The trial of Madame Rachel for obtaining money of Mrs.
13erradaile by false pretences ended on Friday without a verdict, the jury being unable to agree. A second trial is to be made, and Madame Rachel, unable to procure bail, remains in prison. IVe have not entered into the details of this particularly dirty scandal, and do not intend ; but our readers will find elsewhere some remarks on the law of the case, which seems to be widely misapprehended. The single charge, in a legal sense, against the dealer in cosmetics is that she obtained large sums of money from Mrs. Borradaile on the statement that Lord Ranelagh was in love with her. The proofs offered were Mrs. Borradaile's statement, and some letters which the plaintiff declared to have been written to Lord Ranelagh at Madame Rachel's dictation. As the letters are full of talk about Lord Ranelagh, the difficulty of believing that they were addressed to Lord Ranelagh is considerable. Yet if they were not so written the case can hardly be supported, neither Madame Rachel's cha- racter nor her prices having anything to do with the matter in Court.
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