The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-22 00:00:00

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METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The usual meeting of this board was held yesterday, at
the offices in Spring -gardens. The president, J. Thwaites,
Esq., took the chair at 12 o'clock.

FINANCE.

It appeared from the cash statement that the balances in
the hands of the treasurer were—on current account,
£99,699 15m. 7d. ; on deposit accounts, £10,470 ; and on Go-
vernment securities, £75,151 Os. 7d.
THE PROPOSED NEW STREET IN SOUTHWARK,

A report was brought up from the streets committee,
submitting for approval plan of plots of land in the line of
Southwark-street, between Southwark-bridge-road and
Blackfriars-road, and recommending that the committee be
authorised to take the necessary steps for letting the plots
for building purposes.
The Board adopted the report.
NEW STREET FROM BLACKPRIARS-BRIDGE TO THE
MANSION HOUSE.

A report was received from the chief engineer and the
superintending architect, on the line of the new street from
Blackfriars-bridge to the Mansion House, as recommended
in the report of the Royal Commissioners of 1861. The
report was ordered to be printed. It stated that they had
carefully considered the plan submitted to Parliament
last year, and that they were prepared to submit important
improvements that would not materially alter the depo-
sited plans. The plans of the Royal Commissioners
proposed to raise the level of Earl-street 3 feet 41 inches,
but as that was the outlet of Upper Thames-street it would
block up the entrances to the houses opposite the raised part
and would also increase the steepness of the approaches
from the river to Earl-street of several wharves in that
street, which had very heavy and important traffic. Addle-
hill, Bennet's-hill, Peter's-hill, Lambeth-hill, and Old
Fish-street-hill would moreover by that plan have been in-
creased from 1 in 12 to 1 in 7 and 1 in 8 ; and to form even
these steep approaches to the new street it would have been
necessary to purchase a large amount of property in the
vicinity of those streets, which would otherwise have been
blocked up by raising the level of the road. The report
recommended the continuation of the new roadway from
Chatham-place, Blackfriars -bridge, across Blackfriars-
bridge, across New Bridge-street, to a junction with Earl-
street, opposite Water-lane. Thence to run parallel with
Earl-street, St. Andrew's-hill, from which point the plan
deposited last year would be adopted. They proposed to
to increase the width of Upper Thames-street from 18 feet
to 35, for a length of 570 feet, between St. Andrew's-hill
and Bennet's Church, and this would involve the purchase
of very little additional property, and would leave a valu-
able site for buildings, with a frontage on the one side
towards the Upper Thames-street, and on the other side
towards the new street. By that route their steepest gra-
dient would be lin 70. In order to avoid raising the incli-
nation of the cross streets to 1 in 7 or 1 in 8, they proposed
to direct Bennet's-hill, Lambeth-hill, Old Fish-street-hill,
and Bread-street-hill, on the south side of the new roadway,
in the manner shown upon the accompanying plan, and thus
tu ..taj-LL m inclination at less
cost than would be required for reducing their inclination.
THAMES EMBANKMENT AND ROADWAY BETWEEN WEST-

MINSTER-BRIDGE AND VAUXHALL STATION.
The following report was read by the Chief Engineer of
the Board :

" Thames Embankment and Roadway between Westmin-

ater-bridge and Vauxhall Station.

" Mr. Bazalgette presented the following report to the
Board :

"Gentlemen.,—l submit herewith, for yourlapproval, a
plan showing the line of embankment and roadway recom-
mended in my report of the 6th inst. between Westminster-
bridge and Vauxhall Railway station. The estimated cost
of the work is £250,000, and the First Commissioner of her
Majesty's Works, &c., has favoured me with a copy of Mr.
Pownal's estimate for the compensation for this improve-
ment, which is £265,000, together requiring an outlay of
£515,000. The main features of the design have also re•
ceived the approval of the First Commissioner. It will give
a direct line of roadway near to the river, between London-
bridge and Vauxhall ; and it will increase the width of the
Thames opposite Milbank Penitentiary from 590 to 720 ft.,
and will thereby allow the tidal waters more freely to pans
up the river instead of retarding the tidal flow by
lreducing
the width of the river to 600 feet for a considerable. elntgwtibil
as proposed by the plan of the Royal Commissieocnaenrsa
by the
not necessitate the serious alteration or the reconstruction
of of the Lambeth-bridge, as the line
.irecommendeddo,
Royal Commissioners would necessarily be
carry their roadway over it, and theseadvantages omrdaeyr to
reposed by them.
gained at less than half the expenditurep
in
" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,t
servant,
" your Most obediengETTE,
Engineer."
" W.
BAtzaAnd plans of the engineer
After some discussion the report rteoPthre street and embankment,
were adopted with reference
and the necessary steps
p were Parliament
ordered to be taken to enable
the Board to apply to 6 rliament during the next session.
o routine business the board ad-
After transacting some
jeurned.

'rho Minister of Public Works bas just pronounced
the adjudication of the line from Sables d'Olonne to Brea-
mire, with eventual prolongation on Tours, in favour of
MM. Savin, Moustiers, and Co.

More than a year afterwards a man named Van-
halwyn, also a Belgian, was tried before the Assize
Court of the department of the Nord for a murder
committed on a farmer named Verville, was con-
victed, and sentenced to death. In the course of
the trial Vanhalwyn and an accomplice named
Verhomme, who, as well as Vanhalwyn, lived by
smuggling and robbery, confessed that they, and
they alone, were the murderers of the father of Ro-
salie Doise. The case was referred to the Cour de
Cessation. The Cour de Caseation considered that
the conviction of these two men did not necessarily
imply the innocence of the woman who had made
the voluntarily avowal of parricide, particularly as
she had not appealed, but in compliance with the
order of the Minister of Justice it annulled the sen-
tence of the Court of the Somme as regarded the
woman, and that of the Court of the Nord as re-
garded the men. It directed that a new trial should
take place of the three, and it is this trial which is
now going on.

It will naturally be asked what motive could have
impelled Rosalie Poise to avow herself guilty of a
crime of which these two men, one of whom was
already sentenced to death for a previous murder,
and the other to hard labour for life, acknowledged
themselves the sole perpetrators. The explanation
she has just given to the presiding judge during her
examination in open court throws some light upon it.
"Why," said the judge, " did you admit in the pre-
liminary examination (by the Inge d'lnstruction)
that you murdered your father P" Her answer,
which was given through a sworn interpreter—for
she does not speak French—was, that the inter-
preter had threatened her with secret confinement—
with confinement in a dismal hole ; and that as she
was pregnant (she was a married woman), and
wanted to save the life of her child, she resolved to
declare herself guilty. The interpreter himself
being asked by the Procureur-General if he had
held out such a threat to the woman, he admitted
he had ; but, in doing so, he said he did no more
than interpret literally the words of the Juge
d'lnstruction. The prisoner was asked if she had
been subjected to personal constraint during her
detention ? She said that she had been thrown into
a black hole, where there was not a breath of air ;
that when taken out of it to be examined, she was
in such terror at the thought of being again lodged
in the same hole that she admitted everything they
accused her of. She was asked by the judge if she
WAS not allowed daily exercise in the open air. She-
said she was not; and that during six months she
was only out twice. To the question as, to whether
she asked to be allowed exercise she replied that
she did, but that the clerk (gr€ffier) invariably re-
plied, " Confess that you are guilty, and say that
you have concealed the watch (her father's watch,
which had been taken off ,by the murderers) and
you shall be allowed to go out." The judge ob-
served that there was a physician, whose duty it
was to visit the prisoners daily, and asked her
if he had done so P She said she had seen the
doctor only twice ; and the last time was when
he bled her. She also said that she was deli-
vered in her prison, and that her infant lived
only a month.

The judge inquired if it was by reason of her
avowal of her father's murder that the former,
Court sentenced her to hard labour for life. She
said,—" Yes; but I always hoped that it would be
some time found that I was not the guilty person.
After my sentence was passed I asked every even-
ing of the prison officials whether anything had
been discovered." She was asked if she knew
Vanhalwyn and Verhomme, who confessed they
were the murderers of her father ; she declared that
she did not; and on being further asked whether
she had taken any part in the crime of which they
stood accused, she solemnly protested her inno-
cence ; and, what is still more, both the murderers
declared they had no knowledge of Rosalie Doise.
The gaoler of the cell in which this unhappy
creature was so long kept shut up was then ex-
mined :

The Procureur-General---How was the woman Gardin
(the married name of Rosalie Doise), treated in your
prison ?
The Gaoler—Well, like all the other female prisoners.

It is not true, then, that she was put into a dungeon P.--
Dungeon? why no—it is not exactly what we call a dun-
geon.
The President—lt was a room close to the common
room?—Yes, it was a little place.
The Procureur—Closed by one door only, and from
which could be heard the voices of those shut up in it?

This questions of the official prosecutor were replied
to by the gaoler thus :
No, nothing could be heard, for there were two thick
doors.
What were the dimensions of this cell I)—Why, 2 metres
50 centimetres long, 2 metres 40 centimetres wide, and 2
metres 50 centimetres high, The Prefect, however, has just
got the call enlarged.
It was lighted and aired ?—Air and light
were admitted
through an opening the size of a brick.
Could the prisoner stir out?—O, yes, twice a day.
This was vehemently denied by the WWII"' who
cried out,—
I went out twice only—twice only during
the whole time.
The President—lt is because you did not ask go out.
to _
The Gaoler—When the weather was bad she did not
go out.
The Procureur--But the regulations
allowed her to go
out.
The President—lf she did not go out it was because she
did not wish to do so.
The Accused—What I I did not wish t° go out ? Day
and the answer I
invariably got was "Confess."
the
woman made no corn
after day I asked to be allowed to stir out,
The President—At any rate
plaint.
~.made no complaint.
The Gaoler—No ; she -- ery day P
—Yes.
?--It was because
she did not wish to see
the
place
eVt
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the doctor only moo
The doctor visited
She says she saw
him.
The Preenreur—Wer
0 you aware that she was suffering,
mind was deranged ?
I w
and that her
as
aware that her mind was affected. She
Oh, yes' make away with herself. One day she tore
her tried to .
her mattress to pieces.
The Prisoner's Counsel—Did you not put a strait waist-
coat on her P
The Gaoler—I did, by order of the Judge d'lnstruction
to prevent her from laying hands on herself. )
The Prisoner—I never thought of laying hands on
myself.
The Counsel (to the gaoler)—Did you know that she was
pregnant ?
I did not.

The President—lf, in effect, she had not declared it—
The Prisoner—I did declare it the moment I entered the
the prison ; and this person you have just heard answered
me " You are no more pregnant than 1 am."
The Counsel (to the gaoler)—Did you not know she was
pregnant when you put her in a strait waistcoat ?
No—l did not then know it.
The prisoner repeated her assertion, and again vehe-
mently denied that she had any thought of killing herself.
The prisoner's Counsel, to the gaoler—Now, is it not true
that this dungeon, or cell—this black hole, into which you
threw my client, had neither air nor light but what is re-
ceived through an opening the size of a brick, and that that
opening looked into a narrow space between two thick doors
—the space itself lighted only by a skylight ?
Yes, it is true.
Is it not true also that the furniture of the dungeon was
nothing but a mattress and a bucket ?
Yes—yes ; but there was also a coverlet, and the bucket

The following is 'a translation of a despatch from
the Danish Minisiw of Foreign Affairs to the
Danish Envoy at4ondon, in reply to Lord Rus-
sell's despatch, dated CoOnhagen, October 15,
1862 :
" Sir,—l owe to the iaterest which Lord Russell
thout
has always displayed for Denznark to rtl4
delay to the despatch of which von wia find en-
closed a copy, which Mr. Paget coniniunictitoo to
me yesterday, and which has caused ns so mach
the more surprise and regret, as Lord Russell bas
hitherto expressed opinions very different
from
those to which he seems at present to incline.
" The Minister begins his despatch by setting
aside ite question of the position of Holstein in the
Monarchy as one that is no longer a subject of dis-
pute. To us, also, this question appears to be
solved, in so far as the definitive settlement only
depends on the regulation of some points as to the
necessity of which there cart be no difference of

opinion.
" Our position in regard to the demand made by
the Germanic Diet is clear and simple. We have
shown that the authority claimed by the Diet for
the Holstein Estates to vote the common budget
and common laws, in so far as these concern the
Duchy, is as contrary to public law as it is indefen-
sible in respect to the competency of the Diet. We
have nevertheless declared our readiness to agree
to it, whatever danger for the integrity of the
Monarchy it might occasion, provided this eventual
position for Holstein were so defined that the rest
of the Monarchy was not placed thereby in a con-
tinual state of dependency on Germany ; and if by
this sacrifice our relations with the Germanic Con-
federation could be re-established on a durable
basis.

------
" It is in order to fix these points that we entered
into the present negotiations with Prussia and
Austria; and the opinion expressed by Lord Rus-
sell on the necessity of the said concession or: our
part is, no doubt, accompanied with an entire ay-
i3obation of the two conditions above indicated.
I" In respect to the internal &Taira of Schleswig •
wi might have hoped that the line of conduct we
have followed would also have secured us the
sympathy of the English Government: The inten-
tions which the King on a former occasion had spon-
taneously expressed with regard to that Duchy, the
engagement of honour—to use the words of Drd
Rnssell—which the King had contracted, have-been
i mediately and conscientiously fulfilled by him.
'4
en in respect to the regulation for the use of the
i, o languages—a matter which, I repeat It, never
Tilts mentioned in the correspondence of 1851—the
Government has scrupulously maintained the-inme
measure, for the rules now in force are the same
which in 1857 did not provoke the slightest objec-
-1 tion. When Lord Russelirecommends an extetision
of the liberties accorded to "the Provincial Diet of
Schleswig, the King has already in the speech from
the throne this year proclaimed that very intention.'
Stich a grant cannot, however, be made except with
the free will of the King, and his Majesty is the best
judge of the proper moment for carrying out such a
measure. The Goverunept will act in this matter
as soon as the state of th4l,43lstein question permits
-it, and will follow in the dew organisation it pro-
poses to give to the Provincial Estates of Schleswig
the same:liberal principles which it pursues in the
whole of its administration, and will especially do so
in regard to the framing of a new electoral law,
which all are agreed is that which most requires to
be reformed in the Duchy, : .

" Lord Russell enters, finally, on the question of
the common Constitution in so far as it concerns the
Kingdom and Schleswig. I have nothing in this
respect to add to what you have already said to the
Minister, and you will please beg his lordship to
regard the explanations offered by you as the de-
finitive opinion of the King's Government.
" I will not enter into any particulars in order to
prove how little founded is the objection that the
Constitution ought to have been submitted to the
vote of the different special representations of the
monarchy. I have already sufficiently demonstrated
it; but whatever be the opinion of the Diet at Frank-
fort in respect to the rights of the Holstein Estates,
I trust that Lord Russell, when expressing an
opinion, does not mean to deny the imperious
duty which prohibits the King from submitting
to the decrees of Germany what he believes to be
dne to those of his States that do not belong to the
Confederation. The common Constitution is not
defective in point of form, and at the same time it
would be impossible to substitute in its place a sys-
tem such as that of which Lord Russell has sketched
the principal outlines, without dissolving the
Monarchy and gravely compromising that integrity
which it was the object of the Treaty of London to
secure. Lord Russell himself has, with great jus-
tice, pointed out in his despatch what dangers such
a system would entail on greater and more power-
ful Monarchies. With so much more reason must
he admit that for a State like Denmark such a sys-
tem would lead to anarchy, and be followed by the
complete dismemberment of the Monarchy. The
maintenance of the common Constitution for the
kingdom and Schleswig is, therefore, a vital quea-
cconi
tion for Denmark, and, being convinced of this, the
Government is resolved not to abandon that line of
con,,dlucbtegpryeoscuritboerdeatod
this itbysuh a conviction.
despatch to v
thec Minister,
and to give him a copy of it.

I am fully convinced that even in addressing to
us advice such as that we have just received, Lord
Russell has not meant to renounce that sympathy
which he has always displayed for Denmark. That
sincere interest and the recollection of the political
career of his lordship give me the hope that he will
find in oar frank explanations sufficient reasons for
not adhering to propositions which I am certain ho
could not have offered, if it were as clear to him as
it is to us that their adoption would be the prelude
of the extinction of constitutional life in Denmark,
and compromise the very existence of the Monarchy.
—I have the honour,

“ HALL.”

The streets of Toulon and the railway terminus
have been crowded, for some days past with seamen who
have taken advantage of the decree of the Minister of
Marine, permitting those who have served a certain num-
ber of months to demand their discharge. This measure
has considerably reduced the crews of the Toulon fleet, and
it has been found necessary to supply the vacancies by
draughts from other seaports. A detachment of 500 sea-
men arrived at Toulon by railway on Wednesday last from
Cherbourg.
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