The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1859, Page 2

2 NEW YOR MORALS OF THE BRITISH AND FRENCH ARISTOCRACY , The Bell Divorce Case in England and the Lemoine Infanticide in France— ne Gase of the Marquis of Angicscy aad Mrs. Bell—The Peer Seduces tho Wife of a Commoner and is Cast in ‘Ten Thousand Poands Damage: THE BELL DIVORCE CaSE IN ENGLAND. Tho following case was heard in the Divoreo Court, London, on the 5. of December :— Bell vs Bel and the Marquis of Anglesey —Mr. M. Chambers, QC.; Dr. Deane, @.C., and dir, Cloasby ap- poared for the petitioner ; Sérgeaut Pigoit for the respon- dent, and Mr. Losey, the co Mr. M. Chambers, James Morton Bell,’ sai wi pendent, Jamies, Q.C., for the Marquis of Aug- 1n opentog the caso on bohalf of Mr. that geutleman was suing for a ‘issolntion of his marriage, in consequence of the alultery: of bis wife with the Marquis of Anglesey: the case would be tov clear to asim of te ¥ ossipilay o. regpond:pt, Mrs. Bell, oud ree Ph ‘denied the fact of the adultery, aud, there- fore, it Would oniy be q Statement of the circumstances of the cage. In the , he would explain how it was that tho poti- vr found it necessary to sue for damages ugainst the Marquis of Avgicsey. Thore were certain settle- ments wade ou the marriage of the parties, and be doubted whether, thero having been no children, the Court hud power to deal with those eettiements, uuder which Mrs. Bell would continue to enjoy the interest of ‘Tho facts of possibility of cossary t0 onwor into & very short necessary aot £5,000 vettied upon her by her busband’s father, and it | ‘was simply ior the purpose of relieving Mr. Bolland vis | father from their pe aolution of the mari sae Rs CAMARCS. ye that the jury would bo asked to cuniary liability in the event of a dis- | Mr. James Morton Bell was a merchant | Living in Weetbourne terrace, Hyde Park, and on the 10th | of July, 1851, be mar Gaughter of a Stock broker living in Susvex square, Park. Mr Bell was at the time twenty-five years of age, and his wite twenty one. dling Jane Eien Burwand, the | le ‘Attor their marriage they went | to Paris, and subsequently associated much with the | family of Mrs. Beli, hor father, who was a person of | considerable wealth, baving a house at Worthing which they often went to. In 1854, while Mr. and Bre. Bell were at Worthing, they were introduced ‘by Me. Burnand to the Marquis of Anglesey, who was playing there with his children; and ou their return to town he contin wed bis tutimacy , and occasionally brought bis children to visit them. Ho subsequently invited the Bornaud family, aud also Mr. and Mrs. Bell, down to Beaudesert; avd there was nothing whatever to raise the Glighiest suspicion in Mr. Bell’s mind of any impropriety ‘existing in the intimacy between his wife and the Marquis until October, 868, when she suddenly left Worthing during his absence ip town, and went to a hotel in Brook treet, where the Marquis of Anglesey visited her, The petitioner could notallege avy impropriety or act of adul- tery committed there, but they afterwards went to the Caiverly Hotel, at Tuub-idge-Wells, where Mrs, Beil re- presented herseit to be Lady Burton, aud where the Mar- quis of Apgiesey occupied a bedroom close a ‘joiuing hers, They were subsequently traced to lodgwgs in Halfmoon Street, Piccadilly. They represented themselves to have Deen just married, and they lived there a considerable time a8 man and wite, and bad siace been cobabiting to: gether at other piaces ‘The following evidence was then taken in support of the uoner’s case:— ~~ Isaac Sewell, solicitor, produced the deeds founded on the marrisge settlements, under which £10,000 was settled upon Mrs. Beil; on cross examination he said he bad seen Mr. and Mrs. Bell several times at their own house after their marriage; it was nota very happy or ‘well-assorted marriage; Mrs. Beli was a lady of cousider- able personal attractions. Benjamin Wicks deposed that he was batler to Mr. Bell from 1852 to December, 1858; while he was there his master and mistress occasionally went down to visit the Burnands, at Worthing; Mr. and Mrs. Bell then lived in Gloucester terrace, Hyde Park; remember the Marquis of Anglesey becoming a visiter at their Louse towards the eni of 1854; he generally came accompanied by Lord Berkeley and Lady Flora Paget, lus children; at that time an intimacy existed between bim and the Burnands as ‘well ag the Bells; wituess generally went with the family to Worthing in Septeinber or October; The Marquis of An- lesey visited them there; Mr. Beli was a kind husband Towaras bis wife. Cross-examined by Sergeant Pigott—Mr. and Mrs. Bell had differences at times, but they never bad public quar- rel; they usually differed about their having too much company; Mr. Bell eometimes complained on the subject, Dut not frequently. Sarah Densley, lady's maid to Mra. Bell, deposed that Bhe went into that lady’s service in 1856; she was in the service in October, 1858; remembered Mrs. Bell leaving ‘Worthing on the 23d of October, 1868; she had been stop- ping at her father’s house; it was not known that she was | (£160); we shail want a purse, a servant maid going to leave; shortly afterwards ehe heard from her | mistress,and in consequence went up to London, and ined Mrs. Beil at Sill:man’s Hotel, in Brook street; the | jarquis of Anglesey used to come there every day; when ‘they loft Silliman’s they went to Tunbridge Wells, and put up at the Calverly Hotel; Lord Angiesey went from Lon- don with them; rs. Bell'adopted the name of Lady Bur. ton; they bad three bedrooms and a sitting room; Mra. Beil's bedroom was nearly opposite the sitting room, and ‘Lord Anglesey’s bedroom was on tho other side of the passage; they remained at the Calverly only afew days, nd then went to No. 90 Half Moon street; Lord Anglosoy. came up with Mrs, Bell, and anied her to Halt ‘Moon strect, where they’both occupied one bedroom, and where Mrs. Bell ‘as Lad ey; she had often orate a eee Lg Aneesh ee avothor with Mrs. Bell, named he afterwards a ‘Moon street; Mrs. Betts subsequently went to the Castle Hotel, Richmond; Lord Anglesey did not go ‘with the lady, but he followed her there; they ocoupied different bedrooms. ‘Ann Tucker, chambermaid at the Calverly Hotel, re- membered the Marquis of Anglesey and two ladies coming there last year. She confirmed the statement of the last ‘witness. Mary Turner, a servant at the lodgings in Halfmoon street, deposed that Mrs. Bell and the Marquis slept there together on several occasions. Mr. Edwin James said he thought it was only due to the petitioner to admit that he believed he was actuated by high and benorabic motives in the course he had adopt- ed. The petitioner did not desire to take damages from tho Marquis of Anglesey in order to put them in his own pocket. There could be no doubt that the intimacy be- tween the respondent and co respondent had unhappily ended in adultery, and it was at Jeast but fair and just, on the diegolution of this marriage, that Mr. Beil should be put in the same position as he was in when he settled £5,000 on his wile. The Marquis of Anglesey had placed his plea on the record in order that this question of da- mages might be properly investigated by the jary. He ‘was a widower atthe time he became acquainted with this lady, and it had been shown by the evidence that her marriage Was rather an ili assorted than « \gppy one. It ‘would not be necessary, wader the circum®tances, to oc cupy any more of their time, and he trusted the jury would give such damages as they thought ought 0 be awarded. Sir C. Cresswell summed up. This was a very simple case for the decision of the jury. The statement in the petition was arly borne out by’ the evidence. The only question remainiag jor consideration was the amount of damages to be given in the caso against the Marquis of Angiesey. Mr. M. Chambors begged to observe that ia Dr. Lard- de had a settleme if £8,008 on ‘Would not withdraw the from their consideration. concurred in settling certain money use during her life, and she would stul enjoy were separated. ‘The jury must consider which the partics d before the conduct in the pre the state in of the adul- terer intervened to destroy the happiness of the bus- | Dand; also, the circumstances under which tae co- respondent was introduced; and further, tuey must consider the means he’ might have’ for paying damages. There was not much evidence as to the married life of these partics. No person had deen called who only witness was the, marriage. The butle ind to his wife, but so intimate with them. Tne vitor, Who said it was not a hap- id the husband was always Limes complained of her having 80 much company. It vid not appear there hal been any negligence on the part of Mr. Bell, or that he ha lexposed his wife to temptations, aud therefore there was nothing to complain of a8 against him for want of due care of his wife’s honor. No instances were given of any | Reighborbo-d and among ‘is a da instincts. From ber childhood Angelina Lemoine used to hice, che Derseif tels us, to read bevels. Later she used io rea) them without concealment; one of those which she preterred was the “Confessions of Marion Delorme.”” To fonts an opinion of this Work 1418 not necessary to be ac> Qquawted with 1; the tie alone is sufticient to form an pinion of the work and of ® young girl who admits that jp bts in it combat 6 joclinati-ns bow much car t supervision would have been necessai Angelina Denefit of neither, although her mother appeared to devote Ler whole iife, a8, not to bo keparated from hor, not to enteust her te strangers, Muine, Lemoine had her daughter privately cated by @ governess, But it secm that Ler object was merely to emulate, out of price or a farhion set by the wealthiest or most devoted of mothers, She attended but irregularly while ber Gaugiter was taking her lessons; left hoe frequsntly aiono at home, whilst she Went about the town, or even whilst she made short excursions in the environs. At the samo time ibe young gir! took the habit of going out alove in We streci8, to haunt the workshops of the artisans ia the neighborhood, and mauige while there in expressions of the niet shocking impropriety, and of going down to the cellar with the servants, and to give horself up to mis: placed familiarity. Arrived very leg @ at the age of womanhood, Abgetpa became, whilst still a child in years, re- markeble for the freshnees and beauty of her fea- tures. ‘The dazzling character of her attractlous, coupled with the forwardness of her demeanor, attracted the attention of meu. Ono day, during tbe proceetion, standing alone in her balcony, two young men having .stared“at her, sho was observed to smile to tbem, ano ber attitude was sucn that one of the young men took the liberty of whistling to her, and beckoning ber to come down stairs to him. She had not the mo- desty to retire. Under these circumstances, Angelina having reached her 15th year, she was beard lo state on several ovca- sions that henceforth she was (apd adecrgt thas giving it out that ehe intended av: herself of that liberty. Nevertheless, it would bo difficult to imagine upon whom she her ment @ man servant, how much Her mother bad in her em name Jean Fetis, whe, bases past life as a wholo, appesrs to bave been a man of average morality, without Dy very salient qualities or defects, thoroughly illiterate, 4, according to the evidence that will be laid before the Court, remarkable only for his ugliness. This is the man whom Mile. Lemoine was about to choose for her lover, —_ De ultimate view, It appears, of making him her husband. How was this extraordinary intercourse brought about? In that reapect mistress and servant are not agreed. But, if it be kept in mind that no evidence is produced of Fetis having beep a libertine, that great analogy exists between statement be wate at the bd ‘to his Lage Ad ul and that Angoliva shows very little repelling the accueatien of baving nde the first sovance, one feels inclined to think that euch was the fact. However that may be, according to Fetis her advances commenced by playing and joking with him, even in the nee of her mother, who laughed very imprudently at what she considered a3 cbildiebuers She then proceeded to kiss him secretly, and thence to demonstrations so frightfully indecent that wo cannot think of relating them. At last, on the night of the Ist of October, knowing that her mother was to start for Tours or the following morning, and leave her alone in the house, she met Fetis by appointment in her own room. Fets asserts that not only she kyew the natura! conse- quenccs of her conduct, but that she wished them to ensue. In aword, they both ngreed to marry, and, foresecing the opposition ot the girl’s family, hoped to’ overcome it by ® pregnancy, shame of which a mar- rixge could only ’ wipe off. Fetis relates even her very words. Thus, alluding to the kind of mésailionce the mother bad contracted, Angelina said, ‘+I am rich enough for two; my er my father’s happinees, I will make yours.” Thus again, her mother having lightly apoken in her presence of a young girl in love with ber music master, who had given herseif up to bir to compei her relatives to consent to their marriage, she added, “My mother did not suspect her daughter was in precigely the same position.”” After this it will eurprise no one that Mie. Angelina Lo- moine should bave become pregnant. But what will sur- prise every one is the extent to which Mme. Lemoine car- ried her blindness and carelessness. It will be easily understood trom the fact that at that very time a respect- able ecclesiastic having warned her of the reports which then began to circulate touching the clandestine amour of her dapghter, she not only treated it as an unfounded calumpy, but’ was go unmindful of ber duties as not to detect the shamelegs intercourse during the three months foliowing, and kept ber servant. ‘This man, encouraged by so much forbearance, began to Jose any doubt he might have bad as to the realizatloy of his wishes, or his calculations, if tbat word be preferable. In the friends and associates, he openly stated thaton sucl y he would ask Angelina’s mother for her igbter’s hand. He traced beforehand his plans for hougekeeping. Madame Lemoine, he said, must give us an income of 4,000f. a year, at the very least and an®* estabiebment. And as some told bim that he ought to tall Madame Lemoine in time to prevent her buying ball dreas- es for her daughter, “Bab!’’ he exclaimed, “these dresses will be usetul to us Whon we go into company after our marriage.” However, the day was close at hand which was to dis- pel the blind incredulity of the mother, and if not the projects, at least the boas:ingsof tho servant. On the 29th of January, 1859, Fetis was at a country house in the elghborbood of Chinon, busy in arranging bottles in a ceilar, under the supervision of bis mistress. Suddenly. “Madame,” be eaid, “Iask your daughter in marriage. Madame Lemoine at firet tock these words as a joke. | But Fetis having acquainted her with the terrible reality, his mistrces growing pale as she heard him, merely replied by oe him to put the horses to the carriage. “On the following morning she sum- moned him to her room, paid bim his wages, and, without any explanation, made him leave the ‘house instantly, ther with her cook, ise Doelacote, atbough thin gir! had nothing to do ‘with the amours of Fetis, with whom she wason bad terms. Before this climax Angelina had appeared at a window looking on to the garden, and, seeing her lover below, “I havo to tell you (ebe said) that this very morning you will be turned out, with Louise.” “ Your mother, (retorted Fotis), won't allow me to marry you.” ‘No, mamma tells me she can make it pass.’” e sense of these last words is ‘but too plain. They can be looked upon as the first scene in the fearful drama which, six months later, to a day, ‘was to be cnacted on the same spot. ‘The dismiseal of the cook had the same meaning. Sup- posing her, apd not witbout cause, to be acquainted with the facts, and especially with the situation of her daughter, Madame Lemoine wished to remove a witness fwhose presence might be fatal to the success of her designs. er plap, which her daughter soon adopted unrestrictedly, may be briefly summed up. To dispel the suspicions afloat, and mect the inuendoes and reports current by a | bold and unconscious attitude, and to procure at any cost nd the jury retarned a verdict for £3,000, ou the | ground that it would be hard upon the petitioner to lose that sum. Sir C. Cresswell ssid that after such a precedent he ent instance | where th the disappearance of the child of which Angelina was about to become the mother. If one admits that this was the plan of Madame Lemoine, it cannot be doubted that she carried it into execution with the most unflinching energy. Enlightened witnesses, who have known her intimately enough to be able to appreciate her character, represent ber as remarkable for her unbending pride, ber invinci- bie obstinacy, and her impatience of contra/liction and ad- vice. To such an extent was this the case, that one of these witnesses, who bad already warned’ M. Lemoine, the separated husband, of the rumors ia circulation at Chinon, added, “Take care, your wife Ims probably al- ready made up her mind ag to what sbe willdo, and if you do not mterfere, will carry it out to the last.” “What, then,” replied the husband, “do you believe my wife ca pable of a crime?’ To which the witness replied, “You know her better than I do.”” These fatal preseotim nts were necessarily realized. Mmme. Lemoine began to take ber daughter out to balis, jatter underwent an amount of exercise quite inconsistent with her state of pregnancy. Later, she made her take baths as hot as she could bear them, made | her ride on donkeys, and take long walks. At a still Iator | period, come peasants at work in a field saw her in the | distance leading her daughter togthe foot of a steep hil- Tamiliarities having passed between Mrs. Bell and tne | Marquis of Anglesey until after she suddeuly withdrew from Worthing and mot the Marquis, and went with him to the Caiverly Hotel, at Tanbridgo Weils, and afterwards to lodgings, where she assumed his name, and they lived together as man and wife. If the Marquis of Anglesey had used the prestige given by bis high rank and posses- sions to destroy the happiness of the husband, no doubt it was a very serious mater, and ought to be taken into consideration when the amount of damages was deter. mined upon. The wy found that adultery had been committed be- tween Mra. Bell and the Marquis of Anglescy, and award. ed £10,000 damages ‘Upon the motion of Mr. M. Chambe woanced for the divorce, with costs. , the Court pro- THE LEMOINE INFANTICIDE CASE IN FRANUE. REMARKABLE CASE OF SEDUCTION OF A SERVANT BY ‘A YOUNG LADY—BIRTH OF AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD AND BURNING OF ITS BODY BY ITS GRANDMOTHER, A very remarbable trial began at Orleans, France, on the 9th of December. Mme. Lemoine, a lady of fortune, residing at Chinon, ‘near tad _ tees, with ond Pet on the charge urn! the timate offspri Sader ofroumotantieg blah, Gantt s frightful amount Mme. Lemoine moved in the ed kept and occupied a prominent ion in s0- Giety. The father of the child seems to have been a ser- vant in Mme. Lemoine’s employment. ‘At ten o'clock the prisoners were brought into court. ‘Mime. Lemoine is 43 years of age, and is deseribed as still depravity. her very handsome, sp Het daoghler, Mlle, Angelina, is described as surpass. her the usual ellminaries, the greffier read the acte @accmation, which is as follows:— THE INDICTMENT. ‘There existed at Chinou, at the commencement of this ‘Century, a family of the name of Mingot, who moved in the best position. One of its members had a seat in the Assembly of that time; another was a Judge at tribunal of Chinou. But that sort of lustre was not ealculated to last. In 1835 Victoire Mingot, one of the rare, Contracted ‘& marriage, which caused some sur- = country. Wealthy and with good expecta- she united hereelf with a youth named Lemoine, of et Dirth vo = fortune. 2 not prove happy, internal discord ren- Gored life in common unendurable, and in 1851 Madame Ny at law for a separation de oP (6 ee er In consequence of that separa. Gon, M. Lemoine left Chinou, leaving his wife sole mana- ‘Of a considerable fortune, and of the education of two Tt would have been, it must be admitted, a to get through Boa? for any one, for one of bad come inio the world deo oulares with’ deplorable of the latter, ° of | ukno} | a barrel | twice repeated. lock. The daughter climbed to the top, then rolled herself down the steep incline like This too significant performance was The tavghter Angelina has partly con- fessea it. She adds that on one cccasion her mother wanted her to roll down a staircase, and only desisted her on saying, “But, mother, you don’t want to kill me ?”? However, the vigorous constitution ot Angelina set all these criminal attempts at deflance. It soon became cvi- dent that the accouchement would take place at maturity, and under the usual conditions. This new situation ne- cessitated another remedy, er more correctly, another crime, Madame Lemoine and her daughter did not shrink rrom it. At the beginning of August rumors began to circulate that Angelina had been delivered. Sbe had been seen vearily dragging herself along in company with her mo- towards the public promenade, on the night of the 2st of Jnly. She wore a “pamela’? hat, fringed with lace, that fell over her face, the shawl which for some time past had conceuled her figure was replaced by a sill mantelet. Notwithstanding all these precantions her yalenese and debility had been remarked. Soon the Pro- cureur Imperial was informed, But pregnancy and scandal were now out of the ques- tion. The word of infanticide was on every lip. ‘The dvty of justice then commenced. Madame Lemoine was summoned to the Procureur 1m- periai’s Office. She protested against the calumny which was uttered against her daughter, She was asked why, 88 that calurony affected her so much, she had never ap- Plied to justice to have the elanders discovered. It was ‘Added that what she bad solong delayed now became ab- golntely necessary; unless she admitted herself to be guilty she was bound to prosecutefthe slanderers. Sho taade up ber mind with great difficulty to sign a double complaint for defamation againet Fetis and against the informer of the infanticide for caluranious de- Bunciation. According to the terms of the law this last complaint imperatively required a preliminary investiga- tion nsto the truth or falsehood of the facts alleged. Mademe Lemoine was informed that a medical min Would wait upon her, andjthat her daughter must submit to his inepection. She understood that all was over, and that the must change her tactics. When the doctor called upon her the confersed that ber daughter bad been de- livered, that her pregnancy was the result of a rape, that the child was suliboro, and that she had had it burnt. ‘The magistrats were immediately apprised of this confes- sion, and the two women were arrested and an investiga- tion ‘commenced. ‘This investigation led to the following disclosures:— Angelina was dokveres of a male child in the nighto the 20th of July. On the previous evening she had been seized with vomitings. It had been arranged that the family were to go into the country, but Madame Lemoine countermanded the orders, and also the visit of the music master. About cleven o'clock at night the violent pains came on. Mme. Lemoine put her daughter into a small cloeet, where a bed was usually kept, and where she was delivered of a finechild, which was born alive. After a pace of time, which cannot be exactly defined, but which could not have exceeded five minutes, this fine chid had ceased to exist, and at the end of afew hours it had dis- appeared; Mme. Lemoine had burnt it. Did ehe throw it into the fire alive? It does not appear that she can be charged with this barbarity, since Ange. lina hae declared that ahe saw the child deprived of move- ment long before her mather took it out of the utensil and threw it into the fire. An agreement had been long bo- fore come to between the mother and danghter, and which has been related by the lator, ax follows:—It was fre- quently talked over between us that if I had a miscarriage e embryo should be burnt, or if n child that it should be Served in the same manner. I only made one condition, that it should not be burnt alive.” Thus, therefore, \ bad deem decided that the unhappy fruit of de- and nied Hauchery should, under any efrourmetances, be co: by the flames; it'was destined to death, for, having once moved in the beeom of the mother, tt Was not lise y UW bave been stillbora. If argelioa bas wot core the truth, ber mother reserved to heree! thy kind | of Ceath, aud she kept it'secret, Angelina cdeolcres that tho knows nothing as to how her mother daprive! the chide of hfe, but (hicks it probable that ahe pat her baat en the child’s throat, apd stifled both its breathwg sod ite crice, It is watoral to ask oveself the questica wheather 4 Tina ts as sincere iu her account as she pretends to). Everything proves that Mme. Lemoine well employes! the means sbe resorted to, Sho know that silence was « 110- cessary condition of the success of her crime, anc se imposed on her daughter Lot withstanding the yislenco of the pains of cbiidoirth. For « strouger reason, aly #48 obiiged toimpose it onthe cbild. It Angelina ‘pi pot to be certain what kind of death was inflicted 1a, sho felt no doubt as to its being criminal. “1 kasw very well,” ebe said, “that my mother wouls kill te id, and’sho did g0."* It nothing more was aano to the © umbilical Cord untisd while i frightful sang froia. ‘THR TRIAL—KXAMINATION OF MADAMONSRLLE On the 10th of Decomber, when the indictment bad been read, the elder prizoner was removed, ant Mile Le- LRMOINE. moine was interrogated. After admitting that she had been a great novel reader and that eho adinired Marion Delorme, the President asked, “Did you not shortly alter ou attained the ago of fiftcen feel Interest in your ai0- her’s coachman, Fetis!’’ ‘Icommitted the imprudeuco,”” she enid, “of allowing him cortain ft ‘wnien I ought not to have doue.’”” ‘Was it pot you whe prac- tigea famiitarities wie el eas. oa agree way that it was you w! ‘im, win ocaed by allowing things to go farther?” “J admit that I did wrong in Permnting Bice certain: famiiiar and (hat is (After Souilieniiee coe “No, did you not prepose to Dut tn your prelimin: examiuation you ad- “I was @0 agitaicd that mitted that you did?” I knew not what I said.’ The President put several questions for the purpose of getting ber to aimit that she had promised the man marriage, but she per- sisted in denying that she had done so. When did your ni ‘with Fetis commencef’’ “At the end of saptom- ber.” “How happens it that that inti Brose, if there no question of marriage between you? “It came the familiarities Tallowed him totake.” “What were thoee familiarities?”’ The accused returned no answer. ««Where did your intimacy first take place?”? ‘Iu the collar! But I only yielded after a very long resistance.” ‘Do you pretend that violence was used?’ “I donot say that!”” ‘Why did younot mention what had taken placa?” ‘“Be- cause the man seemed repentant, and I feared that my mother would be very indiguant.”? ‘But thon, why did you continue your connectior “Because | was afraid of him!” “Fetis saysit began in your chamber?” ‘No; it was in the cellar!’ “He pretends that it was you who enticed him into your chamber?”’ *«No, sir!” “When did you Gnd out that you were enceinte?”? “in Decem. ber.’ “And why did you not tell your mothor?” B- cause I was afraid of scandal.” ‘“ not Fetis advise to your mother, and asi her tolet you marry told him that I would do neither—that he was ascoundrel. Then he said, ‘I will ruin you, and will force you to marry me.’ Afterwards he spoke to my mo- ther.” “You evidently fear to admit in public that you proy to marry the man. Be it so. What did your mother say after the demand of Fetis to marry you, when sbe learned the connection you had had with the man?’’ ‘She said that be must be discharged; but I did not approve of that, becasse I thought it was impru- dent.” “You spoke to him as he was about to leave?’ “] said, (My mother is about to send you away—sho will not hear of marriage.” “Then, after ail, there was a question of marriage between you?” “I never consented to such a step.” ‘You said to him, ‘My mother will get ria of the child?” “I never aid that!’ ‘After the departure of Fetis, what took place!” “I entertained doubts that I was really enceinte.” “ atthe end of April your mother had no doubt, and what project dia she form’? “ My mother felt certain that pothiwg would come off my situation. We, how- ever, discussed the question as to the means of getting rid of the consequences of my fault. My mother said that if I bad a miscarriage we might burn embryo. ‘But if in place of an embryo there be a child arrived at its full time?’ said I. ‘Do not be disquieted about that,’ said mamma, ‘there will always be means of causing it to dieappear.’”’ ‘ That meant that dead or alive the child was to be burned?” “What I understood was that my mother would send it away.” “That is what you say now—but you did not say so in your preliminary exami. nations?” ‘* What I said was misunderstood.” “ You did not ask your mother what she would do if your child was born alivef’’ “Ihad not the idea of questioning my mother, because I was persuaded she meant to fend the child away!’ “Your mother made you take violent exercise in order to produce a miscarriage?” “No, but because she thought that I was behind my time, and it was of my own accord that I roiled down the hill, and I did it in joke.” “Did not your mother propose to you to roll down astaircase?” “She said, laughing, ‘If you bad a good tumble down stairs, perhaps you would all right!’ ButI answered that by such a fall [ should perhaps kill myself,and she sald that she was only jost- tog.” “When your pains came on did not your mother e you to a dark, isolated chamber?” “Yes—and being persuaded that the child would be dead, she told me to make no noise. For if the child were dead, it was useless to let any one know, and so render herself liable to be suspected of a crime which she would not have com- mitted.” “Did you remark that the child to whom ou gave birth moved?’ ‘I thought for a moment that moved.”” “Did not your mother remark that he was a large child?’ “It was big, cortainly, but Jam not sure that it was born alive. It did not ” * tor Beta live, and dia bo dict” "He was ator, te voRE Ra da not say F your arrest that your mother had i aoe What T said was, that Se ah nde killed the child she could only have done so in that way.” the child’s mouth?” “Did yon not say that you knew your mother moant to Kill the child?” “No; knew that she meant to cause the child to disappear, but that is not the eame thing as kill- ing it.” The President then reat extracts from hor de- clarations after being arrested, for the purpose of chowing that they were not in accord with her present statements and that, therefore, she was not worthy of credit. She afterwards ngain energetically denied that she had ever thought of marrying Fetis; and in answer to a reference something ho had said she exclaimed, with disdain, uch @ man cannot be betieved!”” At this point the Interrogatory, during which the girl bad displayed remarkable energy, waa suspended; ulti- mately she was brought back, and tho President ‘said: “Tell us the manver in which the child was burned.” “I only know,” answered the prisoner, “what my mother told me, aud ehe told me very little; { do not know if she had prepared beforehand a fire in the grat, nor how she executed ber project. It was, I believe, in @ room by the eide of that in which I was confined that the burning took place. Firewood and faggots are always kept in a closot in that room.” “We bave reason to believe,” said the President, ‘ibat the preparations for burning ‘were mado the day before your conflnement; and if so, there must have been the premeditated desiga to burn the child, whether alive or deud” “I can give no explanations on that point.” “You appear to have always entertained a certain degree of fear of your mother. Why then did you ho! communicate your siiuation to your father, who loves you?” “My mother entertained the certainty that nothing ‘would come of my eituation, and she led me to share her conviction. 1 consequently had no need to confide in any one, my interest being to have my fault kept secret.”? EXAMINATION O¥ MADAME LMOINR. Mme. Lemoine was then interrogated, and she said:— I watched over my daughter ag it was my duty to do; I hever observed any fatniliarities between her and the fro conchman Fetis; Ishould not have tolerated them; when I, heard of the reports‘about my daughter, I laid @ complaint against some persons for calumniating hor; I never en- tered into an understanding with my daughter, when I learned ber situation, to represent that the coachman had done her violence; if my daughter, on her preliminary examination, gaid the contrary, ehe is mistaken; I first heard the reports in November, and I questioned my davgbter; she denied that thy were true, and as no alteration had taken place in er health,I believed her. “Tell us,” said the Pres. ont, “what your daughtor raid to you after the discharge of Fetis?? ‘Allow me, sir,hot to repeat those details; there are certain things which ought not to be required from a mother.”’ ‘But I recommend you to say what they were.” “It is very paintul to repeat them; my daughter only said a few worés, but they were terribie.” ‘Tell us what your davghter said, since what she revealed to you, if true, ‘was a crime on the partof one of your servants.’ “It was to gave my daughter's honor that I said nothing about the matter!’ The President again preseed the prisonor to say what the revelation was, and at last she, in great ‘tation, declared that her daughter had confessed that she had’ been subjeeted to violence by the coachman. She then, in answer to further questions, protested that when she became aware that her daughter was enccinte she might have thought of causing the consequences to dieappear in the event of a miscarriage; but, bursting into teara, she oxclaimed, “(I never thought of committing @ crime!’ She then denied that the violent exercise which she had caused the girl to take had been intended to produce a miscarriage; she aleo denied that she bad ro- commended her to roll down staircase, and said that the rolling down the hill was accidental. She went on to assert that the confinement of the girl had taken place un- expectedly in the middle of the night, and she sald that that fact explained why she had not called in a doctor. “But,” said the President, ‘“‘why not have sent aservant for doctor?” “The servants slept in anoth- er part of the house, and besides I was anxious to save the honor of my daughter.” “ What pre} did you make for her confinement?” “Excuse me—the details ‘Would be painful.” ‘T insist on your answering.” I did what every mother would have done, and amongst other things I put a bed in the room.”’ «+ And what hap- pened?’ “A dead child was born.” “And what did you do with it when you had condemned itin advance not to live?” “Ob, sir, what you now say deprives me of the courage of stating whai passed. & wo- man has the courage to throw into tho fire the child of her daughter, she ought to have the courage to state what she did.” ‘1 had the courage to do what was necessary to’gave the honor of my daughter.”” The prisoner sfter- wards, though with great repugoanco, gave the details of the birth, and then said that she was convinced that the child was dead, inasmuch as it did not move. “But often newly born children do not move, though alive,’’ said the ident. “Ab, that is scienco, and I om not learned. e iid had been lying mo- tionlees for some time before I put it inte the fire.” “Did you not say to your danghter that the child was alive and a very large one?’ ‘I did not say that it was alive, though I might have eaid that it was largo.” ‘Your daughter saye that the child moved—that she saw it moyo.”” She could not bave seen that, for Iam sure it did not.” “Why did you cast it into the fire?” «When 1 was certain that it was dead, I had the:honor of my daughter to protect, and Tdid not hesitate!” “How did you light the fire?” “There was already wood ih the rate.’ “Give us the details of the burning.” “T did 80 in my preliminary examination. and it is cruel to ask mo to repeat them.” ‘Did the operation last long?” “T cannot tell? “Afterwards you bad the courage to cast away tbe aghes of the burned child of your daughter!” “Yes, Thad the courage to do that; why should T not have ‘had the courage to carry to the end what I lad com menceds” “And the day after you compelled your davgbter to take a walk in the town!” ‘When a mother desires to eave the honor of her daughter, she dovs every thing except crime.’’ TESTIMONY OF THK COACIMAN FETIS ‘Witneeses were then called. ‘The first was Fetis, the coachman, aud ho created great curiosity It was in 1856, he paid, that I enterod the ker- K HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER. 30, 1859. vice of Mme, Lemoipe; «|. rly after, Mile. Augeliga bi gen romping with me shenever she fond ma rooms; I did not then thnk it possibe to marry ber 1868, when she was Micon, shor marked that she was ola (heugh to marry, aud Tsa. Jaietnoiselle, | cau Tecommend t you a pou husba What!” as) | “Myseli,’” I answered, und she observed, We ehall ge ‘The mau then Went ov to Gesoribe the Liberties whisk the @ rl had taken with bim, and how they had ended. Ho admitted that he had calculated that if she became enctente, be might, bot withetapding the difference ta thelr | positions, marry’ her, It wus in January last she | made known to him that she was encienle, and in | Meat mouth unfavorable reports began to’ be pro ied Nabors’ Nar, * Abe heard: "a thiowe reporis, Baid thet Bhe was pleased with them ratnor than otherwise, a8 they wouid facilitate a marriage, At fist, continued the man, it was agreed’ that she should wrk ber mother to show ber to marry me, but sho was afraid; so 1 undertook todo it. One day Ldrove Matamo to Ler Louee at Givray, and there, after carrying some Wine mito the cellar, T ead, “Madame, { havo something tosay to you.” “You, Jeant’” said she, lookig sur pried.” You. Welt, speak; what bave you got to sayy” “Madame, it is right to tell you that Mile. Ango- live, your daughter, io enceinte by me, aud that abe wishes to marry me '’ “What you ask, Jean,” said Madame, “te not possible. Harness the borses instantly, and lot us return to Chinon.” On our return] told Milo. Angelina that her mother would not hear of our marriage, and gaid, “Now Tbave done my part;do what you like.” “Whatafer wards pesca between you and Madame Lemoine?” asked the resident, ‘“Madumo paid me 100 francs, the amount due for wages, and said, “Go to your room, pack up your things and be off.” I answered, ‘Madame, 1 promised your daughter to marry her, and I enil never fail in my ‘word.”” man said this with such ponuoaiy es jpne laugbter arose through the court, but it was cl by the President, “Before leaving ibe house did you not speak to Argeliva?’” ‘Yes, to bid ber farewell, and she Bald to mo, ‘Voor Jean, the matter has not turned out as Reiter ‘but my mother says that she will get rid of tid? ‘THR VERDICT AND@ENTENOE OF THE GRANDMOTHER. The President then summed up the evidence, and the {7.248 night, retited w consider the verdict. In if uy bour it returned with a verdict of guilly against the mother, but with extenuating circumstances, and of equittal of the daughter. Court condomned the mother to twenty yoars’ hard labor. DRNOUNCER. A letter from Tours says:—Fetis, the coachman, has for some time been in a state of great distress, no one con- sent to give hima piace. His conduct is od with such disgust that the crowd assembled outgide tho court have hissed him more than once. It has been stated that the man took lessons on the violin, The to be paid for cach lesson was only twenty-five cents, but he did not pay even that, and yet after his discharge from the eervice of Mme. Lemoine, the music master wrote for him (for he can only sign bis name) several letters to the young lady, and even delivered them. The music master, one Sorneau by name, is somewhat ne, having a large red noso and a yellow complexion. It appears to be true that the reason why Lieubray, the tailor, atte suicide was that he felt remorse at ‘having written auony- movs letters to the law authorities denouncing Mme. Le- moine and her daughter. He appears to have loug pi meditated the act, as three weeks back he purchased a brace of pistols, but his son took them trom him; he after- wards, however, bought another pair, and bad them load- ed. When he fired he only brone his jaw, the rigger being stu, and the line of direction being in consequence ange Two Murders in Boston. A MAN KILLED BY A JEALOUS BUSBAND. From tho Boston Traveller, Dec. 28 ] James Daley, a laborer, residing on Centre street, East Boston, was arrested by the East Boston police yesterday afternoon, for the murder of James Carroll. ‘Tue eiroum- stances, as far as we have ascertained, are as follows: ‘About one o'clock Daley went to the Police station and ve information that be had beaten Carroll at his house, ving found him there in company with bis wife. He asked the officers to take care of the man, and said he would answer for what ho bad done. About tho samo time Lieutenant Adams, who lives near the place, heard thata man had been beaten and kicked out of doors, and he reached the house about the same time as the other officers. He found Carroll lying in the ontry of Daley's house, with his head bloody, and insensible, with the smell of rum about him. The officers carried him to the station house, but supposing his insensibility to be occasioned partly by liquor, did not call a physician. During the afternoon the officers heard that Daley had heen boasting that he had given Carroll a bad beating, and therefore arrested him. ‘About six o'clock, Carroll grew worse rapidly, and it became evident he was dying, anda physician was sont tor, but the man died before bis arrival. y says he has been suspicious that the de- ceased was intimate with his’ wife, and that he bas been informed of criminal intercouse between them. He said he went home about one o’clock and found Carroll in bis house in company with his wife. He remonstrated with him for being there, when they got intoa dispute. At the time he held in his hand a stick which he had picked up in the street on his way home, and with this he struck Carroll on the head several times. He denied having any intention to kill him, and says he did not suppose he was seriously injured, when ho gave information of the affair at the station house, 4 ‘Carroll had seven wounds upon his head, but it did not appear by an external examination that his skull was broken. ire ‘was @ laborer, about thirty years of age, and leaves a wife and two children residing in East Bos- ton. { ‘The prisoner ig also a laborer, and is about thirty-cight wel years uf age. Te io Known to the police, and has been arrested a before now for drunkenness. Ho Wife's Tmutnericy wren ie cubes Wey uapIaieR of bie statements made by them. Coroner Parcher will hold an inquest on tho body of Carroll. Daley will bo brought before the police court to- day on a charge of murder. bp to this time no evidence him has been dis- covered, except his own statements. Carroll never spoke from the time he was found by the police. MURDER OF A BROTHEL KEEPER BY HER PARAMOUR— STATEMENT OF THE PRISONER. Thave been acquainted with Mrs. Geodnow for some eight years. She is a widow, and her real name is Har- riet J: W. Freeborn. Iwent to call upon her at naif-past twelve o’clock last night. She came tothe door and let me in. We went into the parlor, and J wid her I wished to baye some conversation with her. She then went down stairs, and after I had got tired of waiting in the parlor, I went down and found ber in a basement room. She was standing at a cupboard, eating cold chicken, and had a case knife in hor hand. I spoke to her, and told her sbe bad better come up staira if she was going to. She came and took hold of me, and tried to shove me out of the door. She was very much excited, and I resisted her. Her rage then increased, and she got the knife with which she bad been eating, and came at me. I canght her by the throat, and we bad quite a tussie, and I sup. pore I choked her too long. think I did*not have hold of her more than a minute, and when I let goof her she dropped heavily on the floor, striking her head very hard. Tcannot say whether it hit anything else or not. I feared she might be dead, from her appearance. T then went out to see a friend of mme who lived a few doors off, and told him all the circumstances. He advised me to deliver myself up to the oflicers, and I told him T would do so. He accompanicd me to the station house, where I gave myself up. I wont to the houso with no in tention of having any trouble, nor did Tintend to injure her when I took bold of her. ‘Question—I am informed that you wont to the house to get money of Mrs. Goodnow, and that your quarrel was in consequence of her refusal to give any—is that informa- tion correct? ‘Answer—No, sir; and I can readily explain the rumor of that kind which tnay have got round. I did go there yesterday to get some money from her which she owed me. llet her have some moncy some time since, and she has paid me in small instalments according to her conve- nience. We had no trouble about that, and money was not alluded to in our interview this morning. I told her L beard she was preparing to loave the city, and that ‘was all I called for. It has been eight years since I have been intimate with her. We have had trouble beforo, but nothing serious. She has several other acquaintances, who have tried to preludice her against mo—one man particularly—and she told me so. Still, I have always gone with her. I was very much al 1 to her, aad she hag been the ruin of me in every position Ihave been in. I was very pleasantly situated when I became acquainted with Mra. Goodnow, and she knew it. She has becn a hard woman. T wish to say that I expect to sulfur the consequences of the law, and don’t want to get rid of them, but I had no intention of committing any violence whatever. Mrs. Goodnow, the deceased, was born io Tamworth, N. H., and is the daughter of a school teacher, now dead. Her maiden name was Harriet J. W. Hayes. Hor rola- tives aro all respectable, and sho had a fine education. Her motber subsequently went to live in Dover, N. H. and she (Harriet) was inarrled to James Freeborn, @ painter, in this city. Ho died about seven or cight years since, leaving one son, Francis K. Freeborn, now thirteen years old, and a bright, intelligent boy. Mrs. Frosborn, two or three years afterwards opened # house of ill-fame, and about three years since became mistress of the house ‘at 39 Spring street. Goodhue, during several years, has been known tabo intimate with her, frequenting her house and being often in her company. Ho hase wife and daughter, but has not lived with his wife for some years. Their separation, ‘ag be informs us, was mutual, and in consequence of his intimacy with Mrs. Goodnow. Hoe also has a mothor and sister in thiscity,and all his family are respected Ne. Poo was formerly in the.grocery business in Cambridge. port, then a dry goods clerk in Boston. About two years since be was clerk of the Atlantic House, Sudbury street. Last winter he kept a hotel at Wrentham, and the past summer was employed at Grove Hall, Rox dury. Mrs. Goodnow is known to have ruined many other young men, morally, socially and pecuniarily. She was said to be a very attractive woman, though not remark- able for personal beauty. She cultivated her acquaintance with ibue, anc applied all the seductive arts she new s0 well bow to employ, till his money and character ‘were gone, and then she sought to shake him off. The only relief tothe dark picture of her charactor is the belief that she has for some time supported her agod mother, and that she bas reared her son with a care and fore which would seem foreign to a condition like 8. Sporting Intelligence. Lincoln, an American bred chesnut horse, 4 yenrs, by Belshazzar, out Jordan mare, was sold at Tatler! sall’s, London, on Monday, 6th inst., for 39 guineas. The London’ Sunday Times of the 11th instant, says:— ‘The stewards appointed to conduct the annual dinner of the Royal London Yacht Club, on Thursday evoning next, at Willis’ Rooms, St. James’, are busily engaged in their desire to produce the banquet with its wonted fclat. The worthy commodore, Mr. A. Arcedeckns, is announced to take tho chair; and tickets for the entertainment are being isgued largely by the commodore, vice treasurer, &., &¢. Orancr Trem Kitien.—Tho Now Orleans Picayune ox. Presses the apprehension that the orange trees in that city and vicinity, which for two or three years have beon Prolite bearers of fruit, have seriously suflered from ‘ne te freeze. All the otange trees in that vicinity were destroyed by the froat about ten years ago Tho Congress of Paris, AUSTRIAN IDEA OF THE POSITION OF THE QRAND DUKES. ‘The Dresden Journal, which semetimes receives diple- wane communications fom Vienna, publishes what it do clar+s to be au analysis of the circular despateh of Count de Rech ME Telative to the Cougrers. -M. de Rochverg considers that, if it appears indispensable to adinit the ipotentiaries of Rome, Sardinia and the Two Sicilies, espect due to the right of princes 4is0 comman ts that representatives of fuscany, Parma and Modena should by calles to it, “so ‘won as those countries shal have returned to a normal situation, guit- santeeing their complete ind-pendence.”” Tho \deu of M. do Kechberg doubtless 4a, aftor tho restoration of tho fallen sovercigt, for otherwise Bo one chu un lerstand what is meupt by the right Of primes. The Austrian Minister af b rwarce proposes as the first object tw be attained, “tne Te-estabjiehtuent of the expelled princes aa well as that of the authority of the Pope over the iosurgent provinoes;)”* after waro® & Con‘oderation might be iounded on tue mo- det of the Germanic one. ‘The document concludes by expressing tho opinion that on indefinite extension of the attributions of the Congress might lead to comphoations. LORD PALMERSION'S OPINION OF AUSTRIAN POLIOY, iss the Louden Post (government organ) Dee. 13.) hen Fouche very cleverly, though sumewhat spite- folly, wished to describe the soreno importarbability of Metternich, be sald that were the Austrian Minister, whem fogaeed im conversation, to be soundly kicked from vehind, the infliction would never be revealed by the Bhigbtest ohango in his unrufiied and placid tt ig butan act of Justice to Count Rechberg to acknow- lodge that one tradition at least of the Metternich school is still honored and observed in the Chancellery of Vienaa, and that the Austrian government, aiter the soundost threshing which it bas received since the First Napoleonic ware—al Fosing its possessious, its dignity, and its bonors—dves not the less retaiu a complete sang froid. From the tone of the diplomatic circular, of which the Dresden Gazette has furnished the summary, one would be. ‘tempted to beliove that not Franco, was vic- ious au Bolferino, abd thal the’lisilan onsny ja had producea no other effecte than those of re-cetablishing on 4 firmer basis the Austrian power, and fresh guarantecs for tho Austrian satraps. Wo can regard in ‘no other light than as the ravings of the foredoomed—it ‘Were charity to view them as the drivellings of a political dotage—the declaratious pet forth and the principles erotnced in this marvellous production. Whilst Bog: land, aud, it oust be hoped majority of the Powers propose to assemble in a Cuugress to remove Italy the evils chiefly produced by the Austrian prince- lings, Austria virtually declares that to offect the restora. tion of her Viccroys is the first duty of the Euro) Counci!, aud, that duty ouce performed, the task of #e- curing the preperity and peace of Italy may be safely left te the Pope and the Archdukes. « * * - * Count Rocbberg, who taiks go glibly about the restora- tions in Coutral Italy, may find himself compolled at no very distant period—should tho mavineas of the Austrian Court plange Italy and Europe into another war—to siga another peace, not on the banks of the Mincio, but of the ‘Jsonzo. What is truo of her Venetian is no less trae of ail the other provinces of Austria; how true of Hungary, the events of which wo daily receive intolligenco, reveal ing the general and deep rooted feeling of discon’ent, most clearly prove. Everything betokens ageneral break up. The military resources of the Emperor have been tried apd found wanting. In fioancial matters the whole Austrian empire, no longer symbolised by the ve com- prehensive vowels in which an Austrian Emperor ex- preesed its sway over the whole world, is compelled to drop the two first jetters. and to shadow forth its neces- tities by an “1. O. U? Such is the Power whicb, in the circular of Count Rechberg, still presumes to dictate the law to Europe; and, wiih @ gangrene preying on its own Vitals, to measure out the existeuce of independent States and resuscitate iifeless forms of government. The Convention Between England and Guatemala Respecting Belize. [From the Gaceta Oficial of Guatemala, Nov. 16.) In publishing, in our igsue of the 19th of September last, the convention between this government and that of Great Britain, as regards Belize, wo indicated some of the reagons that had induced the President to enter into the negotiations which resulted in that arrangement. Wo then taid that, in addition to other considerations of pub- Ke utility, the government felt bound to contribute on its part to a general adjustment of the questions pending bo- ‘tween the United States and Great Britain in respect to Central America. We regret to perceive, however, that there are some persons, perhaps without the nece: data to form a sound judgment in the matter, who do not hesitate to express the opinion that the convention in question will tend rather to complicate than to settle the difficulties between thoge countries, and who regard it aga violation of the Clayton: Bulwer convention of 1850. Nor do they hesitate to blame the government of Guatemala for ite alleged abandonment of its rights, which ah affirm Dave been invested with new value by the United States, in the position which that country has taken towards Great Britain in its discussions relating to Belize. We re- gard this as an error, especially as we could not havo de- pended on any foreign aid in giving @ practical value to hts in question. We regard the settlement of the Q Belize as the first step in a series of negotia tions which will remove all points in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in Centra! America, and in which the governments of these States should assist by all means in their power. We may refor hore to the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, sometimes called the Clarendon- Dallas treaty, signed October 17, 1856, which, in one of its additional articles, expressly stipulates that as the territory of Belize 1s not included in the provisions of the Clayton-Bulwer convention, its limits shall be settled by treaty between Great Britain and Guatemala, ao was done in the convention of April last. It is true that a the Senate of the United States, for other reasons, CFB, Le, AEB ION Dallas, ee Rabat Senate, we may understand this provision as oon- forming to its views. But however this may be, we of Guatemala are not called upon to inquire whether our treaty stipulations violate, or de not violate, the conven- tion between Great Britain and the United States of 1850, to which we were not a party. Our action in such mat- ters must governed by considerations of our own interest and convenience, and if these are re- garced with proper prudence and care, we may be bappy if {t shall, at the samo time, contribute to the adjustment of the difficulties which exist between two grea: countries with which we sustain relations ef friend- sbip and commerce. We add tho article in the Claren- don Dallas treaty above alluded to:— ARTICLE SRCOND—ADDITIONAL. 1. It is understood that the establishment of her Bri- tannic Majesty, called Belize or British Honduras, situated on the coast of’ the Bay of Honduras and bounded north by the Mexican province of Yucatan and south by the river Saretoon, was not, nor is it comprehended in the treaty between the contracting parties of April, 1850; and that tho western limits of Belizs,as they existed on the 19th of April, 1850, shall be arranged, if possible, and fixed by treaty between her Britannic Majesty and the re- public of Guatemala within ths two years next following the exchange of the ratitications of this treaty, which limits and boundaries shall never in future be extended. ‘FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Trcrspay, Dec. 20—6 P. M. ‘The activity in the money market continues, and seven ig the vory lowest rf@ at which the choicest paper now goes. The brokers still borrow to a certain extent at six, but the inquiry for money at this figure is active, The in- creased movement is mainly due tothe geason of tho year, the payments into the Sub-Treasury for the new Treasury notes, and some apprehension lost the move- ment of specte South should disturb our money market. Business bas hardly fairly commenced for the Saturday steamers; the market for bills, especially on Paris, is quite flat. We quote sterling bills (bankers’) at 1093 a 34, francs (bankers?) at 6.1644 017%. Iti probable that some $200,000 of specto will go out on Saturday, to cover bills drawn some weeks since. The price of sight bills on Now York at the cities mon- tioned is as follows, the price being oxpressed in the cur- rency of the cities whero the bills are drawn:— Chicago... F see] premium, a “ and prices advanced a fraction, without much activity. No one expects much business at this season, but the bears may, by ovoreales, defeat their own object, and cre- ate © demand for stocks. Contral was better; it opened at 1634, rose to 7634 bid, and closed in the afternoon at 7534 bid. According to the estimate laid bofore the directors at their late meeting, the surplus on hand, after paying the February dividend of 3 per cent, will be $217,727. But in this statement no allowance 1s made for any in- crease over last year in the earnings in December and January, and the working expenses are set down at 56 per cent, against 54 last year. The Western stocks were generally inactive to-day. Rock Island eold at 63, and closed that bid, against 63 at the close yesterday; Galona sold at 64%, and closed at 65 bid, as against 64% yesterday, Illinois Cen- tral took another lurch downward: it sold at 66%, a de- cline of one per cent from yesterday’s closing price, and finally closed 574 bid. Norwich and Worcester, on which another 234 per cont dividend has been declared, was in demand at 403;. State stocks and bonds wore firm, but very inactive. Indeed, the whole business of the day was very small. In the aftornoon, the market ‘was fairly active, and stocks closed steady at the following quotations:—Virginia 6's, 9414 a 34; Missouri 6’s, 836 ® 44; Canton, 163 a 17; Cumberland Coal preferred, 1236 & 184; Pacific Mail, 76% a 3¢; Now York Contrat, 7534 * 283 aM Hichigan ‘Routhern ant’ Northerm Iadiana, 6 0 44; do. guaranteed, 1634 @ 17; Panama) 12736 a Mi iols Central, 6737 m 34; Galena and Chicago. 66 a 34; Cleveland and Toledo, 10's 4; Chicago and Kock island, 14 P rlecueeiteree cia banks in the four leading cities of tho Union will bo seen from tho following ‘able of their last statements:— Deposits. verde, Cirew'n Cities, Tonnes, reporite. peri ‘ 4.977. 375 77,294.78.2 19,615,967 8,309,023 Now York, Des 4.90 ei) oo T1594) 4.411,000 6.192000 Beton Te aT... SB 22,080 WG aS 448,528 2 N, Orleans, Dee. i 630,064 25,518,691 21 "s90,938 11,818,740 10,693,429 Total... 522,302,186 180,808,018 40,419,788 27,824,616 ‘This statement, a8 compared with the last, shows 4 con- biderable lose of specto and a considerable increase of loans, New Ocleaus is the only city that is not losing epecle and increasing Its discounts, ‘The following table will show how those banks have Worked since January }:— Depostis, Date. Loans Jan. 1~ 8, $235,841 000 156,553,000 58 0600 Ptr’ 9 Feb, 5-14... 286,630,000 149,676,000 64,444,000 28,921 068 r. 6-12, ae 149,267,000 4,648,000 30,071,000 Apt + 238,636,000 66,981 009 Hered 2 332 8S July 2-18... 2414s! 1 ‘Avg. 6-13: .-217,965,000 110;401) Sep.10-19.- 223,768,000 123,644, Se S iS Hy 4 BEERS See Hitt s Sos ges32 33 Bene i 2 y a EF 3 3 3 33 3 ae SES88E ¥ 2) ee = &: a Ennis ‘awarded to bidders who bave falled to deposit the peinal- pal and premium on that amount, This stock will be re- imbursable in fifteen yoars from January last, and beer interest at the rato of five per nies bee annum, payable semi-annually. No bid will be rece below par, and none for any fraction of a thousand dollars. ~ ‘This is part of the threo millions awarded at a high Premium to Messre. Sweeney, Rittenhouse, Faut & Co., of ‘Washington, and which they offer to pay at San Frameiseo, but which the Secretary refuses to receive except ia the Atlantic States, os wording of the adver Usement of the Treasury Department, payments at Sam Francisco were regular; but it seems doubtful whether sufficient time elapsed between the my Ty of the ad- vertisement and the opening of the bids for it tohaye been possible for any banking to make the requl- site deposits, &c., at San Francisco. ‘The exchanges at the Bank Clearing House this mora- ing wero $22,448,540 05, and the balances $1,041,652 47. ‘The following dividends have been deciared:— ‘The Hanover Bank, asemi-anpual dividend of three aud a half per cent, payable on the 9th of January; the Chatham Bank, a semi-annual divideud of three and & half per cent, payable January 16; the Bank of Gom- merce, @ semiannual dividend of three anda half per cent, payable January 3; the Norwich and Worcester Railroad, a semi-annual dividend of two and a half pee cent, payable February 1; the Mavhattan Savings Inetl- tution, a semi-annual dividend at the rate of six per cent Per annum on sums of five hundred dollars and and at the rate of five per cent on larger sums; the tna Ineurance Company of Hartford, a dividend of half a million of dollars in stock to its stockholders, giving one hare of stock for every two of its present one million ef dollars capital. Ten miflions of bonds and stock have assented to the new plan of reorganizing the Erie road. ‘The righte parties to ‘assent’? expires January 1, and should ang parties be allowed to come in after that date, it will be as an act of courtesy. ‘The Boston Traveler intimates that a bank officer of that city is a defaulter for $30,000, but as it will be mado geod by his friends, the matter will be hushed up. Tho Treasurer of the city of Brooklyn gives notice that the bonds of 1845 for $30,000, and of 1860 for $75,000, and all coupons of the city debt due on the 1st of January, will be paid on presentation at the Long Island Bank, on aaa after the 8d of January. The annexed is a copy of the official statement upen which the dividend of 8 per cent was recently declared by the New York Central Railroad Company. The earn- ings for December and January are estimated at the same as was earned in the same months of the previous year-— August, 1859, actual. ae $591,019 OF ecltar‘Tisg ty ina ie Pr, ly : November, 1859, partly estimated. 652406 a December, 1859, estimated. Fanny, 1800, tehimaled sn Total.. Sinking ford debt ceriiBcates, Sovons of 1876... Other issues, earn: ‘Three pase dividend Surplus, The working expenses are estimated at 66 per cent of the gross receipts. The expenses of the year onding 30th of September, according to the annual report, were o trifle over 64 per cent. Acircular bas beem issued by the Michigan Contral Railroad Company, from which we make the following extracts:— Tho financial condition of the company on the 1st inst. is exhibited in the following report:— ‘The state of the income account is as follows, viz:— » Account—, Dr. Income Receipts of Dec. 1, 1859—To balance of this account, per ‘Treasurer’s report of Junc 1, 1859........ $108,976 OF To receipts of road for six months, onding 999,898 $8 NOT BW0) AEBU ICS «An acsschaerv seed $1,107,874 96 218,622 68 To balance of income account this day. By operating account, for six months, end- ing Noy. 30, 1859......... 1 cee. 476,288 OF By interest account, for’ six’ months, ending NOV! 80; WEED Fcc ccs deasisess ; w» 837,063. 06 By payment to trustees of sinking funds. 8,000 ¢ By balance to new account.......... TOlelissseivsncves. vdsignesers cons sesso hAUZOTe 86 The balance to the credit of this account has increased sinco the annual report of June 1,1869, $109,646 66, and now amounts to $218,622 63, an amount exceeding 31% per cent upon the capital stock. If to the gainal named, $109,646 66, is added the amount paid in October to the Trustees of the Sinking Funds, $75,000, it will be found that during the past #ix months the net earnings of the road, after paying operating expenditures and interest, will amount to $184,646 66—an amount ex per cent upon the capital stock of the company. ‘This favorable condition of the income account is ow- {ng principally to the rigid economy with which all the ex- penses of the road have been watched and controlled; and although the aes receipts have materially decreased ag compared with the corresponding months of last year, yet the net result shows a difference in favor of this year of $10,782 91, to which should be added the first pay- ment toward the second Sinking Fund of $15,000, making in all a net gain of $25,782 91. The gross receipts for six months, ending Nov. 80, 1868, were... teense see eS] j114,620 08 gross receipts for six months, ending Nov. 90,1859, Were.sesesesssseevsesenas 008,808 88 Showing decrenso in receipts of.......... $115,721 68 To counteract thia decrease, the compari- gon of expenditares between the two periods ips follows ji i Operating and interest expenditures, six months of last year... $955,766 26 Operating and interest expendi- tures, six months of this yoar, 814,251 78 Showing a reduction of expenses of. $141,506 64 te And a net gain over last year of... 782 OL ‘This favorable result from a comparatively unfavorable business has beon brought about, aa before stated, careful economy in management, not at all to the d ment of the condition of the road or of its rolling stock, both of which have been maintained at the maximam standard, The business of the months of June, Cee nem pateonn September was materially loss than that of the corres- ponding months of the previous year; but about tho lat of October matters at tho West improved, and sinco that period the receipts havo been Cg ae those of the corresponding months of last year. This improvement, it is confidently expected, will continne, am it undoubtedly arises from the improved condition of ‘West, and is not hype he A ih ell @ uarters to our advant movement frome tig debt whatever, and our iisbilites, other tham the operating expenses of the Fond, aro, ine ‘nterost on our bonded debt and the annual payments to the Trostees of the Sinking Funds. These, during the ad- verso cireumstances of the past two yoars, have beem fairly earned by the road and promptly paid. ‘The earnings of the Michigan Contral Railroad for the third week of December wero— 1859 « 1988 business of Increase...... ‘The Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company has de- olared a divided of 23¢ pez cent. Tho business of the road for the six months ending December 1, 1859, was— Receipts (pagsengers and freight, mails, &0.) . Expenses.,... . Recoipts over expenses. Interest six months... Net carnings...... Dividend, 2% per cent. 88125 0 Balance to now account.,....scessceseeseee $8,011 72 One-baif of iho wholo length of the road has ‘been re- laid with iron tho past year, and paid out of the earnings for the ame period. ‘The Boston Post, in its weekly financial review, 8&y8— Our money market continues close e:4d hard, compara tively speaking, on outaide transactions, Prime notes, Joans with good collatorals, gan ke bad at 6 to 9 por coms,