Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-14 00:00:00

BRUSHES, TUBS, BASKETS, &c.
R.A.LPH'S
WHITE COOPERY,

BRUSH, AND BASKET WAREHOUSE,

19, RANELAGII-STREET.

PERAMEULATORS in great variety.

RALPH'S Iripmvccl CHURNS, BEEHIVES, &c.
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ANOTHER ;EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL

IN FRANCE.

On Friday merning,, there came on at Tours a trial
-which excites immense interest throughout France. The
few last months ::have been.. unusually fertile :in causes
,c (Mares both in :France and England:; but I doubt
whether anything more extraordinary in the juxta-
position of crime •cf the darkest dye with youth, beauty,
social rank, family, and fortune ever occupied the atten-
tion of a court Of law than the case of MadaMe Lemoyne
!,of Chinon and her daughter, Mlle. Angelina, who
this day appeared at the bar of the assize court of
the Indre and Loire, on a .eharge .of . infanticide.
The undisputed .circumstances of the case are that
Mdlle. Angelina, young- lady of 16, of extraordinary.
beauty, having 'carried on an intrigue :with
_the coach-
man, became eitthi4ae, and that as soon as the child came
into the world it ,was burnt to ashes ky the unhappy
-girl's mother. The latter alleges that the infant was
>still-born, but the -daughter confessed -to the Judge of
Instruction that dit was. born alive, that it had long
beforehand been4treed befween herself and her mother
that it *as to be degroyed, and that while she was in
-the pangs of labour her mother prepared a funeral pile
of wood, which had been laid in store -for the dreadful
rpußose. _ _ _

Aadame Lemke., whose maiden name .was Meujot,
•:-nelono.s to an old family in Touraine. Her father was
a judge at Chinon; her grandfather sat in the Con- -
.volition, and voted for the death of Louis X`' I. Her
!anoestors, the De Champignys' have worn the judicial
ermine
.in Touraine time out of, mind. She ,herself,
when in the bloom cf youth, made what was considered
:in. the country, a sitkalliance. She fell in lave with, and
,marnied 24. Lemoine, an attorney of Chinon, who had
.sed„reely any fortune. The marriage was not a happy
Lone, and after a- few years. she obtained .a decree !of
ieperation, which left her in custody of her two
•children—a son, now a, law student. in Paris, and Mdlle.
:Angelina. Her fortune, about £4OO a year, was con-
siderable for the litt4c...to3va of Chinon, where she
habited a himdsome horse, and ranked, as one of the
!grenAldies of the place.
dl le . Angelica Leman° was universally admitted
to be the prettiest girl indite town—no small reputation,
nvhenave consider the proverbial beauty of the ladies of
Touraine.
The .eoeihman, the third considerable personage in
this .drama, Peas by name, is-describe& by all the wit-
nesses as a man cf extlaorclis.ary ugliness, awkward and
ungainly, knorant, and loeing much older than his
real age, ,which is only 29. He is unaffected by the
slightest.suspicion of any Complicity in the crime. On
the contrary, he believed that ;be was going to marry his
young mistress until, on his asking her hand from her
-mother, he wao turned out of the house.

Runieurs,of the condition of Madlle. Angelina spread
in the town. The discharged coachman told all his
friends of his amours, and said that he must of necessity
be married to the young lady in the end. He imparted
to many person:s kis idea of the income, he was likely to
enjoy, and the scale of the establishment suited to his
new rank in life. Madame Lemoine, .who was highly
respected in the neighbourhood, resolutely made up her
mind to brave out the rumours current against the
honour of her daughter. The girl admitted that she had
agreed with her mother that the child was to be burned
as AO on as born; but, she says, that she made a condition
that it .should not be burned while alive; she believes
her mother killed it, though she knows not exactly how,
before putting it on the wood. On the other hand,
Madame Lemoine 'maintains that there was no previous
agreement to destroy the child, but that finding it still-
born she suddenly resolved to put it out of the way, in
order to save her daughter's honour. Such, in all its
main circumstances, is the outline of this remarkable
case. A despatch of this morning says that the court,
which was one of the most spacious in France, was
crowded with spectators from Blois, Saumer, Angers,
&c., and, that a large proportion of ladies were among
the audience.
Angelina in her examination retracted the confession
she made before the Judgeof Instruction, and said that
she only agreed with her mother that the child was to
be destroyed in case of its being born dead. One of the
witnesses, a M. Lieubray, who had drawn the attention
of the authorities to the suspicious circumstances of the
ease, attempted suicide.
On Sunday, the trial terminated. The jury acquitted
Angelina Lemoine, but found her mother guilty, with
extenuating eircttrastances. The sentence was twenty
yeam' hard labour.

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr..T. S. MANSFIELD.)
MUTINY ON BOARD SHIP,--Taines Harney, James
Roxburgh, Edward West, George Eartland, John Barton,
George Muller, and Michael Ryan, seamen, were brought
-up on the charge of mutiny on board the ship M
- orring-
-ton; 710 tOii4ifrom Singapore, "Thomas Clarke,
Mr. Bluck appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cobb
for the defence. Mr. Bluck, in opening the case, said
that the captain had no desire to push the charge to
extremity, but solely to prove that the men had been
guilty of improper and unseamanlike conduct. Captain
Clarke was called, who said that the.ship became leaky
after rounding the Cape, and was making water at the
rate of seven or eight inches an hour, consequence of
which it was necessary for some of the • crew to
be kept constantly 'at the' pumps. The' prisoners
ref Used to work unless he allowed them watch and
watch, and when . put on an allowance of water,
one of them threatened . to shoot the mate, who had
accidentally upset the water-cask. There was a great
deal of grumbling, and finally a refusal to work,
he put into port. This ha refused to do ; but vias-
forced to put into Ascension for bread. On the prisoners
refusing to work, he .ordered them forward, telling them
~.to consider themselves prisoners, and put them on bread
and water. They offered to resume work after the ship
• arrived at the island of Ascension, from the fear that he
would, as he-had threatened, hand them over to one of
the men-of-war lying in port there. The mate of the
ship was examined, and. corroborated the evidence of
the captain in every point. Mr.
_Cobb pleaded, on
behalf of the crew, that the men had never been guilty
of anything that could be construed into Mutinous
conduct. They took their turns at the wheel, and did
everthing, in fact, that they were ordered ; and. the
complaints proceeded from the fact that they were not
allowed-enough of rest in consequence of the extra work
entailed by the leak. Mr. Mansfield stated that it was
very. evident the voyage had been lengthened by 'the
conauct Of the crew, and accordingly sentenced each of-
`them to twelve weeks' imprisonment, and the forfeiture
of eighteen days' wages.
THEFT FILO3I AN .EMPLOYER.—Betty Roberts, an)
elderly-woman, sometime ago a servant in the employ-
ment of Mrs. Garner,. Spitalfields, was charged with •
stealing a plane, some books,. and several other trifling
articles, to the value of about one sovereign. She
pleaded guilty • to stealing the plane, but denied any-
knowledge of the other. articles. - Having-being previ-
ouslyionvieted of felony she was sent for trial.
OBTAINING GOODS UNDER. FALSE PRETENCES.—
Williath Dodd was charged with obtaining leather and
other'articles used-in the manufacture of ots and shoes
from Mr. Killock, Copperas-hill, to the-amount of £6 17s.
-on false representations. It appears that the prisoner
• had at one time been in the employment of Mr. Yoxon,
boot and shoe maker, Newton-street. He had been
occasionally sent to Mr. Killock's for leather without
the money ; and, after leaving Mr. Yoxon's employ, lie
made a practice of going to Mr. Killock's and obtaining
articles ostensibly for his late employer, but which he
cppropliated to his own use. He . was- committed for
trial.

SuoPraTzixo.—Margaret :Waters, a young woman,
Igas charged with stealing •a mantle from the shop of
Mr. Lloyd, Berry-street, on Wednesday last, the 7th
instant. Mr. Lloyd and his shopman spoke to the
identity of the woman and the mantle; and a pawn-
broker's assistant deposed that she pledged it about six
o'clock on the .-cvemng of the 7th, which was only two
hours after it was missed from Mr. Lloyd's shop.—She
was committed for trial.

TERRIBLE AsSAULT.—Patriek M4Kanlv, lodging-
house keeper, No. 8 Court, Mill-lane, was charged with
assaulting James Brown, one of his lodgers. Complainant
stated that the prisoner had ordered him out of his house
last week; he left yesterday morning, but returned again
in the evening, when the prisoner , assaulted him with
the poker, inflicting severe wounds on the head; and
certainly the appearance. of that: portion of complainant's
body.had_ every appearance of being severely battered.
The hair on one side was clotted with blood, the ban-
dages were completely saturated, while his cheek bo:e
the traces of blood recently washed off.—The prisoner
was remanded till to-day, to admit of several witnesses
being brought forward.
(Before Messrs. ATKIN and GLADSTONE.)
A LOAN SOCIETY aiSE.—William Thomson and John
Hodson were summoned on a charge of forgery and Con-
spiracy by the Adelphi Loan Company. The Circum-
stances of the case are briefly as follow :—Some time
ago a loan of Lö was applied for to tats society in tho
name of two parties, and the securities offered were
William Thomson and SaMuel Thomson. The applica-
tion was entertained, and when the promissory note was
'ready-for signature, two persons called at the office of
the society, thoSe two persons being the defendants, and
William Thomson signed the name of Samuel Thomson
and said he was that person, and John Hodson signed
the mune of William Thomson, stating that he was
that individual. The loan, however, was not7granted,
on account of some suspicions having been aroused re-
garding the genuineness of the signature. Mr. Snow-
ball, whd appeared for the complainant, contended that
the men havinc, told a falsehood in regard to their sig-
natures laid them open to the charge of forgery, and that
it was a matter of no conSeernenee whether they had the
authority of the persons-for whom they signed or not.—
Mr. Cobb, who condu4ed the defence, submitted that it
was perfectly lawful to sign promiSsory notes by procu-
ration, inasmuch as there .was an act. of Parliament
authorising it, and that if he could prove that it was
done with-the full consent of the parties, and with no
.dishonest motive, the charge of forgery and conspiracy
would fall to the ground. He aceordin6-ly called Samuel
Thomson, who snore that he authorised William Thom-
-son to sign his name, mid that he had every intention
of paying, the same if the party for whom he was security
failed to, do so.—The magistrates decided that there had
been great irregularity in the transaction, but there was
aio evidence of any intention to defraud the loan society,
and cohsequently they would dismiss. the case.