The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-11 00:00:00

ASSIZES OF MONTPELLIER.

(TROM OUR rants coIIItESPONDENT.)
The assassins of Franri!
c3llected) was recognised by the peculiarity of having six fingers
and stx toes on the left side, appeared on the 22d of August before
the Court of Assizes of Montpellier. The trial lasted five days, but
nothing was brought to light beyond what was set torth in the
written accusation, of which I gave you an account in a former'
letter; the motives of the crime alone have been a little more ex-
plained. Bonino had been living five years with Marguerite Car.
rat, whom he had promised to marry, and he had given her, under
a form of sale, two pieces of ground out of four which he had in.
herited; yet, notwithstanding his engagements, the Piemontese
threatened to leave her. Anger. or the apprehension of being de-
emed, and the tear of losing the advantages which she expected
from the marriage with Bunion, exasperated Alarguerite Carrat to
the lughcst cic:crre; unhappily for the funned, at the same
time, a connexion with the ferocious Dimon, and Bonino quickly
disappeared.
The advocates of the accused urged with much talent every cir-
cumstance that could he favourable to their clients. Two years
have elapsed since the disappearance of Bonino, but the proofs of
the crime were clear, and both the culprits have been condemned
to death.
The proceedings were just terminated, and the sentiments of
horror were giving way to those of compassion, when a terrible
scene took place, which spread a deadly consternation amongst ail
the spectators of the Court; hardly had the President pronounced
the sentence, when I intuit furiously darted on his wife, and seized.
her by the throat, evidently with the purpose of puttirg her to
death upon the spot ; and he had almost elfteted his purpose, when
the gend'armes rele isrd her from his grasp; recourse was obliged
to be had to medical assistance before she could be perfectly re..
stored.

ALLIANCE GRANITE AND CHINA CLAY COMPANY.---.
A meeting of the Shareholders in this Company wu in-
tended to be held on Friday, for the purpose of " taking
into consideration legal proceedings against the projectors
and others—recovery of deposits, &c.;" but, owing to
some mismanag,t mint or mistake in the circulation of no-
tices, the subscribers did not meet in sufficient numbers to
do any thing effectual. Only six gentlemen, including Mr.
Wm. Clark, being preeent, the meeting was adjourned to
Wednesday next.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Friday night an accident oc-
curred in the family of a Mr. Upjohn, in Oxford-street.
Some few friends hail been invited to spend the evening
with him, and the chiidren were sent into the kitchen,
when on a sudden the company were alarmed by the
screams of one of them, and on running down stairs they
discoverid a little girl about five years old enveloped in
fire ; after some time the flames were extinguished, but it is
feared the child will not recover.
Ax A CPARITION.—The following strange story is re-
lated by a man employed by Mr. Smith, of the Black's
Head, Nottingham, in the capacity of a chaise-driver:—
He states, that a few erenings since, having been engaged
to convey e.gentleman from the residence of Lady Manvers
at Home-Pierrepont to this town, he was waiting near the
entrance of the mansion, with his chaise and horses, fur
his passenger, about ten o'clock, when he was suddenly
startled by the appearance of a female figure, arrayed in
white. Ile was coevinced in his own mind there was
something supernatural in its share, not merely by the ex-
traordinary sensation he himself felt, but by the restless-
ness and anxiety shown by fhe horses. The figure passed
on ; but though relieved from its presence, he was only
freed from the intense state of alarm he had been thrown
into by the arrival of his passenger, who found him with
his hair literally standing on an end, horn fright. He
proceeded on his journey to Nottingham; but on passing
through Holme-lane, some considerable time after his first
view of the apparition, he was harrified by its appearance a
second time. The horses were not less alarmed, and made
a full stop, " sweating," as the narrator states, "at esesy
pore." With some difficulty he urged them on, and a third
time he met the spectre, but at such a distance from the place
where lie first observed it, that no human creature on foot
could have passed over the ground in the time. The last time
the figure was as appalling to his sight as at the two for-
mer visitations. The man ultimately arrived at the end of
his journey, and was taken severely to task by his em-
ployer for over-driving the horses, for such appeared to
have been the case, from the heated and fretted state they
were in. He declared, however, and still persists in tile
statement, that he had been an hour coining from Holum—
certainly a moderate rate of tinting fer so short a tlistanco,