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procurator of the Battery, who sailed that morning in a Steamer, was arrested that night in Macao, and brought back here, and that he and seven others connected with his Establishment have been committed for trial on a charge in the Supreme Court of administering poison with intent to murder.
The Criminal Sessions begin today, but as there are ten Cases on the Calendar, and this is the last in the Calendar, the trial will not come on in time for a final report by tomorrow's trial Steamer.
It may be imagined that the public excitement was intense and has not yet altogether subsided, the persons who have suffered are said to be between 300 and 400 in number, and the rumour is that a rising was intended had the attempt been successful. The analysis of the bread shows Arsenic in very large quantity, and it is imagined that the excess of the poison rendered it inefficient by causing its early ejection from the Stomach.
I shall refrain from making further remark on this extraordinary case, until the conclusion of the trial, which...