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Was not aware of tlie cause of his despondency. It was 
generally thought that his malady was feigned and that he 
was acting the hypocrite. There are two children by the 
last marriage, both of whom were present during the time 
the bloody deed was committed ; one about six years of age, 
the other older. . , , ,, T t i 
From the medical evidence of Mr. J. J. Bark way, it 
appeared that upon being sent for by Mr. Bouttell ho and 
his brother came with all speed to the cottage where the 
tragical act was perpetrated, and upon going into the 
room found the man lying upon his loft side and bleeding 
profusely from a wound iu the tliroat, apparently inflicted 
by some sharp instrument. Upon further examination lie 
iliseovered that the windpipe was completely severed, and 
the wound extended quite across the throat to the extent of 
several inches. The jugular vein was not injured. From 
the first lie considered the case almost a hopeless one. The 
mm was conveyed to bed, and lie dressed the wound and 
stopped the bleeding, but a very great quantity of blood 
had been lost. There was only ono cut, which was across 
the tliroat. The wound was not high enough to lacerate the 
jugular vein. Upon examining the body of the woman bo 
discovered three stab wounds on the left side of the neck, 
and one in the fleshy part of the arm. One wound iu the neck 
was about three inches deep, and completely sovered the 
jugular vein and carotid artery. The msophagus was also 
cut. He had no doubt but that the first wound which the 
murderer inflicted caused death. They wore all stab 
wounds. The deepest penetrated quite into the mouth. 
Her death must have been instantaneous, ns the wound 
penetrated the most vital parts, and appeared to have been 
with great force. All tho wounds were on the left Bide of 
the body. His (witness's) brother bad been in constant 
attendance upon the man since the occurrence. As far us 
his own opinion went he had no hope of his recovery. 
The jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict 
of wilful murder against William Game for the murder of 
his wife. 
The instrument with which the foul deed was committed 
is a clasp-knife, about eight inches long, and when found by 
the murderer's side was covered with blood, which is now 
congealed upon it. It has been stated that this knife when 
last seen by one of the family was out of the handle, and 
Game admits having put the rivet in himself. It was stated 
by oue of the children that when his father had stabbed bis 
mother he sharpened the knife upon the floor provious to 
inflicting the wound upon his own person. 
Since this occurrence Game has been perfectly conscious, 
and retains possession of all bis reasoning faculties. Though 
admitting riveting the knife, he denies the existence of any 
premeditation. He states that if there had been 1,000 persons 
in the room he should have done it. He felt as if he was 
flying. This, doubtless, was the result of his melancholia. 
Ho, however, refused to state the cause which led him to 
the commission of the cruel act,, and says no one shall ever 
know it ; that it shall never be known. — Ipswich Express. 
IRELAND. 
MilTtta. — The notice for the enrolment of the Irish militia 
appeared in the Dublin Gazette of Friday night; and it is 
supposed that some of the regiments will be immediately 
called into active service. The provincial journals are spe- 
culating on the difficulty in supplying the complement de- 
manded for tho ranks ; for the "epaulettes” candidates will 
be as plentiful as blackberries in November. To remedy the 
deficiency, it is hinted that the ballot will be resorted to. 
The following list contains the quotas to be raised iu the 
several counties in Ire-land : — 
Antrim 1,679 
Armasrh 900 
I'arlow 311 
Cavan 814 
Clare 977 
Cork 2,622 
Cork city 307 
Donegal 1,172 
Down 1,472 
Dublin 641 
Dublin city 1,120 
Fermanagh 634 
Galway (including town of 
Ga’.wayJ 1,480 
Kerry 1,096 
Kildare 456 
Kilkenny (including Kil- 
kenny city) 719 
King's County 619 
Leitrim 62$ 
Limeriek 972 
Limerick city) 227 
Londonderry $75 
Longford 398 
Louth (including Drogheda). 192 
Mayo 1,254 
Meath 665 
Monaghan 617 
Queen's County 522 
Roscommon 812 
Sligo 591 
Tipperary 1,604 
Tyrone 1,187 
Waterford (including Water- 
ford city) 713 
Westmeath 527 
Wexford 817 
Wicklow 472 
Total 30,000 
/omgu Sntrllignire. 
FRANCE. 
( From our own Correspomlait.) 
Paris, Thursday, Oct. 10. 
Parts, for the BenRon, remains unusually dull, a circum- 
stance to be accounted for perhaps by the continued absence 
of news from Sebastopol, about which the greatest anxiety 
prevails. The delay in forwarding the accouuts of killed and 
wounded from tho banks of the Alma likewise adds some- 
thing to the prevailing despondency, as giving a colour of 
probability to the mischievously exaggerated reports of the 
number of deaths among the wounded after the battle, the 
poisoning of the water by the Russians, and other fabulous 
horrors, which, though without a shadow of foundation, keep 
the public mind in a state of uneasiness and agitation. 
It is Bcriously affirmed that their Majesties the Emperor 
and Empress proceed on a visit to Windsor in the course of 
next month ; but everything is kept so mysteriously quiet 
about the Court that no one knows positively what the Em- 
peror's movementsjare to be until the moment of their being 
put into execution. This report, however, is strengthened 
by many circumstances ; and great is the curiosity to learn 
how the imperial couple are likely to bo received, not only 
by their royal hosts, but by the populace of London, among 
whom it is suspected that some of the political refugees now 
there will contrive to make themselves conspicuously heard. 
The cholera, which, in the first week in October, had fallen 
to zero, has, I am sorry to say, returned with renewed 
vigour. Last week the deaths rose above 200, and each day 
shows an increase in tho number of its victims. Rumours 
are rife in political circles, which, if true, lead one to expect 
sharp work on the Rhenish frontier. It iB stated that two- 
thirds of the powerful armament at Boulogne has received 
orders to strike its tents, and establish itself cn observation 
in the department of ArdenneB, and a great portion of the 
troops destined to form a camp near Marseilles lyive been 
countermanded, and directed to march towards Stiusburg. 
The manufacture of shells, and other projectiles, is carried 
THE FIELD. 
on at Metz and Vincennes with unprecedented activity, the 
artificers being employed eighteen hours a day. Added to 
this, all leave of absence is denied both to officers and men. 
This certainly looks as if mischief were brewing in the 
north. 
The city was, perhaps, never before in such a disagreeable 
state for visitors. The police order that every house and 
building in the capital should be cleaned and renovated 
before the commencement of April next. Tho “ Grande 
Exposition,” commencing in May, has set the masous at 
work in every street ; and scaffolding, stones, mortar, and 
brickbats, threaten the unlucky pedestrian with immolation 
at each step ho takes. Iu the meantime, the buildings of 
the Louvre spring up apace, and will be a crowning 
beauty of that part of the town. Immediately oppo- 
site, in the lino de ltivoli, near the Palais Royal, a 
noble mansion, or rather palace, is erecting, which is already 
taken by a go-ahead American, who intends to open it as an 
exact counterpart of the celebrated hotel at New York, 
known as Aster House. It is to be fitted up iu a style of 
splendour unknown in any hotel either in London or Paris ; 
and, judging from the proportions of the rooms, it will 
assuredly be most magnificent. You may judge of the 
expedition used in its construction by the fact that the work- 
men relieve each other day and night— the absence of day- 
light being supplied by two electric lights, which illuminate 
the works sufficiently to enable the workmen to carry on 
their operations. It resembles, however, a bright moon- 
light, rather than that of " Don Phoebus; ” but the substi- 
tute is highly valuable, and must be set down as oue of 
the practical triumphs of modern science. 
Nothing further is known respecting the movements of 
Mdlle. Cruvelli, whose flight was mentioned last week ; but 
it, is whispered that she left Paris so suddenly with a lover, 
the son of a man of immense wealth, Mr. G who. 
refusing his consent to their marriage, led to their flight to 
the regions of Gretna. How true all this may be it is diffi- 
cult at present to say : all that is really known is, that the 
young man has been, for many mouths, unceasing in his 
attentions to her. The Minister of State, however, 
who is one of that tribe who are supposed to have 
the keenest sense of interest in pecuniary matters, 
no sooner heard of the fair wanderer’s absence than 
he set the agents of the law to work to impound her 
furniture, wardrobe, and in fact all the property she had 
left in Paris, not forgetting her funds in the hands of M. 
Rothschild. The results of this step on the part of the 
Manager-Minister proved, at least, that Mdlle. Cruvelli had 
not premeditated her journey; for neither funds, furniture, 
nor property of any kind, had been removed or touched. She 
went out at noon on Saturday, for a walk, after studying an 
air in Verdi's new opera. About four her femme de chambre 
received a note, directing her to meet the fugitive at eight 
o'clock, at the Northern Railway, with a small portmanteau, 
and a couple of gowns, &c. The servant packed up the clothes, 
thinking, as did the family, that merely atrip to some friend's 
iu the vicinity of town was contemplated. At the hour named 
the girl went, and neither maid nor mistress afterwards re- 
turned. It must be added, that Mdlle. Cruvelli found herself 
exceedingly unpleasant at the Grand Opera ; the jealousy of 
other artistes, and the constant outcry of the journals in their 
interests that she was paid too highly, led her, some months 
since, to go to the manager and propose a friendly termination 
of their engagement. M. Itoqueplan at once refused, and 
convinced her, by reference to the receipts whenever she sang, 
that her engagement was most beneficial to the theatre. The 
attacks, nevertheless, continued ; and she was led to enter into 
negotiations with the director to pay-, in some given time, the 
forfeit (100,000 francs) stipulated in her articles, and leave 
the theatre. This was also declined, and Bhe had latterly 
become more reconciled to her position, from the success she 
expected iu Verdi’s new opera, and the promise of M. Meyer- 
beer to arrange her part in the long-talked-of “Africaine" in 
a manner exactly to suit her talents. To this it must be 
added that her success with the public was constant and un- 
deviating, never attracting less than an 8,000 francs house, 
and often 10,000 and 11,000, a striking contrast with the 
usual receipts of the house on other nights — ct voilti ce que 
cest ! 
M. Gounod's long-promised opera, "La Nonne Sanglante," 
was produced at the Grand Opera last night ; but, though 
got up with all the pomp of scenery and costume for which 
this theatre is celebrated, the character of the music strikes 
the ear as too scientific ; and its execution being entrusted to 
such secondary performers as Gueymard and Madlles. Porn- 
hot and Werthermberg, doubts may well be entertained 
of the permanence of its success. The poem, founded on an 
old German legend, is superior to the general run of operatic 
libretti, as will be seen by the following outline of the plot, 
which has the stuff in it for a striking melo-drama. A young 
German knight, Rudolf von Rudolf, and Agnes, the fair 
daughter of the Burgraf of Moldau, entertain for each other 
a passion malheurcuse, their families being decidedly averse 
to the match, and, moreover, at war with each other. Rudolf 
hereupon imagines a stratagem to enable his mistress to 
escape from the paternal chateau. On a given night every 
year, the spectre of a woman, her long black hair dishevelled, 
and her white robes covered with blood, holding a dagger in 
her hand, and still wearing the conventual veil, passes along the 
passages of the gloomy old seliloss, and disappears over the 
drawbridge. Such, at least, is the tradition. Rudolf, however, 
who is a kind of esprit fort, laughs at the story, and succeeds 
in persuading Agnes to assume the disguise of the bleeding 
nun ; and, at midnight, he will await her on the pont-lcvis. 
Midnight comes — Rudolf punctually attends the rendezvous. 
The spectre appears at the castle-gate, and moves slowly 
down to the drawbridge. He mistakes the spectre for his 
Agnes, and passes the ring on her finger, which marks her as 
his bride. The spectre clasps him in her arms, and, despite 
all his efforts, disappears with him into a subterranean vault; 
while the real Agnes, also in the garb of the Nonne Sanglante, 
reaches the postern. We are next introduced to the sub- 
terranean apartment, where the spectre-bride and her living 
husband are seen at a banquet, accompanied and waited 
upon by “ lords and ladies bright,” and attendants, whose 
glassy eyes and ghastly pallor bespeak them of another world. 
The nun, however, for a spectre, becomes somewhat communi- 
cative ; and, in answer to his questions, acquaints Rudolf that 
his evident desire for a divorce “ a mensii et thoro,” will be 
realised as soon as he has expiated the murder committed 
on her person, the murderer being no other than his own 
father. Rudolf refuses to become a parricide ; but, to cut 
a very long story short, M. Scribe takes the trouble off his 
Lauds, the parents of Agnes lay an ambush for young Rudolf 
into which his pi re coupable falls by mistake, and with his 
death the manes of the nun are pacified. Tho rival houses 
flow conclude a treaty of peace and unity, and Agnes and 
Rudolf are married amid all the rejoicings those auspicious 
events call forth at the Grand Opera. The music is exactly 
of that character of which it is impossible (at least I find it 
so) to form a judgment without half a dozen hearings ; I 
will only say of it, that it resembled the German far 'more 
than the Italian or French schools, and that it was immensely 
applauded by the l'rieiida of the author, with whom the 
house was crammed. The piece was of awful length, the 
performance lasting upwards of five hours and a half. 
FUNERAL OF THE LATE MARSHAL ST. AREA I D. 
Marseilles, Oct. 12. 
The war corvette Berthollet arrived here from Constanti- 
nople at seven o'clock yesterday morning. She steamed 
directly into the old dock, and took up the berth usually oc- 
cupied by the Caradoc when she visits Marseilles. She 
neither fired nor received salutes. It soon became known, 
however, that she had on board tho remains of the late 
Marshal de St. Aruaud, and all the Bhips in the harbour 
boisteil their ensigns half-mast high. The Berthollet brought 
likewise Madame de St. Arnaud, Dr. Cabrol, who attended 
the Marshal in his last moments, three aides-de-camp, Gen- 
eral Yusuf, and his wife. The Berthollet continued to fire 
guns at an interval of thirty minutes until the body was re- 
moved. This occupied a considerable time, and at three 
o’clock General liostolau, commandei’-iu-chief of the depart- 
ment, attended by a numerous staff, proceeded on foot to the 
Berthollet. The entire garrison was under arms, and lined 
the road from the quay to the cathedral. All the munici- 
pal authorities arrived nearly at the same time as General 
ltostolan. The Bishop and his clergy remained on the quay 
to receive the body. The coffin was lowered into the long- 
boat, and was landed by the seamen of tho Berthollet. The 
melancholy procession then commenced. A general officer 
walked after the coffin, carrying the Marshal's baton on a 
velvet cushion. The Marquis de F razeguier, son-in-law of 
the Marshal, and Captain Puysegur, of the Hussars, fol- 
lowed as chief mourners. Next came General Ros- 
tolan and hia staff, accompanied by the Sub-prefect 
and the Municipal Council, and the Mayor and his deputies. 
General Yusuf walked with Colonels de Grummont, Deplace, 
and Henry, the Marshal's aides-de-camp. The procession 
followed the quays, the new port, and the wide road which 
leads to the cathedral. As it passed under Fort St. Jean 
that fortress saluted with its guns. When the coffin reached 
the cathedral it was placed on a catafalque erected in the 
centre of the church, and absolution was given. After tho 
prayers for the dead were concluded, the coffin was placed iu 
oue of the chapels of the cathedral, where a chapelle urdente 
had been prepared, and a guard of honour remained under 
arms all night. A solemn service was celebrated in the 
cathedral at eight o'clock this morning, at which the civil 
and military authorities assisted, after which the remains of 
the Marshal were carried in pomp from the cathedral to the 
railway terminus, the entire garrison being under arms. A 
special train was ready, which started at half-past nine 
o’clock for Paris. When we saw the Berthollet arrive, and 
reflected what a short period had relapsed since we saw 
Marshal de St. Arnaud embark in the same vessel, amid the 
cheers and salutations of an immense multitude, we called 
to mind another great captain. The late Sir Thomas Picton 
embarked at Dover iu June, 1815, to take the command of 
bis division in Belgium, previous to the battle of Waterloo, 
and within eight days his corpse was landed at Dover, accom- 
panied by a single aid-de-camp. Sir Thomas, more fortunate 
.than Marshal de St. Arnaud, met a soldier's death on the 
field in the hour of victory, while the Marshal was cut off 
by a lingering disease before he had accomplished the object 
of his ambition — the capture of Sebastopol. 
Paris, Oct. 1C. 
Iu conformity with the official programme, the obsequies 
of Marshal de St. Arnaud were solemnised to-day in tho 
chapel of the Invalides. The remains arrived this morning 
at the Lyons railway terminus, where they were deposited 
iu a chapelle ardente, under the guardianship of a detachment 
of select troops. So early as seven o’clock the bands of the 
various corps were heard as they descended the Boulevards 
in the direction of the Bastille. The weather was not ill- 
suited to the solemn occasion. Tho morning was chilly ami 
dark, and though no rain fell, yet low thin clouds covered 
the sky as if with a funeral pall, and completely interrupted 
the beams of the sun. About half-past eight, two squadrons 
of cuirassiers proceeded in the same direction, and were fol- 
lowed by some detachments of light cavalry ; and about 
nine, Marshal Magnan, wearing the full costume of his rank, 
with the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour, and 
mounted on a fine charger, rode down the Boulevards, 
followed by a numerous staff of general officers and aides-de- 
camp, and attended by an escort of chasseurs. The troops 
destined to form the cortege were massed at half-past nine at 
the railroad station ; and soon after those who were to precede 
the hearse defiled before it. It was half-past ten o'clock 
when a salute of thirteen guns, from a battery stationed on 
the Place de la Bastille, gave notice that the hearse con- 
taining the body was in movement. The line marked 
out for the procession was tho following : — The Rue de 
Lyon, the Boulevards, the Rue Itoyale, the Place do 
la Concorde, the Pout de la Concorde, the Quai d’Orsay, 
the Esplanade of the Invalides. At the head of tho 
cortege were two general officers of the army of Paris, with 
their staffs, preceded by the full band of the 4tli Regiment 
of Mounted Chasseurs. They were followed at a short dis- 
tance by a squadron of light cavalry, with tho colours of the 
regiment unfurled, two squadrons of cuirassiers, also with 
full band and colours, and u battery of artillery. These were 
followed by a battalion of Chasseurs ; and the effect produced 
by the contrast of their dark uniforms, as the sombre mass 
appeared in tho distance, was remarked by every one. Two 
battalions of infantry — one of light troops, the other of the 
line — with their drums muffled and their colours covered 
with crape, came next. A brigadier-general of the New Im- 
perial Guard, with his staff, was followed by two squadrons 
of Guides, whose graceful uniforms relieved the monotonous 
appearance of the line; a battalion of Chasseurs of the Guard, 
with their wide blue pantaloons gathered iu below the knee, 
and the lower part of the leg enclosed in leather greaves, and 
terminating in white gaiters, somewhat in the fashion of the 
Zouaves; and a battalion of the Voltigeurs of the Guard, 
dressed as nearly ub possible like those of the first Empire, 
the shakos wound round with white cordons, and terminat- 
ing in large tassels, and facings to match. At a distance the 
effect is not unpleasant, but when near tho appearance oi the 
men is cumbrous and heavy. The staff of Marshal VaUJant, 
Minister of War, and the Commander-iu-Chief of the Army 
of Paris, also with his staff, the generals and other superior 
officers not in actual command iu Paris, occupied the apace 
between the Imperial Guard and the hearse. The hearse, 
