Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1847-08-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FOURPENCE.  time in transmitting to your columns a tnost vale niece of information communicated to me yesterday 1Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster, better koown a . ---Ruckland, Professor of Geology„in the Delve, aity , . Between five and six n'clock on Wednesday morning, Cord. lie had been a day or two before informed o he tl.e Duch as of Praslin, daughter of Marshal Sebasnani, fidlowing interesting fact:—Ou my stating my di: etief .. as discovered murdered in her bed in he: hotel, in in the injury having been effected by a fly, lie said at ',e Fauhourg St. HonuiE, eight doors from the 8.-it!sh once that I was quite richt, and that the conclusion co ae .1,. to by the various committees of "Inman." abroad - . rs that the Duchess returned to Paris yesterthat we knew nothing about the matter, and that it m d, ...,...z only, in order to take with her to a watering therefore have been caused by the peculiar at ,te a te ~..... hildren, wboae examin,tions at their atmosphere. This assertion induced a scientific . ' ad pat concluded. This ii oiniag, man living at Kettaington, new London, to enquia u'cloek, the/ease de ehares6re of the had occasioned any such state in the air win a . , ,T, , by her lady's la 11, and instantly probreathe. On examining the meteorolagi.-al ta e• sent, Which she found secured within. found that daring the last two years there ha , • and making ineffectual attempts to , much greater quantity of lightning than previously. ettlied up oilier se. vents, who toeced C:trat- the question, would that injure rue potata a.' and the Duchess expiring in her Led. Lightning . being electricity, to ascertain the poi, .evEn woumlis from a poniard. The rinsed sonic atmospheric air in a receiver, and h -posed to have known the house well, sulated it, applied the Electrifying mat.hine T soaped by leaping into the garden plant being then introduced into the receiver we the Duchess's sleeping-n:4p, and diately affected in the same way as those diseas last season It was removed, and corn of varioas kind% unabl, , Champs Elysees. The views' was before she expired. mangei wurzel, and such like vegetable substa• _ . au.- An ,da-ni tVriS inataktly given. and in a very short jecteu to a similar treatment. They were unsullied. A , —.... , -acureur du Rui, the Prefect of Police, and a fresh potato plant was then put in, and the elf.. • :mintier of the most inte:ligent policesame as before. Thus was established the fact, that the officers were on the spot, and tm,k active ineasuaes for potatoe disease -•as occasioned by lightitiag. tracing the author of the crime. Ltery pe:son found in Now to N•eaent it. The fiat thing necessary was to the house, end evetybody who entered it afterwards, ascertain he-s the lightning, acted. Mr. Adams found were taken into custody. The efforts of the police have that it separated the air into IA component !tarts, oxyzen. not, up to this mameat (three o'clock eat.), relaxed in livallogen, and nitrogen, the first so requisice for animal the s'aghteat degree.- If htiman sagacity and energy lie, and the last for that of vegetation, but this was not run ialiaar.success, it is inposaibie that the assassin can ail, for it did the injury to tile potatoe by converting the es,LPe• nitrogen into nitrous acid. Mr. Adams knew that qui,* Several rumours are afloat, to whi-1, of course, I lime was an antidote in nit-sue acid, he therefore took a shall not g•aa Pa,hhaity• As no rubbery was effected, fietth potatoe plant, sprinkled it over with qtnck lime and murder only is believed to have been the ifitantion of the introduced it into atmospheric air electrified as before— perpetrator of this appalling crime. It is, among other the potatoe plant remained uninjured. reports, stated that the murder is a 'Corsican vengeance' cr.n'tle'hnitsaellxPineyriebnreent It, ,ioansoa tsatit,iesfsfacetojiya,atihzt ill, , ti thinktut ei t andwi ll ,(treitideetdiatd), not tt eixtisits ad !corn! t etzocealtitt t.ll.oismraunt,ti unuorr, one will give confidenoe to all farmers to put it in practice. in ire universally beloved than the Duchess of Praslin. She was very haniisoine, the mother of nine children, "I remain respeetfuly yours, who live to deplore her loss. The Duke is, it is said, ac