Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-09 00:00:00

MAYO.

This committee re-assembled at the usual hour, Mr.
Scholefield in the chair, and the evidence on behalf of Mr.
Moore, the sitting member, was continued.

CANTON PAPERS.

Farther papers relating the proceedings of her lie received her last letter at Bridge of Alban, on saaday morning.
Majesty's naval forces at Canton have been presented to He walked to Stirling the same day, went to Conttridge by train,
Parliament, and were issued yesterday. They consist of quite well as the guard and others swore; walked with Rass u 1
two despatches from Sir John Bowring to Lord Clarendon, the way to Glasgow; arrived at Glasgow ia high spirits; left his
dated rospectively the 14th and 24th April, 1857, the first
lodgings at nine; was,sem sauntering in the direction of Blythswood-
square at twenty minutes post nine. Hera the clue failed. No one
enclosiog an account of sundry documents seized on board
could prove where he was after that time, till ha reached his lodgings
a mandarin junk by Commodore Elliott, which, says Sir
John, "seem to connect the Imperial Commissioners, the again. But after coming post haste from Bridge of Allan, and being
Mandarins, and the Canton Associations with the a' TO- .seen within 100 yards of Blythswool-square, whore did they think ice
cious acts of incandiaristn, kidnapping, and assassination, went? The prisoner denied hearing or seeing him that night, but
was it credible? An interview so anxiously looked for, and at which
which have menaced, and continue to menace, the coun-
try. The second dispatch encloses a report from Mr. everything was to be explained, not-after all to take place? It was
Wade, Chinese Secretary to the colony, on certain papers incredible ; that he was there was c,rtain. Wkara was he seen nex•;:?,
found in a house at Stanley, in Hong Kong, which-are said At tke door of his lodgings, vomiting, racked with pain, parched with
to throw much light on the present relations of the fever and thirst, and writhing with agony, till death put an end to his
colony with the adjacent Chinese continent ; and a sufferings. He was not asked where he had been, for it was well
memorandum on the subject of the papers seized by Com- known where he had been. It was hinted that he had committed sui-
modore Elliott. eide; bat why did not the Dean of Faculty ask Mrs. Jenkins, the
The account, on the whole a fair summary of these landlady, or Dr. Stevens? The doctor asked whether there was any-
rather voluminous papers, given by Mr. Wade is this one he would like to see, and he said Miss Perry; and it was a pity
The papers f ;nu a correspondence between a committee of miss Perry did not see him, for more might then have been known of
hostility at San-on and Commissioner Yeh, and it este.. the case ; but death suddenly interposed and shrouded the events of
bli•hes bevo ad doubt that the San-on Committee, under that extraordinary night in a mystery on which the toegee of the vie-
authority, and in some cases at the dictation of the Carton tim could thenceforth throw no furt'ier light. His lordship next raid
Central Committee, have been parties to almost every the letter by the prisoner from the Bridge of Allan to Mr. Minnoch,
at rocity with which we have been menaced by report, or remarking, that it was written. two days before her assignation with
of endelvours to perpetrate which we have been apprised." L'Angelier, and four days before the note found in his pocket after
Among the papers—most of them unimportant—seized at death. Tice composure she manifested on hearing of his death was
Stanley is a letter in Chinese, supposed to be writ en by consistent with the supposition of her crime, but what be.
tha Chief of the San-on Committee, bat to whom addressed came of her on the morning of the 26th, before she was
does not appear, and the authenticity of which seems to be found in the Helenaburgh steamer, Is unknown and tines.-
strongly deub'ed by Mr. Wade himself. This letter offers Plaine& The lev:rnea lord then proceeded to remark on
a reward of 50 000 dollars, a button of the sixth grade, the evidence for the defence, and first on the prisoner's declaration,
and a dark feather to the person it: is addressed to, for the which he read. He had net been able to find, either in "Chambers', or
service of taking the bead of Mr. Caldwell and Col. Caine." Blackwood," that arsenic had ever been used in water as a cos.
It seems a little inconsistent with the charges of subor- mniegtilictsotfhhois:sra,rtieler, shoeing that it wa; taken internally. In her
dination, of incendiarism, and assassination, which are declaration, pri,oner denied seeing or bearing L'Angelier on the
imputed to the Chinese authorities by Mr. Wade's interpre- "eath. Her sister Janet, her maiden. and the page—all
tation of throe papers, to find that gentlemen stating, on said they did not hear him come that night. Bat he had been there
their au:s.nority, that, "on the expectation that we are about often tedtore without their hearing, and it had been shown from the
to trait for peace, Yeh has directed his subordinates to com`'traction of the house that he might have been let oat by the
abstain from all more seriously aggressive measures, and front door. As to :the arsenic, she stood in the position of having
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to confine thems•ives to the stoppage of supplies, " I in her possession the power of which her lover died, without herself

giving & consistent account of it. But it wasagasesibly said t he'
meeting,• which, was intended to take plash's, was•on Saturday, and'
not Sunday: If, however, the letter was posted after eleven
o'clock, the tryst must have been for Sunday. As to the sup-
position of suicide, he had been unable to eve, from first to last,
that it was a CaB3 of 'suicide. The first quest on was,. whether it
was between Murder and' suicide. It had been maid that L'Angelier
was en habitual eater of arsenic, and had tait'en an over dose.
The only evidenoe in support of that proposition was that of tato
persons in Dundee,• who had heard him speak of taking arsenic
in 1853, and the hypothesis that he could have taken it so as to have
1615 grains in his stomach when examined could not be enter`ained.
The supposition thatha had taken arsenic at Stirling by accident'vras
eittally untenable. He did not think it possible that this could
be taken as a case of salcid a Mach had been said of L'Angeller's
t •mperament, and his threats of sncide when he was its Dundee , but
the fact that he did nct carry those threats into execution, and when
men really committed sukide, they did not taik about it, or pretended
to make attempts at it in the company of other people. As to his
9p'nions of suicides expressed at Glasgow, he (Lord Advocate) asked
5f it was probable that, on the Sunday night of his death, he took
arsenic without going near Disthsaood-square; there was the pos-
sibility that she might have seen him and told• him she would give him
up,, after which he committed suicide. But if she did see
him, what became of the truth of her declaration? It Ml_ ht be
suggest.d that he hag gone to the house, and, not seeing her,
came away in disgust; but if he had gone he would have
tried to make her hear, although she says in her declara-
tion she did not hear him. It was next su;gested that the
dose was so large that it must have been suicide, but might it not
have been that, finding the two doses she had previously given were
too small, she snade the third one much larger? Then it was
objected that neither soot nor indigo was found in the stomach of
L'Angeller, but the analysists did not direct their examination to
detect it. Again, the demeanour of the patient was in no respect
that of one who had committed suicide. In conclusion, the Lord
Advocate left the case in the hands of the jury, convinced that their
verdict would be consistent with thei.• oath. He had eischarged a
painful public duty, which he would gladly have been spa-ed. He
had done his duty, not swaying the facts beyond the line of truth.
At the suggestion of the Lord Justice-Clerk, the Dean of Faculty
postponed his reply until the following morning. The court then
adjourned at twenty minutes past three o'clock.