The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'Clock.

Our foreign express, which should have reached
tui last evening, only arrived this morning.
The despatches of our Paris correspondent of Mon-
day. inform us that the crusade of the ministry
against the opposition press, that is to say against
au the journals of Paris, except the Journal
des Rzbats progresses. In addition to the Gazette
de France, the Reforrne, and the Charivari,
which had been already seized at their respective
bureaux, the Union Monarchigue, a legitimist
paper, announced, on Monday, that it was seized
on Sunday, both at the post-office and at: its bureau.
None of these journals know, as they declare, why
they are to be prosecuted.
General Narvaez, the Spanish ambassador, le.
Paris, for Madrid, on Sunday.
It is said that the new loan of 350 millions of francs
will be negotiated on the 10th of November, and that
the contractors will be required to pay up the whole
is 38 months, being at the rate of about nine millions
per month. The intention of dividing the loan into
fractions is said to be abandoned.
The journals generally announced on Monday that
Marshal Sebastian had arrived in l'aris on Saturday.
This is not exact. The Marshal had left Geneva for
Nice before the arrival of the news of the catastrophe
of the hotel Praslin. We append some further par-
ticulars respecting the horrible murder of the Duchess
de Praslin:
PARIS, MOSIDAY.—The great excitement produced by
this sad event hes increased. Although the Duke de
Perlin had been removed to the prison of the Luxembourg,
an immense crowd assembled on Saturday in front of the
Hotel Sebestiani. The report of the duke having attempted
to commit wields appears by the subjoined accounts to have
been well-founded. One journal, however, states that he
swallowed sulphuric mid, another that he took laudanum.
His sufferings are said to hsve been we acute that a member of
his family, who was admitted to see him on Friday, observed
afterwards to • friend that he was scarcely recognisable—that
he wia. is fact only the ghost of what he bad been. A congeals
de choose is said to have been found in a eels-pool with
some napkins. The couleass de chasse, it is added. was
kept constantly in the room of the duchess, to whom, being
richly ornamented, it was given as a present by one of her
friend.. It was stated yesterday evening that the Duke
de Praslin was rather better, and that he had signified his
willingness to be interrogated by the chancellor this day.
The commission of the Court of Peers met yesterday at the
house of the chancellor, to examine the different papers con-
nected with the arrest of the duke. At four o'clock yesterday
morning the body of the late duchess was removed, without
romp, attended by some members of the family of Marshal
Sebastiani, to a vault under the church of the Madeleine,
from whence, it is supposed, it will be conveyed to Corsica,
to be interred in the tomb where repose the ashes of her
mother.
We read in the Commerce:—" The rumours which were
current yesterday as to the attempted suicide of the Duke
de Praslin have been confirmed, except that, instead of
having used a piste', as was at first said, he took ad.
vantage of the momentary absence of M. Allard, the chief
of the Police de Sureti, who was in attendance on him,
to swallow a quentity of sulphuric acid, which he had
doubtless concealed in some part of his apartment. In
feet, it is said that M. Allard, having gone out of the room
for a moment to center with the examining magistrates,
the duke took that opportunity to go to the wash.
hand-basin and take the poison. The police agents imme-
diately seized him. The duke resisted some wends, until
the medical men end M. Allard, who had been called by one
of the police agents, came into the room. According to an-
other account, the duke, who was in bed, took the poison
daring a short absence of M. Allard, without moving from
the place. Some hours afterwards he was seized with violent
convulsions and pains in the bowels, which increased the
agitation of the previous day. The chancellor, on being
informed of the attempt at suicide, issued a warrant of arrest
against the duke, and, in execution of this warrant, at
day-break on Saturday, the Duke Decants, the Chief Usher
of the Chamber of Peers, in uniform, the Procureur du Roi,
Messrs. Legonidec and Broussais, examining magistrates,
and two physicians, went to the Hotel Sebastiani. The Doke
Demme and the usher were in a carriage of the Chamber of
Peers. The usher went to the duke, who was then in a
high fever, and signified to hiss the issuing of the warrant,
and that he had come to conduct him to the prison of the
Luxembourg. The duke did not appear to be moved by this
announcement, merely saying, " You will carry me there."
On arriving at the prison the prisoner had fresh convulsions.
Two police agents went to a neighbouring wine-shop, where
they procured two bottles of hot water, which the medical
men ordered to be applied to the duke's feet, as the
pain in the bowels continued. The conveyance of the
prisoner was effected without exciting the attention of the
public. Their majesties were it is said, much affected on
being informed of the crime. Several peers have stated that
the proceedings connected with this horrible affair will take
place with dosed doors; from which it may be inferred that
it contains revelations of private life which ought not to be
made public."
The following is from the Prairie By the side of
the duke was a pistol loaded with ball, but no one
knows for what object it was charged, or if he intended using
it against his wife. In this last hypothesis, he did not dare
to do so on account of the noise of the report. He certainly
Kraal his:wife with the butt-end to finish her, as has been
proved. When interrogated on the point, he replied that he
desired to defend his wife against • murderer ; but on its
being represented to him that there was no trace left of the
tot of this mysterious murderer, he remained silent, and
hid his head in his hands. The duke is embarrassed to ex-
plain away the scratches which are perceptible on his right-
Und, as well as a contusion on the leg. It is generally be-
lieved that, as the duchess was able to ring, she was tint
struck in bed during her sleep, but that it was after she had
quitted the bed that the decisive blows were
given. The hair
left in the hands of the victim, or fallen in the struggle,
were brought together by M. Orfila. At first, it was sup-
posed that the hair in the duchess's hand, and these on the
Mend, fixed to the floor by the dried blood, were of a diffe-
rent colour ; but when M. Orfila had washed them it was
evident that they belonged to the same pantie, and the idea
of different persons been engaged in the matter was laid
*Mc This hair, besides, is altogether similar to that of the
hmleind. Some water tinged with blood was found in a
hole. The interrogat:oy of the duke has as yet furnished
Me inform r.:orecting the crime ; he declares that he
lama nothing of the guilty party. The governess is of
Itali4° Origin, and belongs to a noble family; her name is
"" Lute, (Laura), and not de Lissy. She is still kept alto-
Welber *put at the Conciergerie. She allows that she was
0.,.!1 moved and annoyed at being obliged to gait the duke's
may, and separated from the young lathes whose education
.4e had superintended ; she explains in this way the lan-
Pegs of a letter written by her to the Duke de Prulin, and
Nand amongst her papers. What is certain, is that the
..,.dlidlass took offence at the intercourse rubeis!ing between
nevem.. and the duke, and without a high intervention
ndd. have demanded a regular separation. The duke,
Pelding to prudent advice, consented to the governess being
'sat away; and the duchess, in acknowledgment of this con-
es,**. settled on her • pension for life. It is said that
g.kc4 the, royal family interfered recently to reconcile the
.
and damask Th. king, the queen, and par-
°f Mmes, Adelaide, bail great aii:gtien for the