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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Fuur o'clock.

In a Second Edition of the Express last evening,
we announced the decease of the Duke de Praslin.
Since then our usual correspondence, with farther
supplies of Paris journals of Wednesday, have
come to hand. From these we learn that the
Duke expired in the prison of the Luxembourg,
on the afternoon of Tuesday the 24th, about five
o'clock. The medical men have declared that he died
in consequence of taking a large dose of arsenic. The
story told in the Mandell,- is that M. de Praalin
poisoned himself as soon as he saw the evi-
dence against him becoming sufficiently strong
to warrant his being placed under arrest. The abun-
dant vomitings which seized him on Wednesday
evening and Thursday appear to have been the sole
cause of retarding the operation of the poison, which,
after remaining latent and inefficacious on Friday and
Saturday, began to operate on Sunday." The Journal
d-s Mints chimes in with this story, and adds that
the contents of a partially emptied phial found
in M. de Prsslin's pockets, and the matter
which he vomited, having been subjected to chemi-
cal tests, n enough of arsenic was detected to have
caused the death of several persons. These state-
ments are obviously exaggerated, and suggest grave
suspicions. It is incredible that a large dose of a
virulent poison, after intermitting its operations for
two entire days, should resume them with fatal effect.
The natural inference is, that the duke had a second
time obtained access to poison, and this would imply
lax watching if not positive complicity on the part • f
he was, We are •
irirt&LtalarVeespiceen that opportunity. was
deliberately afforded a criminal to add to his guilt, in
order that painful revelations might be avoided and we
wait with anxiety for the proces rerbal of his phy-
sicians, the publication of which is promised by the
Journal des D,,bals. We presume that with the
death of the duke all judicial and trustworthy in-
vestigations into the circumstances of his crime and
its motives are at an end.

Oar correspondent says: "On Tuesday morning
the condition of the Duke was such as to indicate to
those around him his approaching end. In the coarse
of the day an access of delirium took place, bat imme-
diately before his demise he recovered his conscious-
ness so far as to receive the last ceremonies of religion.
A variety of versions of the circumstances preceding
his death, and of the way in which the suicide was
effected, were circulated in Paris. The following,
given by the Ga:etle des Tribunals.", may be con-
sidered to have most accordance with the facts as they
• I
occurred ":

We 'aid yesterday that the precise moment 'at which
the duke put into execution his project of suicide was not
known ; but from the 19th August, as we reported, a grave
change in the state of his health created alum sufficiently
serious to cause M. Louis, his medical attendant, to be sent
for, and, as the symptoms continued the same, and with
greater violence, up to the moment of the death, it must be
concluded that the poisoning took place on the 19th, and
perhaps even on the first day of the preliminary examine-
tion, that is to say at the moment at which the duke felt,
from the questioning of the magistrate., all the gravity of
his situation. The physician who attended the duke attri-
buted h,s state only to the moral emotions by which ho was
agitated. But soon afu.r, the result of the investigation in
the house gave a new direction to the a?preciations of the
physic:ars The duke, who bad been rei.oe to quit his bed-
room, was conveyed to a room on a higher story, and in a
drawer of his table the broken handle of a poniard, and a
piece of the blade of a poniard, on which were some spots of
bleed, were discovered. Three little phials were also seized.
lu the course of this investigation one of the agents placed
under the direction of the chief of the secret police, and who
had aided the domestics to convey the duke, who was too
weak to walk, to the other room, deposited in the hands of
the jugo d'instruction a little bottle, containing 's white sub-
stance, and a cambric pocket handkerchief stained with
blood. They had been found in one of the pockets of the
dressing-gown. It appears that at that moment the suffer-
ings of M. de Praslin were such that it was impossible for
the magistrates to question him on this new discovery. The
contents of the three phials found in the table, as well as
that seized in the pocket of the dreseing-gown, were nnalped
by M. Chevalier, professor at the Ecole de Pharmacie. Tke
result of this examination was that two of the three phials
discovered in the table were found to contain laudanum, the
third nitric acid, and that which was delivered by the ma-
gistrate to the *gent contained a very small quantity of
white arsenic mixed with laudanum, which had left it a
yellow tint. It was evidently the contents of this phial
that the Duke had 'wallowed, for the examination of the
different morbid symptoms, and the analysaeion of the vo-
mit may, showed that there had been an absorption q( that
doable poison. From the moment of that discovery, all the
exertions of Doctors Andral, Rouget, and Louis were employed
to combat the effects of the poison, which, by reason of the
great quantity swallowed, had ant immediately produced
mortal consequences. The Kate of the Duke seemed at first
to improve under the influence of the energetic treatment
employed, and it was po-aible to transfer him on the 21st to
the prison of the Luxembourg, where, on his arrival he was
made to change his clothes. Although during the passage,
the vomtings took places several times, there was reason to
believe .h it his state was far from being desperate, and it
was possible for the committee of examination to subject him
to an interrogatory. The improvement in the state of the
duke appeared likely to continue on Monday ; but in the af-
ternoon the symptoms of the poisoning reappeared with fresh
iaternity. and all the resources of science remained power-
him In the night, the danger made new progress, horrible
sufferings tortured the duke, and all the characteristics of
death declared themselves. Yesterday morning the Cure of
Saint Jacques do Haut-Pas was called to the duke, and con-
versed with him. Soon after the sufferings returned with
greater violence, and the last agony commenced. It is said
that an examination of the corpse will take place to- morrow,
the Presence of • magistrate specially delegated —The
coramittee of examination yesterday continued its operations,
and this day new witnesses will be heard. On Monday an
esuaination was wads by M. Broussais, the juge ellnatruc-
Loa, at the hotel Praslin, at the residence of Mile. do Lucy
(Laura Desportee), and at the houses of several persons who
might have received her papers. An examination was also
"tet,d by M. Legonidee in virtue of a rogstory commission
of the chancellor, at the 'Chateau of Prulia, where, on the
but ietthfienee' of the crime, the Procureur du Roi had
deemed it prudent to place seals. M. Legonidee also ens-
noted Intriewes on the spot. The investigation made at the
!tidier* of Mlle. de Luzy.Desportee, at Paris, bed especially
tor one object, it iiaaid, the discovery of a box, in which she
Steed her urresiondence. Mlle. de Luzy-Desportes was
Wit *uainid yeeterda7, but among the witnesses who were
;itee!illed was the metros "of the school, in the Rue du
c,f`.7e:', where Mlle. de Luzy-Desportes resided. The death
Dake de Praulia j
'Yes the court to decide on the
question, whether its Anise' •tiwhich only reached the
ether seemed 'e
by ePn'
l deonnexily, must not terminate, and
14 eftes Jolatinet the
.flitections of :..tie examining nom ait-