The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-14 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Fouß 'oCLocK.

SECOND EDITION.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF M. TESTE.
Paris journals of y esterday, together with our usual
tters, have been received.
The meet strange investigation in progress before
Le French oourt of peers proceeds, and each day is
irked by the development of events more and more
itraordinary. It is impossible to convey an adequate
Rion of the intense interest with which the pro-
edings are regarded, or of the painful curiosity
hich is manifested as the accused are conducted to
sir places. Every eye on Monday looked for M.
ellapra, whose return had been rumoured the pre-
ding day, and presence at the bar of the chamber was
sifidently expected. The letters of Mad.Pellapra and
enclosures, the letter of her husband to her on his
,parture from Paris, together with the several notes of
Teste, were listened to in profound silence. As
e evidence gradually brought the truth to light, and
the guilt seemed by every fresh testimony to come
user and clever to M. Teste, that person evinced the
moat coolness and the most unflinching self-paws-
on, examining and cross-examining the witnasiss
ith all the dispassionate adroitness of a cotutssi
ting as the fee'd advocate of a third party. At
a rising of the court at six o'clock M. Testa, against
hour such a mass of unexpected evidence had been
'ought, appeared to be the least affected individual
L that crowded hall.

The bewildering doubts in which the report of the
roceedings and the air of confident innocence of the
xused left the public were soon destined to be die.
tiled, and this curious drama was to receive an =-
semen (knottemene. At half-past eight o'clock in
ie evening of Monday, the report of firearms was
card to issue from the apartments in the Liman-
surg, occup and by he pnsoners. The 'maw
charge thet guards instantly rashed
the rooms, and found that M. Teets had
:tempted suicide with pistols, but without seems.
appears that he first placed a pistol in his mouth
id mapped it, but it missed fire. Provided with a
mud he placed the mouth of the barrel close against
is breast and discharged it. The ball under these
rcumstitnces seems not to have acquired force
tough to enter the body. It fell to the ground,
?rely leaving a black mark on the waistcoat and
le skin, but without producing any contusion, as
as incorrectly stated in some of the published
siounts. The Chancellor, the grand referendary, and
ie members of the committee of the chamber ap-
Dieted to conduct the trial, were immediately sum-
toned, and the commissary of police of the district,
well as the prefect of the police, attended. The pro-
near-general- and the police authorities made a
roc verbal of the transaction. M. Teste was ordered
tbe kept au secret, with proper precautions against
57 repetition of the attempt at self-destrue-
GIL The only person who visited M. Testa
tier his retirement to his apartment yester-
sy was his son, who is a member of the Cham-
er of Deputies. This circumstance has given
se to the report that the loaded pistols were
supplied to him. A report is mentioned in
's paper, that as he was keying the court
'oli tely evening, he was heard to exclaim " Je
cis en homme perdu ?"
We have given elsewhere a resuml of the pre-
ceding' of the court on Tuesday, which were
f course cut short by the events of the preceding
Light On being summoned to attend the court,
4. Teete declined acknowledging the unanswerable
Mare of the proof against him, and, in substance,
reusing that he accepted the wages of corruption.
Abe act of corruption by Pellapra,
_ and the
omplicity of General Cubieres and M. Parmentier
as not denied by their respective advocates, and
merely appealed to the clemency of the court. At
he time oar oorrespondent closed his despatches the
enteace of the court had not been declared.

==l court of proprietors, held at
is Ise this day, a resolution, passed
innbasody by dr wart at direcuirs, granting an
tri 07 of 1,0001. to Major-General Sir George
G.C.8., was agreed to.

The Cambria, Captain Judkins, arrived at Liverpool
rerday, at 10 a.m. Her dates are—City of Mexico,
In. 2; Vera Cruz, June 16; Tampioo, June 17;
Brazos, June 18; New Orleans, June 21 ; Bouton,
hue 21; Halifax, July 3. The Cambria brought
• and among them the Hon. R. Paken-
himrlreterltialt mininter at Washington.