The Court of Appeal of the Seine has affirmed the
sentence lately passed by the Civil Tribunal decreeing the separation of Count Mortier from his wife, on the ground of repeated acta of insane violence. The substitute of the Proctireur- General, in summing up the ease, declared that all the imputations thrown by Count Mortier on his wife's virtue were totally unfounded. M. Leotard, the sculptor, lately brought actions against General Jerome Bona- parte, ex-King of Westphalia, and his son Napoleon, as heirs of Charles Bona- parte, for the price of a statuette of the Princess of Wurtemberg, supplied to M. Charles; and against Napoleon, for 600 francs, the price of another bronze sta- tuette of the Princess. Both defendants disclaimed the first demand, as they had relinquished all claim on Charles's estate; but General Jerome was sentenced to pay. The other demand was resisted as excessive, the order having been for a plaster statuette; but the Court decreed full payment.
Rebecca Smith was tried at Devizes, on Thursday, for the murder of her child in June last. The purchase of arsenic by the prisoner was proved; the death of the infant after a short sudden illness; the discovery of arsenic- in its stomach; and the prisoner's prevarication on the subject of the poison when she was charged with killing her child. Without hesitation the Jury found her guilty, but re- Commended her to mercy in order "to give her time to repent." Justice Cresswell sentenced her to death; and,. while stating that he should comply formally, with the Jury's recopimendation, impressed the prisoner with the certainty that in a few days your life must go." Rebecca Smith has been married eighteen years, and had eleven children; of whom ten have died in extreme infancy.
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