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12 'LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE SIEGE OF PA HIS (BT mibAN.) (nox ocr. srxciAL coiu owsdesti.) PARIS, Mosdat, Mat 8. Ifjw batteries at Mre'n in number, Wra been unmasked. Numerous Federal bat talions Art eoneenfrAtod si the Point du Jonr.

Felia. Pyat uja, in the Peaco is iho desiro of erery Democnt. None hare a ftreater horror o( bloodshed Hun Republicans. We wish for peace," The Federal battery on the Sceanx railway was rendered nscless last night, They endea voured to re wUblish it this mo bat in run, The tire of the Versailles batteries has been directod Jmoet exclusively on Vanves, on tho principle joi destroying one Fort After Another. The batteries on the Southern bsstions of the City havo been firing heavily all dsy.

A. heavy bombardment hss been going on through out both night And day on Neuilly, Clichy, and Porta Maillot. The Federals have re taken th bArricAde of the Rue Peyronnet. The Core' of St. Hoch has demanded of the Oommnne whether his church was invaded by their orders.

They replied, No but the DeoDle must hsTe their" wat. Tho Curd accordingly removed the sacred vessels from the church, and the beadle, the concierge, And four priesti vera arrested this morning because they declined to divulge their places. Fire priests, it is said, hare been arrested in the Fifth Arrondiuement, charged irith spying for the benefit of the Yersaillais, compromising documents harisg been discorered concealed in the church goblets. The Ligue IVpablicaine Are said to be endeavour tng to get np new armistice. The Commandant, of the national, turds was hot yesterday on the Boulevards by a man dressed as a Cur.

VERSAILLES. Mo DAT, MAY 8. Last night and this; morning, up to 10 o'clock, were comparatively calm. At 10 this morning the trie of new at Montretout opened direct fire on the Point du Jonr, and 'a flank shelling on the ramparts between the Seine and Vaugirard. Those batteries consist of 70 pieces of 241b.

And 301b. Their bombardment has been furious. I do not tnink tnere nA Deen any: reply to tnem from the I watched them for some jhoars, and although a gun was fired every minute, and sometimes oftener, not a single shell came from any of the batteries in, the neighbourhood of the Toint da Jour or that of Vaugirard. Nothing what ever occurred in the direction of St. Cloud and Montietoot, Last erening fire shells from the Point du Jonr exploded in the open space near tho bridge of St.

Cloud. Mont Ly the redonbts at Montra Ion alM eued the Insurgents iwsitions about TPorte Jlafllot. From Asnicrcs up to tl.e.Railwsy Station at St. 'Ooenand ronnd'to the bastion neir Porto.Maillot, was heary firing between 4 and 5 o'clock. Much is ax pec tod to lw eaectcJ, by tao new batteries.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND EXECUITVE. VEBSAILLES, MbsDAT. The Goremment has caused to be. distributed in Paris the following proclamation The Goremment of the French Republic to the Parisians "France, freely consulted, elected a Govern merit which is the only legal one, the only one which can command obedience. If Government be not an empty word.

This Government has given to you the same, rights which, are enjoyed by Lyons. Marseilles, Toulouse, and IVirdeau t. With out departing from the priuaploiof equality yon cannot demand greater rights than are possessed by the other cities of the territory. It is the Goremment of tho' Commune that is, of minority which oppresses you, and, while daring to cover itself with the infamous red flag, claims to impose its will upon' France. By ita works you can judge of the rryimo.

'which it proposes to inflict upon you it violates the rights of property, imprisons citizens to use them as hostages, courerta your streets and pnblie places into deserts, puts a atop all work in Pans, paralyzes it throughout all Fraoee, arrests the prosperity which was about to rente, retards the evacuation our territory by the Germans, and exposes yon to a renewed attack from' them, which they declare they are ready to commence without mercy if we do not contrire by ourselres to put down the insurrection. We (hare ourselres to all the delegations which: hare been sent tons, and not one bo has presented to us as a condition the obedience of the national sovereignty to the re rolt the sacrifice of all liberties and of all inter esis. We hare repeated to these delegations that we would continue to pay tho subsidy to necessitous workmen. We promised, and wo promise it till, bat the insurrection must cease, for it cannot be prolonged without causing the ruin of France. The Goremment which speaks io you would hare, preferred that you should liberate yonr selres from a few tyrants who are play ling with your liberties and your lives, but since you cannot do so it must itself, undertake the duty, and for that purpose it has collected an army beueath your walls an army which comes, at the price of its blood, not to conquer, but to delirer you.

Up to the present time it has confined itself to attacking the outer works. The moment baa now arrired when, to abridge yonr sufferings, it most attack, the enceinte itself. It 'will not bombard Paris, as the people of tho 'Commune and Committee of Safe'ty will not fail to tell you it 'intends. A bombardment threatens whole city and renders it uninhabitable, and has for its object to intimidate the dti rent and constrain them to a capitulation. The Gorernroentwill not fire a cannon except to force one of your will endearour, to limit to the point attacked the ravages of war'of which it is not the author.

The Goremment kuows, and would hare understood eren if you had not on all hands informed it, that immediately the soldiers shall hare entered throogh the enceinUr yoo will rally round the national flag, in order to contribute with our raliant army to; the destraction of a sanguinary and cruel tyranny. It depends upon yourselres to prerent disorders which are inseparable from an ssault. You aro a hundred, fold more numerous than the. Communist sect': riaaa. Unite, then, open yonr gates, which they hare dosed against law, order, your 'prosperity, and that of France.

'The gates once opened, the can son wQl cease to be heard order, ptenty, peace will reappear within yonr walls the Germans will eracuate our territory, and the traces of our misfortunes will. rapidly disappear. But if yon do not act ttha Gorerhmeat will bo obliged to adopt for, yonr delireranc the most energetio means, the prompt, and the most It Is bound to do bo for you' aakea, and specially or tha sake of France, because the cessation of productive labour, which is mining you, has extended to it, and it has a right to ssre itself if you know not how to aare yourselres. Parisians! 'think orer these things quietly. In a rery few days we shall be in Paris.

France desires to put sn end to this Civil War. She will, she ought, And she can do so. She is marching to deliver you, And you can Aid And ssre yourselves by rendering an assault, useless, and by resuming from to day your place among your fellow citizens and brothers. A. THIERS," (recter's telegrams.) VERSAILLES, Mat 8, In to day's sitting of tha National Assembly M.

Baze said: I do not wish to question the Government, but to draw Attention to certain facts. IJy doing so I beliero I shall give expression to the sentiments of the entire Assembly. A sort of Republican League of the gret cities has prun up. It goes so fr as to proclaim its authority, and to declare itself more capable of conducting public affairs thau the Government." M.Baze then drew attention to tho programme issued by the municipal candidates at Bordeaux, in which it is allied that the Republic is superior to umver sal suffrage. Thoae who dared to proclaim such doc trines wished for a return to serfdom, and the go vernment of the country by the lower classes.

He condemned the proposed convocation of Municipal Delegates at Hordeaux, defended the inhabitants of the rural districts whose righti the League seeks to ignore, and delivered a protest against the attacks to which tho Assembly had been subjected. He expose! the pretensions brought forward by the Republican League, and con eluded by stating that the National Assembly could not tolerate any such encroachmeuts, and by calling urion the Government to state its view of the matter. M. Picard said the Government did not wait for this interpellation to give Attention to the question. He, perhAps, might not Iiavo purposely brought about the discussion in the Assembly, so as not to giro the movement a greater importAnce than it actually possessed, but he took advantage of the present opportunity to point out the dangerous nature of.

the pretended programme of concilistion which had been put forward, lis said it was super, fluous to demonstrate that right was on the side of the Assembly, and proceeded to show'thst these so called Republicans openly violate the sole principle of all Republican Constitutions, and sint into fac tious'agitators, in wishing to confront one National Assembly by another. M. Picard added This act is the more criminal inasmuch as the efforts of these agitators, by which they risk com promising the national unity, are made before the eves of the foreigner. But they will not succeed the Government will resist these gatherings by taking the most energetic steps. Four days Ago orders to that effect were sent to all Departments." In this evening's sitting, of the Assembly the Committee announced itself opposed to SLQuinet's motion to modify the Electoral Law, inasmuch as a complete Electoral Bill will be discussed later.

The motion was then rejected by 517 rotes against 23. THE TIMES, TUESDAY, AT THE MATT 1871. POPULAR FETE TUILERIES. THE BLTUAV MUttDKR. Tbs dfcriptton given of tb man who pnrchated.

the wrsDOO half hatohet) with which thb hor rihU deod wm oommitted is that of a labourer, beteea 27 ik131 jerof re, harinjr fatl klaek whUktrs snd the Deral appsrsne of a Jobbiof gardener. The pmooer li nly 20 jssrt of age ant Iim no whiikers, bnt he of the height stn ia the rieaeriptioo, and the theory of the truaoeution ia that be might have dummied himielf for the a I rarpoio. Tne man tu ior a no. a Mta ninmer, ana rtnwked that ha' could not see the steel edge on the hatcliet, but it was pointed out to hi a. by another cm tower.

The prisoner' brother, woo will be called lor toe icfeoee, ear that on the Saturday nicht when tho bamnSr was Honjlit they were walking about Oreen wieh together all the evening, etcriit for a jurter of aa Lear, when hia brother went to the LUtrarv and that it ool.l have been itnpo aible fnr him to go to the ahop of Sir. Thomas in Deptford and bacx in that' iaterval. The brother adds that on the' night of the morder the prioaer left him at 20 mlautet bait 7, snd carre in to tapper again at 9, it being the invariable habit of the faailr to have sapper serred st that hour. The brother is a married roab, bat, his wife betas in the conntrr, he slept with the priaoaer for three or four weeks orior to his avpreheailoD, in coawqueoee of Elmund hariug bad an epileptie fit on the 6th of April, ou which oecuion ho hit his tongue, and, sooording to the brothera account, ooTrred hia dothee with blood. On the.

night of the murder this witeeM uti the prisoner had supper sod went tobol jait as usual, and slept well all night. Among the other witnesses who will be called for the defence will some compositors with whom the priaoaer worked ia the printing office, and a young woman who satiits in bis father's ahop. They will show bow bit time was occupied until a quarter pait7on the night of themurder.aod sa that they neeer observed soy familiarity betareea tho pmooer and the desessed, it being remarked that the former always treated bee with reserve. She has been spoken of as "a dirty girl," but tho printer describe her as a good looking girl, with a very happy rlispoaiUoa and agreeable manner. A librarian from the Greenwich literary Iaatitntioe, Jlr.

Coatta, aeeouata for the priaonera time five" minutes later on the night of the. murder, saying that be came to the. InaUtution at 25 laiautee paat 7, and said he was going to' Lewiaham. The eireumataaee is filed on the witneaa'a mesory by the fact that Mr. Olaiaber, the mt toorologUt, came ia at the aame time, sod he fixes the dale by the circumstance of some reading! being cieen the same night ia the Lecture hall by Mr.

Warner Sleigh, the rurriiter. One witness, a person named Shea ton, says ha met the prisoner in Oreen wieh shout half past 8 that night but taking the general testimony that ho was home at 9, there if only left him an hour and 35 mia'ute to account for. The ground has been measured by Mr. Roberta, surveyor, of Greenwich, who finds that the distaaee from the Institution to the spot where toe reordered girl was found is two miles 1,011 yards. If these itoeae be correct the question will arise whether the prisoner could have travelled more than fire muei (ball the distance with a woman) and oommitted the murder in an hour sad a half.

Ilia own statement, is that oa the ntgbt in question, after leaving the Iostltutioo, he went to Lewiibam to keep watch upon soother young man whom he suspected of designs a npou a young woman to wnom no was paying nu aaareeses at that puce. He says that be returned by way of Koyal bill scroas4he margin of that having slipped down ia the gutter at SoaUi street, Green wieh, he went into Mrs, Plane's shop to brush the mud off his trousers, fearing that he might cause bis mother anxiety by leading her to suppose that be had bad another fit. He writes cheerfully to his friends from hU cell at Maldstoae Gaol, his only anxiety apparently arising from the dry quality of the prison literature, snd the want of his watch, which he thinks the police took from him needlessly. The body of the deceased was buried yesterday afternoon daring the thunder storm at Brockley-lane Cemetery, io the grave provided by the local authorities of Deptford. After the opening of the Coroner's ia iuiry at'Guys Hospital, on Thursday last, the body was brought from London to the house of the uncle and sunt of the deceased, Mr.

and Mrs. Trott, of Agnes pkce, Old King street, Deptford, and from this place the funeral ctirtlgt consisting of a hearse and two mourning coaches sad eversl carriages, containing the rt la tires and friends of the deceased, started for the cemetery, snd a few minutes after wards the storm commenced and continued throughout the hole of the mournful ceremony. Some thousands of persons assembled along tae line of procession. After the interment aa affecting address was delivered at the grave. Upwards of 20,000 persons visited the scene of the murder oa Sunday, the majority coming from London.

Attexited Murder. On Saturday night last a desperate attempt to commit tnuTder was made by a man named Thomas Welch, about 35 year of age. Hia intended vietira, Marr, hia brother in law, about 19 yers age, ana lives at 4, aewtngton Miitiinti, Lady Lake 's grove. Mils end. Tbere bad heea repeated quarrels between the parties, sod Welch bad declared that be would Eat a bullet into the head of bis brother in law.

and send lm out of the world. On Saturday Welch obtaiaed ad mlssieato Marra room, i and 'processed to pat bis design Into execution by firing a loaded pistol at him. The shot took effect aad entered Man's forehead. It nested under tha skis and across the scalp, and lodged ia the back of hia bead. He called out," Murder, snd fefi.

He was conveyed to the London Hospital without delay.aad Mr. Moore, the bouse surgeon, in the. course of 8unday extracted the balll from the back of tha man's skulL It srae considerably flattened. Yesterday ha was la a somewhat precarious eon ditiosw Welch abeceoued directly after be bad shot Us on fortuests relative. Two detectives.

Sergeant Bridea and Iillyttoas, a eenstahls of the division, are la search of Uii. and it Is expected as will not be long eat of custody. I A portiea of the following sppeared ia our Second LdiUea of yesterday (FROM SrtCIXL CORftESroyDKMT.) PARIS. Mat In consequence of a large, placard. posted over the walls of Paris this morning I passed through the gate of the private garden of the Tnileries, and made my war.

in company with a crowd of citizens of all classes, the apartments occupied but few months Ago by the ex Emperor And Empress, The printed inviUtion announced that we might see the rooms which the tyrant had lived for the modest sum of but should wo think proper to take tickets for the concert. whereby these saloons miht be at length ren dered useiul to tne people, we should be per mitted to enjoy the extra show gratis. I took ticket, and joined myself to a hot stream of peopl who belonged to erery nationality and rank life, and whose remarks and criticisms were most edifying. There were shopkeepers and their wives, only too delighted to take advantage of tho mildest dissipation gentlemen whose National Guard trousers were rendered respectable by the gray jacket or blouse of ia citizen humdrum housewives who approved everything, and gaped their admiration of so much gorgeous wall colour inc there were flaunting ladies in bonnets of the latest 'fashion and marvellous petticoats, who criti cized the curtains and pointed the parasol of scorn at faded draperies peoplu who felt the heavy hand of the spectre of departed glory, and people who exulted at beholding the hidden recesses of an Im penal mansion laid bare to the jokes and ribaldry of Belleville and La Villette. Every class of Parisian society was represented the throng that swayed and hustled through the rooms, but the saddest sight of all was the knot or two of decrepit veterans from the Invalides who leant against the balustrade of the grand staircase, and gazed with pinched up lips and dry eyes at the National Guards on duty, lounging and carousing down below.

The stairs were littered with bedding and cooking utensils, shirts and stockings, hanging to dry over the gilt railings, while in the square at the stairs' foot were ranged benches and boards on trestles, and there the soldiers of the Guard sat in picturesque groups enough, contrasting in the carelessness' and dirt of their general appearance with the lavish orna ments of marble and gilt work which served as background to thoir figures. Marching orders, more or leas thnmbed and torn, hung in fragments from the panelled walla names in pencil and names in ink, and names scrawled with a finger nail, defaced tho doors and staircase wall. A sentry stood at every door to see that the citizens behaved themselves a precaution by no means unnecessary, the outward aipect of certain members of the crowd being taken into consideration. In the Salle de la Paix a number of women were busy uncovering a number of chain for the promised concert, and in the Salle des Marechaux beyond, where the concert, was to be given, velvet benches were already occupied by old ladies in white caps with baskets in their hands, who presented a stern aspect of endurance, aa though they were determined to sit there through the preparations as well as the promised entertainment, and still to continue sitting until turned out by sword and bayonet. The Salle des Marechaux" exists no more except in name, for men on ladders were employed, covering up tho por traits which decorate the hall with screens of red silk I suppose lest the past glory of French heroes should pale the brilliancy of the National Guard, just as the bas reliefs of the Venddme Column act as an outrage upon the susceptibilities of the Commune.

White cloths were being tied orer the busts of Napoleon's Generals, and everything relatinr to the past carefully obliterated a rather foolith proceeding, considering that the bee spangled Imperial curtains still hang over tho doors, and festoons of the same drapery decorate the gallery above. The brocaded panels of the Salle du Trine were objects of much remark among the ladies, as were! the tapestries of tho Salle dos Gobelins but the bare ness and total absence of furniture. wore commented on freely on all sides. Not a chair or a window blind, or eren a door plate or handle, is to bo ii i seen in any oi me rooms, except in inos used for the concerts, and question arose, naturally euough, Where it all gone to I The same demand was made so often of an elderly bourgeois on duty at tho end of the Salle de Diana that he was fairly bewildered, and looked round for help, and, hailing the gold stripes on my cap as a harcn of renef, no lortnwitn seized upon me as a superior officer, and insisted on an explanation. xbu know there were quantities of carried off jdnring tho time before Sedan," ho said, bnV with all their cunning, they can't have dismantled a whole palace of this size, can they? And the crowd stood round endeavouring to account for the nakedness of the land, until a remark that the Commune had been feathering their nests with the chairs and tables dis persed them laughing.

The Empress a bedroom was great attraction, Chaplin's charming decorations being subjects of sufficient interest, independent of the absent furniture. Tho looking which spring from tho walls called down ejaculations of delight from a party of dressmakers, who carefull took notes of the mechanism, in order to imitate it, my dear, when Fans becomes itself again, There was a large placard upon the wall of a kind of library, inviting the attention of tho public to 'the secret arrangements in a recess whereby the Empress obtained her dresses and linen from some manufactory of garments above, and an old ter aving careiuiiy examined tne eiaoorare details, turned away with a sigh and a shake of the head; How foolish of them, after, all, not to have done a little for us in order that they might hare continued to abide in this paradise How different was the Empress's apartment this morning, bare and crowded with the dregs of the Pans population, from the night when I last saw night of her, flight, when bed clothes still littered the floor, and gloves and ittle odds and ends of female finery told of recent occupation I All was silent then with the stillness of a coming storm now the walls re echo with a stir of unhallowed feet, and the spring sunshine streams in at the open window accompanied by whiffs from the garden a distant cry reaches us from the street beyondof Le Vcngeur," UU Cri du Peuple," dernier ordrt du ComUi du SaiuL Public and we detect curls of smoke about the Arch of Triumph, hich remind us that the bombardment still goes I. A. i 1. 3 I on.

A renecMve sentry as tne. aooroi tne eaomet travail begged me to remark the portraits set round above the doors. Those are the Empress's 'aroutite ladies," he informed me are they not talopines, one would say, of the penod of Montespan And those were the ladies who were models for the women of our land no wonder that Paris should have become the Gomorrah that it is In the erening the concert was giren, and a wonderful bear garden the Imperial Palace presented. Mem bers of the Commune flitted about in red draperies and tried to find, room on tho already crowded benches for the struggling mo, who rubbed their hot faces with their unaccustomed white gloves, and used such language to each other as, it is to be hoped, those august walls hare seldom heard. Meanwhile, the crowd increased in numbers, and by o'clock the reception rooms were full, and some 2,000 people still stood in a long string in the garden outside.

They behaved with the wondrous good nature which characterizes a French crowd, laughing orer the absurdity of their predicament and waring the tickets, which they would never be enabled to present, jestingly at one another. In course oi time whole or thejardw pnvi was IWof people, who' looked np at the lkhti streaming from tho wiudows, and sat about on chairs quietly smoking their cigars and enjoying the lovely evening, listening to the occasional boom at the other end of the long alley, where a bright flash which bore death upon its wings appeared in the sky from time to time, in mockery of the gas lit chandeliers and feeble attempts at revelry that were going on above our heads. The reiguing scandal of day is the affair of the Convent of Picptts, So highly roused has public indignation been by the supposed discovery of atrocities committed within those jealous walls that the people have been peremptorily excluded until the investi gstions of justice shall 'complete. I managed, to penetrate withiu precincts by attaching myself to the cbrlfge of an English friend, who was journeying thither urtder special official orders, to investigate the case of an English Sister named Garret. In the ICue de Picpus, near Mazas prison, stand two largo buildings, each surrounded by high walls, aboie whicli may be seen green trees at intervals.

The one is an establishment; of the Jesuits the other the Convent of the White Nuns. The Jesuit Brothers escaped at the first aign of ap proaching danger, but the Sisters held their own until forced into cabs and conveyed to the cells of St. Lazare, there to await the results of a judicial inquiry into certain matters that are 'deemed suspicious. Arrived at the gate of the Convent, we were obliged to force our war thnnieh a crowd of angry people who demanded instant permission to enter, And who were at persistently swept back by a group of National Guards we, however, being ad mitted inside the door under cover of the official pass and signatures. In tho courtyard, under the shade of some tine tree, a few Guards were play ing bowls in the Jesuits' alley, and making up to one of them, whose cap displayed, tokens of authority, we mentioned our business, and begged permission to see what was.

to be Our friend was rery ctvil, accepted a cigar, and marched ns off to go the rounds. He pointed out to us the fact, of which there certainly, could no kind of doubt, that the two buildings communicated one with the other, by means of an old door which still exists at the back of a stable, as well as by other apertures in the garden wall, which show signs of having been recently closed up. The Jesuits' gar den is a most beautiful one, occupying a space of some 12 acres, laid out with care and furnished with fruit trees of erery description, pruned and trained after the latest horticultural designs. There are won drously ingenious plans, too, for irrigating the beds forcinz pits and hothouses, and long alleys with vines trained orer them. Through the old door above mentioned we passed into the Sisters' garden, equally large and beautiful, though not kept with the same care.

In the centre standi a gymnasium, I suppose for the use of the children brought up under the Sisters' care, and further on their cemetery, a lovely spot, where, under the heavy shade of ancient cypresses, lie bearers of some of theK most. ancient names in France "Prince of Sslm Kyrbourg, immo lated under the Terror, aged 49 "Rochefou cauld," "De Noailles," Montmorency," the great Lafayette," the whole family of the TalJey rand Pifrigords, and legions of Princes and Prince sos. Some of the vaults have been opened, and many lead coffins, half covered with rotting velvet and gold' lace, lie exposed to the light of day, awaiting an examination at the hands of the Minister of Justice. At the extreme end of the garden, howerer, are the three little conical side by side, resembling white ants' nests, which hare been the prime cause of so excitement and judicial inquiry. When the Convent was occupied by the National Guards these little huts; were tenanted each by an old woman, enclose in a woodon cage, like a chickens; pan, the three build ings'being similar in size and construction, six feet square by seven in height, with a slate roof, throogh which daylight was visible, while the three old women were all of them hopeless idiots.

The Lady Superior has kept her lips resolutely closed up to the present time, but admitted, when tint questioned, that tho three sufferers had lived in their hideous prison for nine years, in an atmosphere of stilling heat through out the summer and half frozen with cold through oat the winter but," she added, they were idiots when they came. The conductor of the in quiry replied that, if such were the case; it was illegal to havo admitted them to the Convent at all, and that even supposing them to have been admitted, the place where they were found was not a fit dwelling place for a dog. A key was discorered among her papers, labelled key of the great vault but where this great vault may be has not yet been found out. The Superior and her nuns keep a uniform and persistent, silence upon the point excavations have been made at dif ferent points in tho gardon, and under the high altar of the chapel, but hitherto with out At one end of tho nuns garden stands an isolated building, in which were found mattresses famished with straps and buckles, also two iron corsets, an iron skull cap, and a species of rack turned by a cog wheel, evidently intended for bending back the body with force. The Supe rior explained that these were orthopaedic! instru ments a superficial falsehood The mattresses and straps struck me as being easily accounted for I have seen such things used in French mid wifery, and in cases of violent delirium; but the rack, and ita adjuncts are justly objects of grave sua picion, for they imply a use of brutal force which no disease at present known would justify.

On our way back through tho gardens our guido mado a 2f four in to show us a great subterranean warehouse, where an enormous quantity of potatoes was stored, as welt as barrels full of salt pork, while in a yard by lay grunting a fat pig. "Look at this cned our National Guard indig nantly. Look at these stores, which might have helped to feed the starving poor of the amndisse ment during our six months siege; and think that these people were begging from door to door the hole time for money to buy broken victuals for their pensioners 1" Arrired at the entrance gate our guide nudged me, telling me in whispers to look at the old woman who was wandenng about, followed by a younger one, stooping from time to timet to pick np a leaf or rub her hands with sand and gravel. That is Soiur Bernardino, he said, "one of. the three prisoners of the woo len, cages.

She is the most sane in mind of the three, and we keep her here under the care of one of our wives to cheer her up. She is only 60, though she looks past "0. The other two have been removed, as they were rendered violent by the crowd and change or scene." I passed close to her and she looked up a soft, pale face, with sunken eyes shaded by the nils of a great cap. She looked at me caseaiy, witnout taxing any notice, and stooping again tilled her hands with refuse coffee grounds, which she put into her mouth until prevented by her companion. Without showing the least prejudice in the matter, I think, I can safely say that the ladies now shut up at St.

Lazare will find it no easy matter to clear themselves of blame for, though there are doubtless many suspicious circumstances that may be explained away, there are also hard facts which will remain hard facts in spito of the most elaborate attempts at refutation. LAW REPORT. Frax. The St. Helen's Town hall was nartiallr destroyed by fire oa Saturday afternoon.

The hill, which waa situate la the market place, consisted of a central structure and two wings, the latter used as a police stationstation and a library. The fire commenced la the rear of the large rooea, and the flame spread rapidly. The ceiling I are way, and, falling on the door below, set fire to a valuable organ. The wing containing the police station was much injured, sad the nrisoners had to be moored. Tha other wing escaped, but it was so closely threatened at one nnotnat tne dooks or tae library were deand out, The V.

Irtl1r The fire was got under about Bo'rlock. after lastiac four or Wa COURT DF CHAKCEUT, Li.vcclx wx. Mat 8. Btftrrt Lt Lords Jcstice of Are XL.) XX TfIX GKXXKAt EXCSAMCS BASK, XX ARTS THE IO? IOX. HAKBCKO, AD COSTOTSTAL KXCTTA5aK BA5X.

Thi wu an appeal from a deeition of the Master of the Bolls. The Ute David Leopold Lewis held 605 shares in the London, Hamburg, and Continental Ear change Dank. By the articles of association of that company the companyihad a "flrst and permanent lien upon all shares oi any member lor all mooey one to the oom paov from bins." On tho 6th of April. 136V Lewis ex ecuted an inspectorship deed. At this time he was indebted to the company in a large sum for unpaid calls upon hia shares.

On, the of April, 196), an order was made to wind op the company. Oa the 3ii of June, ao agreement entered into between the liirUttor of the company (with the concurrence of the Chief Clerk of the. Master of the Koll and ot a meeting or tne ci tae com paar) and the General Exchange Bisk for the sale of the assets of the comnanv to the General Exchaace Bank, fir this areefti4nt it wm prorided that such of th harcboUers in the tlambur Bank as shoald not rhoo to take shares in the General Etehange Bank should be paid within 12 months by the latter company taesnm or Zl. in respect of each share heHby them in the Hamburg Bank. Lewis never took shares in the General Exchange Bank.

The General ExchangB Bsnk was after wards ordered to be wound up. and Lewis rfie on the 18th of March, 1S67. The queotioo afterwards arose who was entitled to receive from tae Iiom dator of th General Exehansa Bank the sum of LS1U being the "2L per share parable furespect of Lewis's 60S shares, under the ajreemeot of tbe 231 of Jane, 18rv The money was claimed hy tbe liquidator of the Hamburg Bank in respect of their liea on the share, aod it waa also claimed by Lewii'a by hia administratrix. The sfai of the Rolls refused the application of the liquidator of the Hamburg Bank for payment of the 1,210. to him, aod from this decision tbe Dresent aDDeai waa broorht.

Mr. CJ.C and Mr. Graham Hasting were tor the appellant; Mr. Jeasel.W aad Mr, Lindlrr were tor Lewis's inspectors Mr. Waller waa for Mr.

Lewis s' srf ministratrix Sir R. Baarailay. Q.C.and Mr. O. W.

Law reneewero for the liquidator of the General Exchange lUnk. Their LoaDsnirs were of opinion that under the provi sions of the articles of awociatioo of the Hamburg Bank that company entitled to an en ni table charze on Lewis's shares for tbe oners one by him. aol that that rant transferred to tha L2101L. parable to Iswia nnder the agree rent. The must therefore be paid to the liquidator or tae Hamburg K.

VICE CHANCELLORS COURTS, Mat 8. Before Tict CkanccUor Sir axes Bacox) re mx rxisoxs cHxamrs. This waa an adjourned summons relating to a numerous class of charities, the objects of which have been put an end to by the abolition of imprisonment for debt. Tbe charities noW with are 86 in number, all for the benefit of poor persons confined for debt in. the prisons ia or near In nearly all the case the.

trustees are either one of the City Companies or the minister sad churchwardens of ooe ot the London parishes. A Bill waa brooght into Parliament last Session by.tbe Corporation of London to apply: all the funds to industrial schools, but the mil was thrown out. Mr. Jtssiu O.O. and Mr.

VaCOHAX Hawxixs now sDDlied ou behalf of the Attorney General that inauirr should be made into the funds of the various eharitiee, aod what would be the proper scheme or themes for the application of the trust funds cjrprvs thejr original purpoeea. The trustees of some o( the lands asked that the pro perty they held might be exempted from tha inquiries. Mr. uooksox appeared oa oeoait oi me fierce ant lartorr Company, who poueas consolidated charities for redeeming debtors on small debts, fees or relieving such as be very tick in prison, which produce aa income of 8001. Hesaia they had.

lounaed a noapitai for eonvaJeeceata at Bornor. which was in need of funds. Thev intended toaeelv their fuodato the hospital, bat pending these inqairie they could not get tbe consent of the Charity CorBmisaidnrrs. ilr. lxcr, for the pariah of Uhnst Church, said thev bold funds left for the benefit of the parish and other objects, whieh were not exhausted.

Mr. Rom sa. for Christ's Hospital, said certain fnads thus held ought to be applied to a scheme of their own, and1 Mr. U. rouTirxx.

for the Unpen' Company, said the company had schools at the East end of London, anil were taking steps to get ue funis ot An' obsolete charity, of which iher. wm trustees, anplied to the snooort of schools. The Vice Chaxcxllor directed the inquiries asked for. The trustees of chanties who had schemes of their own, if they were proper, woald get them best carried oat under the Court of Chancery and br means of the proposed in quiries. If the object of any trust were still subsisting that could be snown on tne inquiries, ana no schemes would be sanctioned to override a 'subsisting trust.

(Before Vtee dumetllor Wicxiars.) STAXfORD T. This ia a ease relating to an estate of between 300 aod 400 acres of building land near Brighton. By the terms of the ill. which is being al ministered in tbe suit, the tenant for life, a married lady, hail the power of granting the ttaoal leases for building purposes tor term not exceeding 99 yean but fmm the evidence it appeared that in the neighbourhood of Brighton a clause waa generally, if not universally, inserted ia such leases giving the lessees theootioa of purchase. A power of sale was rested in trustees by the ill.

but it was found that builden objected to take leases under the sepante powers, on the ground of the additional trouble and expense which was. caused by their being vested in diffennt persons. An application bad been made to Vice ChaneeUor Stuart to authorize the tenant for life to exercise both tbe powers, and upon bis suggestion a Bill ia Parliament was being prepared by the booveranoer to the Court, to effect the object. Mr. Greene, Q.C., and Mr.

Cecil Russell appeared forthe trustees; Mr. Dickinson, Q.C., and Mr. Waller for the tenant for life. The YlCX CHAXCgtXOlt ileclined to interfere with tbe Bill as settled by the cnreraneinr counel to the Court. and directed that the eUoaj to bo applied should vest oint powers of leasing and sale io the tenant for life alone.

COURT OF QUEEH'S BR.VCH. TTraTMiTTrxa, it Bnco, btfort fie Lord Cnisr Justice, Mr. wuctiJLACKBCRV, ant ilr. Jut'ice HELLO a. I WOOD v.

WOOD. This waa an action for breach of promise of marriare: The were coasina the defendant was a market gardener and waa married, and the plaintiff, a young woman, some seveo yean ago entered into his servioe. His wife was inOrm, and acconltug to the evideoco be seduced the plaintiff while she was in bis service, undrr a promise to marry her when his wife should die. The result waa that ia 1863 she had a child (whom, however, ae he. said, he had supported), and she continued in his service, and the iatereonrso continued.

The wife having died, however, the defendant married another woman. Tha ease was tried before Mr. Justice Blackburn, who avowed that he had taken a strong 7iew agsinit the claim, considering that the plaintiff was not aa object of sympathy. The jury, however, took a different view, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff for 200. This was an application for a new trial, ou tbe ground that the damage were excessive, the a learned Judge declaring that they grossly ea r3 Mr.

Dighy Seymour; Q.C., was for the plaintiff Mr. Kenealey, Q.C, waa for, the defendant. The COURT thought "the exeetsive, sad ordered that the amount should" be reduced to 100., tbe defendant paying the costs, or, if this waa not con tented to. then there must be a trial on payment of coats by the defendant. DOTTO V.

MARSH AXD OTHERS. This case nised a novel and important point of raerean me taw. it waa an action against tne enairraan and sereral of tbe dirscton of a joint stock' Company on a note for vr um, uescriDing tnem aa tree tors a art eeaiert wttn tne corporate seal, but not signed by them ia terms aadirtcton on behalf of the company." The question, was whether they were personally liable. The ease was argued before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justioe Mellor.

an.l Mr. Justice Hansen, and thsy took time to consider taair inugment. The Lord. CntET Justice now delirer! lodgment for tae ptuniia to tae eaect inai tne nerendants were personally liable. The eases, he said, had established that where the parties described themselres as director! bus did not state tnat it was on account ot the company, thev wen per sonslly liable.

The question was whether tbe fact that the corporals aeai waa put to the instrument made a difference. He and his learned brothers thourbt that it did ant. It had been urged that thia amounted to a statement that the note was signed on behalf of the company, but the Court thought t.hat it was not so consequently the, parties were personally liable, aad, there must be Judgment ior iuc piainuu. BAIL COURT, Mat 8. (SUtiugt in Banco, before Mr.

Justice BLACKRUR5.) RtO. T. SHtmXEWORTH. Mr. Q.C, showed cause agaioat a rule calling on Mr.

Shuttleworth to Ux the coata of the prose i. i i Guwn, inuKci va oanarnpicy, incurred in tae prosecution under the Bankruptcy Act, instituted by onler of the County Court Judge, Mr. Serjeant Wheeler, or a person named Cherry. The only ground alleged in opposition to toe ruie waa. tnat loera naitneenan arrangement of tome ten years' standing between the Treasury and the Corpora uoa ot unrpsn taat ati prosecuiiont anouia no conducted by tbe Corporation through tbe Town Clerk, snd that the proseeuton might have prosecuted through the Town uierciostesa ot through His own attorney.

Mr. Herachell appeared to support the rule. If TV. '1 ill ju.niuiKsouHui.Bj saia tais arDitrary arrange an uiwn, we rue wvuia oe aoeointe. COURT Ot COMMOK PLEAS, Wxstxi5stxs.

Mat 8. SUtinjt s'a Bsaco, Outer Term, Ufvrt Lord Chief Juttux ouuu. am waca uiu, OMITII, tana. BRETT.) UOKWOOD V. BORWOOD, OARXISnXX.

In this case, which was an action ia tha Lord Court, Mr. llARRIsox' raored for a prohih'itian. Mnrl. iv. girniabee, was trustee nnder a marriage settlement and was an engineer in Clerkenwell.

livinr out of the Citr T. don. He had been invited by one of tbe plaintiffs. m. tuique trust, to call at Palmenton baildings, in the dtr.

when be had so place of business an) hA served with an attAchmeat in canae to attach eertaia trust moneys in the Bank. The officers in tK rii. MA choose to be bouad by the decixioa in the House of Lords Cox v. the Mayer aad Corporation of Loadoa." It was, therefore, necessary to saore for a prohibition to prohibit them from farther proceeding ia the matter. He, therefore, moved for the writ with coats.

Knisnw granted. Mr. Harroox thaa movad foe thrM m. blbition on the part af the aaae garnishee, three other as tachsisnts.hayiag been ssrvtd at tbVsatoetime oa the part of other etttnint tratX Ralaa n.iti rraated. oeotor am baakrnne BaakrGMer COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Mat (SUmgt us Banco, before tie Lord Chiit Baro? and Baron Martu, 'Bramwelx, and Cleasbt.) JOBRSO.t V.

ZXXRSOy AJfD SPARROW. This was an action by a farmer and per at Norwich rtiait tbe defeadastr, solicitors of that city, for falsely and maliciously, and without reaaoosble and probable cause, eatuiar him" to be adjudicated a bankrupt. Tbe plaintiff for some time had beaked with Messrs. Har rey and and had borrowed moneys of them oa eertaia securities of the sum borrowed the plaintiff had repaii greater part, aad the bank cpspliind that he had ever drawn his banking aecoust to the extent of 14s. 10d, Sir Bobert Harvey employed the defendants te get the aatter settled, and wished the tiff to admit that hf was Indebted upon his account in the sum 'mentioned, vhich be declined to do, whereupoa'Sir Rotert insisted that the defendants should proced in bankreptry against the plain.

wey serrea upon aim irtas mons. The plaintiff, waa adjudicated' aad he appealed to the Chief JiiJre in to annul the proceedings bat thsy were confinntd bv him. Sir Robert Harrey attended very mue)i the case, attended tbe rueetinz. and almost regulate 1 tfc, proceedings of the defendants from, the beginning Wits' end of them. Erentuaily tbe plaistiff was soil up, the plaintiff declaring that be was worth over and'shori all the debts ha owed The plaintiff ultimately app from the decision of the Chief Judge to the Lord Chancellor, when the plaintiffs bankruptcy wis annulled with costs, and.

be immediately saed the defendants for makiag him a bankrupt without reasonable and rotable caase. At tbeelosoof the plaiotiff'a case Mr. Huddleston, submitted that there waa no caso to go to the j'nry. Sir Robert Harvey hal sworn that the debt. wm due He Sparrow had sworn that reasonable efforts had been nud to get payment of it.

The County Court Registrar at! Kor wicb had decided that the debt was due, and fixed a tint tor the payment of it. Payment pot being made Us learned County Court Jodie ba.1, upon petition, adjudv cated the.pisiatiff a bankrupt, and all Mr. Sparrew bad dooe waa to make. an affidavit in complLance with tbe star tnU that reasonable efforts bad been made for the paysKsl of the debt. The Lord Chief Bsrcn.

before whom tha cause wis tried, saLt that if the case kail rested there tbe defendant might hare contended that they had nasonable and pro. bahle caue for applying, for the order but the dividing line wa created by a letter written by the. cVendaxUta tbe plaintia's solicitor, in which it was stated that Ue B. cistrar oa principle declined to accept an attorney as screty. The case was peculiar in itself, and full of perplexities aad difficulties.

He wouhT not stop the case, but held then wae a want of reasonable and. probable cahse. Mr. Sparrow stated that h. was a perfect, siriExrrW the plaintiff, and bad acted ooeaaiooally aa solicitoriqrSir Robert Harvey, and upon the present oceasioa bad acted for him and nnder hu express Sir Robert attended before tbe Registrar aad dealt with tbe question of security himself.

Sir Robert waa determined to have aa admisetoa of tbe debt from the plaintiff, and objected to any arraagraMat of any sort or kind unless baeed upon the admission. The latter in whieh it was stated, "we find that the Botnr, on principle, will not accept aa attorney aVsurety," was written in eoniequeaceof a conversation with a Mr. Bshart, the assistant registrar of tho County Court. Mr. Sparrew said be knew at tho time it contrary to the ctiet of the courts to accept aq attorney as security upon as order to bold to bail.

Mr. Sparrow said he bad acted simply aad solely from the instructions he hadreeire4 from Sir Robert, and had no motive ot hia own ia the nutter. Both Mr Sparrow and Mr. Eraenon said that tat plaintiff bad admitted ha had been badly advised is the matter aad begtedof tbem to interest themselves with Sir Robert Harvey on hia According to the erideaee. Sir Robert was a very peremptory person, accustomed to having his own way.

and waa detennioed that bis wishes should be fulir carried out. The order of the Registrar wss to hold to bail, and the plus tiffs senator wm named as one of tM sureae aad it waa said that this order virtually acted as a star of the Dro eeedings, which the defendants ought to hare recogBtxoa; but the defendants it was urged by Jlr. Serjeant rarrr. for the plaintiff were determined at all haxards to try snl get from tbe plaintiff tbe admission that the debt waa doe. They were carrying out the inatrnctioaa of a very arbtta'ry client, aod had acted wit a great nannaess ue plaintiff, who was a perfectly solvent man, aad worths considerable suni over and above all the debts be owed.

As ae ainst sfr. Emerson, his Lordahro ruled there was no evidence, and he waa 'dismissed front the rooonl. His Lordship left it to tbe jary to say first, did the dtfendaat act, in instituting and carrying out tbe proceedings ia Bask ruptey, apart from the instructions of his client, sad tf his own aooord aeoondly, waa the defendant actuated by nulioe that ia.aa ei plained, bvsny vadaeer ira proper saotivr. or in order to please his client to coerce the'rlaia tiff into the acknowledgment of a doubtful debt, and which be denied to be true thinllx did he know, or belle that the proceedings in Bankruptcy were stopped until, th gistrar should make an appointment for the exarainati of the snretiee and the. examination of the bond! All the questions wen answered affirmatively, aad the jury awaroet to tae plain tin iuur.

aamages, rer costs, ices of stock, aad Ions of trade. Hr. im Jdieston. U.U.. moved for and obtained a rule for a new trial, on the ground that then was reasonable and probable cause for the pmceedtnj.

that the verdiet was against the evidence npou the facts havinj nferrnce tj the -presence or absence of rewoaablc aod probable cause, sod also on the question of malice. It waa also urged thers wis no evidence whatever of malice. Mr. Serjeant Parry. Mr.

Henry Q.O. tti Mr. Tappinc showed caase arainat the rule Mr. Hoddlestba. Mr.

field, Q.C, and Mr. Menwether supported it. The argumepU ocmpieil two days, and, at the coo etuis of them, the Court took time to consider jod ment. The Lord Cnixr BaroS statnl Io tbe middle of tha day that, for the convenience of the Bar aod the pnbLe. he would say that the state of.

business In tae eonrt was suea ar to nnder it necessary to pursue the same crane ia Trinity Term next aa had been punned during tbe pretvht' Term; and the Court wouldsccordin'gly'rit in twodiviiioBS on every practicable day to dispose of the New Trial and Special Taper. Counsel would, therefore, be good enough to prepare tnemveiyes to argue me cases wniea stocn in both papers. This coarse might, be somewhat iacooveoieat to them, and he retrrttteti that inconvenience': it was certainly laborious to the Judges, but the public ialefrtf required that tbe arrears of should be as far as potMMe ciearea on. THE TjcnBOttxr Cask. To morrow the esse of "Tiehborae v.

wiQ come oa before Lord Chief Justice Borill and a special jnry at YVestmiaster. under an order by which it can be contisned until Trinity Term on tbe and afterwards during the Term. The commissions under which evidence baa been taken are heavy, and about witnesses are ex pected to be in attendance. The case will be opene 1 by Mr. Serjeant Ball Una for the claimant on the other side the Solicitcr Gener, Mr.

Haw kins, QJX. Sir G. Hoovmaa. Q.C. Mr.

Chapman Barber, hi the Cbanry bar), aad Mr. Bowen will appear. The question at title will be niseil in the action of ejectment, as directed by Tice Casncenor Stuart. ueteorologicaL reports: Su.sD.tr, Mat 7, 8 a.k. Btatians.

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