The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-05-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH QE PRINCE DE CONDE.  In a very interesting.eause,in itself, which came on yester-' day before the Tribunal of .Senlis, .the .following incident .ctecurie(' :—lt., may be remembered that in the month. of October! last Madame de Pontalba was .the victim of i.an attempt at. assassination committed on her person by the .old ,Baron de Pontalba, who afterwards committed suicide. This lady applied. to the caurt that she might not be obliged, .at . least .for the. present, to cohabit with her husband in. the same chateau,whi* was the scene of the horrible, catastrophe, or in an apartment, proposed for her in Paris, a,nd'Which was the very same occu-' pied:by the Baron de Pontalha, the father. Among other. grounds for the application of Madame de Pontatba was ;a certificate of M. Marjalin, the celebrated physician of •tlie: capital. This document, after having been severely criticised by the advocate Of M. de Poutalba, ,afforded the Procurear.dtP Roy an opportunity', of making some observations upon' the attestations of Doctors, and the little confidence that should, be placed in the certificate of M. Marjolin. Upon this subject the magistrate felt it his duty to recall to the mind of his . auditory a frigstful event which about five years agoleft.among all. the" population of the town and its ,vicinity most deep and sincere regrets. He cited the tragical.end of his Royal High-ness the Prince de:Couile, benefactorand,patran.ot the whole of that arrondissement, in,which the ,Gastle of 'Chantilly and the greatest part of his immense inheritance .are .situated. He' said that, at the moment of that melancholy catastrophe, this. ,same M. Marjolin was called to exainine the body, .and ascertain the sort, of death of the unfortunate Prince. :M. Marjolin certified under his hand that the death,was caused by an act of suicide. " Well," added the Procureur du Roy, " notwithstanding all our respect ,for a judicial verdict, and whatever may have been the cause.of that dark and mysterious event, i we feel it our' daty.here to .state, gentlemen, that there s not. one of us who believes that the Prince de • Conde committed. suicide." These ,words, thus publicly spoken, have produced an indescribable effect. Received with approbation, as they, generally are in they countries,,the words of the Procureur du• Roy are, as it were, a public and solemn sanction of the religious respect attached to the memory of the last of the Condes, and of the well established opinion that this prince perished, . the victim ofassassination. Every eye was turned to the lion. M. flermequin, the advocate of Madame de.Pontalba, who was: present at the hearing, and who appeared to be singularly,. affected by arm argument so unexpected, and' an 'acknowledgment so. important, from the lips-of a magistrate of the present .government,--Quotidienne.  IMPORTANT CONVOC .DECISIO AT lON. N:OF THE OXFORD •  (From the Albion of Thursday ) Yesterday the convocation assembled in order to take the. sense of the university at large upon a proposal for establishing! a certain form of "declaration," in lieu of the present long-y established, practice of subscription to .the 39 articles, on th.et part of underrgraduafesoli the time of matriculation. The asseinbly was very numerous, Rod the conclusion come to! very decisive. They were— For the proposed.form of declaration 57 .; Against it (and. in support ef established usage) 459 -Leaving a majority of Fovit Kurt ottur, Two out of.a house of 516 members in favour of adherence to the old paths. The following descriptive observations are from a valued cotrespondent, and, whatsover souse readers may be inclined to, suppose, one who is utterly incapable of " illiberality," or ofi thinking of those who differ front him with. less charity than: may become a man of unswerving :honesty and most •keling conscientiousness:— _  " The. projectO.declaration,was ,most plausihly and -adroitly; constructed,,exhiWting all the customary.modern marks of cart-: dour, &c., and Prffessing to be, an exact equit4e4t for the usage! 'it was intended to supersede. Its champions met all questions ; raised upon it with their customary confidence, except that of cal bone.:?, :Notwithstanding all .the circumspection employed, however,ithe insidious attempt to get the lesser wedge once fairly iuttoduced,wasibut too manifest. Great interest was excited in on .csequence4 n all parts of the kingdom, and the result was an unusually large assemblage in con Vocation. On Tuesday even_jug Oxford ~was,,pvertlowing. A considerable .majority was (5.4p1q,e4,0n all lands ,in favour of things .as-.they are, and a one ,hoped.fot " When the,a,ssembly took place in the usual scene of ac'ion, the Convocation House, it was soon apparent that there was a great scarcity of room, in consequence of which an adjournment tookyloce to:the theatre. ;The question was proposed—no debate ensued, but the members of convocation proceeded at once . to. a division, the non-placers (ortbose opposed to the innovation) being ratiged.to the right hand of the N' ice-Cchaneellor in the .area of the theatre, and the , placets (or innovators) to the left. ['lie numbers were,taken in the usual manner by the proctors, when the placers were found tole only 57, and the non-placers .159. ." It is hoped that this .division, which has evidently caused much roortitication.to, the advocates of the neto.canstitution, has so decidedly-manifested the.sense of toe great majority of the university as to.have silenced. the restless spirit of demohtion for a Jong time to come. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasM exhibited by the conservative members on the occasion. The, tinder-graduates warmly partook of,a, like feeling; nor is,it easy to conceive a less encouraging ,appearance than was exhibited by the defeated party as they took thels,stittion for. the,Purpose of being numbered.' The whole affair went off, so far as could` be judged, with entirely kind personal feeliq." [To show what is the general feeling of the people of England! on this subject, as•far as it can be inferred from 'their petitions! -to parliament, we find in a summary of the petitiOns presented to the House of were in 18;3,1, that ?,4 petitionS,lsigned bv I,s64.Rersons, presented in favour of " the tinikerlitie' admission bill," and that 445 petitions, signed by .11,81(1 persons, ,were:presented during the same periodagainst-that