Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-11 00:00:00

/ letter was written by the lady. As usually happens,
fickleness accompanied levity ; and she soon showed her-
self quite as determined to cast off her first love. as she had
' shown herself shameless in her advances, and self-surrender
to him. iler later phase of feeling may be so far justified.
as the vain and feeble character of L'Angelier, and the
apparent absence of any prospect of what had begun so
ill ending well with him, might incline a girl of her charac-
ter to listen to other addresses. But it is a plain
abuse of language to talk of innocence in the same
breath with the conduct of a woman who writes love
letters to two men at one time—and deceives them
both. The evidence in this extraordinary case may
oe considered as made up of moral and circum-
stantial; and it was by the failure of a link in the
atter portion of it that the case for the prosecution broke
down. To get L'Angelier, and his threatened disclosure,
out of her way by some means or other, was clearly the
young lady's most ardent wish; and her little scrupulous-
ness in gratifying her ardent wishes not less clearly
a pronounced point of her character. L'Angelier
was too constant for her, as he was too modest : his
fidelity to his own flame had become not less im-
portunate to her than his objection to her over-warmth.
To get him away to the Isle of Wight—or any
where—till she could land the second man hooked, was
her eager wish, in default of getting back her letters, or
securing his silence. There were at stake all the hopes
on which she chose to anchor her life. A man she had, in
her own mind, done with, stood resolved to frustrate
those hopes. She lures that man to her by every simula-
tion of renewed fondness, These are facts ; the probable
inferences they suggested were plainly pointed out
by the presiding judge. Taken in connection with
the young lady's repeated- purchases of arsenic—with
the repeated attacks of illness, similar to those caused
by poison, suffered by her former lover—with the cer-
tainty that he did die at last of a dose of arsenic, after
having sought a last meeting with his dissembling mis-
tress at her own invitation—and with no probability that
he administered that dose to himself—coupling all this
with every minor circumstance, which we need'
not now recapi'ulate—we only follow the lead of
the Lord Justice• Clerk in expressing cur convic-
tion that had the Sunday night's meeting been
proved, the proof of that point must have altered the ver-
dict.. While the decision of this extraordinary case
remained in suspense we withheld all expression of our
own opinion. And we have said nothing now that is not
plainly deducible from unequivocal and uncontradicted
evidence. The accused party is absolved of proveable
guilt by the verdict of the jury, but self-convicted of
deliberately written words anl deliberately performed
actions, which justified the worst suspicions.—Globe.

CIPrURE OF A SLIVER.

A Portsmouth correspondent has received the following
letter from the ccast of Africa :

Sierra Leone, May 24.—1 send you an account of a rich
prizecaptured off Lagos on the 16th of April, with upwards.
of £5,000 in gold on board for the purchase of a cargo of
slaves, which was made prize of and sent on board her
Majesty's steam sloop Prometheus, 5 guns, C oarnander
Charles W. Hope. On the 16th of April, while the Pro-
metheus was making a passage from Lagos to the Island
of St. Thomas, she observed a sail in the offing, and altered'
courseand chased her, and upon nearing her she was obser-
ved to tack and keep away, and, thinking she was not ob-
served, made all possible sail, setting studding sails with
the hope of getting away, at the same time throwing over-
board a quantity of her cargo, also her anchors aad cables,
and sawing her beams through to allow the vessel to work.
Upon the Prometheus coming up with her, about 6- p.m.,
and firing a gun, she hoisted Spanish colours, whereupon
Mr. Jameson, master of the Prometheus, was sent on
board her, and, from the vagueness of the answers to the
questions put by him, that officer proceeded to search the
vessel, and found under a cargo of bread, flour, rice, bales
of tobacco, and cases of goods, the leagers were full
of water, planks for slave deck, and all the other gear
complete for a slave cargo- When the slaver's papers
were demanded he stated he had none ; he was,
therefore, at once made prize of. The crew and money
(upwards of £5,000) were removed to the Prometheus,
and, on the 18th, after having made a good search and all
the necessary papers haring been made out, she parted
company with the Prometheus, and, after a passage of
21 days, arrived at Sierra Leone, in charge of Mr.
Jameson as prize master, where she was condemned in
the Vice-Admiralty Court on the 20th of May, after
which the prize officer and crew embarked on board
the Hecla for passage to rejoin their vessel. This
fine prize was an American brigantine, named the
Adams Gray, of New Orleans, where she fitted out and
shipped all her stores, but called at Havannah, and sailed
thence for the Coast of Africa with an American captain
and Spanish supercargo. She had run down the whole
line of coast as far as Porta Nevo, in the Bights, flying the
American flag, anchoring and communicating at various
places among the men-of-war and shipping, but it appears
she was not able to purchase her cargo of slaves, from
some cause or other, as :at the time she was taken site
was proceeding to the southward for that purpose. This
is the finest prize that has ever been taken i❑ Sierra Leone,
being a beautiful model, with all new sails and valuable
stores."