The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-16 00:00:00

FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY.

JA'coirespondent who has been travelling in France writes
'singular and tragic story has been occupying one of the criminal
tribunal of the Haut Loire. __A lawyer, n 4 med gelignite, residing
near i.e Pay, had for some time paid secret-allintioiiiTo a yoting-ladf
of highly reapectahle connections,.gademoiselle Bernard, who appears
to have become much. att.ched to him, and the rettilt made it necessary
for relations' to appeal -to hilri to- Propese- ler her. hand in
matrimony. To this herelartAntly consented, and they.were married
early in last year, .tb‘e birth of achild. ocourring yary :soda afterwards.
He treated his wieivilh eiVri lity, but Withheld affection ; and forthe child
h" seems to have conceived dormiglit aiveraion; regarding the: on.
Wending infantaa,tne mall, iron ar',ich compelled him to wedlock.' It
was alleged :but n6(10.410,1; that-Sat i-go s liking be Mademoiielle
Bernard haithebn ritattifestedat tho time 6f a quarrel between-hiras6,lf,
and Mrn adaeF,' a ivi49yritwl4ora he had. een engaged„and
reconciliation with Ms lady, had re .ived" his affect on f‘ir her,'!ind
aroused his aversion for Those with- he was legitimately icon-
riveted. IteeentlY4-!haVever,: he chrasged. his manner, and played, the
park. of a devoted liushaml and fatiacr, entertained his wife's relations,
and was supPoied to hate bet; W hotne innine range. Odetine day, in
March last, be lirepoadd tolladamttaSalignaa to take az excursion, ou
the ricer, and she desired that the child might accomplay them.
be opposed (and the point was stroegly urged iu his favour), but, leis
wife insisting, he yieltfecrWith istitife stillithinek& irilliilreourne of the
lit le-voyage the boatwaa utpsetiouul.Mit4tine Salignac and the - chtd
were both drowned, Salignat' saving.hipaself by swimming. His grief
and despair wareso naturel'as to ceirtidend the commiseration of every
One; and no' fatispitldn Would iiraVO been exeted, _but for some
atigni.intance of his eitvingtie*solliprensarked that Salignac had been
notoriously unable to swim in:yoUnger life, and thief it was lucky for
him that he had acqurted the art. Thrs apedoh reached a relative' of
gadatne Saiignecostrifiaduced nim to make ievestigations. and it was
proved that , Salignacr.datd ben ht i a swimming-Bert, and it was
remarked that After, the cataatre he' he bad"refasedao change- his
dread at an inn!. at dload heeded MS lot .the.Purposa. iiii anart-
meat was searctsed, and the, belt, lvhicti had not 4.3d11 sold him in the
town. but was one of Parli Make, was fohnd in a box, half consumed,
as if lie had peed. interinisted inan at'etripti to,destroy it. lie WM
arrested; andawaits:trial on the clwge oths,ving-ividuily overturned
the beat, in. order to de 4Vo7.l.iis,wife. and, child. Some langua,-4‘,
a''eged to Nava beeit-hAed by "ATiiamdi F. M tire' ',fleet till, the' Ber-
nard family .weul.t regret their, hav_lngfirced M. Ss,tignac, to marry,
was adduce was ono or two otitor circumsranee,.tending to show
that the limb -Ind preserved WI his hatitdicir his wile arid child while
professing affeeition., eihliance;, however, is very slight and.
Inferential, though ttievep,:eißs!no reeTal doubt that the eagerness of
the Bernardi to prottire a husband for the unfortnnate lady has
'eventuated in her premature death.-Inverness Courier. •

CL NDESTINS ERECTION OF A POL/8131 .NATIoNAL MONUMENT.—
The Posen Gazette says :—" Certain persons had the idea seven years
ago of erecting at Schrimm, to Prussian Peand, a Monument to the
Polish insurgenii whn fell in' the combat of Kona on the ,24th of April,
'lB4B. :Having raised ,subserlptinns, tl,ey putehased a block ''f
granite, caused it to be fashioned 1;40 an obelisk, slid conveyed it
fa' the muetery` Of Schiinarn. lint' the -40,6t?l:tient refused
to 'allow it to be (meted, add' it remainedilying, on .• the. ground
:in the cepletety., ...bifpy,d4ya it.was.:fopc-d to, have beeu set up ;
but the prefect immedlite!y caused it to be amrlishecl, and a judicial
investigation haft bee r co nmOrieed'te:diecoi4 by *hem it Iva-raised.
CvhlTraast rAC JOSIIRAL:-+-Nn -English gentleman recently incurred
:a-fine of 500 Laud the ,seizure 4,llgs.cigars for attempting tc! o°BB°
cigarS-,without declaring thio aflEe gates of Turin', and the anthorl-
ties*ere with some difttniityinditeed to IV:dude:the tine to 50 on
satisfactory proof being givenAhat the gentleman had no fraudulent
intentions,, and that. be was" in _complete ignorance. of the laws 'of
Sardinia on-this head. It shorild be mentioned also, that all travellers

are liable Violative thelt luggage-searched oft. entering Thrill, and the
psesence of cigars and tobacco Merin, which have not paid duty will
bring the proprietor within the actio.e, of tees Taw,' alledugh he may
himself nave piitchasel the eta tielfiehrithin the Sardiniaii States, the
only_seenrityagainSt is tit Puy jai:eaten at the registered shoes
• for the salad, sach.governmenit „peonopelles,, andnote rom viaitersor
• other *enders Of -smuggled gbMiY -•`-'" • 4--
Lotsa.ri cs AT HOME.—The farina maniac who arrives at Colney
Hatch or HanwelLina Critrt or a hand-bakrow, bonnd with ropes I.ge a
frantic animal, the terror of bis friends and himself, is no sooner
:within tle3 Inii, ding, twhich Imaginaatinn iztvests• with such terrors, than
hllf his miseries cease, The ropes staacienpsonce more fretslrom restraint, kind words are spekee to him he le sebthed by a bath
and, if still violent, the' padded=rroom, which offers no aggravating
mechanical or personal resistances, calms his fury, and sleep, which
has so long been a 'strength* to him, vi •lits him the first etglitrehich he
of the
spends in the dreaded. asylum. -00 r- ISY-sa re44lP#49t^
we;cwitehtalenenwt6.
IvlshimOst
ceded siiiarltveaelTywle6OCll:vis
ash waitingu
admitted,
4gi stntheaedve, edidn reo. '
stategh a e
ifs
(c)I shoulders,tthhee fa faces
ewildest
nurses
who had fornierly been kind .to her, her whole countenance changed.
- What, you Burke and you Thonison again I" she exclaimed, delighted
at renewing fermer friendships, and 'settling herself down peaceably in
toe ward, , she appeared as comfbilable as at her own fireside.—
Qactiterly Review. • .
POsT OFFICE ANECDOTES.—A merchantesent his errand boy to
post a letter, and to purchase a stamp to put on it The totter
contained negociabletills ittdounting to .6'1,200, and as the merchant
did not receive an acknowledgement from his correspondent, he cast
tee blame on tte Pest-office: An inquiry followed, which resulted in
showing that the errand boy liedlinet another boy on a similar mission,
'who undertook to'past tee.letter in question. On further reflection,
apneannthyenindteesntrdeodyefdotrhea
ph,,ostst'aegy
ee
statinh p
Ilna
tt toers
wresolved
,t ow
hciocnhehe te
dtmh,e
letter with its contents, carrying the fragments into a dela near the
postioffice, where they were found hidden. A shore time since a
registered letter was posted.at Newcanle, addressed to a banker in
Edinburgh, who, not receiving it according to his expectation, sent a
telegrapplupcpmoseesdsatgheattothleela:tntewrhhyafi beltheand forwarded-, The
banker
lost or in the post-
ofn ce ; but it was at lseft.proved that it had been duly delivered to the
back porter, who had locked it up in his desk acid forgotten in—Post-
master-General's &part. , -
A MOTHER AND WEB DEAD CHILD.-011 Monday evening a young
1 Irish girl presented herself at the Walivortn-road peilize station, and,
addressing Inspector Worrel, said she wished to give herself up to
meet an accusation .of felony that had been made against her, ann
added that she had come from Kingstown, near Dublin, to do so The
Inspector, who at once recognisedher, perceiving 'that she had a
tundlo in her hand, which she seemed to be taking more than ordi-
nary care of, asked of what,it consisted, and she, without the
slightest hesitation, told him. ShA said that daring hor passage from
Kingstown to Holyhead she had Wets seized with the-pains of labour,
andsenth the assistance of enemata on board was delivered of a female
child, which was dead at its birth, She Sid not stop at Holyhead,
but came off at once wits the train, and walked from the Euston stn-
[ion to the Walworth-road. On hearing this strange story, Mr.
Worrell at once sent for it medical man, wan examined the body of
the infant, and gave it as his opinion that its death had been caused
by-neglect. The unfortunate woman wee at ouce sent to Newington
Workhouse, and the remains ,of. her °lnterim; were also cent to the
Workhouse, to await nhesoroner's in quest.
Fateterere Hess/seem—The advices from Australia thrnieh par-
ticulars of an attack on the French settlement of New Caledonia by
the natives.- The following'are the particulars, as furnished by the
Sydney Morning herald :—"Frightful Massacre—By the Black Dog,
Captain Abbey, which arrived yesterd y from Port de France, New
Caledonia, we have received intelligence of an attack of the natives
on one of the settlements, by which several lives have been sacrificed.
The township of Maroni is distant from Port de France about seven
miles, at which place eleven Frenchmen and a number of natives
from Sandwich Islands were stationed for the purpose of obta ning
sandalwood. About the 20th January the New Caledonian natives
made an attack upon the settlenient, and savagely murdered all the
inhabitants So exterminating was their onslaeghn that not a single
individual was left to tell the particulars of these dreadful murdere.
The Mynas of eleven white men, and, fourteen or fifteen islanders,
were discovered accieentally by parties peocdeding from the township,
Among t se victims of this savage attack is Mr. Berard, attached to
the firm of Vial Dakeam and Co., of this city, and who has for some
time been Commissary-General for the French settlements on the
Pacific. The Julia Percey selionnernessed by the s ens of the disaster
during the consummation of this fearful tragedy, and observed an
unusual movement onshore, On approaching which the nat ves were
seen to retire : but she was compelled to stand off again."
Renter, DOMESTIC FELICITY. A correspondent writes : The
Queen continues to remain in-doors. Her husband was lately at the
principal theatre, the Italian - eerie Instea lof rising, as is custom -
aryenin his entrance, the audience remained seated, and took not the
&lightest notice of him. I am.assured that the same was the case on
a previous night. This excites little surprise, the ZUNI being cern-
Pletele discredited here; but, nevertheless, it causes some conversa-
tion, and I have beard several persona remark on the altered feelings
of the Spanish public towards the Royal family, and on the rapid and
deep decline of that loyalty for Which Spaniards were formerly noted.
The reports and tales eireulased are a 'farther proof of this, and also
of a feeling of bitterness, bordering on hatred. stories are told of
the most violent quarrels in the palace, of very strong language used,
and even of blows struck. The latter and the greater poi ton of this
scandal is, 'I fullystieneve, destitute of founts fore hat 'here are
dissensions between the Royal pair admits of no doubt; but it is not
credible that they have reached such lengths as these. Nevertheless,
these tales--exaggerations, ant even fabrications, though they doubt-
less are—are repeated on all sides; with an accompaniment of malicious
comment and scornful laughter. It is truly a deplorable state of
th'ngs, much to be regretted; and one cannot but grieve that the
conduct of the high personage thus assailed and calumniated should
he some measure haye given colour and pretext to hostile inventions."
A Get ST ST.,E,Y IY OXIoar.D excitemsnt ' has
prevailed for several dart atßeekroyein this county; and the adjoining
villages, occasioned by a report which has, been pretty extensively
circulated, that a " ghost" had taken up its quarters 'at a farm house
known as Beckley Lower Far.n, in the occupation of Mr. Chapman.
ench was the rapidity with which the rumour flew, and such was the
eagerness manifested to obtain a sight of, the " haunted house "
lone farm home lying in a hollow, about a Mile to the east of Beckley,
and abontsix miles from Oxford), that On Friday and Saturday several
hundred—and on Sunday it is computed that no less than a thousand
—persons of all classes of society made a journey to the farm in order
to gratify their curiosity. Of c oarse the reports in circulation have
been teeny and varied, each visitor giving a version differing some-
what frem the others, bat the following facts may be relied on as
coming from an authentic neurce":—Ationt the middle of last week
Mr. Chapman had occasion to go from home, leaving at the house his
wife, a female visitor, a servant girl, and four young children. ;oon
after he had gone, scenes of an extraordinary character commen ed.
'Pieces of the ceilings in every room in the house fell down, making a
noise like thunder; brit k after brick came rattling down the,chimney;
tiles fell cff the roof, and all this without an apparent human agency.
Above half the H indows in the house are broken; stones, pieces of tile
and plaster were thrown through them from without with such force
'sate bresk in the leaden frames, And all this went on in the open
day, one peculiar, characteristic of hes.gliostallip, distinguishing him '
from the generality of his fraternity, being hisiinvatiable quietness
during the " witching hours of eight," when, according to popular
belief, ghosts delight in indulging 'n their wanton sports. Daring the
whore of these terrible' scenes the females displayed a courage and
presence of mind truly praiseworthy, which may serve as an example
to all who may have the misfortune to be leaned in similar circum-
stances. At each succeeding smash of the windows a most rigid
search was inetituted by them throughout the grounds at' joining the
house, to di-cover the perpetrator of the min hief, but always without
success. One extraordinary circumstance was, MO are told, that
whenever the bricks or plaster fell on the property of the oc uteer,
the articles of. farniture sustained no damage ; nor did any of the in-
metes of the hoeSe receive any injury, with the exeeption of the
servant, who hal a trifling bruise on the forehead, occasioned by the
etghheosster"eant, who had been could be obtained.
Ming of a piece of the ceiling in one 'of tient-Skims Matters contin-
ued in this state until Monday lasts during the whole of, which time
noont
tehvee nmao
morning
eonftatrhu ygldi naa p,however, s eh
oowf the
r "
give an explanation, she
engaged in her domestic: duties in the upper part of .the houte; 'came
rushing downstairs pale with terror, and .f n fainting with fright.
on the landing of the
but houset h
ew
supernaturale 1-t"sld that she must have
saidsAt
stairs,
i sootsrssthAe
and
dsa
ads
encounteredt
he hadou although
tei
ltfioseel el
ayn t
qyat recovers
odna
erdk recovered
nteodn
the men employed on the farm,
b-en deceived, she adeeredto net statement. All the rooms in the
inuleaiateilnyirettxcla6mrinwaeas bynowhera to be found, it having,
prive'ege enjoyettley " ghosts," of vanish-
hetheeffect of the eight of the " tall da.k man"
eiwanegtiih)naet;seenrv4andholtualtl'uWaiesdituch that she could not be induced to remain
any longer in the house, and she accordingly left the same day.
Whether his ghtetshin found that les !edgings were gettng too warm
to be comfai table. we cannot say, bat it is -certain. that' he has not
since been heard of, and the destruction of property, of. which, of
course, he was the author, has ceased froin that day.; These are
amply the feels of the Ca, eas we heard them from an inmate of the
hem, who kindly volueteerel the statement-for oar ieferrnatlOn an I
we lay them 'before, 'our readers, leaving ahem to form' their own
opinion as to the amount of faith to be piss din them. The Lower.
Farm, which a very old ore, has, for ,nearly a century, been asso-
ciated with many tales of se eupeenatural
.charaetes, one of which,
,•redolOosly believed by many et the hibouring classes at the
rpres at'
day, is to the cif-et that a former tenant of the farm made an Entree-
ment w th his eantuic afsjosty, Nichol is the elder, by which he sold
himself fora certain sum of money.. A little weed, to tee east of the-
farm, is pointed out to the ingairleg visitor as the place in which the`
agreement was drawn me, and to which the tenant:was wont to repair
to receive payment of his wages. It is added, however, that the " lay-
ing " of " the evil spirit" was effectually performed, and that the old
man, by always carrying a Bible in his pocket; eluded fulfilling his
share of the bargain. Certainly this speaks volumes for the enlighten,-
ment of the nineteenth century ! Oxford Chronicle.