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London, England, 1849-06-25 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

ARRIVAL OF M. LEDRU ROLLIN

IN LONDON.

We have just received information, from a credible
authority, that M. Ledru Rollin, the leader of the
Mountain, is residing at -the Sabloniere Hotel, in
Leicester-square—having arrived in London, after
his flight through France, in the disguise of a livery-
servant.

EXCHEQUE R.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prtns at Westminster, before the LORD
Ci*EP BARON and a Special Jury.)
NOTTIDGE P. RIPLEY AND ANOTHER.

The trial of this singular ease was resumed to-day.
After the examination of three witnesses, whose
evidence was much of the same nature as that taken on
Saturday,
Sir FREDERICK THESIGER addressed the jury for the
deFence. He was quite willing to admit that this was
a very serious case, if it were true that the de-
fendants had been guilty of the base and mercenary
motives which had been attributed to them. It was
said that the design ot the defendants, who stood in the
intimate relationship of brother and rother-in-law, was
to get possession of the property of this unfortunate lady
(the plaintiff), for the benefit of themselves and their
families, and in order to accomplish it, that they had not
scrupled to take her from the quiet and tranquil
home which ehe had selected, and to expose her to
all the restraints and horrors of a madhouse.
Now, he would show that this was a very false and, at
the least, a very exaggerated account of the real state of
the case. He admitted that he had no right to interfere
with the religious opinions of any person who was com-
petent to decide for himself, however absurd and extra-
vagant they might be. The Agapemone, or Abode of
Lsve, in which the plaintiff had taken up her abode, con-
tained among its inmates four apostate clergymen, a civil
engineer, a farmer, a solicitor, and two blood-bounds;
and in it ale prayer was abandoned, which was one of
the duties, emphatically et oined upon us by our religion;
and though he could not but feel disgusted at that, and
at th 3 efforts of this sect to creep into families and spread
misery and desolation wherever they went, yet if the
plhintiff was of sound judgment, he admitted that her
opinions upon such subjects were no justification to put
her under any:restraint. But if she wes not a free agent,
and had been irresiatibly drawn into a vortex of low and
degrading associations, it was incumbent upon her
family, not merely as a right, but as a high moral duty,
to pluck her front her dangerous position. In 1844, the
another of the plaintiff was left a widow with seven
daughters, two of them being married, and five
married. The family resided at Rose-hill, in the most
perfect happiness; but unfortunately Mr. Prince, who
was the curate of the neighbouring parish of
Stoke, and who had either been dismissed
from his office or had resigned it, exercised a most fatal
hAuence upon the family. After preaching about the
country in the (-Tea air he went to Brighton, and in
some way or other managed to communicate with the
daughters. Three of them, it appeared, left for Brighton,.
where they took up their residence, and where they
were in the habit of attending the ministry of
11r.. Prince. They afterwards returned to a piece
called Charlidge, where they ferreted a notion
hat it has the will ot God that they should be united to
thr..e of the mecah_rs of the Agapemone, which had been
e:tsblished thore. Their rnarri.:.;e took place accordingly,
notwithstanding the remonstrances of the mother, each ot
the daughters having 6,0001. in the Bank of England
in their own name; those sums immediately became the
property ot their respective hustands. It would have been
thought that, having obtaine•t so much of the property of
the family, their exo, hii ant cleirts would have b. en sa-
ti.ti d, aid that they Would have spared the two re-
._mainiug daughter,. But in the month of December,
1845, a Mr. Starkie end a Mr. Turner came to Rose-
.hill to carry away another daughter. They sue-
cee.'sd in effecting their ohj,ct, although Mrs. Nottidge
endeavoured in every possible: way to dissuade her
from going with them. Mrs. Thomas, one of the
daughters eho had been previously married, however,
h ft the Agapemone, anal returned to her mother's root,
and in consequence of the information which she gave,
the mother was induced to entertain apprehensions re-
siectieg her only other remaining daughter, who was
then at Charlidge. Knowing that she was of unsound
mind, and by no means a free agent, she desired the two
defendants to go do.vn to Charlidge and release
her from the degrading position in which she
was placed. They did so; and after getting possession
of hi r person, they placed • her in the Hanwell Lunatic
Asylum, having, in th,3 first instance, obtained a medical
certificate of her mental capacity to act for herself'.
There could be no doubt ale ut the state of her mind,
for he should prove that when admitted she was in
a state of great excitement, declaring that Mr.
Prince was God Almighty—that ho was God mani-
fested in the flesh. They could easily imagine that
such would be the effect up ,n a weak minded person, of
nervous and irritable temperament, when such tenets
as Mr. Prince's were made known to her. In May,
1848, she was discharged by the Commissioners cf
Lunacy, on the ground that they thought she was
capable of acting for herself'. But it did not say
much for her drafty, that immediately after
being released, Who went to the Bank and transferred
over the whole df her money to Mr. Prince, and gave
him the uncontrollable dominion of it. And it was
strange that Mr. Pikes, who was the moving
spirit of all, had not been brought forward
as a witness. If (said the Learned Counsel) daugh-
ter after daughter had been sacrificed to their mer-
cenary views, and not being Eatsified with the misery
which they bad produced, they had endeavoured
to grasp the one remaining daughter; and if they (the
jury) believed that daughter was of weak mind, easily
excited and influenced whin .such awful thoughts as
those already mentioned were continually addressed to
her, he would ask them with perfect confidence, would
they have allpwed her to remain exposed to dangers both
with respect to her present and eternal welfare, or
would they not not rather, acting upon the motives
which influenced the two defendants, have felt justified
in rescuing her from her degrading position? On the
one high ground of morality alone would he rest in
tube:sitting this case to them, confidently trusting that
the result would be a verdict for the defendants.
The Learned Counsel made a powerful and eloquent
speech, of which the above is only a resume, and at its
conclusion a suppressed burst of applause came from
the auditors in the court. _ _

Several witnesses were then examined, but the case
had not concluded when we went to press. It will, in
all probability, be adjourned until to-morrow.

AMERICAN NEWS.

The following are extracts from the New York
Weekly Herald, brought by the Niagara, which arrived
at-Liverpool this morning :

CHARLESTON, JUNE 11.—The Isabel arrived at this
pert from Havannah this morning, having left there on
the 7,h inst. The Falcon had arrived at Ihvannah,
and the Isthmus being in por;, it was proposed to trans-
fer some of the paeeeegers of the former to the Isthmus.
This was remonstrated against:, and some of the passen-
gers having arms, they determined to use them in re-
sistance, if necessary. The matter was finally adjusted
by the interference of the American Consul.
lee the markets there itas been cmsiderahle activity,
evi:h large sales for Germany. White Sugars were
quoted at 10 to 11 ; yellow, 6 to 7; brown, ei to 54, and
Mnscovades,4l- to 6. The whole stock of Muscovado mo-
lasses had been purchased for England at four rials. In
clayed neolssses there had also been considerable busi-
ness done for the seine destination, at 2f rink, and from
the coast at 2 rials. Rice, 9 to 91. Freights were dull.
Exchange, 10 per cent on London, and on New York par
to 1 per cent premium.
TERRIBLE STORM—LOUISVILLE, JUNE 12, 6 P.M.—
A severe storm occurred near the village of Metropolis,
Illinois, on the Ohio river, on Friday last. Both chim-
neys of the steamboat Peytona were blown overboard,
and two or three coal boats in tow of the Belle of
Nashvillq, and as many in tow of the Superb, were
sunk. The steamer Memphis encountered a severe
gale neer Medina, and the pilot's house and the roof of
the cabin wale blown qff. The chimneys were also blown
down. Three pilots with the carpenter ware thrown
overbi and and drowned, together with some thirteen
others. The captain was blown from the hurricane deck
to the forecastle, and seriously hurt. The books and
pepers, and almost everything else, were lost; also the
greater portion of the cable. furniture. Those who re-
mained in the cabin escaped-rininjured. The boat was
badly shattered, and one man almost torn to atoms.
DREADFUL STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION AND Loss of
LIFF*—LOUISVILLE, JUNE 12.—The steamboat Embassy
collapsed both flues or her starboard boiler, below Green
River, on Saturday morning last, and a number of the
crew and deck passengers were killed and blown over-
board by the violence of the concussion; twenty-eight
others were severely scalded, some of them, it is feared,
so seriously that they will not recover.
The killed and wounded were chiefly deck passengers,
though some of the cabin passengers were also injured.
The number of killed has not yet been ascertained.
The cook was blown overboard and drowned, and the
second engineer badly scalded.
The boat was much shattered, and shortly after the
lamentable disaster was towed to Evansville, Indiana.
The scene on board was of the most heartrending
description. The Embassy was from Pittsburgh, bound
to St. Lodi.

LOUISVILLE, JUNE 12. By the explosion on board
the Enawissy, thirteen deaths occurred, and five are still
niis.-ing. • Tha first engineer has since died, and near
thirty persons were injured and scalded.
lle.srois, JUNE 12.—J. G. Palfrey, free soil, has been
defeated tor Congress. There is no choice by the people.
CINCINNATI, JUNE 12.—The Nashville papers of Sa-
turday say that ex-President Polk was still lying dan-
gerously ill, Ile is suffering from an attack of the diar-
lhcei, and not of the cholera, a; previously reported.
BALTIMORE, JUNE 12.—The steam- frigate Mississippi
last her anchorage on Thursday, and made the run to
();!pe Henry, a distance of forty miles, in the space of
throe hours and a half.
The stcvneer Waterwiteh, bound for the Gulf of
lexico, returned and anchored in
flarapton Roads on
bavirg five ca.es of cholera on board.
Satarday night,
The patients were sent to the hospital.
The steamer Wave has been sunk near Guyandotte,
havin4 on board 4er; tin's. of salt. No lives
were lost. It is thought that s:ie will be raised.
BALTIMORE, JUNE 12.—We have New Orleans papers
to the sth Lit. A sale of Government stcao^ers took
place the day before, at which the following were dis-
pow.in of:—The ALbama, for 23,000 d';113.; the New
Orleans, for 311000 dolls.; and the propeller Thompson,