The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
Public. opinion has seldom, if ever, expressed
'ltself more unanimously on any subject than on
the verdict of the jury in the case of Verger,
li,ttd his condemnation to the extreme penalty
(2` the law has been received with approbation,
in which I have not heard one dissentient
.°tee• His audacious avowal of the crime,
and his glorying in it, and his outrageous de-
t/Illnent during the trial, and his insults to the
of disgust
and witnesses, produced a universal feeling
"' disgust and horror. He evidently intended to
:lehe a great scandal, and knowing that there
Os no chance of escape for himself, he
"Ped to gratify his malignity by doing all that
°lle like him could do to destroy the character
13f others. As he had not sacrificed them by the
bishop,
means as he had used against the Arch
uishoP, he brooded with gloomy rapture on the
murder of their representative. To that list of
witnesses which he showed to his advocate he had
ItPpeaded notes imputing the most abominable
crimes to all and each ; and it is curious that
this ferocity was particularly exhibited towards
those who had rendered him the greatest services,
arid who were known to be his benefactors. These
witnesses were not expected by him to depose to
the fact before the court, and were, therefore, with
the exception of three, refused by it. The only
defence that could be made for him was insanity,
And it was put forward but faintly and doubtingly
bY his counsel. The evidence of the medical man
o had examined him was not in favour of this
\levy of the case. His impression was, that the
rj.lsolier was not mad, but was very dangerous.
fits of rage, he at first thought, might be
,`tributed to a tendency to epilepsy; on minute
.4tlqUiry he found nothing to confirm that opinion,
st:ll,his conclusion was, that he was rather a fit
th"Ject for the vigilitnce of the police authorities,
ii,44 for a mad blouse. On the whole it would
I,?ear that he ,:vas a man eaten up by inordinate
efllitY, of a morbid desire to make himself talked
st whether for good or for evil, superficially in
thnleted, of a jealousy that never reposed, envy
that ever corroded, and hatred of all whom he
ZJl.iglit came in his way; constantly intriguing
;ainSt, or quarrelling with, his fellow priests ;
Ilressed with an exaggerated idea of his own
trttOortance, of ambition which there was nothing
a°,;,,iustifY ; of a perverse and gloomy disposition,
a heart full of rancour and malignity against
;very one who was his superior. His dismissal
°rd the various situations he filled was the con-
s
re,quence of the irsegularity of his morals, and he
ro
his
the Cure of St. Germain de l'Auxerrois for
is kindness to him, until kindness and charity
were exhausted, by the most abominable calurn-
,e,,.
f:The news of the assassination of the Arch-
lattop of Paris led to the countermanding the
and balls which were to be given on the
janniversary of the birth of the King (the 12th
however,
and the theatres were closed. There was,
'al%wever, a grand reception at the palace, at which
_1 the members of the diplomatic corps at Naples
were present. The English frigate, the Malacca,
In,ieted its colours and fired a salute of 21 guns.
1,,t
_,,ne King was to leave Naples soon for Caserta,
%n_ere the Queen will be confined.
, The following private telegraphic despatch has
oeen received :

" BERLIN, JAN. 17.
" The Prussian Government has already ex-
pressed to the Powers its disposition towards
diplomatic negoeiations relative to the question of
the sovereignty of Neuchatel. The place and
period at which these negociations are to take
place are not yet decided.
" The Grand Duke Constantine has arrived
'here.

MA, J 17.
Feruk-Kban left at 8 thisRSEILLES morning for Lyons
And Paris. He was saluted on his departure by
le guns of the forts. He expressed himself much
ie(l with the town and the dockS, but partieu-
-(1.13" With the ladies of Marseilles, who are
tiir°,-41table for their beauty and the richness of
Pasha etliet Ali Pasha, younger brother of the
, (if Egypt, sailed this morning for Constan.-
Tte in the Mail packet Mersey
m.
f%eh ere ere at present 100 merchant ships
11,, °red between Toulon and the Islands of
Averes, detained by contrary winds.
b 'lest is dull of eale; a fall in prices is regarded