The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-07 00:00:00

Canton-of Neufchatel; procured the rir,lit of citizen.
ship;9l that canton, where he', is' settled.° it was
Colon ft
,Denzler who commanded the Republican
troopslOkinst the Royalist insurrection, and he
enjoys the confidence of the army-:
"M..Pisident and Gentlemen,--I learnt yester-
day, from the Bend, the semi-9flleia.l organ of the
Federal Connell, that the latter had. 'resolved, on
Saturday -last; to-submit to you the proposal of-
arrangement of the Paris Conference concerning
Neufchatel question, a proposal against ,whieh'
therelis much to be said.

" i understand, knowing the iemperritnent of the
Fedetal,council, that it, is, anxious to- fhriw the
respoilsinility of accepting on rejecting that pro-
posal nion a third party; and has selected you as
its cat's paw to take the chestnuts 'Ow of the 'fire.
" I learn to-day, from the same journal,- that the
Government of the canton of. Neufchatel will de-
clare itself satisfied, and it is asserted that tt
deputation of the said Governmerit. will arrive at
Berne,to-day, bearing that-. claration, •
Gentleinen,—As leader of the Republican
trop 3s, 'litho, on the 4th of September, 1856, ro•
established constitutional - order in the canton of
Neufchatel. and as a member of the Grand Council,
I take the liberty of addressing a few words upon
your course of action, premising that what the
Band has advanced is true.

" 1. I do not understand that you can consent
that the King of Prussia shall maintain in future
.the title of Prince of Neuchatel and Valenzia.
" 2 1 do not understaudThatyou can consent that
he sh ili haie an indemnity of 1,000,000 f that he may
herewith reward the men whe caused the disturb-
ance of peace among us.
3. I do not understand that you can take a
decision on this subject, on your own. respon-
sibility, without cOnsuiting the Grand CoUracil.

I do not think that the Swiss people in general,
and the Neufchattl people in particular,: mean that
the authorities should accept all those conditions
and submit to them; and that they are content to
contimp to {glw .that. policy of petty traders
which is already caused us so many humiliations.
" I WOW thetlfentchatel people aneits'Grand
Coupell will oppose the, propasi ionaWliieh it is
wished; to impose,_o9on us., I also hcrwthat the
'red4Al Ass mblp will not accept _them It is
„ .
-;better to remain in if atu quo We shall find means
enough in the • Cantou of, Neufchatel tolteep the
Royalists in c,hecit.,
" I deblitili46jou at once that, during the next
session of the Grand-Council I shall bring forward
a motion pp ttl‘qesubjeot,

" Accept, M. President anp gentlemen, the assur-
ance of my high tlotisicleration,

DENZLER, Colonel, Member of the
Grand Couneili
"Flcurier, April 28 "

FATE OF MANSELL THE lITURDRER.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-YESTERDAY,

, This being the, day appointed for deliveringjudgment
on the writ of error winch was fully, argued on
,Satiirday
last, tire prisoner Thomas Mansell was again brought
before their lordships. in etistody, of-one,of the: gaolers of
Nevegate. As'On the previous occ tsion, he was stationed,
in, the avow immediately beleirtii that 'aupropriated to the
Serjeatits iand Queen's. Couesel; and except that he sighed
heavily•once or twice, his dem?anour exhibited no altera-
tion; being entirefydevOid of that anxiety which it might
naturally be,expeetedwould display itself on the counten-
ance whose fate hung upon the decision of the court. At
ten o'clock precisely Lord 'Campbell. and J usiices Wight-
man, Coleridge, a td Earle, took their places on the bench.
Lord Campbell proceeded to deliver the judgment of the
court. He said that, having anxiously c mside're.l the
arguments that had been used by the learned counsel o'i
both sides, and the authorities cited, they had all come
to the conclusion that none of the errors, as assigned, were
supported, and that the prisoner bad been convicted after
having received a fair trial. he jadginent of the court
chi,fly depended on the 33rd of Edward the First, which
(MVP the crown grithorife rn 1,.4
been conferred in order to further the ends of-justice. In
the present case, he counsel for the prisoner contended
ibat one William Ironmonger hail, been improperly, ex-,
eluded from the jury, he h tying been ordered to " stand
bv" a second time, the panel having been called over twice.
The learned counsel asserted that the Crown could not
exercise the authority without assigning cause, hut the
court were clearly of opinion that it did possess that
authority. Having cited the trial of John Frost
for high treason in 1840, npon which !occasion Justice
Tindall said that it would not only be improper for the
court to be called on to put a different construction on the
meaning of the statute to that sanctioned by invariable
usage ; but thet,-even, upon the relation to the right of the
crown to challenge a second time the interpretatien of the
terms of the statute, it was cleerly the meaning which that
usage eonferred upon them, hi preceeded to the of her points
raised, namely, That the juror's names were not called over
in proper order, that the objection to J al)! z•Poillp it s, who
previous to being sworn, stated that he had conscientious
convictions against the justice of capital punishment,
noon which account he was rejected, and .the technical
objection to the term " stand by," used by the counsel for
the government. In all these the court fully concurred,
and, with reference to the last, as the law did not prescribe
exact terms to be used in challenging a juror, such
as in burglary, felony, &c:, the expression used, so
long as it conveyed the meaning, was not materit!.
Mr. Justice Wightman then addressed the prisoner,
who stood up, and stated that the sentence of death
which had been recorded against him, and which had been
delayed until the decision of this court on the point raised
by his counsel should be delivered, should now be carried
out; that be should be delivered into the castody of the
sheriff of the county of Kent, transferred to Maidstone
gaol, and publicly executed on Monday, the 18th of May.
Ihe prisoner was then removed to Newgate, and will be
delivered Without delay into the custody prescribed, by the
conrt.