The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-21 00:00:00

EDTrioN.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
MADRID, Sept. 20.
The Ministry have offered their resignation,
which has hen accepted by the Qum. General
Concha has been appointed President of the Coun-
cil of Ministers, and has arrived in Madrid.
The insurgents are masters of Seville and the
whole province of Andulasia.
A parley has been initiated between the Go-
vernment and the insurgents.

The Queen is said to have offered to abdicate,
but details are wanting.

The telegraph wires are cut, and great agitation
prevails in the capital.

CEN7RAL CRI.II IN.4L COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.

The October Sessions commenced this morning
before the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen.
The number of charges in the calendar amounted
to 124.
The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, said
the number of cases to be brought before them were
more numerous than usual, some of the offences

being of a very serious nature. There were two

charges of murder and several of manslaughter, all
arising, with but one exception, from drunkenness.
It was hoped that crime was on the decrease in that
court, and therefore it was to be hoped that the great
number of cases this session were merely excep-
tional. There were, however, six deaths, two persons
to be tried for their lives, and four or five charges
of manslaughter, all to be attributed to the vice of
intemperance, and such a fact was quite enough to
cause the greatest sorrow and regret. In one of the
cases one of the witnesses said all concerned in the
affray were drunk, so with respect to that they
would have to use their discretion as to the reliance
to be placed upon the evidence. The learned gentle-
man then proceeded to detail the circumstances of
the charges of murder, and also the indictment for
arson against Mary Margarets, the evidence in which
case went to prove that the prisoner.had received no-
tice to quit her employment,and that in 10 minutes
after the fire was discovered. They would see
whether they considered there was sufficient evi-
dence to enable them to return a true bill, and if
not they would act accordingly. There were no par-
ticular difficulties in the other cases embraced in the
calendar, therefore he need not detain them longer
from the commencement of their duties.
The grand jury then retired.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)
THE CASE OF MADAME RACHEL.

The trial has again attracted the attendance of a
number of elegautly-dressed ladies, who occupy
nearly every available seat in the court.
Sarah R ichel Leverson was indicted with ob-
taining, by false pretences, the sum of £1,400 from
Mary Tucker Borrodaile. There was also au in-
dictment for conspiracy.
Mr. Sergeant Ballautine and Mr. Montagu
Williams were for the prosecution, and Mr. Digby
Seymour, Mr. Sergeant Parry, and Mr. Sergeant
Sleigh defended the prisoner.
The Learned Sergeant, in opening the case, said
it would be idle to suppose that they were un-
acquainted with the facts of the extraordinary case
which was about to be brought before them from
the fact that the case had already once before been
tried by a jury. He would not further allude to the
case than to ask them to dismiss from their minds any
conclusion they had come to with respect to the
case, and in arriving at the verdict they were called
to give, he asked them to be guided solely by
the evidence that would be placed before them.
The prisoner was better known by the name of
Madame Rachel, and kept an establishment in
Bond-street, where she was patronised by royalty.
II business appeared to be, according to her ad-
ver.isements, to make the fair sex " beautiful for
ever," and also to retail perfumes brought from
Mount Ararat, and across the great desert of
Sehara—(laughter)—but he could not give fur-
ther information on that part of the case,
owing to his imperfect geographical k4owledge.
The advertisements of course attracted the atten-
tion of ladies, and Mrs. Borrodaile visited the slmp
for the purpose of being made " beautiful for ever,"
the cost for which process was to be £l,OOO. This
being a large sum, the prisoner seeing the silly kind
of person she had to deal with, told her that Lord
Ranelagh had fallen in love with her, and the rest
was very soon told. He should ask the jury to
believe the evidence of Mrs. Borrodaile, because
her character was impeachable only as regarded
folly, that she had been a virtuous wife and widow,
that nothing could be raked up against her charac-
ter, howevergreat the desire to do so might be. There
was nothing that would justify the accusation that
she was committing perjury, and therefore he asked
them to give that weight to her evidence which it
rightly deserved. The learned Sergeant then
recapitulated the evidence given at athe last trial.
He concluded by saying that it was imputed by the
defence that the prosecutor had been carrying ou a
clandestine acquaintance with a person of the
name of 'William, and that the introduc-
tion of the name of Lord Ranelagh was
merely a blind to conceal that circumstance, but
such an imputation was altogether untrue. If i

was not, did they- (the jury) believe that "

would not be produced by the defence to prove the
perjury of Mrs. Borrodaile? His existence must have
been known to plenty of people in connection with the
prisoner. But such an accusation was untrue, an d
he challenged the defence to substantiate the state-
ment in any one particular. His (Sergeant Ballan-
tine's) witnesses would prove the broad fact alleged
against the prisoner, and he would be quite ready to
call the daughter of the :prosecutrix if that would
in the slightest manner assist the defence in prov-
ing the charge. He felt he could not too strongly
impress upon the jury the extreme improbability of
Mrs. Borrodaile committing perjury. If such was
her intention, did they (the jury) think she did

not know that every tittle of evidence would be

brought strongly against her to prove her unworthy
of belief. His learned friend could call the person
mentioned as Edward and the other lady men-
tioned by the prosecutrix if he felt disposed ;
they doubtless could throw some light upon
the accusation laid against the prosecutrix, if it
was true, but they well knew it was not. It had
been said very forcibly by his learned friend that
the prisoner's mouth was closed by law, but he con-
cluded with the hope that if her counsel concluded
by stating the prosecutrix was unworthy of belief, ho
would not stop there, but call his witnesses to prove
the same, and thus enable him to test their accuracy.
He left the issue to them (the jury), with the firm
conviction that justice would be done, and with that
the public would be satisfied.
Mrs. Borrodaile, the prosecutrix, was then called,
and examined by Mr. Montagu Williams, and pro-
ceeded to detail her first acquaintance with the pri-
soner in 1864, which commenced in consequence of
her reading the prisoner's advertisements. In that
year she spent £l6O at Madame Rachel's. She
strongly adhered to her former evidence, that on
the occasion of her first introduction to Lord Rane-
lagh his lordship handed her his card, and that she

had no doubt about that matter. Madame Rachel's
daughter and another lady were in the shop at the
time his lordship gave her his card. Ma lame

Rachel introduced her to Ilaynes, the solicitor, who
sold out £1,300 stock for her, in order that sho
might ray Alaiame Rachel £l,OOO to make her
" beautiful for ever." The stock realised, accord-
ing to the first statement of Ilaynes, £OBO, but he

afterwards said it only brought LOGO. All the

things she ever had from Madame Rachel were

some bottles of magnetic water to put into her
baths, a cake or two of soap, a little perfume, and

some Arabian powder for the skin. Madame Rachel
told her she (Mrs. Borrodaile) was to be
married to Lord Ranelagh by proxy. Madame
Rachel told her that she had married two couple