The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-18 00:00:00

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TRIAL OF MADAME LAFFARGE

ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
MIDLAND RAILWAY.—We have just heard that Thomas
Elliot and John Wallis, masons, in Mr. Jackson's employ,
at Amber Gate Station, were knocked down by a pilot.
engine' yesterday morning as they were going to break-
fast. It is supposed their attention was occupied by a
coach passing on the highway as the engine was coming
up, and they, in consequence, did not observe its approach.
One was killed on the spot, and of the other no hopes are
entertained. One has a wife and two children, the other
a wife and three children. The inquest is expected to be
held this day (Thursday. )—Derby Reporter.
SHOCKING ACCIDENTS FROM THE FALL OF
TlNlBER.—Yesterday afternoon a shocking accident oc-
mired to a man named Brooks, in the employ of Mr.
Bass, builder, 49, Goswell-street ; he was engaged in the
yard with some other men, removing some blocks of tim-
ber, when one of them, which proved to he too weighty
for:the men to sustain, slipped and fell upon Brooks'
left hand, crushing the veins and sinews in a frightful man-
ner. lie was removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
but it is feared that amputalion of the hand, and probably
of the arm also, will be obliged to be had ree,nirse to.
A fellow-workmen of the unfortunate man very earrowly
escaped being crushed to death on the previous day, by
the fall of a piece of tiwber weighing nearly four cwt., under
similar circumstances ; as it was, however, he was very
seriously injured, hut persisted in refusing to be allowed to
be taken to tFe hospital, and be was consequently con-
veyed to his own home, where he lies in a very dangerous
state.
AUSTRIAN CENSORSHIP.—Printed boas are
divided into four classes : Ist. admittitur, may freely pass :
2d, (rause& may be sold, but not auvertised or exhibited
for sale : 3d, erca schedam, may be delivered to safe and
trustworthy persons ; 4th, darnnatur, prohibited. The
same classification holds iood with respect to manuscripts,
for which, however, there is a fifth class : " tgpum non
meretur, unworthy cf being printed." " In this class," says
the law, " are included those wretched worthless books,
the subject of which is without interest, and at variance
with all good sense, as well as other miserable productions
which violate good taste, the rules of style, and the purity
of language." A catalogue of the newspapers allowed
to be imported is yearly drawn up at Vienna, and the
Vienna papers are held up as a model by which those
of the interior are to fashion themselves. The law says.
" They ought to be attractive, true, and circumspect."
The theatres also are subject to a strict censor-
ship, since much may be printed that must not be per-
formed. Sanguinary and inhuman pi_ces must be re-
jected, and modesty is enjoined in gestures, dances, and
costumes. A worthless king must not be presented as
the principal character, unless there be a good and just
king in the same piece, to counteract the evil impression
produced by the former. Five copies must be delivered of
each book. No one is allowed to cause any work to be
printed in a foreign country. This prohibition extends
also to articles and letters in foreign newspapers and pe-
riodicals. Books on ecclesiastical law and ecclesiastical
history are not referred to the Bishops ; but other theolo-
gical and religious writings aro submitted to them for
approval. In case of a difference of opinion between them
and the censors, the question must be referred to a supe-
rior authority,...Raumer's

IRON STEAMERS.—Anotitcr iron steam-vessei
we understand is now nearly ready for launching at the
Iron Ship-building and Boiler-making Establishment of
Summers, Groves, and Day, at Northam ; her length is
115 feet between the perpendiculars, and 125 feet over all,
16 feet in beam, and 7 feet 9 inches in depth. The
beauty of her model is acknowledged by many " artistes,"
who have inspected her, and equally 9.) for her seagoing
appearance. The engines of 40-horse power, on the
oseellating principle, arc nearly completed by the same
enterprising firm. We understand she is intended for the
passage between Southampton, the Isle of Wight. and
Portsmouth, and we prophecy may defy competition in
speed to any now afloat in the Southampton waters.
BREAK DOWN AMONG THE STEAMERS.—
On `Wednesday week the Countess of Lonsdale steam-
ship, belonging to the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany, left Hamburgh for London with passengers, a valu-
able cargo, and the mail, and when about 120 miles from
the port whence she sailed she fell in with the Caledonia,
another large and power'ul steam-ship, belonging to the
same Company, which had broken the main shaft of her
engine, and was unable to proceed on her voyage from
London to Hamburgh. The Countess immediately took
the Caledonia in tow, with the intention of proceeding
with her to liamburgh, machu had not gone far before some
accident happened to her inery, and she was unable
to proceed. The Severn steamer, bound from Hamburgh
to Hull, subsequently fell in with the Countess of Lons-
dale and the Caledonia, and took out their passengers
and the mail bags. The Countess and the Caledonia
put into Cuxhaven, and afterwards to Hamburgh, where
they now remain. The Neptune steam-ship, belong.
ing to the General Steam Navigation Company, left
Hamburgh on Saturday, and on the following day, at nine,
a.m., she fell in with the Severn in a state of distress,
having met with damage during a gale from the W.W.N.
The Neptune went to the assistance of the Severn, and
after taking out her passengers, and those of the Countess
of Lansdale, proceeded to London, whe'te she arrived on
Sunday morning, after a very boisterous passage. The
mail bags were put into the Sons of the Thames, a very
fast steamer, at Gravesend, and conveyed to London. The
Severn pnt back to Hamburgh for coals, and to refit. The
City of Edinhurgh and James Watt steam-ships have left the
Pool during the week with upwards of 100 passengers and
valuable cargoes, and will continue running until the ma-
chinery of the Countess of Lansdale and the Caledonia is
repaired. These vessels have made their voyages be-
tween Hamburgh and London with undeviating regularity
for many years, and never met with any accident or stop-
age before. The storm last week was severe, and the
sea very rough. The Countess and the Caledonia a, c
expected in the river about Monday or Tuesday next.
ASSASSINATIONS IN FRANCE.—A letter
from Le Puy, in the canton of St. Julien, bearing date
the sth inst., announces that, on the 33, as M. de Manel-
lange, the proprietor of the estate of Chamblas, was
standing in the kitchen of the chateau, giving some orders
to his domestics, a shot was fired through the window, and
the ball passing through the heart, stretched him dead in
an instant. This crime, which is attributed to secret ven-
geance, has suread terror throughout the entire district.
The assassin has nut yet been discovered. Shortly 'adore
one of the guards of the forest of Queyrieres, in the same
canton, was assassinated under precisely similar circum-
stances. He was shot dead through a window of his
house while eating his supper with his wife. Notwith-
standing the most active exertions, not the slightest trace
of the assassin has been found. The Semaphore de
horrible
assassination took took place in broad daylight on
Tuesday last,
" A
Reales of the 2d instant has the following :
at the farm of Cran, within a league of Aubague. The
victim was M. de Bonifay, a landed proprietofor,
thwhofar at a
moment when he was passing a retired part e m,
The wea
was fired at from a hedge close to his side. pon
was charged with heavy shot ; Bonifay receive I the charge
in his right breast, and fell dead on the spot. No cause
can be assigned fur this deplorable event; and in this,
the third recent case of open assassination in France, the
most active exertions of the gendarmerie have been unable
to discover the slightest trace of the murderer."
LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—The
railway trains from London will come as far as the cutting
in llooley.lane, at the northern entrance to the Mersng
ham tunnel. Passengers and luggage will then be t-
ihe length of the journey between
trans-
ferred to the stage coaches, which, after running two
miles on the turnpike road in a direction parallel to the
tunnel (the works in which are rapidly progressing), will
be placed on trucks and propelled by the locomotive en-
gines as far as Crawley. Horses will then be attachedluggage from the branch
to the coaches, which will proceed to Brighton by the
passengers and bog and Castle and other
turnpike road, reducing
London and Brighton to four hours. By this arrange-
ment also, the passengers will be but once shifted; an
inconvenience, we admit, but one of a very slight nature;
highly
_satistnaceoary manner. At the
and not greater than that which exists in London from the
ti ansfer of
coaches running to the
paces. The works throughou.t the remainder of the line
t dedrom the New are En-
g going on eri 1 n
terminus
land cutting to the site of thc.inoer
order
warehouses at the
i which is to be
bottom part of the in
bed . thatc the carriage of
coals and other merchandize massy.
eenke it entirely distinct
from the passenger-trains, h. b
laid "nPleted ; and the
beingon the adjoining
rails are now in course of, Per-
i) • arat.
lion of the London line. Lep
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DALE.—Within the last five moat. 7, three of the wealthiest
the pro-
bequeatl"„rliroa ._,inle the
to nearly one million s
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.rt gentlemen
mpeerutyinthßeaychhdiaavlee have died
were Mr. Fenton (father 1 iNr. John Fenton,
M. P.), who is reported to.s have left .500,000/.;
Filde said
to have been
200,000/. ; and rJonathan s, who was interred on
Mr. Law, whose P
Friday week, and whose property is stated at 162,0001.
The last-named gentleman was a bachelor; his nearest
relation, a cousin of the same name, Was a labourer,
with a wife and eight children, . and living, till the
pLentsoartyhe Rochdale
recent death of his wealthy, reeln.tivse, in a small cot-
tage. The bequest to him inlude the greater part of
the testator's roperty i
amounting to nearly 100,0001.
Mr. Clement Royds, the executor, gave the labourer the pos-
session of his relatives mansion
Ftwo d days after the death
,000/. to
property,
of the testator. The late Mr. i es has also bequeathed
the following sums :.--:1,000/. to the Manchester Royal In-
firmary, i, 000/.ttaodietslr
the Rochdale: CRhoareihtyd
,a 1 el,oDoi(s)
National School 100/. er annu
1,000/. ( P . rn) to St. Clc.
, - 'dale; and the like bequest to St.
meet's Church, Roci. 'tee, making
an amount of 9,0001.
John's Church, Smallhrie
in bequests for charitable "
purrit w
es,—Manchester Guardian.

The Court did not sit this morning till ten o'clock,
and then M. Paillet announced that Madame Marie
Laffarge was too in to make her appearance ; he there-
fore
prayed that the hearing might be adjourned till the
afternoon. To this the Court assented, and conse-
quently the hearing was postponed till one o'clock.
We learn, however, that there is nothing alarming
in the state of Madame Laffarge, and that there is
every reason to hope that she will be able to sustain till
the last the arduous task sbe has yet to undergo. At
half-past one the hearing was resumed, and she took her
seat, attended by Dr:Ventejou, her physician. She
was pale, and suffering from a violent pain in her head,
to which she repeatedly applied her hand, but she ne-
vertheless retained all her calmness and self-possession.
The President delivered over to the Advocate-Ge-
neral some accounts given in by M. Buffieres, showing
the application made of 23,000 francs of the money
which M. Laffrarge had procured on the signature of
his wife.
The Advocate-General commenced by asking the
prisoner whether she recollected having put anything
into the lad de poule and toast and water of her hus-
band ?
Madame Marie Laffrarge replied that she recollected
putting in some gum. She could not specify what
packet she took it from, as she had several.
The box delivered in by Mademoiselle Pouthier was
shown to her, and she acknowledged it to be hers.
Mademoiselle Pouthier also recognised the box, and
M. Fleigniat the packet of powder delivered over by him.
Mademoiselle Pouthier, on a question from one of
the jurymen, said she believed the powder in the box to
be the sane as when she took it. M. Fleigniat also
believed the powder in the packet to be the same as
that which he saw on the night of the death of M.
Laffrarge, when his eyes were weak and his mind dis-
tressed.
The box and packet were then delivered to the che-
mists, who retired to ascertain the nature of their con-
tents ; and M. Dupuytren afterwards reported, in the
name of the commission, that they had dissolved a part
of the powder of the box in boiling water. When the
gum it contained was dissolved, they perceived a sedi-
ment of white powder at the bottom of the vessel, which
remained indissoluble. This solution was put into
Marsh's apparatus, and produced numerous metallic
arsenical incrustations, which were collected on a cap-
sule of porcelain, and which they now delivered over to
the Court. This solution had been treated with re-
actives, and manifested the presence of arsenical acid.
M. Dubois, on a question fro thev
whether the administration of Fronde of iron would
absorb and neutralize arsenic in the stomach, replied
that it would depend on the degree of oxydation of the
oxyde employed. Since their report, they had learned
there was administered as an antidote some colchotard
by calcining to a red heat pure sulpha It
te ,of iron.
was possible that this oxyde of iron, which would be n
a state of peroxyde, might have become combined with
the arsenical acid, and have formed an arseniate of iron,
insolluble and undecomposable by Marsh's apparatus.
In order to found their conviction on more certain bases
they had repeated upon the carbonated residium which
remained from their filtration all possible experiments,
but had not obtained any result.
Mademoiselle Pouthier was examined again at consi-
derable length.
Counsel on either side then addressed the Court,
after which,
Madame de Nicolai was called.
The Advocate-General.—We now proceed to another
order of facts—the theft of the diamonds imputed to the
prisoner.
Madame de Nicolai (in a loud and sonorous voice)—
Gentleman, I have a very bad cold ; I fear I shall not
be heard.—(A laugh.) My daughter and I have been
summoned, and from respect for justice we have thought
it our duty to attend. On the other hand, it has been
said that the defenders of Madame Laffarge intended
to produce here overwhelming proofs against us. We
think we, ought not to be called upon to give evidence,
and I request leave to withdraw.
Afterwards the Judges returned, and declared that,
as Madame de Nicolai bad formerly refused to give evi-
dence, she was condemned to pay a fine of M., and the
expense of the decree of the Court.
Madame de Nicolai then withdrew, and the Court
adjourned to the following day.
There.are only twelve witnesses more to be heard for
the prosecution.
Baron Garet has published a letter contradicting the
statement that M. Foy, the matrimonial agent, bad any-
thing whatever to do with bringing about the marriage
between Mademoiselle Marie Capelle and Al, Laffarge,
who was introduced to the Baron by a person holding a
wished station in society.

We have received a report of another day's proceed-
ings of the trial of Madame Laffarge, which is not yet
concluded. We can find room for no more than the
following paragraph :
A letter from Tulle of the 14th, at nine in the morn-
ing, says—" It is generally thought that nothing will
result from the experiments of Messrs. Orfila, Bussey,
and 011ivier (cl'Angers). The skill of Messrs. Duboisand
Dupuytren,and the great care with which they conducted
their operations, seem to have removed all doubt. The
only thing which appears possible is, that arsenic may
be found on decomposing the peroxide of iron which was
in the stomach of M. Laffarge, hut this is not con-
sidered probable. Madame Laffarge awaits with calm-
ness the result of the experiments. The families of
Nicolai and Leotaud have left for Brives, where they
will remain until the trial for the diamonds, which had
been fixed for the 20th of this month ; but which can-
not now take place before December, in consequence of
the appeal to the Court of Cassation against the judg-
ment of the Tribunal of Tulle."

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY

LONDON, SEPT. H.—Wind this day at noon, ligh
N. N. Easterly breeze, and fine weather.
DEAL, SEPT. 17.—Moderate westerly breeze.—Arrived
the John Dougall, M‘Govian, from Singapore ; John,
Davy, Cape of Good Hope; George Dean, Hamon,
Monte Video ; Elizabeth. ' Midwinter, Demerara; Cor-
cyra, Cortfand, Africa; Victoria, Russell, ditto; Sophia,
St. John's, New Brunswick. Put back, the Harrison,
Curdley, for the Mauritius.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. IL—Wind W.N. W., fresh breeze.
—Arrived the Medora, Harrison,-from Bombay; Presi-
dent, Fayrer, New York ; Isaac Newton, New Orleans.
Put back, the Fanny, M'Dowall, for Newfoundlnd. 011
Port, the Lady Rowena, from Bombay ; Zeno, Jamaica
Siddons, New York. -.A flat sunk on Moekbeggar wharf
this morning ; crew are supposed to be safe.
DOVER, SEPT. 17.—Off port, the Paragon, Cook, from
Ceylon, sailed the Bth of May ; Susan Crisp, Flemming,
Cape of Good Hope, sailed the 6th of July ; Trusty,
Jamieson, Sydney.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—Wind, W. N. W.—Arrived
her Majesty's ship Fair Rosamond, from Sierra Leone.
Sailed on the 6th ult., her Majesty's ship North Star,
St. Ander. Sailed the Vernon, Denny, Calcutta; her
Majesty's ship Cygnet, Cape of Good Hope.
to N. W.,
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 16..-...Wi16.--Wind,. S. W.
strong breezes and squally.—Arrived Stormont, Odessa.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 17.—Arrived the St. Antonio y
Magdalena, from Bilbao.
GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 17.—Arrived the Rosa, Bulmer,
from Miramichi. Sailed the Symmetry, Smith, Miramichi.
CORK, SEPT. 16.—Sailed the Mary Alice, Barber, tor
Bathurst.
SUNDERLAND, SEPT. I7.—Arrived the Elizabeth and
Caroline, from Quebec ; Wear, Douglass, ditto.
HULL, SEPT. 17.—Wind W. N. W., fresh breeze.—
Arrived the Edward and Mary, Wright, from Quebec. I
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—The Trine, Janeson, from
Danzig, arrived here, is leaky, and cargo shifted, having
been thrown on her beam ends during the gale yesterday.
DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—The Concordia, Londman,
from Narva to Bordeaux, is on shore on Start Bay, dis-
masted and waterlogged. The crew are safe.
Sr. Ives, SEPT..—The sloop Sisters, of Bristol, foun-
dered off this port during a heavy gale this morning
crew drowned.
WYLFO ( ANGLESEY), Sem 16.—The Francis, Davis,
from Newport to Liverpool, struck on Harry's Furlong
last night, and is full of water ; crew saved, and the cargo
expected to be.
HARWICH, Seer. 17.—The Stirling Castle, from
Bonar Roads to London, has been assisted in hero with
loss of anchors and cables, and sails slit. It blew
ia
heavy gale all last night at W. S. W. topW.N.W., but s
,o-day moderate.

ARRIVAL OF THE GEORGE CANNING.
Fears Lave for the last week been entertained that thi
had
s
vessel was either totally lost during the late gales, n
port;
or
sustained serious damage and put into some foreig
but it will be seen, on referring to our Shipping Report
of this day, that she has arrived at Berwick after having
been detained three weeks in Noway.