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with hit; arms folded, and his mild grave eyes

L.anal and iiiiiitary intelligence.

steadily fixed on the, ground ; while the junior 1 --___,...._
counsel for the Crew°, Mr. Mackenzie, look d '
The order f a. the etnba, ka' on of the officers and
alternately a*, hi principal and a printed paper'
which he held in his hand. On the further side., men of the Bth and 53d Regiments at the provi-
of the table sat the counsel for the defence—the sional battalion, Chatham, to join the service com-
Dean of Faculty, listening calmly but with com- panics of their respective regiments in Bengal, has
pressed lips, now and then taking a brief note I been countermanded in consequence of the autho-
with a peu which he held in his hand ; Mr. Georae rities requiring the East India Company's troop-
Young looking cot ly- at the jury, as if to put
ship Cressy, in which they were to embark at
them at their ease ; and the junior, Mr. Alex-
ander Moncrieff, writing as fast as his pen . Gravesend to-morrow, to convey a portion of one
could fly for the service of his seniors. The of the regiments ordered to India.
Lard Justice Clerk is at once listening to To-morrow detachments of the 50th and 90th
the Lord Advoca'e, and investigating a printed Regiments will sail from Liverpool for India in the
copy of the letters, or his own notes of the evidence.
screw steam ship Prince Arthur, 1,600 tons.
Lords Ivory • and Handyside are listening in-
tently, their eyes fixed on the speaker. Two of Detachments of the 50th and 77th Regiments
arrived at Liverpool yest_rday from Dublin in the
the other judges, who are also present, listen, but
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now and then turn to survey the court. The jury, steam-ship Prince. They proceeded to Colchester.
finding themselves personally addressed, become The Ulysses sailing tran-port embarked the
more fixedly attentive than hitherto, and several troops before reported yesterday morning, and
dropped out to Spithead. She sails this morning
take snuff to clear their understanding. In one of
the seats allotted to the Glasgow reporters an artist for India.
is making a sketch of the crowded court, the wig- The Rhadamanthus steam storseship, Master-
thronged gallery on the further side, the accused
Commander Brown,
Woolwich dockyard to ship a was yesterday taken into the
herself, and the oiler actors in the great drama inner basin of
now in progress, evidently with a view to its pro-
cargo of steam machinery for the western yards.
ducion in some illustrated newspaper. Meanwhile The Rhadamanthus has assumed the appearance
the Lord-Advocate, having made some preliminary of a new ship, having been renovated throughout.
remarks on the verification of the letters, and the Mr. Robert L. Harris has been appointed as-
manag,-mont of prosecut'on in other respects, en-
sistant clerk to the Ganges ; and Mr. Cuthbert R.
tered upon the more vital parts of the case, and be-
Rodham, assistant clerk, to the Ajax.
gan to draw the dark and mysterious outlines of The 25th Regiment consisting of 660 men, ar-
rived at Dover from Manchester yesterday morning
this strange and lamentable story. One by one,
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each of the links of evidence was rive-ed into its in two special trains at 9 30, and were played to
place. He traced the course of the relations be-
their barracks at the Western Heights, by the
tween the prisoner and the dead man ; and read band of the 42d Royal High!atders. An almost
many of the letters, of which, parts had been for-
miraculous escape from death occurred while thefirst
special train was running between Betchworth and
merly submitted by the clerk of the court. Very
'the Reigate Town station on the South-Eastern
different were they read now ; the passionate ap-
Railway. A child bel ng;ng to the wife of one of
peals which-they contained ,fell from the speaker's
t
lips vehemently and truthful, with the vividness the soldiers, a fine boy about 7 years of age, was
of an able actor. The prisoner shuddered. Then leaning out of the window of the carriage in which
he entered upon the proof ; and, by the aid of a he and his mother and others were travelling, when
multitude of little points of circumstantial evidence, by some.means he overbalanced himself and fell
unveiled the secret history of the deceased and the
out on to the line, the train at the time running at
accused during the months of Feb. and March—an full speed, or at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The
mother of the boy was with difficulty restrained
investigation which had to be all the more minute
in consequence of the rejection of L'Angelier's from jumping out of the carriage atter him. On
pocket-book as admissible evidence. Towards the the arrival of the train at Reigate Town men were
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close of a speech of five hours and a half, he exa-
nstantly dispatched down the line in search of the
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mined and rejected the various theories that might child, who was found lying between the two lines of
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be propounded on behalf of the defence, and. fixed, rail, comparatively uninjured, the collar-bone only
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as it were, the final link in declaring that, unless being fractured. What renders the escape more
on the fatal night of the 22d of Marcia, the de- remarkable is that the second special train, con-
ceased had an interview with the prisoner in her veying the remainder of the troops, which was fol-
father's bailee in Blythawood-square, the idea of lowing close behind the first one, passed the child
suicide, in the absence of motive, was impossible ; without doing him any injury. The little sufferer
and that if it was admitted that he had been there, is now under tie care of the regimental eurgeon at
the evidence against the prisoner was perfectly Dover, and will probably soon recover.

overwhelming.
In many of the most terrible dramas, whether of
real or fictitious, life, there occurs some circum-
stance, which, of itself ludicrous, only beightens
the effect by contrast ; as when poor Hamlet jests
with the men who are digging a grave for the lady
of his love. Thus, if it had not been for the s'..lemn
nature of yesterday's proceedings, it would have
been positively amusing to have watched the coon-
tenauces of the jury changing during the con-
tinuance of the Lord-Advocate's speech. At first,
they were only attention ; then they became
graver ; and by degrees their faces lengthened and
lengthened, and the corners of their mouths went
down. It appeared as if they had been formerly
easy in the idea of having to discharge a more
agreeable office, and were now awakening to a pain-
ful sense of having to fulfil a stern and t erf ible
Tears stood in the eyrs of two of the jurors ; but
this may partly be accounted for by the magnetic
influence arising from the fact of their being stared
at by one man for five and a hilf hours, and staring
at him iu return. Be this as it may, it will be
curious to watch the reverse of this proceeding to-
day, when the Dean of Faculty will draw the oppo-
site stt

BETTING HOUSES IN THE CITY.

Yesterday, James Merry, who was a short time
ago convicted at the Mansion-House before the
Lord Mayor and Alderman Wire, of having used a
room in a house in Talbot-court, racechurch-street,
for betting purposes, and sentenced to imprison-
ment for three months, appealed against the convic-
tion. - The appeal was heard before the Recorder
and Aldermen Sir R. W. Carden, Cubitt, and
Hale, at, the Old Bailey, and was supported by
Mr. Ribton, Mr. Bodkin appearing for the repon-
dent.

Mr. Ribton made an eirnest application for the
postponement of the case, upon the ground that he
had not had time to look into the case of his client.

The Recorder at once refused any delay.
Mr. Ribton then objected to the defect in the
information, the number of the house in Talbot-
court not having been specified.
The Court overruled the objection without the
slightest hesitation.

(Front the Caledonian Mercury.)
The last and decisive day of this great trial has at
length arrived. Of alltbe eight preceding, yesterday
was perhaps the most exciting; for it was known that
the Dean of Faculty was to address the jury, and
his well-known abilities collected a greater assem-
blage than ever. The rush made by the crowd
into the larger gallery at eight was alarming—par-
ties, in a wild hubbub, bounding over the benches
down to the front—and it had abated little during
the two hours that elapsed before the commence-
ment of the proceeding'. At ten, the galleries
were filled to overflowing •, the back of the gallery
behind the Judges, and the windows in that part
of the Court, were crowded with persons standing.
Several daring individuals sat in the corners of
the galley with their legs dangling over the front,
and hats were deposited in perilous positions on
narrow ledges beneath.
For the first time, the Court and Jury were in
their places 1), fore the prisoner entered. Miss Smith
naturally appeared somewhat worn, owing, no
dotibt, to the painful and protracted excitement'of
'the last eight days, which must have been all the
more intense within, because its outward manifes-
tations were almost always so effectually subdued.
The Dean, on her entrance, went up to her, and
spoke a few words to he-, smiling, in an encou-
raging manner, as he has done ever since the third
morning of the trial. Then, after the opening of
the Court, and a brief pause, he rose to address
the jury. Slowly he rose, and slowly, solemnly,
and mournfully, the words fell from his lips. At
first his voice was low, and yet it wa" always so
distinct, that from the beginning to the close of
his -speech, it would have been difficult for any
reporter to have lost either his words or his mean-
ing. As he proceeded, his voice swelled louder and
louder ; his right hand, which at first was laid upon
the table, was waved in demonstration to the jury ;
his eye-glass was occasionally raised to his eyes,
as he read some portion of a letter, to show the
devoted love which the prisoner bore to L'Ange-
lier ;and his lips projected in contemptuous scorn
when he spoke of the man who could corrupt and
betray her. Without following the Lord Advocate
very rgainu'ely into all Vie circumstantial evidence
which the latter had adduced, he struck boldly at
the princif al points of. the accusation, and argued
that they were, in the circums'ance, incredible.
The eye-glass being found inconvenient, a pair of
spectacles were substituted. Every word was em-
phatic ; every sentence was delivered in a powerful
and deliberate manner, which chained for the time
the mind of his auditors into a feeling that it was
utterly impossible that he could be in the wrong.
As be advanced, he became more vehement in his
language, more excited in manner, more filled with
loathing and horror at the wickedness of• the man
through whose vile agency " a gentle, pure, and
affectionate girl, the pride of her father's family,"
had fallen so low as to be capable of writing these
painful and disgusting letters, and then attempt to
use them against her as an engine of terror and op-
pression. His emotion increased as he read to the
Jury, in quivering tones, the despairing letter of
the 10th February. It was in the last half hour,
however, that his eloquence became irresistible, and
carried all before it. . Every muscle of his face,
every gesture of his hands, every motion of his tall
and commanding figure, every tone of his deep and
powerful voice, told part of the story. It would be
utterly impossible for one who merely reads his
speech to comprehend the influence which it ap-
peared to exert on the minds of those
,who heard it,
when deprived of the auxil ary power of his almost
irresistible manner. Perhaps the most telling part
of the thole was his introduction of the story of
Eliza Fenning, and the warning which he drew
from it : while the solemn and awful appeal with
which he concluded thrilled through the souls of
all in Court, and will be remembered by them to
their dying
day. If the Jury hard consulted im-
mediately, the result could hardly have been doubt.
ful. After an attempt at app'ause, which was in-
stantly checked, and a brief resting-time, the Lord
Justice Clerk commenced his charge. At first,
while the echo of the eloquent words to which the
CoUrt had just listened, had hardly died away,
their power appeared to have extended to the
bench ; but, as his lordship proceeded with the re-
capitulation •of the evidence, their influence was
lost.

Butt, who gave the principal evidence on the
occasion of the examination at the Mansion-House,
was then called, and examined, and his testimony
did not differ in the slightest degrea from that
whi,l he had so fully given in the first instance.
The conviction was confirmed, and the prisoner
was sent tb prism to serve the three months to
which he had been originally sentenced.
Mr._ Bodkin• said the Court Might form some
( pinion of the mischief done by houses of the kind
from the statement he had to make, that from the
bank book which the defendant acknowledged to
be his, it appeared that within the last ten months
15,600/. had been paid in to the defendant's ac-'
count, and that no more than 800/. of that sum had'
been drawn out.
The Recorder expressel a fervent hope, that the
result would have a wholesome effect upon society.,

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evimiriation of Spolieu at the Dublin Police-court, the
hammer and razor found in the canal, were proved to be
the property of the accused. The further hearing of the
case was adjourned to 'Monday next.
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