The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-14 00:00:00

THE MURDER AT BOULOGNE.

The his partial de Boulogne gives additional par-
ticulars respecting the above crime in its number of Satur-
day last. It seems that the seemed Leduoq persisted until
Thursday afternoon in the story he at first told, vie., that
the twe children did not balms to him ; that they had been
entrusted to him by a wanton at Folkestone, to deliver to
some one who would to in waiting for them at Boulogne ;
and that upon meeting lathe latter place with • pima who
claimed them, he had given them up. On the day above
referred to, however, he was visited at the House of
Detention by M. Ounouf, the commissary of police. A
photograph of the two children found drowned had beets
taken, and during M. 01123111.11 visit it was sc..
cidentally seen by Leduc+ "At the sight of
this photograph," says the Impartial de Boulogne,
the turned pale, and became elicited in the most extra-
ordinary manner; tears flowed down his cheeks, and he
exclaimed, 'My poor children !' A few minutes afterwards
be made a more explicit confession, but which is still in-
complete. The following is • summary of his declarations,
according to information which we have every reason to
believe correct :—Leduoq resided at 4, Biggin-street, Dover.
His mistress, who was of English origin, was 0.1040 a Ann
Campbell, and was 32 years of age. He had by her the
two children drowned; the elder, Henry, was bore in
January, 1860, and was therefore nearly five peers old ;
his robust constitution alone induced the belief that be
was older. The other, Arthur, was born on the Bth
Oct., 1861 ; he had only just attained his third year. Leducq
had been without a situation for about two or three
months ; hie concubine kept a little greengrocer's, but she
is said to have led an irregular llfe, and bad abandoned the
two children exclusively to his charge. He was plunged in
the deepest misery, and did not know where to get bread.
There is no doubt that he wasrecently unfortunate at Dover ;
pawnbrokers' tickets for men's and women's clothing
pledged in the town were found upon him ; the most recent
was dated the sth Nov. At that date he received 15s. for •
pledge. Unable to procure work, be resolved to quit Eng-
land with his children, but he bad no intention of
destroying them at that period. He left Dover on
Sunday. An employe of the South Eastern per-
fectly recollects seeing him walking on the quay
at Folkestone with his two children ; he appeared very much
absorbed, Having landed at Bolougne at half-past four, be
remained about an hour and • half in the baggage room. and
even placed his children near the tire as they complained
of cold. When he left he asked himself what he should do.
Should be abandon them io the street! Or should be get
rid of them and perish with them! He resolved that it
would be better to pot them and himself out of misery.
With this view be crossed the bridge, walked along the
and then entered the road leading to the cement
works. There he placed the carpet bag and the box
which be earried upon the ground, seized his children by
the waist with each hand, and threw himself into the stream
with them ; but be bad not the courage to remain there,
got out, and went away. Such is said to be the substance
of Leducq's confseaioo."

Tile PR Gil DENTI A L ELECTION IN A NEER IC L.
There is not mech doubt that we aball have sews of the
result of the presidential election in America to-morrow or
no Wednesday. The election took place on the Bth inst.
Two steamers left New York on the sth inst., viz., the
City of Glasgow for Queenstown, and the New York for
Southampton. The captain of the City of Glasgow had
orders to call off Cape Race and remain there a short tine,
if neceuary, in order to obtain a telegram of the result of
the election, and there is not much doubt that the nom_
mender of the New York would do the same. Cape Race
is about a thousand miles from New York, or oce-third the
distance of the voyage from the latter port to England.
Both the above-named steamers would pus Cape Race
about the 9th inst.—the day on which the result of the
presidential election wu to be declared.
DE;PATCH OF THE BOMBAY M A !LS. —The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steamship Syria, Captain
Christian, sailed on Saturday at 3 p.m., with the mails for
Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden. Bombay, and
Upper Bengal. She took out 100 first and 40 second class
passengers ; and on freight, for Bombay, gold coin, 5.250:.;
watches, Sm., 2,862/. ; sod for Alexandria, sovereigns,
4,001. ; gold and silver coin, 100/. ; and watches, jewellery,
; also a full cargo of rural merchandise.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Teutonia, Captain Haack, from New York on the
ult., arrived at Southampton on Saturday. She brings
passengers, and on freight 500 dollars for Hamburg and
114.000 dollar. for France. The Tentooia's news has been
anticipated.
REPRESENTATION OF IPSWICH.—Mr. \V. TidOILS,
Of Nottingham, and Sutton Bonniogton. Loughborough, has
been accepted as a conservative candidate for Ipswich. Jr.
Tidrosa hu addressed the conservative portion of the con-
stituency, and has expressed himself as opposed to the
ballot, to the abolition of church rates, and to an extension
of the franchise, to which the people ho thought should
rise by education. Mr. Tidosas complained of the weight of
our colonial expenditure. He deprecated the action of the
government oo the Danish question and the Br►zils, but in
regard to American affairs he considered that Lord Rus-
sell', policy of non-intervention was the right one.
THE CONFEDEKACE PRISONERS IN CANADA.—Mr.
0. N. Seeders, the well knows Confederate agent, writes
to the Mourn& Et-ruing TektrapA, stating that "So
soon at the facto( Young's demonstration upon Vermont
shall be known at Richmond, there is no doubt that that
government wall take immediate steps to make theirrespon-
sibility and approval of the enterprise public'y eed officially
known, and will assuredly communicate the fact of their
responsibility and of their approval to the Canadian and
United States authorities."

FRENCH IMPORT Dun' oN SILK BIBEONS.—The
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have received the follow•
log communication on this subject from the Foreign-office ;
Foreign-otfice, Nov. 9.—Sir: I run directed by Earl
Russell to state to you, for the information of the Chamber
of Commerce over which you preside, that his lordship is
informed that, in virtue of the treaty lately concluded be-
tweeu France and the Swim Confederation, the French
import duty on silk ribbons has been reduced from AL to 41.
per kilogramme, a decrease of 50 per cent., the advantages
of which will be shared by Hritiall industry as soon as the
Framoo•Swisa convention coma into operation.—l em, air.
&c., A. H. Ley.uen.—The President of the Chamber of
Commerce, LiverpooL"
Poi. is ED BY TOBACC.O Jr-ICH—A young man,
named Richard Edmondson, a cotton piecer at Messrs. Gar-
nett and Horefall'a, Low Moor, near Chtlieroe, died last
week somewhat suddenly with all the symptoms of having
been poisoned. His pulse was quick and feeble, his eyes
dilated and insensible to light; the heart was petfectly
paralysed, his muscles rigid, and he was unable to swallow.
This was his cooditioo before death. The coroner ordered a
p”st mortem examination of the body to be made by Dr.
Scott, of Clitberoe. He found the vessels of the brain
swollen and filled with black blood, together with extrava-
sation of blood in the ventricles of the brain. "These
appearances," he deposed, "led me to conclude that the
deceased had taken some narcotic. poison, as we find them
in persons having taken opium. I attribute the appearance
of the blood vessels on the brain to narcotic poison. The
deceased was very much emaciated. After hearing all the
evidence I attribute the cause of his death to the chewing
of Limerick roll tobacco and has having swallowed the juice.
It is a Mod of poison that ante on the brain, and is an irri-
tant and compound poison. It is not used in medicine now.
I should not like to give a person 30 grains of the nopre•
pared tobacco. Tobacco pins power according to the way
in which it is manufactured, and the Limerick roll is en•
osediegly strong totecoo." The coroner summed up, sod
the jury returned a verdict "That the deceased died from
the effect of having chewed Limerick roll tobacco and
swallowed the juice thereof. which has acted upon the
stomach as a narcotic poison."
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