The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

tRus;T:E.7.,
'3llr briiii

L'llo came ro •-,
tag the production oi"
We learn that the .tunnel of Hoo3ter, near Chaufon-
taine, is completely terminated. This tunnel was one of
the
mostimportant works of the line of the railway from
the Meuse to the PrtiSsian frontier. This section pre-
sents difficulties almost at every step ; it will be the ad-
tniration of foreigners, and the worthy compliment of
Belgianthei •
iron railways.
We may at length hope that the weather will continue
Le be fine. The sun appears to-day in all his splendour,
and we have •the usual ternperature of the dog dayS.
The Verdiers journal of the Gth of August says
A petitioni‘atigued by the principal merchants and ma-
-IYacturers a Liege and Brussels, is circulated in this
r'wn to receive the signature of our principal manu-
facturers and-merchants. • It is addressed to the
alinister of the Interior requesting him not to regard the
°bieetious which have Leen made by some merchants and
B'lipowners against the establishment of a regular . corn-
Ilunication by sea between Belgium and some transat-
lantic ports.
BRUSSELS, Auc. 9.—Tt was in vain we hoped once
more for a continuance of fine weather. Yesterday. a
Pretty fine day was succeeded by a dreadful storm, which
°l'ertook thousands of persons who were walking in the
!tlrrounding country. It was quite a deluge. the rain fell
lli torrents for more than an hour, and the lightning and
istunder were awful and incessant.
BRUSSELS, Aud. appears that the King
acid Queen will not go to Paris as was reported; but it is
said that their Majesties will go to Ostend for a few days.
The Ambassadors of Austria, France, and Great Bri-
tain, to the Court of Brussels, are all at Ostend.
Tho marriageof the Prince of Arenberg to Princess
tildebrandini, was solemnized yesterday morning at
everle. The ceremony was performed By 3,lonsignore
.'emari, the Pope's Nuncio.
BELGIAN ki UNDS—Baussiti.d, Auc. 10
/actual Debt, 53 per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cant 191%
Loan of Thirty Million.; 4 per Cent 9r%
3 per Cent.
-----Thirty.seven---- .......... 71%
(H4O) lOl%
Loan of City, 1t3!2, 4 per Cent ......... 91
Society nt Commarce, 4 N,per Cent... 4:311
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ........ 73;<1
National Society.
Exchange on London (shot t)
—Brussels INsmrs, Aug 10.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Ace. 3.
livelier Cents. aletalliques
Emir per Cents.
Three iur Cents.
bank Shares . ».»......»......« 3.523
—Allgenzeine Zeitung.

DUTCH AM) GERMAN MAIL.
We have received papers from Amsterdam to the 7th
of August. We hear that the Minister of the Interior
has laid down some regulations for the delivery of certiti-
Qates of origin for goods destined for the Dutch colonies,
With a view positively to ascertain whether the manufac-
tories and manufacturers named in the certificates are
teally such as they are represented ; whether they are
of
such a nature and extent as are calculated to produce
the
quantity and qualities of goods named in the certifi-
Zttes ; and whether the goods have been wholly manu-
44etured by the manufacturers and in the establishments
mentioned, or whether they have only undergone a
*light and last finishing.
I,l"apers from the Hague up to the 6th August state that
Zits. :Elizabeth Fry, who had been here for some days,
lltdyesterday a brilliant assembly at the Hotel Bellavue.
.
Joseph Gurney, who accompanied her, described to
the
company the state of the reform among the negroes
ip West Indies, and was listened to with much attention.
ts. Fry communicated many particulars respecting the
!!tisons which she has visited in various countries, which
Made a great impression on the hearers.
TIM HAGUE, Ace. B.—Mrs. Fry yesterday paid se-
ital visits, to take leave, among others, to his Excel-
'tley the Minister of the Interior.
DuTefi FUNDS.—AMSTURDAM, Ave. 9.
Money. Limn
' Actual Debt, `.334 per Cent
Jitto, iitto 5 per cent. • lOO4, 10114
Atm t Svndic,,l% per ............ 91% SI% .
Ditto, ditto, 3.;‘, percent. 75 75•,
etantnercial Company, 4' re: cent 155'4 r5l
. Atto (1635 and les37) 5 per cont.
Login 1b:37, t percent....„ ................. 97;<, 975 i
iExchange on Londfm, tine month tit GC
Twomonths ...... 11 95
./:. Hamburgh; One month 25 Pll4
Two months 35 56
Dutch Papers, Aug. 10. olb

JiRAZILS.
Iler
liejesty's packet Delight, Lieut. Lory, arrived on
te,sd
tt,y; her sailin dates were—from Rio, June 16,
Pernambuco, 7. Her Majesty's ships
Balua, July 2,
iPutilampton (Admiral King), Crescent, Clio, Cameleon,
artiidge, and spider were left at Rio. The Grecian
:left Rio on a cruise on May 23, and arrived back on
The former
5 with a barque and brigantine, detained as prizes.
former was found fitting out for the coast of Africa,
`ad the brigantine was supplying her with the necessary
b,sthres from Rio. Her Majesty's ship Rose left Bahia for
'ID on June 30.
The Emperor's coronation was deferred to Aug. Is ;
the
alleged cause is, that the preparations were not cora-
rete. A grand 'display was getting up at Bahia in
°„laour of the approaching event.
The following are extracts from the latest Rio
NJ:
clers ;
" On May 26 the Chamber of Deputies decided on the
ifatter of the claimed indemnities on the English barque
,
°odium), which had been detained by the authorities.
-':he commander not having presented his license for
leaiiug the port, having more than one gun on board,
CI having been, in consequence of his neglect, detained,
tille Chamber considers the Government exonerated from
tt`, In consequence of armed foreigners' having landed
utliferent parts of the coast of Brazil, committing acts
of hostility, with pretence of obtaining provisions or
dater,ls his Imperial Majesty- the Emperor (who in other
,;e3Pects religiously respects the rights of all nations, and
b-°t, being at %vat- with any), desiring not only to maintain
-111111 paired the dignity of the Brazilian nation by the
rvontion of similar acts, as also that the vessels of
I,'endly and allied nations may not lack such succour and
directed
as they may claim from the local authorities, has
`reeted the following peremptory orders to be issued
' Ist. Any foreigners who may land armed without
b-S.e on any part of 'the coast of the empire, are to be re-
-40d by force.
2d. The local authorities will give to the foreign
Oects of vessels belonging to friendly nations every
SiStenee and succour that May be required, or the corn-
potent permis.sion to fetch them from shore, unarmed,
e which measures have become the more necessary, as, in
e-°ollsequenee of a report of the existence of pirates on the
(„1", 'St of Brazil having been circulated, it is desirable not
to avoid conflicts, should the local population take
tt'ielidly foreigners for such, who may land without ob-
thtving these precautions, as also to repel them, should
tr:Y actually -be pirates, which may happen to be the
411.• In the issuing these orders the greatest prudence
the
the most scrupulous examination is recommended to
" authorities to avoid disagreeable occurrences.' "
The operations of the Brazilian army in the Rio
Grande do Sul are represented as having consisted of
marches counter-marches, halts,. a considerable number
Of soldiers being sick, and nothing more.
I.ell-oeording to the latest from the seat of war, the
Publican Government was at San Gabriel. The heavy
atm
Y of the enemy, that is carriages, baggage, and 900
!MOO infantry, were in Rage; not far from which
dace was the Brazilian army, with 2,000 rebel cavalry
its front, commanded by panto Gonzalves, Nit°, and
b4ll-I,varro ; whilst the bands of Teixeira and Amarel
erikdor were on the hills.
The Chamber of Deputies was principally occupied in
ofsPssing the law for regulating and fixing the number
Isd been
forces. The reply to the speech from the throne
o been adopted without amendment.
From Buenos Ayres we learn that Lavalle is said to be
t,lePared in the interior with 4,000 men to meet the
°ol'°eS of Roses. There was no demand at Buenos Ayres
f
mercantile wares, owing to the internal dissensions.
l'assengers—Lieutenznt Oliver Jones of the South-
; Mrs. Brooks (widow of the late Surgeon
71,1;ooks, of the Crescent, who died at Rio, June Ist), Mr.
A"hras Baskerville and Mr. James Holmes, from Buenos
Yres ; and six miners.
On f;reight, 35,0001.; exchange, 31d. per milrei.
t; Ivo have just seen a letter which states that the Bri-
tishinerailants resident in Pernambuco have bound
themselves nnder a penalty of a conto of reis, not to sell
41 . -7cre dit. merchandise except for drafts accepted at a
txt u c
time an)
of

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was blocked up by a crowd eagerly pressing forward to
gain admission, and in a very short time after the doors
were opened every corner of the hall was filled. The
seat reserved for the members of the tribunal was even.
partly taken 'possession of by many persons, among
whom was M. Lacombe, recently named Curator on be-
half of Madame Laffarge. A greater number of females
were among the audience than on any previous occasion.
Precisely, at half-past 8, M. and Madame de Lcotaud and
the IsTicoiai family entered, and tools their seats by the
side of M. Corali and M. Odillon Barrot, on the seat re-
served for the partie civile..
The President—Have the counsel for the partie civile
any observations to make relative to the demand made
at a previous sitting by the prisoner's counsel for a
delay ?
M. Odillon Barrot—The counsel for the poisoner has
declared her in default . I do not think that anything
further can be stated, 'Marie Capelle and her counsel
having declined making any defence.
The Court ordered the, trial to proceed.
M. Corali—lf the Court is desirous to hear the evi-
dence of M. and Mme. de Lcotaud, this is the time.
The President—We consider it unnecessary. It is for
M. Corali to address the Court.
M. Corali addressed the tribunal at very great length,
going through the entire history of the case as it has ap-
peared in evidence, and the circumstances connected with
the application made by M. Bac to Mme. de Leotaud,
on the behalf of Madame Laffarge, for the suppression
of the prosecution, all of which have been fully before
the public. M. Corali also read the letter written by
Madame Laffarge to Madame de Leotaud, in which, as
our readers remember, she first mentioned the story
of the pretended:deposit of the diamonds in her hands,
and urged her to stay the proAcution in order to avoid
exposure. After the reading of this letter M. Corali.
commented upon it as he had done when the subject was
alluded to on the former trial of the accused, as a work
of hypocrisy and calnmny, and added, that, but for this
threat, this outrage upon Madame de Leotaud, she •might
have been saved. The letter had destroyed, he said,
all the hopes which she could have entertained in the
mercy of Madame de Leotaud. It had been intended, in-
deed, to produce a different effect, but she had herself
destroyed her last chance of safety. He then proceeded
to show that Mme. de Leotaud could have had no motive
for disposing of her diamonds in the way alleged by
the prisoner, having, when single, the free disposal of
the income arising from a capital of 40,000 fr. in "the
public funds, and, when married, the right of receiving
3,000 fr. a-year upon her own receipts. If, therefore, it
had been true, as it was false, that she was desirous of
purchasing the silence of M. Clavet, where was the ne-
cessity for her to dispose of her diamonds to secure for
him a pretended 'annual allowance of 500 or 600 francs?
Was it probable that, with the means which she
possessed of doing this from her own fortune, she would
have allowed the suspicion of this theft to hang over
fifteen servants, and lead perhaps to the condemnation
of an innocent person ? How absurd was the assertion
of Marie Capelle, who, in the difficulty of explaining
why she had employed the pearls of the pretended de-
posit for her own personal use, said that she had lent a
sum of 180 francs to Madame de Leotaud, who, being
unable to repay her in money, had given her these
pearls, which had been valued at 1,500 francs, in payment.
Alluding to the story of the-box of colours sent to Al-
giers. and the letter announcing the circumstances, M.
Corali said, " What is this letter ? What does it say ?
Who discovered it ? Who produced it ? The letter is a
falsehood. The 'discoverer of it, the• producer of it, was
M. Pouthiers the uncle of Marie Capelle by marriage.
I do not mean, however,. to say, that even the criminal
is to be insulted. I have been reproached with having
done this, but on one occasion only, when urged to ex-
tremity by insulting attacks, did I reply to insult by in-
sult. I said that this woman was a poisoner, and asto-
nishment was expressed; but I am astonished that I did
not say so sooner. I said I would prove that to the title
of poisoner were to be added those of thief and calum-
niator, and I am here to keep my word. You have said,
you (here the eyes of all present were directed to
hachaud), that Mme. de Leotaud. after having betrayed
her husband, had robbed him, and I am here to tell you
that you have not proved your words.—(Sensation.)
Of what importance are the boasted brilliancy of
mind, and the high degree of intelligence of Marie
Capelle, if her
.heart is corrupted ? This woman is
enveloped in an atmosphere of vice and crime. From her
infancy theft multiplied around her. When arrived at
womanhood, she prepared the intrigue with Claret, and
now she attacks even his reputation. At a later period
we hear of Guyot, he who committed suicide at Mont-
morency. This also was an intrigue begun in a church.
Here was also a young girl named Caroline, whose other
name from generosity I will suppress, compromised by
Marie Capelle, and serving as a pretext. The end of
this intrigue was the suicide of a man, who said. in dy-
ing, " It is Marie Capelle who has killed me." At a
later period, we find the extraordinary marriage, so
promptly effected, that it seemed to have for object only
to escape from the suspicions of theft, which had crept
into the family of this woman. Disorder and trouble
follow her into her new family. It is not here a man
who commits suicide, but a man who is poisoned ; a
man, who dies exclaiming, " It is Marie Capelle who
has killed me." It is time that entire justice should be
clone. Your judgment cannot physically affect this wo-
moman. but • society demands a vengeance which will
punish her more than the sentence which has been pro-.
nounced against her. Society demands for her the ob-
scurity and oblivion in which she is about to sink. Let
her be buried in it alive, and come out of it after death
only like La Brinvilliers 1"
M. Odillon Barrot stated that he should not have come
forward to give his professional assistance in this cause,
had he not been strongly requested to do so by Mine. do
Leotaud. That lady had written to him, and the Court
would excuse him from reading the following passage
from her letter :—" I am in a state of great suffering,
and if I had not on my side the moral tranquillity which
your aid gives cue, I should be alarmed at these severe
and fatiguing emotions ; certainly I have not any dis-
quietude, and I have never had any, as to the issue of
the affair; but I am happy when I think that you will be
by my side, when we must hear unfolded that theme of
lies and calumnies invented by the defence of Mme. Laf-
farge." His purpose was not to say anything in defence
of Mine. de Leotaud ; such an idea would be an in-
sult to her - but he rose to fulfil a moral duty which
lay upon him, and he did so with full confidence.
The Learned Counsel then observed that the theft of
the diamonds might now be said to be not only proved.
but even admitted by the Counsel for the prisoner.
You are called before the tribunal in order to purge your-
self of the charge of robbery, and you exclaim that you
are persecuted. And you say that this tribunal, which
has given you such a proof of its impartiality, is an ex-
ceptional tribunal. You cry out, " I am dead—ask no
more of me." You are dead, but you still calumniate—
you are dead, but your defamations continue—you are
dead, but you prepare your calumnious memoirs, in
which will be embodied your greedy and low specula-
tions—you are then only living for evil. This tribunal
and the Court of Cassation have replied to you with
reason and law, for legal fiction vanishes before reality ;
there is no question here of an aecumulation of penalties;
there is a decision to give, and it must be given, for you
are liVing still and continuing your calumnies. The
good sense of the public has sanctioned this decision.
Odillon Barrot then adverted to the fresh demand
for delay ; he confessed he had thought that the counsel
for the prisoner would have had more good faith than to
make such a demand ; but in this obstinate refusal to
submit to a discussion of the case in a court of justice,
lie only saw an implicit admission of guilt. He added,
after justice shall have pronounced its decision, after
the curtain shall have fallen on this scene so full of pain
and scandal, when entrenched in the inviolability of that
eternal punishment which the law has inflicted on you,.
you promise yourself, we are aware, to pursue your vic-
tim and to torment her life. Still alive for hatred and
vengeance, you attach yourself to this world by those
cruel satisfactions which rather seem to belong to the
regions of darkness. But indulge no such hopes. This out-
rage against the laws and justice has already endured
long enough ; it is time for it to cease. Hope nothing
from the inviolability attached to the punishment inflict-
ed on you, for I here solmnly engage that, if after refu-
sing to enter into any defence before justice and the laws,
you have the cowardice to continue your calumnies in
e. defamatory publications,l will present myself before the
justice of the country, and will claim a striking repa-
ration, not from you, but from those whom cupidity shall
make your instruments. In doing this I should have
on my side the justice of my country, the concurrence
of those charged to watch ever public morals, and
the cordial assistance of every rightly-disposed mind.
The decrees of Providence must be accomplished. It
has permitted two young females to be brought together
in this scene, which fixes the attention of the world, and
to be placed thus in evidence for the instruction of
society. The one you know by her intimate disclosures,
by the declaration of her who brought her up, of her
mother ; by her timid and gentle conduct. bhe only
asked from God to pass a calm and tranquil life ' • she
sought for internal peace ; eclat and noise alarmed and
destroyed her. The other, on the contrary, loved in-
trigue, and sought notoriety, at any price ; she despised
the weaknesses of her sex and of her situation. Ambi-
tion, which, according to her own expression, reigned in
her woman's heart, lightened on her quick nd ardent
imagination, and, fatally led . by that organization
beyond the ordinary paths of life, she found herself
at the brink of an abyss, into which she closed her
eyes and fell. Well ! the former of these females, mis-
trustful of herself, strong in her weakness, has passed
with honour and firmness through one of those
situations which may compromise a whole life ; she
has come through it esteemed and loved by all those
who know her and surround her. She has seen
closed around her those ties which are so dear to her ;
she has, in fine, come through that great and cruel trial
unsullied and honoured. The fate of the other you well
know. The reason of this is, that the former has strictly
followed through life that old and good maxim of our •
mothers, that the wpman the most honoured aril most truly
happy is she who 13 the least talked of;as pursued tem
even through crime. The moral of all this is,
ithat the
he
laws of nature cannot be violated with impun
has assigned to each sex its respective course of action;
the woman who has the misfortune
,to quit thle Nth as-
signed her becomes one of those monsters of moral 4eaer
who may sometimes become tile admiration of the world,
but who more frequently,
af-
ford it sad andcruel dieu the moral
examples. its, Ale
t() be deduced from this trial. It is for you,
as via Mesieme Laffarge,
to give to this moral its laSt.soiction, the sanction of your
jeivTilehehuPdreasiiidyencotnizoirnesd
ustice !
partie
to make, to state
them. nithaeloC,ot,:nn4s,cliffosrot,he
M. -Moussur demanded that the diamonds should
bK
given up to Mina. ale Leotauds that the judgment should

COUP CIRCULAR. •
the weather
WEVNESDAY.—The unfavourable state of
Weather has prevented her Majesty and Prince
Al-
bert from leaving the ,Castle to-day.
„The Earl and C,-mutess of Erroll and Lady Ida Hay
1%
t's expected to arrive on a visit to her 3.lajesty,and(:()lsd aid Lady Leve3on have arrived this morning at the
Ittle on a visit to the Queen.
,r,
their
Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde took
eir departure from the Castle-this-morning.
will include
loyal dinner party at the Castle this evening
include, in addition to the visitors staying at the
It.'-'4tle and the Royal Suite, the Noblemen and Gentle-
el who
arrived this forenoon to attend the Privy
Ccnnincluding the Marquis of Normanby, Viscount
qnerston, Viscount Duncannon, the lion. E. J. Stan-
y, and Mr. C. C. Greville.
'L,lle Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clock yes-
teri.aY Afternoon at Windsor Castle.
It was attended by his Royal highness Prince Albert,
111.1' Pirst :Lord of Treasury, the Secretaries of State for
e Fiume I,nd Foreign Departments, the First Commis-
votier of the Woods and-Forests, the Lord Chamberlain,
44d the Payn,ias+.er-General of her Majesty's Forces.
• C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
atting.
ttriThe Nfarquis of lleadfort was the Lord in Waiting,
Major the Hon. Cleo. Keppel the Groom in Waiting.
tt Their Royal IlighmSses the Duchess of Cambridge and
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady
,o_ugnsta Somerset, returned to their residence at Kew
zi Tuesday
The Marquis of Normanby, accompanied by the Hon.,
* :T. :Stanley, left town yesterday morning, to attend the.
tilicy Council, at Windsor Castle.
I\,.` iseount rahnerston left town yesterday forenoon for
tndsor Castle, to.attend her Arajesty's Privy Council.

t (IMAIL GUARDS.—We are requested to con-
ra •
Ic't a para,,,rraph which has recently gone the round
theof Papers, that the mail guards, having received an
increase of salary,- were no longer allowed to receive
fatuities from passengers. Such not being the case,
the guards have unfairly been deprived of the fees they
r'''eal' ill the habit Of bettyg favoured with from passengers
desirous of rewarding thbeir attentions—York Herald.
During the deluge of rain in the storm of Tues.
.2y night last, there was a slight mixture of snow; it did
Z't, however, lie on the ground, but n elted as it fell. To
Pe snow in August is indeed unusual in Lincoln.—
—`4oPbt Gazette.

TR1...11, OF MADAME LAFFARGE I rublisbed in 1,000 copie,-,, and that it should be in
the Jommais of Paris and the Correc.
; •,, • —; 11!4 ,

accused, who did not fail to put fee weed as bah.:er
prosecution the civil death already pronounced egaine
her, when she had an interest .in stifling a discussion
which was to inflict upon her an additional brand of
shame, had no hesitation in availing herself of her posi-
tion
of civil death to send forth new defamations. Ile
liad,no hope, therefore. that Marie Capelle would resign
herself to silence, and expected that she would protest
against the sentence which the tribunal was about to
pronounce. He did hope, however, that this protest
would not be made by the organs of her defence in a way
which would be insulting to the tribunal. For his own
part, he would announce beforehand that the law officers
of the Crown would no longer tolerate such conduct.
The Procureur-du Roi then observed that, although in
the exercise of his duty, arising out.. of the evidence
which had been brought before the tribunal on the pre-
sent occasion, he had call for a verdict of guilty, he
had no proposition of punishment to make, for the law
prohibited the addition of punishment in le lower de-
gree upon the criminal who in an anterior trial hail
received a more severe condemnation. Thus. Marie
Capelle having been condemned to hard labour for life
for the crime of poisoning, would be declared guilty of
theft committed before the perpetration of that crime,
but for this theft no punishment could be inflicted.
The Procureur du Roi then went through the facts of
the case, commenting strongly -upon them, as M. Corali
and M. Odillon Barrot had done, and remarking upon the
patience and moderation shown by the family of Madame .
de Leotaud under the defamation and odious calumnies
of the accused. After the explanation which had
.been
given as to the sending of the box by Mine. tie Laroche-
foucauld to her son, and the mysteries of the park of
Mousseaux, there could no longer be said to be any
refuge for Madame Laffarge in public opinion. • In con-
clusion he said, "It is impossible not to have a ,ceding
of deep grief and secret humiliation for the human mind,
• When we behold this young female, possessingeso many
gifts of nature, so high a degree of intelligence, and such
• eminent qualities of mind, fallen so low in vice. 'The
name of the brave Colonel Capelle, so venerated by all
his companions in arms, would, one would have thought,
have sufficed to keep her within the path of rectitude.
In a few months, in a few days, this unhappy woman,
tarnished all her hopes in the world, and sank to the
deepest degradation. It would be a great moral lesson
to study how this woman had proceeded from falsehood
to intrigue, from intrigue to theft, from theft to poisoning,
and from poisoning to calumny, which is moral assassi-
nation."
The Tribunal retired to deliberate, and at the end of
three quarters of an hour returned, when the President
delivered the following judgment :
" Considering that the proceedings have been legally
revived against the Curator appointed for Marie Capelle
in so far as regards the conclusions directed against the
said Curator, the Tribunal declares the prosecution re-
vived—considering in so far as regards the complaint
laid against Marie Capelle respecting the robbery of the
diamonds ; it has been in the -result sufficiently proved
by the previous examinations, that between the 10th and
15th July, 1839, a set of diamonds was stolen from the
chateau de 13usagdy, belonging to M. and Mme. de Leo-
taud ; that pursuits and investigations have been made,
the effect of which has been the discovery in the hands
of Marie Capelle, or in her residence, of the abstracted
diamonds—considering that Marie Capelle, called upon to
account for this possession, pretended that she acquired
them by donation from one of her uncles, that afterwards
she advanced other motives for justifying this possession ;
the examinations before the examining in agistrates,and be-
fore the Tribunal, have proved that these means of defence
were founded on false allegations, some of which were
defamatory towards the Leotaud family. Considering
that the divers exceptions and other means of defence
derived from an intercourse asserted by Marie Capelle
to have existed between Mine. de Leotaud and Felix
Clavet, justifying her possession'of the diamonds as being
their depositary, with a trust that she was to execute,
have been totally destroyed, and that cn the contrary it
is established that this was a new defamation. On these
motive the tribunal declares Marie Capelle attainted and
convicted of having fraudulently- abstracted the set of
diamonds in question ; but considering that by her con-
demnation to hard labour for life by the Court of As-
sizes, the penalty she has incurred is merged in the pre-
eteding sentence, there is no reason for pronouncing a
new penalty. The Tribunal, making application of Ar-
ticles 401, 194, 365, and 379 of the Code, condemns
Marie Capelle by default, to all the expenses of the pro-
secution, and orders the restitution of the diamonds; and,
considering that M. and Mine. de Leotaud have made them-
selves parties civiles, condemns them to pay the ex-
penses of the State, saving their remedy against the
Curator of Marie Capelle.
M. Moussur, Avon& observed to the Court, that no di-
rections were given as to posting up the judgment, and
publishing it in the journals.
The President replied—The Tribunal has deliberated,
and judgment is passed.
The Court broke up at three o'clock, and the audience
retired amidst great agitation.

- The Gazette des- Tribunaux gives the following in its
supplement of last night :—We have this moment re-
ceived most positive information that the judgment will ,
be served on Mme. Lafarge on Tuesday (this day). She
must lodge her appeal at latest on Saturday next, the
12th. In this case the anir will be heard again on
Thursday, the 19th.
" Mine. Laffarge, on receiving in her prison an account
of the 'result of the trial, immediately addressed the fol-
lowing reflections to one of her friends, who has commu-
nicated them to us :

"What a lamentable and ridiculous thing is a judg-
ment by default gained against an enemy deprived of
arms to defend herself, of a voice to protest, and who is
not allowed to fight until she has been enchained. It
must be confessed, that the getting., up of the scene of
my defeat left nothing to be desired. Witnesses carefully
prompted by the partie eivile had perfect memories, and
sometimes were eloquent. One affirms that he can re-
proach M. Clavet with only one fault, and this single
fault is his incontestible beauty. Another sends us
to the desert to seek for women who are not light
in conduct. Another affirms, with an air of triumph,
that a small box cannot have been sent to M. Clavet,
because a small box had been sent to M. de Laroche-
foucauld, who no doubt had reserved to himself the
monopoly of all the small boxes sent into Algeria.
M. de Leotaud has accepted his part with an heroic
and continually smiling countenance. Mme. de Leotaud
has sustained with admirable resolution the absent
regards of her whom she accuses. In fine, on
the bench of the defence, to support an accusation which
cannot be doubtful to any one, two men are seated and
are about to teach the world how a feeble and oppressed
creature may be crushed. Your presence, M. Corali,
'did not astonish me; the stage was in view, the part was
easy—you could display that courageous eloquence with
which you know how to tell a woman that she is a
tkief and a poisoner. That, however, which has in-
deed astonished me, and does astonish me still, is that
aid was required for your eloquence and for the inno-
cence of Madame de Leotaud—it is that M. Odillon Bar-
rot shoitld be brought to your side, and to throw his
name into the scale of justice, in order to make it turn in
your favour. Full of respect for this new adversary, who
came to contend against me although I was painfully
alarmed by his appearance, I expected from this apostle
of liberty and justice support to my just and legal pro-
testations. I expected—l was deceived. The great man
became the advocate, and when my eyes sought his, in-
tending to express am innocent—believe and save me'
—my grief was met with a disdainful smile. This was
not all—M. Odillon Barrot did not protest when the tri-
bunal deprived my yaw; defender of the right of speak-
ing. • He did not demand that the eloquence of the heart
should be heard in answer to the loud voice which wished
to overwhelm me. Nor is this all yet. M. Odillon Barrot
demanded a day's delay, in order to furbish up the arms
destined to destroy a poor creature without defence My
God ! is this justice ? Will you suffer me to be
trampled upon ? Are there not on this earth noble
and powerful men able and willing to protect and save
a just cause? My God! come to my aid. I have no
more tears to weep—l have no more pmvers to offer up
to you. I have nothing left for my soul- but doubt and
contempt. And you, M. Clavet, you are a base man!
I cry aloud to you from the depths of my prison, I de-
mand of the world and of the press, that to your remorse
they will bear my voice into the deserts in which you
have concealed yourself. Why do you delay to come
and avenge your own honour, as well as that of her
whom you have betrayed? You have traversed the seas
to make your fortune—why will you not cross them again
to re-establish your reputation? One word—one word
only was required from you, and you hive not come.
Not being able to cast a denegation at me, you have cast
a calumny against me—you have said that I was :Infa-
mous, but you have not been able to say that you were
an honourable man. 0! come, sir! I wait for you,
and, if I must sell even my mother's wedding-ring, I
will furnish you with the means.
"From my prison at Tulle, this 6th August.
" MARIE CAPELLE."

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT.— A new light is
thrown, in the pages of Mr. Ainsworth's historical ro-
mance, entitled " Guy Fawkes," on this memorable con-
spiracy. The unwearied research of our admirable
novelist has discovered that the Roman Catholic party
were not alone to blame in the atrocious scheme which
shook the nation—that if Guy Fawkes, Father Garnet,
Catesby, and the other conspirators entertained mon-
strous designs, those designs were stimulated and se-
cretly encouraged by Cecil, Lord Salisbury, the crafty
Minister of James 1., and, what is more amazing, by Lord
Mounteagle, himself a Papist I If the kingdom at large
was amazed at the event, matters were better under-
stood itt the Court, where the plot and counter-plot were
clear to the perceptions of the favoured few. The new
romance exhibits this in glaring and striking cohurs.
'.Pass Parker and Brassy s fight will appear in
Bell's Life in London of Sunday, August 15. Price of
licits Fivepence. Office, 170, Strand.
MANCHESTER CONFERENCE.—Since our laat,
one hundred clergy Men and ministers,, in addition to
those whose names we published on Saturday, and mak-
ing the whole number row three' hundred and eighty;
have signified their intention to bd present at the Confe-
rence on the Corn-laws, which is to ecuin..2noa its sit-
t;;;47, in the town on Tuesday nett.—Manchester
Guardian. -

SUDDEN DEA-TH.7ln ftri!pt instance of sud-
Aen death occurred 'to( ,Mr. )eadnutn, tie prop it:or of
the Star figh gjwycliail). On 4toud# last tic pm/. rtu-
nate gentleman wth,i ri.ti;;,?; Bp ii047,04m-Wieznilkiiton,
on hmehaek, at a slow ppack,,man observed his
bat fall off, and picked it up, but before he could give it
him the deceased fell to the ground. Medical assistance
ipmediately prOcured, but it was of-no atail„ The
deeeaseti i,,A4'31..1,10,:;fct to a disease of the heart,