The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-26 00:00:00

£30,818,250 1 430,818,250
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 24th day of December, 1851.
BANKING DEPAETMEN T.

Proprietors 'capital •• 14,553,000
Kest • • -••••• • • • • • 3,132,978
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accoamr) .. 9,202,522
Other deposits .. .. 9,3;0,449
Seven day and other

,Government seenri-

ties(including Dead
Weight Annuity)• • 13,244,220
Other securities •• 11,366,148
Notes ••••••• • • • • • • • 12,142,05
Gold and silver coin.. 595,314

Bills ••:.••• . • • • • 1,098,788

£37,347,737

£37,347,737
M. MARSHALL. Chief Cashier.
e, 1851.

Dated the 24th day of Deckrnl

COURSE OF EXCH

&msterdam .......... 11 16%
Ditto, three months.. 11 114
Rotterdam .... ••.. •• 11 18
intwerp ••••••• • •• • • • • 25 40
Brussels.• ...... 25 40
aamburgh M.B. 13 10
aatona• • ........ • • ....
Paris, 3 dayi'aight .... 25 22%
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 42%
Marseilles • • •... • • 25 46
80urdeaux......... •
erankforton Maine.... 121
3er1in.....• ...... • • ••
Vienna, effec. tio •••• •• 12 35
Trieste, ditt0.......... 12 35
Potersburgh,9ll. Rble..
Madrid •••. •• ........ 49%
Barcelona ............ -
Beville ..... ....... • •

NGE.-(111IS DAY.)
Leghorn ........ ••.. • • 30 85
Genoa .... • • ...... •• .. 25 60
Venice.. .. .. •• • • ....
Naples .. .... • • .... •• 40
Palermo, peros 121
Messina 120
Lisbon.... • • .......... 52%
Oporto .. 52%
Rio Janeiro •.... • •
Luenots Ayres ........
New York, 60 dayesight
Philadelphia .. .. • .....

?BIM OF BULLION, PIZ OS.
Foreign Geld in bars .. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars •• .. •• 0 4 1114
Ailver in bars ........ 0 5 0%

MURDERS BY ARSENIC IN FRANCE.

One of the most extraordinary cases ever brought
before a criminal court has just been tried by the
Court of Assizes of the Ille-et Vzlaine. Tne prisoner
was a female, named Helene Jagado, who for several
years past has been a servant in different families of
the department. She stood at the bar charged with
several thefts committed in and since the year 1846,
and with seven murders by arsenic in 1850 ; but the
evidence showed that although only seven cases had
been selected, as more recent, and therefore more easy
of proof, not less than forty-three persons bad been
poisoned by her with arsenic. The victims were
either her masters or mistresses, or fellow servants,
who had incurred her hatred. In some cases no
motive of interest or hatred could be assigned. The
prisoner appeared to have been actuated by a thirst
for destruction, and to have taken pleasure in wit-
nessing the agonies of her victims. The suddenness
of the deaths in the families where she was a servant
excited the greatest sensation, but for a long time no
suspicion as to the cause, for the murderess appeared
to be very religious; she attended in many instances
with apparent solicitude on the persons whom she
had poisoned, and so successful was her hypocrisy
that even the deaths of the mother and another re-
lative of a physician in whose family she lived
raised no suspicion of poison in his mind. The
frequency of deaths, however, in the families by
whom she was successively engaged excited a sus-
picion among the peasantry that there was some-
thing in her nature fatal to those who were near her,
and it was customary with them to say that her liver
was white, it being believed in that part of France
that persons who are dangerous have white livers.
The prisoner herself frequently exclaimed, after the
death of the victim, "How unhappy I am; where-
ever I go, death follows me." The oases on which
she was brought to trial were established by the evi-
dence beyond the possibility of doubt. The prisoner,
throughout the trial, which lasted ten days, con-
stantly declared that she was innocent, and seemed
to anticipate an acquittal on account of there being
no proof of her having had arsenic in her posses-
sion. It was proved, however, that in one of the
families in which she was a servant some years
ago there was a large quantity of arsenic, which
was not locked up, and that it had suddenly disap-
peared. This arsenic had, without doubt, been taken
by the prisoner, and had served for the commission of
the successive murders. The only defence set up for
her was founded on phrenological principles. It was
contended that the organs of hypocrisy and destruc-
tiveness were developed to a degree which over-
powered the moral faculties, and that, although it
would be unsafe to leave her at large, she ought not to
be condemed to capital punishment, the peculiarity of
her organization rendering her rather an object of
pity. The defence failed entirely ; and, the jury
baying delivered a verdict without extenuating cir-
cumstances, the Court condemned her to death.

SEABORNE MAILS.
[N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-office
oy the night—and M by the morning—elispatch.]

When made up in From what
FLACKS. GeneralPost-Mike port dis- When
London: patched.
America. (by Brit. pkt.)N Dec. 26 .. Liverpool •• Dec. 29
America (by U.S. pkt.) N Jan. 6 .. .. Liverpool .. Jan. 1
America (by U.S. pkt.) Mi •• Southampt. Dec. 25
Africa (West coast).. N,l4th of the month Plymouth Jan. 3
Alexandria* • • ...... N,1911' & 30th of mo. Dover .. Dee. 24
Belgium • • .. •• N Daily • • .. .. Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 16
Buenos Ayres • • .. M 9th of the month ISouthampt. Jan. 16
California(viaChagres) M 2d & 17th of month Southampt. Arrived
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month IPlymouth•• Jaa. 3
Constantinople* .. •• N 7th 17th 27th of mo I Dover .. Dec. 30
Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Dec. 20
Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tu. Th. Sat
Chill .. •. M 17th of the month Southampt. Arrived
France .. & N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedaily
Greece* • • . , • • N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover • . Dec. 30
Ilamburgl2 N Tuesday & Friday 'London .. Tues. Sat.
liolland • . • . M Wedn es . & Sattir.Londen T har
HondurasN"l7th of the month 'Sontharept. tl rrived
Ireland .. M& NI Twice daily .. .. Holyhead .. Twicedally
India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the monthSouthampt. Jan, 23
India (via Marseilles) NBth& 24th efmonthiDover .. Jan. 2
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) .. M 20th of the monthiSouthampt. Jan. 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) .. N Bth& 24th ofmonth Dover .. Jan. 2
Mexico M 2d of the month.. Southampt. Jan. 5
Madeira • • .. 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 16
. 7th,17th,19th,27th
} Dover Dee. 28
51altai* • • ••& 30th of month
Naples* . • • • Nlsth 15th 25th alms Dover • • iJan.2
Papal States* .. 5t1.115th 25th of mo Dover .. Jan. 2
Peninsular.. 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt.lJan. 6
Peru .. • • • • 111117th of the month Southampt. Arrived
Tuscany. •• N 15ths5thofmo Dover • • 'Jan. 2
West
West Indies M 17th of the month Southampt. 'Arrived

- .m7Gn 1
Peru .. •• •• gl7th of the month
TliSleanYa .• •• Nrsth 15th 25th ofmo,
WWestest Indies (except M 17th of the month
Havana fk Nassau) M 2d of the month ..
The mails to those c onntries thus mar'
French packet via Ma/Ilene,.
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13outhampt. IJAn. 5
cod (*) are conveyed by

_ccording to an advertisement in the New York
papers the firm of Hamden and Co., who suspended on the
25th of November at Liverpool, and subsequently at Boston,
have made arrangements for the payment of their sight
draughts which bad been issued to immigrants and others
desirous of sending small remittances to their relatives at
andho m
muche . Tbdei4se4dtirxiliutstiTenreofuQng9tWo anbe aggregatetiyort
od of 12,0001.,