The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-08-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

NATURAL OEATH. OF THE DUKE .DE PRASLIN  " We had foreseen this conclusion, and we had been prepared for it two days since. Nevertheless, it appears to us, that the event ought to have occurred a little sooner or a little later, The Duke de Praslin died to-day (Tuesday) in his bed rin the prison of the Luxembourg, and the following are .t terms in which the-official evening journal announces the fact : " M. de Praslin died to-day about five o'clock in the prison of the Luxembourg. The cause of his death has been ascertained and accounted for by men of science. It was with arsenic, takertin c. large dose, that the Duke de Paslin poisoned himself, at the moment when he saw that the charges had become_so serious as to render necessary his arrest and trial. The copious vomitings which he experienced on Wednesday aftereoon and during the day of Thursday, appeared alone to hay.e retarded the effect of the poison, which, after having wased on Friday and Saturday, resumed its entire force on 'Sunday." On this intelligence and the remarks of the Paris journals, the Times of Friday makes the following; remarks,  which, from all -accounts, are in accoruance with the only rational conclusion that can be arrived at : The Duc de Praslin -has committed suicide in the cell of his prison in the Ln-xentbourg. The necessities of justice and the indignation .of tile people have been equally defrauded of their legitimate desire. How, or when, or where the wretched. murderer ebtaizied the poison which enabled him to escape from the itz:clig,oities of a trial that could have no result but. the scah44l4 for himself, and infamy for the children of the unfortuilate lady whom he  ..„.... ..... ........___ . so barbarously put to death, the French journals give US no satisfactory account. The palpable ins)nuations however, of the anti-dynastic party and the flimsy excuses of the organs of the Chateau, seem equally to paint to the Point at ate same conch Woo—that it was not; tvithcnit 1  senr montn to rue °ego-I=z or uctooer, ovirrn n the construction of the bridge over the Yare  ;ati on anc  The preparations for the genera meeting of railways in Birmingham are now very palpabk in many parts of the town. Houses in all quarters are razed, or being razed, and at present the aspect of the streets affected is desolate enough. Notwithstanding all the outcry about the press—.re of railway-making on the money market, the reports made to the half-yearly meetings show that the calls have very generally been well met. Thus the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester have received between £300,000 and £400,000, leaving a balance due of only £lBOO.  the city election, on his London ba share of the election expenses, had been returned dishonoured, and how the petition now set en foot ostensibly for the expenses of a petition against the return, was in reality intended to indemnify the sheriff from the consequences of this defalcation. Mr. John Reynolds, M.P., then addressed the meeting at considerable length, commenting on the want of punctuality on the part of Mr.  Two men stopped a railway train on its way to Bristol, the other day, by waving a red handkerchief on a stick. They requested to have a lift to Bristol. The guard good naturedly complied, took them to Bristol, gave them into custody, and they were each fined 40s. and costs, and in default of payment committed to prison for a month. From official returns, it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3154 miles of railway, was £205,232, thus accounted for :—£117,246 for the conveyance of passengers only, £44,397 for the cars I riage of goods, and a remainder of £43,589 for passengers  er, for f  and goods tog  Cher, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £30,014 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was about 2290.  Gregori, and expressing li petition on the merits. ]  As perfect willingness to meet a Mr. J. O'Connell held forth at  and called upon the landlords of Ireland to join the association in its endeavours to re-establish a local parliament, if they would not have their estates swallowed up under the poor law. He also read a letter from Dr. Gray, of the Freeman's Journal, on the result of the Irish elections, according to which there have been returned fifteen Whigs,  nine r eaeransis or rrecursors, anu truriy-seven ttepealers, and amongst the county members a majority of four in favour of the repeal of the union against both Whigs and Tories. The rent for the week was announced to be £5l 18s.