The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

THE OUTRAGE IN PARIS.

In reference to the trial of the' Brothers Leondri. and
another soldier, who have been tried for a most brutal
outrage on the person of , a butcher's wife, the early
portions of which trial we published on Monday last,
a correspondent writes :—The trial of the Brothers
Leondri and Sergeant Benaquet has resulted, as I have
already informed you, in a verdict of acquittal. I can
hardly say that people are surprised at this, for from the
first, I have heard it prophesied that the prisoners would
get off. At the same time everybody with whom I have
conversed has expressed a pretty decided opinion of their
guilt. What my own sentiments may be is of little
moment. I merely tell you in this instance what the
_sentiments are of others. Bat as the evidence has been
very fully published by some of the Paris journals, it is
open for comment and criticism. Let me here point out
then, that what to me Seemed most important evidence,
was scareely alluded to. A woman living in the house in
which the crime is said to have been committed, heard a
noise on the morning on which it is stated to have taken
place, and in the very room. Her evidence is before the
world. Yet the counsel for the accused actually said, in
his defence, "Where, then, did this frightful scene happen?
In the midst of Paris, in broad day, in a house inhabited
by officers, at the hour in which those officers were at
home, in which several were breakfasting; and yet
nobody heard anything, no cry was uttered by
the victim ; one only, I only ask for one." Surely
such a statement as this, in face of the fact I have
just alluded to, should have been met in some way.
Surely, too, the witness who deposed to having heard a
noise on the morning in question, should have been
thoroughly questioned as to the sounds she 'heard.- As
the case stands, one side or other is guilty of the grossest
perjury. This woman and her maid-servant swear there,
was a noise. Officers who were near swear there was no
noise. The maid servant swore that the paymaster's
door was shiet at the time when the offence is said to
have been committed. Other witnesses swore it was
.open. 'Here, again, is a nice "discrepancy that ought to
have been sifted to the bottom. The counsel for the de-
fence made a great deal of a letter written" to Leondri
by Madame Paillard the day after that on which she de-
clared herself to have been violated. This is the letter--
a Sir,—As you promised to be good enough to let me have the
regiment again, I am willing also to assist son in keeping your pro-
nahse ; I put in the meat at ye centimes the kilogramme. Do, I beg
you, make this known to the gentlemen, an i bo kind enough to grant
me a reply, good or bad. Receive, sir, my sincere salutations."
" A strange letter this for a virtuous woman to write
to the man who had brutally ill-used her " said the
counsel, and the audience murmured their approbation
of his sentiment. Yet, it is not improbable that, from a
mistaken devotion to her husband's interests, the poor
woman may have penned this note the day after she lied
suffered the violence she subsequently complained of.
Her husband, be it remembered, was in prison. The
offence which led him there would seem to indicate that
his business was not prospering; the wife naturally was
anxious to increase his custom. At ,all events, this letter
is no contradiction of facts deposed to by various
witnesses ; the doctor, who declared that Madame
Paillard bore the marks of violence upon her person, and
the woman, and her maid servant, before alluded to. If
the French journals were allowed to discuss judicial
evidence the public would have no cause for suspicion.
Everything would be sifted to the bottom. But at present
all is left to judge and-counsel; and these, as was seen in
a recent memorable case, often have need of gloves.

A GIRL BURNT TO DEATH.—On Thursday a young
girl, daughter of Mr. Thomas Nichol, miner, at Cowper
Colliery, on rising in the morning took down a flask of
gunpowder and sprinkled a quantity over---the fire, in order
to revive it. This bliznd up, an the larger quantity
in the fl.sk, and an explosion was the consequence. The
walls of the room were much shattered, and the windows
blown into the street. When- the smoke bad partially
cleared awey, the poor girl was found in her night dress,
burnt in such a dreadful manner that no hope was enter-
tained of her recovery. She died at two o'clock on Friday
morning.—Express,
THE EMPEROR AND THE CARDINAL.—" The Ceremony of
administering the oath to Cardinal Morlot, the new
Archbishop of Paris," says the Ami its la Religion,
" took place on Sunday at the Tuileries with the usual
formalities. After the oath had been taken, an unex-
pected scene occurred, which produced much emotion
among all the persons present. The Emperor went on his
knees before the eminent Cardinal and asked from him his
first benediction. After having complied with the desire
of his Majesty, the Cardinal was taken into the apart-
ments of the Empress and of the Prince Imperial, to whom
he also gave hig benediction. The solemn installation of
Cardinal Morlet will take place on Saturday naxt. If our
information is correct, the reception of the Pallium by the
Cardinal will take place in the morning of that day in the
chapel of the Nonciature, and the delivery of the Pallium
will be made by Mgr. Sacconi.—Galignani.
WORM; AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.—The expenditure in
the year 1,855-6 on the maintenance and repairs of Royal
palaces, not including 4.4,774 for Buckingham Palace,
wag. £44,956 ; maintenance and repairs of public buildings
and offices, £123,016; Roy al parks and pleasure gardens,
£81,377 ; new Houses of Parliament, £124,640 ; British
Museum, £64,962 ; Battersea Park, £21,407 ; Chelsea
Bridge and Chelsea Embankment, £42,600; Buckingham
House, Pall Mall; £11,000; making, together with the
expenditure on various other public works and buildings,
a total of £604,707. The Parliamentary votes amount
to £897,056, and there remained a net balance of
£292,349. The receipt of rents, profits, &c., from the
Royal parks was £8,478. _

NEW YORE NE WSPAPERS. —The New York Daily
Times, alluding to the d,sirability of increasing the size
of some of the New York Journals, says practical
difficulty in the way of doing it now, ie the low price of
our newspapers. Publishers of the three leading papers
receive only a cent and a half for each copy of their re-
spectiee journals; and this barely covers the cost of the
white paper on which- they are printed. Increase the size
one half, or one quarter, and the white paper will cost
more than the printed sheet. The larger the circulation,
un 'er such a state of things, the heavier the loss. The
difficulty could only be met by increasing the price of the
newspaper, so es to cover the cost of the white paper
used. We have no doubt but this will be the next step
in this progress of the Newspaper Press of this City.
Some one or more of the establiihed journals will increase
its price, and make a corresponding increase in the variety
and quality of its contents. And that the advanced taste
of the community would abundantly sustain such a step,
on the part of at least one daily journal, we have no doubt.
Thera are at least fifty thousand rewspaper readers who
wart a journal fifty per cent better than at present prices
any of the City newspapers can be.made ; and they would
gladly pay the difference in cost, in view of such a
difference in quality,