The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-10 00:00:00

TU. E SUN, LONE ON, FRIDAY EVEN i rvi a, JULY 10, 57

HE R MAJESTY'S THE ATR E. J came actually painful. Every scrap of intelli
L'ELISIR D'AMORE. genre was eagerly sought after, new editions of
The Last Night hut Two of the Sni,scription.
Picco apps ranee f Si,T,tior Rossi. the local journals were published every hour, and
TO-MORROW EVENING, JULY 11, will be produced the events of the trial were fiashel along the
(first time these six years) Donizetti's Opera of
L'ELHIR D'AMORE. electric wires throughout the length and breadth
diva, Piccolomisi (first time ); Nemorino, Signor of the land !It was a positive relief when the
Relart ; Beloore, Belletti ; and Dr. Duleamara, Signor
Rossi (first appearance this season). case was brought to a conclusion, and the load of
To conclude with the admired Ballet,
MARCO SPADA, anxiety, which had been accumulating for nine
For particulars, see bills. successive days, was at last removed from the
A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been
specially reserved for the public, and mu. be had on applies- public mind.
tion at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket. We cannot feel surprised at that anxiety. A
Pricia One Guinea and One Guinea and a half each,
young girl, well educated, and evincing marvel-
lous courage and self-possession, stood charged
with the most atrocious offence provided for by
law, and, if convicted, she must have suffered a
painful and ignominious death. She was charged
with having treacherously administered poison
to one to whom but the preceding day she had
written in the most endearing terms, whom she
had once loved and admitted to all the privileges
of a husband. The mystery in which the affair
was involved, the doubts that were entertained
on every side, worked up the excitement to fever
heat, so that the case, which was contested by the
ablest members of the profession, promises to re-
main one of the most prominent among the causes
celebres of all civilised nations.
The facts lay in a narrow compass. PIERRE
EMILS L'Aerommt, a Frenchman employed as
clerk or packer in a very respectable house in
Glasgow, was fund about 2 o'clock in the morn-
ing of Monday the 23d of March, suffering under
all the symptoms that might attend a violent
attack of cholera, or the administration of a large
dose of irritant poison. He was so prostrated as
to be unable to open the door of his lodgings, al-
though he had obtained the pass key to admit
himself without: disturbing the other residents.
For some time he refused medical assistance, but
eventually consented to see a medical practitioner.
A few hours, however, terminated his career, and
subsequent investigations proved, beyond the pos-
sibility of doubt, that he died from the effects of
an enormous dose of arsenic sufficient to have
destroyed twenty lives.
The important question then arose, by whom
had that poison been administered—was it a case
of suicide, or of wilful and deliberate murder. It
could scarcely have been an accident ; the quantity
taken, some 180 or 200 grains-4 of which would
have been sufficient to destroy life, excluding that
supposition. Every clue was, of course, eagerly
sought after, and it was discovered that he had
been carrying on a correspondence with a young
lady, who might have had a motive for removing
him. A letter was found in his pocket making an
appointment with him for the Saturday evening.
This, according to his own statements, had induced
him to come back from the Bridge of Allan,
where he had been staying for his health, and he
had also been seen going in the direction of the
residence of the young lady. These were strong
circumstances, and, in addition, a voluminous
correspondenee was discovered, which proved that
the deceased bad seduced this unfortunate young
lady, and, in the most heartless and cruel manner,
had used the letters she had written, as instruments
of coercion, t 3 compel her to continue the illicit
intercourse, and to refuse the honourable
engagement which had been proffered by a
gentleman and a man of honour.
No punishment could be too great for the vain-
glorious and dastardly scoundrel who made such
atrocious use of the power he had obtained over
one far beyond himself in rank and position. But
this, although a matter to excite sympathy in
her behalf, could not have justified her conduct
if she had really caused his death. Her dreadful
fate might have excited commiseration, but the
poisoner should be brought to justice, and the
majesty of the law fully and completely vindicated.
But was she guilty 7 Had she become the execu-
tioner of her infamous seducer? There were strong
grounds of suspicion, but not the proofs that
would remove every reasonable doubt, and leave
no alternative to conscientious men. It is true
that she had purchased poison, but she did so
openly, and without disguise, gave her name, and
had the fatal drug charged to her father's account !
That did not look like guilt. One who, if guilty,
exhibited such extraordinary cunning, would not
have been betrayed into so great an oversight.
Besides, she had not obtained the poison before
the day alluded to in the first count of the indict-
ment, and ou which a verdict of Not Guilty was
therefore very properly returned. She also
accounted for her purchase, and it was shown
that publications of the highest character—
" Blackwood" and " Chambers," had stated that
arsenic was used as a cosmetic, and even taken
internally. Nay, more, L'ANGELIER himself was
proved to have spoken of its use, and to have de-
clared that he could take it with impunity.
It was also shown that she could scarcely have
seen him on the Sunday night. She had re-
mained in company with her young and innocent
sister up to half•past 10 o'clock, and then un-
dressed and gone to bed. It was difficult to sup.
pose that she could subaequeittly have met him,
prepared, and administered the fatal dose ! It
would require an extraordinary degree of credal
lity to believe it even possible.
He, too, had spoken of suicide, and the right
which, as he declared, a man possessed over his
own life. It was by no means impossible that
having failed to see her, he might in a moment
of remorse have taken the drug of which he could
easily have obtained possession. His vanity, the
paramount feeling of his mind, was injured, and
he might have taken the dose, which was far too
large to suppose it could have been given by
another, without immediate detection.
We yesterday gave the earliest, and, we be-
lieve an exclusive account of the result, which
was appropriated by many of our contemporaries,
without the slightest acknowledgement. We this
day give the exact verdict. It will be seen that
the Lord Justice Cierk fully concurred in the deci-
sion at which the Jury arrived. They could not
have come to any other conclusion. But,
as it is, the prospects of the unfortunate young
woman's life are blighted, and it might
have been happier for her had she been
removed from a world that will always look coldly
on one who had committed a serious error at the
very commencement of her career, and who was
suspected of the greatest crime of which a human
being can be guilty. GOD help her Whatever
might be the real facts of the case, she will require
a sustaining power to enable her to endure the
terrible consequences of the charges which the
Jury truly declared to be "not proven."

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
Signor GIUGLINI ha the honour to An-
nou ce that his BENEFIT will take place on MONDAY
NEXT, July 13, on whi,th occasion he will have the honour
to apiear in 1140 of his principal Char cters.
The Fourth Act of Verdi's
IL TROVATORE.

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Leonora, Wile. Spezia ; Azucena. Madame Alboni ; Il Conte
di Lung, Signor Bent:ventano ; and Manrico, Signor Guiglini.

The Last Act of
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR.
Madl'e. Picco'omini ; Bedebent, Signor V"aletti;
Enrico, Signor Bed tti ; and Eduardo, Signor Giuglini.
For the First Time, the Last Act of Bell ni's
IL PERATA.
Including the celebrated "In Vedrai." Imogene, Madlle
Ortolani ; Gualtero, Signor Giuglini.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE,
IL DON GIOVANNI.

It appears that there is a really frightful faci-
lityt
t,poisons-altogethersho p, and the
of access to the deadliest
apart from the town-druecys.is
store of the village apothecary ! Therecollection
of this miserable fact we the incidental evi-
owe to
dance adduced upon the Sixth Day of the late
extraordinary trial of MADELINE Six
iTn, upon the
charge of Poisoning EMILE L' A.NGELTER. The
startling evidence we allude to was given upon
oath by JOHN FLEMING, the storekeeper of the
Glasgow Printers and Dyers, Messrs. Ton and
HIGGINBOTHAM-. Witness observed that it was his
duty "to take charge" of dyeing substances used
upon this establishment. lie said that one of those