The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 12. 1847.

MOST of our readers will have been surprised
and shocked at the report of • coroner's inquest,
held a few days slaw at St. Thomas's Hospital,
from_leltich it wile very evident that a poor child
lost its life from the want of surgical amistanoe
within the walls of an institution devoted to the
affording of surgical relief. Flagrant as the case wee,
as it appeared in our report of the inquest, it seems that
our reporter erred on the side of a favourable view of the
conduct of the hospital authorities, as will be seen
from a letter we this day publish from Mr. DURBAN,
the father of the little victim of hospital mismanage-
ment. Such a case is too grave to be allowed to
pass without comment. If those institutions which
the piety of our ancestors founded and endowed
with enormous wealth for the express par-
Mof affording aid to the diseased and
g, cease to supply that aid, the public have
a right to know the reason. Something more than
the fact of the death of a child is now involved in
this question. It might have been a man the father
of a large family, or a more valuable mem-
ber of society, injured oa the Greenwich Rail-
way, with a wound requiring immediately that
some great artery should be tied, that was
taken to St. Thomas's Hospital. Yet, under its
present management, or rather mismanagement, it
would be a chance if he found the house-surgeon at
home, or he might be met by a dresser, who would
say, " Your life would undoubtedly be saved by an
operation ; but although I am in charge of the hos-
pital I am only a dresser, and ft is against
the rules of the hospital for any but surgeons
to perform operations."
Now, we do not say that it may not be very right
to forbid young men in their pupilage to perform
operations ; but we do say that it is a most monstrous
thing and an unwarrantable perversion of the objects
of the charity, that one of the largest hospitals of the
metropolis should be habitually left without an officer
capable of performing an operation. For it appears,
that although in our report Mr. TRAVERS, who
resides in the hospital, is called house-surgeon, he is
not so, bat "simply a resident at the hospital." In
what capacity Mr. 'fitAvetre resides at the hospital
we are at a loss to discover, from his letter to us, and
must put the question as to whether any surgeon
could take up his quarters there, and obtain ' full per-
mission to practice," and follow his "ordinary profes-
sional avocations abroad." We have said before,

that under these circumstances we do not attach
blame to Mr. TRAVERS; but we fear that in this
instance of neglect we have an illustration of what
might occur in many of our Londos. hospitals. The
surgeons and assistant surgeons are not required
to lice in the hospital, and to attend by rota-
tion, but are sent for on emergencies, and
during the greater part of the twenty-four
hours no person competent to perform the capital
operations of surgery are to be found within their
walls at all. Such an abuse as this must at once
be exposed and remedied. In every hospital
there should be an officer constantly present com-
petent to meet all the emergencies of ordinary
cases; and, in order to secure his constant ser-
vices, he should be strictly forbidden to prac-
tice for his own benefit, and be paid ac-
cording to the sacrifice he makes. The system of
receiving the gratuitous services of medical men has,
we believe, led to a fearful amount of neglect of duty
in our hospitals and dispensaries. In many instances
young men are induced to give their services more for
the sake of the name than the objects of the
institution, and the consequence is, that as their
services are gratuitous, the governors or committee
have little or no control over them. In most of our
London hospitals and medical institutions there are
funds enough to remunerate amply a sufficient num-
ber of medical officers to attend to the duties
demanded of them, and that is but a bastard hospital
charity that would, for the sake of increasing the
number of its beds, diminish the efficiency of its
medical and surgical attendance.
'inlets we obtain some satisfactery explanation of
the circumstances that occurred at St. Thomas's Hoe-

pital, and feel assured that the same tragedy could
not occur in any other of our London hospitals, we shall
not let the matter rest here, but proceed to make those
inquiries which our duty to the public demands, and
the result of which we shall not shrink from making
known. The management of our London hospitals
has long been too little amenable to public opiai.m.
The interests of a few favoured physicians or surgeons
are consulted to the exclusion of the welfare of the
sick poor, and suffering humanity is made to pay the
price of the bargain struck between scheming prac-
titioners of the healing art.

WE have been reminded in several letters that the
claims of the Spanish bondholders form a subject
which an English journal should not neglect. tVe
admit the full justice of the reminder, but are at a
loss to perceive how the agitation of these claims is
likely to be serviceable to them at the present mo-
ment. Parliament is expiring. The subject is not
one calculated to influence votes upon the hustings;
and the voice of the English press thunders against
the Spanish government for misdeeds and blunders
far more serious than repudiation of debt, and with
wonderfully little effect.
Lord PALMEBSTON, indeed, has gratified the bond-
holders, or their committee, by a thundering speech
on the subject We doubt, however, that this speech
has advanced their cause. The bondholders demanded
of our Foreign Secretary some threat that govern-
ment would take their cause in hand. Lord PAtmeit-
srox, in reply, denied that he could take any such
step, or make any such declaration, whilst to make a
declaration to the contrary would damage their cause.
In his speech, Lord Pstmensvor4 took the middle
path: the British government, he said, could not take
111:0 the cause of the bondholders in act, but in word
the Foreign Secretary laid it very severely upon all
Spanish governments and finance ministers, past and
present, in a manner likely to gall Castilian pride.
Some negotiations lately took place with Spanish
ministers, in which Senhor P.teneco, the chief of
those ministers, threatened intervention in Portugal
without us, and bullied with such success, that the
British governmentadmits its having been intimidated,
and its having acted through fear of this Spanish in-
tervention. Now, here was a provocation which might
have called forth all our Foreign Secretary's thunder ;
all his fortiter in re. We find, however, that the
British government on that occasion indulged in
nothing but courtesy and submission to Spain.
But now, when the case of the bondholders is brought
forward, of which nothing immediate or positive can
come, all the thunder, which was smothered on the
subject of intervention, breaks forth, and rolls a bregum
fulnren over the heads of Spanish statesmen. We
ahouldprefer seeing these two different linesof conduct
reversed. When the independence of Portugal was
threatened, then was the time to talk big ; When we
were urging the settlement of an old debt, we should
have tried the smaller.
Lord PAtweesTorr said very justly, that the great
obstacle to Spanish financial reform, and to the Spanish
government paying English creditors, was France.
France will permit no favours to be shown by a
Spanish government to England—will permit no
justice to be observed. That we believe to be the tree
state of the case, and we fear that as long as the
antagonism subsists between France and England in the
Peninsula, so Meg must the Spanish bondholders
do without their money. To liberate Spain and
Spaniards from the yoke of France is no easy task.
But of this we are certain, that the very best mode of
rendering that yoke eternal, and of throwing Spain
altogether into the arms of France, is to utter such
diatribes against Spain and Spaniards as that which
excites so much general satisfaction amongst our co-
temporaries.

On Friday and Saturday the public attention in
Paris was almost exclusively engrossed by the events
which are successively developed in the judicial in-
quiry held before the Court of Peers. On the after-
noon of Thursday, at the close of the sitting of that
day, MM. Cubieree, Testa, and Parmentier, were left
at large, the application of the Procureur-Genkral
for their arrest having been limited to M. Pellagra,
who had absconded. At a late hour in the evening,
however, most unexpectedly, a warrant was sent by,
the chancellor to the authorities at the bureau of
police, to effect the immediate arrest of the persons of
the three accused, and to commit them to the prison
of the Court of Peers at the Luxembourg.
commissaries of police were accordingly sent to the
residences of the parties respectively, and their
persons taken. No accommodation having been pro-
vided in the prison of the Luxembourg, they were
conducted to the Conciergerie, where they were
locked up.
It transpired, on Friday, that this proceeding was
adopted in consequence of some further documentary

evidence which had reached the chancellor in an ex-
traordinary manner. It that copies ors corn-
stuel d
ence between MM.ateres and Pella were
in the hands of the chancellor by M. Loon de
Maleville, vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies,
who declared that he had received them from M.
Armand Marraat, the chief editor of the National, but
how the latter person became possessed of them M.
Leon de Maleville did not profess to know. On being
called before the committee of the chamber, M. Mar-
rast said that he wee shown the original letters of '
which he made the copies, in his, confiden-
tial relation as a journalist, and declined to
say by whom he was shown them, but
affirmed in the strongest manner their authenti-
city. He suppressed this information until he saw
by the publiseed proceedings that its production was
essential to the due course ofjuatice. He then, con-
sulting with M. de Maleville, concurred in the mea-
sure taken by that deputy. 'These documents go to
exculpate General Cubieres from the charge of fraud,
and leave the question of guilt between MM. Pella-
pa and Teste. Gen. Cubieres admitted the exactness
of the copies of letters produced by M. Marrist. The
report of the proceedings in the Court of Peers will
be found in another column. M. Teste, previous to
the trial, gave up the insignia of all his honours in the
hands of Louis Philippe.
The proposed law for a loan of fourteen millions
sterling, was discussed in the bureaux on Friday.
All the members of the committee were agreed as to
granting the required authorisation, although some
difference prevailed as to matters of detail. No doubt
exists that the entire loan will be immediately
authorised.
The grand reform banquet took place in the gar-
dens of the Chateau Rouge on Friday evening. At
eight o'clock, above a thousand persons sat down to
dinner. Speeches in favour of electoral and parlia-
mentary reform were delivered by MM. lluvergier
d'Hauranne, Odillon Barret, de Lasteyrie, and
Gustave de Beaumont. The Marseillaise hymn
was several times repeated, and a variety of popular
toasts drunk. The absence of MM. Thiers, de Remu-
sat, Arago, Ledru Rollin, and other opposition chiefs,
was a subject of much comment.
The King of the Belgians was expected in Paris
yesterday (Sunday) evening.

MADRID, JULY 5.
The Correo's article on the palace question has been
followed by much noise. The composition is attri-
buted to Pacheco, and the answers to it seem to be
aimed particularly at him. The positions taken up
by the Gorreo may be stated briefly thus : —l. The
springhead of matrimonial discord was the neglect of
the contrivers of the marriage to define the rights of
the King Consort by clear and decisive capitulations.
2. The palace question has been a question of autho-
rity, and only that. 3. The dissensions of the royal
couple broke out during the Sotomayor ministry ; but
that ministry attempted to resolve the question in a
wrong way, by espousing the pretensions of the King
Consort, which were to dispose of the royal patri-
mony, and to be head of the palace, that is, the
Queen's master.
In answer to these assertions, Mon and Fidel,
and the members of the Sotomayor cabinet, have
published in the Faro of yesterday letters signed
with their names, denying positively that the King
Consort put forth any such pretensions as are attri-
buted to him by the Correo, and denying d fortiori
that they ever backed that person in such extravagant
demands. The Faro does the rest of their work, and
holds in terroreon over the Correa the awful alterna-
tive of a prosecution for libel by the former ministers
unless it retracts. All this protestation and fulmina-
tion has not prevented the mass of the people from
believing that, in the main, the Orrea is exact. No-
body acquainted with affairs entertains any doubt
whatever but that the King's pretensions were ac-
itually such as they are represented by the Correo.
At the same time, everybody knows that the exagge-
ration of these pretensions, and their espousal by the
ministry of the Duke of Sotomayor, was not the only
cause, if any part of the cause, of the fall of that
ministry ; although the Correo would lead you to
this conclusion. It is unnecessary to recall a
story fresh in everybody's recollection. It was
not for espousing the pretensions of the King, but for
)10e espousing the pretensions of General Serrano that
the Sotomayor ministry was dismissed. To-day the
supplement of the Correo has published a supplement
to its article, which contributes some additional
facts to the history of the matter. It admits that the
reason why capitulations were not made, was because
it appeared derogatory to the dignity of the crown
that such should be proposed between the Queen and
a subject. But the Queen made a declaration in
favour of her future husband, in which, setting forth
that the command of the palace and royal patrimony
were inseparable from the crown, she made him an
allowance of 30,000 dollars a year. If the Queen
died, the widowed King was to get the sixth part of
her personal property. Upon this the Correo remarks
that the present ministry have offered the King Consort
the settlement of a pension of 40,000 and more pounds
sterling, instead of the miserable 30,000 dollars; and
reproaches the Mon-Pidal set with their inconsistency,
in first opining, when in office, that any capitulations
settling the position of the prince consort, were an act
of too great condescension on the part of the crown,
while they now seek to swell his authority.
Meantime, the Espanol of Saturday came out with
an answer to the Con•eo's article, which contained a
most important disclosure. It attributes the fall of
the Sotomayor ministry to the treachery of a person,
who, although not mentioned by name, has been
generally understood to be Senor Salamanca. It
says, that this person, having been employed by the
Sotomayor cabinet as mediator between the King and
Queen, equally deceived the confidence of all parties ;
and availed himself of the possession of a secret to
aggravate the dissensions he was employed to con-
ciliate, and to upset the ministry, which made use of
his services.
I mentioned the other day that it was generally
believed that Salamanca had succeeded in obtaining a
loan from an English house. The Fare contains some
particulars concerning the conditions of this loan,
which are generally believed to be correct. The house
is Smith and Co., but the transaction is done in the
name of the Union Bank of Madrid. The loan is 100
millions of realm, about a million sterling. It is to be
advanced upon the security of a fresh issue of exche-
quer bills, payable within a given date, and bearing
an interest of 9 per cent.; commission, 3 per cent.
The money will be given in bills upon London at four
months' date, which will have to be discounted at a
lose. Such, says the Faro, is the upshot of the dissolu-
tion of the contract with the Bank of San Fernando.
Instead of paying 0 per cent. upon anticipations of
the revenue, the government will have to pay, at this
rate, at least 14 per cent.

TRIAL OF GENERAL CUBIERES, M. TESTE,

AND M. PARMENTIER.
COURT OF PRERs, JULY 9.—The court assembled,
according. to adjournment, at 12 o'clock. M. de la Cheri-
niere, principal registrar, commenced the proceedings by
reading a document, to the effect that " on the Bth inst.,
Duke Pasquier, Chancellor of France, received M. Ikon de
Malleville, member of the Chamber of Deputies, who deli-
vered to him six documents to be added to those already
produced in the process now pending before the Court of
Peer'. M. de Malleville stated that he had received them
from M. Armand Marred, the chid editor of the National,
adding that he was completely ignorant of the manner in
which M. Manuel had obtained them.
M. Merest, on being called in before the oommiseion,
deposed, after being shown the documents, that they were
the same that he had entrusted to M. Leon de Malleville, and
were all of them copied with his own hand. On being
asked where be procured the originals of these documents,
he begged leave to decline answering, as he could not do so
without betraying the confidence placed in him as an editor
of • journal. He declared upon his honour that he believed
in the authenticity of them. The documents were com-
municated to him, and appeared to him to be so important
that he refused re stir before be had taken capita of them.
After having read the report of M. Renouard, with the inter.
rogstories and the documents of the process, he remarked
void. which were completely filled up by the notes he had
in hi; hands. Some time afterwards, finding himself in a
group of deputies, who maintained that the accusation of
fraud still subsisted, he had been iaduced to talk of the
information be possessed. M. de Malleville, one of the depu-
ties present. called upon him to produce proofs, end he en-
trusted to hint the copies he had taken. After the flight
of M. Pallapra, it appeared to both M. Malleville and him
that they ought not to hesitate in delivering the copies' up to
the Chancellor. On the 9th July, General Cubieree, ts
whom the documents were read, recognised the copies as
being conformable to the originals.
The Chancellor then proceeded to the examination
General Deepens-Cabling!, who, in answer to the questions

put to him, ;aid that he dist an interist in this 'mines of
Uouhenans in 1839. He bad been proposed aa a candidate
for the department of the Hants.ftaline, end this led to his
vintina the department, on which occasion he took an in-
terest in the mines of Gouhenans. He had no relations with
M. Testa, Minister of Public Works, nor did he behave that

he had seen him more than once on the affair of Gouhenans,
with respect to which M. Peilaves took several measures.
When the affair of Goithenans presented itaelfas a demand
for a concession, it attracted the attention of some persons
who appeared to take a great interest In it, and who offered
their services or their mediation, by emaciating themselves
with it. In the number of means of success spoken of, they
pointed out to him the influence which they might have on
the administration before which competitors might present
themselves, and adding that they were enabled to secure the
means of the affair by menu plaoed in their hands. The
mesas indicated were liable to reproach, since they were
destined to lead to a fact which would have been censurable,
but which did not take place. With regard to the
influence intended to be used be would be silent.
That influence was to be exercised by interesting some influ-
ential persons by making them obtain shares at moderate
prices. It was alts decided that 2.5 new shares should be
created in addition to the 500 already existing. The inter-
rogatory then goes on as follows :—Of what nature were the
sacrifices required of you ? What you have said on this
paint is not conclusive, and does not explain all your thoughts.
There is a passage often cited in one of your letters, which,
emanating from such a man as you, is of immense gravity—
it is that in which you say " We must procure an interested
supporter: power is now in greedy and corrupted hands."
Explain yourself on these expressions—The letter of which
you 'mask is a perfectly confidential letter. I endeavoured
to make M. Parmentier understand that supporters were
accessary to surmount the obstacles, and I wrote under the
impression of those difficulties. If I had pronounced those
words in public, I might have been celled on for proofs; but
in writing to a partner, confidentially, I expressed
my impressions toe strongly, perhaps, from not fore-
seeing tnc use which has been made of my words.
Oae of the intermediary agents was M. Pellapra. In
speaking of sacrifices proportioned to the support obtained,
he proposed to interest in their proceedings some active and
intelligent agents by giving them a part in the products of
the enterprise. That in order not to engage any one, there
should be two contracting parties, M. Parmentier and him-
self, and an intermediary. That the intermediary was M.
Pellapra. There could be no other contracting party, he-
cause the necessary resources could not be disposed of.
The Chancel). r said that he knew there were at that time
no resources ; but, to create them, a deed of sth February
divided the property of the mines of Gouhenans into 525
sharer, and placed 25, or more, if necessary, at the disposal
of General Cubieree and M. l'armentier, for the welfare and
improvement of the establishment, without obliging them to
give an account of them. The deed containing these stipu.
Wiens was read.
The Chancellor then reads letter, dated 3rd Feb. 1842,
from General Cubieres to M. Parmentier, sating forth that
he estimated the value of each share at 800 f.,: in which ease
it would only be necessary to sacrifice 25 ; but if each share
were only animated at 600 E, the sacrifice would have to
be 35 ; and he said that that indicated a commencement of
corruption. Gen. Cseieres replied that that was the natural
consequence of the idea which he had accepted, that it was
necessary to make a sacrifice. In consequence of his (Gen.
Cubieres') representations, objects of value were remitted to
him destined to procure the interested supporters of whom
he spoke. By a deed of Feb. 5, 1842, 25 shares were placed
at the disposal of M. Pannentier and himself. The idea
which caused them to be so placed not having been carried
into effect, he believed it useless to name the peewee en
whom he counted for their influence as intermediaries. That

he wrote to M. Parnientier, telling him to press on the affair,
and representing that as more shares were demanded, it
would he necessary that he should endeavour to obtain 50
shares ; thst be (enhance) bad already promised 30 ; and
that from the manner in which he was spoken to, it was
impossible to treat for less than 45. That the persons he re-
ferred to pretended to possess the means of acting usefully
in relation to the ministers who had to treat the affair. He
counted on no minister, but on the mediation of persons with
whom he was iu relation, and who were to actin their interest.
After some further questions of no importance, the chancellor,
referring to • letter written to Panneritier, in which men-
tion was made of a M. T—, asked what person was
designated by that initial? M. Cubieres replied: M. Tease.
He added, that by the initial M. H— he meant M. Hu-
mane, and that in stating that, he had been told that certain
measures had received their execution, he meant that. he had
been ,old that by M. Tette. The person designed by the
initial T-- fir 15 shares, in a note found in his pep( rs,
was M. Test* ; and the initial C—, for ten shares, meant
himself. . . .

A deed was next read, setting forth that twenty-five shares
of the company, representing 160,0001., had been placed in
the hands of M. Coln;ire', and that M, and Mme. Paulsen-
tier had transferred twenty-five other shares to M. Cubii:res,
fur which he gave an acknowledgment for the additional
sum of 100,000 f.
The Chancellor observed, that in one of his letters the
general said he had been to the Ministry of Public Works,
and Mine. Teste had informed him that the minister would
return on the IFith of July. The Chancellor added, that he
had also given confidential details of what had passed in the
office of Public Works and in the Conseil des Mines.
. _

General Cubieres said, all this information had been sup•
plied by M. Pellapra.
IC Testa wished to asks question. Whether the general
was sure that atter his departure Mme. Teste told hon that
he should be absent only ten or twelve days?—General
Cubieres : I cannot state positively the number of days.—
M. Teste : I have only one word to say. Mme. Testa wont
with me to Holm, as will be proved.
The Chancellor here observed to General Cubieres that he
had taken an active part in the negotiations, and that the
whole of his contluct showed that he was on terms of great
intimacy with M. Tote, and that the latter had manifested
a truly extraordinary zeal for the interests of the general.
—General Cubieres replied that the interest was natural, as
the affair was in the department of which M. Teste was
minister. Questions were then put to General Cubieres u
to the 100,000 fr. said to have been given by him to M. Pella-
pra.—General Cubieres acknowledged that M. Pellapra told
im he had given this money to AL Tote.
The Chancellor then said t' M. Tote: You have heard
the reply, and all that has been said. Ido not put any ques-
tion to you, but I invite you to explain yourself.-Id. Testa
said that a question put in this direct manner would demand
the development of an entire system. At that moment he
could only give a formal denial to all that had been said.
He entreated the court to allow the interrogation of M.
de Cubieres to be completed, or to permit him to plead
immediately. A machination had been got up against him.
M. de Cubieres repelled the idea of having taken part in
any machination. Far from having wished to injure any
person, he had been the only victim. M. Pellapra assured
him that he t.ave 100,000 f. to M. Teste.
M. Testel. adjure General Cuhieres to answer one (Ines.
tion. He declares now that M. Pellapra told him he bad
given me a considerable sum of money. How was it that
he, my colleague, did not come and speak to me, and give
me the means of arriving at the source of his information ?
and why, instead of the disclosure which now takes place,
did he not come to me and inform in. of what had been
stated to him ?—General Cubieres: lam asked why I did
not go to M. Teste and apprise him of what Al. Pellapra had
told me. I should have been ashamed to do so.
The Procureur•General made art appeal to the honour of
_ . - and p•

General Cubieres, and abjured him ti; se sincere, .-41 produce
the proofs which no doubt he had in his hands.—The Chan-
cellor earnestly entreated General Culehlres not to conceal
the papers which were of a nature to justify himself, adding
—"
Reflect, you have the papers, and I abjure you to pro-
duce them at tomorrow's sitting."—General Cubieres ' I
will pay attention to this warning."
The Chancellor then proceeded to the interrogatory of M.
Parmentier, who said he thanked General Cubieres for
having said M. Teste was not corrupted, for that con-
firmed what he had always thought on the matter. He
then entered into long explanations to prove that everything
had warranted him in believing that General Cubieres in-
tended to obtain possession of part of the property of the
company of Gouhenans, without ever having the intention
to corrupt any one, and that for his part he had only acted
passively,. pretending to believe all that General Cubierte
toad him in order not to compromise the success of the affair.
General Cubieres did not owe him an account of the em-
ployment of the funds, such as a clerk owes to his muter;
but he was to employ them for the interest of the company
—though by that corruption was not meant. No one be-
Rued in corruption. (Interruption.) He had never be-
lieved. it. (Renewed interruption.) If writing letters,
subjected him to the charge of corruption, that proved
that he had acted with goad faith, and had taken no pre-
cautions. If he had written threatening rs
‘lette, demanding
• large sum of money from General Cubieres, it was because
he did not believe in corruption. On this subject he entered
into very long details, and was still proceeding at half-put 6
o'clock, when the chamber adjourned.
10.—The court assembled at kalf-put 12. The
letters, copies of which had been furnished by M. de Make-
Tillie, were produced in court by Gen. Cubieres and read.
To these were joined two answers from M. Pellapra. Brame
parts of these new letters strongly accuse M. Tate, but the
answers of M. Pellapra do not mention his name. M.
Couson, advocate, stated to the court that the copies of these
letters were furnished to M. Marrut by him, and that they
formed part of • set of papers which had been placed in his
hands, and were to be introduced into a paper which he was
to have written. In producing them ho only wished to says
the honour of teen. Cubieres.

H. Teste war then examined : His interreptory bore
chiefly upon the correepondence of General Cubieres with M.
Parmenuer, the improbabilities of which he sought to bring
forward. He also spoke much of the want of caution and
credulity of General Cubieres, whose good faith be did not
doubt, The general then got up, and persisted in his state-
ment that he had never made any proposal of corruption to
M. Teste, but merely repeated in his correspondence what
M. Pellapra bad told him. N. Delangle, procureur-general,
hereupon got up, and said, addressing M. Teste, "it is evident
then, that M. Pellapra Ins carried on an infamous system of
swindling." H. Testa replied emphatically that he did not
accuse auy one. The Chancellor and H. Delangle then urged
upon General Cabieres the necessity of his telling the whole
truth, as he hail only stated part of it to them. They pressed
him to explain, unless he wished to be considered as the ac-
complice of a swindler (Pellapra), but the general declared
that he had believed in the OfterdiCtS made by M. Pellapn
for the corruption of the ministry, but that he never had
proofs of Tote then rose, and was speaking when
post left.

GOREE.—The French vessel Jenne Raymonde,
which reached Ilene on the morning of the 10th, brings
intelligence from Gores to the 19th of May. It was known
there that several French missionaries were kept in irons in
the states of the King of Cayor. It was not known what
steps would be taken in the matter by the French authorities.