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THE SITN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1862.

tI.REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
k-AoIMPOR.TANT ALTERATIONS OF TRAINS FOR
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DOWN TRAINS.
The 7.10 a.m. Cheap Train from Padding-ton will start at
7.0 a.m.
The 10.30 a.m. Train from Paddington will start at 10.15
a.m., and will call at all intermediate stations between Slough
and Didcot.
The 12.45 p.m. Train from Paddington will start at 12.30 p.m.
The 1.20 p.m. Train from Paddington to the West Midland
Line will start at 1.5 p.m.
The 2.0 p.m. Train from Paddington will be discontinued
between Gloucester and Cardiff.
The 3.30 p.m. Train from Paddington to the North will call
at Didcot, and not at Twyford, but a slip carriage for Henley
will be detached from the Train at Twyford. This Train will
be discontinued over the West Midland Line.
The 4 50 p.m. Express from Paddington will take passen-
gers for the 'Vest Midland Line, instead of the 6.30p.m. Train,
which will be discontinued over the West Midland Line.
The 5.15 p.m. Train from Paddington will be discontinued
etween Swindon and Cheltenham.
A Slip Carriage for Slough and Windsor will be detached
from the 8.10 p.m. Train from Paddington.
The 8.20 p.m. Train from Paddington to Windsor will be
discontinued.
The 9.30 p.m. Train from Paddington will start at 9.0 p.m.
The 5.15 p.m. Train from Twyford to Henley, in connection
with the 4.0 p.m. Train from Paddington, will be discon-
tinued. _

and we commend it to their notice, with the as-
surance that, if they do not rise from its perusal
" wiser and better," they will at least have spent
some very pleasant hours over its pages.

resources. The Confederate Government has al-
ready exhausted its resources of men and means,
while the North has just begun to draw upon its
own. It is true our expenditures of money have
been and now are very great, but money was never
more plentiful among us than now, and our Go-
vetnment stocks are above par in the market.
There is to be no other solution to the question at
issue between the North and the rebels than the
utter crushing out of the insurrection. It is not
only a question of freedom and slavery, but of civil
government and social order also ; and we are re-
solved—Heaven helping us—to establish the fact,
not doubted in Europe, that free governments are
capable of self-defence ;And that ours in particular
is worth all the sacrifices we are making to preserve
it. A week or two ago I received a very kind and
thoroughly friendly tletter from Mr. Sinclair, all
about our national troubles, and asking me to write
him, and explain certain points, that he might be
able to answer those who are carping at the free
States and sympathising with the slave-driving
rebels. I wish I had time to write him—as I have
not; but I would hardly take the trouble to' ex-
plain,' as all my trouble would be in vain. The
persons he speaks of, and all their class, take counsel
of their hearts and not of their heads. They are
devoured by a low and pitiful hate of us, because
we are making gigantic strides in the road leading
-Wit-national greatn!?ss and power"-'--Fey desire--
that we may be crippled by a successful rebellion,
and our brilliant prospects nipped by an un timely
frost. They are so short-sighted as not to see that
it is England's interest, that being,free, as she is,
we may be powerful and her friend, for the days.
are coming when she will need such a friend, as
we were heartily and thoroughly prepared to be.
In the event of a successful rebellion we shall be
42,000,000 and more in 1892, and 84,000,000 and
more in 1922. So the crippling would be brief, and
our nation, the free North, would be very great and
powerful at the commencement of the next
century.'

CRIME IN FRANCE.
The Cduit of Assizes of the Var, sitting at Dra-,`
guignan, has just been engaged two days in trying '
a man named Peyrier, aged 27, foi the murder of
M. Michel, a farmer, residing at Garde-Freint. The
wife of the murdered man was also charged as an
accomplice before the fact. It appeared from the
evidence that Peyrier, who is himself a married man
with two children, had for some time past kept up
an illicit connection with the female prisoner, and •
that Michel-had onone occasion found them tege-
ther and fired at Peyrier, although without hitting
him. From that time the latter meditated projects
of vengeance, in which he was encouraged by the
woman, On the morning of the 16th June last, the
body:of Michel was found lying dead just inside a
wood by the roadside, and not more than fifty paces
from a cart drawn by two oxen, which he had been
conducting. The body had been pierced by two
balls which must have caused instant death, and the
head had also been violently struck apparently with
the butt-end of a gun. As the prisoner had been
seen with a gun near. the place where the murder
was committed, he was arrested on suspicion, and
socnufter his'gun was found at a gunsmith's in the
town, where he had left it for repairs. It was evi-
dent that both barrels had been recently discharged,
and on the stock, which was broken, were stains of
blood with human hair adhering to them. The pri-
soner at first protested his innocence, but finding
the evidence too clear against him, he at last con-
fessed his guilt, and stated all the circumstances
of the murder, adding that the female prisoner had
instigated him to commit it. The truth of this last
statement was supported by several of her letters,
which were found in his possession, and she was
aocordingly arrested. In court the male prisoner
persisted in his confession, but the woman denied
the adulterous intercourse between them, and pro-
tested that she had not encouraged him to commit
the murder. The jury, however, considered the evi-
dence conclusive against both prisoners, but gave
them the benefit of extenuating circumstances, and
they were accordingly sentenced to hard labour
for life.

The Courrier du Gard gives the following
account of a murder committed two days since
at Pont-Saint-Esprit, in that department, on the
person of a woollendraper, named Blanc. The
neighbours, being much surprised to find his
shop open at a very early hour, entered to ascer-
tain the cause, and on going into the room behind,
found M. Blanc lying dead in a pool of blood. On
his head were 12 wounds, apparently inflicted with
a hatchet, any one of which would have been mortal.
The crime appears to have been an act of vengeance,
as the bureau in the room, containing a sum of
1,367 f., had not been opened, nor was there any
appearance of the place having been ransacked.
The police are making active researches to discover
the murderer.

The Court of Assizes of the Somme has this week
tried a man named Dathy, aged 70, on a charge of
murdering in the month of June last a travelling
tinker named Chapelle, at Marquaix. It appeared
from the evidence that a farmer named Capart, re-
siding at Marquaix, on going to one of his barns at
some distance from the homestead, saw a man lying
on the hay apparently asleep; but on approaching
nearer, he found that the man was dead, and had
been murdered by stabs with a knife. He at once
gave information to the police, and an inquiry was
instituted which led to the arrest of the prisoner,
who had been seen to leave the barn not long before.
On examining the prisoner's clothes several blood-
stains, partially washed out, were found, and wit-
nesses came forward who deposed that they had seen
him in possession of several pieces of gold since the
murder. When asked to account for the employ-
ment of his time during the last three days, the pri-
soner made several statements which were proved
to be false, but at last confessed that, having no
lodgings, he had gone to the barn to pass the night,
and had just fallen asleep, when he was awakened
by an attack from the deceased, whom he killed in
self-defence. All the circumstances of the case showed
the falsehood of this story, and the medical wit-
nesses proved that from the direction and depth of
the wounds, which went right through the heart
and lungs, the murdered man must have been lying
down, and the murderer standing over him. The
prisoner could offer no explanation as to how he
obtained the money seen in his possession, and as
two previous convictions for stabbing were put in
against him, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty,
with extenuating circumstances. The Court sen-
tenced him to 20 years' hard labour.
The Court of Assizes of the Seine was engaged
yesterday with the trial of a young woman, aged
18, named Marie Pillant, charged with robbing her
master, M. Courtier, a butcher, residing in the Fau-
bourg St. Martin. On the 16th July last Mine:
Courtier went to Neuilly to spend some days, and
on the 20th, after business hours, her husband went
taking
t
with a
to see her, telling the servant that he shouldno
return until late at night. The girl,
advan-
tage of being left alone, provided herself
hand-saw, a knife, and other instruments, and,
hole in the woo
from a chest of drawers, and cut
her band
going into her master's room,
a
beneath, so as to enable her to introduce
from which
the drawer,
two
and push back the lock of
ear-rings,
she took 2,500 fr., a pair of handsome
afterwards opened
She
12 large
gold chains, and a purse.
which
she took
different cupboards, from
forks, several dresses,
silver spoons and as rnao /..nen.
Having packed
quantity
bundle shawls, and a bundle, sh® put on one
articles in a
up the various a and went down to the
bonnets)
of her mistress's bonnets,
was
going to Neuilly to carry
porter,
sayingbaer mistress, who had sent for them
the things to lifted off the marblde
a coach and drove to a furnished
She then
got into
where she gave the name of Irma
lodging-h°on the return of M. Courtier, some hours
covered what had taken place and gave
after,
discovered