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SPIRIT of the PC:3-.BLiU JO URN

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The Boundary Question is finally ar-
ranged. The Treaty, which lays down and settles
the future boundaries between the respective territo-
ries of the two nations, with the correspondence be-
tween Lord Ashburton, the British Plenipotentiary,
and Mr. Webster, the American Secretary of State,
will supply materials for future discussion. "When
questions which involve the pacific relations of two
great nations are in issue, it becomes a duty to ex-
amine with care, and to pronounce with caution.
The terms of the present Treaty require to be com-
pared with the original Treaty of 1783, and with
the award of the King of the Netherlands in 1831,
which the United States refused to adopt. Such an
examination calls for more time and care than can be
devoted to it immediately that the important State do-
cument, which at length settles the long-litigated ques-
tion, reaches England. That it will be thus tested,
and its character and claims to public approval closely
scanned, it would be superfluous for us to promise.
That the Treaty should be published, in extenso, in
the American journals, and before the British Ambas-
sador and Plenipotentiary had left the American shores,
and an abstract of the correspondence respecting it be-
t ween the Ministers should be also thus exposed to
public view and comment, may seem strange to us
of the " Old Country ;" where men were wont
to consider that such matters must be cautiously
concealed from the public gaze, until the forms
enjoined by State etiquette have been duly ob-
served, and the ceremonials of " ratification ' and
" exchange " have taken place. Considering the
anxiety with which the progress of the negotiation has
been watched on this side of the Atlantic, and the
speculations and oonflicting opinions which have been
prevalent as to the terms of the treaty, we feel as-
sured that the communication of the positive stipula-
tions of the treaty will be thankfully received—possi-
bly, some may be of opinion that our American friends
manage these matters better than those who are often
so fettered by forms, that the public interest is occa-
sionally sacrificed to unmeaning ceremonials. The
" affair of the Caroline" is also " settled ;" not, indeed,
by treaty, but in a correspondence between the two
high functionaries. We think the explanation and
apology will scarcely satisfy the sense of national
honour which had been imported by both countries into
the disputes respecting it. The real questions in issue
are most adroitly evaded. Just enough is said to
salve over the wounds which the proceeding in-
flicted on the excited jealousies of both countries. We
cannot, however, but think that there is far less of
that stern grappling with the merits of the question
than was expected by the British public. The
evidence adduced on the trial of M'Leod was
conclusive of the provocation supplied by the
American "sympathisers ;" and as the Caroline was
avowedly fitting out to afford aid and succour to the
Canadian insurgents, her destruction, even within the
American territory, was clearly justifiable by the recog-
nised principles of international law. The recurrence
of the embarassment which the American Supreme
Government encountered, and freely acknowledged,
in connection with the arrest and trial of our coun-
tryman M'Leod, for his share in the destruction of
the Caroline,' through the exclusive and separate
criminal jurisdiction claimed by the State of New
York, has been provided against by an Act of Con-
gress. By the Remedial Justice Bill, the power of
adjudicating in such cases is taken from the States'
Courts, and committed to the Supreme Federal Crimi-
nal Jurisdiction. The " case of the Creole," and the
" right of search" question, are referred to in the
correspondence between Lord Ashburton and Mr.
'Webster, but can scarcely be said to have been
" settled." " Right of search and impressment" pre-
sented difficulties more formidable in their abstract
form than in their practical application. We think
the manner in which they were proposed, discussed,
and dismissed " for the present," creditable to
the prudence and forbearance of both Ministers.
The President's assent to the Tariff Bill is represented
as having diffused considerable satisfaction, and in-
spired strong hopes of a revival of trade, and a return
of long-postponed prosperity. The increased duties
upon British manufactures imposed by the new Tariff,
and the consequent further depression of our trade
with America, we may justly charge on the suicidal
policy which actuates our Government, and which
will gradually, but certainly, divert manufactures
and commerce, which constitute the life-blood of our
nation, into other channels.

STANDARD.—We have the pleasure to announce
the happy accomplishment of Lord Ashburton's mis-
sion, in the ratification, by the American Senate, of
the lately depending treaty ; adding the important
instrument in full. The treaty was ratified by a
majority of 30 (39 to 9). It is not easy to overrate
the importance of this diplomatic achievement of the
present Government. A rankling sore of more than
half a century standing, which all the successive
Administrations of that long period failed to heal, has
been effectually cured--certainly without any compro-
mise of honour or of interest on our side, and with
a degree of satisfaction to the Americans, which
they have attested by the most enthusiastic
compliments to the representative of England. In-
deed, the enthusiasm of good-will manifested by the
Republicans as fully proves that they do not con-
sider themselves in the light of conquerors, but
of an obliged party, as it proves their contentment
with the terms they have obtained ; and let it
be remembered, too, that this happy accom-
modation has been effected under circumstances
of violent and recent irritation, and in plain
contradiction of the prophecies of our Whig-Radical
speakers and writers, that our differences with the
United States could never be composed while we
should maintain our system of laws protecting com-
merce and agriculture. The terms of the treaty will
of course be criticised by those whose predictions
it has belied, and we think it better to wait
for the criticism before entering into the
details of the subject. At present, however,
we may assert, confidently, that the only objects for
.which it Was worth negotiating have been fully ob-
tained. The honour of the British empire has been
asserted, and the safety of its North American pos-
sessions ensured, by securing a complete means of
communication through all the provinces. Beyond
these nothing was worth
a me t's care, for what
does England Want with a fewl° n
thousand acres, more
or less, of the deserts of Main ? It is not, however,
to be understood that a single acre
to which we have
a fair claim has been surren-dered- . the most that can
be alleged is, that the British Government has not
been extreme in urging claims confessedly doubtful.

M URD ER:IN PHAN CE.
The Court of Assizes for the Sarthe, held at Le
Mans, was engaged on the 2d and 3d instant with a
trial, which, from its lamentably interesting circum-
stances, attracted a crowded auditory. The criminals
arraigned were a peasant girl, named Madeleine Le-
mounier, and the Cure of the parish of La Chapelle-
aux-Choux, named Romagne. The crime of which
the girl stood accused was the murder of her own in-
fant, and that with which the Cure was charged was
complicity in the murder, after an attempt made by
him to procure abortion. The following are the
circumstance., of this shocking and disgusting affair,
as disclosed by the indictment. On Feb. 12 last the
prisoner and her mother went to Le Mans, and lodged
at a public-house, where they asked to be recom-
mended to a midwife, for the purpose, as wasinferred,
of obtaining a certificate that they had deposited an
infant at the Foundling Hospital of the town. Suspi-
cions of their morality being excited the Magistrates
were informed, and an investigation took place. In the
course of the inquiry M. Revery, a medical man, of
Le Lude, deposed that the female prisoner had been
with him on the 9th, to require a certificate that she
was not with child, but having ascertained that she
had been recently delivered, he refused to sign what
she required. She stated that the child had been sent
to Le Mans. ; and on being asked who was the father,
she declare(' thatit was M. Chollet, in whose service
she lived. M. Revery told her that he could not be-
lieve her, as M. Chollet was 78 years old, and she
then avowed to him that Romagne was the father, but
would give 300 fr. to have the fact kept secret. M.
Revery pretended to listen to this overture, and told

her to go and get him 150 f., and if the child had not
been ill-treated, he would say nothing about the
matter. On the next day she brought him 125 f., and
on the 11th Romagne brought the remaining 25 f.
himself, affirming that the child had been chris-
tened, and sent to Le Mans. Revery then
gave the certificate required. Suspicions after-
wards arose in his mind that all was not right,
and these being strengthened by subsequent in-
terviews with both prisoners, he returned the money
he had received. Romagne was thereupon informed
against and arrested. In her previous examinations,
Madeleine Lemounier, after having repeatedly preva-
ricated and contradicted herself, confessed to the ma-
' gistrate, as she had done to M.Revery,that Romagne
was the father of the child ; adding, that when her
pregnancy became known to him, he gave her drugs
to procure abortion, naming the chemists from whom
he had procured them, and also had bled her at least
twenty times with a lancet, besides applying leeches
to her. She further stated, that her intimacy with
the Cure had subsisted for four years. On being in-
terrogated as to the fate of her child, she declared
that after it was born, in the night of February 4th,
Romagne took it away, and in an hour brought it back
to her dead ; that it remained concealed in a box for
three weeks, and then he carried it away, saying he
would bury it in the cemetery. But on this point
she made so many various depositions, that it was
impossible to come at the truth. Romagne, in his
examinations, positively denied all that she had al-
leged against him, and accounted for his transaction
with M. Revery, by his anxiety to save Madeleine
Lemounier from exposure and shame. The act of
accusation having been read, the President proceeded
to the interrogation of the prisoners. The female, in her
replies, confirmed the,charges.'against Romagne as to the
administration of drugs, the repeated bleedings to pro-
% cure abortion, the taking away the child, and bring-
ing it back when dead. The male prisoner denied all
that was charged against him, declared that he had
never had any improper connexion with the girl—and,
striking the bar at which he was standing with great
violence, exclaimed, " I pray God to strike me dead
if I lie." The female, being asked if she had been in
the habit of confessing to the Cure, replied, that she
went to the confessional only for the purpose of talk.
ing with him ; and that he had requested her to meet
him there, as it would give the public an idea that
she was attentive to her religious duties. The Cure
having made a sign of denegation, the girl exclaimed,
in a tone of deep feeling, " Yes, what I say is true—
you corrupted and ruined me; but you would deny
even God, if he were to come down from heaven.
I was a poor innocent country girl, until I was se-
duced and corrupted by you." Several witnesses
were called, some of whom substantiated the facts as
to the attempt to procure abortion, but there was
no direct evidence of the murder of the child. The
painful emotion produced by the details of this affair
was more than once lost in the amusement created
by the way in which some of the witnesses gave their
evidence. Chollet, the old man, seventy eight years
of age, with whom the female prisoner lived as ser-
vant, and whom she had in the first instance declared
to be the father of her child, on being asked whether
such a thing had not been said, replied, " Ma foi
nenni mon bon Monsieur, do not you think I am
too old ?" When asked where the girl slept, he said,
" Alone in a room, separated from mine by a corridor
—no, not alone, for now I recollect she had the cow
with her for company." A woman named Leruy, a
pretended fortune-teller by cards, said Lemounier
had consulted her, and that, having cut her cards, she
replied ;that she (Lemounier) had placed herself
"dans de mauvais draps." Pichard, a fisherman,
being questioned as to the appearance of Romagne at
a certain place, said he recollected the circumstance
very well, for he had made a present to the Cure at
the time of two barbel, " which were by no means
small, one weighing a pound, and the other three
quarters of a pound, because when presents are made
they should always be worth receiving." The Pre-
sident, having summed up the evidence, the jury re-
tired, and, after a short deliberation, returned a ver-
dict of guilty against both prisoners, of an attempt to
procure abortion. The Court sentenced Romagne to
five years' imprisonment, and Lemounier to two years
of the same penalty.

A non-commissioned officer in the recruiting ser-
vice, named Durand, stationed at Mont de-Marsan, in
. _

the Landes, having last week received a blow in the
street, from a comrade with whom he had lived upon terms
of close friendship, gave him a challenge to fight a duel,
appointing the meeting for the following morning. Du-
rand went to the rendezvous, but his adversary did not
make his appearance. On returning to the barracks,
Durand found that the soldier had been put under arrest
for four days, and at once went to their captain, and,
having stated to him the gross insult he had received,
asked permission for his adversary to come out. The
officer, however, refused to comply with his request. Du-
rand felt himself so disgraced by being obliged to re-
main with the stain upon his honour unavenged, that he
went to his room, and shot himself with the pistol he
had intended to level against his adversary. An affair
of love and jealousy is said to have been the cause of
quarrel Durand was so much esteemed in his regiment
that his officers attended his funeral, and expressed over
his rave their regret at his loss.
THE ROBBERY AT LADY LISLE'S, AT MILL-
BROOR.—The butler at Lady Lisle's, whose name is
Barnes, having made himself very officious in rebuking
the policeman for allowing a suspicious person to pass
him on the night of the robbery, and the police inspector
being satisfied that the robbery was effected by some
person well acquainted with Lady Lisle's premises, the
butler was at length suspected of being the thief ; and
some portion of the stolen plate having been found in a
place which confirmed the suspicions against the butler,
Barnes was accordingly apprehended and lodged in gaol
on Tuesday night. He repeatedly expressed his sur-
prise and anger at the policeman on duty on the night of
the burglary, for saying that he could not swear to the
suspicious person whom he saw proceeding from Lady
Lisle's. Being compelled, however, to put on his macin-
tosh, the policeman declared himself prepared to swear
that he (the butler) was the suspicious person he saw
leave Lady Lisle's gate. Lady Lisle has not yet ascer-
tained the amount of property stolen from her, but it
must have been immense. The butler has been in the
service of her Ladyship a great number of years, ar.d
was a servant in whom she placed the greatest confidence.
A complete Roman dwelling, apparently belonging
to a family in the middle ranks of life, has just been ex-
cavated in the Loges Wood, near Chateau-Gaillard, by
the Abbe Cocket. The flooring, pillars, ornamented
ceiling, &c., are in a perfect state of preservation.
RHODE IsLAND.—William Dean, alias Bill Dean,
alias General Dean, alias the one-armed man," who
figured so largely at the attack on the arsenal, at the
Chepachet camp, and in the examinations of the pri-
soners, was arrested at Providence yesterday morning,
having arrived the night before. Soon after his arrest
he was taken before a Magistrate for examination; wit-
nesses swore to his presence in the affair of May 18th,
where lie applied a match to one of the cannons, and he
was committed for trial. At Chapachet he officiated as
a sort of adjutant-general, drill-master, fugleman, &c.
LORD DENMAN AND THE POOR MATCHMAN.--OD
Saturday, Lord Denman passed through this town, ac-
companied by his son, for his seat at Stoney Middleton.
On his Lordship's carriage stopping in front of a fish-
monger's shop in Fargate, a tall, venerable-looking ar-
tizan of the town approached with a small basket in his
hand, and lifting his hand to his hat, his Lordship in-
quired what he had for sale ? He then unwrapped a
clean white cloth, and exposed to the noble passenger a
small stock of matches. Immediately afterwards the
vehicle was driven off ; and a bystander going up to the
old man, put the significant question to him, " What's
he gi'en thee ? " "Nothing," was the ready reply.
The other, however, assured him he had seen something
:
fall into the basket, and on its being again opened, to
their surprise a sovereign was found amongst the humble
wares. The carriage driving away, the old man lifting
up his arms and uttering blessings on his unknowx bene-
factor, and the gathering knot of people to inquire into
the " why and the wherefore thereof," altogether af-
forded the elements of a picture worthy of a first-rate
pencil.—Shejfield Iris.

The Nantes journals relate that in the afternoon of
Thursday last, as six men were engaged in digging the
foundation of a house, at the corner of the Rue d'Argente,
the earth fell in and buried four of them. The autho-
rities, the military, and other assistance, were immedi-
ately at work for their release. Two of them were
very shortly got out alive and without any fractures,
though severely bruised ; a third was next found dead
from suffocation ; but in consequence of the earth giving
way repeatedly in the operation, it took four hours to
reach and disinter the fourth. This operation required
the more time, as the poor fellow was laid with his
arms fastened behind his back, in such a position that
he could make no effort to help himself. He was, how-
ever, taken out alive, though severely bruised. All the
three survivors were carried to the hospital, where
they are likely to recover in a very short time.
MANCIIESTER.—There is little change, since our
last, in the state of affairs in this district, except that the
partial resumption of employment at Stalybridge, to
which we then adverted, is now thoroughly established ;
and the greater portion of the factories a: Clossop, Tint-
wistle, and other places to the south-east of Stalybridge,
have also resumed. At Ashton, Hyde, and Stockport,
little has yet bcen done in this way ; und at Man-
ehester, the factories remain in precisely the same
saittuation as on Friday last ; the spinners being steadily
to ivsh.o!k, but the weavers generally refusing to return
slightest con'
eir employment without an advance. In several
cases, .we believe they have offered to come. is, provided
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tained.—Manchester
Lord and Lady
Frudhoelrod oufa 4. ri their brief stay at
Sion, have given numerous ottheir kindness and
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liberality, and their departure for
aeah north has caused
a universal feeling of regret in the
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national
of Isleworth.
They have presented to the trustees of the
ted
schools a clock for the turret of the newly.r
school-
house in Isleworth-square,