The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1857.

tion, far service In the field does sometimes
call out slumbering genies. The second els*.
tion is that of officers who on the Ist of 'tummy, ISO,
shall hay. attained the rank of Lieutensat-Colonel.
The moon of this is not so obvious. We trust it will
be fully explained. However, we are unwilling to
find fault with a single detail ins scheme which is in
other respects so excellent. To resume, therefore.
The candidates for Staff appointments, after having
satisfied the Sandhurst Examiners, have still a further
worse of education to pass through. The officer who
came to college from the Infantry is to be attached
to each of the arms in which he has not served. He
mast make himself acquainted with the disci-
pline, the interior economy, the field movements,
and the duties of these arms. The same thing
most be done by the ca. alry officer, the engineer
Aker, and the artillery otheer. Having thus ac-
quired a thorough knowledge of his profession by
three years service in a regiment, two years' atten-
dance at college, and six mouths with each of the
other arms, he will be eligible to a Staff ap-
pointment.

Such are the new regulations for the Staff. They
have evidently been drawn up by men who have
not only thoroughly studied the best systems
adopted in foreign armlet, bat with a due regard to
the special characteristics of the British Army.
They constitute a Reform the benefits of which it is
impossible to ever-estimate.

FOll the lag week our good friends and allies

across the Channel have been occupied almost ex-

elusively with one subjecti7the aiairo Aufusse.

The Journals have been filled, conversation has
turned, upon the atfoireJesjosst, and upon that only.
The quiet town of Evreux, in Normandy, where the
remarkable trial hu taken place, has been filled to
overflowing by crowds of atizioua visitors. We have
given, day by day, the details of the evidence in
ear columns, and shall now endeavour to present
to oar readers a gamma outline of this singular
drama of domestic life.

The two Wallies, whose destinies have been in-
volved in it, reside in the immediate neighbourhood
of the little Norman town of Galllon, near Evreoz,
The Jurrosaz family, of old, descent and noble
lineage, had owned for many generations
an ancient elation of the same name,

standing in the midst of ancestral woods,
and surrounded by its own park wall. The
fortunes of the house appear to have been somewhat
decayed, and it was probably not without difficulty
that the sober dignity of the family was kept up
M. on lacrosse, an ancient cavalry officer, who
had thrown up his commission in disgust on the ad-
vent to power of the Citizen King, has been for
some years dead. The family, since his death, has
consisted of Madame DE lacrosse, his widow, a lady
now verging on her fiftieth year; of two sons, En
z,,r and ALBIRT, aged reepeetively twenty-five and
twenty•two ; and of one daughter, Bumf E, not yet
nineteen. The two other members of the household
whom names have been prominently mixed up in the
affair are the governess, Milk. Lacuna Tnottur,
a young Norman lady of two-and-twenty ; and CILE-
PEL, the gamekeeper, who has been from his boy-
hood in the service of the family. The two sans
were only ocessionaly at the chateau. They resided
principally in Pans, where they appear to have
gone into Boone speculations, and led generally a
rather fast life. At Auberoie, a country house
within a very short distance of the chateau, resided
Esitte Grittor, the perm whose alleged murder
was the subject of the trial. Emma OVILLOT was,
in French phrase, 'Monier he had no pedigree, not
even a grandfather. His father had amassed a con-
siderable fortune by trade, and had left EMIL/ what
in French provincial life is considered the very
handsome income of 1.0001. a year. EMUS Gutman
with some of the virtues, appears to have had meat
of the foibles of the French character. He was
generous, good-humoured, and sociable, bat intensely
vain, and, according to English views, thoroughly
loom and unprincipled. He had a profound belief
that among women he was irresistible; to conquer
hearts was his ambition ; to beset of his triumphs his
principal delight. The fact that he had some few
years since become the husband of a young and
charming woman, who appears, in spite of all his
faults and infidelities (which were no secret to her),
to have been sincerely attached to him—produced
DO change in the habits of M. GUILLOT. Such
were the two families of JIUTOME sad GLILLOT.

It seems to hays 'swain the year 1853 that a close
intimacy first sprung up between the two families.
They soon became nearly inseparable. No week passed
without an interchange of visits between Jettfors and
Atibevoie, amounting, as the Act of Accusation is care-
ful to inform us, to one hundred and five in thermoses
of the twelvemonth. Est LE OVILLOT, a keen sports-
man, made frequent shooting parties with the young
men, who occasionally did him the honour to borrow
mull sums of money. With the ladies he was on
the best terms. Madlle. LAURENCE. • lively Norman
girl, soon became the object of his marked attentions.
The flirtation became the talk of the neighbourhood.
Gutter!' talked of it at the club at Galileo. Old
M. DI: Henry, aeries ofleier, old M. TRUTT, for-
merly vies-consul at Moscow, all the notabilities and
resyeetabilities of the little provincial circle, had
remarked it, and the subject was mentioned to Ma-
dame DE in./CH.M. She treated the thing as a mere
piece of idle scandal, sod declined to part with
LkI'IMICE on any such ground. It was
not long, however, before she felt herself compelled
to interfere. It became evident that M. GLILLOT
was transferring his homage from Madlle. Ler-
RENet: to Msdlle. ELAMC/IF.. How far the
young lady of the chateau responded to
the passion which be either felt or affected
to feel, is left doubtful upon the evidence. On the
whole it seem, difficult to avoid the conclusion that
she did not discourage him u she ought. Her
vanity was no doubt flattered ; her susceptibilities
were possibly touched. It appears probable that
Madame DE iggl-USSE (though, from motives which
it is impossible not to respect, she denied it at the
trial) must have seen reason to suspect from her
daughter's demeanour that there was danger in her
further intimacy with M. OI'ILILOT. But this was
not all. The braggart—the scoundrel—had been
boasting everywhere that he had triumphed over
the virtue of Mdlle. DE JEUPOWIE. He had not con-
fined his bus exultation even to his own circle ; he
had made the young lady's alleged weakness a topic
of familiar gossip among the small tradesmen and
disreputable hangers-on of the little town. Madame
DE JEurossE, on hearing this, took her line at once.
She resolved on instantly breaking off all intercourse
with the Outtt.nti, Although Madame GUILLOT,
with singular oseicefJ, came to assure the justly
irritated mother that there could be nothing
wrong between EXILE and BLavtote—because
Emma had himself confessed to her that
his intrigue with Mdlle. LAVitims was still
Ong ft—Madame DC JET:MORSE very properly, as all
11 war English readers will be of opinion, adhered to
her islirminition —and the breach between the two
&man IMMO complete. This was at the begin.
King of the pronat year. From that moment M.
Or iti.of colsested, and down to the time of his
death unintermittedly continued, a series of petty
persecutions, which gradually became intolerable.

Wilmer the hurossz Indies went he contrived to
thrust himself WIWI& way, V they Ono cat be
ousted out his horses and gavel chase. Whether they

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were shopping in the town, or at rnifri, or paying
visits, the inenit►hle perseentor was sake to present
himself. Elva this was not enough. At night he

scaled the park

lie horn in the

woods—even penetrated into the chateau, disordered
the sleeping rooms, upset the chairs, and turned the
pictures with their faces to the wall. He did
worse : he dropped about in different parts

of the park the most passionate bilkts:dous
addressed to BLANCHE ; he bragged among his low
comrades that the young lady favoured him with
midnight assignations, sometimes in her own
chamber, sometimes in the grounds; he even took
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ebt Court.

WINDSOR, D0c,19.

the Queen and Prince Consort, with the Prince of
Wales, the Primer rigid, Prince Arthur, Prime Leopold,
blame Alice, Princess Bolero, Prince*, Louisa. and Prin-
cess Nark, leh Osborne at 2 o'clock to-day, attended by
the Cowen of Oatnaborough, the Hon. Mary hottest.
Myer-General the Bon. Charles Grey, Captain Du Plat
Mr. 03A*, and the Muter of the Ilanahold, and arrived si
Windsor Cattle at twenty-fire sainnfee before six o'clock.

A Guard of Honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards with the
band of the regiment Irma at the Windsor railway station.
The Hon Lucy M. Kan hew arrived as Maid of Honour
in Waiting ; Lord Waterpark, sad Major-General Berkeley
Drummond have also arrived seLordsad Groom In Waiting,
SUWDAY.

The Queen and Prim Common, the Prince of Wales, the
Prisons Royal, Princess Altos, Primal Helena, sad the
Darien cd Heat, the Ladies sad Gentlemen of the Court,
sad the Doerstio Rouehold Wooded Divine Service this
monies in the Private Chapel.

The Hon. mid Very Rev. the Deen of Windsor performed
ilesserviee.

Deegatehes from the Governors of bong Kong, Ceylon,
end the West India Wands were received on Baturdsy at tbe

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

PRUSSIA.

THE EXISTING INTERREGNUM.

The Debate calls attention to the embarrassment
likely to Arlan ix Pruett from the continued ill-
health of the King. According to the most relia-
ble accounts, he is no better than he was when two
months ago he delegated the executive power to the
Prince of Prussia. It is stated, indeed, that he is
not much worse, and that eminent physician have
given an opinion that he may recover ; but no one
supposes for a moment that he will be able to attend
to hominess by the 23rd of January, at which date
the powers which his brother now exercises will
require to be renewed. The King is not well
(cough to go to Italy, and it is decided that he will
pass the winter in Prussia. His memory is affected,
and although it returns at intervals, it cannot be
relied upon. In this state of things Prue-
ale feels that she is only half governed.
The Prince Royal, is so scrupulous in the
exercise of his duty se a mere delegate, that he
will not put his hand to the concordat paper
which he has reason to think his brother would not
sign. The consequence is that the affairs of state in
Prussia are to a great extent in abeyance. The con-
stitution ordains that in the cue of the sovereign
being permanently incapacitated from carrying on
the government, the nearest agnates to the throne
shall constitute himself regent, and then convoke the
chambers to sanction his act. It is feared that the
prince, out of an excess of delicacy, will shrink from
the initiative step which the law enables him to take,
and in that case it is expected that the Prussian
parliament, when it mute in January, will manifest
considerable dissatisfaction with the existing inter-
regniun.