The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-29 00:00:00

MADAINI LAFFARGE.

A letter from Tulle states that on the night following
her contiction, Madame Laffarge was sunk in the moat
abject state of lethargy ; but towards morning, recover-
ing her wonted energy, she exclaimed, " All is not yet
over between me and my enemies, and I hope to Lye
long enough to prove my ionocence in the face of the
world." The quidnunes remark upon the singularity of
the accidents which detained M. Raspail, the chemist,
on his way to Tulle. His carriage broke down thrice
on the road. The declaration which he has since
made, that he could extract from any piece of old fur-
niture as much arsenic as was found in M. Laff.ri:e's
body, would very probably have produced a strong im-
pression on the jury, and had he arrived only n few
minutes sooner, he would have been examined in Court,
when his assertion might have probably turned • the
scale in Madame Laffarge's favour, so great was the
uncertainty of the jury, as Is evident from their verdict.
Madame Laffsrgc's defenders hope to ovcrset the ver-
dict in the Court of Cassation, whose decision must he
given within 40 days.
Very many of the circumstances connected with this
case are excessively singular, and there are not want-
in; in France persons of a superstitious turn who hold
them to be perfectly mysterious, and almost supe,-na-
tural. A tradition is preserved at GlasCier (Laffarg*
residence), from which it would appear that in form*
times, upon the very same spot, a woman was condemned
and executed, unjustly, for the murder of her husband.
According to the same legend, it was for the expiation
of this offence that the convent which is still to be seen
in the neighbourhood was first erected. Again, at the
conclusion of the trial more than one circumstance oc-
curred which furnished the superstitious with materials
for the exercise their imaginative faculties. At the mo-
ment when the examination of the witnesses was
concluded, a tremendous hail-storm broke upon the
Valais de Justice, which was full to overflowing from
the cumin :neetnent of the trial, several panes of glass
were broLn, and even the very seats of the Judges
were much wet—" inundated," to use the phrase
the
a French reporter. Aga'n, at the moment whenf tore
Jury retired, and when (still to use the words
hrouoh
French reporters) " the victim of this horriblet dramao
was removed," a bat entered the Hull ofJushtteci
one of those windows which the wind and
destroyed, and began to flit overel had jest
heads of the ac
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DREADFUL ACClDENT.—iestmlay morning,
to St. George'
about ten o'clock, three men in tha. employment of Mr.
failing of the ba.eo.ny tg,tlAlise
Cubitt, who were painting the
.outside of !C:>. 21, Be! .
grave-Equare, irnmedi.ately opposite
iLoid Hill's, Were pre..
two fell on to the pavement, the third into the area.
cilitated by the
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but we regret to state no hopes are entertained--''''
unfortunate Men were instantly removed
olifGtishi:elarsi'raeesoi 7;
jar fact, and at once sho '
a low ebb Toryism is at Taunton, that •
that the Somersetshire C'onstitutie lO
the sir" week
serrative went to the tomb ( f na
and Taunton Cou-
4. Brauch Oflicc" of the Dors. all tho Cyniets, the
Gazelle was broken no and ,id Chronicle and Sonzerset
t.blc bocAsellers of that "(1t
one of the many rospae,
Conservative, would accept tOWfl, either Whig, Radical, or
abusive Tyry paper. the agency of this rabid and