The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-05 00:00:00

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I THE TALBOT DIVORCE CASE,

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We select the following as the last of hundreds of
letters which we have received upon the same subject.
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our views, and we may add that though we have found
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many able auxiliaries in the press, we have not seen in
any newspaper of the United Kingdom a single
article contesting these views. We, therefore, may,
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with safety to the interests of justice, decline the further
prosecution of the subject, at least for the present. The
honour of the unhappy victim of conspiracy and persecu-
tion has been thus fully reestablished, and it will
gratify our readers to know that an ample provision
for her future maintenance—the whole indeed of her
own large fortune--has been secured to her, in spite of
a pertinacious opposition for several weeks. This act of
justice is to be ascribed to the upright and high-minded
gentlemen to whom the subject was referred by the
House of Lords, What more then can be done ? The
lady's honour re-established, the comfort of her future
life secured as far as possible, and the only remaining
object of her desire, the society of her adored child,
necessarily withheld from her by the overthrow of
her reason, which has never recovered the con-
sequence of brain fever into which she was
thrown by the events of the 19th of May, 1853,
and weeks of persecution suffared on a fever-bed.
We have done our part by the individual, and we think
we have contributed to, if possible, a more extensive,
and certainly more durable good, by demonstrating the
utter inadequacy of the ecclesiastical courts, and of the
House of Lords to render justice in matrimonial and
divorce cases. Where life or woman's honour, dearer
than life, is concerned, there is no security but in a trial
by jury ; fur such a trial we have fought, and such a
trial is promised, so that we do not ungracefully lay
down our arms.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDS

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from which a stranger to the parties is free.
If Mrs. ralbct has been unhappy in he her marriage, and
in her relatives, by the ties of blood, she has, at least, been
most fortunate in the connection which her sister formed for
her, by marrying into the family of the Pagets, of Leicester-
shire. Mr. retitle Paget. her brother-in law, and Mr. John
Paget, his brother, have thrown themselves heart and soul
into her defence. Nothing has been left undone which could
be accomplished by the most lavish expenditure of time
and money; and, I may add, of talent also. Nor have
their sacrifices been in vain. By a merciful dispensation of
Providence the unhappy lady is sheltered fiom the conscious-
ness of her wrongs. Mentally dead, it is only her memory
whiethheisy hsuasvceepstuilscleeeeodfeid in
injury, an ing fromtha t, with your powerful
aid,

" JURIST."

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Were we at liberty to give the name of the able,
learned, and venerable writer of the foregoing, we know
that it is a name which would command universal
respect.—Londe Standard.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY SPANISH DANCERS.

The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Saturday tried
four members of the company of the Spanish dancers, who
for some time past have been giving performances at the
Theatre de La Porte St. Martin, for robbery. The
accused were M. P. Mariano, 30 years of age, formerly a
notary in Spain, but now director of the company in
question; Perres, one of the dancers who is novr in
fight, and who was tried by default; Mad'lle. Pilar Ferret,
alias Peregrina Morales, 22 years of age, danseuse; and
Mad Ile. R. Ferrer, 20 years of age, also a danseuse, her
sister. The elder female prisoner is remarkably pretty ;
the younger is somewhat less so. When the prisoners
were placed at the bar, :the President addressing,
Moxo, said—" You are accused of numerous rob-
beries in jewellers' shops in complicity with Pilar
Ferrer." Moxo answered, " I have certainly been to
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another for Regina, to whom lam to be married,
but as I did not want to give the same price for it I went
to another shop." "In all the shops to which you
went chains were missed after you left. In one on
the Boulevard Poissonniere two chains were missed;
in another, in the Rue Rambuteau, one chain ; in a
third, in the Rue Michel le Comte, nine ; and some
of these chains were afterwards found in your pos..
session. How do you explain that ?'' " I can give no
explanation. If any robberies have been committed
I did not take part in them. My position and that
of my family are such as to free me from all suspicion 1"
" How is that, though engaged to be married to Regina,
went to all the shops with Pilar ?" " I wanted to surprise
Regina, and besides she is eaciente six months, and Cannot
walk much." "You lived with Regina as her husband,
and Pilar, though married, lived with Perres ?" " I
thought that Pilar was married to Perres." " What 1 you
did not know that she is the wife of a Spanish officer 0"
"No.. As to Regina, my connection with her
menced at the Italian Opera at Madrid, and we
came to France together because her parents wished
to take her from me 1" " You deny that you had
anything to do with the robberies ?" " Yes, I deny it. I
took nothing, and did not know that anything had been
taken." Toe president then interrogated Pilar Ferrer:-..
" You are aware that you are accused of having stolen
articles of jewellery from shops ?" " I went into shops to
look at jewellery, but never took anything—l am incapable
of that." " How do you explain that some of the articles
said to have been stolen were found in your possession ?"
" I touched nothing—l affirm it !" " Answer my question.
Some of the stolen articles were deposited by your sister
in the hands of a third person, and as she did not go to
the jeweller's shops, she could not have taken them ?''
" My sister could not have deposited the objects in a house
in which we had no friends,' "As to you, Regina. said
the president, addressing the third prisoner, " It is alleged
that on the 21st October you begged Mile. Balotta a
danseuse, to take care of two parcels for you. She con-
sented, and on her return from the theatre she had the
curiosity to examine them; she found about fifteen watch
chains, two watches, three mantelets. some ornamental
fringes, and other articles. Where did you get all these
things ?" "I knew Mlle. Balotta at Brussels, and we
quarrelled, so that if the parcels had been made, I should
not have taken them to her." " You deny having been to
her residence ?" " Yes sir." " Moxo and your sisters were
arrested, and it was after that that you took the parcels
to Balotta ?" " When my sister was arrested I was
not at home, and knew nothing of her arrest." " You
borrowed 5f from Mlle. Balotta to pay for your cab ?"
"I did not go to her house, and consequently could not
have borrowed 5f from her." " You even returned at
midnight for the parcels ?" "I left our residence at eleven
o'clock with Perres to enquire of the commissary of police
after my sister, but went nowhere else." " Mlle. Balta says that you left three chains, and told her
that they weotre
for her and her sister ?" " I could not dispose of things
which I had not." M. Audouin, Boulevard Poissonniere,
M. Reux, Rue Rambuteau, M. Bubuisson, Rue Michel le
Comte, and T. Renard, of the same street, jewellers, then
severally deposed that Moxo and Pilar had gone to their
shops on pretext of making purchases, and that after their
departure they had missed various chains and other
articles. Dubuisson, who was robbed of some chains,
said that, on perceiving the robbery, he had followed the
couple and had given them into custody. " Yes," said
Pilar, " and you caused us to be searched, but found
nothing on us ! Mlle. Balotta being absent, her mother
was called, and she swore positively to the deposit by
Regina in her daughter's hands of three parcels con.
taining watch chains and other objects, also that
Regina had with Perres called for the parcels late at
night, and that she had given her two daughters watch
chains and left a third lying on the floor. Madame
Balotta added that her daughter and herself having fears,
from something that Perres had said, that the chains were
not honestly come by, had deposited them with the com-
missary of police. The concierge of the house in which
the prisoners had lived, said that Perres, after the arrest
of Pilar and Moxo had gone away, saying that he would
drown himself in the canal, and bad not since returned.
The hour being now late, the tribunal adjourned the
further hearing of the case for a week.

The French law treats the appropriation by the finder of
things found in the streets as robbery ; and within the last
three weeks the Paris papers have recorded two condemna—
tions for appropriating articles found.
AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS IN FNGLAND.--It has been
said that the past is gone, the present is passing while we
speak, and that the coming future is our only real posses-
sion. Let us, however, not fcrget that it is from the
quarter deck of the present, guided by the changeless star,
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or the magnetic power of the past, that we steer our
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vigorous progress of agriculture let us cast our eyes back-
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from the da3s of the e:rly patriarchs the earth ad slum-
bered on in almost uniform sterility the one hand, or
rank luxuriance on the other, undisturbed, with but few
countlessof the
exceptions, by that labour of man applied to its cultivation,
which formed the primeval condition of its fertile develop-
ment, until the patriotic times of Francis Duke of. Bed-
ford, Mr. C
Bed-
Coke, of Norfolk, the Duke of Portland, Sir John
Sinclair, Lord Hawes, Lord Somerville, Mr. Arthur
Young, and a host
of- other
ardent lovers of agriculture,
and firm friends to the welfare of their country. It may
be asked how it is that agriculture, during the last half
or
should have made so signal a
three quarters of a century,
development and progre-s, after lying alrusst dormant
during the far extent of all antecedent time of the world's
history? The great cause of this signal result may,
perhaps, be ascribed to the association of farmers among
tbemselves.—Smiths' Almanack for 1857.