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REINBOROEME.NTS FROM' TILE CAPE.

(From the Times.)
It is not .without reason that the attention of
Parliament was called to the smallness of the mili-
tary contingent de-spatched from the Cape to the
assistance of the Indian Government: At the
period of most severe emergency, when the forces in
India were manifestly outnumbered by successive
masses of mutineers, and England was too distant
for a timely appeal, the only resource open to Lord
Canning lay in the colonies interposed between the
mother country and CalcUtta. v Ceylon might do
something, the Mauritius a little more, but the
mainstay of hope was in the garrison of the Cape.
When the termination of the Russian War had dis-
engaged a large portion of our army the opportu-
nity was taken to raise the military establishment
of the Cape colony to a very considerable strength.
In itself the policy was not injudicious, for the
climate was a healthy one, and a sufficiency of oc-
cupation was promised in the development of a
new system, by which it was anticipated that the
costly nuisance of Caffre wars might be at last ex-
tinguished. Although, moreover, the idea was
not openly promulgated, it is clear that much
might have been said for maintaining at this con-
venient and salubrious station a force•which would
thus have been pushed on half way to India,
and -be E 0 much the more within call. Accord--

ingly a strong division of troops,comprising, we
believe, ten fine battalions, was concentrated at
the Cape, and to this army, representing as large
a body of soldiers as was encamped at Chobham,
was afterwards added the German Legion,
equivalent in strength to' four sood regiments
more. Naturally, therefore; whets the mutinies
broke out in Bengal; and- every company of red-
coats was worth an unspeakable price at Calcutta,
it was expected that our Cape garrison would be
turned to excellent account ; and these anticipations
were the more warrantable inasmuch as there was
no danger whatever on the Caffre frontier. Never-
theless, whereas the Governors of Ceylon and the
Mauritius actually stripped their settlements of sol-
diers for Lord Canning's succour, two regiments
first,'and subsequently a third, appear to constitute
the whole amount of the force hitherto despatched
from the Cape to India, although the military
establishment of the colony was as strong as that
of the Punjab, and there was neither war nor ap-
prehension to distract it. At a later period, as we
learn from Mr. Labouchere's statement, a fourth
battalion—the 80th,--has been sent by Sir G. Grey
to Ceylon ; but the sum total of these reinforce-
ments, does, certainly not represent an adequate
amount of succour despatched from one Govern-
ment to the other, considering the relative necessi-
ties and resources of each.
The case becomes the more remarkable from the

fact that Sir G. Grey appears to have thoroughly
appreciated the straits to which Lord Canning was
reduced, and to have exerted himself, as far as his
contributions went, with extraordinary zeal. Be-
sides the infantry, he sent two companies of artillery,
a remittance of 60,0001. iu specie, and, what was
probably of greater service, a considerable number
of horses. Both ho and the colonists, in fact,
are reported as having exhibited singular energy
and devotion, giving up their own horses for the
public 'service, and refusing no sacrifice which the
occasion seemed to invite. Yet, with all these de-
monstrations, the force actually detached from the
Cape establishment for the emergencies of India
was utterly dispropertioned to the demands of the
latter Government and the means of the former.
It was even less, in fact, than our foregoing re-
marks may have made it appear, for the 95th, one
of the, regiments despatched to India, had just
arrived at the Cape to relieve the 89th, ordered to
New Zealand ; so that it was no deduction from
the strength of the garrison. It seems as if Sir
George Grey took the 89th, which was already pre-
pared for embarking, and the 95th, which was just
ready for disembarking, and thus made up a de-
tachment for India without much prejudice to tke
regular establishment of the colony. Afterwards
the 13th Light Infantry sailed for the same place,
and the 80th, it appears, has followed; but even
these draughts must have left the Cape garrison at
a strength far beyond the wants of the settlement.
It can hardly be too much to assume that a couple
of battalions added to the German Legion would
have formed a force amply sufficient for the real
needs of the colony, especially when contrasted
with the overwhelming exigencies of India. Of
the rest, every man and gun should Irtve been for-
warded to Bengal without an hour's avoidable de-
lay.
It happens that the state of the Cape Colony
itself is at this moment exceedingly remarkable,
and, in a political sense, not unfavourable. The
Caffres have been converted by a famine of their
own manufacture from unmanageable enemies into
hUmble mendicants. Some time ago, in obedience
to a prophecy of one of their wizirds, they took
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been a dreadful dearth, under
which many have expired,
the visitation of
and
home authorities in
only kept from starvation by proceedings resem-
bling in some sort those of our
the Irish famine. Intelligence thousands
from
tio morespot
sures us that since the Ist of last January 19,239
Were suppliants had crossed the .border into the
British territory and been provided for by British
charity—a number which is reckoned, and
ndwe think
ile f
with great probability, to represent nearly a half of
tt
ffr a ria at
ori-
ginated he
end of the last war. It has been surmised that this
ao.d
wholeal
infatuationpopulation
oft stir iti
Savage British
neighbours ea
in designs of deadly hostility, and was
meant as a prelude to a war of desperation—the
sacrifice of their possessions being partly su-
perstitious as a propitiation to their deities, and
partly political, just as a
combatant throws
away his scabbard or an invading force burns
the ships from which it landed. Nothing,
it is said, but the imposing force arrayed along
the frontier prevented this outbreak, so that the
Cape garrison pet formed the best of services by
preserving peace without bloodshed. Without en-
tering, however, into these ingenious speculations,
it must be perfectly plain that the very worst that
could be done by the Caffres was absolutely noth-
ing compared with what the mutineers were doing
in India. In the most extreme case conceivable it
is certain that the colonists
themselves, supported
by a few hundred regular troops, could give an
excellent account of every Caffre‘ Coming in their
way. Englishmen and savages were not in the
proportion of 1 to 10,000 on the banks of Kei, as
they were on the banks of the Ganges. It might
have scandalised .certain Philanthropists at home to
learn that cattlestealers had been irregularly shot,
and that borderers wore meeting blacks on pretty
even terms ; but the necessity must for once have
been accepted, and the colony would have been un-
questionably secured.
We collect from our reports and correspondence
that what with his own force on one side of the
frontier, and whatwiththe destitution on the other,
Sir G. Grey has really succeeded to all ap-
pearance in relieving the settlement from its
hitherto interminable obligations of the °afire
wars. These restless and implacable heathens are
half-starved half-cowed, and abased ; excellent roads
productive of vast saving in traffic, have been
constructed in various parts, and the whole colony
is prosperous and well affected. These are, no
doubt
rati
valuable services, and,, if the troops had not
been imperatively wanted elsewhere, the duties on
which they wore kept might well enough have been
considered satisfactory. Compared, however, with
the urgency of the Indian crisis, all these demands
were utterly insignificant, and if Sir George Grey
had despatched every single soldier from the colony,
as was literally almost the case at
Ceylon and the
Mauritius, and trusted for the protection of the
frontier to the levies of the colony exclusively, we
are certain that his resolution would have met with
nothing but approval among the people of this
country. As it is, he has probably fallen into the
natural error of overrating the importance of the
particular affairs committed to his charge. He was
commissioned to protect and improve the Cape
Colony, and to make an end, if possible, of its peri-
odical calls for men and millions. In this he seems
to have succeeded, but he would have given greater
satisfaction at home if he bad left, for the time, his
provinces without roads and his f—i•
outlier without
troops, and had sent four-fifths of
his garrison on
their way to India with as much energy and zeal
as ho showed in despatching the first detachment.

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THE JEUPOSSB TRIAL.

(From Galignani's Messenger.)

It may be remembered that a great sensation was
caused last June in Normandy by a gentleman
named Guillot, of Aubevoye, having been shot dead
in the park of a lady of ancient family and consider-
able property named Jeufosse, of St. Aubin-sur-
llon, and the sensation extended to all France,
when shortly after it became known that the game-
keeper of the lady had been arrested for having fired
the fatal shot, and that she herself and her two sons
had also been taken into custody for having incited
him to do it, and that all four were to be brought
to trial for murder. The trial commencedon Mon-
day morning before the Court of Assizes of the
Eure, sitting at Evreux, and so great was the inte-.
rest it excited that the town was filled with the
country gentry and the peasantry from miles
around. The court was of course crowded to ex-
cess. The prisoners were placed at the bar in a row;
the gamekeeper, whose name is Crepel, occupying
the first place, and Madame de Jeufosse being
placed between her two sons. Crepel has a some-
what- stern expression of features. Madame de
Jeufos.se, an elderly woman, hiss good features,
with black eyes and hair, and a, pale complexion,
but her look is severe ; her elder son is rather
stout, and not very good looking ; the younger
has a pleasing face with very fine eyes, and is of
gentlemanly bearing. M. Berryer appeared as
counsel for Madame de Joufosse and her two sons,
and M. Deschamps, of the bar of Rouen for the
gamekeeper. Madame Guillot, widow of the vic-
tim, a young woman, dressed in deep mourning,
was present ; she appeared borne down by sorrow.
In answer to the usual questions, Crepel said that
be was 44 years of age, and lived at St.' Aubin-sur-
Gaillon ; INladarne do Jeufosse said she was 48
years old, was a landowner, and r.-sided at the
chateau of Joufosse, in that village : the other two
prisoners said that their respective names were Er-
nest and Albert, their ages 25 and 22, their place
of residence Rue Papillon, Paris, and that they
were both landowners. The indictment, which was
then read, was to the following effect :—On the
12th June, at about half-past ten at night, a shot
was fired in the grounds of the chateau of Jeu-
fosse, and a man struck by eight slugs fell to the
ground dying. The person who fired the shot was
Crepel, gamekeeper to Madame de Jeufosse, and
the other was Emile Guillot, a man residing at the
neighbouring village of Aubevoye. Crepel, on the
watch (behind a fir tree, was enabled to see without
being seen, had perceived Guillot approach the tree,
place a letter between two bricks at the foot of it,
and than retire towards a clump of shrubs at the
distance of about 26 yards ; but before Guillot had
reached the shrubs, Crepel, raising his gun, and
taking aim at him, cried out " Halt !",and then
pulling the trigger exclaimed, " You are dead !" He
immediately went to the chateau, and after a long
conversation with Madame de Jeufosse in her pri-
vate apartment, to which he gained access by a side
door, returned to his own house. Guillot, who was
left writhing on the ground in agony, cried to his
servant Gros, who had accompanied him, and who
had remained outside the park wall, " Ah ! my
friend Gros, come to me 1 lam dying !" Gros,
though rather afraid of being shot, entered the
grounds by a gate at some distance, and going up
to the kitchen of the chateau knocked at the door ;
but though two female servants were in it, they did
not answer. He then called the coachman, and
whilst that man was lighting a lamp, he went to
the spot where his master was lying ; he found
him rolling in the dust, and Guillot on recognising
him gasped out, "They are cowards And yet I
am not a bad man l It is Crepe!, the gamekeeper,
who killed me ; you may say so I Ask my wife
and my children to pardon me ; say adieu to my
friends 1" Half-an-hour after Guillot expired ;
but neither a physician nor a priest was sent for,
nor did any of thelservants of the chateau come
out to him. And the next morning, when the
authorities went to inquire into the affair, they
found his dead body lying where he was killed.

The indictment then went on to state the
motives which had actuated the different pri-
soners :—Mme. de Jeufome is the widow of an
officer of cavalry, who died 10 years ago, leaving
her with two sons and a daughter, Blanche, the
latter now 19 years of age. The two sons some
time back went to Paris, and embarked in Bourse
speculations which were not successful ; Blanche
remained with her li:tether, and in 1856 a young
lady named Laurence Thouzary, 20 years of age,
was engaged as governess or rather companion to
her. Guillot resided with his family at Aubevoye,
and had an income of from 20,000 f. to 25,000 f.

a-year. As he spent his money freely and was very
charitable, he was much liked in the neighbourhood;
but he was of rather loose morals, and was impru-
dent in his talk. In 1855, the two families by
means of a mutual friend became acquainted, and
the acquaintance soon ripened into intimacy. In
the course of 1856, the families met not fewer
than 106 times, and Guiliot constantly invited the
two young men to his shooting parties, and even
lent them money. The friends of Madame de Jeu-
fosse hinted to her that from his loose morality,
Guiliot was not exactly a proper person to be ad-
mitted to her intimacy, but she paid no attention
to what was said. No sooner had Mlle. Laurence
Thouzery taken up her residence at the chateau
than Guillot began making love to her, and Ma-
dame de Jeufosse was in time told of this ; but
she did nothing, and continued to frequent the
Guillots as before. About the middle of 1856,
Guillot ceased to occupy himself with the gover-
ness, and began to pay attention to Mlle. Blanche,
and as ho was often for hours at a time engaged
in playing the piano with her, he had abuudant
opportunity of addressing her in terms of gallantry,
Blanche did not tell her mother or any one of
what passed between her and Guillot ; but she
became abr-ent in her manner and agitated, and
often in the evening left the table before dinner
was over to go, on different pretexts, into the
grounds. Mme. do Jeufosso perceived this change
of manner in her daughter, and Mlle. Thouzery re-
vealed to her the cause of it. On this she conceived
a sudden animosity against Guillot, and broke off
all relations with him and his family. Guillot was
galled at the rupture, and acted in a strange way.
He frequently went into a wood which commanded
a view of the park of Jeufosse, and there blew a
French horn ; he threw himself in the way of the
Jeufosses in their walks and drives, and entered
their grounds at night. He not only made no at-
tempt to disguise his nocturnal visits, but was him-
self accompanied in them by his servant, and talked
of them to his friends. The servants of the chateau
know of them, and one night they, for amusement,
pursued him from tree to tree, he calling to them
in jest as they did so. But when Mme. de Jeufosse
heard of these doings she was extremely indignant,
and manifested great displeasure against Guiliot.
Her friends, thinking that it was after Mlle. Thou-
zery that uillot came, advised her to dismiss that
person, but she refused. Crepel recommended her
to procure the assistance of the gendarmerie, but
that also she refused to do. Her anger against
Guillot became at last so great that one day, in
presence of all her servants, she said, pointing toat
gun, " Is there not one amongst you, who has the
courage to free me of such a man?" and addressing
herself especially to Crepel, she told him to keep a
good watch, and said to him several times, " Fire, if
you see any one. Don't be afraid, for even if you
should kill, nothing will happen to you. I have the
right to fire on my own grounds." Her two sons
shared her sentiments, and associated themselves
in her projects. On the 17th March last, Ernest de
Jeufosse, the elder, wrote to Guillot a menacing
letter, which, however, Madame Guillot inter-
cepted :—" I hear that the grounds at Jenfosse are
haunted by ghosts. I warn you that I have given
orders that they shall be fired at, and have pro-
mised a reward to those who shall hit them I"
Ernest also wrote a letter to Crepel, which has not
been preserved, but which said :—" I fear that
some one hangs about the chateau of a night. You
neglect your duty in not preventing tbat ; you
should give a good peppering to the man who does
it. If I were on the spot I would do so, and you
ought to replace me." On the 19th May an inter-
view was appointed to take place between Ernest
de Jeufosso and Guillot, at the house of a relative
of the latter, and in presence of a mutual friend.
Ernest breakfasted at a notary's at Gaillon, and
took too much to drink. On the way to the meet-
ing he more than once fell off his horse, and he
cried out, "If it be after Laurence (the go-
verness) that Guillot comes, there shall be a duel ;
but if it be after my sister, he shall be killed !" To
this the gentleman who accompanied him, M.
Duhaze, answered, "A gentleman fights aduel, but
assassinates no one !" What occurred at the inter-
view is not stated. As to Alfred de Jeufosse, he
was not inactive, in April he passed some time at
the chateau, and each night he watched in the
grounds himself. On leaving ho said to Crepel,
"Be on the alert. Do not be afraid—do what I
should do myself—fire at the man you see 1" From
these circumstances, the indictment alleged that all
the family of Jeufosse, with the exception of
Blanche, were resolved, whilst taking care to incur
no risk themselves, to cause the death of Guillot.