The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-23 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN. Mr.
Baker held an inquest on Saturday, at the BI irk Horse,
Kingsland-road, on view of the body of Caroline Bur-
gess, aged 18, who was found drowned on Thursday
evening, at six o'clo .k, in the Regent's Canal. near
Hagarrstone-bridge, Shorediteh, and who was taken to
the workhouse or the above parish. It appeared from
the evi.lenee of Hannah Burgess, deceased's mother, who
was living at No. 57, N. 1-on-street, Bethnal green, that
her husband had been a timber-merchant, but that she
was now reduced !o a state of poverty. Last Thursday
afternoon deceased came from service, suffering from
fever. The mother applied to Bristow, relieving officer
of Bethnal-green, for a medical order, who said that she
was too late, and that she must come in the evening at
five o'clock, but deceased, as she got better, objected to
her mother making a second application. On Monday
deceased became affected in her mind, upon which her
mother put knives and other things out of her way. The
same night, on going to bed, the door of the bedroom was
locked, and the key was given into the possession of the
deceased's sister, who slept on the floor. About two
o'clock the following morning deceased's mother awoke
and discovered that the decea-ed was missing, and had
taken the key out of her sister's hand, with which she
had unlocked the door. She had put on a gown, flannel
petticoat, and a pair of boots, laced at the side. Nothing
more was heard of her till her body was found in the
Regent's canal. Verdict, "Found drowned,"
CANTERBURY, AUG. 20.—Thig nv•rning the 17th
Regiment of Foot assembled on the General Parade tor
the purpose of witnessing the pi esentation of a hand-
not present
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regiment having formed square, Lieutenant• Colonel
pennyeaieh, GB , K. 11., in the absence of Lieutenant-
Col. Croki.r, presented the medal to the late Sergeant
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and cost 301.
SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ITALIAN GENTLEMAN.—
On Saturday Mr. Bedford received information that
Signor Visconti, recently arrived in this country from
Milan, and residing at the Sablouiere Hotel, Leieester•
square, had died in a very sudden manner the previous
evening. He had been iu his usual cheerful mood all
day, v•rld after dinner stopped at the door of the hotel,
arid while in animated conversation suddenly fell dead
on the gronn,!. He was a very st.:m.t r'bUtit, 10411, h 6,1
aprlcroL,tiv in the, cojoyrapnt of per Fe' he:.10;.
THOMAS S. DuNcomnE, EFQ 1"1.P.-IVe regret ti.
hear that Mr. Duncornbe's health is not improving, but
on the contrary, worse than last week • and the
apprehend= of his friends are serious.—Lced; Mercury.

The journey of Thursday was in every respect the
most interesting that the royal party have ever taken
in Scotland. It introduced them to scenery of a new
and most interesting character, to the strangest inter-
mingling of the stern and the beautiful that is any-
where presented— scenery famed in song and story,
and rich in stirring historical memories. The ruined
castles, perched inconveniently for peaceable times on
so many heights, are like the foot-prints in geology,
which tell of a former and extinct race. Where so
many chieftains existed there must have been many
commoners; and if the Western Isles and Highlands
supported a denser population than at the present day
—when property was insecure, and a man's fields
were defended by his sword—when petty wars were
the yearly curse of a suffering people—it is remark-
able to hear so pertinaciously from those who have
mismanaged this vast district that it is over-peopled,
and that its poverty is only to be cured by the re-
moval of labour and labourers, of those who make a
country richer.
The royal yacht left Crinan Loch on Thursday, at
seven o'clock A.at. The morning was fair and clear,
permitting a beautiful view of the islands that stud
and the mountains that surround this interesting loch.
The yacht, followed by the Scourge, passed out of
the northern corner of Jura, keeping wisely the cele-
brated Gulf of Corryvreckan, the Maelstrom of the
west, and Scarba_lsland to the left, proceeding up the
Sound of Luing into Loch Linnhe, passing next Seil
Island and Easdale on the right.
Easdale slates are one of the staples of the Western
Highlands. and the quarries are wrought in a very
spirited manner, on account of their noble proprietor
the,Matquis of Breadalbane, whose long and wide
estates dip here into the Atlantic, and extend east-
ward in one unbroken line across the country to the
neighbourhood of Pertb. The quarries afford em-
ployment and decent remuneration to a large body of
labourers ; and the Queen was received here with a
novel and exciting welcome. The coasts of the
Breadalbane estates are inhabited by a body of the
most hardy boatmen in the world. They were col-
lected in large numbers off Seil Island. We heard
that 150 boats were to be manned, and drawn up in
two lines, through which the yacht would pass.
Ultimately, it was said that double that 'lumber (300
boats) were collected, manned each by six men, and
each carrying its little flag. Their rendezvous was
off Luing Island, and their dressing and drawing up
exhibited no little taste and discipline. The boats in
each of the two lines were so close that the men.
while receiving the Queen, resembled two solid
bodies of infantry drawn up two or three deep, as a
guard of honour, on the waters. Those who are in
the habit of seeing many pageants, and saw the com-
pliment paid to royalty by the Breadalbane men, call
it the most imposing and striking thing of the sort
that they have ever witnessed. From the hills above
the village of Easdale a royal salute was fired; and
passing the entrance of Loch Feochan on the right,
and Gylen Castle on the left, the yacht entered the
narrow channel between Kerrera Island and the main -
laid, laid, and ran into Oban Bay, which is almost land-
locked, and completely sheltered by the island.
On Thursday morning the little bay was quite
crowded with various craft ; in addition to the Vic-
toria and Albert yacht, there were two steamers in
connexion with her Majesty, a Government steamer
in the bay, the Dolphin, and three or four steamers
connected in some way with the locality, several
groups of boats, and a few large sailing vessels. The
yacht steamed round the bay, and stopped for some
time while a royal salute was fired from a battery
formed on the top of one of the highest hills behind
the town, and from the Government steamer sta-
tioned in the bay. Shortly after' eleven o'clock the
yacht steamed out of Oban Bay, followed by its
tenders, the Dolphin, and two other steamers, taking
a course westward to the Sound of Mull. The crew
of the Government steamer bad hoisted a complete
set of flags on the ruins of the old castle of Lunolly
on the right, a residence once of the M4Dougals of
Lorne, who were in the habit of considering them-
selves to be monarchs, and dealing with the Kings
of England in than sort of way. The English
sailors never dreamed that they were taking liberties
with the fortress of a race who claimed to be kings
over the west, alike independent of the Scotch or
the English monarchs. To thelrigaWhe yacht passedl
Lismore, one. of the most fertile of the Western
Isles; and at this point, the entrance of which is
really to be considered the Sound of Hull, the royal
tourists commanded one of the finest of our Scottish
views. The farm houses had all their little flags flut
tering away in the breeze. The lighthouse of Lis-
Jaime, like the picturesque-cottages-amongst the trees
though not amongst the trees itself, was picturesque
also. Lismore, which once, we believe, contained a
Roman Catholic college—a Maynooth to the Hebrides
—looked green and cheerful. Morven was on thw
right, frowning in a dark colour and a sterner form.
There were the curious ruins of Duart Castle—once
the seat of the M‘Leans—on the left, in Mull. And
the tide is working over, and leaving but occasionally
bare and black that little rock in the Sound, where
tradition says a faithless and murderous chieftain of
the M‘Lean race exposed his wife, of whom, for some
tolerably apparent reason, he desired to be relieved.
Vainly in all her wide dominions might the Sove-
reign look for aught more magnificent and wildly
grand than this entrance to the Sound of Mull. The
hold bleak Morven hills, famed in our oldest poetry,
associated with dark tales in history, are on the right.
Behind the far distant peaks of Ben Cruachan stand
proudly over its multitude of attendant and minor
mountains without a streak of mist up to their sharpest
and highest cliff or pinnacle, and far away to the
right the mountains stretch in an apparently endless
chain, while Duart, and the masses of mountains,
in all grotesque shapes and forms, that to the eye
make up the island of Mull, as they really con-
ceal its green pasturage, stretch along on the left,
making altogether a matchless scene of wild and
romantic beauty. The royal yacht was placed under
the pilotage of Captain M'Killop, of the Dolphin, and
from her frequent crossing and recrossing of the
channel, so as to command the best points of the view,
it was evident that the Queen and her party were
Sreally delighted with a passage which Sir Walter
cott describes as so tempting in " fine weather."
The yacht is speeding on its way ; and there is all
that remains of Ardornish, the fort of once mighty
and now well-nigh forgotten and dishonoured chiefs.
Dishonoured, indeed, they would deem their memories
and the home of their greatness, for there, under the
very shadow of their old walls, has Peter Sellar, the
present proprietor of Ardornish, built his house of
brick, we suppose, if brick by any possibility has been
obtained, and glare and white-washing. Peter Seller
is the notable sheep farmer of the Highlands, who, in
the zealous discharge of a disagreeable duty, aided in
the clearance of the Sutherland estates, and has
realised a large fortune from the folly, and, we are
half inclined to add, the worse than folly or blunder-
ing, of the Sutherland family. This Peter Sellar is a
great man for sheep, and they have done great
things for him. He acts, however, on principle,
and that principle, we hear, is, that the High-
lands were intended for sheep, and the American
prairies for men ; and if Peter Sellar and
similar theorists would only act out their own theory
in another way than they do—that is, betake them-
selves to the American prairies, and leave the High-
lands to sheep or any other creatures that might
thrive there, we have not the slightest doubt that
these Highlands would export ten times the number
of sheep that they now do, and support four times the
number of men ; for who can even skirt these island
shores and not see that indolence and poverty
alone bar their cultivation ? Even upon poor lona,
famed for other qualities than fertility, we noticed
ripened barley as heavy and firm in the head as any
barley on the Clyde. Along the shores of Mull Sound
there are occasional breaks in the waste, and fields of
good promise where tillage is deemed subordinate to
nou-tillage, and prosecuted neither with care, nor
capital, nor attention.
The fleet had passed the entrance to Lochaline, and
the echoes of the mountains and the deep narrow
channel are stirred and put to most unaccountable
trouble by the loyalty of Mr. Sinclair, who, finding,
unlike Mr. Sellar, that the Highlands were intendedto grow excellent barley, made his fortune by distilla-
tion at Tobermory, and has purchased land, And his
a squire-looking house on the mainland
near neighbour—who is said to be the tallest,minis.ter
of Scotland, and a direct descendant of the Norwegian
kings, has planted a flag before his manse, and ga-
thered a party beneath the flag-stadff to celebrate in
his way—of course not by gunpow er—the progress
of his Queen.
In every mile or two we pass ruins of castles that
p
it has been found more difficult to destroy than the
ruins of cottages ; butwemay be assured that the
castles did not flourish without the cottages. The
latter are forgotten, and tshsFy have
fast not been replaced,
g ll the
while the former are p
stages of decay. There,a oinalhe right, on the main -
land, is the seat of the late Sir Charles Gordon, so
well known as the secretary to the Highland Society
and on the left is the narrow entrance to the bay of
Tobermory.
FORT WILLIAM, FRIDAY MORNING.
The royal yacht is understood to be moored in the
Bay of Toberusory, and. will arrive here to-day about
ten or eleven o'clock. Prince Albert has forwarded

THE MURDER OF THE DUCHESS
DE PRASLIN.
(From Galignanis Messenger of Friday.)
We take the following very detailed account from
the Gazette des Tribunaux of this morning. There
,ire necessarily a few repetitions, of facts which have
been already stated, but we think it better to 1-ave
them, in order to prevent confusion in our extract :
" As v e arinouueed yesterdey, the operatians of jus-
ice continued on Wednesday evening, and during part
the night, at the H tea Sebastiani. The magistrates.
who did not retire before two o'clock in the morning to
rake some necessary repose, returned yesterday morn-
ing at seve n o'cloek -to the theatre of the crime. to con-
the `oeerifiiies dithee inqiie4t, and to commence -the
examination. Wednesday was devoted to the exami•
nation of the premises, and of the state of the corpse, 'to
the seizure of articles likely to Irad ta the disciiver) (0'
the criminal, to investigations in the hotel, and parti-
cularly in the apartments of the Duke de Praslin, end
to the examination by medical men of his person. Ye
terday the exonsination was resumed, whilst the embalm-
ment of the body welt place, under the direction of M.
Gannet. Two of the clergy of the church of the Ma-
deleine had prayed by the corpse all night. From
the very first 'moment ut which the t fficers of justice
arrived in the hotel a very grave fact was noticed.
The apartments occupied by the Duke and Duchess ate
situated on the ground floor. By an antechamber
opening on the flight of steps there is a commu-
nication at the left with the boudoir, then with the
duchess's bed-room ; at the right a little room precedes
the bed-rcom of the Duke, which touches the walls of the
Elsie Bourbon. In examining the floor it was disco
vered that a bloody trace marked the passage from the
bed-room of the Duchess to that of the Duke. At the
same time there was received the testimony of the do-
mestic, who, attracted by the cries of the femme de
chambre, had, after useless efforts to open the door of
the Duchess's bed-room, gone round the hotel in order
to arrive in time to render assistance to his unfortunate
mistress by entering at one of the windows opening on
the garden. The domestic declared that at the moment
at which he arrived in the garden he perceived a mad of
the height and appearance of the Duke, who, hearing
the noise of his footsteps, withdrew suddenly into the
interior‘of the bed-room, abruptly quitting one of the
windows which he had just opened, in order, without
doubt, to make it.be believed that it was by that issue
that the murderer had obtained entrance. Among the
objects found in She chamber, in which everything, as
we have said, was in disorder, was a pistol loaded with
balls, and bearing a percussion cap. This pistol, which
has been recognised as belonging ta the Duke de
Praslin, was not only stained with the blood itite
which it had fallen, but it bore on the butt-end frag-
ments of flesh, and on the face and skull of the victim
there was found the traces of blows which retained the
marks of the arabesques and hollow chisellings which
bad been executed by the workman. In presence of
such indications, .orders were obliged to be -given that
the Duke de Praslin should be kept in view, and the
magistrates,- after receiving from him, his declaration as
intormi.tion,,addressed questions to him of which the
form and gravity were of a nature to make him undere
stand that it was hencefoitli.,not merely as a witness that
he was called on ior explanations. At the same time a
perquisition was made in a private lodging, where papers
calculated to establish grave charges were, as we were
EAssured, seized, and -where ithowas, at the-same tune,n
scovered that papeakand objects, qLsthich the flatus*,
could not be recugn ed, had been Tiliite recently de-
stroyed by fire. On the clothes which the Duke wore
there were numerous stains of blood, which, however,
he said he had received in- his contact with the body of
the unhappy Duchess, which he had pressed in his arms
on arriving in her apartment at the moment of the
discovery of the crime. It was also established that
the hair found between the fingers of the Duchess, and
in the pool of blood in which her body lay, was pre-
cisely of the same colour and the same length as that
of her husband. The attitude of the Duke, during these
painful. investigaticns of justice, presented, it is stated,
a singular contrast with what it ordinarily was. Small in
stature, nervous, energetic, proud, and of extreme irasci-
bility, he could not till then support a contradiction,
and would have censidered a question an uffenoe ; but
now he was cast down, and depressed, and unable to find
a word to protest against the horrible suspicion st hich
seemed to rest upon him. The material facts once as-
certained, it remained to see what cau.es could have
drawn into crime the man who seemed to be designated
as the author of it by so many horrible circumstances
It was ascertained that relations of culpable intimacy
existed between him -and a young lady, Mdlle. de
Luzy, who, alter having occupied during six years the
situation of governess of the young children of the
Duchess de Praslin, had about a month _ ago been dis-
missed by the Duchess after some rather violent scenes,
which, however, did not prevent the Duchess from giving
her a pension for life. A summons to appear was issued
against this lady, who is aged twenty-nine, and who,
since leaving the Hotel Sebastiani, had placed herself
in a young ladies' school. It was ascertained from -the
declaratious of the Duke de Praslin himself, that on ar-
riving from his country seat with the Duchess, who came
in the same carriage with him, he had gone to pay a viait
to Mdlle. de Luzy, before entering his hotel. It was con-
sequently important to examine her without delay ; but
the commissary of police, to whom the summons was
intrusted, did not find her at her residence, and it was
only a little later that he succeeded in finding her at
the residence of one of her friends in the rue de la
Chaussee d'Antin. When brought before the magis-
trates, she underwent a long interrogatory, at the end of
which she was conveyed to the Conciergerie, and placed
in secret confinement. As to the Duke de Praslin, he
has been, since the moment at which the crime was dis-
covered; keptconfined in his bed-clamber, and, accotd-
ing to the orders of the. refect of police, the chief of the
secret police has_ not left him for an instant. The Duke
tie
Praslin lea'
sfallen into such a state of prostration, that
such serious fears were felt respecting his health as to
cause his medical attendant, fd. Louis, to be sent for,
who, among other thino, prescribed him a bath. In
the investigation it was ascertained that the Duke must
have placed himself in bed, although he was completely
dressed at the moment at-which he arrived after the d
of the Duchess's bed-chamber had been broken open b%
the domestics. His bed, in fact, was in disorder.
spite of all the search that has been made, it has been
impossible up to this moment to discover the sharp in-
strument. with which the wounds of the Duchess were
inflicted. The water-closets have been emptied, ant'
investigations are to take place under the super-
intendence and control of the officers of justice. It
was reported during the day, at the Pallas de, Justice,
that notwithstanding the incessant surveillance to
which he is subjected, the Duke de Praslin has succeeded
in taking to flight. The disappearance of subaltern
agents was spoken of, and even the amount which had
been paid in corrupting the officers was mentioned.
Nothing of the kind has, however, taken place, for, es
we have said, it is the chief of the secret police himself
t even
to whom the painful mission of watching the duke has
been confided. It is equally incorrect that arrests, ahrroeusses,
have
temporary, of persons connected
de Praslin alone is
informed in this respect. The
,Dof
security.
As. V) the
taken place; the evening journalo,:vkiehthavet been wrongly
the object of necessary
h the crime was com-
hotel during the :night
received an injuncti,in not to
domestics and the fewer dmesuwchhaentibre., who, were in the ,
mitted, they have only
mine them again.
of justi°6' whichini9rrtaie Chancellor Pasquier visited
absent themselvevan Italez tthoeemxsaelves at the dispLeal
Oncrime, and remained about an hour,
the theatre of the
directpart in the
proceedings of
but Wednesday evening,
• - The Chancellor returned yesterday at
the examination.
noon
to without
t h e
taking any'
but he continued to main-
tainn°° the same reserve, which was dictated to him by the
authority of con.titutional principles and the precedents
f the Court of Peers. In fact, the Chamber of Peers
is not de plan droit erected into a court of justice ;
its transformation into a judicial body even during the
legislative sessions must be pronounced by an ordinance
of the King, and consequently that must be more parti-
cularly the case in the interval between the sessions.
Therefore it is that, as we are assured, the Ministers
present in Paris have sent a messenger to Eu, who is to
bring back a royal ordinance, prescribing the convocation
of the Court of Peers. But the existence of thi •
s ordi-
nance will even not suffice, according to the precedents
of the Court to authorise the Chancellor to proceed to
the preliminary examinations. It is, in fact, established
by the practice observed by that high juriediction, that
no preliminary investigation can take place unless it shall
be ordered by decree. It will be recollected that, after
the reading of the royal ordinance, the Chamberh
of Peers gives en Chambre du Conseil. a eberet2
iyn
which generally it orders an examination, ambers
that case delecates -one or terval
of eta
aulnd such
(commonly the Chancellor or President,.to assist him),
Peers as it may please him to requntreand
eote of this
to proceed to it. The deliberation
indispensable preliminary,
decree have appeared. an
et as crtain. if the facts im-
-which enables the cm" to example, haveite.
pitted to one of its -Firraberh r

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l'he Duke de Chei-eul Prnsin, whose melte at
this moment exeites so mad a sensatien, is the chief
of the third brand' of the ducal heu..e of Chol-
seul. and the only member of it remnining ; the
last Duke de Choiseul of the second branch, who
died when Governor of the Louvre, having le!t nn
male issue. The Duke de Praslin was horn in
1804, and he is cetistquently in hi. 43,1 y ear.
In 1825 he married Fanny, daughter of Horace
Sebastiani, now Marshal of France, and of Antoinette
Francoise Jeanne de Coigny, who died yourg, and
who was the cousin of the jeune captive immortalised
by the poet Andre Chenier. By this atarriage there :
are nine children, viz., six daughters and three sons.
The sixth child, who is a boy, is named Gaston Louis
Philippe de Praslin. The Duke de Praslin is graAd-
son of the Duke de Praslin, who was a member of
the States General, and joined the minority of, the
nobility in the cause of moderate reform, and sera of
the Duke of Praslin, who was Chamberlain of do
Empress, and Colonel of the Ist legion of the National
Guard in 1814, in which position his name figured
honourably in the resistance of the city of Paris -to
the invaders. This Duke was created a Peer during
-the Hundred Days, and was exiled at the second re•
storation. In 1819, he was recalled by M. Decazes.
He died in June, 1841. The estate of Praslin was
erected into a duche-pairie in 1762. The present
Duke has a brother, Count Edgard de Praslin, who.
was horn in 1806, and who married 111411 e Shicklen.
He has also three sisters, who are married to persons
of the highest nobility of the old monarchy. He is -
the owner of the chateau and grounds of Vaux, near
Melun, where he is said to have expended two mil-
lions of francs in repairs and embellishments, restor-
ing it to its magnificence in the time of its former
owner, Fouquet. The late Duchess was cherished by
the poor of the environs of Vaux for her active and
extensive benevolence.
(From Galignani's lifeßseuger of Saturday.)
The Moniteur publishes the following royal ordone
nance :
" Louis Philippe. King of the French, to all to whom'
these presents shall come, greeting.
" Considering the inquest commenced, in consequence
of the- assassination committed in
.the night of the..l7A
'6and.lBth
.of. this month, on the person of ,tficDitagess.
de Prf,slin ;considering. that grave sUspicions haie
arisen against 'the Duke de Praslin. 'per -of
Fraece, of being the author or 'accomplice of 'this
crime; considering Article 29. of the Constitutions*
Charter, ileclaring that an Peer can be arrested without.
the authartity of the Chamber, and can be judged by it-
alone in criminal matters; we have ordained and do
ordain as follews:—
" Art. I. The Court of Peers is convoked. Such Peers,
as may be absent from Paris shall be 'bound to return
immediately, unless they be prevented by some legitimate
impediment
" Art. 11. The Court shall proceed without delay to
try and give judgment upon the crime imputed to the,
Duke de Praslin.
" Art. M.—lt shall conform itself in this case to the
forms which have hitherto been followed in like cases.
" Art. IV. M. Delaegle, our Procureur-General at
the Cour Royale of Paris, ehall fulfil the functions of
Procureur-General before the Court of Peers. Ile Fhell
be assisted by M. Bresson. Advoeetr- General before the
Cour Royale of Paris, fulfilline the functions of Advo-
cate-General, and replacing the Pre cur, ur-General
during his absence.
"Art. V. The Keeper of' the Archives of the Cham-
ber of Peers and his depitty shall perform the functions
of Registrars of the Court of Pe, rs.
" Art. VI. Our Keeper of the seals, Minister Secre-
tary
chared w the executeon o p
of. State for the Department of Jusftictehiasndr%eVseoer-t
ordon nance, which ith
shall be inserted in the Bullttin des
Lois.
" Given at our Palace of Eu,,,Lthoisuli9sthplattispt,rlEB.4l7.
"By the King.
" The Keeper of the Seals, Minister Secretary of
State for the Department of Justice and Public
Worship, "
This ordonnance is followed by another, dated the
20th, ordaining that M. Boucly, Procureur du Rui
before the Tribunal of the Seine, shall perform the
functions of Advocate General before the Court of
Peers, in concert with M. Bresson, and shall, in that •
quality, assist the Procureur-General, and replace
him in his absence.
The Duke de Praslin was accordingly removed
from the Hotel Sebastiani to the prison of the Lux-
embourg very early on Saturday morning. He was
in a private carriage, accompanied by the Chief of As
Police de Surete, followed by two hackney-coaches,
in which were the examining magistrates, commissa•
ries of police, &c. It is stated that the Duke, before
his removal, confessed his guilt to a relation of the
family. A couteau de chasie, with which the murder C..
is supposed to have been committed, and several nap- •
kins, have been found in a cesspool.
The following details are given by the French
journals :
From the saloon in which the body of the Duchess ,7
was placed on Thursday it has been carried intsi t4l4qe
known in the hotel as the ' young ladies' work-room, ,
which has been converted into a chapelle ardente. ,1?8,!!rf;
in the middle a state bed, on which reposes, ertninewn?
face uncovered, the corpse, which, from the Aseuttlave
t
of it, retains all the 'appearance
ready announced; the water-closetsn of
and in the resence of the e.
emptied the night before last;
. ivss,
oflire: wealre
amming magistrates, the mo t. h
theasneeereonhewomsf then cads;
wounds were
Ifours.petchtoer-Gweenaeproanl,
success. While
hwouhrilien
thisthe
commenced at nine in the
inflicted. The search
private
apartment Mw.il:hnssowtst.eicTinui
nut;
following morning, but w
on
operation was going the magistrates
thseuccs
fruitlessed
)a
clposeekr
e.c:mdmiattiownasofth
evening, and was continuedithteilalt
apartment his bed"chamber,otubgeht
remove him from
till then kept closely guard. d and watched, to another
proceeded
of the
room, on the third floor, looking into the gardens of the
Elysee Bourbon. Following up this aeacch the inagie-
trates at length discovered in the drawer of a desk in the
cabinet adjoining the &iamb. r the broken hilt of a
poniard upon which were fresh stains of hood It, has -
been impossible to find the blade of this
weapen,
according to very warrantable presumption, had been
used its the perpetration of the crime, but had broken in •
the hand of the murderer, and thus explained-the sup-'
posed employment of the butt-end of a pistol, such deep
traces of which were found on the person of the Duchess.
On being interrogated as to his being in possession of.
this fragment of a weapon of which he bad evidently'
made use,-the Duke declared that he could'hot give an
explanation of the circumstance. As he refused to tom
what he bad done with the blade, a search'wes made in
the garden of the Elviee 11,urb which is divided from.
the Hot4l Sebastian'. bye 1"v"""' an("l'6
street or lane belonging to the property
of the late'
Countess de Castellane, hut without. anyonor
result. • Mdlle.
idsv,
was
de Luzy, whose arrest we _announi.c:eend e
again interrogated yesterday,
when
wDuraslin,
had any intimate relations,
herith topd attke- deachmentP to the
and protested with energy
fi She
ent ts.
noble family, who bad ed h-r with b
expressed great regret at having been -constrained to-
ladies whose eZ •
quit the hotel and the young education had
been confided to her; and endeavoured to explain thereby
the terms of a letter addressed by her to the Duke de
Praslin, which had been found among his papers. No-
thing has been changed in the measures adopted-on
Thursday."
The Debate says
"Marshal Sebastiani, father of the-Duchess de Pras.
lin, left a little while ago for Corsica.. On arriving at
Chalon-sur-Saone he found himself indisposed in crane.
quence of the excessiee heat which had prerciied for
some days, *su'l he then proceeded to Switzixiand torte*
the test of the summer.' Be stopped at Geneva, audit
is there 'that the horrible news will reach him. ,But no
one ever thought of abruptly informing him of it by tele.
-graph, as was reported, and still less of can3mOnips him

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