The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY B_, 1857

TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
IL DON GIOVANNI.

with an effectual substitute, before the existing
,ffice was finally abolished. Even those who spoke
most strongly against the "sham," did not support
their speeches with their votes, for one or both of
the reasons above mentioned. We, however, fully
concur with the Member for Sheffield, in thinking
both that the period was opportune, and that in
obtaining the expression of opinion from the re-
presentative branch of the Legislature, he was
doing all that could properly be expected at hi,
hands. It was for him to indicate the evil—for
the Government to decide on the details by which
the matter might be carried into practical opera-
tion, and an efficient substitute provided for the
condemned office.

)f that Sum that our new Palace of the Fine
:arts may prove worthy of the Capit d and of the
Empire, of the Age and of the Oliject, of the
People and of the Sovereign.
It is not only a magnificent Project—but it is,
.lso, and in a very peculiar manner, a magnifi-
cent Opportunity. If we only avail ourselves
wisely of this opportunity we may really, though
adirectly, do marvels almost beyond conception.
We are not talking at random, for example, when
ye say distinctly that—lf we avail ourselves
of this opportunity as we ought, we may, or,
rather, we shall, infallibly—Elevate the Public
raste, Advance the Progress of the Arts amongst
ifirselves, and impart in this country a new and
tppreoiable impetus to the onward movement of
Civilisation.

EXTRA NIGHT.
TO-MORROW EVENING, July 9, will be repeated, with
"the following unprecedented cast, Mozart's chef-d'ceuvre, IL
DON GIOVANNI:--Zerlina, M 11le. Piccolomini ; Donna
Anna, Mdlle. Spezia ; and Donna Elvira, :Mlle. Ortolani.
Don Giovanni, Sig. Beneventano ; Leporello, Sig. Belletti ;
Masetto, Sig. Corsi ; II Commandatore, Sig. Vialetti ; and
Don Ottavio, Sig. Giuglini. Conductor—Sig. Bonetti.
Ailey which, will be produced an entirely New Ballet
Divertissement; entitled
MARCO SPADA.

Principal dancers Madllo. Rosati, Mesdlles. Katrine,
Pasquali, Moilaccbi, Signori Ronzani, Boretti, and M.
3i ssot.
For particulars see bills.
A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have
been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap-
plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay-
market.

Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
L'ELISIR D'AMORE.

The question has not beenventilated for the first
time. Seven years since it was brought forward
as a Government measure, and carried by a very
considerable majority, when it received the ap-
proval and supple, of many influential member-
of the present Government. All the causes that
justified its continuance have long since ceased ;
and there is a good old adage, " cessat ratio, cessat
lex," which should decide the question. When
Ireland was a separate nation, possessing an inde-
pendent Parliament, it was essential that all the
machinery of Government should exist on the
spot, and that there should be an autho-
rity empowered to act on any emergency,
without waiting for instructions froni London,
which, under the then conditions of travelling, it
might take weeks to obtain. Such an emergency
might arise at any moment. Ages of mis-govern-
ment and oppression bad created a considerable
degree of disaffection, but now the Trish are a:
loyal as their English or Scottish brethren. Thi
railway, the steam-boat, and the submarine tele-
graph have virtually annihilated time and dis-
tance.• In place of tossing about for many day
in a sailing packet, driven hack by contrary
winds, and then spending two or three days more
between Holyhead and Dublin, the sea voyage is
performed with certainty in four hours ; and in
some ten or a dozen hours the journey from Dub-
lin to London is effected, while messages can be
transmitted in a few seconds—more rapidly, in
fact, than from Whitehall to Somerset House !
Why, then, retain the useless office ? Why
keep up the pinchbeck bauble, which can only be
regarded as a badge of national degradation—
which renders Ireland a province, in place of
being an integral portion of " The United King-
dom ?" Simply to please the shopocracy of Dub-
lin—to give the tailors and milliners a little
extra employment !" It is, in fact, neither
more nor less than " protection" or " boun-
ties" to Dublin traders that is required,
and, for that, nearly 100,000/. sterling
is to be abstracted from the Imperial Exchequer.
York, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Manchester, and
Glasgow can flourish without such meretriciou.
aids. Why should not Dublin do so, when
obliged to look to its own resources for its pros-
perity ? We believe that it would be better in
every respect ; that its trade would be sounder,
and its inhabitants more prosperous, and far more
independent, when the artificial stimulant was
removed.

The Last Night but Two of the Subscription.
Picco'omini.—First appearance of Signor ;mi.
On SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, will be proluced
(first time these six years) Donizetti's Opera of
L'ELISIR
Adina, Mdlle. Plecolomi,ii (first time); Nemorino, Signor
Belart ; Belcore, Sig. Belletti ; and Dr. Dulcamara, Signor
Rossi (first appearance this season).
To conclude with the admired Ballet,
MARCO SPADA.
For particulars, see bills.
A limited number of Boxes in the Half-circle Tier have been
specially reserved for the public, and may be had on applica-
tion at the Box-office. at the Theatre Colonnade, Haymarket.
Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each.

It is not by any moans our intention to sub
oribe in any way to the extraordinary opinions
.xpressed upon the subject of Art in England by
he Times of this morning. We cannot admit for
►n instant that we have now "to begin" to play
the part of an artistic people seriously I We stand
astounded, absolutely astounded before the stolid
conjecture advanced to-day by our contemporary,
in this amazing sentence :—" Whether England
is ever to have great historical painters, sculp-
-ors of classic genius, gifted carvers, and potters,
tnd upholsterers, and pattern designers, is hidden
in the Future !" As to the mere patterns awl
upholstery, we leave them to the Schoul of Design
%lid the Pantechnicon I But the nobler branches
)f Art referred to in this most astonishing
slur upon the genius of British Artists, dead
tnd living, we will take, one by one, consecutively.
and in doing so, we maintain that, in the first
place, among Painters this country can readily
enumerate a catalogue of Great Names not un-
vorthy of furnishing materials for a supplement to
VASARI ! Among the limners of Men and Man-
ners, with the brush and the palette, where
shall we find a more thoroughly national
painter—equally great as Satirist and Humorist
—than WILLIAM HOGARTH ? Have we not
had a TENIERS of the farm-yard in MostLAND
' —a HOBBIMA in COLLINS—have we not still living
a rival of VANDERTELDT in STANFIELD—a greater
than SNYDERS in LA.NDSEER ! From the minor
walks of the art, like that discernible in the school
of fruit painting, in which GEORGE LANCE, for
tzample, defies comparison—from the lesser
departments of this beautiful Art up to its noblest
and sublimest—where the Artist stands forth, not
simply as the interpreter, but as the Tisual Poet
of Nature—England has, so to speak, among her
own indigenous Painters, claimants not so much fur
a High Position as for absolute Pre-eminence !
Enough will have been said, however, upon this
livision of our subject, when the one great,
incontestably great, name of TURNER has been
mentioned. Then as to the other glorious
cultivators of Art in this country—illustrious
" Masters," whose very existence has been thus
cavalierly ignored by the Times of this morning !
Among Sculptors—had FLAXUAN no " classic
I.OIIIUS ?" W.as WEDGEWOOD no Potter ? When
"gifted" Carvers have been enumerated, have we
never heard mention made of the name of GRIN-
LING GIBBONS? Seriously, indeed, we ask—ls there
not something either Pert or Obtuse in that
astounding assertion to-day in the columns of our
contemporary the Times : " Whether England is
ever to have great historical punters, sculptors
of classic genius, gifted carvers, and potters,
and upholsterers, and pattern designers, is
hidden in the future." Again we say--This
is either evidence of the Pert or of
the Obtuse. No—we do not arrogantly
purpose Beginning the Cultivation of Att in this
country—rather be it said, we purpose beginning,
from this time forth, its better Appreciation, as
well as a more judicious Application of its ele-
vating and humanizing Influences.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
Signor GIUGLINI has the honour to an-
nounce that his BENEFIT will take place on MONDAY
NEXT, July 13, on which occasion he will have the honour
to appear in Five of his principal Characters,

The Fourth Act of Verdi's
IL TROVATORE.

Leonora, Mdlle. Spezia ; Azucena. Madame Alboni ; Il Canto
di Luno, Signor Beneventano ; and Manrico, Signor Guiglini.

The Last Act of
LUCIA DI LAMVIERIIOOIt.

Lucia, Madre. Rccolomini ; Bedebent, Signor V aletti
Enrico, Signor Belletti ; and Edeardo, Signor Giuglini.
For the First Time, the Last Act of Bell ars
IL PERATA.

Including the celebrated "In Vedrai." Imogene, Madlle

Ortolani ; Gualtero, Signor Giuglini.

S BOUFFES PARISIENS—St. JAMES'S
THEATRE. Triumphant Success of the
FRENCH PLAYS.
LAST SIX REPRESENTATIONS.
THIS EVENING, Wednesday, July 8, the entertain-
ments will commence, at . half plst eight preci,ely, by
the performance of LE VIOLONEUX, M. Guyot, M. Mes-
macre, Madlle. Mareschal.
After which (7th time) Opera-I3ouffe, moyen age, en un
aete, CR )QUEFER nu, Le Dernier des Paladins.
To conclude with Buffonnerie Musicale, en on Act, LES
DEUX, AVEUGLES. M. Pradeau and NI. Mesmacer.
The Orchestra of the Theatre des Bouffes will accom-
pany these Representations, under the direction of the
composer, M. Offenbach.
Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street.

M
ORNING REPRESENTATION.—
, FRENCH PLAYS.—Les Bouffes Parisiens.
—St. James's Theatre.—ln compliance with numerous appli-
cations, a SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCE will be
given on SATURDAY NEXT, July 11, commencing at
Three o'clock, on which occasion will be presented the threw
popular pieces, L'IMPRESARIO, Musique de Mozart ;
L'OPERA FENETRES, Musique de Gastiuel ; and LES
DELTX AVEUGLES, Musique d'Offenbach.—The last per-
formances of the season will take place on Mond .y evening,
July 13, and Tuesday evening, July 14.—Boxes, Stalls, and
Tickets may be secured at Mr. Mitclael.'s Royal Library, 33,
Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre.

THEA TR E-R 0Y A DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.

GREIT EQUESTRIAN AMERIC 4N and CONTINENTAL
COMPANY, under the direction of Miss Ella.
Prices—Pit and Promenade, is ; Boxes, 2s. 6d , 25., and ]s.

; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence
at 8.

JACK THE GIANT KILLER, with novel effects.
Miss ELLA in Two unapproachable' Act 3.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING will be performed
Shakespere's Play of
THE TEMPEST.
Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST.

THEATRE ROYAL, B. A YMARKET
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buekstnne.
MR. BUCKSTONE'S ANNUAL BENEFIT.
THIS EVENING; to commence at Seven o'clock, with
(first time) a new and original Comedy, in three ants, entitled
VICTIMS, in which Mr. Buckstoue, Mr. Howe, Mr. William
Farrell, Miss Reynolds, dr,., will appear.
Followed by THE FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR.
Mr. Iluckstone will Address the audience.
To conclude with a, new Ballet, THE GLEANERS.
In future the prices will be:—
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole or the
evening), Cs. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price, s. d. Second price. s. d
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes
Upper Boxes 3 Q Upper Boxes 2 0
I'; t....
"Lower Gallery 1 0 Cower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 rNo half-price to Upper Gallery.

.THEATRE ROYAL, A DELPHI.
Lessee—. Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENINr,, will be performed THE CUSTOMS
OF THE COUNTRY. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams.
' fter which, a new drama, THE FAIRY CM 'LE ; or,
Con O'Carolan's Dream, Mr. a•,d Mrs. B. Williams.
Followed by a new farce, LATEST FROM NEW YORK.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams,

OTRAND THE -.TILE. —Lessee, Mr. T. Payne.
—THIS EVENING will 6-4 pnrfor
Douglas Jerrold's -drama of THE PRISONER OF WAR.
Messrs. Stuart, Kinloch, &e., Miss Craven and Mrs. Weston.
Followed by LOVE IN LIVERY.

To conclude with the late Douglas Jerrold's farce of the
SMOKED MISER.

Commence at Half-past Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ;
Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 63.

STLE Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Leseo and Mrtnager, Mr. IV. Cooke.
Under the patronage of Her Mijestyand His Royal Highness

Prince Albert

lilos, the celebrated Equestrienne, nightly re-
ceived With the greatest enthusiasm.

THIS EVENI7..TO (WAnescliy, July S,), and Fri,lay, the en-
tertainment 3 will commence with the superb spectacle of
MAZEPP AND THE WILD HORSE.

TO-MORROW (Thnrsd y), and Saturday, Shakspere's
tragedy of RICHARD 111., with Equestrian Illustrations.
Mazeppa and Richard 111., Mr. James Holloway.
The entertainments concluding with an incomparable rou-
tine of Mr. W. Cooke's SCENES in the ARENA, introduc-
ing Madllo. Milos and other eminent talent.
CommeLco at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper
Bases, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 215., no charge for booking;
Ft, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Ha-price at
half-past Eight.

.IlLyc office opea from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
Yr, W, West. Ecpcstrian Director, .M:r. W. Cooko, jun.

The &cowl and Third Serle3 of Morning Performances will
take place on Saturdays, July 11 and IS, at Two o'clock,

GREAT NATIONAL STANDARD
THEATRE.

Proprietor, Mr John Douglas,
Last Week of whirlwinds of gesticulated extaey.

THIS EVENING, ProfesAor ANDERSON, the Great
Wizard of the North, in his entirely New \tragical Drama, A
NIGHT IN WONDER-WORLD ; or, Magic, Mirth, and
Mystery. Extraordinary novelties every night, and three
new tricks each night for the concluding week of wonders.
Att•action increasing every night. Great success of Mr. G.
Vonle, who is the King of Comic Vocalists.

It is said that it attracts visitors from the
country, that it creates a demand for furnished
houses and furnished lodgings in the Irish Me-
tropolis during a few weeks ! If such be the
case, the money is withdrawn from the localities
where it is oLtained, and where it ought to be
expended. To provide for the additional outl'ty,
tenants are screwed, and the domestic establish-
ment placed on reduced allowance. An ab-
senteeism iu Dublin is, t') all intents and purposes,
as bad for parties in Curk, Belfast, or Galway, as
if it were in London. What the Dublin shop-
keepers and house agents gain is virtually-
taken from every district throughout the

sister kingdom. Let there be a fair competition ;
but do not apply national money to turn the
contest in favour of one of the competing partiLv.
The favourite argument, however, is, " where
can we exhibit our daughters, where apply for
situations for our sons, if the Lord Lieutenancy
be abolished ?" shall not insult the fair
daughters of Erin by supposing that their own
attraaions are not sufficient without being "trotted
out" in the 'Viceregal mart ! TLo same patties
will marry, and be given in marriage ; celibacy
will not be encouraged because there are no Cast' e
balls or di awing-rooms to serve as places of meet-
ing. Indeed the extravagant outlay occasioned
by the Court dresses, are., more frequently de-
tracts from than encourages " the consummation
so devoutly to be wished for."
As to asking places for sons, that produces the
most mischievous tesults. " The Castle" be-
comes a hot-bed of jobbery and corruption. It
distracts the attention of young men from
honest industry. They are nil seeking for
place, and sacrifice their youth and inde-
pendence in the pursuit. lJnfortunaiely, as
in all lotteries, there are many blanks, for
each prize ; and if we take the aggregate of those
obtaining their wishes, and of those deeply and
bitterly disappointed, and the loFs of time and
money occasioned by the pursuit, there can be no
doubt that it would be well for Ireland and for
the rising generation that the glittering bait
should be withdrawn, and that they should be
taught to look more to their own exertions, and
less to patronage and backstairs influence. Oa
every ground the Viceroyalty should be abolished,
and Ireland amalgamated completely with Eng-
land—rendered in every respect a portion of the
empire, and not a mere province.

LATEST N E

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

The number of votes stated in the Moniteur of
yesterday to have been recorded for the Govern-
ment and Opposition candidates respectively, in
each of the three circumscriptions, agrees with the
telegraphic despatch we published yesterday, ex-
cept that the Moniteur makes out General Cavaig-
nac's majority to be 1,007 overlis opponent, in-
stead of 993, as formerly stated.
The new Legislatve Body contains three mem-
bers of the Jewish persuasion—MM. Koenigs-
warter, Goudchaux, and Leopold Javal. The
Univers Israelite expresses its satisfaction at this
Success, which it terms " exceedingly honourable
for the Jews of France, and for the noble spirit of
tolerance which animates the country."
A Paris letter, in the Independence of Brusels,
says :—" A good deal is said in the financial world
of the second report on the present money crisis
addressed to the Emperor by M. Emile Pereire.
That gentleman is stated to have taken for his text
these words, pronounced by the Emperor in 1850
when addressing the Counc'l-General of Agriculture
and Commerce :—" Credit, let us not forget, is the
moral part of material interests—the spirit which
animates the body—it increases tenfold by confi-
dence the value of all producions.' M. Pereire
then explains how it is that within the last five
months the public fortune has decreased by
980,000,000 francs ; and he concludes by these
words—" The budget of fear almost equals the
budget ofyrance."
BOURSE, July 7.—The following were the last
quotations _ _ _

Cast. fr. C. End of Month.
44 porConts
c.

31er Cents

67 15

Bank Shares 2,900 Credit Foneier ...... 570
Credit Mobilier 920 Roman
Do. Account ... 920 Austrian
Belgian 4
Pied montese (5) 9li— Home Debt

RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
Ir. c. IT c.
Orleans 1,445 -- Western
Northern
Lyons 1,375 -- New Ditto
Mediterranean ——• Grand Central
Geneva -•— Sardinian i—
Midi

A National Gallery—worthy of the name—is
in store fur England. It is in preparation. The
old site—the finest sits in all London—is to be
retained ! And there—nc,t down in a suburban
dust-hole at Kensington—there, upon that elf- THE DISTURBANCES IN ITALY.
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 4th states that the
vated plat eau to the north of Trafalgar-
number of persons arrested at Genoa is 52, includ-
square, looking down the perspective of Parlia- ing 32 Piedmontese subjects, viz.: 23 Genoese, 6
meat-street between the Strand and Spring-gar- natives of La Spezia, 1 of Ohiavari, 1 of Allesan-
dons,dria' and lof Mortara. The remaining 20 we are about to erect a Palace of the Fine
com-
prise 1 Frenchman, 5 Parmese, 7 Lombards, 6 from
Arts worthy of confronting the far-away but dis- Romagna, and 1 from Modena. Forty-two belong
tinctly visible Palace of the Imperial Legislature to various trades, two are servants, and there are
besides two landowners, a journalist, a secretary, a
at Westminster. clerk, and two students. The same journal adds
It is a magnificent project this—and one which that two large parcels of gunpowder for mining
may well captivate the popular imagination. L-t
were discovered at Genoa ou the 4th in the neigh-
bourhood of the Ducal Palace and the adjoining
us not bungle this time in our arrangements. barracks, and that two large chests full of muskets
Let us really do what we intend doing—in ear- and other weapons were seized in the same locality.
nest. Let us not, by a misjudged parsimony, be To these particulars the Opinione of Turin adds the
following :—" On the Ist several armed men were
guilty in the end of absolute extravagance—spend- discovered concealed in a coach-house. They had
ing only a few hundred thousands, it may be, but been there since the preceding day, but had not
literally th • dared to stir, baying learnt that the authorities
throwing those thousands away. We
positively did that in our last venture of this were on the alert. Mszzini has certainly been at
I Genoa and was seen at Albino about the 30th ult.
kind—namely, in regard to the miserable abor- Miss White, au English lady, who, according to the
tion of a building we
down and cart away as so much rubbish. What-
.' 'Armenia of Turin, had been ordered away from
are now about t s pa 1
i Genet, is still there." The Cattolico of Genoa states
that several arrests have been made among
I
ever sum we dedicate ta the purposes of our new the Piedmontese navy ; that the surgeon of the
National Gallery, let that sum in the first instance
—to the end that it be not entirely wasted like regiment of Savoy stationed at Genoa has
committed suicide by taking poison ; and
that there has been an attempt at disturbance at
Although the motion of Mr. ROEBUCK for the its wretched little predecessor—let that suns, we La Spezia. A supplement of the Italia e Popolo,
abolition of the Brummagem Court in Ireland say, in the first instance, be Adequate. And then , the Mazzinian journal published at Genoa, and
was rejected by —having secured the two principal essentials to I whose chief editor has been arrested, was seized on
had the
a considerable majority, thei •
: the 3d. On the subject of Mazzini, the Gazetta del
were few indeed who the proper realisation of the noble design before Popolo of Turin says :—" It is stated that Mazzini
hardihood to assert
that any public advantages Were derived from its us, that of a veritable National Gallery—having was concealed at Genoa, and that he was to appear
continuance. The large majority of owh
those
wisely retained the splendid " Site " already in tempt head of a Praetorian guard as soon as the at-
. had succeeded ; be was then to have estab-
voted for "the previous question,"did so on the our possessio ,
e and having, besides that, judici- less', d
s a provisional government in the Ducal Pa-
ground that it was impossible that any legislation ously resolved upon the expenditure of an ads- , lace, lsle is said, however, to have been much
could take place on the subject during the resent t "Sum " for the occasion—then it will is- astonished on being informed of the small number of
ent qua epersons prepared for the movement, while he had
B 063101), and that it would be well to be prepared main, with us so to avail ourselves of that Site and been told that several thousands were ready. One ,

CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
'n g company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
elections from all tile popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &e., viz.~,,Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, bliss Sarnmers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J.
Caulfield, Ilerr F. longhmans, B. ,Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri Senor Antonio M.
de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Bennett and Corri ;
Messrs. Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte,
Mr. Cecil Hicks harmonium, J Caulfield, jun.; Erector,
Mr' J. Caltlfield Commence at Seven rto'cloelt 'precisely.
Su ners, &c., until twelve o'clock

WATEM AT LONDON BRA 1)(
Tam DAY—Morn. 35 min. aft. 2—Ever., 55 min aft. 2
TO YrOBBOW—Morn. 12 min. aft. 3—Even., 31 ra:n. an 3

TEIE WEATHER—Brix OFFICE, Jura' 8.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
67 —highest since noon yesterday.
- lowest this morning and during the night.
64 toie day at noon
BAROMETER, 30.0).
WIND, w. to W•N• ; light, with cloudy weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1857

of his friends advised him to play out the game,
in hopes that the plpulace might join him, but
Mazzini refused, countermanle 1 the movement,
and hastily left Genoa, in ordeinot to be taken."
The latest accounts ft oni Leghorn are up to the 3d,
and represent the town as in a perfect state of tran-
quillity. The Grand Duke bas issued a decree,
limited to Leghorn alone, forbidding all persons
there to carry arms about them, on pain of from
sto 10 years' imprisonment. Any murder or at-
tempt at murder, or even infliction of wounds, if
premeditated, is to be punished with death. Any
person committing any other crime, having arms
about him at the time, is liable to from 10 to 20
years' imprisonment, provided the law does not
prescribe any greater punishment for the crime
committed. The permanent court-martial sitting
at Leghorn is to take cognizance of all such cases.
The Austrian Correspondence, in speaking of the
late disturbances in Italy, adds that the Austrian
government had been for some days informed that
the revolutionary party intended attempting dis-
turbances on several points of Caitral and Southern

THE GLASGOW POISONING.

SEVENTH DAY-TUESDAY.

The Court met to-day at ten o'clock.

of 1856. On the 9th January, 1857, she writes
wishe-ig she could Lave hen with he in bed, but
she has also an observation to the effect that she
could not see him, and that he must just leave the
not 3 and go away. " When we shall meet again
I cannot tell." On Saturday, the 10th, she writes,
hoping he had, got her note, fearing that there was
not much chance of meeting him again at that time,
and using the strongest terms of endearment—per-
haps in ten days she could see him again—" the
same as last." On Wednesday, the 14th, she
writes that she does not see that there is anychance
for them getting married at E, linhurgh, and thatshe
had dined with Miunoch, and liked him. On Mon-
day, the 19th, she writes—a manifest chill
having come over her expressions—saying that
she forgot she would not be at home
to receive her letter, but that C. H. would take it
in, and that she had so loved him when he was at
the window the night before—so that the jury
would observe that she had been at the window
with him on the night of Sunday thelBthJanuary.
The envelope of letter No. 97, Friday, Jan. 23,
contained another letter, bearing date Sunday; but
it is in pencil, and probably never was in an enve-
lope at all. It speaks of him having just left her.
The true date is obviously Sunday, the 18th, as
proved by her letter of 19th. The next date is Wed-
nesday Jan. 21. She asks why there was no letter
on Monday night, and saying she could not see
him on Thursday. The next was Thursday, saying
the marriage must be put off—that there was no
chance till March. On the 28th the prisoner accepts
Mr. Miunoch—this letter having been written on
the 23d. The next documents were only enve-
lopes, and then they came to two letters of the
deepest possible consequence ; but before reading
them they must mark Mr. Kennedy's evidence,
that in February L'Angelier had said with tears
that Miss Smith had broken off because there was
coolness on' both side', but that he would not
give up the letters, and that she should never
wrong any other man. One of these letters
began, " I felt truly astonished at having my
letters returned," &c., and repeating the very
words about " coolness on both Bidet," which
had been repeated by L'Angelier to Kennedy.
In that letter she asked him to bring her let-
ters and likeness on Thursday evening, and that
she would give him back his on Friday. She
represented that the only reason was coolness on
both sides. She was engaged to Minnoch four days
before. She was to return the deceased's letters—
therefore she had letters ; what became of them we
have had no explanation whatever. What a laby-
rinth of bewilderment this unhappy girl, by her
lapse of virtue, was involving herself in ! She
thought that what she said would induce L'Ange-
lier to fly off indignantly. She had horrible re•
collections of the correspondence, and that he had
her in his power. L'Angelier did not answer for
more than a week ; and on the 9th she appointed.
Thursday, the 12th, for him to come to the win•
dow. L'Angelier refused to give up the letters or
to give up her, but said he would show them to
her father. If things had not gone so far between
these two, it might have been ungenerous and
unmanly in L'Angelier to take this course ; but he
was bound in honour to prevent Minnoch marrying
her. He considered her as his wife, and it is doub -
ful whether she was not so in law. The appoint-
ment stood for the 12th, and on Monday, the 9th,
she wrote the letter imploring him not to put her to
open shame, and saying, " I am free from all en-
gagement at present"—a deliberate falsehood of this
unhappy girl, and yet one of the least of her crimes.
They had thus traced the matter to the point at
which she could not extricate herself, and yet at
which, if not extricated, she is lost for ever. Ano-
ther letterfoilowed inthesame imploring strain, and
confessing that she had "put upon paper what she
ought not." It wastrue, poorcreature! Hecould not
see in this sad history the gradual downward pro-
gress of an ill-regulated mind without the most
deep compassion ; nor would he deny that L'An-
gelier .had abused his opportunities in an unmanly
rand dishonourable way—his learned opponent
could scarcely say 'anything on that point in which
he would. not concur. She then writes the false
ho-,d, even in this despairing .remonstrance, that
she had given ail her love to him, and cared for no
one else. He (the Lord AdVocate) had never had
to bring before any;audience the outpourings of such
a despairing spirit as those of this miserable girl ;
but the jury, though unable to restrain their com-
passion, must not . let their judgment be influ-
enced. They must also take into account some
surrounding circumstances. L'Angelier seems
to have loved her, and he said her conduct
would be the death of him. Two important cir-
cumstances now occurred. In the sec on. week of
Feb. she sent a boy for prussic acid. She had ceased
to love L'Angelier—she had resolved to marry ano-
ther. Vor what could she wane thepruss c acid? For
what purpose did she say she wanted it ? For her
hands—a cosmetic. There is the first indication of
what her mind was running o:i. Thera had beau a
good deal of medical evidence in this case, but had
anybody ever said that prussic acid had been used
as a cosmetic ? She wanted this poison before the
meeting she had appoin•ed for Wedisiesday, the 11th
February. Catharine Haggart had said that some
weeks before the apprehension they had a meeting
iu the house ; and he (the Lord Advocate)had shown
from the letters that no meeting had taken place
ou any other occasion. The prisoner had denied
to M. de Theau that the deceased had ever been in
the house at all. What took place at that inter-
view they could not tell ; but they found that the
feud had been made up. But on what terms ? Not
on the footing of L'Angelier giving up the letters,
but on the footing of their engagement continuing.
She went on with the old tone of love and affec-
don towards L'Angelier, and at the same time
going on with the preparations foe her marriage
with Minnoch, and receiving the congratulations
of her friends. She writes appointing a meeting
for Thursday, and wanting back her " cool lett Ts,"
four in number. Thursday was the 19th of Feb-
ruary. On Tuesday the 17th L'Angelier dined
with Miss Perry, and told her he was to see Miss
Smith on the 19th. He afterwards t.ild Miss
Perry he had seen her on the 19th. A day or two
before the 22d of February—l say the 19th—
L'Augelier was seized with illness. Those symp-
toms were the symptoms of arsenical poisoning. He
went to the office the day after the 20th ; on the
21st the prisoner purchased arsenic. This was
not the first time she had tried to buy poison.
She asked for the arsenic openly ; but the use
she alleged was, on her own confession, a fa'se-
hood. Having purchased arsenic on the 21st,
L'Angelier saw her on the 22d, and was
again seized with the same illness. If the jury be-
lieved Miss Perry, L'Angelier told her he had seen
the prisoner on the 19th, and bad been afterwards
ill ; and had seen her again on the 22d, and had
again been ill ; and that he got from her coffee on
the one occasion and chololate on the other. On
Wednesday the 25th February—which he insisted
was the true date of the letter—the prisoner wrote
to the deceased, regretting he was ill,
.and saying
that "everybody was complaining—it must be
something in the air ;" and saying, " You -did
look bad on Sunday night and Monday morning."
She thought it must have been the long walk
and the want of food, so she would give
him a loaf of bread next time. She was taking
some stuff herself to make her lo Ai better. That
letter proved that they had met, that she intended
to give him something to eat next time, that she
was preparing by saying she used stuff as a cosme-
tic, and that all this took place after she had beu _h
the arsenic. There was a letter, only dated Wed-
nesday, which must have ben written on Wed
nesday, the 25th of February. They were inquir-
ing into the death of a person who died of arsenic,
and into the causes of two other illnesses. They
must look at the fat's that L'Angelier said he was
ill after ta!iing from tie prisoner coffee on one
occasion and cocoa on the other ; that the pri-
soner admitted that she had given cocoa ; that she
Foes( s-ea the means of preparing it ; that the two
it nes.e3 were the same in symptoms; that those
symptoms were the symptoms of arsenical poison-
ing. Still more important it was to remember
what was then the position of the parties. The
Lord Advocate then spoke of what had been said
about the prisoner having been told at school, and
read in Blackwood, that arsenic could be used
as a cosmetic. But that was the internal
use—she was not following the directions of
the magazine,in using it externally as she had said
she did. There could not be a word of truth in her
saying that she had there used the whole
quantity
atShe had told twoy
at once in a basin of water.
falsehoods about the arsenic—One confessed, the
other denied. Could there be any reasonable doubt
that she had got it to kill the deceased ? The de-
ceased gets better—and on the 27th of February
the prisoner mites saying she 'could not see him
that week nor for a wea. What was L'Anee-
her about all this time? He was entirely
changed—he never recovered his looks nor
his health. He never had before been de-
tained by illness from attendance at the office.
His love for Miss Smith remained—he said he
was infatuated, and that, if she were to poison him,
he could forgive hee. Unless he felt he had
got something in the coffee and cocoa, what
could have put this in his head ? Miss Perry did
nut say that this was a serious belief on his part—
but it had passed through his brain, and been
driven away • they would see how. On Tuesday the
3d March, and Wednesday the 4th, the prisoner
wrote, advising the deceased not to go to the Bridge
of Allan, where her family were going on the 6th,
but rather go to the Isle of Wight. Probably
she thought if she could get. him out of the way she
could have her marriage with Minnoch without in-
terruption. It could not but strike the jury that
these later letters, though using the same words,

The Lord Advocate proceeded to address the jury
for the prosecution. He began by remarking that,
after an investigation of unexamr led length, be had
to discharge the most painful duty that had ever
fallen to his share. It was impossible that during
so long a trial, in which so many necessarily dis-
jointed statements had been laid before them, some
impression—he feared there was little doubt what
that must be—had not been produced upon their
minds. It was now his duty to join together the
various links of evidence, so that they might be
able to arrive at a decision on the whole case.
He wished he bad been able, after hearing the evi-
dence on both sides, to withdraw the case ; but he
feared, and it would be his duty to convince the
jury, that there could be no doubt of the guilt of
the unhappy prisoner. There were three offences
charged, but they hung together. He would not lead
them farther than necessary into those scenes of
sin and degradation with which the case was
fraught—no language of his, nor of his friend on
the other side, could produce a tenth of the im-
pression already produced by the bare recital.
He would add that, while the unfortunate
lady is entitled to have it said that such
a charge shall not be lightly presumed,
if the tale he had to tell were a true
one, no criminal had ever bQen more justly brought
within the compass and power of the law. The first
point to be taken was, that this unfortunate man
L'Angelier died of arsenic—of that there was no
doubt. The next question was, by whom was that
poison administered ? He must, after the course ti ,e
trial had taken, put them right as to the steps taken
on the part of the prosecution. They must draw a
distinction between remarks applying generally to
the system of prosecutions, and those which really
affect the case of the prisoner. He knew of no
case in which such large indulgence had been
given to the prisoner, who, he could show clearly,
had suffered nothing from any imperfections
in the preparation of the case. He then went
over the circumstances regarding the examination
of the letters in L'Angelier's lodgings and in his
desk at the office. It had been said that this was a
very loose way of doing business. He would not
say that the proceedings were, in the first place,
what he would have liked them to be ; but that did
not in the least affect the prisoner. If these letters
had not been in the hands of officers of the law at
all, but in the hands of relatives, they would still
have been good evidence. The complaint was made
of the Crown having refused access to the original
documents ; it was absolutely necessary to retain
every scrap to prove the handwriting and trace the
dates, and to guard against the slightest risk of
their being lost or injured. The prisoner had
chosen to run her letters, rendering it absolutely
necessary that the case shouldl be prepared within
a limited time. If the prisoner's advisers
thought proper, they could at once have obtained
delay from the prosecution. Whatever might have
been the theory it has not been the practice that the
Sheriff-Clerk should have the custody of such docu-
ments. It had been said that we should neverhave

only part of a correspondence in a c Ise like this. He
agreed; but he had produced all that could be got. It
was only one side of the correspondence. They had
nearly 2001etters of the prisrmer—only one copy of a
let ter from the deceased. How came this? They would

see from the correspondence that the lett era of L'An-
gelier were not destroyed down to the 7th or Bth of
February, and yet no scrap of it could be found. The
prosecution had done all it could to make that corre-
spondence complete, and they would draw their own
inference from the fact that not a scrap had been
found of the letters that were in custody of the pri-
soner. As to the difficulty of connecting the let-
ters with the envelopes bearing the postmark, there
was no doubt that the use of envelopes was an ob-
st tc'e to the tracing of facts in such cases ; but if
the officers were scrupulously accurate in handlint,
the letters, the objection was not formidable. If
the date of the letter say Monday night, and the
postmark say Tuesday, such facts would show that,
so far as there could be any certainty, the letters
had. been found in their proper envelopes. But it
was more important to notice that they proved
their own dates by the facts that they tali. He came
back to the painful details of the case. This young
lady returned from a London boarding school
at the age of seventeen. She met Angelier in 1851,
or beginning of 1855. In 1851 he had been poor,
but bad worked his way up to a comparatively re•
spectable position—liked by all those th.st came in
contact with him—spoken of by his landladies, em-
ployers, and others, •as honest and steady. An at-
tachment arose, which was forbidden by the
parents ; and it was only right to say that the let-
ters at that tune were in a proper and dutiful spirit.
The attachment was afterwards resumed, and led
to a criminal connexion. He afterwards threatened
to show the letters to her father. There was no-

thing dishonourable in this—the dishonour would
have been in allowing her to , become the wife of
any honest man. She implores to get her lettois
back. She then bought arsenic. Then her
letters resume all the ardour of passion—she
is engaged to be married to another man
and L'Angelier died of poison. If the
proof be such that no reasonable man can
doubt the guilt, then incredible as the story may
be, and fearful as would be the result of the ver-
dict, that verdict must be given. In occult cases
the ends of justice would be perpetually defeated if
there were no conviction except some witness saw
the deed done—and in cases of poison that remark
applied with peculiar force, as poison is not likely
to be administered before witnesses. The fact of
there being no eye-witness to the administration of
poison goes for nothing. He would now consider
the evidence in detail, going in order of time, be-
ginning with the 29th of April, 1856. The letter of
that date asks to see the prisoner the first night
her father is " off," in order that they might
" spend an hour of bliss." On Friday, 2d May, she
writes that her father had been in bed ; but it would
make no difference—he was to go to the gate
at half-past ten, and wait for her on Tuesday the
6th May. The next lett r was Wednesday morn
ing, the 7th May—trusting he got home safe, and
containing most unmistakeable evidence of their
having had guilty connection the night before. The
language was not to be mistaken. That date was
the commencement of the tragedy. From that
time down to the end of the year she continued to
write in a strain he would not characterise—show-
ing an utter overthrow of the moral sense, and ex-
hibiting a picture which he did not know ever had
a parallel. If it is said that L'Angelier had his
own share in corrupting, it could have been but
a small share. He then referred to the letter of
the 27th May containing unmistakeable allusions
and invitations to further connection, and arguing
that their intimacy had not been criminal nor
sinful, as she was his wife. In another letter she
s rya she could not see him till the nights were
longer. He then referred to the letter, obviously
in September 1856, in which she alludes to Min.
noch, which she did frequently afterwards, obvi-
ously preparing the deceased to learn that she in-
clined to favour that gentleman. He then quote I
the letter written before the prisoner went t
Blythswoo i-square, saying that she could not admit
him, owing to her room being on the same floor as
the front door—a difficulty tee jury would see had
been got over. She so arranged as to have her
room in the sunk storey, and that her window,
which was below the level of the pavement, should
be the depository of the correspondence, in support
of which statement his lordship quoted the
letter advising the deceased to use brown enve-
velopes as being less liable to be seen when
dropped down to her window. The jury were then
requested to e?camine a plan of the house, the Lord
Advocate arguing that entry could be obwned to
both flats without disturbing the sleepers in the
bed-rooms. He then quoted the first letter from
Blythswood-square telling him to come and drop
in a letter at eight o'clock, and saying she could
let him in at the front door, adding that she
would not let a chance pass. He calle particular
attention to the fact that she could give admission
at the front door without disturbing the family.
He then came to the letters, from which it
appeared that there was a serious intention of
the parties to elope. Letter No. 73 (17th De-
cember) showed she was going to a concert, and
that her brother and sister had issued invitations to
a party. A letter of the 19th complained that the
deceased had misrepresented her as to the circum-
stances under which Minnoch had accompanied her
to the concert, and that he always doubted her
word. There was evidence here that, after the
first few weeks of her intercourse, her feelings to-
wards L'Angelier changed. She says in another
letter that her coolness began when they came to
Glasgow in November. The letter No. 79 was of
great consequence, as referring to meetings iu the
Blythswood-square house—from internal evidence,
it must have been posted about the 22d December.
Then came a letter, inviting him to the house if her
father and mother went to Edinburgh—she could
let him in—there was no danger. That meant, you
shall come into the house—does it not mean, you
have been in the house ? The correspondence thus
far proved the greatest intimacy L—of such a cha-
racter that no eye could have seen it with-
out
the character of the prisoner, being blasted
—she, speaking as being actually the deceased's
wife, and engaging not even to flrt with Mr. Min-
noch—in that position were the parties at the end •