The Sun. — London, England, 1857-07-10 00:00:00

I'HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1 1857 ;he numerous occasions up on which. be spoke of suicide— tion, called 'loon th e jury no t ras hl y to tear asunder the veil of nue cry in whi c h Providence bad wrapped this naturally suggest th e t as one mo d e b y wh i ch he may have ease, ;mile:aid, so aaured did he f ee t o f Filet the. vsadict .dsper ed. tale life. I silt no t uo d erta ki ng to prove -that he died by his o wn h an d . If I were d oing anyt bi ng go ought to ba a n d so personel an iutet•est did he feel in the result, that, ishoe;:l th - ei.e be a miscarriage of justice in rash I should be i m it a ti ng th e ras h ness o f the prosecutor, but I should not be stepping a hair's-breadth further out this eves; he atiould be able to attribute it to nothing h of the beaten t rac k o f ev id ence an d proo f an d d emone t ra -- ut his own in a bilit y t o con d uet the defence, an d the no tion collection of thi s d ay an d o f th i s prisoner wou ld h aunt tion • for I think th ere i s more t o be said f o r the s ui c id e him ae a dism a l spec t re to h i s grave. May, he said, the than for the prisoner's g uilt. From the very fir s t ti me at which we see him, even as a lad, in the year 1843, spirit of all truth guide you to an honest, just, and true be talks in a manner to impress People with the verdict ! but I pray you to remember that no verdict notion that he has no m e•al pr:nciple to guide him, will be either honest or just or true unless it at once sa- He speaks over and over again in E finbergh, Dundee, tisfies the conscientious scruples of the severest . jtsdgrneet, and elsewhere—aye, and the prisoner's letters sho e that and yet leaves undisturbed and unvexed the tenderest he had made the same threat to her—that he would put consciences among you. himself out of existence. And is it half as violent a sup- • A burst of applause followed the conclusion of the position as the supposition of this foul murder that upon learned counsel's speech. this evening—the 22d of March—in a fit of that kind of The Lord Justice Clerk then charged the jury. He madness which be Lanself described caws over him when said that the crime of murder by poisoning was one al be met with a disappointment—fioding, it may be, that most always secretly committed, and two cases wily, he be could not procure aceess to an interview which be de- believed, had been known in this country in which any sired—assuming that he came to Glasgow for the pur- one had seen the admix ore or the" administration of the pose—asettiniug, even, that ho mistook the evening of poison. It was a crime which generally must be proved the meeting, and expec ti ng to see her on the Sunday_ by circumstantial evidence al me, but they rims-, en can anything be mere probable than that in such a case, the other hand, take care tbat the circumstan in the excited case is which he then was, that he should tial evidence was such as excluded the possi have conmeittal the rash act which put an end to his bility either of innocence on the one band, or of existence? I can see no great improbability in that, unexplained mystery on the other, and they must net al- But whether he met his death by suicide, or whether he low any defect in the evidence to be supplied by suspi met his death by accident, or in what way soever he met cion, still less by presumptions arising from probabili his. death, the question foryou is, Is this murder proved ? ties in the case. They must be satisfied that the parties You are ask e d to affirm that on your oaths as a tact— were together whe n th e po i son was sa id to b e adaanis that the arse n i c w hi c h was found en that man's stomach tered. They must b e sat i s fi e d that there was a pur p ose was present e d t o hi m by the hands of the prisoner, to administ er p o i son, an d t h at the accuse d bad the p ~icon Gentlemen, I have talked of the improbabilities which in her possession ; and, further, that it was administered belong to thi s attry—to this charge. But surely you on the partic u l ar occas i on an d in the circumstances set forth in the indict men t. It was unnecessary f or th e pri cannot ha ve om i tted to observe how very unnatural and Boner s counsel s o so l emn l y to a bj ure t h em no t t o quenc h extraordinary a crime it i s t o i mpu t e to a psrsoo i n t h e a doubt in order t o arr i ve at a verd i ct o f guilty, fer he prison er ' s s i tuat i on. I stated to you before a: a piece of undoubted expe r i ence , th at no one sinks to such a depth was sure that if th e resu l t o f the i r d e lib erat i ons s h ou ld of depravity all a t once ; an d now I ask you to remebe to pronounc e a ver di c t o f gu ilt y , i t wou ld on l y b e rn- w her at what peri o d we l e f t this correspondence—at a wrung from th em b y t h e.most power f u l an d conc l us i ve period when s h e de s i re d t o b reak off with L'Angelier, no evidence. Tho ug h th ey m i g ht no t b e sa ti s fi e d w ith any doubt—at a pet iod w h en s h e desired to obtain po-session of the theorie s p ropoun d e d i n b e b a lf o f th e pr i soner, though they mi g ht no t b e i nc li ne d to a d o pt an y o f th ose of her letters, the r e t urn o f which was refuse-a lam most notions as to the d ecease d t a ki n g l e ud anum t w i ce i n th e tin wiling to int er -p uree my address with remarks upon the character of a man w h o i s now no more. But pie ure to course of the jour ne y, as t o his being in th e h a bit of tak yourselves th e mora l tempera ent, the tast e , th e f ee li n ins arsenic, or as t o h er u s i n g it a s a cosme ti c , t h ough of a human bei ng w h o, having receives such letters all these matters ma y f a il in her defence, y e t the case for from a girl as you have heard read in this court, would the prosecution might still be radically defective on the ever preserve them. He must have been dead to all evidence. His Lordship then went into the evidence, feelings of humanity, or he would Lever have refrained commenting on is as he proceeded. He referred to the from burning those letters. But he not only preserves fact that the deceased had his first illness some days ,at them, but he retains them as an engine of power and op- least before th e pr i s oner was prove d to possess any ar pression in his hands. H e k ee p s t h em t h at h e may carry senic, and said it would nut do to infer from her having out his cold-blooded original design, not merely of pos. purchased arsenic afterwards that she had it before. sassing himself of her person, but cf raising banself in That would bea serious and violent presumption against the social scale by a marriage with her. It was his first the prisoner indeed. In reference to Mrs. Jenkin's eyis object, and that object he pursues constantly, unflincia dance, he referred to L'Angelier's remark to the latter ingly, to the end. But he will expose her to his friends that "It was the letter you sent me that brought me and to the world, he will drive her to destruction, or to home," by which the supposition as to his having come suicide itself, rather than let her out of his power. It to see Mr. Mitchell was excluded. In regard to the de may be said that lam only describing the great provoca ceased' second illness of the 22d of February, he said that tion which she received, and therefore enhancing the if there was no proof (and they would see what light the probability of her taking this fearful mode of t xtricatine correspondence threw on that subject by and by) that the herself from her embarrassment. I don't fear that, gen prisoner tad the opportunityof administering arsenic, there tlemen. I want y ou t o l oo k now at the picture which I was much force in the remark that th e f oun d a ti ons o f have under her own b an d o f h er own state of mind at this this case were shaken. His Lo r d s hip th en remar k e d on time—not for th e purpose o f palliatin g her conduct—not L'Angelier's repeating, even in hi s l as t illness, that it was bile, was of importance as showing wh e th er or not for the purp ose o f v i n d icating her against this charge either of u nc h as t eness or i mpropriety ,as regards he had any suspicion of havi n g rece i ve d anyt hi ng to Mr. Minnocb, but fo r th e p urpose o f snow i ng you in what injure him. His lordship nex t a d verte d t o t h e letter frame of mi n d th a t p oor g i r l stoo d at t h e time — the very . the deceased received at the Br i d ge o f All an , w hi ch said time at which she is said to have conceived an d con t r i ve d "Come, beloved, and clasp m e t o y our h eart, " plainly this foul murder. There are two or th ree l et t ers , b ut I implying that the former and m i ss i ng l e t ter made ar select one for the purpose of Illustrating w h a t I now say , rangements for an interview withi n th e h ouse. As to It is written on the 10th of Feb., and it is w r itt en a ft er whether the deceased had go ne t o see k th e ' pr i soner on she has asked for the return of her letters a n d b een re - the Sunday night, they would p er h a p s thi n k t h e probe fused. The Dean here read in a touching manner th e bility was that he did so. Wh e th e rh e succee d ed in find remarkable letter No. 107, in which, in a s t ra i n b eto k en- ins her was anoth er q ues ti on. S uppose that letter ing much agony of mind, she conjures L'Angelier not to brought himto Glasgow, were th e y i n a con di t i on to say expose her shame to the world. Is th a t, h e procee d ed that they were satiated i n th e i r consc i ences, as an ins to say, the mind of a murdere s s, or can any one affect vitable and ju s t resu lt f rom t h e ev id ence in the case that that frame of mind ? Will you, gentlemen, for one me- they really met that night ? That was the real point in went, listen to the suggestion that the letter covers a the case. That they might have a strong moral sus pi piece of dece t. No ! The finest actress that ever lived cion in the matter—that they might believe he wee well could not have written that letter unless she had felt it ; able, after all their clandestine correspondence, to obtain and is that the condition in which a woman goes about to the means of an interview—that as she had complained compass the death of him she loved ? Is that her frame of his not coming on the Thursday, she " waited and of mind / The thing is preposterous, and yet he is be waited" for him not only on the Saturday but On the cause of her despair, as my learned friend called it, Sunday evening —that might be all very true. Pro exhibited in that and similar letters, that he says she bebly they all thought so ; but they were trying a case had a motive to commit the murder. A motive—what of which the evidence must be satisfactory, complete, motive ?—a motive to destroy L'Angelier. What does and distinct. A jury might often safely infer certain that mean? It may mea n , i n a cer t a i n i mproper sense of facts from corr espon d ence, t h ey m i ght safely infer that the term, that it would have been an advantage to her meetings appointed to take place since did take place, that he should cease to live. That is not a motive in any but it was for therm to say here whether it not having proper sense of the term. Teat is not a motive, else hose been proved that he was in the house that night by any few of us are there that live who have not a motive to one, they could hold that that link in the chain was Sup murder some one or other of our fellow -creatures. But, plied by just and satisfactory inference. If they merely felt gentlemen, even in the most improper and illegitimate in their own minds a strong suspicion, or that the whole sense of the term, let me ask you w h at possible motive p ro b a biliti es o f the case were in favour of it, it was not there could be—l mean what possible advantage could enough, for if that was all they could derive from infe she expect from L'Angelier ceasing to live, so long as the rence in the matter, then a link remained still wan ti ng ; letters rem a i ne d i n hi s possession I Without the return the catastrophe and its alleged cause were not found to of the letters she gained nothing. Her great object—her gether. His lordship proceeded to read further portions greatest detire—that for which she was yearning with her of the evidence, remarking that whether or not the pro• whole soul, was to prevent the exposure of her shame. secretor's case hal been made out, the theories urged in But the death of L'Angelier, instead of procuring that defence were of the .most unsatisfactory kind; but they object, wotili have been perfectly certain to lead to the could not from that supply any detect, if d e t ect t h ere immediate exposu re o f everyth i ng that bad passed be- ex i sted, in the prosecutor'S proof, tween them. Snail Ibe told that she did not foresee that? His lordship had gone nearly half ,through the parole I thought my learned friend bad been giving the pri- evidence when the court adjourned till the next morning ironer too much credit for talent in the course of his ob- at nine o'clock. - servations open her conduct; but I should conceive her to be infinitely stupid if she did not foresee that the death of L'Angelier, with these documents in his posses sion, was the true and the best means of frustrating the then great object of her life. Se much for the motive; and see what another star cling defect that is in the case for the prosecution. Shall I be told that the motive might be revenge ? Lister, to the letter. Tell me if it is possible that in the same breast with these sentiments there could lurk one feeling of revenge? No; the condi tion of mind in which that pour girl was throughout the months of February and March is entirely inconsistent with any of the hypotheses teat have been made on the other side —utterly increeliele in connection with the perpetration of such a crime as is here laid to her charge, The learned curaael then referred to the prisoner's flight to Row, and said—Gentlemen, this was not flying from justice, but it eas flying from that which she could just as little bear —the wrath of her father and the averted countenance of her mother. But she came back again without the slightest hesitation, and upon the Monday morning there occurred a scene as remarkable in the history of criminal jurisprudence as anything I ever heard of, by which that broken spirit was altogether changed. The moment she was met by a charge of being implicated rn causing the death of L'Aegslier she at nece assumed the con rage of a heroine. See was bound down and she fled while the charge of her own unchastity and shame was alt that 'Was brought against her ; but she stood erect and proudly conscious of her innocence when the was met with. this astounding, this monstrous charge of murder. After reading the declaration of the priamer, and couttnsntin a on various stafernsnts made in it, the Dean said, such openness and ceneour of statement, under such circumstances —wade to the ma g istrate in-er rugating he r on th e charga an I who b a d, as was bra duty, informed her that whatever she 831 t `night be used to her piaju :ice, but could not possibly be used to her ad vaetage—l leave to speak for themselves. But I have now te r.quest your attention to one pertieular point ire connection with this decLration—the different purchases of arsenic:. Tee pestessa:n of this arsenic is said to he unaccounted for, as far as theeprieoeer herself is c un earned. It may be so, acid yet that would not make a • case for the pra-ecuaion. See eays she us al it as a cra tnetie. Tess might be start!ing at first bight to many of us here, but after ti.e evidence we have heard it will not in the least amass you. At school her statetrhit, which has been so far borne out by evidence, shows that see hal read of the Styrian psasants using arsenic for the stretigtherting of their wind aed improvement of their complexions. No doubt they used it internally, and not externally as she did ; jut in the imperfect state of her knowledge that fact was of no significance. L'Angelier stated to more than one witness —and if he stated falsely it is only one of a multitude of lies proved agains t him— that he used it himself, and it is not surprising that if he (L'Angelier) knew of this custom that be should have conatnueicated it to the prisoner. There is no reason to suppose that if used extenialiy, as the prisoner says she did use it, would be productive of any injurious effects; so that there was no few on to suspech on that ground the truth of the statement that the prisoner had mode. No doubt we have medical gentlemen coining here and shaking their heads and looking wise, and saying that such a use of arsenic would be a dangerous precedure. Wsli, so sboula we all say that it is both a dangerou s and foothill procedur that is not the question The questi on i s whettelkie tr. prison= r could actuhly tro use it without injurious effects, and that she c add d so ii dem.mstrated by tee o xperiment of Dr. Laurie are bi the opinion of Dr. Maca)gate G n lerlthn, friend the Lord my learned great as was Advocate said that the cou rage the unhappy prisoner displayed when charged with the crime, that demeanour was not inconsistent with the theory of her geilt. He said that a wonian who had nerve to commit the murder would have nerve calmly to meet the accusation. I doubt that hypothesis. Gentle men, I know of no cause in which such undaunted cou• rage has been displayed, from first to last, b a girl, confronted w ilt s such a charge, wherye 76aytolligl was guilty. But, gentl emen, our experience does fußr eish us with examples of as grave a bearing in soy,ti , a girl when innocent. D o yen kn ow th e story of E ' li n h - a. Fen wick? Sbe Was a servant g i r l i n L ondon. She was tried on the charge of poisoning h er master and faini ‘ i by putting ar•erec into dumpl ings . W nen the charge was first made she met it with a calm and indignant denial ; she maintained the earns demeanour throughout a lo n g trial; and she received sentence of death without a muscle. According to the statement of a t y moving slander, when brought utte i n the sceff ed to die, )- - and sh e died as she she looked as serene as an ang. tug,- ea of t had d borne herself throughout the tragedy. It was an execution previousthat attracted m d uch7tt s en. Lion at the time. Opinion was slush divide as to the propriety of the verdict, and the angry disputants wrangled even over her grave. But time Orou,ht 013 light which was wanting before ; toe true perpe trator of t h e murder confesse d on his death-tied— too late to avoid the enacting of a most bloody tra gedy. It happened at a time beyond the recollection of most of the gentlemen whom I now address ; lout it son record—a flaming beacon to warn us egainst the sunken rocks of that p r esumptuous arrogance an I opi nionated self-reliance hidde n in the cold and proud human heart ; it teaches no, by terrible example, to avoid curl feunding suspicion with proof, and te reject tures and hints when tendered as demonstration, T r i j ee , ~ tlemen, that this was not a solitary case; either a t r he g e r r e ' collection or reading of any of u s may recall simi lar ilea ,r cases where, after execution, the judgment Was wrong which had doomed a fellow•creataunrey tdaoseg proved wrong be pray G o d th a t n either you nor I may in jauilty of adding an=-they name to that black and bloody a calendar, Th e L eas Faculty, in au eloquent p t, VERDICT OF THE JURY. NINTH DAY.---THURSDAT, July 9. The Court me, tb's morning at 0 o'clock, when The Lord Justice-Clerk proceeded with his charge to the jury. Remarkine on the recovery of the 13tters found in the reposit ries of L'Angelier, he said that al ;hough the method of procedure which was adopted had been loose, irregular, and slovenly, it did not appear that the panel bad suffered any prejud.ce from the want of any of them. As to each letter being in its proper envelope, in the first part of the correspond ence it did nut much signify whether such were the case, because there was no doubt that those passionate letters written by the prisoner declaring such strong love for L'Angelier, and some of them expressed in very licentious terms, had been written by her at some time or other. Complaints had been made as to the difficulty of getting access to the correspondence on the part of the prisoner. Oo the whole it appeared to him that the facili ties afforded to her for conducting her defence were such as no other panel had ever had. Commenting on the evidecce of the female servants, he observed that a material part of this evidence was, that it showed th .t on one occasion an interview took place between prisoner and deceased in tee house, and that there were ample facilities for the prisoner aitni'aing L'Angelier to the house, if she wished it, without any one in the house knowing of it ; so that it there was evidence otherwise sufficient to satisfy the jury that he went to the house on the night of Sunday the 22d of March, there was nothing in the fact that he was not heard. On this point there was ;as° the fact that. the prisoner got out of the house on the Thursday morning without this being known by any one. As to the story about using the areeeic as a cosmetic, he cenfessed that he looked uu it as a false pretence altogether, and an excuse for the pas- Heeiln of the arsenic; this story, therefore, was not of the slightest importance at all. There was no doubt that en the night of the 22d, after his return froiu Bridge of Allan, he went out in the direction of the panel's house. With reference to the illegibility of several of tee postiisrks on the letters, he observed that the ationtion of the Pest-office authorities bad been called to the beceesity of their being mare more distinct by Lord Cempleiel in a similar case, and by hanself ; and consi• dering tee importance of this point to the ends of civil and criminai justice, he trusted this w •uld be the last occasion on which these marks would be so carelessly impre-sed. Revering again to the probability of an interview between the prisoner and deceased on Sunday, his lordship remarked that as she had waited for him one night according to appointment, and another night aft--r teat, and then wrote another letter, imploring him in terms professing strong passion fur him, to come and c:aap her to his heart, it would not be wonderful if she expected that be would come on the Sunday night, though the appointment was for Saturday night. Coin. ing next to Miss Terry's evidence, he remarked on the fact that L'Angelier had said to her that on two occa sions before be took ill he had got coffee or cocoa and chocolate from the panel. They bad no proof that the panel had arsenic in her possession on the 19th Feb., and there was no evidence of any meeting on the 19th, except what was drawn from the letter, the date of which Vie Lord Advocate fixed fur the Wednesday. But here was a statement by the dead man, good and competent evidence ; and the jury must ju ge of the weight of it. He meetiolied at Portobeil .1 that he was ill after getti. , g coffee and cocoa, and that he thought be had been pot soGad, and again to Mi-s Perry he said, "I can't think why I was so unwell after getting that coffee and choco late from her." This most unquestionably referred to two different illnesses, each following the getting of coffee and cocoa or chocolate from the prisoner. The jury must judge whether this conversation with Miss Perry was of importance. She did not interrogate hire on the subject, and . 'shot seemed very p ro p er ly to wise to banish the thought from his mind. Sti this was Fad in earnest, and Miss Perry stated on oath that she thought he entertained some suspicion of the panel, though not a serious suspicion. It was true that Miss Perry knew the intimacy between the two parties was clandestine ; that was strange conduct in a person of her respectability and of her age ; but sometimes they would find that ladies at her time of life had a good deal of absurd sentimentality about them, and this 1 idy seemed to have had considerable plea.ure in being the confidant of the attachment be tween these two young persons. It might be explained in this way ; but he did not think it c.iuld be doubted that she was a truthful witness. The jury must, how ever, consider whether all this amounted to more than to i t i i i n i g d h li t i n n o o t t w g : t rr p a o n i t so t n ii . e 1 They give rise in their minds to very great suspicion, which nineycalomusitng remember to a though that he was di on these occasions, and seemed to ascribe it to c,coa, there was no proof that theatta attack really seyls, Atomsafl 6 y tctrosrerneiscpoorn, corresponded with t o i f t t h h o e s s e e o t f w irritant ita occasio ns.w po a iso n, T no doubt, but then they might also be the of bilious attack ; a n d th e j ury must consider they were warranted in confiding on his statements, how ever wrongly made, to Miss Perry, that these attacks arose from some poisonous substance, it did not signify fwhat. Prisoner bought arsenic on th e 2l at of F& , ruar Y , before the second illness, and there the f ac t o f her pos sessing it on that occasion of course gave much greater strength and point to his remark, that he did receive something which had made him iil, on the 27th of Fe .l3 to the evidence for the defence, that h e h ad o b n ru o a n ry e . occasion threatened to throw himself from a window in the Rainbow Tavern, his Lordship observed that as the witness was in bed at the time, the de- ceased had ample opportunity to have thrown himself over, if he had been su inclined, before the witness could have interfered ; and the.jury would consider whether, when going aly.ut the room in an excited state, he had only thrown open the window to get some air. sto the other stories, that h e wou ld drown hirnsel if he were jilted, they did ant Arnotuat to much, w en it we known on oh() occasion he had been ji t h l a h a d not drowned himself. He al so t rea t e d th e s t or y as to iI A. giving arsenic to horses on a journey in France ai very unimportant ; it was nonsense to say that it madeithem loag , winded if only given to them once, because i f t was only the constantf use' of it which produced that effect. Altogether, he did not see the importance or materiality of this evidence. It was brought to support the notion that he poisoned himself with arsenic ; but if be wias in the habit of taking it in small quantities, he kneiv its qualities, and ther e f ore thi s did not a id the notion that he took an immense quantity on 22d March for the pur pose of destroying himself. No doubt the prisoner was not bound to prove that he poisoned himself—it was enough for her to satisfy them that there was not evi dence t) bring home to her the guilt of poisoning him ; but it was a hazardous thing to set up in defence. that L'Angelier went out that night carrying such a quantity of arsenic in his pocket, and that he swallowed it how, where, or when no human being could conceive. And therefore he thought the case stood far better for the prisoner on her own real plea, that the guilt was not brought home to her, which was truly the mattr at issue. Probably the jury would hold that the notion of his having poisoned himself was in reality groundless, and did not strengthen the case. Proceeding to the evidence of the druggists at Coatbridge and Baillie*on, he remarked that they bad against that Mr. Rose'sevi deuce that he walked with him all the way to Glasgow, that he never complained of being ill, and that he .had not gone into any shop on the way. There must, he thought, be a mistake on the part of these people as to this being L'Angelier at all. 'lt must also be remem bered that he went home and took tea, and never com plained that anything was wrong with him. As to ;the evidence that he bought a white powder in Kiek's shop, Gallowgate, his Lordship said it was not even suggested that this was arsenic ; if it was arsenic, she was bound to write it down ; and he did not think thej ury could believe that he bought arsenic there Just after he left Rosa and before he saw the panel, or kriew what answer he would get from her. The witness Kirk identified L'Angelier's purse as that from which he had taken the money to pay for the powder; but it was very probable, his Lordship thought, that some of the jary might have a purse in their pockets exactly like it. As to the third letter put in for the defence, written by the prisoner to L'Angelier, denying that the conversation of young ladies at sc h oo l had reference to certain suljeces, his Lordship remarked that this seemed to have been written in reply to some complaint by L'Angelier as ,to the impropriety of her conversation, and with the view of correcting her faults. As to the evidence with regard to the arsenic kept in great chemical works he observed that there was no ev id ence th a t L'Angelier was evitr seen about thes e wor k s at a ll . All ud i ng to D r. L aur i e s experiments with arsenic, he observed that in these ew' peritnents the bands and face were immediately after wards washed with cold water, which might prevent any irritation, but if it was so used in this case, what effect could it have as a cosmetic I His Lordship next directed attentLn to the correspondence. Oa this point he ob served :---The Lord Advocate states his theory of the case thus : the panel became acquainted with L'Anq lier, the acquaintance went on very rapidly, and ended in an engagement; they corresponded frequently and clandestinely ; on the Cie May, 1856, he got possession of her person ; the engagement was discontinued once or twice ; the letters continued on her part in the same terms of passionate love for a very considerable time--X say passionate love, because unhappily they are written without any sense of decency, and in most licentious terms. After a certain time Mr. Minnoch's attentions to the girl became very marked ; she saw there was no chance of marrying L'Angelier even if she continued to like him sufficiently ; but the other was certainly a most desirable marriage for her to make. The Lord Advocate says that her object then was to extricate herself from the position which she was in ; that she first makes an appeal to L'Angelier to give up her letters ; she writes then very coldly, and says the attachment has ceased on her part, and she thinks on his part also. Certainly there was no reason to suppose that, though he frequently blamed her conduct; but that is what she states. The Lord Advocate says that by these cold let-; ters she was trying to make him give her up and to give up her letters. She failed in that. The Lord Advocate, says that then she proceeded to write in as warm terms as ever, and to talk of their embraces as she bad done before. She does not succeed in that tone, and then she receives him, as he says must be inferred and is proved, into her house for the purpose of succeeding in this. She has to leave Glasgow, and he too has to go to Edin burgh. She returns, and she understands that he re turned, and she writes letters for the purpose of having interviews with him. The Lord Advocate says that on the former occasions when she failed in getting the let ters, out of resentment she had administered the poison to him on the 19th and 22d ; and aware that no allure ments, or enticements, or fascinations from her would get the letters from him, she had prepared for the inter view which she had expected on the 22d March, by an other purchase of arsenic, and with the intention to poison him. The Lord Advocate's theory and statement is 'that the interview having taken place, she did accord ingly administer that &me of arsenic from which, howso ever administered, he died. All this, on the other hand, is treated as a totally incredible supposition by the ' counsel for the prisoner. It is said that she could not have had such a purpose —that it is something too mon strous to believe or inquire into even. Gentlemen, it is very difficult to say what might not occur to the exasperated feelings of a female who had been placed in the situation in which this woman was placed. And there it is that the correspondence comes to be of much importance in astertaining what wort of feelings this girl cherished, what state of mind and disposition she was in, and whether there is any trace of moral sense or propriety to be found in her let ters, or whether they do or do act exhibit such a degree of ill-regulated, disorderly, distempered, licentious feel ings as to show that this is not a person quite capable of cherishing any object to avoid disgrace and exposure, and to cherish any revenge which such treatment might excite in the mind of a woman driven nearly to madness as she says she was. I shall not read many of these letters, but there are some characteristics of the charac ter of the panel to show her mind and feelings which I think it is of importance to place before you, as show ing the progress of this attachment and the manner in •ehich it was carried on. It is very curious that the first letter is written by her; and then he replied as you 'night expect a young man of his temperament to do. His lordship then read one of the letters, remarking that it seemed that the girl's ill -regulated passiots broke out months before any sensual intercourse had taken place ; the expressions used in that and following letters were most singular as passing between two unmarried people. We heard, said his lordship, a good deal said by the Dean of Faculty as to the character-of this panel ;we have no evidence on the subject except what these letters exhibit, and no witness to character wise brought ; but certainly these letters show as extraordinary a frame of mind and of pass:on as perhaps ever appeared in a court of justice. Can you be surprised, after such 14ters as those of the 29th April and 31 May, that on the 6th of May, three dai s afterwards, he got possession of her persar. Oa the 7th of May she writes again, a'sd in that letter is there the slightest appearance of grief or of remorse ! None whatever. It is the latter of a girl re j,iicing in what had passed, and alluding to it in one pas sage in particular in terms which I will not read, for per haps they were never previously committed to paper as having pas-ed between a man ands woman. What passed must have passed out of doors, not in the house, and she talks of it as hers as much as his. His lordship here read the letter and observed—this is a letter from a girl, written at five in the morning, just after she bad sub mitted to his embraces ; can you conceive or picture apy worse state of mind than this letter exhibits t In otheqi she uses the word "love" underscored, showing clearly what she meant by it; and in one letter she uses the moat disgusting and revolting language, exhibiting a state of mind most lamentable to think cf. After read ing several other letters, his Lordship came to those of February 1857, as to which he observed that it was plain she was then playing a part. She had been writing to "my deare-t Williata"—referrin g to Mr. Minnock—talking of the happiness of her expected mar riage with him. As to the last letter which brought L'Aogelier from the Bridge of Allan, she said it was written to inform him of the engagement to Mr. Mins noch ; but how strange that he should not say a word about it. He remarked on the fact that in the latter in which the prisoner said she would give him a loaf of bread the next time he came, she said she would give him it before he went "out"—showing that it was in tended he should be let into the house. His Lordship observed that there could be no doubt that it was the prisoner's letter which brought L'Angelier from the Bridge of Allan, and he then proceeded. In ordinary mattesi of life, after that, you could not have any hesi tatiou in coining to the conclusion that they did meet accordingly. But that becomes a very serious question in a case where that meeting is supposed to end in the administration of poison and death follows. That may be a very natural inference, that looking at the thing morally, no one can doubt that he went to see her, and would see her that night, for she had no difficulty in making arrangements to see him, and if she waited the second night after the first letter it would not be sur prising that she should look out for an interview on the second night after the second letter, The Dean of Faculty—She did not wait the second night after the first letter. She waited only one night. The Lord Justice-Clerk—l am sure the jury under stood what I meant. Tae Dean— It is the turning point of the case, because the slightest difference of expression may occasion a different moaning. The Lord Justice-Clerk—She says—" I shall wait again to-morrow night, same hour and arrangement." And I say there is no doubt, but it is a matter for the jury to consider, that after writing this letter she should wait another night—that is the observation I made. And therefore it was very natural that he should go and see her that Sunday night. But, as I said to you, that is an inference only. If you think it seemed a just and satisfactory inference—that you can rest your verdict upon it—it is quite competent for yOu to draw such an inference from such letters as these, and from the conduct of the man coming to Glasgow for the purpose of seeing her—for it is plain that was his object in coming to Glasgow. It is snfficiently proved that he went out immediately after he got tea and had changed his coat. But then, gentlemen, in showing an inference, you must always look to the important character of the inference which you are asked to allow. If this had been an ap pointment about business, and you found that a man came to Gl asgow for the purpose of seeing anot h er upon business, and he went out for that purpose, having no ether object in coming to Glasgow, you would probably scout the not i on of a person saying I never saw or heard of him the day that he came •; but what you are asked to d raw i s this—the inferen ce that they met that night, where the fact of their meeting is the foundation of a charge of murder. You therefore must reel that It o grounds of drawing an inference in tie ordinary matters of civil business, or the actual intercotose of mutual friends is one thing, and the inference from the fact that he came to Glasgow, that they did meet, and that there fore the poison was administered to him by her at that time, is another, and a most enormous jump in the cate gory of inferences. Now, the question for you to put to yourselves in this, can you now, with satisfaction to your own minds, come to the conclusion that they did meet on that occasion, the result being, and the object of coming to that result being, to fix down upon her the administration of the arsenic by which he had died ? Now, then, gentlemen, let us take the three charges in the indictment : the first charge is, that she adminis tered poison on the I.9de or 20th February, 1857. Can you come to the conclusion, on the evidence of Miss Perry and others, that he did see her on that occasion ? She was not proved to have bad arsenic or any other poison in her possession, and what I attach very great importance to is that there is no medical testimony by analysis of the matter vomited that that illness did pro ceed from the administration of arsenic. If the doctor had examined the matter vomited, and said that there was certainly arsenic here, I am afraid tie case would have been very strong against her as having given him coffee or something immediately before his illness on that occasion. But it is not proved that the illness arose from the administration of poison ; arsenic she had not, and there is no proof of her having possessed any thing deleterious. Therefore I have no hesitation in telling you that that charge has failed. He had twice before been seized with illness of this description, which was not alleged to have been caused by arsenic. And therefore I have no hesitation in telling you that I think that charge has failed. I think it my duty to tell you, as Judge, that on that charge you find her not guilty. But we are in a very different situation as to the illness of the 22 , 1 or 231 of March. In one respect it is not proved to be from the administration of any delete rious substance, and perhaps you may think it Eder not tO hold in such a case as that, that it was the result of the administration of arsenic or any poisonous substanCe.. But what would connect the prisoner with that is I think much stronger—that is to say, connect her with a meeting with him that night. If you should think you can acquit her of the first, and that there is too much doubt to find the second proved, why, then, you will observe how much that weakens all the theories that may be raised in the cor respondence of a purpose and a desire of revenge or some thing rising from the change of tone, and a desire to al lure him again to her embraces and fascinations which cannot be accounted for excepting on the supposition. I In that view, undoubtedly, the foundation of the case is very much shaken, and will not lead you to suppose that the purpose of murder was cherished on the 22d. Then, as to that charge of murder, gentlemen, the points for you to consider are surrounded as the panel is with grave suspicion, everything that seems to militate against the notion of innocence, upon any theory that has been pro pounded to you. Still, are you prepared to say that you find an interview proved against her with the deceased on the night of the 22d March. She had arsenic before the illness of the 221 February, and I think you will consider that all the excuses which she made about hav ing arsenic, are just as groundless as those which she stated to the apothecaries. She bought arsenic again on the 6th, and certainly it is a very odd thing that she should buy more arsenic after she came back to Glasgow ,on the 18th of March. ..?or unless you are to take the account, to be sure, that the used it as a cosmetic, she has it before the 22d, and that is a dreadful fact if you other h atn hedeprecise you greatest must reluctance time keoo are quite satisfied th a t she did not get it and use it for the purpose of was hi ng her hands and face. It may createt, or th view of the matt er , that she was guilty of administering it somehow , thou g h the elace where may not be made u ti in hnevinieytweoruvtriheamwt.ind to take this ar ß s u en t, ic on cou th ld e only be administered by her if an interview took place with L'Angelier, and that vie w though it may be the re sult of an inference that may satisfy you morally that it did take place, still rests upon an inference alone, and that inference is to be the ground, and must be the ground, on which a verdict of guilty is to rest. Gentlemen, you will see, therefore, the necessity of great caution and jealousy in deal ing with any inference which you may draw from this. You may be perfecter satisfied tbat L'Angelier did not commit Suicide, and of course it is necessary for you to be satisfied of that before you could find that any body administered to him. Probably, though none of you may think for a moment that he did go out that night, and that without seeing her and without knowing what she wanted to see him about, if they had met, that he was to swallow above 2W31 grains of arsenic on the street, and that he was carrying it about with him, Probably you will discard that altogether, though it is very important, no doubt, it you come to the conclusion that he did not swallow arsenic : yet, on the other hand, gentlemen, keep in view that that that will not of itself establish that the prisoner administered it. The matter may have remained most mysterious—wholly unex plained. You may not be able to account for it on any other supposition, but still that supposition or inference may not be a ground on which you can safely and satis factorily rest your verdict against the panel.. Now, then, gentlemen, I leave you to consider the case with rete renee to the views that are raised upon this correspond ence. I don't think you will consider it so unlikely as Was septipsed that this girl after writing such letters may have been capable ,of cherishing, such a purpose. Still, 'although you may take such a view of her charac ter; it is but a supposition that she cherished this mur derous purpose—the last conclusion of course that you ought to come to merely on supposition, and inference, and observation upon this varying and wavering corre spondence of a girl in the circumstances in which she is placed. It receives more importance no doubt when you find the purchase of arsenic just before she expected, or just at the time she expected L'Angelier. But still these are but suppositions—these are but suspicions. Now, the great and invaluable use of a jury after they direct their atten tion seriously to the came with the attention you ; have done, is to separate firmly—firmly an d clearly in your own minds suspicious from evid ence. I don ' t say that ieferencss may not competently be drawn but I have already warned you about inferences in the ordi nary matters of civil life, and such a case as this and therefore it you can't say we satisfactorily find here evi dence of this meeting, and that the poison must have been administered by her at any meeting, whatever may be your suspicion, however heavy the weight and load of suspicion is against her, and however you may have to struggle to get rid of it, you perform your best and bounden duty as a jury to separate suspicion from truth, and to proceed upon n othing that you don't find esta blished in evidence against her. I am quite satisfied that whatever verdict you may give, after the attention which you have bestowed upon this case, will be the best approximation to truth, at which we could arrive. But let me say, also, on the other hand, as I said at the out set, that of the evidence you are the best judges, not only in point of law, but in point of fact, and you may be per fectly confident that if yo u return a verdict, you need not Ler any conseq uence s from any f u t ure, or i magined, or fancied discovery, you have done yo ur d uty under your oaths under God, and to your country, and may feel satisfied that remorse you never can have, Lord Justice-Cl rks address the• Throughout the , ' p. 1- rte her usual demeanour. Boner appeared to presse rs The jury retired I a bout 1 0 minutes after 1 o ' c l oc k , im mediately upon w hich the audience i n C ourt fell into keen excitement a . . • d discussion. About fi ve m i nutes after the retirement, a bell rung, which was at f i rst thought to be the signal from the jury that th e y were verdict, and a deep th r ill of anxiet y ready with their y h Court—alth oug h t h e prisoner was visible throughout the tj only slightly turned her head for a moment. D ur i ng the whole of the remaining period for which the jury were absent, she showed no particular symptoms of agi tation—although, about thirty-five mi nu t es past one, a second bell, which proved to be that of the Judges, caused a repetition of the same scene, At thirty-two minutes past one, the jury bell rung, and they entered the box three minutes aft erwar d s. The prisoner still gave no symptoms of emotion. The Lord Justice-Clerk intimated that it must be un derstood that there must be no expression of feeling bir the audience, whatever the verdict. The names of the jury having been called, Mr. Moffat, of the High School, w as announced as Chancellor, and read the verdict as follows : In regard to the FIRST CHARGE, the jury, by a ma jority, find a verd4 — Tr ' e 'NOT GUILTY; which c har ge d Madeline Smith, urrei adeline Hamilton Smith, with wickedly and felsolously administering arsenic, or some other poison, with intent to murder; as also with Furder, in so far as, firit, on the 19th or 20th days of February last (Thutsday or Friday), in the house in Blythswood-square, Glasgow, occupied by James Smith, her father, she did viekedly and feloniously administer to, or cause to be talon by, Emile L'Angelier or Pierre Emile L'Angelier, low deceased, and then, or lately before, in the ernPlclment of W. B. Huggins and Co., merchant's, Bothwelsstreet, Glasgow, as a clerk or in some other capacity and then, or lately before residing with David Jenkins, a joiner, and Ann Duthie, or Jen kins, his wife, in •P - 4nkiin-street, Glasgow, a quantity or quantities of arstic or other poisons, to the prose cutor unknown, in Cocoa, or coffee, or some other arti cle or articles o f & ee l or o f thi n k, to the prosecutor unknown, with intelt to murder the said Emile L'Ange lier ; and that he leasin g taken the said arsenic or other poison, or part thee o f so administered or caused to be taken by her, be du in conseq uence thereof, and inune ciately or soon elk taking the same, suffer severe illness. In regard to the 3 ECOND CHARGE, the jury find , by a majority, a verdict ot NOT PROVEN ; which charged that Madeleine Shith, on the 221 or 23 d of February (Sunday or Monda : ), in the house at Blythswood - square aforesaid, did aduinister, or cause to be taken by the said Emile L'A.n o di er, a quan tity or quantities of arsenic or other pod", in .n c)coa, or in coffee, or in some other artic e of food or drink, or in some other manner, with intent to murder him, and that in conse quence of taking- h e sa i d poison that he again suffered severe illness. In regard to tie THIRD CHARGE [the charge of MURDER], the itty, by a majority, find a verdict of NOT PROVEN ; which c harg e d that Madeleine Smith, on the 22 l or 23dot M arch (Sunday or Monday), in the house in Blythsw ) od-squire aforesaid, did administer to, or Pause to be taken by the said Emile L'Angelier, in some other arich or articles of food or drink to the prosecutor unknovo or in some other manner t o t he prosecutor unknown, a quant i ty or quan tities of arsenic ' or other poison tc th e prosecutor unknown, and the said EMile L'A.ngelier having taken the said arsenic or other poison, or pert thereof, administered or caused to be taken by the .prisone r , be did immediately or soon sufferaftesuffer severeidness, and died on the 23d of March, in cons,quence of she said arsenic or other poison haying Lbjfin. so taken by him, and was thus rnuriel el by "the said Rathhills Smith. Instantly on the announcement of these last wor 'F, a vehement burst of cheering came from the audience, especially from the galleries, which was again and agr in renewed with increasing loudness in spite of the etf.nts of the judges and the officers of court. Whilst the Chancellor was reading the verdict, the prisoner gazed at the jury steadily, but with no signs of agitation, and when the verdict of Not Proven on the third charge was pronounced, her head slightly fell, her face broke into a bright but somewhat agitated smile, and her hand was warmly grasped by her agent, Mr. Ranken, on one s'de, and the jail matron on the other—expressions of sympathy which seemed to affect her more deeply than any incident of the nine days trial. The Lord Justice-Clerk, in thanking the jury for their services, (and intimating that they would be relieved from similar duties for five years), stated that they would have perceived from what he had said to them that his own opinions quite coincided with the conclu- sion at which they had arrived. The prisoner was then dismissed from the bar. THE TRIAL OF MISS SJIITH. (From the Times.) The dead man L'Angelier is not one whose fate there is any need to commiserate. His conduct to one who bad been his victim was base and unmanly in the last degree, and can only be excused on the ground stated by the Lord Advocate, that by the law of Scotland an irregular marriage might be held. to have taken place, and that L'Angelier had a right to consider Madeline Smith as his wife. and to prohibit her union with another man. That the jury should declare the crime Not Proven is hardly surprising ; for the circumstances are as mysterious as any that have ever been related in a court of justice. If on the one hand the prisoner purchases arsenic, and thinks of her compl-xiou for the first time when she is distracted with terror respecting her good name, on the other hand she buys it so openly that a juryman might well think her conduct incompatible wtth a murderous inten tion. In her fast letter, after the purchase of arsenic in February, she tells her lover that "I am taking some stuff to bring back the colour." Of course, the prosecution look upon this as a proof of consummate cunning ; the defence declare it to be a corroboration of the prisoner's statement. If L'Angelier indeed poisoned himself he must have been the most extraordinary of men ; for he not only makes two unsuccessful attempts, and goes to th e country foe his health afterward s , but he relates how he was made ill by his paramour's chocolate, says jokingly he would forgive her if even she were to poison him, and a month afterwards, just before he is supposed to poison himself, he tells his friends he is going to Blythswood-square, and actually loiters in the neighbourhood for the purpose of making the world believe he is poisoeed there. Was L'Angelier likely to commit self-murder, and i n such a manner as wilfully to bring on Made:eine Smith the suspicion of the deed ? These questions are now beyond human investigation. The jury by their verdict have declared their inability to decide. In this verdict we must concur ; yet we see no reason for the cheering and the manifesta tion of joy which greeted it. Madeleine Smith goes forth free from the penalties of the law—that is all. 1 (Prom the Daily News.) The nature and effect of this verdict appears to be as follows. In Scotland, as in England, a cri minal trial is a " wager of law." Toe Prosecutor undertakes to convince a jury that the accused is guilty ; the accused, to satisfy the jury that he (or she) is innocent. The jury are not expected to do more than express the conviction produced on their minds by the statements of the witnesses and the arguments of the lawyers. Their conviction may be such as they would find it difficult to assign a reason for ; still it is held to be conclusive as to the facts. In England the jury are call ed upon to declare distinctly either that they hold the accused guilty or that they hold him innocent. The more considerate law of Scotland makes allowance for that neutral state of mind in which plain, unprofessional men may have an im pressicon of the accused's culpability too strong to admit of their conscientiously declaring him inno cent—too weak to admit of their incurring the re sponsibility of exposing him to punishment. In this case they are allowed to have recourse to the temporising declaration—" not proven." Of this privilege the Jury on Miss Madeleine Smith have availed themselves, and the rather tantalising re sult of a protracted and exciting inquiry is simply this ;—That L'Angelier died of poison, but not of poison administered by himself ; that sufficient evidence has not been obtained to carry home con viction to the guilty, though suspicions have pointed strongly in a certain direction. (From the Morning Herald.) The Lord Advocate declared that in this case "there was not a link wanting in the evidence ;" that " there was no loophole at which the unhappy prisoner could escape." Such was certainly not the opinion of the legal profession in this country, nor, as we are informed, in Scotland. And .that was rather reckless langu tge to be used by the first law officer of the Crown, in a case of life and d-a.h ; it was language which should hardly he usel if tt;e case was c!ear and cogent. .But was this such a case ? The case of a girl, accused of poisoning her lover—a man who was not proved to have been with her on the fatal occasion ! Circumstantial evidence must often be resorted to, and ioferences must be drawn from facts. But the inference of guilt must arise from the facts proved. A n d here —even if the man had been seen at the house on that night—the reception of the poison could only have been an infer ence. Then, however, it would have been an infer ence from a fact ; here it was sought to make an inference upon an inference—nay, rather against the facts. For the evidence rather tended to show that he was not there on that night—at any such hour as is supposed ; or that if he were, she could not have seen him. Was this a case to characterise as one in which there was not "a link wanting," and in which there w.ts no "loophole for escape ?" We rejoice that the jury thought otherwise. (From the Morning Post ) The case against Miss Smith, legally considered, was lame and defective in the extreme. That she desired to be out of the power of L'Augelier, and married to her other admirer, was perhaps estab lished. It was proved that, at dates correipomli ng with the illnesses of the deceaseJ, she bad bi)ught arsenic for some unknown and as yet ill-explained purpose. The arsenic bought at ono shop was coloured with soot, and that purchased at another with indigo. There was an entire want of proof of administration. Drs. Christison and Penny, while they looked for and found arsenic in the stomach, neither look e d for nor found soo t or i n di go. Al. though seen in the neighbourhood of Mi ss S m i th ' s house at half-past nine p.m. on Sunday night, there is no proof of his having had an interview with her. From that hOur till he was found in agony and weakness at two a.m. next morning, be is not accounted for. There is a great chasm iu the evidence. The presiding judge pointed this out. The jury acted upon this conviction. ( From the Caledonian Mercury of Wednesday.) If on Monday the interest of the public hal par ially declined, it was greater than ever on the 7th day. From an early hour, a crowd besieged the doors of the Justiciary Court ; standing room was hardly to be obtained ; and the pressure from be hind became very severe. At last, the doors were opened. Like a pent-up mountain torrent, when swollen by melting snows, it sweeps away au ob stacle interposed by accumulated ice and boulders, the multitude surged in, and would, half- bewil deied, have lost themselves in the passages, bad they. not been prevented by iron inner gaTe4, and the policemen who stood by each, as the genii loci. In a minute the whole of the portion of tire court allotted to the public was filled. At ten, when the proceedings were resumed, the hall was more crowded than ever. The side galleries appeared, by a curious process of compression, to have ac quired the power of holding nearly double the number which,. they had formerly contained, crowds were standing near the further ends ; and even the gallery passage behind the judges, where the oanopy projecting above the dais forbids a view of the speakers, was filled with attentive listeners Of advocates especially there were present a greater number than had previously attended, eager to be witnesses of the single conteit in which were now to be engaged two of their foremost leaders. In the earlier stages of the trial the ability of the counsel engaged was conspicuously displayed in the rapid examinations of the Lord Advocate, the searching questions of the .Dean of Faculty, and the confident assumptions of Mr. Young, so diffi cult to deny. Yesterday, however, the great battle really commenced. Hitherto there had been, as it were, marching and counter. marching, manceuvring and concentration of forces; now the leaders began to marshal in array the opposing bodies of evidence for the struggle on which the fate of the prisoner depended. When the Lord Advocate rose to address the jury, the accused turned towards him, and watched him uneasily and restlessly. Soon she recovered her self-possession, and retained it during the greater portion of his speech. Her veil, however, which had been raised as she ascended the stair into the court, had now fallen, and this was not to be wondered at. A universal silence prevailed in the court, The Solicitor -General sat motionless, with his arms folded, and his mill grave eyes steadily fixed on the ground ; wln'e the junior counsel for tl e Cr ,wit, Mr. Mackenzie, look,'d alternately at hi, p: ion ipal and a printed pa,pi-r which he held in his hand. On the further side of the table sat the counsel for the defence—the Dean of F,:culty, listening calmly but with com pressed lips, now and then taking a brief note with a pen which he held in his hand ; Mr. George Young lo:king coclly at theljury, as if to put thorn at their ease; and the junior, Mr. Alex ander Moncrieff, writing as fast as his pen could fly for the service of his seniors. The Lord Justice Gerk is at once listening to the Lord Advocate, and investigating a printed copy of the letters, or his own notes of the evid ence . Lords Ivory and Handyside are listening in tently, their eyes fixed on the speaker. Two of the other judges, who are also present, listen, but now and then turn to survey the court. The jury, finding themselves personally addressed, become more fixedly attentive than hitherto, and several take snuff to clear their understanding. In one of the seats allotted to the Glasgow reporters an at tist is making a sketch of the crowded court, the wig thronged gallery on the further side, the accused herse:f, and the other actors in the great drama now in progress, evidently with a view to its pro duction in some illustrated newspaper. Meanwhile the Lord-Advocate, having made some preliminary remarks on the verification of the letters, and the management of prosecution in other respects, en tered upon the more vital parts of the case, and be gan to draw the dark and mysterious outlines of this strange and lamentable story. One by one, each of the links of evidence was riveted into its place. He traced the course of the relations be tween the prisoner and the dead man ; and read many of the letters, of which parts had been for merly submitted by the clerk of the court. Very different were they read now ; the passionate ap peals which they contained fell from the speaker's lips vehemently and truthful, with the vividness of an able actor. The prisoner shuddered. Then he entered upon the proof; and, by the aid of a multitude of little points of circumstantial evidence, Unveiled the secret history of the deceased and the accused during the months of Feb. and March—an investigation which had to be all the more minute in con-tequence of the rejection of L'Angelier's pocket-b , ok as admissible evidence. Towards the close of a speech - of five hours and a half, he exa mined and rejected the various theories that m'ght be propounded on behalf of the defence, and fixed, as it were, the final link in declaring that, unless on the fatal night of the 22d of March, the de e-ased had an interview with the prisoner in her father's hou , e in Blythswood-square, the idea of suicide, in the absence of motive, was impossible ; and that if it was admitted that he had been there, the evidence against the prisoner was perfectly overwhelming. In many of the most terrible dramas, whether of real or fictitious life, there occurs some circum stance, which, of itself ludicrous, only heightens the effect by contrast ; as when poor Hamlet jests with the men who are digging a grave for the lady of his love. Thus, if it had not been for the solemn nature of yesterday's proceedings, it would have been positively amusing to have watched the coun tenances of the jury changing during the con tinuance of the Lord-Advocate's speech. At first, they were only attention ; then they became graver ; and by degrees their faces lengthened and lengthened, mid the corners of their mouths went down. It appeared as if they had been formerly easy in the idea of having to discharge a more agreeable office, and were now awakening to a pain ful sense of haying to fulfil a stern and t en ible Tears stood in the eyes of two of the jurors ; but this may partly be accounted for by the magnetic influence arising from the fact of their being stared at by one man for five and a half hours, and starin g at him in return. B e thi s as it ma y, it will late curious to watch the reverse of this proceeding to day, when the Dean of Faculty will draw the oppo site strings. (Front the Caledonian Mercury.) The last and decisive day of this great trial has at length arrived. Of allthe eight preceding, yesterday was perhaps the most excii ing ; for it was known that the Dean of Faculty was to address the jury, and his well-known abilities collected a greater assem blage than ever. The rush made by the crowd into the larger gallery at eight was alarming —par ties, in a wild hubbub, bounding over the benches down to the front—and it had abated little during the two hours that elapsed before the commence ment of the proceedings. At ten, the galleries were filled to overflowing ; the back of the gallery behind the Judges, and the windows in that part of the Court, were crowded with persons standing. Several daring individuals sat in the corners of the gallery with their legs dangling over the front, and hats were deposited in perilous positions on narrow ledges beneath. For the first time, the Court and Jury were in their places before the prisoner entered. Miss Smith naturally appeared somewhat worn, owing, no doubt, to the painful and protracted excitement of the last eight days, which must have been all the more intense within, because its outward manifes tations were almost always so effectually subdued. The Dean, on her entrance, went up to her, and spoke a few words to her, smiling, in an encou raging manner, as he has done ever since the third morning of the trial. Then, after the opening of the Court, and a brief pause, he rose to address the jury. Slowly ho rose, and slowly, solemnly, and mournfully, the words fell from his lips. At first his voice was low, and yet it wa, always so distinct, that from the beginning to the close of his speech, it would have been difficult for any reporter to have lost either his words or his mean ing. As he proceeded, his voice swelled louder and louder ; his right hand, which at first was laid upon the table, was waved in demonstration to the jury ; his eye-glass was occasionally raised to his eyes, as he read some portion of a letter, to show the devoted love which the prisoner bore to L'Ange her ; and his lips projected in contemptuous scorn when he spoke of the man who could corrupt and betray hf-T. Without following the Lord Advocate very minu'ely into all Vie circumstantial evidence which the later had adduced, he struck boldly at the priuciFal points of the accusation, and argued that th,,y were, in the circumstance, incredii,le. The eye-glass being found inconvenient, a pair or spectacles were substitirecl. Every word was em phatic ; every sentence was delivered in a powerful and deliberate manner, which chained for the time the mind of his auditors into a feeling that it was utterly iinpos,il.le that he could be in the wrong. As he alvanced, he became more vehement in his language, more excited in manner, more filled with loateinu and horror at the wickedness of the man through whose vile agency " a gentle, pure, and affectionate girl, the pride of her father's family," had fallen so low as to be capable of writing these painful and disgusting letter', and then attempt to use them against her as an engine of terror and op pression. His emotion increased as be read to the Jury, in quivering tones, the despairing letter of the 10th February. It was in the last half-hour, however, that his eloquence became irresistible, and carried all before it. Every muscle of his face, every gesture of his hands, every motion of his tall and commanding figure, every tone of his deep and powerful voice, told part of the story. It would be utterly impossible for one who merely reads his speech to comprehend the influence which it ap peared to exert on the minds of those who heard it, when deprived of the auxil ary power of his almost irresistible manner. Perhaps the moat telling part of the whole was his introduction of the story of Eliza Fenning, and the warning which he drew from it : while the solemn and awful appeal with which he concluded thrilled through the souls o all in Court, and will be remembered by them to their dying day. If the Jury had consulted im mediately, the result could hardly have been doubt ful. After an attempt at applause, which was in stantly checked, and a brief resting-time, the Lord Justice Clerk commenced his charge. At first, while the echo of the eloquent words to which the Court had just listened, had hardly died away, their power appeared to have extended to the bench ; but, as his lordsnip proceeded with th e re capitulation of the evidence, their influence was lost. 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Tip) order f r th 4 entba ort of the officers and men of the Bth and 53d Regiments at the provi sional battalion, Chatham, to join the service com panies of their respective regiments in Bengal, has been countermanded in consequence of the autho rities requiring the East India Company's troop ship Cressy, in which they were to embark at Gravesend to-morrow, to convey a portion of one of the regiments ordered to India. To-morrow detachments of the 50th and 90th Regiments will sail from Liverpool for India in the screw steam ship Prince Arthur, 1,600 tons. Detachments of the 50th and 77th -Regiments arrive I at Liverpool yesterday from Dublin in the steam-ship Prince. They proceeded to Colchester. The Ulysses sailing transport embarked the troops before repotted yesterday morning, and dropped out to Spithead. She sails this morning for India. The Rhadamanthus steam store.ship, Master- Commander Brown, was yesterday taken into the inner basin of Woolwich dockyard to ship a cargo of steam machinery for the western yards. The Rhadamanihus has assumed the appearance of a new ship, having been renovated throughout. Mr. Robert L. Harris has been appointed as sistant clerk to the Ganges ; and Mr. Cuthbert R. Rodham, assistant clerk, it.) the Ajax. The 25th Regiment consisting of 660 men, ar rived at Dover from Manchester yesterday morning in two special trains at 9 30, and were played to their barracks at the Western Heights, by the band of the 42d Royal Highlar dots. An almost miraculous escape from death occurred while the first special train was running between Betchworth and the Reigate Town . station on the South-Eastern Railway. A child bel )nging to the wife of one of the soldiers, a fine boy about 7 years of age, was leaning out of the window of the carriage in which he and his mother and others were travelling, when by some means he overbalanced himself and fell out on to the line, the train at the time running at full speed, or at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The mother of the boy was with difficulty restrained from jumping out of the carriage alter him. On the arrival of the train at Reigate Town men were instantly dispatched down the line in search of the child, who was found lying between thetwo lines of rail, comparatively uninjured, the collar-bone only being fractured. What lenders the escape more remarkable is that the second special train, con veying the remainder of the troops, which was fol lowing close behind the first one, passed the child without doing him any injury. The little sufferer is now under the care of the regimental surgeon. at Dover, and will probably soon recover. BETTING HOUSES IN THE CITE' Yesterday, James Merry, who was a short time ago convicted at the Mansion-House before the Lord Mayor and Alderman Wire, of having used a room in a house in Ta►bot-court, acechurch-street, for betting purposes, and sentenced to imprison ment for three months, appealed against the convic tion. The appeal was heard before the Recorder and Aldermen Sir R. W. Carden, Ot2biVt, and Hale, at the Old Bailey, and was supported ',by Mr. Ribton, Mr. Bodkin appearing for the repon dent. Mr. Ribton made an earnest application for the postponement of the case, upon the ground that he had not had time to look into the case of his client. The Recorder at once refused any delay. Mr. Ribton then objected to the defect in the information, the number of the house in Talbot court not having been specified. The Court overruled the objection without the slightest hesitation. Butt, who gave the principal evidence on the occasion of the examination at the Mansion-House, was then called, and examined, and his testimony did not differ in the slightest degree from that which he had so fully givtn in the fint instance. The conviction was confirmed, and •the prisoner was sent to prisun to serve the ;.hree, months:to which he had been originally sentenced. Mr. Bodkin said the Court might form some opinion of the mischief done by houses of the"kind from the statement he had to make, that from the bank book which th e defendant acknowledged to be his, it appeared that within the last ten months 15,6001. had been paid in to the defendant's ac count, and that no more than 8001. of that aum had been drawn out. The Recorder expressed a fervent hope, that the result would have a wholesome effect upon society. Country Markets. BOSTON —JULY 8. We had a moderate supply of grain at to•day's mar• ket, and fine fresh qualities of wheat met a fair sale at previous rates; ordinary runs at rather easier terms, the demand being retail. Beans and oats as last quoted. Prices :—Wheat, red, 53s Od to 65s Od; new, —s to —s ; white, 643 o,t to 67s Od, ext ra , 69 5 . Barley, 40s Od to 47s Od. Oats 258 to 31s. Peas, 40‘ to 443 Od. Beans, 46s Ud to 49s Od per qr. NEWARK-JULY 8. A good attendance and a plentiful supply of grain of all kinds, at fully last week's prices. Wheat, white 68s to 70s ' red 64s to 675; b a rl e y, ma lti ng —s to --s, grindi ng 36 s to 38s; oats, 24st. 32s to 365, 22st, 23s to 365; beans, 4-is to 50s; malt, 73s to 80s; peas, 483 to 50s; tares, 44s to 48s per qr. LOUTH —JULY 8. Our market this morning was thinly attended, and there was little business transacted, and prices unaltered. Wheat, 603 to 655; extra, 665; barley Rs to 445; oats 24s to 28s; beans, 44s to 48s. MANCHESTER--JULY 9. A small attendance to-day, and a very limited business doing in wheat or flour, inferior qualities being quite un saleable, and American red wheat declined 2d per Nibs. on last week. Beans, oats, and oatmeal were in fair re• quest at about the prices of last week. GLASGOW -JULY 8. An fair attendance at our market to-day, but there was a mere retail business. Wheat met a decline of fid to Is per boll, and flour is per sack and fid per barrel. Oats were offering at 3d to fid cheaper. Barley steady. Beaus firm. Peas a slow sale. Indian corn neglected. EDINBTJRGH GRAIN.---JULY 8. The supply of grain of all kinds to-day was large. Sales quick, cud prices up, except barley. Wheat, on the top, Os 6d up, and on the average 2i Od up. Barley, 4s Od down on the top, and is 8d down on the average. Oats on the top is 3d up, and am the average Os 4.1 up. Beans on the top is Od down, and on the average 2s lld up. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat £2 8 7 8-12 tbs. Do. new -12th. Barley Oats 1 10 9 3-12ths. Beans 2 5 4 9-12ths. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 1588 qrs ............... so ld 1116 qrs Barley 2Bl qrs ........ sold 88 qrs Oats 930 qrs ...............sold 613 qrs Beans 42 qrs ...............sold 34 qrs DERBY SMITHFIELD.—JgLY 7. There was a full supply of fat beasts to-day, with a fait attendance of buyers. The demand flat, anas few unsold: The supply of sheep and lambs was very good—the for mer a heavy sale, the latter readily disposed of. A large supply of calves, and few buyers. Fat pigs a full average number, and a heavy sale. The following were the quotations :---Beef, 6id to 7d; mutton, 7d to lid ; lamb, 8d to tid ; veal, 61 lc 64d per lb. ; pigs, ha Od to 108 6d per score; rough fat, 5s 30 to Os per 141 b. ; hides, 4.1 d to 6 4 d per lb ; calf-skins, AO co 64d er lb. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the sth inst., at Stockwell-crescent; Clapham-road, Surrey, Mrs. Thomas. On the Bth inst., at Foulsham Rectory, Norfolk, the wife of the Rev. James W. Bird. The rate of be able da Patti examtli for (1),,, Ai racterh kornt❑ l'olY had at It tess of of Fort M. p, oL The La tare at the liy .—____ A' Pi TE and In Inatu at Lo S a l e Lots of and Tn Meat, l'ers( for not( Cata] Yard. Nc S c ' kY lessees 4 the N a , FATE] Bottle Mixt fa 212' With a ' 840.51 and no, M IL' most c( Lord-st STREE Fu Mmes C ON'SI Write „Air. at th e Th e 11. 01 V district ” Th " A, " A " Of Pa better _ • tinder the set " Of th , Th at is. i n Copi, sow s 0 inform, ThOulre ------___ Pl The any CI Dorian their ft CUR Yil Hy II( NF OF A DAVOIITER. On the 7th inst., at Ickworth, the Lady Arthur Hervey. On the Bth inst., at 6, Charterhouse-square, Mrs. Geo. rakeling. 31 A It R I E D. On the Bth inst., at Walton-on-Thames, VT. Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, barrister -at-law, of the Inner Temple, t o A gnes B • s ton, the secon.a daughter of Jonas Wilks, Esq., of Oat land's-park, Walton-on-Thames. On the 7th inst., at Hornsey Church, Alfred P. Bosley, of Hampstead, second son of John Burley, Esq., of Cronies.- street, Gray's-inn-road, to Ann Susannah, eldest daughter of William Batting, Esq., of Camomile-street, city, and Clapham. D lIE D. On the 9th inst., at Blackheath-park, Robert J. Hood, Esq., of Bardon-park, Leicestershire, aged 61. On the Bth inst., at 1, Upper Portland-place General Sir Charles E ger t on , G.C . M .G., Colonel of the 89th Regi ment, aged 83. On the 7th inst., at 20, Dorset-street, Portman-square, Jean Albert Guignatd, Esq., late of Foley-place and Sa ville-row, aged 91. On the 7th inst., at Finchley, Alfred Moul, Esq., aged 33. the the 7th inst., at Brentford, Mr. Charles Lutwyche Allen, aged 65. On the 7th inst., at East-hill, Colchester, Geo. Round, Esq., aged 55. On the Gth inst., at 8, Upper Hyde-park-street, Benja min Hunt, Esq., aged 19. 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