Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-09 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. THE TURKO - RUSSIAN FRONTIER IN ASIA. In accordance with the 30th article of the Treaty of Peace, which assigned to a mixed commission the task of verifying the Turko-Russian frontiers in Asia, and, if necessary, of rectifying them with out prejudice to either party, one French and one English Commissioner have proceeded to Alexandropol, where they were cordially received by the two Russian Commissioners. Two Ottoman Commissioners will be associ ated with them, and the mixed commission will then enter immediately upon its labours. POLICE-OFFICE, DUBLIN.—On Monday, the office was densely crowded with carmen, the number of carriage complaints being very great. In the course of the pro ceedings, Mr. Porter observed that, as a magistrate and a Citizen, he could not help saying, from his own personal observation, that thousands of carriage irregularities occurred in the streets which demanded the attention of the police, bat of which he found no mention in the book before him ; while, on the other hand, the complaints brought forward by the police were of a kind in which the public had comparatively no concern. He did not find that car -drivers were summoned as often as the facts Warranted for going at the wrong sida of the street, and in particular the drivers of drays, who scarcely ever went right. An ill-dressed and rather dirty driver, who owned his car, was summoned by a constable, who stated that the complaint was for having the car in bad repair ; the oil cloth was torn. Mr. Porter : Was he dressed the Way he is now ? Constable: Yes, your Worship. Mr. Porter: Was the state of his car or of his dress the worse ? Constable: the car, your Worship. Mr. Porter : Then it must have been a most infernal car• (Laughter.) Defendant said he had "got it done since." Mr. Porter : You ought so have put yourself in proper repair too. It is a scandalous thing that the first car stand when strangers or foreigners come across on arriving in Dahlia is the dirtiest in Ireland, not to say in Dublin. They are very passionate fellows in Cork, and if you told a Cork driver that the cars and drivers of his town were as bad as those of Westland-row, he would knock you down. I have frequently asked London magistrates w h a t do they do with cases of carriages in ill-repair, or dirty drivers, and their reply was, "We never have them." It is very mean on the part of the car-men of this city to Oblige policemen to be dogging after them in order to keep matters right. Defendant was fined one shilling.— Saunders. PLUTO AND THE TRIEF.-JOS3ph Denby, an ill-favoured thick -set young fellow, was charged, at the Worship-street Police Court, on Wednesday, with attempting to break into and enter the dwelling-house of Mr. Black, a mer chant, residing at the " Priory," Lower Clapton, Under peculiar circumstances, detailed by Mrs. Black With considerable naivete. About half-past six o'clock in the morning the lady was somewhat alprmed by a slight yet suspicious noise belo stairs, and descending made her way to the larder, fairly presuming from prior incursions there that it was then the scene of operation ; quietly peeping in at the door she observed the prisoner with one hand thurst through the aperture of the iron bars, and tenaciously grasping the tongue of an ox, which he appeared to have selected from the various viands resting on dishes on the shelf beneath. The tongue, however, was too large to pass through the space with the thief's fingers closed on it, and, moreover, being cooked, was' like many others, very slippery, and it continually fell back again. Mrs. Black noticing that the article was becoming terribly mauled, thought it time to interfere, and, oponing an adj icent window, called loudly for Pluto. The marauder started as the deep bay of a hound broke through the stillness, and leaving the tongue wedged between the bars, he scoured off across the lawn. " Pluto, Pluto," was repeated from the window by the lady. A r ush was heard among the shrubs at the farther end of the g ro unds, and just as the fellow reached it, Pluto made his appearance therefrom iu the formidable shape of an enor mous Newfoundland dog. Both were at a stand for half a minute; then the thief stepped slowly and gradually backwards. Pluto majestically followed him. The thief y el led ; Pluto growled; and at this critical juncture, while the animal was apparently waiting further orders from his mistress, the gardener and other servants issued from the house, and seized the scoundeel, who manifestly considered their custody much preferable to that of P,uto's. The dog was prevented from injuring him, and a poliu-constable subsequently conducted the prisiouer to the ststion-house• When asked by an attendant, " What brought you here ?" he answersi, "Why, my legs to be sure." A sergeant of the N division said he had had the accused in custody three times for felony, and he was a notorious area sneak. He had also Ikea convicted at the Middlesex Sessions. The magistrate told the fellow that he should not send him for trial this time, but order him to be imprisoned for three calender months in the Flonse of Correction with hard labour. On Tuesday, the 4 h of August, Mr. Kinglake wi - 1 mo-e in the liou eof Commons, " That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that in consideration of General Kmate's services during the late war, and espe cially in consideration of his share in the action fought before Kars, on the 29th day of September, 1855, her Majesty will be the graciously pleased bestow upon General some fisting mark of her royal t o approbation." New GOTHIC CHURCHES IN LONDON.—Of recent G.eloic churches in London, there are only two which seem to us to have a truly urban —we will not say metropolitan— character. These are, the new church in Margaret-street, and that in Gerdone:quare. The latter is of cethedral dimensions; there are cathedrals which are inferior to it in respect of size ; and, indeed, in respect of general altitude, which is the chief direction which magnitude should assume in ecclesiastical edifices, the church in Gordon-square is most liberally and nobly built, and makes Mr. Pugin's Roman Catholic cathedral stunted and vulgar by compariion. This church, however, is quite unfitted for our ordinary national ritual, for which, indeed, it was not intended. It is in ternally and extern a lly o f the common cathedral type, and its imposi ng e ff ect i s o b tained by a magnitude considerably bey on d that which would be convenient for any service in Which the sermon is the chief point. There is no re tnarkable orginality in this church; it is merely remarkable . as, u p on t h e w h ole, the best restoration of mediaeval church architecture in the metropolis. The other church We spoke of has a far higher merit. It is a truly original work. Without exceeding or even nearly reaching the interior dimensions allowable in a modern protestant church, and w ith o ut any sacrifice of t rue ecclesiastical effect, the builder of this church . has succeeded in givi ng i t a truly urban s i ze and effect by a must artistical amalgamatian of the parsonage and school house with a church i tse lf , o f w hi c h the singular but beautiful spire rises to the altitude of 225 feet above the pave' ment. Not only is obtained, but the edifice is rendered an integral part_ of adequate size thus the street ; for the Parsonage and school-house come righ n t up to the Pavement, and are continuous with the houses o side, at the same lime that they form, as it were, the jecting wings offs the ch urc h proper in the centre. BY t' arrang9naent,thise ordinary defect of magnitude in London churches is still further avoided ; for isolation always makes a building conspicuous, and calls for dimensions above those required in a position of less pretence, like that of the present edifice. On entering the building, which is constructed for a congregation of about 600 pers )ns, the beauty and costli ness of the materials and workmanship at once take our thoughts away from considerations of size The shafts, Walls, and tracery are wholly of rare native marbles — Derbyshire alabasters, Cornish serpentine, Purbeck, and g r anite —wall-441e exception of a small surface covered with coloured bricks, and the Spaces occupied by Mr, tpree's frescoes. The great window, by Gerent, is one of Alto' est magnificent specimens of modern coloured glass. l et ber, the interior, when completed, will. be un va bY anything of the sort in England, With the one excepti led o n , Anything ef the little Lombard chr.,rch at Wilton. —.National Revi ew, new number, IMPE DIAL PARLIAMENT. (By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. The Speaker took the chair at noon. The British and Irish Grand Junction Bill was read a :bird time and passed. THE. NORTHERN TIMES.-- LIVERPOOL, ,THURSDAY, JULY 9,.. 1857. CONSERVANCY OF THE TIIAMES. On the motion for the third reading of the Thames Conservancy Bill, Sir W. Codrington opposed it, and moved the postpone ment of the stage till that day six months. A discussion ensued. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alderman Cubit, and others, defended the measures, and Sir James Graham, and others, opposed it, on account of the composition of the Conservancy Board. After wich a division took place. The numbers were— Ayes Noes . . Mjority 94 The bill was accordingly read a third time and passed. THE WAR WITH CHINA. The Chancellor of the Exchequer brought up papers by command of her Majesty, and moved that they be re ferred to the Committee of Supply. The right hon• gentleman explained that the papers contained estimates of half a million—the moiety of the extraordinary expense of the war with Persia, and half a million for the war with China. Mr. Roebuck could not allow that opportunity to pass without expressing his disapprobation of the course taken by the Government, in entering upon, carrying on, and concluding a war, without giving the House of Commons any opportunity of discussing the policy of the proceed ings. He thought the House would be abusing its func_ tions, if it did not visit such a course with its reprobation. No intimation was given to the House till it was asked to pay the expenditure, and he ventured to say that, never in the history of Parliament, from the year 1640 to the present hour, had such a thing happened. It was re served for the Liberal Government of the noble Lord to throw that stigma upon the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) Sir H. Willoughby wished to know whether a million would cover the whole of the expense of the war with Persia ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer recommended the House not to enter upon a premature discussion on this question. With regard to the questiou brought forward by Sir H. Willoughby, he stated that the only sum the House would be asked to pay for the purpose this year was £260,000. A discussion then took place as to the regularity of the motion made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on another day, and the Speaker decided that the regular Practice had been followed in the case. TIIE TEA AND SUGAR DUTIES. The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice of his intention, in the course of the present month, of moving a resolution to continue the teA, and sugar duties, as fixed last year, for two years. The motion was agreed to. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. The committee upon the Industrial Schools Bill was hen resumed. Clause 8 was agreed to, without discussion. On clause 9 being read, Mr. Bowyer proposed an amendment, having for its object to provide for the religious instruction of children according to their denominations and opinions, or the opinions of their parents. He proposed that the managers of industrial schools should keep a book having the deno. minations of the children in it ; and that that book should be open to ministers having chapels legally open, in order that they might at fitting times have access to the chil dren, for the purpose of giving instruction to them, accor ding to the creeds which they or their parents pro— fessed. Mr. Adderley looked upon the fear of proselytising in the school as an illusion, and opposed the amendment on the ground that it would throw the whole machinery of the institutions into confusion. Mr. Gregory suggested that the managers of institu tions should fix hours for ministers to visit the children of their denominations. Mr. Bowyer withdrew his amendment, and the clause was agreed to. The clauses 10, 11,• and 12, were agreed to without discussion. On clause 13, which provides that a child shall not be detained in the schools after the attainment of the age of fifteen years, Mr. Barrow, thinking it necessary that the child should, at an early age, be discharged in order to learn the busi. ness by which it was to live, moved to insert 12 in lieu Sir John Pakington opposed the amendment. Mr. Liddell explained that trades would be taught in the schools. Lord Ebrington thought it would be advisable to give discretionary powers to managers, as to the education and discharge of children. Ultimately, after some further discussion, the committee divided. For the amendment Against it Majority The clause was then agreed to. On clause 14, Mr. Barrow moved an amendment, limiting the power to compel parents to contribute to the support of their children in industrial schools to the age of 12 years. Mr. Newdegate, Mr. A. Miles, and Mr. Massey opposed the amendment ; and Mr. [tendon, Mr. Walter, and Mr. Briscoe supported it. Upon a division there appeared : For the amendment 7B Against it Majority The clause was then agreed to, as were also the remain— ing clauses of the bill. On the motion of Mr. Adderley, clauses were inserted in lieu of 5 and 7. providing that children taken into cus— tody for vagrancy may be sent to school while inquiries are being made. That justices may make the parents responsible for the good behaviour of the child, and that the parent should be liable to a penalty of 40s for neg lect during such responsibility. After some discussion, the bill, with amendments, was ordered to be reported. OXFORD ELECTION. The Chairman of the Oxford election committee re ported that Mr. Neate was not duly elected, he having been guilty of bribery by his agents. hi &IDS TONE ELECTION. Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Maidstone election committee, reported that Mr. B. Hope and Captain Scott have been duly elected for Maidstone. The Turnpike Trusts Abolition Bill was read a third time and passed. The Probate and Letter of Administration Salary of Judges Bill passed through committee. The house adjourned at six o'clock. A SIMPLE SUICIDE. --The lioniteur des Calvados stat Els that a workman of Orme,iin that department, having read in some fonlish book of tie ttho g e rea a t n p g roperties possessed by a rope which had serv e d a man, committed suicde, and left behind him Fare well, my wife and children As following note Fare- I cleDi h w a h v i e nh no n f i o li rtu en ne ah t le o bequeath you , I leave you an article v you to succeed in 'all you attemn the rope with which I h a v e hanged myself."ide amongst you FRENCH CORN MARKET.—In the Paris corn market, o ar f ket, during the past week, p rices have bee n lower. Th mar's were at 7 2 fr. , with the p ros p ect o f still declining. The supply at the Halle remains at about 8,000 metrical quintals (2 cwt. each.) Wheat was firmer than Hour, the prices being for the best qualities 41 fr. the 120 and interior at 38 fr. All the country markets have come lower-, and the accounts of the harvest continue to be most Satisfactory. A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles states that a considerable f a ll had taken place in that market. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. -YESTERDA Y. (BEFORE MR. ;UBTIO WILLIAMS.) THE CHARGE OF RAPE ON A TRADESMAN'S WIFE IN FINSBURY.—Harris Michael, aged 47, described as a mer chant, remanded from last session, surrendered in dis charge of his bail, to answer a charge of rape on the pesson of Julia Lewis. The case at the last session was specially appointed for this morning, but on its being called on the prosecutrix could not be found. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, who was specially retained for the prisoner, applied that, should the witnesses appear during his absence, he hoped the judge would not take the case . He believed the principal witness was out of the way. Mr. Sleigh said he appeared for the prosecution. They had sent for Mrs. Lewis, and her absence was most unaccountable. Perhaps the better way would be to postpone the case until next session. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said that was out of the question. The prisoner had surrendered, and if the prosecutrix did not appear he was entitled to be discharged, Mr. Justice Williams said he felt very reluctant to keep the prisoner in custody, as he had surrendered ; but he could not direct an acquittal until the end of the session. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said, perhaps it would be better to let the case stand over , and at the end of the session the prisoner should be dis charged. Mr. Sleigh said a messenger had been sent after the witnesses. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine : You know very well they will not appear. The matter then dropped. RIBBONISM IN ENGLAND —William Moyce, aged 41, a gardener, remanded from last session, was indicted for feloniously shooting at John Joseph Hickmott. The pri soner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, and Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutor had become the owner of some property at Bromley, Middlesex, part of which, a cottage, and a piece of land cultivated as a market garden, had been occupied by the prisoner and his family for many years. An action was brought by the prosecutor against the prisoner, and a judgment obtained by default. In resist ing the execution of this judgment, the prisoner fired at the prosecutor with a gun loaded with shot. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm ; but recommended the prisoner to mercy on account of the provocation he had received. Mr. Justice Williams sentenced the prisoner to be impri. soned and kept 10 hard labour for two years. THE STRATFORD MURDER.—This case stood for this morning, but was postponed until to-morrow (Thursday) LONDON COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (13EFOIIIC MR. COMMISS(ONER GOULBURN In re THE LONDON, HARWICH, AND CONTINENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPANY LIMITED).—:A.( petition for winding up this company has been presented by Messrs. Linklater and Hackwood, on behalf of a creditor, who has recovered judgment in his action against the company. Mr. Com rnissioner Goulburn this day appointed Wednesday next for hearing the petition. COURT OF ADMIRALTY. (BRFOR't DR. LUSIIINGTON.) THE JANET WILSON.—BOTTOMRY.—This was a question as to the legality of a bond entered into at Singapore, for the sum of £3,485 75., payable after the arrival of the Janet Wilson in England. Payment had been refused , and, therefore, the present action was instituted. The money was advanced to repair the ship when she was lying at Singapore. The Court pronounced for the bond. EQUITY COURT.-YESTERDAY• (BEFORE VICE-CHANCELLOR SIR WJI. PAGE WOOD.) DUNCAN V. ALEXANDER.—Mr. Cairns moved NE parte for an injunction to restrain the sailing of the ship Star- light. The ship he said was built in the State of Maine, and registered there by Gilbert Spear. He mortgaged her for 20,000 dollars to Joseph Crake, who assigned the mortgage to the • plaintiff. The defendant Alexander alleged that he had bought the ship of Spear, and he had obtained an English register for her, though he must have known she was a foreign-built ship. The Vice Chancellor granted a restraining order until Saturday, with notice of motion for Friday. ELECTION CONIMITTEES.— Y-EsiEaDAy. BURY. The above committee re-assembled at the usual hour— Mr. Hutt in the chair. The Chairman announced tha t the committee had come to the unanimous' decision that the agency of Mr. 'l'. J. Openshaw, who was alleged to have hired or treated voters on behalf of Mr. Phillips, the sitting member, had not been established. Mr. Rodw ell said the petitioners, after this decision, would offer no further evidence of bribery and treating. Two other witnesses were examined upon the allegation of undue influence, and the case for the petitioners closed. Mr. Monek, who appeared for the sitting member, then ap plied for an adjournment until to-morrow, to give him an opportunity of looking through the evidence, and ascer taining whether it would be necessary for him to call witnesses to rebut it. This application was at once acceded to, and the committee accordingly adjourned until to-morrow• MAIDSTONE. This eommittee're•assembled at the usual hour, Mr. G. tk. Hamilton in the chair. Mr. Hope, one of the sitting members, was examined.' The election this year was, he aid, as pure and as free from corruption as any borough election possibly could be. Captain Scott, the other Sitting member, gave similar testimony. He had resided in the borough since 1842, and he was one of the gentle_ men who waited upon Ntr. Hope, in 1855, to request him to come forward again, He knew nothing of the expendi ture of money at either the last, or any previous elections . The evidence on behalf of the sitting members was pro. ceeding when our report left. THE. GLASGOW POISONING CASE TRIAL OF MISS M. SMITH, FOR MURDER MAYO. This committee re-assembled at the usual hour, Mr. Scholefield in the chair, and the evidence on behalf of Mr. Moore, the sitting member, was continued. CANTON PAPERS. Farther papers relating the proceedings of her lie received her last letter at Bridge of Alban, on saaday morning. M a jesty's naval forces at Canton have been presented to He walked to Stirling the same day, went to Conttridge by train, Parliament, and were issued yesterday. They consist of quite well as the guard and others swore; walked with Rass u 1 two despatches from Sir John Bowring to Lord Clarendon, the way to Glasgow; arrived at Glasgow ia high spirits; left his dated rospectively the 1 4th and 24 th April, 1857 , the firs t lodgings at nine; was,sem sauntering in the direction of Blythswood square at twenty minutes post nine. Hera the clue failed. No one enclosiog an account of sundry documents s eiz ed o n board could prove where he was after that time, till ha reached his lodgings a mandarin junk by Commodore Elliott , w h i ch , says Sir John, "seem to connect the Imperial Commissioners, the again. But after coming post haste from Bridge of Allan, and being Mandarins, and the Canton Associations with the a' TO- .seen within 100 yards of Blythswool-square, whore did they think ice cious acts of incandiaristn, kidnapping, and assassination, went? The prisoner denied hearing or seeing him that night, but was it credible? An interview so anxiously looked for, and at which which have menaced, and continue to menace, the coun try. The second dispatch encloses a report from Mr. everything was to be explained, not-after all to take place? It was Wade, Chinese Secretary to the colony, on certain papers incredible ; that he was there was c,rtain. Wkara was he seen nex•;:? , found in a house at Stanley, in Hong Kong, which-are said At tke door of his lodgings, vomiting, racked with pain, parched with to throw much light on the present relations of the fever and thirst, and writhing with agony, till death put an end to his colony with the adjacent Chinese continent ; and a sufferings. He was not asked where he had been, for it was well memorandum on the subject of the papers seized by Com- known where he had been. It was hinted that he had committed sui modore Elliott. eide; bat why did not the Dean of Faculty ask Mrs. Jenkins, the The account, on the whole a fair summary of these landlady, or Dr. Stevens? The doctor asked whether there was any rather voluminous papers, given by Mr. Wade is this one h e wou ld like to see, and he said Miss Perry; and it was a pity The papers f ;nu a correspondence between a committee of miss Perry did not see him, for more might then have been known of hostility at San-on and Commissioner Yeh, and it este.. the case ; but death suddenly interposed and shrouded the events of bli•hes bevo ad doubt that the San-on Committee, under that extraordinary night in a mystery on which the toegee of the vie authority, and in some cases at the dictation o f the Carton tim cou ld thenceforth throw no furt'ier light. His lordship next raid Central Committee, have been parties to almost every the letter by the prisoner from the Bridge of Allan to Mr. Minnoch, at rocity with which we have been menaced by report, or remarking, that it was written. two days before her assignation with of endelvours to perpetrate which we have been apprised." L'Angelier, and four days before the note found in his pocket after Among the papers—most of them unimportant—seized at death. Tice composure she manifested on hearing of his death was Stanley is a letter in Chinese, supposed to be writ en by consistent with the supposition of her crime, but what be. tha Chief of the San-on Committee, bat to whom addressed came of her on the morning of the 26th, before she was does not appear, and the authenticity of which seems to be found in the Helenaburgh steamer, Is unknown and tines.- strongly deub'ed by Mr. Wade himself. This letter offers Plaine& The lev:rnea lord then proceeded to remark on a reward of 50 000 dollars, a button of the sixth grade, the evidence for the defence, and first on the prisoner's declaration, and a dark feather to the person it: is addressed to, for the which he read. He had net been able to find, either in "Chambers' , o r service of taking the bead of Mr. Caldwell and Col. Caine." Blackwood," that arsenic had ever been used in water as a cos. It seems a little inconsistent with the charges of subor- m ni e g t i l i c t s o t f h h o i s:s r a , rtieler, shoeing that it wa; taken internally. In her dination, of incendiarism, and assassination, which are declaration, pri,oner denied seeing or bearing L'Angelier on the imputed to the Chinese authorities by Mr. Wade's interpre- "eath. Her sister Janet, her maiden. and the page—all tation of throe papers, to find that gentlemen stating, on said they did not hear him come that night. Bat he had been there their au: s . nority, that, "on the expectation that we are about often tedtore without their hearing, and it had been shown from the to trait for peace, Yeh ha s directed his subordinates to com`'traction of the house that he might have been let oat by the abstain from all more seriously aggressive measures, and front door. As to :the arsenic, she stood in the position of having 1 to confine thems•ives to the stoppage of supplies, " I in her possession the power of which her lover died, without herself giving & consistent account of it. But it wasagasesibly said t he' meeting,• which , was intended to take plash's, was•on Saturday, and' not Sunday: If, however, the letter was posted after eleven o'clock, the tryst must have been for Sunday. As to the sup position of suicide, he had been unable to eve, from first to last, that it was a CaB3 of 'suicide. The first quest on was,. whether it was between Murder and' suicide. It had been maid that L'Angelier was en habitual eater of arsenic, and had tait'en an over dose. The only evidenoe in support of that proposition was that of tato persons in Dundee,• who had heard him speak of taking arsenic in 1853, and the hypothesis that he could have taken it so as to have 1615 grains in his stomach when examined could not be enter`ained. The supposition thatha had taken arsenic at Stirling by accident'vras eittally untenable. He did not think it possible that this could be taken as a case of salcid a Mach had been said of L'Angeller's t •mperament, and his threats of sncide when he was its Dundee , but the fact that he did nct carry those threats into execution, and when men really committed sukide, they did not taik about it, or pretended to make attempts at it in the company of other people. As to his 9p'nions of suicides expressed at Glasgow, he (Lord Advocate) asked 5 f it was probable that, on the Sunday night of his death, he took arsenic without going near Disthsaood-square; there was the pos sibility that she might have seen him and told• him she would give him up,, after which he committed suicide. But if she did see him, what became of the truth of her declaration? It Ml_ ht be suggest.d that he hag gone to the house, and, not seeing her , came away in disgust; but if he had gone he would have tried to make her hear, although she says in her declara tion she did not hear him. It was next su;gested that the dose was so large that it must have been suicide, but might it not have been that, finding the two doses she had previously given were too small, she snade the third one much larger? Then it was objected that neither soot nor indigo was found in the stomach of L'Angeller, but the analysists did not direct their examination to detect it. Again, the demeanour of the patient was in no respect that of one who had committed suicide. In conclusion, the Lord Advocate left the case in the hands of the jury, convinced that their verdict would be consistent with thei.• oath. He had eischarged a painful public duty, which he would gladly have been spa-ed. He had done his duty, not swaying the facts beyond the line of truth. At the suggestion of the Lord Justice-Clerk, the Dean of Faculty postponed his reply until the following morning. The court then adjourned at twenty minutes past three o'clock. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH. SEVENTII Dar—TUESDAY. The court resumed at ten o'clock. The Lord Advocate then began his address to the jury. The case was one, he said, quite unexampled in the length of the investigations it had necessitated; and it presented a state of social depravity and degradation which the imagination of the novelist and dramatist hal rarely, if eaer,paralleled. Then adverting to the observations which had been passed, in the course of the trial, on the conduct of the agents for the prosecution in Glasgow, he defended them from the charge of unfairness and irregularay. He did not mean to say that the steps taken were altogether such as he could have wished, but he ventured to say that the fullest opportunities possible had been afforded to the prisoner and her advisers, in respect to all the documents in the case, at a period as early as was tompatible with the course of justice. All these letters were of the most vital importance, as it appeared to them, to the course of justice, and 't was absolutely necessary that the agents should have them at hand, for reference to dates, aid other matters. Even putting aside the postmarks, he did not hesitate to say that the date of almost every letter could be distinctly proved by its contents.. His lordship then proceeded to give a general narrative of the relations between the deceased and the unfortunate lady at the bar, dwelling on the in contestible proof, adduced in venous shapes, of a criminal intercourse having been carried on between them, and on the desperate nature of the sob which she had so fat illy woven for herself. He illustrated his narrative, in the earierpart, by quotations from the prisoner's letters, the general tenor of which, he said, rendered it quite unfit even for production in a case of this kind, and which displayed an ut er abeence of all moral sense and even common delicacy and decency, which it was pitiful and appalling to c mtemplat a la the course of his remarks he referred to the plan of the sunk floor, with the door under the front door to Blythswood-square, with the boys' room on the left, and the kitchen, and farther on Miss Smith's bedroom on the right, and with the passage extending to the back area, from welch a person could enter, without its being known in the kitchen. Besides, Miss Smith could leave her room, pass upstairs, and open the front doer, and a ?mit L'Angelier into the drawing room, witeou, having to pass any bedroom, or attract anyone's attention. His lordship then replied to the letters written in January, full of terms of endearment to L'Angelier, although at the end of that month, the 28th, she accepted Mr. Minno h. Then foliofoilowel a coolness between her and L'Angelier, attested by Mr. Kennelay in his evidence, and the demand for a return of letters, and the breaking off of the engagement. See was to have returned his letters, but did not; and what became of them is not known. She was to have returned his photograph, bat did not ; it was food in her chamber. What a labyrinth of bewilderment the unhappy girl was getting into ! She had pledged her word to another, but she simply professed that her affection for him had cooled. She remembered that her letters placed her entirely in his power, End hence her anxiety to get them back again. She male two appoint ments for L'Aegelier to deliver up the letters, but he refused to give them up, or to give her up. It might be ungenerous in him ; that was immaterial; if h considered her as his wife, as he evidently did, he was justified in his refusal, and he evidently threatened to commu nicate with her father, with the view of obtaining lawfal sanction to their marriage. Teen she wrote the imploring, despairing letter, be seeching trim not to expose her to her shame, and entreating him to meet her again. Her character, her reputation, her fame, were now at stake. He did writs to her, and she wrote to hies another appeal not io betray her secret. " She had put on paper what she should not." She saw the danger she was in. She craved his forgiveness, end prayed him not to denounce her or make her a public scandal. But even in that prayer there was falsehood;—she said there was none other htid her love, while she was even then engaged to anothar. His lordship never in his lie load such a harrowing task as going over the sufferings of a wounded spirit when asking L'Angelier to give back her letters. Bat there was this important circumstance,—whatever were L'Angelier's faults, he was true to her. Hs wanted not revenge ; he wanted his wife. Ano.her important circumstance was,—in the second week of February she requested the page to obtain some prus sic acid. For what purpose earthly catad she want i. ? See said for her hands. Was prussic acid ever heard of as a cosmetic for the hands? It would be seen that her mind was now running on poison. She did not get prussic acid. Soon after that, L'Angelior and the prisoner were together for an hour in the servants' bedroom, although to M. de Mean she positively denied he had ever been in the house. What took place at that interview cannot be told. The feud, however, had been made up, but not on the footing of the letters being givers ue or her engagement given up. The reverse; she after that time renewed the former tone of love and affection, although she was still engaged to Minnoch. Then she wished to see him again to give her back, no t all her letters, but " four cool letters," for which she promised to give him others. On Thursday the 19th of February, he appointed ' to meet her, and on that nigbt he had the dreadful aaack of illness, in which hs fell on the floor and was unable to ring the bell. He recovered, and went to the Oleo on the 20th. Oa the 21st, prisoner purchased arsenic at the shop of Mr. Murdoch. A very singular urchase far her to make ! But it was net the first time she had a ttempted to buy arsenic, and the reason she gave for it, poisoning rats, was altogether false. The night after the 22 id he was again seized with violent sickness, and all the symptoms of arsenical poi son. L'Angeller told Mrs, Parry that he had been twice ill, and that after receiving coffee one time, and chocolate another, at the hands of the prisoner. On Wednesday, 25th, she wrote condoling with him on his illness, and rererred to seeing him on the Sanday night and Monday morning, and saying shs thought he had been sick from waking so far home without food, and she would next time make him eat a loaf, which, in her declaration, she said was " a jocular observation." No doubt the first illness of L'Angelier occurred when it could not be proved that the prisoner had arsenic in her possession; but all the circumstances identified the first illness of L'Angelier as caused in the same way as the second. Then, as to the alleged use of arsenic as a cosmetic. She first heard of it in 180.3, but never applied till February, 181,7. Was it when she was quaking for her reputation that she would cast about for a new cosmetic? But arsenic used as a cosmetic was swal lowed, and not washed on the lase, which had never been reccommended, and was highly dangerous. There could be no doubt that this aliegel use of arsenic as a wash far the face was a falsehood. L'Angclier recovered, and on the 27th, prisoner wrote to him congratulating him on his getting batter. But he was entirely changed ; he never recovered his former losers ; hls strength and colour were entirely gone. A conversation at this time took place between L'Augaler and Miss Perry, in which, alluding to the prisoner, he said, "Eves if she were to poison me I would forgive her"—these very remarkable words indicating tae suspicion that ho had been poisoned. But she renewed her protestations of love, and induced him to drive that phantom from his brain. After that she wrote saying she was going to Stirling for a fortnight ; but ehe urged him to go to the south of England—the Isle of Wight, instead of going to Stirling where she was. He then evrete remonstrating with her for her evasions; her connection with Mr. Miunoch, and the brevity and coldness of her letters; insisting on having a satisfactory ease er as to her latent ioiis ; asking who gave her the trinket she had shown him ; and what her object was in asking him to go to the Isle of Wight. "If you evade answering me this time, I must try some other mews to ascertain the truth." Next day she bought r nether ounce of arsenic, but wrote to him that there was no truth in the rumour o her marri age, although at that vary time she was arrive. gag for it to take place in June. It might be said , what did she do with all the arsenic she obtained? The probability was that after she had used a quantity, afraid of the danger of its lyial about, she destroyed the remainder. L'Angelier,ataer his second illness, went to Ediubargh, and gradually got better. He dined with the Towers's and mentioeed again his suspicions respecting the cocoa and coffee. ' On the 17th March he returned to Glasgow expecting a letter, but none came. On the 19th he went to the Bridge of Allan, and a letter which had come after ho had left was sent after him. 01 the 20th L'Angelier wrote to Miss Perry, that if he had received. the letter sooner, he should have gone to Glasgow "to see somebody." A fter that she wrote :agaia, makineatan appointment for the Saturday, previous to which she had bought her third package, of arsenic, WEDNESDAY-EIGHTH DAY. The C ,urt met again to-day at ten o'clock. The Dean of Faculty addressed the jury for tho prisoner. He said :—Gentlemen of the Jury—The charge against the prisoner is murder, and the punishment of murder is death: and that simple stat-ment is sufficient to aug_ est to us the awful solemnity of the oc asion which brings you and me fat •to face. But, gentlemen, there are peculiarities in the p esent case of so singular and strange a kind, and there is an air of romance and mystery in it from the beginning to the end—there is something so touching in the age, the sex, and the social pos lion of the accused—aye, and I must add that pub is attention is so directed to this trial, that they watch our proceedinas, and hang on our very accents with such anxiety and easerness of expectation, that I feel almost bound down and overt: whe med by the magnitude of the task which is imposed on me. You are invited an•t encouraged by the prosecutor to consign to an ignominious death on the scaffold one who within a few short months was known only as a gentle and confiding and affectionate girl—the ornament and pride of a happy family. Gentlemen, the tone in which my learnek friend addressed yen yesterday could not fail to strike you as most remarkable. It was characterised by gre it moderation—by such moderation as I think must have convinced you that he could hardly expect a verdict at your hands; and in the course of that address—for which I give him the highest credit—he could not resist the expression of his own deep feeling of commisera tion for the position the prisoner was placed in, which was but an involuotel7 homage that the arida:l prosecutor pays to the kind and gen, roils nature of the mani But, gentlemen, lam going to ask you for something different from commiseration. lam going to ask for that which I will not condescend to beg, but will loudly and im pntunately demand—that to which every prisoner is entitled' whether she be the lowest and vilest of he sex, or the maiden whose purity is of the unsullied snow. I ask you for justiee, and if you will kindly lend mo yovr attention for the requisite period, and if Heaven will give me patience and strength for the task, I shall tear to tatters that web of sophistry with which the prosecutor t as striven to invest this poor girl and her cad, strange story. The Dean then referred to the first introduction of the prisoner to the deceased—msda on the street by a young man in circum stances el hich plainly showed he could not have procured an introduction otherwise, or elsewhere, And what happened ? Having east intruded himself on the society of this young lady, he next clandestinely introduced himself to her father's house, an un known adventurer, whose history and antecedents were unknown to any one. The Dean then referred to the earlier history of the de ceased, describing his character as vain, conceited, and pretentious, boastful of his personal attractions, and ever courting and endeavour ing to get into the society of ladies above him in station, and endea vouring to push his fortune by means of marriage. He referrt d to his changeable and exciteable character, and his frequent threats of suicide while suffering from disappointment in love. He then re . turned to the period of L'Ar gelier's first acquaintance with Mis s smith, and thanked the Lord Advocate for his admission, that at that time, though their correspondence was improper, because clandestine, yet the letters of the ycung lady breathed nothing but gentleness and propriety. The correspondence, however, also showed that if LlAnge lier had originally in his mind to corrupt and seduce this poor girl, he entered on the attempt with considerable ingenuity and skill. Their correspondence was apparently soon after droppi d by the young lady's own sense of propriety, bat in the spring of 1855 it was un • happry renewed, end in the spring Of 1816 the corrupting influence of the seducer was successful. Her let'er of the 17th May showed how corrupting that influenco must have been, and how vile the arts were to which he resort• d for his nefarious purpose could never be bimtd so well as by looking to the altered tone of this poor girl's letters. She hod lost not her viginity merely, but as my learned triend had Laid, her sense of decency. Whose fault was that? Whose doing was it? Think you that without temptation, without vile teaching, a poor girl fcll, into those depths of degradation No• Influence from without, most corrupting influence, could alone account for such a fall. And yet, gentlemen, through th , midst of this frightful correspondence, which I wis'i to God could have been concealed from lour eyes and those of the public—and if it had not been, as my learned friend thought, absolutely necessary for theends of justice that it should have hem produced, I feel sati,tied e would not have done so; bet even through tl.e midst of th s frightful correspond ence there breathes a spirit ef devoted love towards the man who wronged her that Strikes me as most romarkable. The Dean referred to the little evidence that existed that the parties had ever met in the house in Blythswood-square. Frem the 18th November till the death of L'Aneller, the e were only two interviews proved to have taken place within the house - one occasion being that of which Chri•tina Haggart spoke, and which, he believe I, took place, net on the 19th of February, but the 10th of January. inconsequence of the letter of that day's date. On the 28th January the prisoner accepted Mr blinnoch, My learned friend rays the whole character of the prisoner's Mina was changed, and she set herself for the perpetrati n of one of the most cool and delibera'e murders that ever was committed. I will not say that such a thing is absolutely impossible, but I do venture to sty it is well nigh inc , edible. He will be a bold man who will seek to set limit, to the depths of human depravity, but on that subject all past experience teaches us that the perfection even of depravity is not rapidly etc tined. It is not by such short, easy stages as the prosecu tor ha f been able to trace in the career of Madeleine Smith, that a gentle, loving girl passes at once into the savage grandeur of a Medea, or the appalling wretchedness of a Borgia. No, gentlemen, such things are not possible There must be a certain progress in guilt. It is q-.ite oat of all human experience to suppose that from the tone of love in which the letters that had pa3sed before were written, there zhould be a sudden transition, I will not say io the loss of affection for that particular object, but to that savage desire of remouing, by any means, that obstructiou to her wishes which the prosecutor imputes to the prisoner. TI ins for a moment how foul and unnatural a mur der that h imputed to her ; the murder of one who within a very shot t space was the object of her love—an unworthy object—an un holy love ; but yet while it lasted, and its endurance was not brief, it was a deep, absorbing, unselfish, devoted passion, and the object of it she now conceives the purpose of murdering. Such is thd theory you are at.ke to b. , lieve ; but, gentlemen, before you believe it, you will ask for demonstration, 'you will not be contented with corjecture or suspicion, and it would not Le enough to say that tl e theory of the prosecutor li the most probable that is offered to us. Oh, gentlemen, is that the manner in which the jury are to deal with such a case Is that he kind of rroof on which yon are to convict of a capital offence ? The Deau then entered into an examination of the first charge against the prisoner—namely, the administration of arsenic On the 19th or 20th February. Mrs. Jenkins—than whom he never saw &nacre accurate a d trustworthy with , ss—was able to , fis a date for ilia second illness, namely, the 23rd February ; but she said that the tint wa., eight or ten days t, , reviously to the second—which would bring them lot etc to the 13th, or thereby ; and that he was ill about the 13th, was proved by ono of the letters, and by the testimony of Mr. Mlle.'. As to Miss Perry'd recollection of the 13th, she did not recollect the first, second, or even the thirdtime she was pre . .!ognoseid, and it was o❑ly by the most improper interference of one of the Fiscal's clerks, wLo read to her a date out of a book that had been rejected as worthless in fixing dates, that she axed upon t e 19th. Rut suppose the 19th was the date, notwithstanding that the prosecution had foundation of the prosecutor's case. As to the second illness, there was no proof whatever that the parties met after this purchase at all, Mrs. Jenkins said she did not think he was out of the house on Sun- day night the 22nd. She said she had not given him the latch-key that night, searched all the druggi'ts' shops in Glasgow, they had been unable to find that the prisoner bought any arsenic at all till the 21st, when she went so openly into Murdoch's, signed her name, and let it go to her father's account. He left his learned friend to chr,a,4l one or other of the horns of this dilemma, either th it the deceased w,s ill from the effects of arsenic on the first occasion—in which care it must have been administered by other hands, or that he was ill from some other cause—a fact which destroyed the whole theo , Y, and which she always did when he was to be out late ; that she would have recollected it had he borrowed it that niiht ; End M. Thuan said he certainly did not let him in that night, which was the only way he could get in if he left without the latch-key. The letter No. 107, however, was founded on to prove they met that night ; a letter on which had no date—which, though it had been found in an envelope with the clearest date, it would be madness to convict upon , but with a ll the possibilities of such a letter finding its way into a wreog en velope, even in the hands of decease l, and still more in the hands o' those by whom it was recovered, at - id with the date quit!: illegible,and which the Crown witness raid had anr " - " in + -tie month, which showed it couid not b 3 February, so that eren the Crown dis carded Wit' own Ivltness to , bat their theory. he was entitiedi to say, that there was not merely a conflict of evidence on the point,. but as accumulation of evidence disproving the theory Hest they met that night at a 1; and the failure to prove centainlY put an end to the charge. if, then, deceasr d was ill from arsenieal po son on that cccasion, the inference he again draw was that he -was in the way of receiving arsenic from some other hand. The Dern-then proceeded to consider the third and last charge. He referred to the missing letter deceased received from the prisoner at the Bridge of Allan on Friday. The letter evidently contained an appointment for a cere in night, and when Le found he could not keep it, he knew it was useless to come without a special appointment: He then came to the eee ,nd letter forwarded to ate Bridge of Allan, bearing thcpcstmark 21et March, aid as he held, making the appointment for the Saturday evening. When was it ahe waited and waned ?: Triursdny evening. The letter from deceased to Miss Ferry conclusively peeved that When was it likely she would write ter mess summons. I should think the next evening, for sl e almost invariably wrote in the evening, and when she did net write in the evening, she wrote tke hour of the day. This all-important letter was written therefore on the Fri., ay evening, and posted vet the Saturday morning, to Mrs Franklins, and appeitting the meeting - . for the Saturday evening. It wan written with the came notice, and sire believed him ts be in Geasgow. But, says my learned friend,. they were not in the habit of meeting of a Saturday evening. But keeping out of view time letters not teal, this theory is negatives bys the letters that have been read. Ia October, 1555, :he eays, it Write, me for Saturday, if you are to be (here) on Saturday night." In No; I l 1, "I snail not be at home on Saturday, but I shall try, sweet love, and give you even if it should bee word," Here were two hitters nega tiving the only supposition set up against my statement: There is uo appearance terouginint this correspondence without previous arrangements made, and she had constantly repeated her 'warning against his malting any signal at the window, eeit was sure to lead to discovery and risk of verione kinds. On every ocasion she watched and waited for him, he never came without preconcert. Having broken his ain - oistment for the Thorsday, her never supposed he could procure an appontment for the Frinay. He waited teen° got another letter, and when he broke Ms app abetment on the Saturday, why should he expect to have-one on the Sunday. On the Sunday night the family are at prayers, the servants c irne down stairs and go to bed one I y one, the cock not returning till eleven. They take half an hour to undress. The prisoner gees to bed with her sister, and so far as human evidence goes, the house is unriisturbed and neap preached up to the following morning. DJ you think th-re could have been a sneeting, and no evielesiee of it ? The policeman eh°. knew him, had not l een him that night. There is• not the slightest vestige or ground of suspicion, that the meeting appointed for Saturday took place on Sunday. Than as to - L'Angelier, it is said he came to the house to see the prisoner on Sun day night. Even if that was a reasonable assumpeen in it would not advance the prosecutor's case one step ; but the supposition was not a reasonable one —to suppose that ho came that distance to keep a meeting for another evening. We do not know what other letters ire may have received at Bridge of Allan, and in one of his own he sus, "I: have received no letters from Mr. Mit hell, snd I should like to know what he wa its with me." The Crown has not told us who he was, and Ido not know. Who can tell that he received no other letters at Bridge of Al en. and for what purpose he came in ? There is cons derable mystery throne over the identity of this man in the course of the journey. Ross did not describe a person like the prisoner, and Ross was not shown the photograph. The mail guard professed to identify him from it, and yet the Crown objected to our relying on the photograph when iden tified by the druggists. No one is celled from the inn to identify L' Angelier ; and what was the acr cunt the supposed L'Angelier gave of himself to Ross? why, that he had- come from Altos, and that he was going to Glasgow to cash a cheque, of which payment had been refused to him as a stranger—an account which the Crown had taken no means to test. L'Angelier was not with Ross, he gin s no false account of himself, and the evidence of the druggists at Coatbridge, Bailieston, anal Gatlowgate, who all identify th a likeness, and one of them the purse out of which the money was paid, were consistent with each other. If these three witnesses were correct, he was ill; and, fin Ily, in Miss Kirk's shop, he purchased a white powder, and Mas Kirk can't tell yon what this white powder vers. He comes to his lodging—he goes out at nine—is seen in different streets-- which proves nothing at all. He calls on M'Alester. Why is M'Alester not here, that he might, per hence, tell what brought him to Glasgow, and if he knew any thing of Mr. Mtehell ? From half-past nine to half-past two he is absolutely lost sight of, and the Lord Advocite admitted that the fact that the prisoner and deceased met that night is founded on inference and conjecture. Good heaven, inference and conjecture Inference and conjecture whether on the night he was poisoned he saw the prisoner who is charged with this murder! I never heard such expressions made use of in a capital case before as indicating or describing a lick in the chsin of the p osecntora case. That is knew to me. I have heard them many a time in the mouth of a prisoner's counsel, and I daresay you will hear more of them from me t -clay, but for she prosecutor him self to daseribe such a part of his evidence as a piece of conjecture and hypothesis, is to me a most startling novelty. And yet my learned friend could not help himself. It was a necessity he should so express himself; for if he intended to ask a verd bt at all, he ceuld ask for the verdict he did only on a series of unfounded and incredible suspicions and hypotheses. The Dean then referred to the statement 4 as to L'Angelier having a suspicion on his mind that he had received poison fromthe prisoner, and said if that were true, they were asked to believe hart he took the poisoned cup from the prisoner, in Which there lurked so great a quantity of arseeic as was sufficient to leave on his stomach St grains, and from the hands of one whom he suspected had been praetising on his life. It was a dose which. according to Dr. Christison, might have amounted to 250 grains, and it iris a dose that, so far as exporter/co went, never was before suc cessfully administered by a murderer, and it was most difficult to conceive a vehicle in which so great a quantity could be administered, far less to one who had had his suspicions previously excited. Then, the Crown had shown that the colouring matter of any arsenic could afterwards be found in the stomach, but their w.tnesses say their attention was not c Iled to that circumstance. Whose fault was that? The Crown must have known the importance of thin.. inquiry, and the prisoner bad no means of being represented in this chemical analysis. Such was the evidence of the last charge. the case is a failure on the first and second charges, it is a far mere complete radical failure in the last. In fact, I have demonstrated. that it was absolutely impossible to bring guilt against the prisoner, It remains not only not proved, but the whole eviaen. e connected with the proceedings of that day seems io go to negative such a sap poiltion. I mieht stop there. for nothing can be more fallacious tnento suppose that it is for me to explain how the prisoner came by his death - His lordship will tell you a defender in this court has no further duty but to stand on the defensive, and maintain that the canter the prose_ cation is not proved. No man living, probably, can tell how L'Angelier came by his death ; nor am I under the sliehtest obligation even to suggest to you a possible• manner in which his donne may have been compassed, without being at the hands of the erisosmr. But it is but fair that, when dealing with matters of suspicion end conjecture, you should consider whether the :appositions on which this charge is founded on are prefeeable in respect of higher probability to other euppositiona that may be fairly made. After adverting to the strong presumptions of s u icide there was in this case as well as the possibility of acemnt ing for the death from other causes, the Dean of Faculty concluded h s address by an eloquent and impassioned appeal tc. ta a minds and feelings of the jury, and said he felt so persone2 an interest in the result of this case, that should there be. any failure of jastice here he should even attribute It to his own incapacity to conduct the defence,. and the recollection of this dagr and of this prisoner should haunt him as a dismal spectre tonna grave. Slay, he raid, the spirit of all truth guide you. to an honest, jnet, and true ver dict ; but I pray you to reeve:lnner, that no veyeacts will be either honest, or just, or true, maraca sit at once sanafee the conscientious scruples of the severest judgment, and yet .leave. andisturbed and unvexed the tenderest connc'tences among yon. A burst of applause follylifed the conclusicu. oZhi& speech PROGR.ESS• OF TIM ARCTIC YACHT ..Fox.—A letter has. , been received from Captain M'Clantock, written by the. light of inidnialA, in the Pentland Frith, on the 2nd of July. He writes--" I think, you wilt be glad to know that I have gut through thc, Pentland, Frith, having had beautiful, calm. weather since leaving Aberdeen. The pilot will take 'this on shore. All on, board are well, and we have settle, down into a. very comfortable and syste matic way of life. The ship performs well, and we have not discovered any detects or wants. We ars. ex.ictly twelve days in advance of the Isabel. I like my c'ew well, and nothing can exceed the attention of Yang to his duty. Hobson is ecually zealous. We are only twenty five in number on board, myself included. I may take another man out of a whaler, and I hope to get an Esquimaux in Creenland.—Yours, very sincerely, F. L. M'CLINTOQIC." TRAN.PORTATION OF AFRICAN NEGROES TO THE FRUNCH COLONIEI3.—The Assembles Nationale has the following statement :—." The Council-General of Martinique, having been consulted by the government wit respect to t h e pro ject of introdneing into that colony of 10 000 Alricans, enraged as labourers fora certam number Lf years, has replied i hat it opposes n in this em i gra ti on o f Africans, but that it nevertheless accepts the consequences of the contract made by th e Minister of Marine with the firm of Regis, of Marseilles, for the introduction, as a trial, t t 801 i Africans, inasmuch as that contract is definitive and. irrevocable. The cone:Al b3gs that the minister wilt, annul the co n t ract coac l a d e d with the finu of Regis, in virt ue o f t h e r i g h t reser ved to him, so that the introduction of Asricans may riot exceed that number. It desires that in order to remedy the actual recruitment of labourers amongst Asiatic races, the monopoly granted to the company, styled ' maritime' should cease, and that every ves,el bringing Indians to Martinique, in conformity with the laws and regulations concerning emigration, shall receive the usual premium. It proposes, moreover, to grant a higher pre mium to those Indians who , at the expiration of their iive ? y r e h a e r s s e ' eminently prudent, i n our on ' a nd they prove i that the Asso in bl ee N ationale erensgoalguetroen are' may consent to contract a new on- understood the interests of the colonists. Orr bers of the council who opposed the Gist the greatest warmth is o f Af r i can o -- the question in its moat elevated r that nothing could be snore io;• portion of the colonial posy uncultivated savages,"