The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30.

Fos the last ten days the people of France have
been absorbed in watching a remarkable trial at
Toulouse. Even in this country the devotees of
sensation may have their passions legitimately ex-
cited by the story of a real murder, the perpe-
trators of which are still a mystery, and a murder
accompanied by circumstances of startling atrocity.
In the department of the Ariege, under
the northern slopes of the Pyrenees, there is a
village called La Butide-Besplas. This village lies
in the beautiful valley of the Arize, and a short way
further down the stream stands an old straggling
chateau, known as the Chateau Barnard, con-
sisting of a court surrounded by buildings. Here
lived an old bachelor 74 years of age, M. BUGAD
DE LASALLE, with three servants, JEAN LACANEL,
the coachman, PILAGIE BIrCHEIRE, the maid,
and RAYMONDE BERGEN, the cook. bL Da LASALLE
had a considerable fortune ; indeed, his income is
said to have been from 12,000 to 15,000 franca
a year. But he took no care to invest it judi-
ciously. Like many old gentlemen he was both
timid and a miser, so that he preferred hoarding his
money even to investing it in the funds. Naturally
public rumour exaggerated his wealth, so that the
chateau came to be known as the Maison d'Or,
whilst the unhappy possessor, aware of the danger
to which he exposed himself by his singular con-
duct, seldom went out, and had always about him
all sorts of weapons to defend his treasure.
Almost every Thursday he went to visit his
mister, at Carbonne ; but he always returned at
seven in the evening, and insisted that his horses
should not be watered until after the lapse of two
hours.

On the morning of Friday, the 26th of February,
an old servant observed as he left for his work
that the shutters of the windows were still closed.
When he returned, about nine, be found things in
the same state. Feeling alarmed, he spoke to his
wife, and then went into the court-yard. He called
Piu.saiz, the maid. Finding no one in the
kitchen, be went into the stable, where he found
several pools of blood, and in a dark corner a dead
body, which he at first took for that of his master.
He gave the alarm, further assistance came, and
a horrible scene presented itself. The body of
the maid, Pszrote, was found on the ground floor.
In a wood-shed close by lay the corpse of Jr.sw
Lscsiszt, where it seemed to have been dragged
from the stable, whither he had probably gone to
water his horses. On the first floor, where the
two servants slept, was found the body of the old
miser, M. Ds LASALLE; at the foot of the bed, and
behind the bed, half enveloped in the curtains,
was RAYMOND/ Hanoi; her head nearly severed
from her body. It seemed that the assassin must
have got upon the bed, for the sheets showed the
marks of muddy boots. The room in which these
two bodies were found was in great disorder. The
furniture was scattered on the floor, and
the cupboard and drawers had been broken open.
But it appeared that M. DE LASALLE Mg have
been first attacked in his own room, for there was
blood upon the door of his own room, which com-
municated with that in which his body was
found. All the bodies were horribly muti-
lated. That a cruel murder had been
committed there was no doubt. The old gentle-
man had no enemies, but the character of the man,
who was believed to have in the house some
50,000 f., and the fact that the drawers were
broken open, proved that the crime must have
been prompted by avarice alone. It turned out,
indeed, that a very considerable sum of money was
concealed in various cupboards of the house. These
places of safe custody the robbers did not discover,
but the state of the house dearly showed the ob-
ject of their visit.

I

gest that it had been done by several per
That there was a bloody struggle *swot
be doubted, and yet the prosecution entirely failed
to prove that any blood was found upon the
clothes of either of the alleged
One of the few serious facts alleged egainat
Jscouas Leroux was that he had 1,700 francs in
his possession when be wu caught ; but it was
established that Lsroua bad been a hardworking
man, that in a few years he had been the actual
possessor of as much as 3,000 francs, and it was
fairly contended that he might still be in posses-
sion of part of this money. There was, however,
another fact upon which great stress was laid.
Upon the bed of one of the victims were found
a broken comb and a pencil, which some
of his prison companions declared that
they had seen in his possession. But, on the
other hand, it was alleged that it was not easy to
identify such articles, and that they were just the
sort of shabby things which would belong to a
miser like M. DI LABALLE. Perhaps the chief
point in favour of both the men accused is
the difficulty of explaining how they got so far
from the some of the murder the morning after
it was perpetrated. LATOUR must have started
from La Bastide at 11 o'clock on the night of the
25th, and according to the evidence he was at
Mauran, more than 30 miles, on the morning of the
26th. Arnotry must have travelled, with a
donkey and cart, some 40 miles after the
murder, which was perpetrated about 10 on the
night of the 25th ; for he was at Foix about 8
o'clock on the morning of the 26th.

It must be admitted that there never was a
case which rested so completely on circumstan-
tial evidence, or one in which a man was con-
demned to death on less substantial grounds. It
is, perhaps, not surprising that the Paocuannu-
GastrmAi. should have found himself compelled to
urge upon the jury the propriety of their convict-
ing LATOUR in this fashion. " I have finished,"
exclaimed the PROCUREUR, " my sketch of this
" monster. When I have him before my eyes
" accompanied by his co:lige of crimes he
" oppresses me. It is time that he should dump-
" pear in the abyss. . . . You have nothing
"to do with what the law may command. We
" hope that your firmness will rise to the level of
" your duties. I invite you to be firm. Yester-
" day you were the servants of the law, to-day
" you are its dispensers. This law obligee you to
" defend society in exchange for the oath which
" you have taken. The strong character of the
" inhabitants of your country is well known."
To complete the picture, when the Paocromust sat
down, JACQUE3 LATOUR cried out, ironically,
" Viva l'Empereur !" The PROCUREUR got his
verdict, however, and the result is that LATOUR
has been condemned to death, whilst his supposed
accomplice has been sentenced to hard labour
for life.

ebt Coun.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Almon 29.

The Queen, Princess Helena, Princess Louise,
Primer Beatrice, mad Prince Leopold, with their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, !aft the
Cantle at ten minutes before seven o'clock this evening for
Balmoral.

The suite consisted of the MartaiellClS of Ely, the Hot.
Mrs. Bruce, Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Major.
General the Hon. A. Hood, Colonel the Hon. Sir C. B.
Phipps, Maw. de Schleinitz, Mr. Buff, and Dr. Januar.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg honoured
Mr. Frith with a sitting to-day for his picture of the Prime
of Wales's marriage.
The Re►. John G. H. Hill had the honour of having as
interview with her Royal Highnow the Duchene of Saxe
Coburg to-day.

Viscount Palmerton left town yesterday for Lisnarth.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
Gem the Governor id Heligoland.

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY TO SCOTLAND.

Last eventing her Majeity, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg
Gotha and the royal family, and &Mewled by Wood Sir
Thomas Buldulob, the Hon. Colonel Grey, end others of the
royal suite, left Windsor by the Great Western Railway as
roan far Scotland. Mr. Grienon (general manager) and Mr.
Kelly (gourd superinteodent), took dune of the royal
Mein to Buahbury junction. The Queen will arrive at Bal-
moral at 6 o'clock this evening, the journey occupying two
hours 'Gager than usual in coosequence of the two boon'
delay at Perth. Her Majesty will remain at Balmoral be-
tween seven and eight weeks, and then return to Windsor
for the winter memo. The Prince and Prineees of Saxe
Coburg will prolong their visit to the Queen until the return
of the court to Windsor. The Queen, on arrival at the
station, was accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Saxe
Coburg. Her Majesty appeared in excellent health and
spirits. It was the general remark that the Duke of Saxe
Coburg bore a great resemblance to his late brother the
Priam Consort. The streets from the Castle ptes to the
station were unusually crowded with spectators to wittier
the departure of her Majesty and the illustrious party.
(cv ILICTRIC AND DITIMNATIONAL TZLIGILAPS.)

AVOONT 30, A.M.

The royal train containing her Majesty and the
young members of the royal family, and the Dales and
Duchess of Coburg passed though Carlisle punctually ag
4.7 a.m. The train was in charge of Mr. Neel', out-door
superintendent ; Mr. Bamsbottoto, locomotive stipule-
tendeot ; Mr. Martin, telegraph superintendent, and other
practical °Moue of the London and North Western Cont.
WY.

His Royal Diemen the Duke of Cambridge,
who arrived at Gloucester-house es Saturday last from
visiting the Earl Dalhousie at Brechin Gene, will leave
town this escudo. for Germany, on a visit to their Royal
Highnesses the Grand Duke and Duebese of Mecklenburg-
%refits. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary will
aecosnpany the duke. It is expected their royal highnesses
will make a tour through Switzerland.

It was not long before suspicion fell upon a man
named Foam.. He was said to have been seen in
the neighbourhood before the murder, and he had
been in the habit of making inquiries as to M. DE
LASALLE'S wealth, besides which it was known
that he had established an intimacy with the maid,
PELAGIE. According to the indictment, the passion
for intrigue peculiar to Frenlh servant-maids, and
a womanly weakness for ardent spirits, bad made
her an easy prey to the avaricious designs of her
paramour. Still the evidence against the man
was very meagre ; and it is supposed that he might
have escaped had he not been arrested at Tou-
louse for wounding and robbery. It was then
discovered nut only that he was the same man who
had been wandering about BaiHard, but that he
was an escaped convict—that he had already been
in prison for nine years, and that his photograph
was in every considerable police-station in Francs.
These circumstances were sufficient in the eyes of
the French police to justify Pt:„Toes arrest
(whose real name was now discovered to be JacQuss
LArora) for the murder of M. DE LASALLE ; but
it is somewhat singular that, according to the evi-
dence, he continued to remain in the neighbour.
hood where the crime was perpetrated, and even
proposed to purchase a farm and marry the
daughter of his host.
If the facts had rested here it is difficult to
understand how any jury could have brought in •
verdict of guilty against even Pu.roL, much
less against the supposed accomplice, FRANCOIS
At' DOI Y, a mountebank, nicknamed HERCULES.
!Co one saw the crime perpetrated, and the fact
of four persons being murdered would mug-

The ex Queen of the French, accompanied by the
Duke azd Duchess of Moutpansier and other members of
the Orleans royal family, arrived at Tunbridge Wells yes-
terday evening from Claremont. Her Majesty and her
august relatives travelled from Esher to Guildford on the
South Western Railway, and from Guildford to Tunbridge
Wells by the South Eastern line.

Lady Brougham intends shortly to go to Brighton
for the benefit of her health.

The marriage of Lieutenant-Colouel Burnaby (of
the Greciadier Guards), only sou of Mr. Burnaby, of Bag-
gr►rw Leiosstersbire, with Miss Dixie, second daughter of
the late air WoLlartoo Dili', Bart., of Bosworth Park, is
the saws county, was eolemnieed yesterday forenoon at St,
Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.

(azurn's raaaßAL)
AMERICA.

BRAZIL

DEATH OF THE EARL OF MOILLEY.—We learn that
the Earl of Morley died on Sunday evening, aged 6f, after
a short illness, while on a visit at Whitaway, near
Cbudleigh. Devon, the residruice of , lin. Parker, the
Countess of Morley's mother.
REPORTED MISSION OF THE EARL OF AIRLIE TO
THE 007PIDIZATZ HTATM—The Montrose Review says
"We learn from a quarter quite reliable that the Earl-of
Arlie, who has gone to the United States, tarries with him
the views of the government on the present aspect of slain
and will offer himself to the Confederacy as a medium oi
oommanicatioa with the British government."
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED.—WO
undantacd that the Racoon, wit► Prince Alfred and the
Duke of Roxburgh' oa board, has arrived in Iceland. The
prince will make a few visits, sad return early is September
to this country. His rays! highness, who is an expert
angler, killed 62 salmon during his short stay in Norway in
the Doke of Roxburghe's fishing waters. The first after-
noon he killed six fish, sod on the follewieg days eightees
salmon each day, and on the fourth day, after going a little
farther up the water he killed twisty salmon. All of them
were large fish, weighing from 161bs. up to 271ke. each.—
Edinburgh Conran*.

THY. Loan-LIBOTINANT OF lIIKLAND.--Since the
Earl of Carlisle has bees at Castle Howard his gement!
health has improved. His lordship is reported somewhat
better. Led seems to bereft by the drives is the 0000 try.
Hie lordship was able to attend Divine service ea Sunday.

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LLTEST INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIAN.
(Vii Greaseasils.)

NEW YORK, Attaver 19, Evsnum

General Grant reports that his operations on the
north bank of the James River were favourable,
but not decisive. The Confederates lost 400 pri-
soners, and left their dead and wounded on the
field, including two brigades.
General Grant's loss was 1,000 men killed and
wounded.

Sheridan's cavalry has defeated Longstreet's
cavalry at Front Royal. The Confederates lost
300 prisoners.

General Stoneman had a severe engagement with
Wheeler, 18 miles from Chattanooga. The result
is unknown.
The Confederates had refused the surrender of
Fort Morgan, Mobile. Farragut ordered an attack
on the fort on the 2nd. It would receive an enfi-
lading fire from the fleet and land forces. Granger's
forces have cut off communication with the fort in
the rear. Two monitors and five gunboats have
made a reconnaissance across the Dog River bar, to
within two miles of the Mobile batteries.

The Indian warfare in Kansas le increasing.
_ _ _ _

The Tallahassee has coaled at Halifax, and re-
mains in that port. It is reported that a Federal
gunboat is cruising outside the harbour.
The Democratic Peace Convention has assembled
at Syracuse, and resolved not to support the nomi-
nee of the Chicago Convention unless a peace candi-
date is nominated. The assembly further passed
resolutions favouring an armistice, and the calling
a convention of the States, with a view to adopt a
mode of reconciliation.

Menace. Vallandigham and Fernando Wood have
made peace epeechee.

NEW YORK, Auourr 20, MOWING.
It is rumoured that Sheridan has been defeated,
and has retreated to Harper's Ferry.

Grant has made a reconnaissance to Fair Oaks,
his right wing lying four miles from Malvern Hill,
towards Richmond.

Fort Morgan has been provisioned for six months
and strongly garrisoned. It has successfully re-
sisted the attacks made in its rear.
The Tallahassee had obtained 300 tons of coals
at Halifax, when Admiral Hope ordered her to
cease coaling. She sailed from Halifax eastward.
The two Federal gunboats at Halifax are in pur-
suit of her.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Amon 19, Evmara.

Money easy. Exchange on London, 280. Stocks
very firm. New York Centrals, 1301 ; Illinois,
1301 ; Erie, 1111 ; United States 5.20 Bonds, 1101.
Rumours of an armistice have unfavourably
affected the market.
NEW YORE, Avcr 20, EVENING.

Money easy. Gold, 2.561. Exchange on London,
279. Stocks duU. New York Centrals, 1301.
Illinois, 131 g. Erie, 112}. United States 5.20
Bonds, 11%.
Cotton advancing ; Middling Upland, 179, 180.
Flour advancing. Wheat and corn slightly firmer.
Provisions quiet. Coffee in extensive demand.
Sugar advancing. Molasses quiet.

(TELEGRAM OF TIMES' OORRESPONDF2s7.)
NEW YORK, Auccsr 19.

Admiral Farragut demanded the unconditional
surrender of Fort Morgan on the 9th. The Con-
federate commandant refused, stating that he had
requisite forces as well as provisions for sir months,
and would hold out to the last extremity.
Despatches from Mobile of the 11th to the Rich-
mond Examiner announced that a battle between
the fort and the Federal fleet had been in progress
for three days.
Later despatches (from the Richmond Sentinel)
state that on the 15th the Federals crossed the Dog
IRiver bar and opened fire for three hours upon the
other land batteries and the Confederate gunboats,
doing no damage. Firing in the direction of Fort
Morgan still continued.
Secretary Stanton annonnoes that despatches
from Sherman report no further operations.
Sheridan reports an engagement between his own
and a body of Confederate cavalry, near Front Royal,
on the 16th, in which the latter were worsted,
losing 300 men. A train of 70 waggons and 300
mules for Sheridan, with its guard of 150 men,
were captured by Mosby near Berryville on the
13th.

A great peace convention was heh: at Syracuse,
in this State, yesterday. Addresses were delivered
by Vallandigham, Fernando Wood, and others.
The resolutions denounced Mr. Lincoln, aLd ap-
pealed to the people to unite in efforts to bring
about an armistice and a convention of the States.

A convention for a similar purpose was held yes-
terday at Springfield, Illinois.

AUGUR? 20, Noom.

The defeat of Sheridan by Early, and his retreat
to Harper's Ferry, is reported rid Philadelphia.
Nothing important from Grant or Sherman.
The Tallahassee has been ordered away from
Halifax by Admiral Hope. She escaped:this morn-
ing. The Federal gunboats are in pursuit.

(sztrrals rarsaima.)
GREECE.
ATHENS, Auuur 29.

•
An insulting letter addressed to the King by a
member of the opposition gave rise to an excited
sitting of the Assembly on the 26th inst.

Elasperatiou prevailed in the capital, and pro-
tests were aigned by large numbers of person■,

On Friday the Assembly expressed its indigna-
tion at the letter by a majority of 193 to 27; 28
members abstained from voting.

LISBON. Arouse 29.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Oneida has arrived here from Brazil, &c., and will
leave this evening for Southampton with 61 passen-
gers, 547 rolls of tobacco, 250 bags of coffee, and
147 barrels of tapioca. The Parana left St.
Vinoent for Brazil on the evening of the 20th
August.

In the Figaro there appears au amusing letter
soi.disant (ran the " Spirits" el Madame de &alga,
remonstration in most pathetic Wpma against the statue
which is proposed to be erected to bey memory at Vichy.
She complain of the unfair harsher@ of the decree which
condemns her, merely because her letters to her danght
were agreeably written, either to stand upright in the
middle of • public square, or, like Molifre, to sit eternally
on a fountain at the corner of a street. She implores pos-
terity to spare her being thus held up to ridicule, and
suggests that the money voted for the purpose be distributed
among distressed authors, or devoted to the erection of an
institution for their support in old age or sickness.

The Tunes estimates that by next summer the
intermit to the psyment of which the Federal States will
have boned themselves will be some 25,000,000 t. sterling—
that is, that the burden of their national debt will be almost
equal to that ander which we have so long complained.
And this amount, be it remembered, is independent of the
States' debts, which form in themselves • considerable
burden on the community.

. ....' •

7.1 41,

IXTBAORDINARY CONSTRUCTION OP A CANAL
BY THE PEDIBALB.

A correspondent of the New York Herald, under
am. of Point of Rocsio, Virginia, August 14, writes as
follows :

"For some time pest Major-General Biala has been
conning over • Wheat aheme wherewith to annoy the
enemy and advance the Union interest in this region
materially. His plan contemplated nothing Ism than
the construction of a canal at what hos been
hitherto known as Dutch Gap, hereafter to be
known as Butler's Gap, in the direct face of the
enemy, which, when done, should smug other remits, by
reason of its situation compel the rebels to extend their
line of defence • distance of four miles, that is to say,
the distance saved to us by the digging of the
canal—which is to be one forty yarda in length—is seven
miles of water-wane in the James River. Some four days
since the proper details of men and officers were made for
this important and hazardous work, and these men were
eneourageitto its performance by extra inducement.. The
work proceeded handsomely for three days, daring the
last of which the enemy discovered our operations,
and made instant preparation to open fire, which
the result will show to have been an advan-
tageous one for them, though the commander, Major
Ludlow nobly and sumenfolly held his position, still holds
it, and will continue to hold it, until his appointed work
is accomplished. At 5 o'clock yesterday morning two rebel
rams, believed to be the Virginia and the Richmond,
appeared at Dutch Gap I. the James River. The James,
at this point, forms • promontory which is very narrow at
its apex. The shape of this promontory is in the form
of a long tongue and verging to the northward and west.
ward, 'makes another turn which forms a point similar
to the first, east by north. Hence the river bends
yet again, and forms a third angle remniog north-
west. Under cover of this angle, completely and literally
sheltered from our gunboats by the two rebel rams, their
petition was such as, taken in connexion with the Howlett-
house Battery of the enemy, to subject our forces to a severs
enfilading fire, which was borne throughout the day with
manly fortitude by our men. It was me of our advantages
of the day to inaugurate and keep up a croerfire, which
we made to bear moat heavily upon the enemy,
our artillery having excellent range of their batteries,
including the famous Howlett-house Battery, from which
work our fire dismounted and disabled • gun early in the
day, !Sealy silencing the battery, as well as the enemy's
batteries Amsted is the bottoms. The Union monitors and
gunboats, ae before stated, lay wholly quiet in their posi-
tions at Crow's Nest, in the James, not participating in
the action of the morning by reason of the peculiarity of
the enemy's position.
" The successful construction of the canal, of which there
o•a be no doubt, will, it is alleged, enable our gunboats to
wholly overcome the formidable obstructiou in the James
River, and possibly ultimately be the MINN of their
engaging Fort Darling and other rebel strongly-fortified
places adjacent to Richmond, sod perhaps before the sad
moss, operate largely in the reduction of the rebel capital
itself. These are glowing anticipations, but nevertheless
they are capable of realisation by patient mid indulgent
waiting for. Any one of these results added to the necessity
imposed upon the enemy of lengthening his line of defense
• distance of four miles, requiring several thou-
sands of men to man this prolongation of their
lines, will certainly be regarded as *deflate ooro-
palmation for the time, labour and men bestowed
upon the arcomplielunent of the andertakieg. In every
view the substantial results of the day remained to us at
r nightfall. There can be no manner of doubt that we ad-
ministered • severe lesson to the foe, and punished him
stoutly for his temerity in killed and wounded. The work
upon the canal will go on to completion, sad we shall neat
upon all its contemplated advantages, though we shall not
probably realise them fully without further dispute of a
similar character to that we have encountered to-day."