The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-15 00:00:00

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aiit William Jones, and many other Catnbrians,
An their vast stores of literature, science, and art,
could testify.—(Continued cheers) The breed
of good and able men was not exhausted—others
were in embryo—for the old saying was true that
" there is yet in the sea as good fish as ever were
caught." The Queen had Welsh blood in her veins,
and the portion derived from Owen Tudor was as
bright as the stream that came from her Norman and
Saxon sires—(Immense cheering)—and it was to be
hoped that she would allow the Prince to learn some-
thing of the language of the land whence he derived
his title.—(Renewed cheers.) He had said that he
did not feel ashamed to refer to the lowliness of his
lot; neither did be make it a theme for boasting; but
he thought that his friends, and they were all his
friends and the companions of his youth, would admit
that a case where simple honesty and straightforward-
ness had been marked with success, would operate
beneficially upon the young. It was with that view
that he chiefly referred to the past. For himself he
felt grateful, and wished to commit them all to the
blessing of Him who had favoured his own individual
endeavours.—(The Honourable Member sat down
amidst loud cheers, and shortly afterwards retired to
address a few words to the other party of his friends
who were dining in the Town-hall.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave consecutively—" The
Lord-Lieutenant of the county, Colonel Biddulph ;"
" The Members for the county ; ' and " The Member
for the boroughs ;" all of which were drank with
enthusiasm.
Next followed " The Town and Trade of Maccles-
field," with thanks to the gentlemen of that town
who have • honoured the meeting with their at-
tendanee.
Mr. POTTS returned thanks. He expressed his
hearty approbation of the appropriate and elegant ad-
dress with which Mr. Williams had been presented by
the civic authorities of the town, and said that he felt
as much emotion on its being presented as he could
have done had he been the recipient—a feeling in
which he had no doubt his friends from Macclesfield
ciumri.c ur. re
Williams,d.—(k
that
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poor thoughtl a
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worked his way from the counter to the senate
operateashamed
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d feltto
as proud of Mr. Williams as they did. There was
cheer
rn
theo a
youngthing
and t() e
not a nobler fellow to be found in the town of Mac-
clesfield ; and they felt sure that the more they
knew of him the more they would admire him.
He felt proud of having had to propose him to
the constituency, and was never better pleased
nor better rewarded. The whole town took to him
at once: and if any of the electors were lukewarm
they were brought up to the mark by the ladies.—
(Loud cheers). The election was effected on the
teetotal principle, and their motto was " Work and
win." They did win by a majority of 72, although
the other party had had the advantage of a previous
canvass.—(Loud cheers).
Three extra rounds of cheers were then proposed
for, and given to, the ladies of Macclesfield.
Dr. BLAND, of Macclesfield, returned thanks on
their behalf.
" The Lady of the Manor, Miss Myddleton."
"That venerable and ageduobleman, whose virtues
were so well known to them, the Hon. Lord Bagot."
Mr. Wreerams begged to propose the next toast.
It was happy for them all that they did not live in
Russia, where that freedom which could not be taken
from thought was denied to utterance. It was well
for them that they lived within the pale of a constitu-
tion so expansive in itself that it could effect much
good without any organic changes. One of the great
advantages of that constitution was that the governing
power was not entirely centralized, but diffused
in proper proportions and modes throughout
the social fabric. Of this fact corporate bodies af-
forded a valuable proof; and in proposing the health of
the chief magistrate of the town he should fill a
bumper with pleasure. Few have done more good
to the locality than he, and none are deserving of
more honour. To him they were mainly indebted
for all the local improvements that had been effected,
and,. those connected with their market-place were
peculiarly impOltant. It was much tel be regretted
tlif4 he Nid it 'n contemplation to leave them, bbt it
wallo be hoped they vfou' yet have more of his
company. He (Mr. Williams). had never received
aught but courtesy and hospitality at his hands, and
valued and esteemed him highly.—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN feelingly, and in appropriate terms,
responded to the kindness they had shown him.
Several other toasts, including the health of Mrs.
Williams, having been drunk.
<O4. .-aneu tne attention of the
meeting, during Mr. Williams' temporary absence,
to a fact of which he was individually cognisant, and
which proved that the general observations which the
Archdeacon, the Chairman, and others had made with
respect to Mr. 'Williams' kindness to his poor fellow-
countrymen were not exaggerated, or without ade-
quate foundation. His mother was left a widow in
circumstances of much distress, especially as she had
children unprovided for ; hut his poor brother
had found that there was a friend to the fatherless
in a quarter where he could prefer no claim
either on the ground of service, consanguinity, or
any other conceivable tie—save that of mere human
brotherhood and feeling for a fellow-countryman.
There were others that might have deemed it a duty
to aid the dying man ; but there were feelings more
kind and generous and prompt than those of duty,
and such feelings had prompted Mr. Williams to be-
friend him, who had no father and no friends. He
procured him a situation; and he (the speaker) would
be less than a man if he had not availed himself of the

present occasion to acknowledge the gratitude he and
his family felt for so marked a kindness.—(Cheers).
Mr. WILLIAMS proposed the health of a gentleman
who for seven years had added greatly to the con-
vivial enjoyments of the town, and contributed
largely to its advantages one whose amiable manners
had won him many friends, and whose moral courage
rendered him a most useful member of society. lie
proposed the health of "John Maurice, Esq." He
had in him a combination of talents and qualities that
would greatly benefit the town. As a friend to the
education of the people he tended to advance the
character of all ; for the prestige of education did not
rest with the emigrant but returned back to the
country of his birth. If those who leave Wales are
uneducated, all Welshmen are regarded as necessarily
uninformed. They, therefore, added to the reputation
of their country when they gave to the poor the ad-
vantages of education.
(The health of Mr. Maurice was honoured with
deafening rounds of cheers.)
Mr. J. MAURICE, in returning thanks, said—
I thank you very much, sir, for the honour you do
me in proposing my health, and gentlemen around
you that they so kindly respond to the toast, though
I need no such assurance of kindness at the hands of
my Welsh friends, who, I am delighted to see, have
to-day put aside the common cares of life, and have
met together in gladness to congratulate a fellow-
townsman on the honour to which he has attained.
You are here, I say, gentlemen, for no expression of
political sentiment, but to marl: with pleasure, aye,
and with profit too, the cause of one who left you in
early life to fight the world's hard fight ; and you
may well rejoice that he, who but a few years since,
went out from amongst you to mingle with countless
thousands in the greatest city of the universe, bath
so stood out from the crowd that he this day returns
to your arms the selected of Macclesfield. I envy
not the mind whose political biases deny it this
pleasure. My respect for the Honourable Gen-
tleman rests not on the fact that he is the
Member for Macclesfield ; that circumstance raises
him not one iota in my esteem, which is simply
founded on the character that has won for him the
honourable distinction of his laudable ambition. And
if I know anything of the good people of Ruthin, and
I think I do know something of them, this joy is not
in the honour conferred on the man, but that the cha-
racter of their fellow-townsman bath won for him the
honour. They love more to trace him is his early
course than in the consummation of his wishes, for
they remember how when far away his heart was in
the land of his fathers, and they prize more the filial
solicitude that when wrung from his necessities, that
giving of what the giver needed for himself, than all
the gifts of his subsequently acquired wealth. Gen
tleman, Mr. Williams stands before you on his
merits, he founds no title to your esteem on
fame of ancestors. He belongs rightfully to the
f working men, and he shames not
ownthe
great fraternity o
at his alliance with that brotherhood, and valuable
and valued indeed is the constitution which is
that
and
open
htomsuanch,itasndsuw;ehtiychfer makesthe the past
future.—(Cheers.)character
Sir, it is no unmeaning compliment that we this day
of
pay
to
breadth of this land—a beacon to light—an example
to cheer all whom narrow circumstance s may thehere-
after nionay. go Gentleman,
forththrough and
we
the desire
width
co:npel to quit the confines of their native land,
thete
h
rumour of
it
seeking fortunes in richer soils, that they may know
that there ever remains for the sons of Cambria, who
are worthy of it, honour in the land of their fathers.
With the sincere desire that the fruits of to-day may
thus profit, and with my best wishes for the future
welfare of the Hon. Gentleman, I again thank you for
the honour you have done me.

The Chairman now left the room, and the toasts
became of a personal and discursive character ; but

[Pa7:B SD.

WIA,PIIFSCSLOC
the convivial spirit of the meeting was sustained for
some time without any symptoms of excess; and we
feel assured that the morning did not chide the even-
ing's enjoyments.

DINNER AT THE TOWN HALL.
The repast at the Town Hall was very excellent.
Upwards of a hundred sat down.
After the cloth had been removed, the Queen and
the customary loyal toasts were duly responded to.
The health of Mr. Williams, M.P., was given, and
drank with the greatest enthusiasm.
A brilliant display of fireworks took place in the
evening.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.
TIMES.—It must have been long evident to at-
tentive observers of Italian politics that the current
of events in that country would not wait for the im-
pending adjustment of our diplomatic relations with
the Court of Rome, but that circumstances would
compel us to anticipate, in some fashion, the obvious
decision of so important a question. The wisdom of
our ancestors had bequeathed us a position of consi-
derable embarrassment, and some little delicacy was
requisite to reconcile the necessities of the case with
the proscription of the law ; but our readers will
probably be of opinion that by the arrangements we
now announce, her Majesty's Ministers have contrived
rather happily to escape the dilemma in which the
imperative demands of policy and the inevitable penal-
ties of a pramunire had conspired to place them.
The Earl of Minto, who is now on his road to Turin,
will extend his tour to Rome, and, though not accredited
by any official introduction, or invested with any formal
representative character, will be enabled by his presence
at the Pontifical Court to facilitate the circuitous inter-
course between two states which have so sensibly
persisted in blocking up the ordinary channels of a
necessary communication. The position and con-
nexions of his Lordship will be an immediate and
sufficient guarantee of his responsibility, and will
confer upon him much of that authority which it is
as yet forbidden more directly to delegate, while his
known qualifications for such a mission supply a
complete assurance that the interests and honour of
England will be safe in his hands. In this way it is
expected that Ministers may be enabled to commu-
nicate with a friendly state at a very critical period
of its fortunes, without rendering themselves liable
to the accumulated penalties which our ingenious
ancestors devised for treason. As soon as Par-
liament meets the letter of the law may be brought
into accordance with the spirit of the age,
and, after we have graciously recognised the poli-
tical existence of a power which at present com-
mands the earnest and practical sympathies
of half the population of the island, Lord
Minto may be boldly invested with a title befitting
the functions he must necessarily discharge. The
extremities to which two Governments of Europe
have been reduced in their attempts to establish some
communication with each other are highly instructive,
and will not be lost sight of, we hope, by those who
occasionally advocate the retention of obsolete and
impracticable statutes as the safest course for a Le-
gislature to pursue. The diplomatic intercourse be=
tween England and Rome is managed after a fashion
very much resembling the commercial intercourse
between Holland and Japan. The real character of
an honest and necessary transaction is cloaked by
some barbarous and clumsy fiction, and the negotia-
tions of two independent Powers are conducted with
the clandestine tricks of a contraband and discredit-
able traffic. We resolutely persist in theoretically ig-
noring a Government, in the success and well-doing
of which we practically confess the highest interest.
In every point of view, except the most important of
all, the relations of England and Rome have been
settled long ago. There remains no principle what-
ever for discussion, and but little room for informa-
tion and enlightenment. There are scarcely two
opinions of Pius I. viiiid-lkis policy, Ni,yet., in thine
decrees which presura uotoly einbod? tli- ',conclu-
sions and express the ‘VI om of a attion, wA laim
him to be a formidable and ferociOa pote2la , who
stunts our zrowth,gandmenaces our*existence by
attsit,knng Ilse utOna ood, band who must -be
sh ne 1. all pe4le who cald teep their inde-
INS lik
pen ce ecure froA his subtle and insidious ap-
proaches. This is not the only instance in which the
contradiction between our opinions and expressions
ha's been recently exposed, but the shifts to which we
have been actually driven by the practical conflict be-
tween necessity and law have certainly displayed saich
policy in a lht more than usually conspicuous. It
would nave men a curious incident if we had dis-
patched a fleet to the succour of a monarch to whom
we dared not send an ambassador. The truth is,
that there is hardly a single Court of Europe with
which it is of greater importance that we should be
in regular and legitimate communication than this.
The Pontifical dominions promise to be the birthplace
of that enlightened and liberal policy which is to re-
trieve the long degradation of the Italian Peninsula,
and which it is the interest of all philanthropists to
promote. Nor is the influence of their Sovereign
confined to his own territories. As the spiritual
head of a vast number of British subjects, he exer-
cises a certain controlling power within these realms
which it might indeed be thought very desirable to
transfer to more amenable hands, but which it is the
height of childishness to ignore. The influence, such
as it is, actually exists, not in force sufficient, as ex-
perience has often proved, to be weighed for a mo-
ment against the suggestions of loyalty or patriotism,
but with quite enough reality to deserve attention.
And yet, for the sake of a statute already condemned
by the conclusions of sense and reason, we have been
contented to forego all the benefit which might be de-
rived from amicable relations with a Sovereign whose
voice on certain points would be respectfully listened to
by some millions of British subjects. It would have
been rather more creditable to us if we had revised
our obsolete ordinances before we had been driven to
the measure by sheer force of circumstances, and,
certainly, the sooner we terminate the present expo-
sure of our predicament the better it will be for our
reputation. In the eyes of Europe we are practi-
cally convicted of retaining an interdict against a
measure which we nevertheless confess to be abso-
lutely necessary, and the demands of national policy
are only satisfied by the arts of equivocation and
evasion. We had the option of preserving our pre-
judices or promoting our interests, and might have
very consistently adopted either line of conduct, but
the difficulty of reconciling the two has just been
unpleasantly ascertained. As we have preferred,
however, the more sensible course, no time should be
lost in candidly confessing our convictions and
openly recording our decision, nor is there much
ground for apprehension that the Court of Rome will
be backward in meeting overtures of such a friendly
spirit by a reciprocal obliteration of discreditable and
pernicious memorials.
CHRONICLE.—The tantalizing freaks which
chance and rumour play with us, remote spectators of
the vicissitudes of the Mexican war, we can compare
to nothing so readily as to the trials to which Dickens
puts the curiosity of his readers during the inter-
mitted publication of one of his novels. Neither with
one nor with the other of the great purveyors of
public excitement can we feel sure of ourselves for a
moment. We never know where we are, or what we
are next to expect. Our most sagacious conjectures
are set at nought by the arrival of a new monthly
part, or of a Boston packet. Polk and Pecksniff,
Santa Anna and Mr. Pickwick, Paredes and Martin
Chuzzlewit, Scott and Newman Noggs, Taylor and
Sam Weller, disappoint and surprise us equallyai I
to
and
keep us from month to month, and from n
mail, in a state of delicious perplexity. How
often, as we turn the last page of a monthly part,
or scan the enigmatical contents of some tele.
graphic dispatch, of which next mail is to bring
the particulars, do we not summon up our conjec-
tural fortitude, and swear that neither fate nor Charles
Dickens shall baffle us this time. But no; the next
turn of events finds us as much at fault as ever, and
proves our inability to cope with the caprice, the in-
consistency, and the disregard of the ordinary rules
of human action which prevail alike in the plots of
the novelist and in the councils and countermarches
of the Mexican belligerents. The advises received
by the Cambria are advantageously distinguished
from several of their immediate predecessors, by their
consisting of something more than mere rumours or
fictitious telegraphings, as to the transactions in the
scene of war. It would appear to be a positive fact
that the first division of General Scott's army left
Puebla for Mexico on the 7th of August. The other
divisions were under orders for departure on succes-
sive days, and General Scott himself was to leave
with the main body on the 11 th. The Mexicans
likewise were reported to be in motion. Their
chances of a successful resistance to the advance
of the invaders may be looked upon as con-
siderably increased by the arrival of a large
body of troops under Valencia. The next mail
will in all probability bring us the particulars
of a desperate battle having been fought at Rio Frio
or El Penon. For now that the negotiations for
peace are broken off, and the war party to the capital
is strengthened by the arrival of Valencia and the
return of Paredes, we cannot believe that the city of
Mexico will be surrendered to the enemy without a
sanguinary struggle. Much will depend on the ma-
teriel of which Santa Anna's force, as recently re-
cruited and augmented by arrivals from distant quar-

ters, may be composed. The oktarges4 of irresolution
and incapacity made against the Mexican President
are too lamentably founded on fact. Still a large
allowance must be made for him, on account not only
of defective discip:ine, but the physical weakness of
the men who ordinarily make up the mass of the
Mexican armies. It would be no easy matter for the
ablest general in Europe to make anything of an tinny
and an ordnance so undisciplined and defective as the
Mexican is said to be. Those who turn up their
noses at Santa Anna ought to read the description
which Mr. Thompson, formerly Ambassador of the
United States at Mexico, has given of , the military
system that prevails there :
" The soldiers of the Mexican army," says Mr. Thomp-
son, " are generally collected by sending out recruiting
detachments into the mountains where they hunt the
Indians in their dens and caverns, and bring them in
chains to Mexico. Th,'re is scarcely a day that droves
of these miserable and more than half-naked wretches
are not seen thus chained together and marchingthrough
the streets to the barracks, where they are scoured and
then dressed in an uniform made of linen cloth, or of
serge, and are occasionally drilled, which drilling
mainly consists in teaching them to march in column
through the streets. As to the wheelings of well-trained
i troops, in: the prompt and exact execution of other evo-
lutions, the know nothing about them. There is not one
in
_ten of these soldiers who has ever seen a gun, nor
bornoeuine-lat
inlautondrthede
bawiraloohkrl everTh eflirreadrmonse,
tbooef,oraere gene-
rally ewnase.
rally worthless English muskets, which, have been con-
demned and thrown aside, and are purchased for almost
nothing, and sold to the Mexican Government. Their
powder, too, is equally bad; in the last battle between
Santa Anna and Bustamente, which lasted the whole
day, not one cannon-ball in a thousand reached the
enemy—they generally fell about half-way between the
opposing armies."
Truly, if this description by the United States' Am-
bassador be accurate, and we have no doubt that it
is, the renown of Generals Taylor and Scott has been
cheaply earned. Of course, if the materiel of, Santa
Anna's present force be not of a totally different
class, we would have no hopes of his success. But
we think it likely that be has endeavoured, to the
best of his ability, to replace these imbecile Indians
by mete-of Spanish blood. The urgency of their own
peril may have animated many of the latter to join
the ranks. Community and extremity of dangermay
impart for a brief while unity to the councils and
energy to the resolutions and the acts of the Mexican
generals. And in that case the invaders may encounter
an opposition which nothing in their past experience
will have prepared them to expect. Even if they
could succeed in entering Mexico, they might find
themselves hemmed in, and their supplies cut off, in
a way which would make their victory cost them
dear. Nor must it be forgotten that Mexico de-
pends for sustenance, to an extent that perhaps no
other city in the world does, on supplies brought
from a great distance. Almost everything that it
consumes in the way of food or luxury is brought on
the backs of mules or asses, or half-naked Indiana
(never in carts or waggons), from a distance of forty
miles and upwards. Benign as the climate of the
capital is, it is obvious that Moscow itself, and the
horrors of a Russian winter, did not offer a greater
facility of isolating a hostile army, and leaving it to
famine to annihilate it. The Mexicans may not,
indeed, have the resolution to burn their beautiful
city. But even without resorting to that extremity,
it would require but a moderate exertion of foresight
on the part of their rulers, and self-devotion on their
own, to make the United States rue the day that
ever they allowed the anibition of their once-idolised
President to involve them in so unjustifiable and so
profitless a war. With all his faults, Santa Anna is
a man of great capacity, and of a fiery spirit when
put upon his mettle. If it be true that all negotia-
tions for peace are at an end, we should think it quite
within the limits of probability that the Mexican Pre-
sident may yet redeem both his own and his country's
character. I,he return of Paredes has naturally created a
great sensation in the States. The most probable
result of his reappearance on the scene of war will
be to put it entirely out of Santa Anna's power to
realise any of those pacific intentions which of late
he has been reported to entertain. And should
Paredes, as appears not impossible, reach Mexico
before the fate of that city is decided, the chances
of its successful resistance will be considerably, im-
proved. He and Santa Anna may perhaps agree
to waive their quarrels for a time, and uniting their
energies and their influence they might obtain a
success which neither of them singly could hope for.
The Washington Union attacks the captain of the
Vitis steamer from which Paredes landed, as
laving "olated the neutrality of thi country by
)ik
introdu " sat decided an enerh into their
ports, and without acquainting . with his
charade But it leall% does
p nett,a
%Ili
that the
captain Iffibw, or any one on board ew, who
Paredes was. He teed very freely of Mexican
affairs, as any one else might have done. The
hearty abuse of Santa Anna, in which he is said to
have indulged, might have rather led the captain
to look upon him as a friend, and not an enemy, to
the United States. As to the imputations in which
some of the American papers have indulged against
the English:Government, because Paredes was per-
mitted to embark from Southampton, they are ineffa-
bly preposterous. England is a free country, and
has no system of passports with which to fetter the
motions of any man of any country who chooses to
visit her shores or to leave them. As for Paredes, if
he carries with him the germs of any European in-
trigues, it is in the Tuileries, or the Rue de Courcelles,
that they were concocted. Christina had some time
ago, and perhaps has still, the notion that it would be
possible to establish the Munoz dynasty on the throne
of Mexico. The expedition to the Equador, which
England nipped in the bud, was intended merely a% a
stepping-stone to a more extensive dominion ja the
western hemisphere. How powerfully this dynastic
mania rages in the bosoms of even the most degenera%
branches of the house of Bourbon !

RESTORATION OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—It has
often been a matter of surprise to me, that while nearly
all our fine old cathedrals have undergone, or are under•
going, a process of restoration, Westminster Abbey
should still remain in such a deplorable state. However,
I trust that under the auspices of the present eminent
Dean, we may hope for better things, and more par-
ticularly as such extensive improvements are in con-
templation in the neighbourhood of the Abbey.—A.
suitable building in the neighbourhood of or adjoining
the Abbey should be erected for the reception of the,
greater portion of the monuments. The stone columns,
which are in a wretched crumbling state, should be;
replaced, and at the same time the iron bars at the
springings of the arches might be removed. I would,
remodel the two existing towers, and complete the third,,
which was commenced by Sir Christopher ; and the
whole pile of building should undergo a process of
restoration in the most substantial manner. If the
matter is taken up vigorously and energetically, there is
not the slightest doubt but that the requisite funds
would be forthcoming. The Government of course
ought to bear a portion of the expense, and if all our
architectural,antiquarian, and archaeological associations,
metropolitan and provincial, will come forward nols'ay
with their share of the expenses, not only as societies,
but individually, and if the Dean and Chapter will open
their purse-strings, there will soon be enough and to
spare of the " wherewith." As a worthy consummation
to the restoration, I would admit the public free of
charge.—Correspondent of The Builder.
APPLICATION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO,
Looomonves.—A line of electric telegraph is in active
preparation along the railway from Vienna to
.Prague..
pleasure, be
As soon as it is completed, every locomotive engine. !e to
be furnished with a small electric apparatus, by aid, of
whichput
into and
communicationby that oof wwiirteh,
of
hir o railway, tie
train near, e
train can announce to every ,
.
events it may have learnt on the road
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and
the government
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interpreter, he declared his naomges, thebut smaier AO ofcoul
not tell his age, even approximately, as no reir'iseers were
kept in his country, but that among the Frew jh it was cal-
culated at 25 years. As to his condition, be; replied with a
haughty smile, that he was a refugee among the French. In
answer to the questiocs put to him abc
,ut the robbery, he
said that he knew nothing of it, ev,ept from the state-
ment of Captain Richards, and i',. 'was impossible for him
to impute it to the prisoner. 'Me was followed by the
Princess de Belgiojoso, who iirRE in the same house, and
who gave her evidenoe to the same effect, adding that it
was extremely easy for any one, even a stranger in the
house, to get into the saloon; in her opinion there were
no grounds for suspecting the prisoner. Captain
Richards was next examined, but he could say no
more
than that his manuscript had disappeared in his b
Other witnesses were called, belt as nt s a sence.
o
evidence affected the prisoner, the
__ Kllar cle
dof their
General abandoned the
prosecution,
ectiti
ning,i sdA ,/ocate-
'4adame
Desroches was discharged. Uou Nola; an
a the, A retired,
after having made his salaam to the Court, but before
leaving the Palais de Justice
v vent into tl- Jib Court of
Assizes, and there remained
about half_ an hour.—
Galignanes Messenger.
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