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FRANCE

... •Latest news. The Emperor left Plombieres on Tuesday morning, and went direct to the camp Chalons. Official intelligence reached here from Vera Cruz states that, on tbe 14th July, the French retook Urnpau. On the 23rd July, the chief of guerillas, Publita, was attacked by French cavalry, and killed, together with large number of his band. Arteaga has been routed. It is stated that the ...

THE TRIAL OF SOUTHEY

... After a lengthened and patient investigation, the prisoner Southey has been found guilty of wilful murder, and sentenced to death. The circumstances of the case were sufficiently extraordinary to arrest public attention throughout the country. In the first place the number of the murderer’s victims was for above the average. The instances are, happily, rare, in which five lives are taken by ...