The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-11 00:00:00

The Court then adjourned until the following day.

EIGHTH DAY.
The Court assembled at the usual hour.
The attendance of spectators was greater than on the
two or three preceding days. Madame de Bocartrai, it
was noticed, appeared in a straw bonnet, with white
ribbons.

Alexander Destrebecq deposed that the Count had
owed him a considerable sum for meal since 1844, and
that he had not been able to obtain payment of the
whole, notwithstanding his frequent demands. When
his wife was seen approaching the chateau the bridge
over the fosse leading to the entrance used to be raised.
When the death of Gustave became known it was said
at once in the neighbourhood that he must have been

Anna Thomassin, a cook, had been in the service of
both the accused. She never observed that they had
quarrels, or that the Count ill-treated his wife. The
Count went a good deal after girls. He had a child by
Sydonie who had been in his service, and had tried to
seduce Nathalie Dudrieu. a French girl. Witnesti had
seen Sydonie leave the Count's bed-room barefooted—
that was in order not to make a noise, as the Countess
was in the chateau. A little boy, of whom the Count
was the father, had been taken to the chateau. The
Count appeared fond of hire, though not more then of
the others, and the Countess supported his presence,
though she did not let him sleep with her own childien.
The Count wanted witness to sleep with him, but she
told him that he had a pretty wife, and ought to be sa-
tisfied. He said that he would have nothing more to do
with his wife, called witness a bad girl, and was very
angry at her refusal.
Francoise Duruysker, keeper of a public-house, at
Saint Jusse Vennoode, had been in service at the
chateau; had seen the Count ill-treat his wire; he had
struck her when she was enceinte. M. Gustave did not
otten take meals at the chateau. Ho seemed afraid,
and often said to witness that the Count did nut like
him, and might poison bias. On one occasion witness
heard the Countess crying for help, because the Count
was ill-treating her, and tibia seat too Costae mother to
her protection. o:ica, when the C6unt was ai 'Brussels
with hie wife, he absented himself to go with a girl
named Celestine L-grain, by whom he, had one child,
and who was then enceinte by him. When witness hit
his service the Cuuut refused to pay a sum of 45f.,
which was duo to her. He had not mule dishonourable
propositions to her, and all that she personally had to
complain of was, his cheating her out of the 45f. The
Countess was mild in charawer, and was accustomed to
have family prayers in the evening, which she generally
attended.
Franc rise Escouffleire had been three weeks in service
at the cuateau, but had left because the Count made her
dishonourable propositions. Those propositions be re-
peated several times, and he promised that if she would
accept them she should want for nothing.
Fideitne Fournier was femme de charubre at the cha-
tend, 16-1848"; land-had seen the Count ill-treat his wi'e.
On one' oceasten witness pulled him from her, as he was
striking her. Had seen the Countess blseeing from he
mouth, after having been knocked down by him. Had
seen the Count's illegitimate child at the chateau.
Marie Josephine Billy said she was in service at the
chateau, in 1848, and had seen the Count tear the cap
from his wife's head. The Countess appeared very feud
of her brother. Witness had wished the Countess to
send the illegitimate child from the chateau in the night
Madame Cherquefosse, wife of the notary at Tour-
nay, said that the Countess had often invited far to
visit the chateau, and, in 1848, she went. She then
complained of the Count having leis illegitimate child at
the chateau. When the Countess saw the Count
coming, she begged witness to retire to her own apart-
ment, which she did. After a while she heard cries of
" Help, Madame Cherquefosse !" and, on hastening to
the spot, saw the Countess in a frightful state, with her
hair in disorder, and her face red and bloody. Witness
then said, " Monsieur le Comte, if you do not change
your conduct, you will end at the galleys or on the
scaffold !" But, in saying that, she had never seriously
expected that she should see the Count in his present
position. The Count had then said that what he had
done to his wife was only in play. Witness did not
think that Madame de Bocarme was happy, and had
often said that her coronet of a countess was lined with
thorns. One day, when witness was walking with the
Count and Countess, he struck his wife frequently on
the arm, and always in the same place. The Count, in
witness's opinion, was full of cunning and hypocrisy; be
was a complete hypocrite. He was cruel to his wife, and
she felt profound terror of him. He at times beat his
children with great severity. His wife was an angel of
goodness, mildness, and patience. (The witness gave
her evidence with a good deal of pomposity, and,
on re-
tiring, affectionately saluted the female prisoner.)
Silvie Dutrieu had beets in the Count's service. 11
to
had made propositions to her, and she had yielde
him. He gave her money. After leaving his service
she had met him, and he had taken her to apa bc-
house.
Marie Copta and Marie Vanboquestal bad seen the
count ill-treat his wife and children.
Ci,estine Legrain, aged 25, the girl by whom the
Count had had a child, and with whom he subsequently
maintained a connexion at Brussels, was then casiteedwins.
She is not pretty, and is of vulgar
ceapiepteatrhaencaunt. Shea
greatly agitated, and
cbasutta. was seized with a violent
attempted to speak,
nervous attack, and had to be removed. The Count re-
mitied perfectly unconcerned.
Josephine Debiugny, a charwoman, had had a quarrel
with the Count, and he had struck her. He was a bad

man.
rain then de
Celestine Legposed that she had had an
intimate connexion with the Count, the result of which
was a child.
This child she had brought up at Brussels.Be gave hermoney. Ho had taken her child from her
to have it, with the consent of his wife, at the chateau.
Witness bad consented to the boy being taken away, in
order to put an end to her relations with the Count.
The boy was at present with her parents. The Count
had undertaken to pay her father 500 f. a year until the
boy should be seven years of age, but had not done so.
Be had given a promissory note, but it was not signed
in his usual way. When witness remarked that, he
asked if she thought he was not an honest man enough
to falfil such an engagement. Witness kept up her con-
nexion with the Count at Brussels. She had saved up
1,000 f., which he obtained from her. He had not repaid
her, and had not paid the interest. The Count had en-
gaged her as domestic, and had then passed him-
self off as secretary-general of the Countess de
Bocarme. [The Count paid no attention wheal:-
ever to the evidence of the witness,
d
the President reminded him that it was of considerable
o.ndiffi.
importance; he merely bowed and relapsed 1
rence.] The Count gave her 200 f. a month for abut
twenty months. When she .left the chateau to go to
Brussels he gave her 1,500 f.
M. de Bocarme —This young girl was very good, very
excellent, and very me rather
faithful
—I bad a strong passion tor
her, and I avow that my passion carried

too far.
Michael Legrain, fither of the last witness, said that
the Count had propos,- d to him to take the child to his
house, but he had rtfased without a promissory note to
cover the expense. The Count promised that he would
send a note wrapped up in the baby linen; but it was
not there. The Count had never paid him. On one ( f
his visits, however, he left 40f. On that occasion he
wept on seeing that the child was ill. Witness denied
with much indignation the insinuation of tie Count, that
he had forged the promissory note.
,Madame Legrain, wife of the preceding witness, gave
similar teatimeey.

Most of the witnesses who were called deposed only
to facts already known. The director of the prison of
Tourney, in which M. de Boearme was confined, stated
that M. de Bocarme had endeavoured to induce him I,e,
be the medium of communication with the Countess,
and had expressed to the witness his astonishment at
her having made statements which might injure him
without doing any good to herself. M. de Bocarm6
told him that he had knocked down U. Gustave. and
that when ho was on the ground Mme. de Becarm‘ had
poured the poison into his mouth, which was of such
power that a single drop would suffice to destroy a
man's life. M. do Boettrine denied having made-this-,
statemfolt to The director uf the prison, and MPS, .4e
Bocirme asserted that she Lad left the room as soon as
her brother was thrown down, and bad taken noVert in
the murder.
Oa Saturday, one of the judges having become indis-
posed, au adjournment took phiee to Monday.

LSPANIS Mir AER 0 DERS
The following, relating to the fereign debt and also to
the Customs' law of Vent ztele, is from the Committee
of Spanish American Bondholders:—
" Committee of Spanish American Bondholders,
8, Broad-street-buildings, June 9, 1851. rs'
" The committee have received ibis morning the fol-
lowing', letter from their agent, Mr. Lord, dated La
Guay ra, May 9, 1851:
"Si
with th
r—l
haveneoewectlhoe pleasure to wait upon the
committee std t xtraordinary Gazette of
the e:h iest., that contains the ltgielative dem e ot the
oed ult., continuing the extraordinary contribution to
which I have made reference in my late letters. Arts.
1,6, and 7 are those that merit especial attention, the
remaining once, Nos. 2 to 5, being contieed to the rates
of duty to be levied on imports and exports.
" It is in Art. 1 that the Senate made an alteration,
amplifying still more its usefulness; thus the duration of
the contribution is to be "as long as it may be necessary
to meet the engagements of the public credit."
" Art. 6 is a very important one, prohibiting, as it
does, upon any pretext whatever, the application of tbie
fund to. other than the object for which it is decreed, viz.,
in satisfaction of the obligations of public credit.
" Art. 7 establishes- a salutary check upon the art-
ployifs concerned,
" Although this contribution is not by the decree
assigned exclusively to the foreign debt,
as WAS ‘
pro-
posed by the Lower Chamber, that which is almost tan-
tamount to it is, that inPtha law of
for the economical year that will commence ways
oa timeans"
July
next, there is a sum assigned as part payment of the four
years' interest due itis Ist of April last of 500,000-dolls.,
and another for the current interest, at 31 per cent., in
the same year of .371,711 dolls.; that is to say, in this
form the project ofilaw left the Chamber of Representa-
tives, and I believe the Senate confirmed it; but as their
debates are not given to the public, and that the law
itself has not been promulgated, I cannot speak positively
on the subject. It will interest the committee to know
that the domestic debt, upon which interest is payable,
amounts at present to a trifle more than 1,000,000 dolls.,
which- will next year be increased to perhaps 1,500,000
dollars, or thereaboutie.and this will form the maximum
of the home debt. Upon the first named amount 10 per
cent. fur interest and redemption (5 per cent. for, each
object) is assigned in the budget of 1851 and 1852.
" The promised reply- of the Minister has not yet
reached me: that he has nis hands full at present I know.
The sessions of Congreas closed on the 4th inst. A
Minister Plenipotentiary has not yet been appointed.—l;
remain, &c.,

(Signed) " H. J. LORD:
"The following is the decree mentioned iu the above
letter:—

LEGISLATIVE DECREE ORDERING THE CONTINUATION

OF THE EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTION.
"'The Senate and Chamber of Representatives of the
Republic of Venezuela, assembled in Congress, decree,—
" Art. I.. There shall continue to be paid, from the lat
of July of this year, and thenceforward, the extraordi-
nary contribution which was established by the decree
of 2d May, 1849, as long as will ,be necessary to meet
the engegements of the public credit.
" ' Art. 2. The merchandise and effects which may
be imported from foreign countries through any of the
custom-houses of the Republic will have to pay an ad-
ditional duty of twenty per cent. over and above the
previous duty, and.fifteen per cent:: ad valorem on all
goods which were hitherto duty. free, excepting gold
and silver in coin, bars, bullion or dust, printed books,
and machinery, and other goods which were made duty
free by the decree of 22d Februark,of this year, in fa.
your of public works.
" § 1. The amount of this duty is,:to be paid in cash
if not exceeding 700 dolls., or within thirty days if
above that amount.

" §2. In the payment of this duty there shall be ob-
served the formalities and rules e►tablished by the law
on the administration of customs.

" § 3. The duties levied by this article will come into
operation from the Ist June with regard to the com-
merce with the Antilles, and from the Ist July with re-
gard to the United States and Europe.
"' Art. 3. The pro3uc:ions and national manufactures•
which will be exported to foreign countries through any
of the ports of the lt,public, :Ater the publication of this
law, wilt pay is duty of 4 per Cent. ad. valorem.
"'(Only §.) The ,following aro excepted from the
operations or this article:—
" Ist, Coffee, cotton, end the produce of the sugar
cane, which will only pay 3 per cent. ad valorem.
"' 2d, Gold coin, which will only pay I per cent., and
silver coin, which will oily pay 2 per cent.
" • 3d, Cattle and pickled meat.
" ' Art. 4. The administrators of the Customs will fix
at the doors of their offices, on the la,t dit3s of each
month, a list of the current prices of their pine, of the
productions and exportable manufactures affected by ihia
decree. This list is to be signed and sworn to by two
merchants and three landed proprietors of known in-
tegrity, named by the administrators of the Customs.
" A copy of the said hat, authenticated by the party
who drew it up, is to be transmitted to the Department
of . _ . _

;.‘ the valuation resulting from the list-
mentioned in the foregoing article the duties of exports-
ion will be calculated.

Art. 6. The total produce of this contribution will
be applied exclusively to the public credit; aLd op no
pretext whattioevt.r, not even on the plea ut reimburse-
aunt, is the least part ut it to be applied to any other
purpose.

"' Art. 7. The civil authorities appointed to preside
at the monthly accounts of the financial dfices will re-
fuse their signatures whenever they find that there has
been a contravention with regard to the foregoing
article, and they have to report the case immediately to
the Executive p Aver, in order, 012 having the tact certi-
fied, that they may discharge the functionary tx func-
tionaries.

`" Cdracar, April 19th, 1851.'"

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, nnfl the
Princess Helena, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Guth,
and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, visited the Z )elogical
Gardens in the Regent's-park yesterday morning. 11,
attendance on her Majesty and the Royal party were—
General %Yemyss, Colonel Bouvorie, and M. B
B. de
Treskow.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Saxe C° b e
Gotha visited her Royal Higline:s the Duchess otl'ileirui
yesterday, at Clarence House, Sr. James's.
Els Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Mr. Birch, took a carriage drive yesterday morning.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess
Louisa, and Prince Arthur, took their usual exercise
yesterday iu the garden of the Palac
attended by Co-
lonel Beuverie, honoured Sir Eberdwtein,
His Royal Highness Prince Al
Landseer with a
visit yesterday at bis residence, in St.
John's Wood.
His Royal Highness the Priince of
Royal Highness the Duchess o Saxe Coburgs visited
a Oothtlyhtesr-
hamalsce.
terTdatiye,at
Queenßukeainndg
Prince
Duke and Duchess of Albert, accompanied :by the
Ernest of Wurt Saxe Coburg Gotha and Doke
emberg, honoured the Royal Italian
Opera with their
presei,ce yesterday evening.lbe royal
sutt o consisted of the
.. Countess of Charlemont,. the lion.
Mary Seymour, the Baroness de Wangenheim, Lord
Camoys,
General Wemyss, Colonel I3ouverie, and M. B.
de Treskow,
Lord Camoys has relieved Lord Dnfferin in his duties
as Lord in Waiting to her Majesty. Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. N. Hood has relieved Sir Frederick Stovin in
his duties as Groom in-Waiting to her Majesty.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, mom.
panted by his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen,
and attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Lord James
Murray, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her pre-
sence yesterday evening.

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MERCHANT TRADERS. Due" LOAN AND INSURANCE
Co
Ya point of considerable imports ca
was matter before the Master in Chancery Sir
rraAiNsevd.— inYtebsitser da
William Horne, on the application of Mr. Roxburgh, counsel
for Mr. Harding, the official manager of this company, to
expunge the proof of debts, amounting to 80,000/, allowed by
the Commissioners of Bankruptcy. The application in ques-
tion was founded on the allegation that these debts,were con-
tracted between the provisional and complete registration o 1
th
panyn,otantdhethat consequently, the directors or P to '
mteshareholders, were liable in respect
them. Messrs. Maples and Pearce. who were Solicitors
oecr osrn,
and
the assignees under the bankruptcy, opposed the applicatio t
under the 7th section of the Joint Stock Companies Winding..
up Act. His Honour the Master declined to accede ti h
application, being of opinion that be had no jurisdiction tad,
so under the Act, the debts having already been admitted b
the Commissioner in Bankruptcy. Mr. Roxburgh said that
as the point was of very great importance, and ay the Bank.
runtcy Law Consolidation Act expressly saved the jurisdic-
tion of the Joint Stock Companies Winding-up Act, the ques•
Lion could not be allowed to rest there.
SPARLINGS.—Within
the last few 03
3'B
novel colonyys t numerous
of fish have appeared on various parts of
the Hampshire coast, particularly in the mouths of the fresh
water rivers communicating with the sea. They literally
swarm in numbers, and are pronounced, by those who have
witnessed them, to be smelts, which latter fish they closely
resemble, but an old angler. who has, in years gone by,
cast his line into the Dee, in Cheshire, determines them to
be sparlings. They will bite at a rag-worm very greedily,
h
and a person
wit a single rod and line, on Saturday,
caught eight dozen and upwards of these diminutive'
tenants of the dot during one tide. They are closely fol-
lowed up by large bodies of that voracious fish, the mackerel
guard, which latter makes sad havoc atn9pg the above feeble
Colony. •These fish are very rare, visitin our coasts pray
now and then, nor does it appear that they have eves Deep.
recogataed ih the Load= markets. .