The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-28 00:00:00

REVIEWS OF TILZ WORN.

LAWERT ON SELF-PRNSERVATION.—KENT AND RICHARDS.—This
work possesses advantages over every other other of the kind sub-
mitted to public notice. The author is a medical man of some con-
siderable talent, who has devoted many years to the study of his
profession, and as a guarantee of his pretensions has published his
qualifications and diplomas in the work, and several testimonials of
his abilities from physicians and surgeons of great eminence, which
is a most important consideration to those who, from the peculiar
nature of their infirmities, are obliged to seek medical assistance
from strangers. The subject is treated altogether in an excellent
manner, and by its perusal the unfortunate victim of vicious habits
and excessive dissipation, will be enabled to account for peculiar
disabilities, and to discover the means of alleviating their sufferings
in an easy and effectual manner.—United Service Gazette.

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sQtrA RE. LONDON.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 21st day of August, 1847.
188IIN DSPARTMENT.

4. -
Notes issued.... • • • • 22,614,940

£22,614,940

Dated the 26th day of August,

BANKING D]

Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest ••..•••• • • • • • • 3,734,352
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and Di-

vidend acconnts).• 6,830,836
Other deposits .. •• .. 6,931,036
Seven day and other
bills .......... .... 816,159

£32,865,383

Government debt • . 11,65,100
Other securities . • '2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 7,545,734
Silver bullion ••. • • • 1,069,206

Dated the 26th day of August, it

I £ 22,614,940
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1547.

,EPARTIKEN T.

Government securi-
ties (including Dead

Weight Annaity). • 11,636,340
Other securities .• • • 16,116,345
Notes ...... •• • • .•••• 4,488,020
Gold and silver cola. • 624,678

432,865,383
31• MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
_ _

THE ADDITIONS TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—The
building, it will be remembered, occupied three sides of
a square. The addition is being built against the wings,
extending north and south, so as to form the fourth side
of the square and enclose the court. The new structure

projects but very slightly beyond the face of the old
building on either side, and occupies in the whole about
345 feet. The extreme height in the centre, exclusive of
the decorative arms, will be about 90 feet. One central
and two side archways give entrance to the new building
and to the court. There are 23 windows in each of the
two upper stories. The whole is crowned by a balus•
trade, and the dies which form it into panels will each
carry a vase or urn, as at the Privy Council-office 'White-
hall. It will be seen that the design does not pretend to
grandeur or magnificence—scarcely to dignity ; and
although all will probably agree with us in thinking that
these are the characteristics to be looked for in the palace
of the Sovereign, the architect was probably right in
attempting, in the present instance, little more than an
ordinary piece of street architecture in stone instead of
stucco. Mr. Blore's suggestions for laying out the
ground in front of the Palace is, if we understand it
rightly, the lengthening the present piece of water in the
enclosure, to bring it nearer to the Palace. As the
ground slopes away from the Palace towards the east,
he proposes to lower the surface of it at a pertain dis-
tance from the front of the Palace, so as to form a ter-
race, faced with stone, as in Trafalgar-squaro.—The
Builder.
His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia,
with Baron Lauer Munchausen, Count Oriole, and Count
Groeben, arrived at Dalmehoy Castle on a second visit
to the Earl and Countess of Morton, after visiting Stir-
ling. Linlithgow, and Edinburgh, on his way from Blair
Atholl, where his Royal Highness and attendants ho-
noured the Duke and Duchess of Atholl by a visit. his
Royal highness does not contemplate visiting the Queen
and Prince Albert at Laggan Lodge, as originally an-
ki ouncd
Countess, bout, tmh
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Prince
is expected at Mivart's in a few days.

John Stephenson, linendraper, Horncastle
shire, Sept. 8 and 29, at the Kingston-upon-lßull, Dis-
trict Court. Stansfeld, official assignee, Hull; Tilson
and Co., Coleman-street, London; Wells andiSmith,Hull.
Thomas Simpson, innkeeper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Sept. 13, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 15, at half-past
one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
Walacy, official assignee, Newcastla-upon-Tyne; Rad-
ford, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Wilson, New Inn, Strand.
Joseph Perrin, grocer, Hereford, Sept. 14, and Oct. 9,
at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
hill, London ; Rawlins. Birmingham.
; Wilde and Co., College-
al assignee, Birmingham
William Goddard, hosier, Nottingham, Sept. 17, and
Oct. 22, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham; Cowley, Not-
tingham.
Henry Thompson, corn merchant, Manchester, Sept.
8 and 27, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court.
Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Gregory, Faulk-
ley, and Tidswell, Manchester.
John
and John SharpleF, jun., cotton
spinners,ne ,
oha n and
s Chrp
Manchester,
.a, Bedford-row,
ehs,sen.,ester London; Hitchcock, Buck-
ley,
Sept. 9 and 30, at eleven, at the
Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee,
Manchester ; Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Har-
court-buildings, Temple ; Slater and Heels, Manchester.
Joseph Taylor Hobson, drysalter, Liverpool, Sept. 10,
and Oct. 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Bridger and
Blake, London-wall, London; Dodge, Liverpool.
Charles Jones, printer, Birkenhead, Sept. 10 and Oct.
8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Liverpool; Chester and Co., Staple Inn,
London; Mallaby and Co., Liverpool.
Walter Crosse, stock-broker, Liverpool, Sept. 10 and
Oct. 1, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool; Gregory and Co., Bedford-
row, London; Horner, Liverpool.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company,
New Broad-street, Sept. 17, at eleven.
In the country.
John Pulleine, jun., Selby, Yorkshire, brewer and
maltster, Sept. 30, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—A.
Ashworth, Haslingden, Lancashire, woollen manufac-
turer, Sept. 21, at twelve, at the Court. Manchester—H.
Lovett and W. 11. L. Corran, Liverpool, merchants,
Sept. 20, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool.

At the Court, B
CERTIFICATES.
asinghall-s treet.
T. M. Lake, Uxbridge, bookseller, Sept. 17, at twelve
—J. T. Sarson, Brunswick-place, City-road, vinegar and
mustard dealer, Sept. 20, at half-past two—T. B.
Wavell, Lake, Isle of Wight, miller and corn merchant,
Sept. 20, at two—R. Butcher, jun., Epsom, painter and
paper hanger, Sept. 20, at eleven—E. Dubbins, Somer-
set Hotel, Strand, hotel keeper, Sept. 20, at one —R.
Selby, Burleigh-street, Strand, wine and spirit dealer,
Sept. 20, at two—F. W. Gerish, East-road, City-road,
ironfounder, Sept. 20, at eleven—T. F. Beales, Knights-
bridge, wino merchant, September 18, at eleven—G. L.
Harvey, Rood-lane, City, wine merchant, Sept. 18, at
two—O. Richards, Fleet-street, law bookseller, Sept. 17,
at half-past twelve—W. Dicken, Isleworth, grocer and
cheesemonger, Sept. 17, at half-past ono—J. Coney,
Holderness-wharf, Harrow-road, mason and stone mer-
chant, Sept, 21, at two.
In the country.
C. Curme, Hilperton, Wiltshire, common brewer,
Sept. 17, at eleven. at the Court, Bristol—W. Wagstaff,
Liverpool, cabinet maker, Sept. 17, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool.
At the Court of Review, Sept. 17.
T. Roberts and J. T. Hazard, College-hill, City, paper
Manor-street,
agents and stationers—J. C. Whitteubury, Blachheaths
ssell,
hill, builder—A. Bentley. Bury, Lancashire, ironfounder
Bury,
rursyt, Lancashire,
eet
Chelsea,
G. Russelland machine maker—A. D. Dangerfield, Salisbury-
square, Fleet-street, printer and stationer.
PARTNERSHIPS
a
bakers—W. Brown and J. Russell, Coventry, draper—
T NpE. RRSuI
DISSOLVED.nr
Js
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andnd andapo t
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aMr M.
sConway,v .aylor and J. Islip,
Ashford, Kent, general ironmongers—J. Hamilton and
J. Tuckwell, King-street, St. James's- square, wine
merchants—J. Lord, J. Lord, W.
.Lord, and W. Crab-
tree, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, ironfounders (so far
as regards W. Crabtree)—J. Dyson and T. Leggott
Halifax, Yorkshire, joiners and carpenters—S. Lee'
and J. Lee, Halifax, Yorkshire, dyers—J. G. Harding
and J. Fairbridge, jun., Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, ship
and insurance brokers—J. L. Ellis, R. Blagden, and 11.
Upton, Petworth, Sussex, attorneys and solicitors (so
far as regards J. L. Ellis)—S. E. Dunn and A. G.
Wallace, Manchester, tailors and drapers—W. F. Bruce
and C. E. Balliam, Birmingham, tinkers—J. B. Shouler'
and W. Shouler, Leicester, drapers and habndaslicrs—
J. Wybrants and J. F. Cartner, Snepton Mallet and
Oaltill, Somersetshire, surgeons
,and apothecaries-3i.
Bottom and G. Bottom, Sheilielo, engineers and white-
smiths—W. Vickers, W. Vickers, jun., and C. Grease -
ley, Nottingham, lace manufacturers—J. Salisbury and
H. Robison, Liverpool, sail makers W. H. S. Adlam
and J. T. Donavan, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, drapers
—T. Freelove, sen., and R. Freelove, White Hon e-
street, Ratcliffe, tallow chandlers and grocers—W,
Hodges, J. F. Hodges, and E. Hodges. Dorchester and
Weymouth, Dorsetahire, wine and spirit merchants (so
far as regards W. Hodges)—S. M'Millan and J.
M.Alillan, South Petherton, Somersetshire, drapers and
grocers—W. M. Spencer and T. Hall, Lisson-grove and
High-street, Portland-town, linendrapers—ll. Brad-
bury, sen., and H. Bradbury, jun., Great Bolton, Lan-

BASE COINAGE at BIRMINGHAM,
BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY.—This morning a young
man, named Edmund Darwin, most respectably con-
nected, was placed at the bar of the public-office,
before Messrs. J. James, H. Luccock, and T. Bielby,
borough magistrates, charged with coining and utter-
ing a large amount of counterfeit money with intent
to defraud the Turkish Government. In consequence
of the well-known respectability of the prisoner's
family, and the novelty and seriousness of the offence
with which her stood charged, the office was crowded
to excess.
Mr. James, pf Loolilon, solicitor to the Turkish
Embassy, appeaged to conduct the prosecution, and
Mr, T. Harding, of Birmingham, for the prisoner.
The first witness called was John Tyrer, button-
maker, of 18, Lionel-street, Birmingham, who de-
posed that he had known the prisoner about two
years and a half. LasLOctober two years the pri-
soner, in consequence Of In introduction from another
man, whom he had previously sent to purchase some
silver, came to him at his house in Branstone-street,
and saw him silver two small blanks. The prisoner
showed witness some impressions, which he said had
been struck from dies which were at that time at a
Tplhaecye
wereabo similar ut two miles
b
to,
produced. At the request of the prisoner, he went
udtisst manatlle from.
rotmhan Bromsgrove., hosew
to the place near Bromsgrove, and saw the dies,
which were fixed in a stamp. He told him
that the stamp would do, but that the die would not
do. It was too full in the centre.—(The witness was
here requested to look at a quantity of genuine
Turkish piastres in a paper on the table.)—He knew
these coins. They were given to him by the prisoner.
There were five packets of them. They were foreign
money. By the prisoner's order he caused the dies
to be altered, and they were made from the coins
given to him for that purpose by the prisoner. When
the dies were completed he (witness) struck off about
45,000 coins. The prisoner told him if he would give
up his trade and work exclusively for him, he would
give him 51. per week and all his expenses. He
ceased to work for him about twelve months ago.
The coins, when made, were sent away. They were
packed up, and sent away by Crowley's conveyance,
at the desire of the prisoner. The prisoner wrote
the carriage note and sealed it.—(A number of letters
and orders from the prisoner to the witness, relating
to the manufacture of the coin, were here put in.)
John Walker, late warehouseman to the prisoner,
identified them as being in the handwriting of the
prisoner.

The evidence of Tyrer continued--In all he sent
off nine casks of coin similar to those on the table
(piastres). Three of them were returned in about
five weeks, the prisoner stating (in a letter which was
produced) that they were not sufficiently silvered.
Witness melted the returned coin, and used them in
his own work. The prisoner had paid him irregularly,
sometimes a pound at a time, but he did not think he
had received from him more than 61. during the last
year. Witness understood from the prisoner that he
was agent for some foreign house in London. He
requested witness to keep the matter as quiet as pos-
sible, as arrangements were going forward between
the Turkish Ambassador and the British Government,
which, if successful, would enable him (the prisoner)
to give witness employment for three years.
By Mr. JAMES (the magistrate)—They always
used cold silver in the button manufacture.
Cross-examined by Mr. Harding—There were
plenty of button manufacturers who made foreign
money. Mr. Ledsum made it for many years, and
so did Mr. Kettle, of Suffolk-street. When first
applied to by the prisoner, he thought he was acting
perfectly legally in making the coin. Ile had no
doubt that all was correct. When the prisoner told
him to keep the matter quiet, he understood him to
intimate that publicity might possibly have the effect
of inducing others to attempt obtaining the contract.
Witness had every reason to believe that the coin was
manufactured by order of the Turkish Ambassador.
When he did not receive his money according to pro-
mise, he began to suspect all was not right, but he
never made any communication to the Turkish Am-
bassador. He had received from the prisoner alto-
gether from 501. to 1001. Two or three months after
the commencement he suspected the prisoner. The
coin, with the exception of a very small quantity of
dies, were then all gone away. lie never gave any
information to the police, and never spoke to any per-
son whatever upon the subject.
Mr. Harding—When, then, were you first asked
anything about the matter ? Witness—When Mr.
Glossop, the inspector of police, came to my house.
He asked me about the dies, and I gave them to him,
as well as the prisoner's letters. I never gave in-
formation to any man, and I will defy any man to say
that I did.

Mr. Harding—How was it, when you suspected
the prisoner, that you did not communicate with the
authorities in London or Birmingham? Witness—
Because I was constantly receiving letters from Mr.
Darwin, stating that negotiations were going for-
ward, and that all would be speedily settled. I re-
ceived hundreds of letters, and you will see from the
few in possession of Mr. Glossop, that within the last
six weeks Mr. Darwin expressed his confidence that
all was going og' well.
John Walker was recalled. He entered the pri
soner's service on the 25th of February, 1846, and
left him on the Ist of May, 1847. He was ware-
houseman to him in Cannon-street. He had fre-
quently seen him with peculiar coins on his desk in
the counting-house. Some were white and some were
yellow. When witness went near him he used to put
them in a handkerchief on his knees. The coin he
now produced (a base Turkish piastre) was received
from the prisoner. He marked it at the time he re-
ceived it.
Mr. Glossop, inspector of the Birmingham de
tective police force, deposed that he went to the wit-
ness Tyrer's house, and asked for the dies and coin
which he then produced. Tyrer said they were

"ROUGET, TREVET, FELIX. BOUCLY."
'We extract the following from the Patrie :
" The Duke de Praslin died in consequence of'
arsenic taken in considerable quantity, according to
the official journal. It is not said who prepared and
furnished the poison, and at what moment the Duke
could have taken it. Let us recapitulate, according'
to an authority worthy of credit, the circumstances
of the morning of the 18th. The prefect of police, and
M. Allard, the chief of the police de stirete, arrived at
the Hotel Sebastiani about half-past five in the morn-
ing. The commissary of police of the quarter and his
agents were already in the chamber where the dead
body was lying. The Procureur-General, M. De-
langle, arrived about six o'clock. The Duke de
Praslin was there, going and coming from one room
to another, and expressing his surprise at the mode 'in
which the murderer could have entered the house.
After M. Delangle had carefully examined the loca-
lities, he declared in an energetic manner that the
murderer had not come from outside, it being most
evident that he belonged to the house. M. de Pras-
lin grew pale on hearing M. Delangle express himself
thus. Some minutes after the Procureur- General
addressed some questions to the Duke, which intli•
mated the direction which his suspicions took as o
the author of the crime. The Duke became then if
t
a cadaverous tint, and his agitation, his altered fea-
tures, and his general bearing showed to those pre-
sent who ought to be considered the murderer. At
the moment the examining magistrates and the PS-
cureur du Roi entered, M. de Praslin disappeared im-
mediately. He went to an upper floor, on which was
his bedroom. It is thought with reason that it was
at this instant, that, finding himself suspected, he
swallowed the poison. About three hours had
elapsed, when the Procureur-General had ei-
pressed a suspicion. From that moment the com-
plexion of the Duke became yellow; this was the re-
sult of the poison. Thedisorder in the organization aug-
mented visibly when the Procureur du Roi told the
Duke what overwhelming charges there were against
him. ' Confess that you are guilty,' said the Pro-
cureur du Roi; `confess that you have assassinated
your wife.' The Duke looked at the magistrate, and
concealed his face with his hands. `Do not assume
the attitude of a forcat, of the assassin by profession.
For yourself, if not for society, you are bound to
speak the truth, the honour of your family makes this
a duty.' The Duke cast his eyes on the magistrate,
and appeared as if he was going to confess his crime ;
but suddenly he turned round and said, ' Decidedly I
cannot say that I have assassinated her, el did not do
it.' The Procureur-General persisted, but the Duke
would not reply a single word. From this moment
the Duke was rigorously watched. Dr. Louis and
his habitual physician endeavoured to combat the
effects of the poison, which, in consequence of the
over-dose, did not produce immediate mortal conse-
quences. It was discovered that it was not laudanum
that he had taken, but arsenic, and the first physi-
cians, MM. Orfila, Andral, and Louis, had not sus-
pected it. They gave him wine and ice! The
symptoms of poisoning by arsenic are so little known
that three doctors could be mistaken. But after the
20th the Duke improved. On that day he was in a
state to be interrogated by an examining magistrate,
and on the 21st he was removed to the prison of the
Luxembourg. On the 22d the Duke was much
better. He was able to speak to the Chancellor and
the Grand Referendary, and conversed during the
whole day with his physician. The improvement
ceased suddenly. On the 22d the vomitings returnee,
and he was in such a state that be could with
great difficulty utter a few words in reply to the
Chancellor. ' Did you murder your wife?' said
Chancellor. 'ln order to reply,
'B
I need timeand
is no:-
strength, and both are wanting.
irut ,' replied the
much time or much strength,rle
quedther e
have no strength
Chancellor; ' it is yes or no.
to reply.' The two interrogatories which took place
be summed up
in the prison of the Luxembourg may
He made no avowal, he replied
in these few words.
nothing decidedly. It was only in the afternoon 0,.
the 23d that the symptoms of poison again appeared
the evil gained
The same night gam
with fresh intensity.
ground; dreadful sufferings tortured the prison:T,
convulsions came on, and the next day it was evident
that his death was approaching. The Grand Refe-
rendary went to him, it is said, and called on him to
declare at what moment he took the poison, and who
prepared it for him. The prisoner replied that he
took it at his hotel, but he did not say who prepared
and gave it to him. It was the cure of the parish
Du Haut-Pas who administered the last sacrament
to the prisoner, near five o'clock ; and in a few in-
stants after the Duke appeared before another judge !'
The same journal says :
.
" Doctors Pasquier (first surzeon of the Kiry),
Tardieu, Canuet, Simon, and Boys de Loury aster
tained, on the 18th, in the presence of the Procureur
du. Roi, different traces of wounds and contusions on
the person of the Duke of Praslin, viz.—a scratch on
the right arm, two bites on the left hand, a scratch on
the left hand, a wound which had recently been
bleeding on one of the fingers, and on another , marks
of nails, which had torn away some of the skin ; on
the left leg a long excoriation and a superficial wound
on the calf—all these marks and contusions were of
recent date. The autopsy of the body was performed
yesterday by MM. Tardieu, Canuet, Simon, Boys de
Loury, and Orfila. By the use of Marsh's apparatus,
a large quantity of arsenic was discovered. The
ibody remains at the prison in the hands of justice."

c9r5C711 Who was sent to Marshal Sebastian
immediately alto.' the assassination of the Duchess de
Praslin returned to Paris yesterday, with accounts o f
tee Marshal, whom he found at Veray, in Switzer-
land, before he had heard of the fatal event. It was
announced to him as carefully as possible, but the
er of the
ef
rer,Ma
are
trrshanallumillaiy be conceived.sedastohis His
health.
T family,be
Marshal was ignorant up to the moment of the mes-
senger's leaving
him who el.abs the author of the mur-
der. The whole truthwil
charged
we
ith revealedths tpoa
ihni
fmu kelrn'
ihsis
Physician, who was,
sion, and who metthe Marshal at Dole. General
Sebastiani lienf tpthis
morning
thisrndlang,to meet his brother, who
The Chancellor. of Fraynce, as president of the
Court of Peers, has summoned the Members to meet
in the Chamber of Council on Saturday next, at
one o'clock.
On Wednesday morning several of the Cornmitte
of the Chamber of Peers went to the hotel Sebas-
tiani to examine the theatre of the crime of the 18th.
A plan of the apartments has been ordered for dis-
tribution among the Peers. The seals which had
been placed on the drawers containing papers ire the
rooms of the Duke and Duchess de Praslin -rer e
yesterday removed, and the papers were place ti in
the hands of the Judge d'lnstruction. Two witneiases
were examined in the course of the day—M. Elovin ,
chief of the municipal police, and M. Allard, chief' of
the secret police. Several perquisitions were made.
We read in the Gazette des Tribunaux
" We said yesterday that an investigation had been
made at Paris by M. Broussais, Judge d'lnstruction„, in order to discover the little box in which Mdlle. de
Luzy Desportes enclosed her correspondence. This
box was deposited some days ago by 11.Idlle. de Lus y
Desportes in the hands of one of her friends, who in
her turn gave it to a doctor. When the officers visited
the residence of the latter he was absent ; his hou,s._
keeper, hastened to remit the box to the examining
magistrate. But the letters of the Duke de Praslin
had been removed from it ; and it was only, it is said,.
after considerable hesitation that the woman went
to seek for them between the pages of a volume in
the library. We are assured that in one of
these letters the Duke de Praslin held out to the
person to whom it was addressed early hopes of
happiness, but neither that letter nor the others con-
tain anything that has reference to the crime of the
18th August. The mistress of the boarding school
in the Rue du Harley, who has been examined as a
witness, was principally called on to depose with
respect to the visit made on Tuesday, the lath, to
Mdlle. de Luzy Desportes by the Duke de Praslin.
Mdlle. de Luzy had declared that she did not remain
alone a moment with the Duke, who was accom-
panied by his two daughters; but this declaration
has been contradicted by several depositions. All.
the domestics of the Duke have been examined ita
the course of the investigation, the principal hearing
of which was as to the conduct of the Duke at filf:
moment at which the crime was discovered. On the
first intelligence of the horrible assassination, which
his agitated domestics communicated to him, 'the
Duke burst into a violent fit of anger, and crie& I
always told you that a misfortune would occur ! You
always leave the doors open !' This state of irritation
continued during a part of the morning, and he
again became exceedingly angry when he was told
that a member of his family had started to convey
the fatal news to Marshal Sebastiani. 'I dlo not
understand,' he cried, 'his taking the liberty of such
a step without my order—l am the only master
here!' But from the moment at which he felt that
all the suspicions were directed against him, and that
he was q stioned as if guilty, he all at once
changed his tone and manner. He no longer an-
swered without hesitation7and avoided all catego-
rical explanatioes, sometimes even nOi replying at
all. Such werg also the:charaotefi‘s of the inter-.
rogatory to which he As subjected before the corn.-
mittee of exknination. To the questions too predate,
to the demand' for a yes or no, he replied—' I knave
nothing of it—l am too ill to reply to such
question !'"
The Droit has the following:—
" It will be remembered that, on the first report o
the crime committed in the hotel Sebastiani on the
18th, the magistrates were immediately called in.
It was about six in the morning that the investigation
took place and the interrogations commenced.
Throughout the day the hotel was surrounded, .and
every care taken that no person should be allowed to
leave it ; but the persons who lived in it were not
subjected to any personal, direct, and continuous sur-
veillance, nor were they gardees d vue, in the true
meaning of the words. The first suspicion fell upon
the valet de chambre, who, on his side, suggested that
his master should he closely watched. The first stage
of the affair must not be lost sight of, because it is
the key of all that follows. It was in the morning,
immediately after having been subjected to the ques-
tions of the Procureur-General, the sense and bearing
of which it was not difficult for the Duke to com-
prehend, that the serious derangement, which is ex-
plained by the extreme emotions of every
intoerykinwdhhioehhhaids
undergone, and the species of stupor
examination had thrown him, took place. At this
time neither the magistrates nor any other person in
the hotel had any suspicion of poison. Dr. Louis,
the family physician, who was the first called in to
ascertain the condition of the Duke and Duchess,
believed that he recognised in the state of the Duke
symptoms of cholera, the causes of which were natu-
rally attributed to the terrible agitation of tiTnprree:
ceding night. During the first day M.
all the
eedtPobyindicate
maim.' in a state of debility, accoilaengdi
symptoms of cholera, without
one. The officers of justice, engaged poisoning, of which, in fact, noaindyeeadodccoeuprrlyedantodan
he
crime, the secret of which
ex-
clusively in
was circumstances
not
to
o the
completelys ot fa t
un-
veiled, eiled, paid but a secondary attention of
thev Duke, of whose projects they had no surmise.
On Thursday his condition became aggravated, and
the use of a bath was thought necessary, and, from
his weakness, he was placed in an arm-chair to be
carried to it, but on the way an irresistible diarrhoea
came on, the effluvia from which was such, that the
chair was of necessity taken into the garden, where
it remained till the 24th. On that day, in conse-
quence of the accumulating suspicions against him,
the Duke was put under the most rigid surveillance.
The symptoms taken for cholera, and which would belso
taken again, continued, and were combated by the
treatment employed in such cases, namely, byThings
nistering iced wine and other iced drinks.i at four
remained in this state till Saturdayinorntonigie o'clock, when the Duke was conducted
s_ouget
de St. Pierre
Lux-
embourg with the assent of
r.ll
and Andral. On the way he
ank twice. It was in
mentioned. At least it is
of
his
removal till his death,
no disorder of this
oeorrrotarinthtahtatvofrmoinitintghkind occurred in the system of M.
de Praslin. He appeared to he getting a little better
he
until his interrogatory by the Chancellor, the only
underwent. At that moment only,
one, in fact,
from new external signs, the physicians began to be-
lieve that it was not an attack of cholera, but that
the Duke had poisoned himself. Such symptoms
could not escape the observation of Dr. Rouget, who
communicated his suspicions to the Chancellor and the
Grand Referendary. M. Chevalier, the chemist., was
sent for, and the evacuations of the Duke were
analysed, and found to contain a conaerable quan-
tity of arsenic ; enough indeed, according to the
report of M. Chevalier, to poison several persons.
The fact of poisoning being thus established, it re-
mained only to seek for the means by which it was
effected, and the three phials already mentioned were
found, and no doubt remained that the Duke had
taken a large quantity of the arsenic. Upon this
discovery the treatment was changed, and emollients
administered. On being questioned by the Chan-
cellor as to the time when he took the poison, the
Duke confessed that it was on Wednesday morning,
while being oppressed by the question. s of the
Chan-
cellor, and feeling all the horror of his position. He
Château de Praslin, where he
stated that he brought the arsenic with 11, ikmepftroamlartghee
utroposes;gbean d works3_ of art in
employ himself. Such is
the
vteon erispeeriteoctlysocorrirzt;
q‘Nulainoitiitiyie for
tee
took
domestic
pleasurep
of fecdietaalt„hvti,chhic‘h% e
various conjectures. There is nothing precise or
lbiaeslicgvei
uniform the effects produce(' by swallowing
arsenic, which are known to vary in different per-
sons. Sometimes this poison kills immediately, some-
times it will not begin to act for four or five days.
In this particular case the poison began to act im-
mediately, although death did not ensue till a week
afterwards. It has been erroneously stated that the
person of the Duke was sensibly reduced, and that
there was a retraction of the tissues His j, son
bore all the characters of strength, with a sound and
vigorous constitution, which fully explains the slow
action of the poison. The body of the Duke is
placed on a bed with all the trappings of mourning.
Near it is a crucifix with two lighted tapers, and a
priest in constant prayer."

f4.H. WATER AT f:ONUON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
M ,ruing.. 1 minutes after 3 j Evening .. 23 minutes titer 3.