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with an effectual substitute, before the existing
office 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 his
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.

The question has not been ventilated 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 supp irt of many influential members
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 from London,
which, under the then conditions of travelling, it
might take weeks to obtain. Such an emergency
might arise at any moment. Ages of misgovern-
ment and oppression had created a considerable
degree of disaffection, but now the Trish are as
loyal as their English or Scottish brethren. The
railway, the steam-boat, and the submarine tele-
graph have virtually annihilated time and dis-
tance. In place of tossing about for many days
in a sailing packet, driven back by contrary
winds, and then spending two or three days more
between Holyhead and Dublin, the sea voyage is
performed with certainty in four hour& ; and in
some ten or a dozen hours the journey from Dub-
lin to London is effected, while massages 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 100,0001. sterling
is to be abstracted from the Imperial Exchequer.
York, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Manchester, and
Glasgow can flourish without such meretricious
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.

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 obtained, and where it ought to be
expended. To provide for the additional outlay,
tenants are screwed, and the domestic establish-
ment placed on reduced allowance. An 'ab-
senteeism in Dublin is, to all intents and purposes,
as bad for parties in Cork, 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 parties.
Tho favourite argument, however, is, " where
can we exhibit our daughters, -where apply for
situations for our sons, if the Lord Lieutenancy
be abolished ?" We shall not insult the fair
daughters of Erin by supposing that their own
attractions are not sufficient without being "trotted
out" in the Viceregal mart ! The same parties
will marry, and be given in marriage ; celibacy
will not be encouraged because there are no Castle
balls or drawing-rooms to serve as places of meet-
ing. Indeed the extravagant outlay occasioned
by the Court dresses, Sze., more frequently de-
, tracts from than encourages " the consummation
so devoutly to be wished for."

A. 9 t 3 asking places for sons, that produces the

most mischievous results. " The Cistle" be-
comes a hot-bed of jobbery and corruption. It
distracts the attention of young men from
honest industry. They are all seeking for
place, and sacrifice their youth and inde-
pendence in the pursuit. Unfortunately, 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 loss 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. On
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.

A National Gallery—worthy of the name—is
in store for England. It is in preparation. The
old site--the finest sits in all Lyndon—is to be
retained ! And there—not down in a suburban
dust-hole at Kensington—there, upon that ele-
vated plateau to the north of Trafalgar-
square, looking down the perspective of Parlia-
ment-street between the Strand aud Spring-gar:
dens, we are about to erect a Palace of the Fine
Arts worthy of confronting the far-away but dis-
tinctly visible Palace of the Imperial L'sgislature
at Westminster.

It is a magnificent project this—and one which
may well captivate the popular imagination. L.:t
us not bungle this time in our arrangements.
Let us really do what we intend doing—in ear-
nest. Let us not, by a misjudged parsimony, be
guilty in the end of absolute extravagance--spend-
ing only a few hundred thousands, it may be, but
literally throwing those thousands away. We
positively did that in our last venture of this
kind—namely, in
regwared
areto now
the miserable abor-
tion of a buildingdown and cart away as so mucrubabbisoilii.t to
Whpau l
t-
ever sum we dedicate to the purposes of our new
National Gallery, let that sum in the first instance
—to the end that it be not entirely wasted lik3
its wretched little predecessor—let that sum, we
say, in the first instance, be Adequate. And then
.—having secured the two principal essentials to
the proper realisation of the n,osbilte design before
us, that of a veritable National Gallery—h-vine
wisely retained the splendid ,
our possessioc, and having, besides that, judici-
ously resolved upon the expenditure, of an ade-
quate "Sum " for the occasion—t'aen it will 1.-
main With us so to avail ouael,-os of that Site and

of that Sum that our new Palace of the Fine
A its may prove worthy of the Capital and of the
Empire, of the Age and of the Object, of the
People and of the Sovereign.

It is not only a magnificent Project—but it is,
also, and in a very peculiar manner, a magnifi-
cent Opportunity. If we only avail ourselves
wisely of this opportunity we may really, though
indirectly, do marvels almost beyond conception.
We are not talking at random, for example, when
we. say distinctly that—lf we avail ourselves
of this opportunity as we ought, we may, or,
rather, we shall, infallibly—Elevate the Public
Taste, Advance the Progress of the Arts amongst
ourselves, and impart in this country a new and
appreciable impetus to the onward movement of
Civilisation.

It is not by any means our intention to sub
scribe in any way to the extraordinary opinions
expressed upon the subject of Art in England by
the Times of this morning. We cannot admit for
an instant that we have now "to begin" to play
the part of an artistic people seriously ! We stand
astounded, absolutely astounded before the stolid
conjecture advanced to-day by our contemporary,
in this amazing sentence :—" Whether England
is aver to have great historical painters, sculp-
tors of classic genius, gifted carvers, and p3ttars,
and upholsterers, and pattern designers, is hidden
in the Future 1" As to the mere patterns and
upholstery, we leave them to the School of Dasign
and the Pantechnicon 1 But the nobler branches
of Art referred to in this most astonishing
slur upon the- genius of British Artists, dead
and 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-
worthy of furnishing materials for a supplement to
VASARI 1 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 Wm-num HOGARTH ? Have we not
had a TENIERS of the farm-yard in MORLAND
—a Hounrata in COLLINS—have we not still living
a rival of VANDERTELDT in STANFIELD—a greater
than SNYDERS in LANDSEER 1 From the minor
walk:, of the art, like that discernible in the school
of fruit painting, in which GEORGE LANCE, for
example, defies comparison—from the lesser
departments of this beautiful Art up to its noblest
and sublimest—whero 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 for
a High Position as for absolute Pre-eminence !
Enough will have been said, however, upon this
division 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 FLAXHAN no " classic
genius ?" Was 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 painters, 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 Art 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.

LATEST NEW.

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 illoniteur makes out General Cavaig-
nac's majority to be 1,007 over his opponent, in-
stead of 998, 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 " eiceeedingly honourable
for the Jews of France, and for the nobly spirit of
tolerance which animates the country."
A Paris letter, in the Independance 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 Council-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 con&
deuce the value of all productions.' M. Pereire
then explains how it is that within the last five
months the public fortune has decreased by
980,000,000 fratics ; and he concludes by these
words—" Tho budget of fear almost equals the
budget ofXrance."
BOURSE, July 7.—The following were the last
quotations

Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4 i per Cents - c.
3 per Cents 67 15 67 25
Bank Shares 2,900 Credit Foncier 670
Credit Mobilier 920 Roman
Do. Account 920 Austrian
Belgian 41
Fiedmontese (5) 9li— Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOB CASH,

f r C.
Orleans 1,445 Western
Northern
Lyons 1,375 New Ditto
Mediterranean — Grand Central
Geneva
Midi ' 692 Austrian Cora.

of his friends advised him to play out the game,
in hopes that the populace might join him, but
Mazzini refused, countermanded the movement,
and hastily left Genoa, in order not to be taken."
The latest accounts from 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 inflicion 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 Cantral and Southern
Italy.

THE GLASGOW POISONING.

SEVENTH DAY-TUESDAY.

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

The Lord Advocate proceeded to address the jury
fer the prosecution. He began by remarking that,
after an investigation of unexampled 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 had 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 been more justly brought
within the compass and power of the law. The first
point to be taken was, that this unfortunate man
L'Angeher died of arsenic—of that there was no
doubt. The next question was, by whom was that
poison administered ? He must, after the course the
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 beeu
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 compl tint 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 bad
chosen to run her letters, rendering it absolutely
necessary that the case should be prepared within
a limited time. If the prisoner's advisers
thought proper, they could at once have obtained
delay from the prosecution. Whatever migly, have
been the theory it has not been the practice thatthe
Sheriff-Clerk should have the custody of such docu-
ments. It had been said that we should never have
only part of a correspondence in a c Ise like this. He
agreed; but he had produced all that could he got. It
was only one side of the correspondence. They had
nearly 2001etters of the prisoner--only one copy of a
letter from the deceased. Howcame this? They would
see from the correspondence that the letters 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 mild to make that corre-
spondence complete, and they would draw theirown
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-
stac'e to the tracing of facts in such cases ' • but if
the officers were scrupulously accurate in handling
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 tell. 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 1854,
or beginning of 1855. In 1851 he had been poor,
but had worked his way up to a comparatively re•
spectable position—liked by all those that came in
contact with him—spoken of by his landladies, em-
ployers, and others, as honest and steady. Ani at-
tachment arose, which was forbidden by the
parents; and it was only right to say that the let-
ters at that time 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 letters
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'Angeiier died of poison. If the
proof be such that no reasonable man can
doubt the guilt, then incredible as the story may
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 defeate I if
there were no conviction except some witness sew
the deed done—and in cases of poison that remark
applied with peculiar force, as poison is not likely
to be administered before witne3ses. 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 th€y might
" spend an hour of bliss." On Friday, 2d May, she
writes that her father liad 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 letter was Wednesday morn
lug, 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
says 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'
the letter written before the prisoner went to
Blythswood-square, saying that she could not admit
him, owing to her room being on the same floor as
the front door—a difficulty the 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 examine a plan of the house, the Lord
Advocate arguing that entry could be ob ailed 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 sbe
would not let a chance pass. He called 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—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 eud

of 1856. On the 9th January, 1857, she writes
wishing 4he could have hen with her in bed, but
she has also an observation to the effect that she
could not see him, and that he must just leave the
note 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 enclearment--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 thatthere is anychance
for them getting married at Edinburgh, and thatshe
had dined with Miunoch, and liked him. On Mon-
day, the 19th, she . writes—a manifest chill
having C 01319 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 al
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 dateis Wed-
nesday Jan. 21. She asks why there was no letter
1 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. Misnoch—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 abatet `'coolness on both sidea." 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
bosh sides. She was engaged to Minnoch four days
before. She was to return the deceased's lstters—
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-
her 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 ; arid on the 9th she appoint'-d.
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 ; bit he
was bound in honour to prevent Minnoch marrying
her. He considered her as his wife, and it is doubt-
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 flee 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 letterfollowed inthesame imploring strain, and
confessing that she had "put upon paper what she
lought not." It was true, poor creature ! He could 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
and dishonourable way—his learned opponent
could scarcely say anything on that point in which
he would not concur. She theti writes the false
hood, even in this despairing remonstrance, that
she had given all her love to him, and cared fur no
one else. He (the Lord Advocate) had never had
to bring before anylaudience 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 ace: uut 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 second week of
Feb. she sent a boy for prussic acid. She hadceased
' to love L'Angelier—she had resolved to marry ano-
ther. For what could she want the prusst 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 on. Thera had been a
good deal of medical evidence in this case, but had
anybody ever said that prus-ic acid had been used
as a cosmetic ? She wanted this poison before the
meeting she had appointed for Wednesday, the 11th
February. Catharine Haggart had said that some
weeks before the apprehension they had a meeting
in the house ; andhe (the Lord Advocate) had shown
from the letters that no meeting had taken place
on any other occasion. The prisoner had denied
to M. do 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-
tion towards L'Angelier, and at the same time
going on with the preparations for her marriage
with Minnoch, and receiving the congratulations
of her friends. She writes appointing a meeting
for Thursday, and wanting back her " cool letters,"
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 told Miss
Perry he had seen her on the 19th. A day or two
before the 22d of February—l say the 19th—
L'Angelier 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 had 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
I 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 lode 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 baush -
the arsenic. There was a letter, only dated Wed-
nesday, which must have been 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 facts that L'Angelier said he was
ill after taking from the prisoner coffee on one
occasion 'and cocoa on the other ; that the pri-
soner admitted that she had given cocoa ; that she
possessed the means of preparing it ; that the two
illnesses 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
at once in a basin of water. She had told two
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 writes saying she could not see him
that week nor for a week. What was L'Ange-
lier 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 her.. Unless he felt he had
got something in the coffee and cocoa, what
could have put this
in his head_ ? Miss perry did
not say that this was a serious b eliefon his part—
but it bad passed through his brain, and been
driven away ; they wouldsee how. On Tuesday the
3d march, and Wednesday the 4th, the prisener
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,

were not in the same tone and strain. The Lord
Advoctat • hen read L'Angehei's reply complaining
of the coldness and shortness of the prisoner's notes,
referring to what he had heard about Mr. Minnocb,
refining to go to !he Isle of Wight, and speaking
of their unhappiness at the la 4 preceding interview.
This was written on the sth March—he says he
will not go to the Isle of Wight, and that if evasions
continue he will get at the truth otherwise. The
next day the prisoner buys her second ounce of ar-
senic. She writes saying she would be happy to
meet him again. The pretences on which she
bought the arsenic were different from the former,
and yet quite false, She wrote from Bridge of Al-
lan, on 10th March, that they would soon be home,
and that she would appoint an interview, when she
would kips and embrace him ; and again on the
13th to the same effect. What had been
done at Bridge of Allan '1 She had fixed the

day of her marriage with Minnou L'Ange-
tier got leave of absence on the 6th, and
goes to Edinburgh for a week. He repeated
to Mr. Towers that he had been ill after
getting coffer from somebody. The week
over, he was longing for a letter. He returned to
Glasgow on the 17th ; be went to Bridge of Allan
on Thursday, the 19th ; and after that a letter
came, which was sent aft-r him from his lodgings—
that letter was not recovered, but the envelope was
fiend in the tourist'Arg belonging to the dece :sad,
Lind reached Stirling on the morning of the 20th.
On that day M. L'Angalier wrote to his correspon-
dent that he " should have come to see some one,
but the letter had arrive l too late." The prisoner
then wrote—" Why did you not come," &c., with
marry tender expresdoirs. That letter was found •
in the pocket of L'Angelier's Coat. There was
an appointment for Thursday, the 19th ; on Wed
nesday, the 18th, she bought her third ounce
of arsenic. L'Angelier got that letter after nine
o'clock at Stirling on the Sunday morning. The
guard recognis-d him as leaving at Coati), id ge ; and
he ,tarted with ROSS in perfect health to walk to
Glasgow. He arrived at his lodgings at 8 o'clock,,
and his landlady said be was immensely improved
in health. He said a letter had brought him back,
and his landlady never doubted be was going to
visit the lady. He is seen sauhtering along is
the direction of Blythswood-square about 9.20 ;
it is too soon : he makes a call ; and here we
lose sight of him for two or three hours.
There is no attempt to show that any man saw him
elsewhere than at the place he was going to. Could
it be possible that after corning from Bridge of
Allan he would give up his purpose within a few
hundred yards of the house ? He knew the habits
of the family—he knew he must wait till Janet was
asleep. What would he do ? He would go to the
window. Is it possible that she would not be
waiting for him—that she went to sleep that night
and never awoke till the morning ? Whatever
took place, the jury could not doubt that L'Angelier
went to the house ; and they would mark that the
prisoner denied it in her declaration. Where did
they see him next ? Double-I up with agony at his
own door—then the same symptoms as before--
then death. Nobody asked where he had been.
They knew the unfortunate victim, unwilling to-
admit even to himself what he suspected, objected
at first that it was too far to go for his own doctor,
but is willing Dr. Stevens should be sent for, if
he is a good doctor. Was it not strange that the
counsel did not ask Mrs. Jenkins whether she
thought it was a case of suicide ? The doctor
asked whether there was anyone he would like
to see, and he said Miss Perry ; and it :was
a pity. that Miss Perry did not see him, for more
might then have been known of the case ; but
death suddenly interposed and shrouded the events
of that extraordinary night in a mystery on which
the tongue of the vie im could thenceforth throw
no further light. His lordship next read the letter
by the prisoner from the Bridge of Allan to Mr.
Minnoch, remarking that it was written two days
before her assignation with L'Angelier, and four
days before the note found in his pocket after death.
The composure she manifested on hearing, of. his
death was consistent with the supposition of her
crime • but what became of her on the morning of
the 26th, before she was found in the Helensburgb,
:steamer, is unknown and unexplained. The learned
lord then proceeded to remark on the evidence for
ihe defence, and first on the prisoner's declaration,
which he read. He had not been able to find
either in Chambers or Blackwood that arseuie had
ever been used in water as a cosmetic, those
articles showing that it was taken internally. le
her declaration, prisoner denied seeing or hearing
L'Angelier on the night of his death. Her sister
Janet, the maid, and the page, all said they did not
hear him come that night. But he had been there
often before without their hearing, and it had been
shown from the construction of the house that he.
might have been let in by the front door. As t°
the arsenic, she stood in the position of having in,
her possession the poison of which her lover dial'
without her Self giving a consistent account of
it. But it was plausibly said the meeting whine
was intended to take place was on Saturdah
and not Sunday. If, however, the letter. WO
posted after eleven o'clock, the tryst must hal
',eon for Sunday. As to the supposition
suicide, he had been unable to see, from firs!
to last, that it was a case of suicide. The first
question was, whether it was between murder
and suicide. It had been said that L'Augelier was
an habitual eater of arsenic, and had taken an over:
dose. The only evidence in support of that proposv,
tiun was that of two persons in Dundee, who ha',
heard him speak of taking arsenic in 1853, and the,
hypothesis that he could have taken it so as to hal
160 grains in his stomach, when examined, could
not be entertained. The supposition that he had
taken arsenic at Stirling by accident was equally yet;
tenable. He did not think it possible that this coo!'
lee taken as a case of suicide. Much had been sal'
of L'Angelier's temperament, and his threat
of suicide when in Dundee ; but he did not card
those th eats into execution ; and when men mall);
committed suicide, they did not talk about it, Of
pretend to make attempts at it in the company
other people. As to his opinions of suicide 0;
pressed at Glasgow, he (Lord Advocate) asked if
was probable that, on the Sunday night •of 11l
death, he took arsenic without going near Blythe'
r
Wood-square, there was the possibility that she
might have seen and told him she would gifa
him up, after which he committed suicide:
But if she did see him, what became of the truth;
of her declaration 1 It might be suggested that 11;
had gone to the house, and, not seeing her ca
0;1,1
away in disgust ; but if he had gone, he won"
have tried to make her hear, although she- Pro
in her declaration she did not hear him. It vl
next suggested that the dose was so large the;
it must have been suicide, but might it 11:e,
have been that, findidg the two doses she 1301
previously given were too small, she made the thin
7
one much larger! -Then it was objected that
neither soot nor indigo was found in the stomach °
L'Ang,elier, but the analysis did not direct theiff
examination to detect it. Again, the demeanour 04
the patient was in no respect that of one who he
committed suicide. In conclusion, the Lord Adita.
cate left the case entirely in the hands of the jurifs
convinced that their verdict would be consiste°l
with their oath. He had discharged a paid°
public duty, which he would gladly have bees
spared. He had done his duty, not straining the
'facts beyond the line of truth.
At the suggestion of the Lord Justice-Clerk, till
Dean of Faculty postponed his reply until to-U'fZe
row morning. The Court then adjourned at .4"
minutes past three o'clock.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

This day an extraordinary meeting of the slArr
holders of this company was held for the purpose of coin
sidering the bill now before Parliament for making
provisions with respect to capital faudulently created
by Redpatb, in the Great Northern Railway.
The chair was occupied by Mr. Denison. _
The greatest excitement existed in consequence of the
opposition of the preference shareholders to the bill.
A long, and stormy discussion ensued on the model
of the Chairman that the bill be adopted.
An amendment was moved to the effect that a elate
be introduced in the bill for the purpose of protectia
the preference shareholders in accordance with the
pledge made to them by the directors on the 4th °f
March.

The CHAIRMAN put the amendment to the meeting'
and said he thought it was carried by a small majoritl.
A. poll was demanded.

The Lambeth Election Committee commence their
sitting an Friday next.
Another mysterious robbery has taken place on board
the ship Armenia, which lately cleared out of the ne°
Victoria Docks for Mauritius. A box containing 2,00°
sovereigns bad been stolen. The robbery was discovered
whilst the ship was waiting for the mail bags.
Mdlle. Rachel, after passing some days at Monti:
rency, has returned to Paris, and taken up her maiden°
in her hotel in the Rue Trudon.
Cost OF PRINTED PAPERS.--The total amount of - t
cost of reports and papers presented by command of het
Majesty during the session of 1856. was 24,982/. 11)1
is exclusive of the cost of the large amount of printief
ordered by the two Houses of Parliament, of job-Wt,
printing,, n" and of all printed work not laid before Pa
meat.
'
t THE BANKRUPTCY OF C. J. MARE. —A PrOpOSlti/
was made yesterday in the Bankruptcy Court, to paY64
composition of 44. in the pound, if the fiat of banleruPtiy
was annulled. Nine-tenths of the creditors assents
The matter was left undecided in consequence of
Commiesioner Holroyd being absent from town.