Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

THIRD DAY.-THURSDAY.

The court resumed to-day at ten o'clock. The first willies, caved
was Charles O'Neill, civil engineer and architect, A bhotsford-place,

Glasgow—l was employeul by the public authorities to make.a.plan

of the house, No. 7, Blythswood.squara, occupied by Mr. James
Smith, the father of the prisoner. The house is at the corner of
Blythswood-square and Main-street. The main or front door is to
Blythswood-square. The lane at the back of the house leads to
Main-street;
it is quite open to Main-street, and a parson has no
difficulty in going to Main-street from the back door of the area.
Going down Main-street, Mr. Minnoch and Mr. Douglas occupy
the next house; there is a common stair, and they live in that
stair. The prisoner's declaration was then road as. follows.—" My
name is Madeline Smith. I am a native of Glasgow, twenty-ono

years of age, and I reside with my father, James Smith, architect, at
No. 7, Blythswood-square, Glasgow. For about the last two years I
_ _ _ _ _

have been acquented with P. Emile L'Angelier, who was in the
employment of W. R. Huggins and Co., in Etothwell-street, and who
lolged at 11, Franklyn-place. He recently paid his addresses to me,

and I have met with him on a variety of occasions. I learned about
his death on the afternoon of Monday, the 23rd of March current, from
mamma, to whom it had been mentioned by a lady, named Miss Perry,

a friend of M. L'Angelier. I had not seen M. L'Angeli,r for about
tree weeks before his death, and last time I saw him was on a
night about half-past ten o'cloz.k. On that occasion he tapped at my
bedroom window, which is on the pound floor, and, fronts Main-
street. I talked to him frem the window, which is stanchioned out-
side, and I did not go out to him, nor did he come in to me. This
occasion, which, as already said, was about three weeks before his
death, was the last time I saw hi-r„ He was in the habit of writing
notes to me, and I was in the habit of replying to him by note,. The
last note I wrote to him was on the Frid y before his death, viz.,
Friday the 20th of March current. I now see and identify that note
and the relative envelope, and they are each marked No. 1. In, con-

sequence of that note, I exNeted him to visit me on Saturday night

the 21st current, at my bedroom window, in the same way asformerly
mentioned, but he did not come, and sent no notice. There was no
tapping at my window on said Saturday night, or on the following
night, being Sunday. I went to bed, on Sunday eight about eleven
o'clock, and remained in bed till the usual time of getting up next
morning, being eight or nine o'clock. In the course of my meetings
with IL L'Angelier he and I arranged to get married, and we had at
one time prodosed September last as the time the marilage was to
take place, and subsequently the present month of March was spoken

of. It was proposed that wo should reside in furnished lodgings, bul

we had not made any definite arrangement- as to time or other-
wise. Ile was very unwell for some time, and had gone to
the Bridge of Allan for his hearth, and ho complained of
sickness, but I have no idea what wan the cause of it. I remember
giving him some cocoa from my window one night some time ago,
but I cannot specify the time particularly. He took the cup in his
hands and barely tasted the contents, and I gave him no build to it.
I was taking some cocoa myself at the time, and had prepared it

myself. It was between ten and eleven p.m. when I gave it to him
I am now shown a note or letter and envelope, which are marked
respectively No. 2, and I recognise them as allots and envelope which
I wrote to M. L'Angelier, and sant to the post. As I had attributed his
sickness to want of food, I proposed, as statedin the note, to give him a
loaf of bread, but I said that merely in a joke, and, in point of fact, I
never gave him any bread. I have bought arsenic on various occ Astons.
The last I bought was a sixpenceworth, which I bought in Carrie,
the apothecary's shop, in Sauchiehall-street, and, prior to that, I
bought other two quantities of arsenic, for which I paid sixpence each
—one of these in Currie's, and the other in Murdoch, the apothecary's,
shop, in Sauchiehall-streef, I used it all as a cosmetic, and applied
it to my face, neck, and arms, diluted with water. The arsenic I go
in Currie's shop I got there on Wednesday, the 18th curt., and I used
it all on one occasion, having put it all in the basin where I was to
wahs myself. I had been advised to the use of the arsenic in the
way I have mentioned by a young lady, the daughter of an actress,
and I had also seen the use of it recommended in the newspapers ,
The young lady's name was Guibilie, and I had me t
her at school at Ciapton, near London. I did not
wish any of my father's family to be aware that I was
using the arsenic, and, therefore, never mentioned it to any of them ,
and I don't suppose they or any of the servants even noticed any of i t
in the basin. When I bought the arsenic in Murdoeh's, I am no
sure whether I was asked or not what it was for, but, I think I said i
Was for a gardener to kill rats or destroy vermin o,out flowers, and I
I only said this because I did not wish them to tnow that I was going
to use it as a cosmetic. I don't remember ":.thether I was asked as to
t the use I was going to make of the arseQe on the other two occasions,

but I likely made the same statement about it as I had done in
Murdoch's, and' on all the three occasions,,as required in the shops, I
signed my name to a book in which the sales were entered. On the
first octasion I wasacCompanied by Mary, a daughter of Dr. Buchanan,

of Dumbarton. Per several years past Mr. Minnoch of the firm of
William Houldswortla and Co., has been coming good deal about
my father's house, and about a month ago, Mr. Minnoch made
a proposal of 'marriage to me, and• I gave him, my hand in token of
acceptance, but no time for the marriage has yet been fixed,.and my
object In writing the note No. 1, before-mentioned, was to have a
meeting with L'Angellerto tell him that 'I was engaged In marriage
to Mr. Minnoch. lam new shown two notes and an envelope, bear-
ing the Glasgow' postmark of 28th January, which, are respeetively
marked No. 3; and P recognise these os in my handwriting, and they
were written and sent by me to M. L'Angelier. On the occasion
that I gave M. L'Angelier the cocoa, as formerly mentioned, I think
that when I used it it must have been known to the servants and
members of my father's family, as the package containing the cocoa
was lying on the mantelpiece in my room, but not cue of the femily
used it except myself, as they did net seem to like it. The water
which I need I got hot from the servants. On the night of the 18th,
when I used the arsenic last, I ,was going to a dinner party at Mr.
Mimeo's house. I never administered, or caused tube admistered,
to M 1 L'Angelier, arsenic or anything injurious. And this I deelare
to be truth. (Signed) " MADELE:NE SMITH."
•'Nary Jane Buchanan was then examined by the Solicitor-General:
Msefather is Dr. Buchanan, of Dumbarton. I am acquainted with
Flies M. Smith. I remember being in Sauchieball-street, Glasgow,
last spring. I went into a chemist's shcp.with her there ; it was afr.
Currie's. I don't remember if she told me before going in what she
wanted. She asked for Arsenic. The, shopman told. her that she
must write her name in a book. He did not ask her what she wanted
with it, but I asked:her in the hearine of the ahopman, and she said
it waste kill rats. She got the arsenic. lam net sure of what she
rad, but I think she paid 61 , and she brought it away with her. I'
think inwas in 1853 or 1852 that I became acquainted with Miss
Smith, at School. Itmnst have been 1852, Her full n ome Madel-ine
Hamilton Smith.— In the course of last spring did she everspeak to you-
about her going to be married ? Yes; She. wrote to me [toiling me
she wee engaged. That was at the very end of February. She said
she was engaged to Mr. Minnoch. She afterwards opoke to me
about ;ter marriage, both on the 6th of March and the 31st of March.
On bot h of these occasions she still spoke of herself co engaged to
be =ivied to Mr. Minnoch, and of the marriage as being still to
take place. I understood it was to take place in June.
Did site ever speakillwith anyTeclonbt shout it, or of any
difficulty In- the way of it ? Never. Do you remember anything
being said about arsenic at the school? I don't remember whether it
was a lesson or some reading in the evening; but I recollect an
account being given of Styrian peasants taking arsenic to give them
breath to climb steep mountains, au i their having in consequence
a peculiar plumpness and rosiness of complexion. Augusta Guibilei
or Walcet, wife of Thomas Waleot, solicitor, Clapham-road, Kensing-
ton, Lcndon—l am a pupil teaoher at a school at Clapton, where Ails,
Smith was a boarder. That was in the year 1852. I never advised
the prisoner to nse arsenic as a cosmetic, or to apply it to her neck,
face, or arms, diluted with water. I never advised her to use it in
anyway: I never load any conversatiou with her about arsenic that
I recollect of. I believe I never had any conversation with her
at all about cosmetics, or external applications , to the skin.
I recollect once something having been read in the. school about
the Swiss mountaineers or chamois hunters being in the habit of
taking arsenic to improve their hearth, End that these who took
it were remarkable for plume ness and good h.alth. I had no
conversation with the prisoner abont this. William Smith : lam
servant with Mr. Smith, Blythsvrood-square. I recollect Miss Smith
being missed from home one morning. It would be about six weeks
or two months before that that I went to the alothecary for her. I
was to get prussic acid at the apothecary's. She gave me a line

"Small phial of prussic acid was on the line. I took it to the
apothecary's. They did not-give it me. I went back to Miss 3111,,enne
and told her so. Shs said, " Very well, never mind." I heard her
say she wanted it for her hands. Cross-examined: I went to tne
nearest shop. Miss Smith did not tell me to go to any particular shop.
The shopman asked who it was for, and I told him. He then said, tell
her she cannot get it without a physician's line, for it was rank
poison. I remember the evening of Sunday, 22nd, when all the
Servants and family were present at prayers that night. Miss Made-
line was there also. I heard no noise in the house on th night of th e
22nd. I heard no one come Oat or in. The housemaid g,nerally kept
the key of the back door. Any person could have got it.—George
Yeaman : I am a medical man in Glasgow, and have a laboratary in
Sauchiehall-street, Iremember hearing of the death of L'Angelier
The news of the death recalled the circumstance of a paper containing
a writing having been presented to me by my assistant, in which were
written the words, " ler-prussic acid." I cannot state- certainly how
long that was before L'Angelier's death. I should, from memory,
consider it to be from four to eight weeks. When that line was
brought to me I went into the shop, and found a boy. I did not
know him. He did :not tell me his name. He said he came from
Blythswoodssenare from Miss Smith. I asked whether he knew what
he wanted, and he said he thought it was poison. I then said that If
Miss Smith would call herself I would see whether or not she should
get it. I did-not give it I.lm. Miss Smith did not come, that I saw,
or heard of. George Murdoch, partner in the firm of Murdoch
Broth?rs, druggistz, Sauchieh..ll-strhet : I keep a register book of
poisons sold. Shown ISS—I identify that as the register I keep, and
in that is entered all the arsenic we sell in retail. There is an entry
there, -under date the 21st Feb. It is " Miss Smith, 7, Blythevrond-
square ; sixpence worth of arsenic for a gardener in the coun -
try. Miss Smith's signature is attached. The first initial
could not make out at first, but now I see it is Miss H. Smith.

I
purenase ber,g, maae. it WAS tuauu uy aaiss
Smith
in one of the back rooms of the shop, when James Dickle,an assistant,
came and told me that a lady wanted. to boy 6d. worth of arsenic. I
went forward, and saw Miss Smith. I recognised her, and she bowed.

I knew her before. I then requested to know, in the usual form,
for what purpose it was wanted. Her answcr was, that it was for- a
gardener at th:ir country Lowe. I was aware that Mr. Smith had a
country ho Ise ; and I directed James Dickie to put up the arsenic for
Miss Smh . While he didso, I made the entry in the book, which I
have just read, and which Miss Smith signed; and then I signed
it myself as a witne,s. I did not notice haw the parcel was
made up, but I suppose it was in the usual way, which was in
a double cover, with two labels. It was common white arsenic,
mixed with soot in the pr portions required by the act. I don't
remember anything else passing on that occasion. James Dickie, my
assistant, gave to Dr. Penny the same Weight of arsenic from the:
same bottle that Miss Sml h got. Shown bottle. That has the ap.
pearance of that given to Dr. Penny. Cress-examined—As soon as I
saw the entry in the book, I communicated the fact to the fiscal.
James Dicke corroborated this evidence. George Carruthers
Hallibtirton, assistant to Mr. Currie, drugg'st, Saachlehall street,
Glasgow, examined by the Lord Advocate—We keep a registor book
for poison. Shown book labelled liii. That is our book. It is a
register furnished by:Fisher for the purpose of entering the sale of
poisons. At the date of 6th March, I see an entry of arsenic. It is one
ounce of arsenic purchased by Miss M. H. Smith for rats. I know
the prisoner. She was accompanied by a lady when she came for it
on that occasion She asked for sixpennyworth of arsenic. I asked
what it was to do, and she said it was to kill rats. I said we were not
very fond of selling arsenic for that purpose, and recommended to
her a mixture of phosphorus for it, which would do quite as well.
She said see had tried that before, and it had failed. She said the
rats were in the house in Blythswood-square. I told her that in con..
sequence of the family going away next day, she would be comp ell ed
to see it put down to kill the rats herself. The arsenic was mixed
with indigo. Shown a. phial. That was given by me to Dr. Penny, and
contained arsenic. It was taken from the sem, bottle as that I gave to
Miss Smith. Miss Smith paid for it, and took it away. (Showa a book
labelled iB6)—l see an entry under date lath March. It is," Miss Smith
bought one ounce arscnie to kill ra 5." The signature is the same as
before. I recollect of her coming for that. She said that, in conse-

/pence of the t rst being so successful that they had killed seven or
eight rats, she had come back to get the dose renewed. Mr. Currie
was in the shop at the time. I brought him forward, and told
him the young lady bad got arsenic on a former occasion ;
and, after a few words, be told me to give it to her a second
time. I mixed the arsenic myself. The colouring matter was
indigo. I pat in the proper quantity according to the act.
By the Court: The yellow substance is quite difLrent frtm
the white ; and is used because it so effects the skin as to bring out
the roots of the hair. That is alto ether opposite from the effects of
any cosmetic. As far as I know, it would be dangerous as a cosmetic.
—Mr. Currie corroborated the statement of his assistant.—William
Campsie, gardener, residing at Rowaleyn, in the parish of Row: I am
in the service of Mr. Smith of Elythswood-square, at Row. I have
been with him since 1855. I never got any arsenic from Miss Smith
to kill rats. I don't recollect of having any conversation with
her about arsenic to kill rats, I never bad any arsenic for that
purpose. By Mr. Young : We ware very much troubled with rats at
Row. We used a paste mixed with phosphorous for killing them.
It was very effective. We got partly quit of the rats by using it.
Wm. Harper Minnoch, merchant, Glasgow : I am a partner of the
firm of John Houldsworth and Co. I live in Main-street, above Mr.
Jas. Smith's house. I have been intimately acquainted with his
family for above four years. In the course of the first winter I paid
my addresses to Miss Smith. I ultimate'y p rr pose i marriage to her.
That was upon the lath March. She accepted me. The time for onr
marriage was fixed between her and myself on that day. I had be-
fore that, on the 25th January, asked her generally in marriage,
without reference to a time. That was in person. My
attentions before that were, I thought, sufficient to make
her understand that I intended marriage. She accepted
me on the 28th of January, and then we arranged it more particularly
on the 12th of March. From the end of January to 12th March was
there anything to suggest a doubt to your mind as to the engagement
continuing? Nothing. Had you any idea she was engaged to any
other parson? None. Were you aware of any attachment or peculiar
intimacy between her and another man ? I was not. The marriage
was fixed to b 3 in June ; on the 18th of June. In the course of Janu-
ary, before the 28th, I made Miss Smith a present of a necklace.
Miss Smith went along with her family to the Bridge of Allan,
on the 6th March. She remained there till the 17th. y
visited the family while they were there. After leaving, I
received a letter from Miss Smith. Shown letter and envelope
133. That is the letter. It is dated Monday. After Miss
Smith came home from the Bridge of Allan she lived in my
house along with her father and mother on the lath. I met her wear,
at Mr. Iliddleton's in the evening. This was on Wednesday, the ;sth
March. I was not aware of anything wrong at that time. I he•ppened
to call next morning at her father's. That was Thursday the 26th.
I understood then shehad left the house. I went down to Bowaleyn
in company with my brother to look for Miss, Smith. "We went by train

to Greenock, and then an bosrd the steamer there. I tound herbs Us
steamboat: The steamer was going to Helensburgh and Row. I
called at Roseneath. It-returned to Greenock ultimately. It was
little after two o'clock when I found her. She only said she W
going to Lewaleyn. I went on to Rowaleyn• with her and her
brother. We then drove back to Glasgow in a carrlage to her
father's house. I had no conversation with Hiss Smith that nigh
atter reaching Glasgow. Nest Saturday I saw her. I had heard is,
rumour by ttat time of something wrong. She told'me on the Sear..
day that she had written a letter to L'Angelier, in order to get back
some letters which she had written to him previously. She did nor
say when she had written. She made no further statement then.

saw her again On the Sunday, but had no conversation with her orx
the same subject.' I saw her on the Monday and Tuesday. On rues
day morning I saw Miss Smith, and she mentioned L'Angelier's having
been said to have been poisoned, and remarked that she-had been in
the habit of using arsenic for a long time, for she had-learned at school,,
at Clayton, that- it was good for the complexion. I had heard the
rumour that L'Angelier had been poisoned. She saidnothing farther'
the.last time I saw her. Before she made these statements to me I was.
set aware she was acemainted with L'Angelier. Cross-examined
I was at the opera on the 12th February. I was accompanied by my
sister and Miss Smith. I think I called in passing with my sister, at
Miss Smith's house. It was about half-past seven when we went to
the opera. It was about eleven o'Clock when we returned.-- We get
home about eleven. Miss Smtth returned with us. She had been
with us all evening. She stopped the cab at the house, and also went in..
I did not observe-who opened the. door,. On the 26th March it was I
who suggested the probability of Miss Smith having gone to Raw.
Before I Left Glasgow, Mr. Smith told me that Miss Smith had
left toe house on account of some old love affair. I understood her
to be refearinge to that affair in the answers she made me. She
gave me no farther explanation. She told me not to press her, and
she would tell me. all another time.. I reminded her on the 28th of
the promise she had made at Row, that she would tell me by-and-by.
I had not heard L'Angelier'a name before that. She called him a
Frenchmah, whom she said she had written to to get back her letters
from him. I was in Mr. Smith's house on the 28th, before I went to
Mr. Middleton's. I did not see Mr. Smith. I understood he was
unwell. I took Miss Smith to Mr. Middleten's. Mr. Middleton is a
Detester of the United Presbyterian Church. It is his' church the
Smiths attend, _ Margaret Houston or Clark, examined- by the
Fel itor-General : live at the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Glasgow. My husband- is curator of those gardens. M.
L'Angelier lined in my house for about two years. He
we, t from my house to lodge with Mrs. Jenkins, in. Franklin-.
p'ace. He was merely a lodger with me, not a boarder. I was
ntimataly acquainted with him. What impression clid.you farm as
to his general character ?—A .very good, impression. He seemed to
be a very ate dy, temperateyoung man. He kept regular hours. He
never was late out while in my house. I was led to b litre that he
was a regular attender of chapel. Did you observe that his heallht
became effected some time before.-his death?—Yes; a month or two
before it. He spoke to me sometimes about a lady. I don't re
member the time he fist did so. I think it would be during the first
year he lived with me. He told me her nacre was Miss Smith. He
spoke of her by her erst. name,. Madeline, and also- called her
Minnie. He gave me .-to understand thot there was a mutual
attachment between him and this lady. He told me they corresponded
by latter. He told me also thart they were in the way of meeting to-
together. Ho told me of an interruption in the intimacy. He told me
Miss Smith an he were to be married. He said after wards he was
afraid they would not get their end accomplished, as Miss Smith's
father was putting stronger objeotions in the way than ever Cross-
examined I understood from hirnSelf, that on the occasion-when he
visited Ileier. sburgh he had been attackee with somethinglike cholera.
I saw the cholera mixture in his room. 1 was labelled " Preparation
for cholera." When he mentioned to mete at he was goingto,be mar-
ried to her, he told me how that was to be ste. omplished. He did n
mention the chapel. Examination continued: L'Angelier lied avert
great horror of takieg me Leine and del not eteset often.. Thoma
Fleming Kennedy, cashier to. W. B. Huggins and Co., merchants
Bothwell-street, Glasgow—l knew L'Angelier for about four andt-
half years, during which time he was in the service- of Massre•
Huggins and Co. lewas intimately acquainted with him, He was
first taken ill, I think, on the 23rd of February. He was confined
tae house after the 23rd till the Ist of Mirth, when I saw him again -
He spoke before his death of an attachment to a lady. It was to Miss
Smith, Blythswood-square. Ho said nothing about it then bemnd
stating that there was an intimacy until February. Gee morning
in that month he came to use with tears in his. eyes,, and said he
had just got a letter from Miss Smith demanding back all
her correspondence. I advised him strongly to give hack the
letters. He said lie would- not. He said Miss Smitlehad written that
a coldness had arisen on both sides, an leaking the letters to be ,Ovett
back to her, and the engagement broken off. He told me that was
what Miss Smith had written to him. When I advised him to return
the letters he said he would not, adding. "I will not allow her tc marry
another man so long as I'm alive." I said it was very foolish of him.
He sod hceknew it was ; it was infatuation ; and then he made the
remark, " Oh, Tom. she'll be the death of me." The court then retired
for a few few minutes, and on them return, the Lord Advocate stated.
that the Solicitor-General We-e note yet. prepared to go into
the discussion as to the reception of the letters, and they,,wonlel
accordingly be merely identified without being, read
Robert Oliphant, stationer, who was examined in the
forenoon, was again placed in the witness box.—By the .Solicitor
General : I have seen all the letters. Shown a document ; This is &
minute which I have made up, and which correctly gives the result of
my investigation.—By the Dean of Faculty : I did not get a die made
expressly for Miss Smith. I used to stamp my own letters with it
The letters of the die are variable, and can be used for any name.—
John Murray: lam a sheriff officer in Glasgow. Bernard IleLauchlin.
and I went through the druggists' shops in Glasgow to inquire about
Peeesalact,AFsenie!... °F..!PecieuEli!",um'e=l'.it7stestea-le heel;
it but didnot sell it ; some kept registers, and from those registers I
made copes. I learned that from December to March no person of
the name of L'Angetier had parcharel arsenic. The witness wars
then withdrawn. The Dean of Faculty having objected to the qua- _
tion, the court adjourned at a quarter-past six o'clock.

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph..
EDINBURGH, FRIDAY EVENING.

The examination of witnesses for the prosecution was resumed this,
morning at ten o'clock. The trial is not expezted to terminate until,
Tuesday or Wednesday next week.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Ey Telegraph.

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LADIES' PLATE.

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FLYING STAILES.

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CITY
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THE ART TREASURES EXHIBIT'LON.—Th, admissions on.
Wednesday were :—By season tic kets, 1,85 0 ; on payment,
2,094; total, 3,944: 01 these 834 arrivrid by railway.
Citicxnz—M•C.C. AND GROUND V. TIAI.LE FEUitY COL-
LEGE.—This match commence.d yesterday' -at Lord's, and
will continue this day at half-past eleven. The following
is the score :—M.C.C., lst innings, 63. 2nd innings, 5
wickets standing, 95. Haileybury, Ist in flings, 74.
BRITISH BENEFICENT INSTITUTION.--. 4 grand bazaar la
aid of this institution is to be held, to-4 ly and to-morrow
in the grounds attached to Westboui ue College, Bays-
water, which have been placed at the; disposal of the com-
mittee by the principal, the Roverent/, Charles Mackenzie.
GREAT FIRE AT LEW W ing the whole of the
night an extensive fire has been. raging at Sewisham,
near the railway station, the scone of the late awful
accident. The premises, which Jelonged to Mr. Smith,
of Greenwich, comprised from eighteen to twenty rooms,.
and were not quite finished.
The next telegraphic intell,igence from India by the
Overland Mail, via Trieste, is not expected before the
12th or lath at the earliest, although the vessels on the
present occasion are faat ones. The government, how-
ever, consider it probable that the authorities at Bombay,
upon any great oecturence, would be likely to despatch a
special steamer, iu which case fresh accounts may arrive
at any moment.

General Tscherneyschef, formerly minister of war at St.
Petersburg, lately expired at Castellamare, in Italy. It
was he who, in 1812, when colonel in the Russian service,
succeeded in obtaining in Paris, just before the invasion.
of Russia, from one of the clerks in the War Department,
an exact account of the number of the French troops, the
condition of the various kinds of stores and materiel, and
the means of attack whioh France possessed.

THE LAZZARONI OF NA,PLES.—the itl arquis E. de Rise,
member of the Neapolitan Parliament of 1848, delivered,
aa t
ctohuer
sMe aorfy Itewboo ee clt
unfeist titoni otnh, e osunb
jWectedonfestdhaeyyshe zzofirrinstof
i of
Naples. The lecture opened with a description of the
market-place of Naples two centuries ago. Next, the story
Masaniello's reYalution i • his deeds, his death, and his
funeral, were graphically sketched, and having recounted the
origin of the lazzeroni the lecturer concluded his narra-
tive with an,interesting account of the Spanish viceregal
gozernment, and a powerful portraiture of its effects.
MAN BITTEN BY AN ADDEE.—Mr.Henry Armstrong, of
Regent.stdeet, Newark, had the misfortune to be bitten
by one of these frightful reptiles on Monday last. We
understond he went to Stapleford wood, in the neighbour.
hood of Newark, for the purpose of taking some snakes for
pre'.-ervation. He succeeded in capturing an adder alive,
'out afterwards had the ill luck to be bitten by it in the
centre of the hand.
Swelling immediately ensued to a
serious extent, which induced him to go to Messrs. Lacy
and Ifodgklnson, surgeons, Newark, and afterwards to
Mr. Wright, surgeon, Nottingham. He is progressing as
favourably as may be expected under the circumstances.—!
Nottingham Review.