The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

There is some excitement in the political circles about
the Committee of Permanence of the National Assembly.
The majority had agreed upon a list from which all the
Mountain and even the Cavaignac party were excluded ;
but as it was feared that some of the Legitimists and
Orleanists would side with the Mountain, and defeat the
combination, a compromise has been resorted to. It is
expected that at least three or four of the Republican
party will get upon the committee. M. Dupin has been
re-elected President of the Assembly by a large majority.
The National publishes another manifesto of the Cen-
tral Democratic Committee to the Poles, exciting them to
insurrection. It is signed by Ledru Rollin, Mazzini,
Ruge, and others. The Court of Assizes of Douai has
condemned the publisher of the Voix du Proscrit, the
'organ of the refugee committees in London, to three
months' imprisonment for te seditious article.
ATROCIOUS MURDER IN PARIS.—The police arrested
on Sunday the young man who murdered a girl named
Juliette Flame in a public-house in the Rue du Cherche-
Midi. His name is Joseph Humblot, his age 19, and his
occupation that of a waiter in a coffeehouse. The arrest
was effected at 110, Rue St. Honore, in the residence of a
concierge, who is a friend of his mother. He readily
answered the questions put to him, and made this state-
ment :—" I know," he said, " that I have committed a
horrible murder, and know the fate that awaits me. But
lam not a monster—l was distracted—l had an attack of
brain fever. During eight months," he continued, " I
had intimate relations with Juliette ; I loved her passion-
ately, but at last I fancied I perceived she deceived me.
I do not know whether I was right or wrong, but a vio-
lent jealousy took possession of me, and I resolved to kill
her first, and myself afterwards. I was under the influ-
ence of these ideas when I met her on Wednesday. We
went into the public house, and ascended to a bedroom.
A bottle of wine was brought us, and Juliette seated her-
self on the bed. It was nearly nine o'clock, and vertigo
seize I me. I passed my hand over her throat, which ap-
peared to surprise her; but before she had time to make
any observation I seized a razor which I had for some
time carried in my pocket, and, in one cur, made a severe
wound in the throat. Poor wretch ! She had only time
to cry Mother ! mother when she fell dead. I was
troubled, and for a few moments knew not what I did.
But at last I recovered my self-possession. I washed the
blood from my hands and face. I opened the door, but
when half-way down the staircase, tho idea of seeing her
again recurred to me, and I went and kissed her for the
last time. I hurried away. I went to the river and
washed my trousers. Afterwards I went home, and said
to my father and mother, ' Kiss me, for you will see me
no more ; I am a great criminal, and deserve the scaffold !
In their stupor they did not think of stopping me. I
went out of Paris, and slept in a lodging-house at one of
the barriers. In the morning I was agitated, and did not
know where to go. So I resolved to commit suicide.
But before dying I determined to try to see Juliette once
again. I went to the Morgue, where I thought her body
would be taken ; but I arrived too late—she had been
recognised by her mother, and the body had been removed.
I listened to what was said in the crowd. A young girl
has been murdered,' they said, and the murderer after-
wards threw the body into the river.' I shrugged my
shoulders and went awey. I went to a church, with the
intention of confessing to a priest, but not finding one, T
wandered about the streets for some time, and at last left
Paris. I only returned this morning. And now I have
only to request that I may be condemned to death. My
repentance and my chastisement will open to me the gates
of heaven, and it is there alone that I can hope to see
Juliette again." This statement was made with the
greatest calmness. The prisoner had on a shirt stained
with the blood of his victim. The expression of his fea-
tures is remarkably mild. He had procured himself a
passport for a foreign country.

A THUNDERSTORM IN INDIA.—On the 22nd of May,
an extraordinary fall of ice occurred near Bangalore, during
a storm of thunder, lightning, and rain ; the hailstones
which at first made their appearance were about the size
of limes or oranges ; but they broke through the tiles and
roofs of houses, and destroyed gardens and fruit trees.
Some of the hailstones found next morning were as large
as goose eggs, some as big as pumpkins ; one block, found
in a dry well, measured four feet. and a half in length,
three in breadth, and one and a half in thickness. It was
probably the result of the cementation of several of the
smaller pieces into one lump, although the fall of pieces of
ice of this size is not unfrequent in India. In the reign of
Tippoo Sultan a piece was found the size of an elephant,
which took several days to melt; in 1826, a piece of similar
size fell in Candeish ; in 1838, a block of ice, apparently a
mass of. cemented hailstones, was found near Dharwar,
measuring twenty feet in circumference.