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snpplies the ago a coroner's inquest took place at St. Pancras,
as soon as pub-
which partook in s ome respects of the tragic nature
of the suicide and the distressing characteristics of
death from starvation. M. ISIDORE MAGNES, a
French artist, residing in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-
square, was found dead in his bed, and the
result of the medical investigation showed that
heart and brain were physically degenerated, and
" gone" from the fatal effects of overwork and anx-
iety, together with insufficient nourishment, quite in-
adequate to supply the wants of nature. AL Isrnonn
MAGNES had for some time supported life, such as it
was, on a scanty supply of potatoes and bread, and a
little milk, and yet he taight, had he so wished it,
have easily earned a comfortable competence. Like
many another ambitious dreamer, however, ISIDORE
MAGNES preferred the hope of future fame to the
certainty of present existence. He had conceived the
idea of a great picture t) be called " L'entente Cor-
diale," representing an incident in the Crimean war,
in which Englishmen and Frenchmen were equally
conspicuous. To this picture the artist devoted
his life. Other occupations, which procured him
a certain livelihoad, were given up, and for
the last five years the Great Picture occupied all his
time and thoughts. During the last two years he
appears to have suffered under continual privations.
Sympathising friends occasionally lent him trifling
assistance, and offers of remunerative emphiyment
were again and again proposed. The help he thank-
fully accepted, but all suggestions of any kind
that might interfere with his beloved la-
bours were steadily refused. - The great pic-
ture which was to celebrate the alliance of
France and England, and ennoble the name of
ISIDORE MAGNES, was (so dreamed the ambitious
artist) to appear in the Exhibition of the Royal
Academy of London, and then to take its place in
the galleries of Versailles, where the brush of HonacE
VERNET has already depicted, in radiant colours,
the historical glories of Imperial France.
What the destination of the picture may be
time will show. The artist will not wit-
ness the triumph of which he dreamed.
lie is dead, but the Picture is finished. It is at least
a melancholy satisfaction to know that before the
brush dropped from the nerveless grasp of the en-
thusiast his eyes had beheld the accomplishment of

Better than Famo is still the wish for fame"

has been said by one well qualified to express such
an opinion. We must lament the untimely death of
the poor French artist who devoted his life to an ob-
ject quite inadequate for the sacrifice Of a human
existence ; and yet we may perhaps be justified in
saying of him, in the words of the Poet just quoted,
that the object of ISIDORE MAGNES' ambition was not
altogether an unworthy one—

No! for whoever with an earnest soul
Strives for some end from this low world afar,
Still upward travels, though he miss the goal,
And strays—but towards a stir.

"ANGER is a brief madness ;" fear is a madness
often very long. SHEWAItD, the Norwich murderer,
stabbed his wife in a sudden fit of passion. Probably
he did not mean to kill her; but she died instantly,
and instantly began his horrible fear and remorse,
which for nearly twenty years have been pursuing
him, leaving him no peace, and at length com-
pelling him to impart the fearful secret so
that he might relieve his tortured conscience,
even at the expense of life. Terrible was the first
flash of conviction "I am a murderer." He fled
from the house where his slain wife lay, for he could
not bear the sight of the staring, lustreless eyes, the
stiffened limbs, and that ghastly wound whence life
had ebbed in a minute. But flight could not undo
the deed, could not make the dead live again, could
not remove the traces of his deed. Rather flight
would only direct suspicion to him. So- he returned
to the loathed place ; silence brooded over it,
but the silence shouted forth with voices louder than
thunder that he was a murderer. He had tried to
fancy that the past few hours were only a terrible
dream, but there lay the rigid body to convince him
that all was only too horribly true. That mute
witness must be got rid of. In the frenzy of passion
he had inflicted the one wound ; with cool delibera-
tion he must inflict a hundred others. He must hew
limb from limb, hack the flesh into countless frag-
ments, grind into powder th.3_hones. cif kflaw
-.00 e
Lis flesh. Ile dispersed the fragments about the
upper rooms of the house, and then went down
stairs to sleep. In his second confession he says
even that he did sleep. He waited some two or
three days ; for what ? He himself did not know.
But soon there came other evidence of his crime.
He had shut it out from his sight, but the
sickly smell of death began to pervade the
house.. The poor relics of dishonoured mor-
tality would accuse him through one sense if they
could not through another. His home was filled with
the savour of the charnel-house. He could not
endure it. He must get rid of this witness against
him—this witness that, though hewed into shapeless
pieces, still kept crying against him. Ile stole out
of his home at night, bearing the smaller fragments
with him, and strewing them about the fields. The
wide earth might conceal what the one house could
not. But he could not thus deal with the larger
portions of the corpse. He tried to boil them
away, and was " disappointed to find that
they would not readily drop to pieces." By this
time conscience had become seared, the heart had
become hardened. He seems almost-to have taken
a sort of interest in his work, to have felt the invigo-
rating effect which difficulty always produces on a
strong will. He ground the skull to powder; he
strewed other portions about the churchyards, and
even the streets. At last these horrible waifs and
strays found in so many places began to attract
attention. Norwich began to ask what they were.
Inquiry and scientific examination shewed that
these were the remains of a human being—of a
woman. They were supposed to be those of an
elderly woman, for the " parboiling " to which the
bones had been exposed misled the surgeons.
Snr,wann's wife was young, and no one, therefore,
connected him or her with the murder. Rather he
was commiserated, because, as he gave out, she had
deserted him for another man. For nearly twenty
years he kept his secret—call them not twenty
years of life ; rather they were twenty years of living
death, of perpetual remorse and agony, that at
last became intolerable. The yearning for confession
that comes over a criminal not wholly bad became
so strong that he gave himself up to justice, and is
now lying under sentence of death. It is said that
he cannot live many months, even should the hang-
man spare him; that he will lose his reason even
should he be allowed to live out the miserable remnant
of his days. Let us not harden our hearts against
this man. Let us remember that the crime was
unpremeditated; that all the after atrocities were
the result of the fear and the horror wherewith his
crime had filled him ; that these nearly twenty years
of remorse have been a far more terrrible punish-
ment than the gallows ; and that confession does at
least she,,v a desire on the part of the criminal to set
himself right with his fellow men—to tell them that
he is not the blameless man they thought him, but a
murderer. There has been in our time no tale more
horrible than this of the Norwich murder; but there
have been murderers far worse than SHE WARD.

The following officers embarked yesterday at
Portsmouth on board her Maj.?sty's screw troopship
Crocodile, Capt. G. W. Watson, for conveyance to
Halifax and Quebec :—Capt. S. C. Glyn, Ist Bat-
talion Rifle Brigade, and Mrs. Glyn ; Captain
Graham, 78th Infantry; Lieut.-Paterson, Ist Bat-
talion 16th ; Surg. 111‘.Master, 79th ; Staff Surg.
Johnson, and one sergeant, 78th ; one Widow with
seven children.

LATEST INTELL EGENCE

(UTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

I BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, April 20.
The Etoile be of this morning publishes a
despatch from .ameries, in the Borinage district,
dated yesterda.!evening, announcing that tranquil-
lity had been rtored there, and that the men on
strike are read to resume work provided a slight
increase of was is granted them.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH, April 20.

. _
In yesterdai sitting of the Upper House the
debate on the
;hool Education Bill was continued.
Prince Hobe rjhe energetically protested against
party feeling Shin the domain of the Church, so
prevalent in ddern tunes. He did not hesitate to
stigmatize stir principles as were put forward in
the Syllabus,ae Encyclia, and other publications,
as contrary tthe spirit of the age, and a cause
why Church nd State were unable to go hand in
hand.

the like.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY, April 19.
It is noteworthy that in the debate on commercial
matters the members of the Left figured largely as Pro-
tectionists. M. Thiers was especially the champion of
French industry, urging that the distress in the textile
manufactures wag not owing to the commercial crisis, but
to free trade. English manufacturers, he said, find-
ing the American market closed to them, inundated
France with their goods. The production of yarn was
now limited to the coarser kinds, owing to the finer sorts
being so extensively imported from England. M. Gressier
here got up and demolished M. Thiers. The statement
respecting yarn was incorrect. The commoner kinds
were imported from England more largely than
the fine yarns. Instead of the advantages of the treaty
being on the side of England, France had gained sixteen
millions sterling by it. France yearly sent cotton goods
to the value of £160,000 to England, and received only
272,000 worth in return. And why? Because a duty of
15 per cent. was laid on English goods in France, whilst
French goods were admitted untaxed into England.
The manufacturers of Manchester had found that they
could not compete on those terms, and were now endea-
vouring to obtain a reduction of the French duties.
M. Rouher has undertaken the task of getting through
the law to authorise the pensions to the old soldiers of the
Republic and the Empire. He has had a long interview
with the Emperor respecting this ungrateful task. No-
body, of course, knows what the two magnates had to
say to each other ; but it may be taken for granted that
the ingratitude of a much benefitted people, and the bad-
ness of the political times, was the leading topic of discus.
sion between them. The pension to the old soldiers meets
with general opposition. Everybody agrees with the
abstract justice of rewarding the old braves who so nobly
combatted for the honour of France, but people are
equally unanimous that the proposal is decidedly inop-
portune. The Finance Minister has lately been making
the most striking shew of economy. Everything—except.
ing those two trifles, the army and the navy—is to be cut
down. A proposal to increase the salary of the communal
schoolmasters, who have to exist on a salarysomething like
that of a Wiltshire bind, has been rejected with contempt.
The schoolmasters can starve, have starved, and a little
more starvation can, therefore, do them no harm, And
now at the extreme end of the session, and in the midst of
this economical display of fireworks, comes this proposition
respecting military pensions. The Emperor's will must
prevail, and the Corps Legislatif, moreover, is ready to
pass anything just now; but the act is arbitrary, and the
time is not propitious for arbitrary deeds.
It is believed that the law abolishing workmen's tivrets,
or character-books, will be postponed. Opposition has
been met with in a very unexpected quarter—from
the works-.4a themselves. A good many artisans of
St. Quentin and other places have petitioned against the
law. They like their livrets, because, with their aid, every
workshop is open to them. The limes are a testimonial
of character, which never fails. Every employer writes
down the particulars of a man's service in his lirret when
his term of employment is finished. The workmen ask
where they are to find another system of industrial pass.
ports which will serve them so well. But, unfortunately,
the particulars recorded in the livrets are not always correct.
Sometimes they are the reverse of correct. It is possible
for an employer to do a man an ill turn by giving an
unfavourable tone to his remarks in the lirret, and it is
still more easy for him to save trouble by giving a servan
a character which is better than his due.

A French " Higgs" case has just been disclosed here.
M. Taillefer, who has been cashier to the Union Insurance
Office in Paris for the last thirty-five years, has been
arrested on a charge of embezzling £60,000. Here, again,
this great fraud was not noticed by any of the managers.
The affair promises some serious disclosures, for M. Pic, the
editor of the Etendard, and member of the General Council of
L'Arfte, has also been arrested. It is said that half the
whole sum of money has been applied to the support of the
Etendard, which, being a semi-official paper, is of course a
bad commercial speculation. An offer has, I believe, been
made to recompense the Insurance Company in great part,
if not to the full extent, on condition that it abandon pro-
ceedings. This offer has been rejected. The company is
bound to go on with the prosecution as a public duty.
M. Godard, the aeronaut, met with an odd accident
near Florence the other day. An ascent was made, and
the voyagers all arrived again safely on terra firma. A
large number of peasants thronged round the voyagers,
and, in spite of the advice of M. Godard, who had
opened the valves to let the gas escape, persisted
in smoking. All at once the inflammable vapour ignited,
when the balloon burst with a tremendous report, and

its network was completely destroyed, a vast .sheet
of flame, resembling a meteor, ascending in the air. No

body was hurt, but the country people were clamorous in

their demands for compensation for injury to the land and