The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-01-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRANCE.  PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. Public. opinion has seldom, if ever, expressed 'ltself more unanimously on any subject than on the verdict of the jury in the case of Verger, li,ttd his condemnation to the extreme penalty (2` the law has been received with approbation, in which I have not heard one dissentient .°tee• His audacious avowal of the crime, and his glorying in it, and his outrageous det/Illnent during the trial, and his insults to the of disgust and witnesses, produced a universal feeling "' disgust and horror. He evidently intended to :lehe a great scandal, and knowing that there Os no chance of escape for himself, he "Ped to gratify his malignity by doing all that °lle like him could do to destroy the character 13f others. As he had not sacrificed them by the bishop, means as he had used against the Arch uishoP, he brooded with gloomy rapture on the murder of their representative. To that list of witnesses which he showed to his advocate he had ItPpeaded notes imputing the most abominable crimes to all and each ; and it is curious that this ferocity was particularly exhibited towards those who had rendered him the greatest services, arid who were known to be his benefactors. These witnesses were not expected by him to depose to the fact before the court, and were, therefore, with the exception of three, refused by it. The only defence that could be made for him was insanity, And it was put forward but faintly and doubtingly bY his counsel. The evidence of the medical man o had examined him was not in favour of this \levy of the case. His impression was, that the rj.lsolier was not mad, but was very dangerous. fits of rage, he at first thought, might be ,`tributed to a tendency to epilepsy; on minute .4tlqUiry he found nothing to confirm that opinion, st:ll,his conclusion was, that he was rather a fit th"Ject for the vigilitnce of the police authorities, ii,44 for a mad blouse. On the whole it would I,?ear that he ,:vas a man eaten up by inordinate efllitY, of a morbid desire to make himself talked st whether for good or for evil, superficially in thnleted, of a jealousy that never reposed, envy that ever corroded, and hatred of all whom he ZJl.iglit came in his way; constantly intriguing ;ainSt, or quarrelling with, his fellow priests ; Ilressed with an exaggerated idea of his own trttOortance, of ambition which there was nothing a°,;,,iustifY ; of a perverse and gloomy disposition, a heart full of rancour and malignity against ;very one who was his superior. His dismissal °rd the various situations he filled was the cons re,quence of the irsegularity of his morals, and he ro his the Cure of St. Germain de l'Auxerrois for is kindness to him, until kindness and charity were exhausted, by the most abominable calurn,e,,. f:The news of the assassination of the Archlattop of Paris led to the countermanding the and balls which were to be given on the janniversary of the birth of the King (the 12th however, and the theatres were closed. There was, 'al%wever, a grand reception at the palace, at which _1 the members of the diplomatic corps at Naples were present. The English frigate, the Malacca, In,ieted its colours and fired a salute of 21 guns. 1,,t _,,ne King was to leave Naples soon for Caserta, %n_ere the Queen will be confined. , The following private telegraphic despatch has oeen received :  "