The Paris papers and letters of Thursday are still filled
with the Pras- lin affair. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle reports upon the post mortem examination— "The autopsy of the body of the Duke of Praslin took place on Wednesday evening, in the prison of the Luxembourg. It was performed by Drs. Andrei, Orfila, Tardieu, R'oujet, and Louis, The internal viscera were carried to: the Boole de Medicine, where they were examined. The examination left no doubt of the fact that death had been produced by arsenic, which committed great ravages on the heart and the stomach. The brain was found to be in a healthy state; from which it is inferred that he did not take laudanum at tat. Drs. Orfila and Tardien are to make a report to the Court on the state of the body."
The Chancellor of France, as President of the Court of Peers, has summoned the members to meet in the Chamber of Council on Saturday next.
The person who was sent to Marshal Sebastiani immediately after the assassination of the Dutchess of Praslin returned to Paris on Wednesday, with accounts of the Marshal; whom he found at Vevey, in Switzerland. "The fatal event was announced to him as carefully as possible; but the grief of the Marshal may be conceived. His family, however, are tranquillized as to his health. The Marshal was ignorant up to the moment of the messenger's quitting him who was the author of the murder. The whole truth will have been revealed to him by his physician, who was charged with this painful mission, and who met the Marshal at Dole. General Sebastiani left this morning to meet his brother, who would arrive in Paris on Thursday."
The will of the Dutchess de Praslin has been delivered to the President of the Tribunal. She bequeathed an annuity of considerable amount to her husband. To the directions respecting the education of her children, six of whom are daughters, she annexed the significant condition that their education should be superintended by a man, a professor, and not by a governess.
The public ferment increases. The populace assembled around the prison on Wednesday evening, notwithstanding the presence of a consider- able military force, showed symptoms of an approaching emeute; demand- ing in loud and menacing tones to be shown the body of the Duke de Praslin, and exclaiming that they did not believe him to be dead. The soldiers were at length ordered to disperse the people; and several indi- viduals were arrested.
The Prince de Joinville, who continues to be indisposed, is gone to St. Cloud, where the remainder of the Royal Family were expected on Satur- day or Sunday.
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