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MORNING SUS

finest parts of our common nature. Betis steicisin far
fromus.—Hcrts Reformer..
CORN DEALERS.—The Tory .Journals__. nave
republished the case of a man who was con)C44 Evn
attempt at Cambridge, in the year 1741, to rafse the
price of corn. They call the article punishment of
Corn jobbers. Do they mean, then, to revive the
punishment for forestalling and-regrating ! Or, do they
mean to confine the Corn-trade, as well as the growing
of corn, to the hands of the rent-owners, and their depen-
dent tenants at will ?
SUDDEN DEATH.--AR awful instance of 'sua-
den death occurred to Mr. Deadman, the proprietor of
the Star Inn, Shoreham. On Monday last the unfortu-
nate gentleman was riding up Buckingham-lane,Brighton,
on horseback, at a slow pace, when a man observed his
hat fall off, and picked it up, but before he could give it
him the deceased fell to the ground. Medical assistance
was immediately procured, but it was of no avail. The
deceased was subject to a disease of the heart.
The population of Edinburgh was, :according to
the Zdinburgh Advertiser, 136,054 ; it is now, according
to the.recent census, 138,194, showing an apparent in-
crease in the ten years of 2,140. But at the same
period the population of the Castle was not included,
and, deducting:its present amount, 1,022, the real in-
crease of the Edinburgh population in ten years is only
1,118.
SINGULAR SAGACITY OF A BIRD.—On Sa-
turday last, as three mowers were engaged cutting hay
on the farm of Heap, in the neighbourhood of Hawick,
one of their scythes came in contact with that rarely
seen bird the Landrail, or Corn-craik, and cut off a part
of one of its wings, and a small portion of the scalp, but
the skull was uninjured. The men looked for a little at
the rare bird this mutilated, and then set it free in its
natural haunt—
. " 'Mang fields of flowing clover gay,"
and thought. no more of it. Next morning, however, as
a cottager and his wife, who live at the end of the field,
were sitting at breakfast, they were agreeably surprised
by the entrance of the maimed emigrant into the cottage.
It walked deliberately into the middle of the floor, and
latterly retired below the bed. It now occasionally ven-
tures out, and seems fond of flies and small reptiles, and
even at times accepts of a few crumbs of bread. It is
'going on well, and appears quite contented with the do-
mestic station it has chosen for itself, being probably
aware that it cannot this season wing its annual way—
" Frac our cauld shore."
Should it outlive the winter, it will perhaps be the first.
..41,!;,,
its liberty when its tribe arrives in spring.—Kelso MotT.
The Duchess of Hamilton, accompanied by the
Marquis of Douglas, arrived on Monday lastl in Paris.
The Duchess goes direct from the French capital to Italy,
with the intention of wintering in that country ; and
the Marquis, who purposes making a tour in France, it
is expected, will meet her Grace at Nice or Florence.—
Glasgow Herald.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE HARVEST.—Not-
withstanding the general prevalence of wet weather and
the backwardness of the crops generally, Mr. Hallet
began harvesting on Monday, at Kemp-town farm, and
cut wheat, barley, and oats.—Brighton Guardian.
CHELTENHAM AND GREAT ' WESTERN
UNION RAlLWAY.—Contracts have been taken, and in
some instances the. works have been commenced. fuv
carrying on this line from its present terminus at Ciren-
cester towards Stroud and Gloucester.
PROOF OF THE DISTRESS .OF THE WORKINIG
CLASSES.—We lately gave a statement of the deliveies
of raw sugar in this port from the Ist of January to the
24th of July, by which it will be perceived that the Vest
India amounted, in 1841, to 39,301 hhds. and tres., 3ur-
reht price 365. Old. per cwt..; in 1840, to 57,340 hhds.
and tres., current price 575. 2:ld. per cwt ; Alaurftins,
in 1841, 224,177 bags ; in 1840, 856,992 bags. In the
East India there is not much difference, arising from its
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being extensively used to reduce the quality of West
India. The consumption of sugar therefore, is, in round
numbers, one-third less, with a fall in price of One-third,
which can only be accounted for by the diminished
means of the people to consume it, from high prices of
the other necessaries of life and want of employment.—
Liverpool Times.
I am requested by a gentleman, who arrived this
morning from London, to caution the English pahlio
against a system of gross imposition practised in lon-
don. Ile informs me that he and several others booked
and paid for their places throughout to Paris, ea the as-
surance that they would have nothing else ,co pay ; but
so far from this being the case, they were- eompelled to
pay on board the steamer, it being clearly demonstrated
to them that:-there was no conneetiou between the Steam
Company and the parties booking in London ; and it ap-
pears that on arriving in Boulogne they bad also to pay
at the Diligence-office for Paiis.—Paris CorrespOdence.
FIGHT BETWEEN ,BRASSEY AND PARKER
FOR 2001.—This battle took place on Tuesday, when, after
a long and tedious fight, it terminated in favour of
Parker.

THE CONVICT MAJOR.—The Rnval clemency
has been extended to William Major, and her Majesty
has, in consequence of the report made to the Secretary
of State, and Mr. Baron Rolfe's recommendation for
mercy, been pleased to spare the aged man's life, who is
apparently in his second childhood.
REFORM DINNER AT ANDOVER.—The Re-
formers of Andover have invited their members, R. Et-
wall, Esq., and Lord William Paget, to dine with them
on Tuesday, the 17th instant, at the Town-hall, when
it is anticipated a numerous and very respectable party
Nisi lie 'assembled, and their late glorious victory cele-
brated in a style worthy the occasion.—kiants Independent.
THE LIVERY OF LONDON FOR 1841-2.
The following statement exhibits the number of Livery-
men in the City of London belonging to each Company,
as also the aggregate number who are qualified as such
to vote for Members of Parliament to represent the said
City :—Armourers and braziers, 73 ; apothecaries, 56 ;
barbers, 116 ; bakers, 225 ; basketmakers 6 ; black-
smiths, 94 ; bowycrs, 47 ; brewers, 45 ; brodereurs, 28 ;
butchers, 163 ; carpenters, 111 ; clockmakers, 99 ;
clothworkers, 123 ; coach and arness makers, 66 ;
combmakers, 15; cordwainers, 97 ; coopers, 239 ; cooks,
136 ; curriers, 98 ; cutlers, 91 ; distillers, 38 ; drapers,
282 ; dyers, 117 ; fanteakers, 19 ; farriers, 80 ; felt-
mongers, 83 ; fishmongers, 287 ; fletchers, 18 ; frame-
work knitters, 44 ; fruiterers, 41 ; founders, 70 ; glass
sellers, 58 ; girdlers, 78 ; glaziers, 57 ; glovers, 119 ;
goldsmiths, 151 ; gold and silver wire-drawers, 40 ;
gun-makers, 29 ; haberdashers, 368 ; innholders, 3G7 ;
ironmongers, 79 ; joiners, 116 ; leathersellers, 106 ;
loriners, 234 ; playing card makers, 68 ; merchant
tailors, 236 ; mercers, 77 ; masons, 42 ; musicians, 79
needlemakers, 332 ; pattenmakers, 115 ; painter stain-
ers, 111 ; pewterers, 64 ; plasterers, 26 ; plumbers, 50 ;
poulterers, 28 ; saddlers, 60 ; salters, 131 ; scriveners,
35 ; shipwrights, 91 ; silk throwsters, 7 ; skinners, 125 ;
spectacle makers, 81 ; stationers, 381 ; tallow-chandlers,
117 ; tinplate-workers, 53 ; turners, 63 ; tylers and
plasterers, 108 ; vintners, 282 ; upholsterers, 86 wax
chandlers, 68 ; weavers, 86 ; weelwrights, 117 ; ward-
men, 17.—Total, 7,782. N.B. A great number of citi-
zens have taken up their livery during the present year.
The health of Lord Granville has improved con-
siderably, and hopes are now entertained that he will
speedily recover,; but even if the Tories should not come
into office, it is probable that he will relinquish his post,
in order that he may be able to have the advantage of
change of climate. Mr. Bulwer is exceedingly active,
and is deservedly a general favourite in the diplomatic
circles, as well as at Court, although he is said to have
more than once expressed himself with a degree of inde-
pendence which, in another person, might have given
offence.
MANCHESTER COPFERENcE.—Since our laat,
one hundred elergymeti and ministers, in addition to
those whose names we published on Saturday, and mak-
ing the whole number now three hundred and eighty,
tings in
have signified their intention to be present at the Confe-
rence on the Corn-laws, which is to commence its sit-
Guardian.
nittnhleruetsh-ea
the town on Tuesday next.-2lfanchester
The City of London and 'rower Hamlets CeTe-
tery Company have obtained their Act of In,corp(o)r
and the ground which is situated in the Mile End-road
f t Directors,
of September. The Lord Mayor,
as one
and there
be consecrated by the Bishop of Londoneettorlyhien the month
will attend upon the occasion
will be a large assemblage to
yeerpmony. "
d afternoon an
SINGULAR DEATB• M.P., at the Allsop
inquest was held before Mvir,.. "
road, on view of the body of
Arms, Allsop-terrace,
Newho -died suddenly under the
Mary English, aged
Mrs. Charles, a lady residing;
following circumstanee
Dorset-square, stated that the de-
ceasedat 49, Park-streseetr,vant„
and her husband being out Ot
was her
during his absence, slept with her. On
town she had, last, about three o'clock, deceased got
Sunday mornin,
said,
f bed, as
out o she
sal to get some water to drink, a
the mantelpiece. Witness then dozed
eful being on
and on waking again, and not finding de-
off to sleep,
ceased in bed, she called to her, but receiving no
answer, she rose and procured a light, when she disco-
vered her lying inside the fender, her feet hanging over
the outside of it. She raised an alarm, and a surgeon
being sent for, pronounced life to be extinct. There
were no bruises or marks of violence on deceased's per-
son. Witness could not imagine how she got where she
was found, as the poker which was on the top of the
bars, and projected out, and which, had she fallen, must •
have been struck by her in her descent, was not moved.
The water had not been touched. She had no reason
to suppose that deceased had taken anything to destroy
herself. Verdict, " Found dead."
SHA K ERISM.—Mr. Carter, a renouncing
shaker, visited this place a few weeks since, and gave two
or three lectures on Shakerism, and sung some twenty
songs, danced, exposed Miller's theory, and did several
other things for the amusement of the audience. The
Shakers' creed is a very curious one. They believe/11
one God, and two persons in the Godhead—male And
female, or father and mother—called Power and Wiainni•
They believe that Adam was the father of the oNcroa
tiont and Eve was the mother, both being created after
the image of God ; and that Christ is the father ef the new
creation, and Ann Lee the mother, and Oat the mil-
lenium commenced with the aypearanee of Ann
Lee on earth. They believe in the immortality of
animals, as well as of men. They say that John saw
horses in the world of spirits, as recorded in Revelations.
They believe that all the ugly and vanornous animals on
earth are symbolical of the evil spirits that inhabit the
lower regions of the invisible world, and that all the
beautiful creatures, such as birds with gorgeous plumage,
are symbolical of the good spirits in the mansions of
bliss. They believe that tae souls of Shakers, in their
trances and visions, really visit the heavenly world. The
lancet has been applied to them, and their fie.h has been
scarified, while in,this state, without producing a parti-
cle of blood. One person who visited the land of spirits
in a trance, saw all the patriarchs and kings of olden
time ; saw King David travelling, and Solomon on a
snow white horse ; saw Christ and all the apostles.—
Newburyport Watchtowei.

TRIAL OF MADAME LAFFARGE
FOR THE ROBBERY OF THE DIAMONDS.

TRIBUNAL OF TULLE.—SITTING OF AUGUST 5.
Madame Laffarge appeared dressed in deep mourning,
and seemed to enjoy good health. The Judge opened
the proceedings by recapitulating what had passed on
previous trials.
Marie Capelle, an orphan and poor, though of a good
family, and educated so as to develope her brilliant natu-
ral qualities, became intimate in 1823 with Mdlle. Cle-
mente de Nicolai, then fifteen years of age, now Ma-
dame de Monbreton. Madame de Monbreton loved and
spoke highly of her ; so that when Marie Capelle, in
1836, came to live with Madame Valence, mother-
in-law of Marshal Gerard, who: lived near the
Nicolais, she became intimate with them, and
especially with the youngest daughter, Marie, who
became Madame de Leotaud in 1838. Her mar-
riage did not destroy her intimacy with Mademoiselle
Capelle. She saw her five or six times in the year, and
gave her a brooch as a token of friendship. In the month
of May, 1839, Mademoiselle Capelle proposed to visit
Madame de Nicolai at her chateau of Busaquy. The
proposal was accepted, especially as Marie Capelle's
health was said to be bad. She arrived at Busaquy on
the Ist of June. On the Gth of that month, apropos of
the marriage between M. de Gouy and Mdlle. de Beavoir,
diamonds were spoken of ; Madame Leotaud produced
hers, and left them on the table when she went out, on an
ecrin ; she locked up this ecrin on her return. Seven
days after, diamonds being again the subject of.
conversation, Madame Leotaud brought down her
ecrin ; MJIIe. Capelle left the room, and on opening the
eerie, the diamonds were gone. Search was made. M.
Leotaud went to the police of Paris, and on mentioning
Marie Capelle as the niece of :Madame Garat, recalled
the circlmstances of divers robberies which bad taken
place at Madame Garat's. M. Leotaud ceased to push his
inquiries in consequence ; and no more was heard until the
police examining Glandier, the residence of Madame
Laffarge. after the death of her husband, discovered the
diamonds in a box belonging to Marie Capelle, since
Madame Laffarge. When first questioned on the subject,
Madame Laffarge answered that they were given her by
a gentleman whom she did not know. Since then Madame
Laffarge tells another story. She says that she and
Mademoiselle Nicolai became acquainted with a young
man of the name of Clavet, son of a schoolmaster in the
Faubourg de Roule. having met him at church and in
the street ; that letters passed between them, and at
Ictmrth f C.l.,mt 1.4". e,.- c ,
nag e, wishing to burn her letters and buy up the silence
of Clavet, she employed Madame Laffarge to dispose of
the jewels, in order to give the money to Clavet.
M. Lachaud, fur Madame Laffarge, then pleaded that
the trial ought to be put off. The Judges. who had already
adjourned it, did so on the ground that Madame Laffarge
should have at least three months to prepare her de-
fence ; and it was then but forty days since the Court
of Cessation had confirmed the decree of the Court fixing
the trial. Madame Laffarge only received notice of the
present trial on the 23d of June. The appearance of M.
Felix Clavet, as witness, was indispensable to establish
the innocence of Madame Laffarge. The cross-question-
ing of that witness, and We confronting him with the
two Maries, could alone throw light on the case. It was
now some months since M. Clavet must have learned of
the trial on which his name was called, why did he not
return to speak the truth ? M. Lachaud then said, he
wculd read some letters which threw light on Clavet's
nos. appearance.
Coralli objected to the reading of these letters.
The Judge overruled the arguments for delaying the
trig. M. Clavet was not necessary to the elucidation of
the 'acts.
M Lachaud said that M. Clavet was a wretch if he
did sot come forward.
M. Coralli, for Madame Leotaud, deprecated delay.
Why was M. Clavet's presence so necessary. He was
not here, but his sister was, and she was the depository
of his confidence.
M. Odillon Barrot said then an important testimony
was wanting in M. Clavet; an objection might be made
in the course of the evidence, though it was too soon to
make it yet; the trial should first go on.
M. Paillet, the eloquent advocate of Madame Laffarge
in her other trial, declared that the presence of M. Clavet
was indispensable.
Madame Laffarge's Counsel then said that she would
retire, and faire defaut, that is, make no defence, not being
allowed the means.
Madame Laffarge having withdrawn about twelve
o'clock, the trial was resumed in an hour by the Procu-
reur-General, who declared that Clavet had been sum-
moned at Algiers, it. June, 1841. He was at Oran, how-
ever, and was lately os. the expedition to Mascara, so
that he Could not appear.
Mdlle. Delvaux, the former governess of Mdlle. de
Nicolai, was then Called and asked to give her testimony.
When Marie Capelle visited us, towards the end of Lent,
1836, we often went together to the church Of St. Phi-
lippe-du •Roule. Among those who attended the
church was a young man, whose assiduity made me
believe that he came there for the purpose of
being remarked by Mdlle. de Nicolai. I acquainted
her mother with my suspicious • but having examined
Mdlle. de Nicolai more closely, I saw that I was wrong,
and told Madame de Nicolai so. Meantime Mdlle.
Capelle had succeeded in finding out the name and ad-
dress of this yoteng man ; she said he had a fine voice,
and artfully persuaded Mdlle. de Nicolai to let her write
to M. Clavet. We went to the country, and I observed
that Mademoiselle de Nicolai was not so gay as usual.
I took her apart, and asked her to confide to me the
cause of her grief. She told me that she and Marie
Capelle had remarked the young man Clavet, and he
had become the subject of their attention and curiosity.
Mdlle. Capelle proposed to write to this young man, in order
to mystify him, and she wrote a few insignificant lines.
Several letters were afterwards exchanged. Mdlle. Nicolai
again consented to write, and expressed to M. Clavet her
regret for having involuntarily hurt him, but also begging
him to write to her no longer, for she neither could nor
would receive his letters. At the fete of Tivoli
she danced with him • this was the first and last
time that Mdlle. de Nicolai spoke to him. In all
this recital, it was not difficult to appreciate
the small share in it that Mdlle. de Nicolai had.
I judged the conduct of Mdlle. Capelle more severely,
and from the first impulse thought her as dangerous as
a serpent. I thought this affair quite at an end, when
in the first days of June Mdlle. de Nicolai received a
parcel, of which the address was written by Mdlle. Ca-
pelle. It contained a volume of poetry, of which the
name of the author was scratched out, and the
name of Sire de Coucy substituted, also in the
handwriting of Marie Capelle. This book contained
a letter from M. Clavet, which Mdlle. de Nicolai imme-
diately gave me. This letter expressed the certainty of his
Wing been the object of a mystification, and complained
of a cruel jest being played at his own expense. The aim
of this letter was "to reassure Mdlle Nicolai on the sub-
ject of the fears expressed to Mdlle. Capelle, and which
a timid inexperience could alone suggest. His reputa-
tion was pure and unattackable." I advised Mdlle. Ni-
cola! to ask to have her letters back. She asked several
times without result, and as I learned that Mdlle.
Capelle was in Paris in the month of August, I went
and asked for them. She answered that they were in a
cupboard, of which Madame Garet had the key; but that
she would have them ready on the morrow. When I
went to receive them I was told that Marie Capelle had
left that morning with Madame Garet, her aunt. I
thought it hard that Mdlle Capelle should not know the
day before, at four o'clock, that she wasgoing at six the next
morning; and I thought I had perceived some lies in the
recitals made to Mdlle, Nicolai. M. Clavet was no
longer thought of, when Mdlle. Nicolai came back from
the theatre one night in the month of March, and told me
she had seen him on the stage, arter having remarked
his name amongst the liar of singers. I went to see the
Huguenots to make sure of the fact, but found not the
least resemblance between the two persons, and even ral-
lied her on her facility of finding- the strangest likenesses.
Unfortunately, in the month of Cie tober,lB37, Mdlle.Capele
and Mdlle. Nicolai met at Madame de Monbreton's.
The former said she was very ill ; the doctors, from
what she said, thought ill of her case. In tho month of
. June, 1838, she asked to come to Busae •: ; we did not
dare to refuse her demand, in spite of e:1 the reports
concerning her. If all ladies whose conduct, is light were
to be shunned, the worlu would soon be deserted.—(A
laugh.) I was not at Busaquy, in the drawing-room,
when tile diamonds were stolen. As soon as I arrived I
was to of the suspicions raised agst Mddle Capelle.
The second witness was the Marchioness de Nicolai.
She knew Marie Capelle in 183 Q, _An acquaintance was,
formedletween her and my daughter. Mademoiselle
Capelle offered to visit us in the country,
my
daughter, Madame Leotaud, being th n pfa .ant
and in ill health. There was a Plan' in ray
daughter's room ; Marie Capeiit practised at it for
hours. The witness gave the same account of the disap-
pearance of the diamonds as Mdlle De vale, Some
days after Mdlle. Capelle mentioned that she ha.- vo- ate"
at night, and had persuaded her servant that it we, be-
cause she had swallowed the diamonds of Madame de
Leotaud. Later, Madame de Leotaud confessed to her
mother that she suspected Marie Capelle of having stolen
the diamonds. Madame de Monbreton mentioned these
suspicions to Marie Capelle's aunt, Madame Garet, who
then revealed a variety of larcenies committed in
her house. We were disposed not to aggravate
the position of Madame Laffarge when we heard that
she had been circulating stories of Madame de
Leotaud having robbed herself. Later Madame de
Martens asked us not to own that the diamonds
were ours, in order to save Marie Capelle. M.
Bac, her advocate, had a long conversation with M. and
Madame Leotaud. M. Leotaud explained to M. Ban that
M. Clavet had quitted France in 1836, had gone to Mexico
and to Algiers, and only returned in 1839 ; and that all
the infamous calumnies about Madame and St Leotaud
wishing to gi"e her the price of the jewels, fell to the
ground. M. Bac admitted it. M. Lachaud made us a
similar demand. Madame Laffarge was importunate,
and stretched out a suppliant hand. We observed that
the suppliant hand lalaich she held forth was of hot iron.
We offered, if Mad se Laffarge's counsel would plead
her being of unsound mind, that we would support it
conscientiously, after all we had seen of her. M. La-
chaud said, 'hat Madame Laffarge would never admit
this, that she was an extraordinary woman, and would
rise up to protesa of her perfect sanity.
The next witness was Denis Barbiere, who had been
servant at M. Lathrge's. He stated merely that M.
Laffarge wanting a diamond one day to cut glass, asked
it of big wife, who brought him one.
Philip Mignan said he 'cad heard M. Laffarge say that
his wife had offered him :her diamonds to sell. The
mother of M. Laffarge, it seemed, was ready to make the
same testimony, but the Judge would not allow of her
being called as a witness.
M. Lecointe, the jeweller, recognised the diamonds
and the setting of the ornaments, which had been sold to
Madame de Leotaud. The ornaments were worth about
neo/.

SECOND DAY.—AuG, 6.
The concourse was fell as great as on the preceding
day, ttlthoush it Was well know that Mme. Marie

farge would not appear ; but the public curiosity was I
excited by the expectation of hearing the evidence of the
sister of M. Clavet, and a letter from himself sent from
the town of Guadalaxara, in the interior of Mexico. At
a quarter past eight o'clock, the Court was opendi, and
the proceedings were resumed.
Pierre Coullebceuf, a domestic servant from the Rue
Saint-Florentin, Paris, was the first witness examined.
He deposed that he knew M. Felix Clavet in 1839, when
he returned. Mr. Felix Clavet was a young man of
gentlemanly manner and habits, of a respectable family
and good principles, incapable of accepting such presents
as had been imputed to him, or of committing any base
or immoral action.
M. Poutier (Raymond), physician in the army of Al-
giers, the uncle of Mme. Laffarge, deposed as follows:
I was at Algiers in July, 1840, and one day, whilst
walking with some officers, M. Alphonse Cleve came up
to us. We were talking of the affair of Laffarge, and,
when I heard his name, I asked him if he was the per-
son mentioned on the trial ; he replied in the negative,
but said he knew the M. Clavet referred to, having deli-
vered to him a box, which had been sent by Mme. de
Leotaud, on receiving which M. Felix Clavet said, " It
is a hox of colours which has been sent to me by Mme.
de Leotaud." I remarked that this information was en-
tirely at variance with what Mme. de Leotaud had stated
at the trial, and, as it was important, requested him to
make a declaration in writing, which he did,, and I sent
it to the Counsel of Marie Capelle. The box was ad-
dressed, in the first instance, by the landlord of the hotel
of the Croix g'Or, at Toulon, to M. Damy, Surgeon-Ma-
jor of the Ist regiment of the line. The address was,
"To M. Damy, to be given to M. Clavet." He thought,
however, there must have been something to indicate
who sent it, for M. Damy said to him, " It appears that
little Clavet has connection only with Countesses." M.
Perrin had told him that he heard from IVL Desciorsilles
that it was known that the box came from the Viscoun-
tess de Leotaud.
M. H. Brissot Thivars, director of salubrity and
public lighting in Paris, said he had long known the
family of M. Felix Clavet, for whom he had great esteem.
He spoke in the highest terms of M. Clavet, but admitted
that he might have the defects of youth, vanity and pre-
sumption, for he was a handsome young man, and the
ladies perhaps had told him so rather too frequently.
Nothing more was required to fill his brain with chime-
rical hopes. On one occasion, when walking with Clavet,
the latter told him that he was going to be married to a
handsome, rich, and, what was more, noble young lady,
upon which the witness told him that he was more
mad than he had hitherto taken him to be, and
that he was a fit subject for Charenton. Two years
afterwards, and during the affair of Glandier, the
witness learned that the lady whom M. Clavet had spoken
of as his intended bride, was Mlle. de Nicolai, and the
person who befriended him Marie Capelle. He also learnt
that Marie Capelle had been in the habit of walking in
the Park of Mousseaux, which, not being a public pro-
menade, is generally solitary. She entered under the
auspices of a lady whom it was not necessary to name,
who had her child at her breast ; but Marie Capelle
would quit this lady and walk by herself until she met
Clavet, who had also some means of getting into the
Park, and would sometimes give five francs to the gate-
keeper to admit him. The rendezvous continued for
about three mohths, and in the bosquets they pro-
bably talked over the projects of marriage with Mlle.
de Nicolai.—(A laugh.) At length, however, Clavet,
yielding to the remonstrances of his family, or dissa-
tisfied with the little progress which he made in his
suit, told Marie Capelle that he had reflected on his folly,
and a situation being offered to him as one of the ma
nagers of an agricultural colony at Algiers, he had re-
solved on accepting it. Marie Capelle replied that he
was wrong, that he should take courage, things did not
go on so rapidly in the world, and that at any rate she
was there to console him. The witness did not know whe-
ther Felix Clavet nourished a double passion—(Great
laughter)—.but he thought not. lie felt probably that he
had been duped into false hopes, and therefore resolved
to go to Algeria. This witness then proceeded to state
that the Company by which M. Clavet was sent out agreed
to give him 4,000 f. a year as manager, and that after his
departure from Paris he received from his partnersloo,ooof.
for his expenses of the voyage and the first outlay in Al-
giers. He continued to receive his salary regularly all the
time he was in Algeria, which he quitted in August, 1839,
and arrived in Paris in September, where he remained
until February, 1840. He did not leave Paris in the in-
terval, and the witness, being very intimate with his
family, saw him almost daily. In the month of Fe-
bruary, continued the witness, Clavet left for Mexico
with his father, mother, aunt, and young sister and her
children. At this moment he was in the province of
Guadalaxara, at 15 or 20 leagues from the Pacific
Ocean. He had written, since his arrival there, only
once to his sisters, and the letter had been given to the
witness. The witness said it was proper to in-
form the Tribunal that, when Felix Claret left
Paris, he knew nothing of the Laffarge affair,
except the poisoning, and had learnt that Madame
Laffarge was the Marie Capelle with whom he had been
acquainted. He then continued as follows the reading of
the letter :—" It is impossible for us to know the details
of the Laffarge affair. Ido not comprehend how I can
be compromised in it. There was so much improbability
in the defence of Mme. Laffarge, that it was of a nature to
render her more culpable in the eyes of every body, and
to hasten her condemnation. My poor sisters, what un-
easiness must not all this have caused you, although you
know me well enough not to believe that anything of what
this horrible said was possible. Send me some details,
if it be possible. lam anxious to learn correctly of what
lam accused." The witness here handed the letter to
the President, as also the act of society of the company of
which M. Clavet had been manager, and the certificate
of his arrival at Toulon from Algiers. He then added,
that at the time when Marie Capelle had her rendezvous
with Clavet in the park of Mousseaux, she passed nearly
every day before the windows of the school of Clavet, in
the Faubourg du Roule, No. 20, and the mother of

Clavet was much struck on seeing her eyes constantly
directed towards the house. Madame Clavet once said

to her eldest daughter, " Do you know that young per-
' son, who is looking so earnestly at the window of Felix ?
She appears to me to oe very bold." Mademoiselle
Clavet, who had seen her at the church of Saint Philippe
de Roule, replied, " It is Marie Capelle."
M. Catrufo, painter, of the Rue de Ponthieu, Paris,
stated that, about the end of 1834, he became acquainted
with M. Felix Claret, in consequence of their being
members of a charitable association, and an intimate
friendship was formed between them. In the begining
of the spring of 1836, M. Clavet showed witness a letter,
which he imagined came from two young ladies he had
seen at church, and in the public walks. Of Mdlle. de
Nicolai, whom he said he loved, he always spoke in the
most respectful terms, and as one with whom he had no
secret intercourse, nor even any acquaintance in society.
Mdlle. Clavet, sister of M. Clavet, now in Mexico, was
next examined. Great interest was displayed on the
appearance of this Young lady, who is so nearly related
to the person who had figured so conspicuously in the de-
fence set up by the prisoner. In reply to a question of
the President, she stated her name to be Catherine
Barthelemy Claret, aged 36, and a teacher at Toulouse.
Her appearance was prepossessing, and her emotion for
some time prevented her from being heard distinctly.
Before commencing his interrogatory, the President
desired her to he seated, and compose herself.
President—Yon; area the sister. of M. Felix Claret 1'
A. I am.—Q. Do you know anything of the robbery
of the'diamonds of Dime. de Leotaud ? A. No, Sir.—:Q
Do you know anything of the relations of Marie Capelle,
or Mlle. de Nicolai, wit!' your brother? A. My brother,
who frequently made r- - his confidante, toll me that he
often noticed two your:. ladies, that he had formed an
acquaintance with one of them, who had led him to enter-
tain a hope that a marriage might be brought about with
the other, who was Mlle. de Nieolai. I endeavoured to
persuade him against entertaining such an ilea. which I
saw was illtr.,:ry. He never said a word to me, to lead me
to suppose that these hopes were er!coorag..e. by the per-
son to whom they related.—Q. Did your brotLer ever show
you the letters he had received from one of those young
ladies.? A. He showed me tt.e letters hi. „1--:1 received
from Marie Capelle, but Ido not :erne._ her *r con-
tents.—Q. Did he speak in respect'ul terms La you of
the young lady whom he had been led to I, ,pe he might
marry ? A. Always in the most respectful terms
Q. Had you ever to) idea that your brother had had
any interviews with the lady ? A. Nevet.—Q. Have
you been led to suppose that there was a groat di,re-en:!e
between the relations wh= -11 he had with Arl,ria,
and those which he had with Mile. 'de Nicolai i
Cer for he never mentioned to ma that he had nad
!Iza-pterview with the latter. He merely said that he
h (lanced a contredanse with her at a ball given ,'er the
,
lenefit of the pensioners on the Old Civil List.- -Q. Nor
n
I.oyru your conv correspondence ?A. Never.—Q. It appears, then,
ersation with your brother, that he bad
sever said anything
about any kind of correspondence
with Mlle. de
? A. Yes, Sir.—Q. It. appears,
nowever, that
-2apene ? A. .I,exacild repeated interviews with Marie
M. Coral iglna di
eyieusaor;
Parkrendezvousknowledge of tile repeated
he spoke to me about them
them several times.—Q. Were you
also aware of the daily
windows of M. Felix Clavekts of Marie Capelle under the
it to me ; she knew 'hat ray
it)eer always placed t er
mother remarked
angr eeaptei:tto ly confidence'cosiprioird, CO,had still :uhekeneoweewehtietthieed
with your brother, and either Marie Capelle or Made-
moiselle de Nicolai ? A. I believe nc.'
brother acquainted with the &mill
Qi
Macrame
your
Larochefoucauld ? A. Yes,
ml'('stiance,—
reco recollect she
ame de
Asernet yaOu
box re
hel e
itrheien
of Madame Larochefoucauld having
11
did,an hseorttl tohadAff
Q. Does
your brother draw. A. No, Sir.—
ICiregao?ttenAt.
Q. Do you think
your brother ever heard any of the details of the affair
of the diamonds in Mexico ? A. He only heard from
me of the details of the first affair, and I did not go into
many particulars. I believe he .'oeives the French

journals.
The President—Have you received no other from
your brother except that you have just communicated ?
A. I have received no other, but I expect one. It is
possible I have now a letter lyinr, at Toulouse, for I did
not direct my letters to be forwarded here to me.
This evidence, which was listened to with great atten-
tion, was, as well as the other depositions, summed up
by the President, and dictated in an abridged form to
the Greffier, who afterwards read it to the Court.
The list of witness_s being now exhausted, M
Co-
rali said that, for the regularity of the proceedings, he
wished to know whether the Curator of Marie Capelle,
who was present, allowed judgment to go by default,
'r not?

M. Frederic Lacombe, curator of Madame Laffarge,
said ho would allow judgment to go by default, as Ma-
dame Laffarge had refused to plead.
The Court then adjourned till the next day, when M.
and Madame Leotaud were to be heard as the partie
civile, and the requisitions of the Council were to be made.
It was expected that the judgment would be delivered at
the next sitting.
The Gazette des Tribunamr states that the judgment
of the Court, whatever it may be, will be signified to