareholders oa the concession granting the alliance with the French company. They had bees waiting for that commies 12 months, and its importance was proportiosase to the difb culties experienced in obtaining it. In France • coo °Naos of this kind OPCSI granted became a monopoly ; and the Societe General, and the Credit Mobilise Company in Para were in much the same position as d that company mid the International Company bad exclusive possession of the land in England. The French company was now constituted with a capital of little less than 5,000,0001. sterling, ad the directors con sidered it essential that this company should be placed oa the same footing, so that they might stand on • par with regard to all financial operations. The only question had been whether new tal capi should be raised by calls on the existing shares or by Mining new shares, and that question was decided in favour of the latter worse as the best memo of maressing the credit and resources of the company. The aggregate premium of 156,0001. on new shares would form an excellent reserve. Between the issue of the new shares and the profit oo the shares of the French Company, there would be a profit of 270,0001., indepen. destly of any other profits in the worse of the year. Than was every Teems to believe that the whole profit of the year would be from 350,0001. to 400,0004 (Cll4ll. He concluded with some explanations is detail with to thorned, in which the new shares would be issued, sad the money celled up. After some dim-maim the resolutions were adopted unani. measly. PROVINCIAL BANS OP IRELAND.-(THIS D.AY.) The thirty-ninth yearly general meeting was held to-day at the oboes, 42, Old Broadepteset. Mr. Mower. mai in the chair. The followiog is themport of the director/:—" The directors have the pleasure of stellar for the information of the proprietors that the result of the bank's business for the past year has been satisfac tory. The summer of 1863 was favourable for agriculture, sad the crop were generally more productive and of better quality than they had been fee four previous years. The late grain crops were no doubt much jointed by min and exposure is the harvest season, sad the price of ooru has been very low, bet, on the other hand, the prices of cattle and sheep, sad of wool and eat. have been high, and these, to the large landholder especially, bays in some degree compromted for the low price of grain. The condition of the small farmer has not, however, improved, and the ordi nary retell trade of the country is still depressed. The differeat branches of the linen trade have been extremely active and prosperous and the beneficial effects have been felt throughout the northern counties of Ire/and, to which, as the proprietors ars no doubt aware, the Keen manufacture end the cultivation of flax one as yet almost entirely °Peeped. Considerable fluctuations took place in the value of money, no fewer than twelve changes having been made in the minimum rate of the Bank of England daring this bank's year of account, ending the 26th March last. The rate duriag that period raped from 3 to 8 per cleat, the average for the whole year having been • fraction over 5 per cent. This state of the money market, and the peculiar circumstaaees of the times, reedited it necessary for the directors to exercise increased eircumspectiou and caution is the management of the business, and in the employment of the resources of the bank, but they have bath careful to meet the usual sod reasonable requirements of the bask', customers. Upon considering the whole circum stances of the past year the directors expect that the proprietors will concur with them in viewing with satralscties the statement of accounts, to which the attention of the meeting is now requerted. The account submit.ed to the yearly general meeting is May, 1863, showed the sammet of rest or undivided profits' at nth March.lB63, to be250,913/.95. 6d. Out of which there has been paid to the proprietors the amount of two ordinary sad extraordinary dividends, as follows:—At Midsummer, 1863: Ordinary dividend of 4 per nest, 21,600/. : extraor dinary dividend of 6 per cent., 32,400/.--54,000/. At Christine', 1863: Ordinary dividend of 4 per cent., 21,6001.; extraordinary dividend of 6 per cent, 32,4001.-54,0001. ; together, 108,0001. ; leaving • balance of 142,913/. 9e. 6d. To which there has mince berm added the amount of net profits for the year ending on the 26th bet e g th e l as t Satur day of March 1864, alter deducting property tax, and providing for all bad sad doubtful debts, 109,954/. 6e. ; reakiag the rest, or amount of un divided profile at 26th March, 1864, 252.9671. 13e. lid. This siatemeet shows • small addition to the rest, and the directors purpose eostinnieg the dividend at the seine rate as for some years past. They have therefore now to intl• mate to the proprietors their intenticie to pay, in July next, an extraordinary divideed of 30s. on each 1001. share. and 121. on each 10/. share of the capital stock of the beak, in oddities to the ordinary dividend of 4 per cone ; making the amount to be then paid, 2/. 10s. on each 1001. sham, and 1/. on each 10/. share, foe the half-year ending Mid summer sett ; sod they will also, as heretofore, pay the property tax for the prooristors." On the motion of the COAIIIJIAN, this report was adopted. A Hitoaru Hear.—A cane of death from broken heart actually took place in this airy. A ma• :tamed Thomas Mash••, • native at the county of Kilkseay, Ireland, re• aiding in Lafayette-street, Sea Francisco, received • letter from his native place informing him that his father's house bad been destroyed by fire, sad that his father, mother, two sisters, sad • brother had perished in t►e flames. He reed the letter, turned pals. clutched ooevalsively at his breast. and fell dead. The compeer was called sad ea &atom re' reeled that death was caused by • rupture of the heed. Cell/Orem paper. MMim. PAW W.S.W. LW. LB.& N.W. N.N.W. N.N.W. &N.& & L&IL N.E. N.& B.Z. Z. IN.L Z. Z.S.Z. &Z. N.M. N.Z. Z.N.Z. N.W. s - x.it.z. LIM ILL 11.11. W. c— cb tot b N. Vi. &8L N.N.L N.L N.K L&L 13 b 1. i atrw. NA ANA ANA NA RAW. N.W. i ... C - II-