The Express. — 1859-12-10 (London, England)

XVI. Her ancestors, the De Champignys, have worn the judicial ermine in Touraine time oat of mind. She her►elf, when in the bloom of youth, made what was considered in the country a metal. home. She fell in love with and married M. Lemoine, an attorney of Chinon, who had scarcely any fortune. The marriage was not a happy one, and after a few years she obtained a decree of separation, which !eft her in custody of her two children—a son, now a law student in Paris, and Mdlle. Angelina. Her fortune, about 14001. a year, was considerable for the little town of Chinon, where she inhabited a handsome house, and ranked as one of the great ladies of the place. Mdlle. Angelina Lemoine was universally admitted to be the prettiest girl in the town—no small reputation, when we consider the proverbial beauty of the ladies of Touraine.  The coachman, the third considerable personage in this drama, Fetee by name, is described by all the witnesses is a man of extraordinary ugliness— awkward and ungainly, ignorant, and looking much older than his real age, which is only 29. lie is unaffected by the slightest suspicion of any complicity in the crime. On the contrary, he believed that he was going to marry his young mistress until, on his asking her hand from her mother, he  was turned out of the house. The indictment Ode d'accusation), as is amid in each documents, does not confine itself to describing the crime charged, but enters at very great length into a variety of details conjectural, as well as remote from the main facts of the case. It charges, among other things, that the mother was in the habit of reading Rabelais, and that the daughter's favourite was the " Confessions of Marion Delorme." Mdlle. Angelina is described as a singularly precocious young lady who, at the age of 16, openly boasted that she was fit to be married, and it is distinctly alleged that she made the first advanoes to the boorish coachman. Her object, it is said, was to get married, and to enjoy the freedom of the marriage state; she had heard a story of a young lady forcing her parents to consent to a marriage by becoming a mother, and she thought she would do the same. One day the coachman, while helping his mistress to lay down some wine in the cellar, said to her all at once, " Madame, I ask the hand of your daughter in marriage." Madame Lollloillell only answer was, " Go and pat the horses to immediately." The next day she discharged him without a word of explanation, but, according to his evidence, he said to Angelina u he was going oat of the house, " So, Madame won't let me marry you," and Angelina answered, " No, mamma says she will find means to get rid of it" (meaning the child with which she was enceinte). Rumours of the condition of Mdlle. Angelina spread in the town. The discharged coachman told all his friends of his emours, and said that he must of necessity be married to the young lady in the end. He imparted to many persons his idea of the inoome he was likely to enjoy and the scale of the establishment suited to his new rank in life. Madame Lemoine, who was highly respected in the neighbourhood, resolutely made up her mind to brave out the rumours current against the honour of her daughter. Thank* to the fashion of expansive crinoline, she made her walk about while far advanced in pregnancy in all the public promenades of the town, without it being possible for the public to perceive the young lady'. real condition. More than this, she made her on one occasion roll down hill, jut as people used to in Greenwich Park at fair time, for the express purpose of negativing the current belief. In spite of all these extraordinary manoeuvres, the infant was, as Angelina asserts, born alive, and after the full period of gestation. The girl also further admitted that she had agreed with her mother that the child was to be burnt as soon ai born; but she says she made &condition that it should not be burnt while alive ; she believes her mother killed it, though she knows not exactly Low, before putting it on the wood. Oa the other hand, Madame Lemoine maintains that there was no previous agreement to destroy the child, bat that finding it still-born, she suddenly resolved to put it out of the way, in order to save her daughter's honour. Such, iu all its main circumstance, is the outline of this remarkable case. M. Lachaud has gone down specially to defend Madame Lemoine. The counsel for Angelina is M. &filer, of the Tours bar. Almost all the Paris journals have sent special reporters to Tours• A despatch of this morning says that the court, which is one of the most spacious in France, was crowded with spectators from Blois, Ssumer, Angers, &c., and that a large proportion of ladies were among the audience. A telegram, dated 1 o'clock, states that Angelina  in her examination retracts the confession she made before the Judge of Instruction, and now says that  she only agreed with her mother that the child was to be destroyed in case of its being born dead. One of the witnesses, a NI. Lieubray, who had drawn the attention of the authorities to the suspicious circumstances of the case, has attempted suicide. The Bourse was sgain very animated, sad prices rose in the early part of the day, but after maay fluctuations the Rents left off at nearly yesterday's quotations. The last price for account was 70fr. 45c., bring 23c. lower than the highest point of the day. Mobilter rose Ofr.; Spanish Mobilier fell lfr. 260. The Orleans Railway fell 10fr., and Lyons, 6fr.; the other lines remain nearly as yesterday. M. de Lamartinee paternal estate of Monceanx, near Macon, is advertised for sale by auction at the Chamber oeNotaries in Paris on Feb. 7. The upset price is fixed at 1,000,000 fr. (40,0001.) The evening papers contain nothing of ha-1 penance.