The Potteries Examiner : — 1872-06-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

DIXBLANC IN THE DOCK.  A correspondent given the following description of the scene in court when Marguerite Dizblanc received her sentence  At a few minutes before twelve, and the jury baying been less than half an hour away, tee ushers were seen to clear a sort of lane in the crowd by the door and to open the jury-box. Then a gentleman appeared at the entrance to the bench through which the judge would return, and waved his hand to the warder in the dock to take away the chair on which the prisoner had sat during the trial. She must stand while the sentence of the jury is delivered. 'Then the white bonne's cap and lappet and the broad shoulders draped in black are seen, and in another second the awfully anxiouu face and the frightened eyes of the prisoner are turned to the jury and the judge. Every juryman's name is called out and answered to before the vertliit is given in--au old legal form which causes what seems a barbarous delay at this period of awful suspense. Then the foreman read slowly from a paper these words, 'The jury, having given their most careful attention to the evidence, find the prisoner guilty of wilful murder, but so far as premeditation they consider it has not been made out, and they therefore , strongly recommend the prisoner to the mercy of the Crown."  Then the verdict was translated to her by the interpreter, and two turnkeys stood between the female warder and the prisoner, as if to receive the latter if she fell. She never moved, however, but after lifting her eyes once to the interpreter, cast them to the ground and lie cued. When asked, through him, if she had aught to eay why sentence of death should not be passed, she muttered something in a whisper, and the ashy hue her face had assumed grow deeper. "She says, 'I had no intention to kill,'" is said by the interpreter. even while the folds or lappets of the hideous threecornered fiat black cap are being arranged over the judge's wig by the gentleman to his right. The prisoner stands with downcast eyes while the judge's I remarks are translated to her sentence by sentenee, and though her lips move an if she were trying to speak, no word comes forth. Again does the ex. cceding ghastliness of a trial for life or death, in a tongue unknown to the person principally affected, come forcibly home. The judge's remarks were extremely brief, but it will be seen that the promise to forward the recommendation to mercy twineto the proper quarter followed closely upon the announcement to Dilblanc that she had been found guilty of murder, and the delay here throogh translation seemed interminable to those looking on at the cowed and beaten woman and her misery. The details as to her being hanged by the neck until she is dead, and in the prison where she is last confined, and the final prayer, "May the Lord have mercy on your soul," are given from the bench, and translated sentence by sentence, and it is thought all is over. There is one more formality, however. Mr. Avery, the Clerk of Arraigns, rises in wig and gown, and from his seat below the bench directs the interpreter to ask Dixblanc if she can plead that she is quick with child as a reason for her execution being stayed. There is a prompt, and as it seemed indignant, shake of the head from the woman with the leaden face and the cast down eyes, and the words, "She says No," fromthe interpreter, and then without farther word or gesture she turns obediently tow motion from one of the two turnkeys who have kept so near her, and disappears from sight.  , IT IS STATED that by the new military organisation, France will be divided into twelve regions, containing one army corps in each, making a total of 157 regiments of infantry, 76 of cavalry. 36 of artillery, 6 of engineers, and 18 battalions of military train.