The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1847.

isereues in insolesce; and when they first required that the
Greek minister should apologise in person to their Tepee-
mutative, they sr now content that the same apology should
he made SY ONE OF THEMSELVES TO THEIR OWN lINVOT
Oaks the state of demoralisation to which the Turkish gis.
vernment have fallen through the instrumentality of those
rime who in the beginning might have prevented the evil
which it is now too late to remedy.
It is the opinion amongst well-informed people hers that
Al will reject the advice of Prince Metternich to autho-
tie Al. Effendi to apologise to M. Museums. M. Protish is
as much • partisan of Celetti r Placatory himself, nor are
the sent.ments of the Astrian envoy at Athens a whit more ,
friendly towards Count Stunner than are those of M. Piscatory
toward. Baron de Bourqueney. There Is an evident wish at
this moment on the part of the French and Austrian repre-
smuts,. at Constantinople that Coletti should comply with
prince Metternich's suggestion with regard to the apology
to be msde to Museums, but it is more than probable that
their ,gues at Athena will exert themselves to prevent
seed a e..,.summatipn, as much to gratify their personal as
their poiicical feelings.
In my last letter I mentioned that eerions disturbances
had broken out in Albania. Two thousand troops have
alma been dispatched thither, part on board the Peninsular
end Oriental Company's steamer Terms, and the rest in
Turkish vessels. A circular has been sent round by the
Porte t the different embassies to my that a squadron would
leave Constantinople in a few days for the purpose of block-
ading part of the coast of Albania from Prever to Deri-
giskele.
Mr. I..,yard has arrived at Constantinople from the scene
of his wonderful discoveries near Mosul. In a few days
Ite will proceed to England.

FRANCE.—MURDER IN OPEN DAY.—The neigh-
bourhood of the Paris Bourse was on Friday thrown into con-
sternatern a little before 2 o'clock by the intelligence that a
murder sad just been committed on the clerk of M. Meyer-
Spielman, money-changer, rue Neuve-Vivienne, 26. It ap-
pears that the clerk, a German, aged IS, was sitting behind
the non railing which is usually found in such shops, when
• well-dressed man, of about 30, entered, and presented a
bill of exchange. Whilst the young man was unfolding
it, the other stretched forward his hand through the
little opening in the grating, and seised on a wooden
cup, Mini with gold and a handful of banknotes, with
which bo attempted to make off. The clerk, however,
who pa rceived the movement, rushed round into the
open part of the shop, and seised the thief. The latter
then drawing out a poignard-knife stabbed the young
man in the hand and forehead. The clerk, struggled
with him, crying out all the time loudly for help.
The clerk, however, contrived te force the weapon from
him, and in his turn plunged it into the man's leg, and cut
the fingers of his right hand. In the midst of the struggle
the leave fell, and the thief stooped down to pick it up. The
clerk availed himself of the chance, and, opening the door,
again thruted for help. A servant girl at the same moment
entered the shop from the interior of the house, and the
thief, finding himself hard pressed, made • last effort, and,
snatchisu up the knife, plunged it twice into the lower part
of the a., omen of the unfortunate clerk, who fell to the
ground In an expiring state. The murderer then darted
towards the Bourse, but was overtaken by a commissionaire
and M. Frischmuth, the proprietor of the baker's shop oppo-
site. On his person were found another poignard-knife and
several pieces of gold. The police agent who first came up
recognised him as a thief by profession. The unfortunate
dark w.ra taken to the hospital of the libtel Dieu in • litter,
hat *spired on the way.
THE DUELLIST BEAITVALLON.—The statement that
M. de Bnenallon was ordered for trial appears to have been
incorrect. We find by the Gazette des Tribursaux that the
previous examinations are still going on. " Yesterdin," says
that journal, " Cooseiller Perrot de Chaselles, jun. interro-
pied M. Emile de Girardin and M. Bevisme. Whatever
may be the number of witnesses necessary to be examined,
there is every reason to believe that, on account of the
abridged form of the previous examination prescribed by
Art. 330 vf the Code d'lnstruction Crimmelle, the report of
the examinations may be very shortly laid by the procureur-
general before the Chambre des Mises en Accusation, and
that if it be decided that there are grounds for prosecution,
the trial, if no new incidents arise to delay it, will take place
opts don
next session of the Court of Anises which will be
on Sept. 1."
SPAIN.—MADRID, AUG. 16.—Our correspondent
writes of this date :—" The palace question appears as far as ever
from eettlement. The expectation still holds that if Pacheco
resign, Salamanca will form a puritano cabinet of this sort—
Finance and premiership, Salamanca; State, Ayllon; Grace
and Justice, Vahey ; interior, Escosura ; War, Cordova;
Public Instruction, Llorente; Marine, Roe de Olano. The
march i.t this ministry, it is believed, would be in • liberal
direction, and its accession to office would not be attended
by the trk of revolutionary efforts on the part of the mode-
Mos. It is said that offioe has twice been offered to Cortina,
and that he has declined it both times. lam told he is to be
tried agate. Paria's cruelties at Barcelona have excited general
indignation, but he is powerfully protected by some of the
minister., and his dismissal is not very likely. Count Mid-
as] is appointed to succeed O'Donnell as captain-general
of Cubs. There is no truth in the report that the latter
Is to be refused leave to return to Spain. The return of
Santa Crus to Madrid is announced. A committee has been
appointed by rolel decree to report on the operations for
making an artesian well, conducted at the expense of Senor
Matheu.

BELGlUM.—Bnusset.s, Arc. 20.—Even the most
zealous friends of the new cabinet cannot conceal their dis-
appointment that although they have not yet been in office
more than a week, their first act has been the dismissal of
th me men from office who were highly esteemed in their
respective positions and were moderate in their politics, and
whose only fault appears to be their adherence to the senti-
ments of the late cabinet, we mean Messrs. Lacoste, Dew
maisieris, and Morcier. If, as it seems to be, conciliation is
sincerely desired, if the concurrence of moderate men is
wished for, the best way to obtain this desirable result is
to avoid violent measures, which inevitably draw
forth vlitical hatred, and can only induce a con-
grained adhesion, which will be unable to withstand
difficult ircurnetances. We have sot now to my for the first

One th,t moderation will be one of the strongholds of
power. M. Bogier should have proved at once that his
administration u blued on this stronghold, which would
ham en.o,led him to resist those influences which, it is said,
induced him to displace those three governors. The inte-
rests, alai, of those three provinces ought to have been takes
into consideration previous to the removal of their throe
principsl functionaries. the new cabinet, which is com-
posed of honourable and moderate men, has not been sue-
ciently careful of the high reputation which it enjoyed on
arriving at power. Placing General Clump on a retiring
petiaioo, and nominating General Choral to the highest post
in the army, was not so great a fault as these actual depri-
vations. There can be no doubt that acts of this nature,
which the present cabinet coincided in, give valid ground for
eriticiarn.. It is to be hoped that the just popularity which
the new minister of war enjoys in the army may not be in
my inereure lessened.
ITALY.—NAPLES, Auo. 7.—On the 2nd inst., to-
wn* evening, there was an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
A torrent of lava fell from the new crater, and in about 36
adnutes reached the Piano del Giniotro. In many points of
the old crater the soil was cracked, and great masses of pro
were visible. On the bth, about midnight, a fresh torrent of
lava fell in the direction of Basco Reall. It was lb feat
brook Two new smaller craters were seen vomiting burn-
ing stones, and increasing the fear of the inhabitants.—
Gazette d' Augsburg, Aug. 17.
GERMANY. AUSTRIA. A communication
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" bum the Malian frontier," in the Mannheins7l;;;;Q:
Kates that, in reply to a formal protest from Lord Palmer-
non, in narne):lf his government, aping Austrian interven-
lion in the internal affairs of the states of the church, the '
Austrian cabinet has declared its determination not to inter-
nee, " except in the last extremity, i.e., if the movement in
the states of the church threaten to compromise the tran-
quillity of its own provinces." In suck a case, it is
added, " nothing shall prevent Austria to exercise its
incontestible right." A similar declaration is said to
kayo been addressed to the French and Roman cabinets;
sod instructions given to Prince Radetzsky, in certain speci-
fied circumstances, to enter the Papal territories with 20,000
men. The police is even more than usually active in Lom-
bardy, and the frontier surveillance more strict than ever.
PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, AUG. I7.—TRIAL OF THE
Pi:ans.—The court proceeded this day to a third division of
the prisoners : three of the accused were placed at the bar in
mccession, and their case gone into.
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS TO ENGLAND.—The
Cologne Gazette of the 21st inst. states, on the authority of
its Berlin correspondent, "that the Prussian cabinet, in
Kejtusction with the other govenunentsof the Zollverein, has
tome to the conclusion to cease for the present all negotia-
tions with Great Britain respecting a new treaty, and to
await the consolidation of English commercial affairs (a con-
solidation which will undoubtedly be effected in the forth-
wining session of parliament), in order to obtain a sure basis
it the renewal of negotiations."
GICIZOT AND THE POLISH PRISONERS. —We
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stated some time backthat -Polish lady who had come
lam to speak to one of the accused Poles, had been refused
abentance because M. Guizot had sent a description of her
Pam to the authorities of the palace. The French official
Paras, the Moniteur and the Da.afs, affirm the statement
bbl erroneous. Whatever they may say, we declare it to
h
pats, trite. This lady is said to be the sister of the accused
Mieroolawski, wbo was desirous of speaking once more
Wier brother.—Correspondent de Nuremberg, Aug. 17.
HANOVER. —The Mtujdeberg Gazette states that
yu reported at Berlin that Hanover had acceded to the
rellverein.
P ETEHABUItO.—The moneychangers
lave been forbidden to take or to issue, fur the future, any
ii/Ped,__ Win', or any not having full weight. Defective
be exchanged at appointed klacea.
PERSIA.—THE CHOLERA IN TlPLlB.—According
take Allgenteine Preussie. Zeitung of the 17th, there had
but. IP to the 16th of 7 u1y,322 eases of cholera in Tiflis, of
shirk 152 terminated fatally ; 143 persons were cured, and
lit,,,Mkaiainit 27 were still under medical treatment.
tuRhEY.—CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. B.—The last
ten from Albania is disquieting. The insurrection gained
Its,4"erY Those of Upper Albania ace commanded by Zeinel
LI, sad those of Lower Albania by Djouleka. It is known
t7,,•Mvell'i reified between the populations of those
• his tame it appears that the interests of the
irk nan superseded every other cosekleration and that
of Upper and Lower Aar& baterulse, make
etkeedes of arms, ammunition, and providasa, and ooncert
mesas of defence. This understand/so termies new
u wkich, however, is not without prandinia, and the
Z. hu tekea energetic measures for ma the -
*4, Liu an engagement has taken place re
-
no the
the regular troops. The military authorities have

wisenht that it was preferable to wait the arrival of
the bins paadron which is to cruise on the comb of
Albania. The blockade is to colll=llllloo on the 3rd of Sep-
tember--ene month after the publication of the ordinance.

UNITED STATES.
By the Sarah Bands, Capt. Thompson, arrived at'
Liverpool early yesterday morning, we have New
York papers to the 3rd of August.
They contain no later news from Mexico.
The French steam-ship Philadelphia arrived at
New York on the afternoon of Aug. 2, in 16 days and
20 hours, from Cherbourg. Her speed is said to have
I been reduced by the bad quality of the coal, and the
engineer had to stop about 24 hours to repair some of
the machinery that gave way. There were 22 first
land 66 second cabin passengers. The news by the
Philadelphia had been anticipated by the Hibernia,
which reached Boston at half-past eight on the
morning of Monday ; immediately upon which
event the electric telegraph was set to work
to transmit the intelligence to New York. The
wires got out of order before the message was com-
pleted, bat not till the state of the Liverpool cotton
and grain markets had been forwarded. The effect
will be seen in our reports of markets.
The brig Guildford arrived at New York on the
morning of Aug. 1, in 32 days from Rio. The
account she brought of the state of affairs there was
as follows:
The illibeling between the Brazilians and Americans continued to
man, mg bad spread t the Bra:linos population. The
ABONWIN were annomit=for the (Mb aid the relief squad-
rem Zee Olio will peens* rem& there In Moot Ore weeks, with Yr.
tell. or sow ialsister, on board. The Ohio will remain at Rio till
the antral et Me Brandywine. It la add that the firmiliens throw
wavy Impediment In the way of the American shipmeeters. They
WO Mein the Seeth sad rather and Yeoman TM frigate Columbia
wee at Rio. The brig-Mwar Bainbridge was on a crane, rends-nag
effeims service. . . .

The Union, the government paper at Washington,
expresses a Wish that friendly relations may be re-
stored between America and Brazil, but the Wash-
ington correspondent of the New York Herald ob-
serves that it is in the power of the American
government to re-establish friendly relations, mad that
no efforts appear to be making to that end.
The more restless and enterprising spirits of the
United States are still prowling on to the far-west.
The Boston Journal asp:
We um. nerd theta of yaw me are about
in this city, with the Woollen rawer f to Calif oink
becoming whirrs of that vegan Mt ear seedy territory.
Tempted, DO doubt, by this *M!Bg Ogegmllo *Mahe sod
voyagers hare so freely eher aniaming t tea Lb
a rageemltibre obeemme, th
ala~Yae. ether ba=zeiIsla
privation., the tbt 11 or
eeeeeiee an Libertines, ara oroodat eh iekee keiblee-
mires and their thiktren.

And in the Detroit Advertiser we 'INA—
S oompiny of 22 peewee (twelve from Kennedy, tem MeiaMew
Tout, and some from Ohio and title state) left Mee et The let,
via emit Ste Marie, L'Anoe, Lake Superior, Feet =lt Lastsa
Mileoari, and liedle
Rivers, "for over the Nasky
WOW of this expedition is said to be ezaillelm
kis suspeolad, however, to be he lie pimples of
on en aztenelve seals, a line of egoneam sed twang pals be Ineesei
a lien simile to that of the Nardi Wailers Fur Niqww._ They
was esosemelod by a Mr. Jamieeon, mush to J. Fenimore Clasper,
who, it is eV, gosh to take notes."
The vacancies thus created were not likely to be
left long unfilled, for the tide of emigration from
Europe continued to set in on the Union with un-
abated strength. The New York Courier and En-
quirer contains the following statistics of two days'
arrivals : • - • -- -

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The number of passengers who have arrived on the 31at July and
let inst. is av follows ;
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21st July
lat Aug cabin 116 .

idols
'They wire from the 63113.154 parts :
July 31. August 1. Total.
Lheigesl
Landis
Girls. —
!Mal kcat British ports 1,633

ISO -- 347
173

Havre .

Antwerp ..... 127
Rotterdam

Other ports than British 1,336
The New York Morning Herald gives a comparative
statement showing the increase in the immigration of this
year for the month of July.
The following exhibits the Increase in the foreign emigration at this
port m the month of July :
Ananias room Ramon Pore.
fa Veneta
tit PI/Warra.
11.1118
1844.
1647 SI*
Tani this Inge Ws arideratioa, the health of this
city contain pm&
Illness among the emigrants appears from the last
report, in the Courier and Inquirer, to have been
diminishing.
The following is the weekly statement of the condition of the
hospital, at the Quarantine, ix the week ending yesterday (Aug. 2) :
Imes.. Adm'd.
lag swift rime. Diechl. Died. BOSIeI.
Bilious remittent fever.... 4
Remittent fever

TYPslsl
Small Pox
Other disown lls . 16

Total

.B!9

Thu ahowa reduction of twenty-ieven inmates since het week.
The same journal thus notices the program of the
pa ment of interest on the Pennsylvanian debt
Peeneylvada Wee*, the Peneepleanfan of Man.
deg ease leg, rye :—" The centhr Interne as tie awe disik
rh=gyttrezeienley. oil be peih in tile he; at the Bak ef
Y Oh My, and bow a rapine In Se Ale tree-
[ rary of two booked Ilwanand dame. thas smatts.
air the pay-
ment of the est‘enewel interest WIN dr en the lest
next." Payne' "'ln tali In the above eitnet meet be
to man that ambit ef dee Interest brills lea sr tie
the other Mirth rellefnetee, which astialhi atseesu=s7doegmisat. thee
we believe, en anesien of beteg pail estam* cif ewe.
got rid of actersearee wan& by ereleore, hilts wenn went.
beimw per. a DOM nameeding fora peat Maty lot ape-
mall, whoa it is broiled that the beim, after meth he la
the creamery, ensures the next aeoleowel The wards
" "can only be pertly erapierel whew moil* h really
worth, what on Its face it purptete to be.

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The following notice of intended postal arrange-
ments appears m all the New York papers :
We learn that the Secretary of the ?hay hes etwOrested with NO.
A. Hams to any the United State. anti &ea Clews lc Aelsels, in
stet w-wwwis of LON loos each. This is a continnetke at the rate
'entreated for by Maws. Moo and Co., from New Teak to New Or.
leans, Havana, and Cheraw
_

•
Some short time ago we had occasion to observe
that the Americans were likely to render Vera Cruz
and other towns on the Mexican coast more healthy
by introducing a better sanitary police. Similar
improvements appear to be producing similar effects
in the southern cities of the Union itself, if we may
judge from the following statement in the New Fork
Awning Post :
Ewan. or rn boemar Cirms.—The report, of the heads la Se
Mee at the south the very favourable. New Origins le
as wry healthy, with thaelsigietat a thw wed =at
v iir
sisa hove occurred Is the as
poem
when part tbe wellepthimi ands bath the Meth
Maths le at meat lelip. mg suilhalllis dad ithy are slag
then math lathafrey wr earth di see IBM an Man AIM&
la Se ath Wales OW. eel ea fay ail Wadies rd aletbers
athrathy, the Mahe af the pada health Is iamb maw thwarallie than
dada( the led ar may other years.

de Punt= should be kept in view, and the magistrates, after
receiving from him his declaration as information, addressed
questions to him of which the form and gravity were of a
nature to make him understand that it was henceforth not '
merely is a witness that be was called on for explanations.
At the lame time a perquisition was made in a
charges
lodging, where papers calculated to establish grave
were, as we were armed, seized, and where it was at the
same time discovered that papers and objects of which the
nature could not be recognised had been quite recently de-
stroyed by fire. On the clothes which the duke wore there
were numerous stains of blood, which, however, he said
he had received in his contact with the body of the un-
happy duchess, which he had pressed in his arms on ar-
riving in her apartment at the moment of the discovery of
the crime. It was also established that the hair found be-
tween the amen of the duchess, and in the pool of blood in
which her body lay, was precisely of the same colour and the
same length as that of her husband. The attitude of the duke
during these painful investigations of justice presented, it is
stated, a singular contract with what it ordinarily was. Small
in stature, nervous, energetic, proud, and of extreme irasci-
bility, he could not till then support a contradiction, and
would have considered a question an offence; but now he
was cast down, depressed, and unaMe to find a word to pro-
test against the horrible suspicion which seemed to rest upon
him. The material facts once ascertained, it remained
to seek what causes could have drawn into crime the
man who Banned to be designated as the author of it by so
many horrible circumstances. It was ascertained that rela-
tions of culpable intimacy existed between him and a young
lady, Mellle. de Luzy, who, after baring occupied during six
years the situation of governess of the young children of the
Duchess de Praslin, had about a month ago, been dismissed
by the duchess after some lather violent scenes, which, how-
ever, did not prevent the duchess from giving her a pension
for life. A summons to appear was issued against this
lady, who is aged 29, and who since leaving the Hotel Be-
bastimii had placed herself in a young ladies' school. It
was ascertained from the declarations of the Duke de Paulin
himself, that on arriving from his country-seat with the
duchess, who came in the same carriage with him, he had
gone to pay a visit to Mdlle. de Lusy, beforeentering his
hotel. It was consequently important to examine her
without delay, but the commissary of police, to whom the
summons was entrusted, did not find her at her residence,
and it was only a little later that he succeeded Ia finding her
at the residence of one of her friends in the Rue de la China-
s& d'Antin. When brought before the magistrates she un-
derwent a long interrogatory, at the end of which she was
conveyed to the Conciergerie, and placed in secret confine-
ment. As to the Duke de Peleliu, he has been, since the
moment at which the crime was discovered, kept confined
in his bed-chamber, and, according to the orders of the pre-
fect of police, the chief of the secret police has not left him
for an instant. The Duke de Praslin has fallen into such •
state of prostration, that such serious fears were felt respect-
ing his health as to cause his medical attendant, M. Louis,
to be sent for, who, among other things, prescribed him a
bath. In the investigation it was ascertained that the duke
must have placed himself in bed, although he was completely
dressed at the moment at which be arrived after the door
of the duchess's bed-chamber had been broken open by the
domestics. His bed, in fact, was in disorder. In spite of
all the search that has been made, it has been impossible, up
to this moment, to discover the sharp instrument with
which the wounds of the duchess were inflicted. In the
drawer of a bureau, in a cabinet adjoining the bedroom of
the duke, was found the handle of a poniard, stained with
blood, the blade of which appeared to have been broken off
in the struggle. The water-closets have been emptied, and
investigations made under the superintendence and control
of the officer' of justice, but without resulting in any dis-
covery. Search has Mac; been made in the garden of the
Elute Bourbon, adjoining the Hetet Sebutiani, but without
success. It was reported during the day, at the Palais de
Justice, that notwithstanding the incessant surveillance to
which he is subjected, the Duke de Pullin had succeeded in
I taking to flight. The disappearance of subaltern agents was
spoken of, and even the amount which had been pod in cor-
rupting the officers was mentioned. Nothing of the kind
has, however, taken place, for, as we have said, it is the
chief of the secret police himself to whom the painful mis-
sion of watching the duke has been confided. It is equally
incorrect that arrests, even temporary, of persona connected
with the house have taken place ; the evening journals have
been wrongly informed in this respect. The finks de Praslin
alone is the object of neeessary measures of security. As to
the domestics and the femme de chamber, who were in the
hotel during the night in which the crime was committed,
they have only received an injunction not to absent them-
selves' and to keep themselves at the disposal of justice,
which may require to examine them again. On Wednes-
day everting, the Chancellor Puquier visited the theatre of
the crime, and remained about an hour, but without taking
any direct part in the proceedings of the examination. The
Chancellor returned yesterday at noon to the Hotel Sebes-
tiani, but he continued to maintain the tame reserve, which
%as dictated to him by the authority of constitutional prin-
ciples and the precedents of the Court of Peers. Infect, the
Chamber of Peers is not de pkin droll erected into a court
of justice; its transformation into •judicial body even during
the legislative sessions must be pronounced by an ordinance
of the King, and consequently that must be more particalarly
the case in the interval between the sessions. 'Therefore it
is that, as we are assured, the Ministers present in Paris have
sent a messenger to Eu, who is to bring back • royal or-
dinance, prescribing the convocation of the Court of Peers.
But the existence of this ordinance will even not suffice, ac-
cording to the precedents of the court, to authorise the Chan-
cellor to proceed to the preliminary examinulons. It le, in
feet, established by the practice observed by that high juris-
diction, that no preliminary investigation can take place
unless it "hall be ordered by decree. It will be recollected
that after the reading of the royal ordinance, the Chamber
of Peers gives, en Chambre du Conseil, a decree by which
generally it orders an examination, and in that case delegates
Lne or several of its members (commonly the chancellor
president and such peers as it may please him to require to
assist him) to proceed to it. The deliberation on and vote
of this decree have appeared an indispensable preliminary
which enables the court to ascertain if the fact' imputed to
one of its members, for example, have sufficient gravity for
proceeding to an examination, or if they only offer indica-
tions so indifferent that it is not even necessary in order to
set them aside immediately to proceed to an ulterior exami
nation. It was thus that by decree of 31st July, 1818, in ,
the affair of the duel between M. de Saint.Morys and
Colonel Barbier-Dufay, it was decided de piano that there
was no motive for proceeding against the Duke de Gram-
moat, one of the seconds in the duel. It was thus the
in 1819 the complaint made by a person named &lee
against the First President Siguier was immediately re-
jected, as devoid of all kind of foundation. It is for the dig-
laity of the whole body of the peerage, it is for the mainte-
nance of its prerogative of jurisdiction, that the Court of
Peers has constantly observed the precedents which we have
just mentioned. It is therefore by error that some of the
journals have stated that the chancellor had proceeded to an
examination, and that others have said that on the autho-
risation of that high dignitary the Duke de Choiseul-Praslin
had been arrested and lodged in the Coociergerie. The
Duke de Choiseul-Praslin, who has possessed since the Gth
of April, 1845, the dignity of peer of France, cannot, for the
present, be arrested in the legal sense of that word. In fact,
according to art. 28 of the Constitutional Charter, "No peer
can be arrested without the authority of the Chamber, and
can only be tried by it in a criminal proceeding." This
disposition, absolute in its terms, and the spirit of which
has been clearly defined by the debates which took place
in the Chamber of Peers in 1830, on the prosecution of M.
de Kergolay, and in 1831, on that of M. do Montalembert,
M. Lacordure, and M. Decouy, does not make, like the arti-
cle 44 relative to the deputies, any exceptions for cases of
flagrante del;cto. The body of the unfortunate Duchess de
Partin has lain since yesterday morning in the saloon of her
apartments, on the ground floor, which has been converted
into • chapelle ardente. It is by mistake that it has been
announced that her funeral will take place on Saturday ; for
nothing respecting it will be fixed before the decision of
Marshal Sebastiani. On Tuesday an aide-de-camp of Gen.
Tiburce Sebastiani was sent to join the marshal, and to pre-
pare him for the awful news which is about to strike him.
It is by mistake that it has been announced that the marshal
is at present in Corsica. He did, it is true, leave with the
intention of going to Ajaccio, a residence at which last year
somewhat improved his health; but, in the course of the
journey, when near Lyons, he found himself too weak to
continue, and his medical attendants advised him only to go
to Geneva. Yesterday morning one of his female grand-
children, the eldest of the children of the unfortunate
Duchess de Paulin, left with a female friend of the family
to join him there, and it was announced last evening that
General Tiburce Sebastiani, his brother, not being able to
resist his disquietude, has in his turn taken the road to
Geneva, to support and encourage him in this cruel and
supreme trial."
The crowd in front of the Hotel Sebastiani was on Friday
as great as On the day of the murder. It was generally
stated in it that the Duke de Pun= had shot him-
self, but this was contradicted by the magistrates at
the house, and, it is said, by the prefect of police, who
was also there. Indeed the duke is so carefully
watched, that suicide is almost impossible. The duke re-
mined in a state of prostration, scarcely uttering • word,
or taking any nourishment, and what he does take is
prepared wader the eyes of the authorities, to prevent the
poribility of poison being conveyed to him. It is said that
Mdlle. Luzy, the goeerness, has-had a nervous attack of such
violence that it was found necessary to call in medical aid.
It was reported that General Tiburce Sebastiani had found
the Marshal at Macon, and that they were to arrive in Paris ,
on Saturday.
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This ardowianes is followed by another, dated the 20th,
ordaining that M. Bondy, Proeureur du Roi, before the
Tribunal of the Seine, shall perform the functioma of d.dro-

eats-General, before the Court of Peen, is oonert with H.
Brume, end shall, In that quality, mist the Procurer-
Genets!, and replace him in his absence.
The following notice was issued on Friday, by the Chancel-
lor of France The Chancellor of France, President of the
Court of Peers, has the honour to inform the ppeeron, that in
pursuance of a royal ordonnanee, dated yesterday, for a con-
vocation of the Court of Peen, the peers are to meet to-
morrow, the 21st, at one °Week, at their usual place of sit-
The pun knew fist the fiat ' of the
court have nevermisrl MOM then SY dining devoted to
the royal ordonneast, leering el the regulatory of the
procureur-genfral, midi!' deliberation of the decree order •
tag, if there be ground for so doing, the examinations and
the nomination of the 11111111 Mission den ;ties en liberty. The
court will not lam le nteet again until after the examine-
tions, and for the lane d el."
A correspondent rim= us that the journals are in error
in stating that the governess who has been arrested is an
English lady. He Nye She is French, and is grand-
, daughter to the Baron de P—, residing in the Cheetah
d'Antin ; her father and mother ere both dead ; her name is
Mille. Henrietta de Lucy, or Lazy, and her age is from 33
to 35. Until the age of about 20 the studied painting under
M. Delorme, when, finding she did not shine as a painter,
she accepted a situation es governess is an English or Scotch
family in England, where she resided six or seven years.
She returned in 1842 or 1843, and was recommended by a
lady to the Duchess de Praslin, and resided in the family, as
governess, until about five or six weeks ago, when she went
to live in the Rue du Harley. When Mille. de Limy en-
tered the family there was an Englishwoman named Smith,
who left shortly aft, r the came (but she was note governor),
and this has given rise to the error)."
The same correspondent writes—" The duchess arrived,
about 9 in the evening, at the hotel in the Rue du Faubourg
St. Honore. About the lame time the duke went to the
Rue do Hula; with three of his daughters and a son aged
about eight year.; he did not remain very long, but could
,scarcely have returned before 11 or 12 at night."
The Duke de Choiseul-Praslin, whose name at this mo-
ment excites so sad a sensation, is the chief of the third
branch of the ducal house of Choiseul, and the only member
of it remaining—the last Duke de Choiseul of the second
branch, who died when governor of the Louvre, having left
no male issue. The Duke de Praalin was born in 1804, end
is consequently in his 43rd year. In 1825 he married Fanny,
daughter of Horace Sebastian', now marshal of Frence, and of
Antoinette Frangoise Jeanne de Coigny, who died young
and who was the cousin of the jean captive immortalised by
the poet Andre Chewier. By this marriage there are nine
children—viz., six daughters and three eons. The sixth
child, who is a boy, is named Gaston Louis Philippe de
Perlin. The Duke de Praslin is grandson of the Dake de
Perlin who was a member of the States-General, and
joined the minority of the nobility in the cause of moderate
reform, and son of the Duke de Praalin, who was chamber-
lain of the Empress, end colonel of the let legion of the
National Guards in 1814, in which position his name figured
honourably in the resistance of the city of Paris to the in-
vaders. This duke was crested a peer during the Hundred
Days, and was exiled at the second restoration. In 1819 he
was recalled by M. Demme. He died in Jane, 1841. The
estate of Praslm waserected into a duche'pair ie in 1762. The
present duke has a brother, Count Edgard de Praalin, who
was born in 1806, and who married Mademoiselle Shickler.
He has also three sisters, who are married to persons of
the highest nobility of the old monarchy. He is the
owner of the chateau and grounds of Vaux, near Me-
lon, where he is said to have expended two millions of
francs in repairs and embellishments, restoring it to its
magnificence is the time of its former owner, Fouquet.
The late duchess was cherished by the poor of the en-
virons of Vaal, for her active and extensive benevolence.
She was bora at Constantinople during the residence of
her father in that city as ambassador from the Court of
France. Her mother died of her accouchement, and
her remains were conveyed for interment to Gluier, in
Corsica, the family seat of her husband, and where, pro-
bably, the late duchess will be interred. At the same
time that the body of the mother was conveyed to Cor-
sica the infant was sent to France is charge of a nurse.
The following is from the Gazette des Tribunatar of
Saturday From the saloon in which the body of the
duchess was placed on Thursday, it has been carried into
that known in the hotel as the "young ladies' work-room,"
which has been converted into a chapelle-ordeste, having
in the middle a state bed, on which repose., with the face
uncovered, the corpse, which, from the embalmment of it,
retains all the appearance of life.. As we have already
announced, the water-closets of the hotel were emptied
the night before last, and in preeence of the Inspector-
General, M. Brissot Thivu, and one of the examining
magistrates, the most minute search was made for
the weapon with which the wounds were inflicted. The
search commenced at nine in the evening, and was con-
tinued till the same hour in the following morning, but
without success. While this fruitless operation was going
on, the magistrates proceeded to a closer examination of the
prlvate apartment of the duke, and it was thought fit to re-
move him from his bedchamber, where he had been till
then kept closely guarded and watched, to another room, on
the third floor, looking into the gardens of the Blues Bour-
bon. Following up this march, the magistrates at length
discovered in the drawer of a desk in the cabinet adjoining
the chamber the broken hilt of a poniard, upon which were
fresh stains of blood. It has been impassible to find the
blade of this weapon which, according to very warrantable
presumption, had beCn used in the perpetration of the crime,
but had broken in the hand of the murderer, and thus ex-
plained the supposed employment of the butt-end of a pistol,
such deep traces of which were tound on the person of the
duchess. On being interrogated luta his being in pow salon of
this fragment of a weapon of which he had evidently made
use, the duke declared that he could not give any explanation
of the circumstance. As he refused to tell what he had done
with the blade, • search was made in the garden of the ,
Elysee Bourbon, which is divided from the Hotel Sebes-I
tiani bye low wall, and also in a narrow street or late be-
longing to the property of the late Countess de Csstellane,
but without soy result. Mille. de Lazy, whose arrest we
announced on Thursday, was again interrogated yesterday,
when she denied having had any intimate relations with the
Duke de Prulin, and protested with energy her deep attach-
ment to the noble family, who had loaded her with benefits.
She expressed great regret at having been constrained to quit
the hotel and the young ladies whose education had been
confided to her, and endeavoured to explain thereby the
terms of a letter addressed by her to the Due de Prulin,
which had been found among kis papers. Nothing has been
changed in the measures adopted on Thursday. The duke
continues to be carefully watched ; but it is thought that the
mandoe d'arrit for traticferring him to the prison of the
Luxembourg will be signified to him in the course of to-day,
all the necessary arrangements for that purpose having been
made.
The Duke de Praslin was removed from the Hotel Sebu-
tiani to the prison of the Luxembourg very early on Satur-
day morning. He was in a private carriage, accompanied by
the chef of the police, de Surete, followed by two hackney
coaches, in which were the examining magistrates and
comraisearies of police. It is stated that the duke, before
his removal, confessed his guilt to a relation of the family.
A conteau de chases with which the murder is supposed
to have been committed, and several napkins, have been
found in a cesspool.