The Express. — London, England, 1859-12-10 00:00:00

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Ora Paris Correspondent, whose means of infor mation bare been too closely tested by the events of many years to need any public acknowledgment on our part at this time of day, and whose trustworthi ness and discretion have deserved and won the more disinterested approval of our readers, took ant- Moo in the letter which we published on Thursday to advert to a topic; rf eery pelmet, and enduring interest ; nay, so vitally important, not to oar coun try, nor even to Europe alone, but to the civilisation of the world, and to all humanity, that we cannot forbear to press anxiously and earnestly the que•- tioes it raises, and the delusions it exposes, upon pub lic attention. Our Correspondent takes for his text the report of that c►aracteristially stormy meeting held some days ago in this metropolis for the forma tion of a corps of Irish volunteers, by way of a set-off, we presume, to the threatened blood-and-murder brigade whose colours a Cutter is to bless and a MaGrfaz is to follow—at a respectful distance—to glory, in the service of the Holy Father. At this intensely Irish meeting, which patriotically began continued and ended with a row, it seems that the Chairman, the Marquis of DONEGALL, while vouching forth, good intentions of his old acquaintance about town, the actual Emperor of the FRENCH, signified his apprehension that the feelings of the army, the clergy, and the people of France in general were in favour of the invasion of England. This terrifying commonplace of the Chairman wee, with a gentle one quite native and to the manner bone, re buked by a Mr. M'lleareoii', who " believed " that it wee a foul Protestant calumny.' Peal Protestant calumny, if you will; but it is unfortunately a calumny which the fervent or►tors of tie Greener Island, who are more Papist than the Po►e, and more acquisitive in his behalf than Agetmetit himself, have somewhat obstreperosaly, and with truly " damnable iteration," declared to be • joy tul and • saving truth—a truth to make the Saxon tremble and the Zones dance; a truth to be echoed from Tipperary to 301111i110, to be said and sang with equal rapture by religious ribbonmenaad banditti in purple stockings. The Marquis of Itosti:o., however, was fain to admit that the " calumny " had not sprung spontansendEs so to speak, out of the depth of his meal consciousness, but —oh ! the sorry confession for a peer—" that he bad only stated what "he had read is the papers." No doubt we ought to feel indebted to a Marquis for paying so in genuous a compliment to "the papers," ss the sources--not of his information only, bat of his opinions and beliefs; but the subject is too serious to permit us to adopt a putative child, even of tit:est brains, and for our own part we beg to drop • ricketty and mischievous foundling into the waste-paper-basket of illegitimate twaddle. Were we to venture to ask in whist papers, we should be guilty of lowering • question of interesting,' dignity to • quarrel of " the shop." We therefore content ourselves with emphatically supporting the protest of our responsible correspondent in the French capital, who stakes his credit " as a pro " fenional observer of French politic.," epos the assertion, sot now adraoced for the first time, bat repeatedly maintained by him at the most critical moment. within the last two years—"that there is is " animosity on the part of the people of Pisan 0 towards England." Even in that sinister eatk, when the addresses of a few fire-eating eolead•, " hungry for promotion," were ►aging •p sad down the Moistieur even when that judi cious gossip, Sir Facects Near, (who may wander himself • eon of spiritual father to the four Liverpool brokers) was confidently assured by an August Party that only owl sesn's will stood between England and the wrath of Franco— even under oath dispiriting circumstances, this jour nal assumed, on the faiihof information in which it had every reason to confide, that the fire-eating Cole e•ls, many of whom saw their own addresses eicept in the official journal, no more represented the French army than • dosen tarkey-cocks represent • ferm•yard, and that the confidential hint to Sir Fa vocrt Hew was nothing bet a safe and shrewd investment in • Bank of Folly. Sir Fasects Hut. was purely and simply regarded by his friend as a sort of rrOdeg woodier for capitalwi•g political Summery, and it was set is snotioa foe the useful purpose of persuading English men that "the only man "who could keep the pease of the world wee an eminent special constable w►o had once helped to keep the peace i• St. Jamie, Sensible people were neither irritated by the Cologne nor reassured by Sir Faavels Haab and Ca, but, as the Marquis of Otdemal. say sometimes feel, THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1859. ensiblii people are seldom in a majority, Folly rims to the surface in a froth, while common sense sinks, a sediment, to the bottom of the public mind. Now what is the real truth about this old yet ever new question of the mutual feelings of Frame and England towards one another? We think our correspondent has put it fairly and com pletely in a very few words, the sum and substance of which is that, speaking generally of the French people as we might speak of the English, there is • certain jealousy " such ea might exist in one " village against another village on account of " the last cricket match that was lost," but that this is sot greater than has existed for notaries ; that, making allowance for the idolatry of " glory " which is pert of the French temperament, for the reckless ness'( those who have nothing to lase, and of throe vibe pant for desperate adventures, still "all the "intelligence, all the property of the nation, is " envinced that no valid reason, no plausible • pretext could be found for plunging into a war with England." The of ultra inealane fanatics (ultramontane, it should seem, limanie they are detested and despised beyond the Alps) sio wan enprehends the French Clergy than the Ancient Pistols of the Menaces com prehended the army. M. Louis Vetru.ter is, be it said without disrespect, professionally 'Meted with acute mania ; but be is about as likely to get up a holy war against Protestant England an Mr. JOHN Mrreitu., the exelarobolder, to lead the legions of the &AMOR to the "liberation " of Ireland. Is it supposed that M. Venittor, though he is suffered to run amounted even In the dog-days, how Is him self hoarse in decent company ? He is loose in the streets it is true, because his bark is found to be more amassing than dangerous ; but if be were not the desperado of a party ear aboia, he would reason and ressoastrate in merely human accents, like any other scurry politician. We have le ' pettedly shown in figures how closely the interests of the two nations are identified, and as to the intelligence of France, we recommend our readers to read an article on " the English Alliance," in the last number of the Besse des deux Mendes, by M. Ds HENCIAT, who, it should be remembered, is not oely an admirable philosophic thinker, • brilliant Writer, and an Academician, but one who hes is happier days often risen from the study of political nonce to the bracing contests of public life; who is the Chamber has combated for principles of go vernment, defended or resisted acts of national policy, and as a Minister hem laid his band to the helm of the State. How does this thoughtful and ex perienced man, who loves Franoe, who honours England, who believes in liberty and the laws of progress, contemplate the relations of France with Ragland ? He declares that the wisest policy of all French Governments from the time of HtNll IV. has been a policy of good understanding with the English ; and that now, and for the future, there can be no pretext for the interruption of the natural and necessary intimacy of neighbours who should be rivals only in the works of peace. Many circumstances have con spired within the last few years to makeYEngland almost a wand country to French Liberals, and the more we are known and studied, and the closer an more frequent our intercourse becomes, the more difficult will it be for reactionary fanatics of any party to rake up the animosities of a time when France wee • land of ogres and England a nest of pirates. Bat we are told that the security of Eng land is at the mercy of "one man," though that "one " man " is the monarch who, on his own showing, was obliged the other day to retrench ear his pro- gramme of an Italian campaign because he was fighting against the w ill of Europe, and with only the acquiescence of France. And, after all, is it the interest of the present Sove reign of France—we say nothing of his sentiments or his assurances—to annihilate those material interests which he has so exclasively cherished and exalted P Yee, it is replied, for did he not tell the Court of Peers that he represented " a defeat" as well as • principle ? The principle, at all events, is on the throne of France; and as to the defeat, has he not avenged it as all defeats are most triumphantly avenged, by shaking hands ? What then is our feeling on this aide of the Channel? " I believe," says a correspondent, " I repeat the " language of 99 Englishmen out of 100 when I say I di) not fear the Frenchman—that I do not hate " him—that I wish to prove to him that I can and .4 would rather learn to esteem and love him as my " neighbour. It will, therefore, give me the greatest " pismire to be easared that the question of peace • err lief does not Be se exclusively in the mind of " ewe man as anent would have ae believe." TEI PRI PIM CIE WALSI,-.0. Thursday afternoon, b Royal aighears he Prime of Wales kindly acceded to the Nabs le Mai by hei blo ai r of Oxfoed (T. E.). by plesithgtwo of th e ash sham , us 4 , N at. Giles's. &OWNS o'clock M S = h4linese, scoomphied by ha Hem. Colonel Brae) red the Hon. Camel Kenna, the extremity of the avast" at de anal e s to of St. Cameo, opposite he noldehe of Mr. Ablerman Ward, where he wee snot by he Mayor, Alderman Browhieg, Alderman Spier', Al a.., Dam", sad magma. Ward, end the potted baring been prepared, sad the plane tree deposited in its place, ha ray.' Whams threw in the earth with • beFwhich be handled h a truly workmanlike 111,1111:14l. Mayor in • sellable and eloquent ad tram, thanked his royal blears+, cm When of the city, for his hindered in an &ethic, the twat of planting the trte, which would remain be many Kenerstiotte as a mark of his residence In Oxford; after which the Prince pleated • rand Ore at the south • end of the armee. oppuote th. Taylor-buildings. Veer Iser pee* wen prima to wttams the ceremony, se It was the apnoea 'wise of Ws royal Winne that it shoold be pew leneed r gaiety r peeeible, and without any public demon sambas whesever.—tlrferd Chronicle, Illatmonb VOLeiTdde Ittr Le CORPS.—The divi sion lately termed for the diMuct of Paten. Reek-Atropos, Woodworth, sad Wimbledon, mustered en thw.d a y even itW Is, lasi drill, in be !alma &hook et Putney. For eld =boorl asemerkml atm tit ads divides promises to be • esatiagest is the >ikiaai norm with whom it im steeeiemd ROYAL COLLIGI OT Ilosozoss.—The following patina haulm" underdone the snowy osaroinatkes for the diplanin man admitted ambers of the nolkp at a AWL of the Pot of szantinars out the dtli feat., TM. : Sfissim awry idallsar4l, Plymouth, Thames Miller, Borylos, Inist Homy Rimy. Croydon; Mop Red• ' nab, mall; Freak Psat, Told's., lest; Priosals Orda Bing Wither, Maier ; Thomas M Hales Oman, Wor cestaratdm; llaelal lsararry, Marini.; Sheldon Fem me, Cimarron ; earamil Boorh, lieddirrsdaid; Richard ykophens Bircateiheam ; Loosard John Lee, London ; Retry Ikons lintsbeas, Aberdare; Alban Lk , Briatol; Chords Kkhant lrsiw, Portemooth ; Monad Comer Board, Brirtol ; Joseph Neerom, Bradford; Charism John Trotter, lioloserth, Yorkatura; Jamas Merrimac., Belfast; John Bookie, Chester; Willmar' Murray, Durham; Walton Barbera:as Pell, Northampton, and John Richard Thomas, THE MIDDLL-I.tveL Stsftn.—The Piccadilly breach estenda, from the main line at the janctioa of Kineeiriod and Theotaid'a-road, eking bedfoed row, flyounlote-stre,t, Holborn (for a ehort dietetic.), std Great Tursetils, Lincolee.toniSelds, north side, Gnat Quern • swot, Leagiscre, Cranbouras street, Co veatity-etreet, sad Piccadilly, to Half Moott-etreer, sad slaw that street sett part of Coma-wee' to the caner of Cliesserfleldistrset, • hingth of I mile 6.240 feet. Fee l a p ' ,p e t er pontos of Ibis distance, or 8,820 fret, wan new the point when Beritele)•etrret joins Piccadilly, the awl will M monied is tunnelling through the bl ue clay.— Paikkr. The Imayearle public examination and diatribu- Sea ofprkes .o die iodate Military College se Addis combs took plan yesterday. ender the presidency nt the Hight Hon. Sir Clio/Ise Wood, bast , her Id= Ptincipal Secretary of State foe the Affairs of ladle; whom owe preesint his Grua the Archbishop of Crialarbary, Sir Frederick Corr* Bart., Vier Pre...idiot of the Coanell of ladle; 54r Retort Vivian, 'C.C.S.. She Pram Caw*, I.C. IL. fad W. J. Letwick, Eeq. restabire rtt the Cosset' of India as wall am the mambo* of the Coma of Maw, aleoatien; Liest..Gcneral Sir Frederick Smith, the public szaininar, sad Major-Oessral file p aa l ar i a k Abbott, CB.. the lieutenant-governor of the collage; .ad a cabsiderable amber et n.ilaary aad genera Talkie. gr zis tteurt. OSBORN.. Dan. 9. Prince and Princess Ledniagen arrival yesterday, and remain on a visite, her Manny. Mr. C. W. Dille, Vice-PreeiMat of the Horticultural Society, Profaner Lindley, end Mr. Nokia bad an later new watt the Prove Consort. The Qinee and Prince Cowart, with Prince Leopold and Princess Lorain, drove out In ea epee cerriese. The Dasher c Atholl, the lbw. Eleanor Stanley, and Captain Du Pled were to attendeetse. A &Wads% mneiet ' a at Mr. W. Williams, 24. P., Kr. Ratapeit, M.P., tie Rev. 8. Ornery, Mr. Burnett, Mr. Lin ton, Mr. Z. Jaw, sad Kr. Bpsr hed an interview with Berl Oreavills, on Thursday, at the Privy Connell-cam His Royal Highness the Dab of Cambridge has bean staying daring the past week at Lowe by, en a obit to the Earl and Countem of Derby. Tbe Weds Invited to meet hid royal highness competed ask arose Illehearts Prime sad Princess Edward of Saxe We tlis Karl of Malinesbury, the Earl of Witten sad Lady latherlas Grey Egerton, the Earl and Counties of Chesterfield sad Lady Evelyn Stanhope, the Earl sad Lady Comenneis finteeemer, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Lord LasetWersagth Hos. Algurnos sad Lady Blanche Egerton, Mr. Oeorp itesesA swi Coked Tyrwhiu, is waiting on the Due of Caantaidip. The lid of Derby, socompanied by the Doke of Cambridge, Prime Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Earl of Wiliam, and the caber gentlemen of the party, eajoyed the sport of shooting ea Wednesday, when about 1,300 head of game fad to their vac On the next day there was another banes. _ _ _ Toeir Imperial ilighoeame the Duke of Leach. Moberg and Prince Rogow Rosesoffeky, attended by Oen. Rebbinder sad their prompters, have removed from Cla ridge's Hotel, Upper Bro,k-street, to the Bedford Hotel, Brigtvon. _ _ . The Marquis of Exeter has left town for Burghley Howie, Limodekko. Lord and Lady Cranworth have arrived at their redhead in Upper Brook-Wed, from Hobrood Park, Hank The Earl of Carnarvon has left Tarim after a stay of some days, His Excellency the Russian Miniettr and the Baroness Brunson entertained et dinner et Cheat= House, on Thursday evenlai, the following pasty :—The Duchess of inserneer, hie Exordium Coast Umatilla, ids Excellency Dan hum* his Excellency Kb Centurelear and Madame Teeniest, M. le Chevaise nand Madams d'Andrade, Coast sad Countess Bleudoe, Ilemisie Portman), Count Corti, Corot Csepel, Croat Timm, Vision* de Lebeardesaeye, M. le Chiseller Meeks de Itylve, K. Is Chiseller Km del Val, Mr. William Pad, Caplan Pella Osisuel Trimikelf, N. Babonroff, and K. Teliary. Aka Mauer the kermess received • select drily isaisikei mewl edam Rialliency the Turkish Arobssarkr, hie Exediesey the Bavarisa Minister, his Excellency the Austriest Kinkier sad the Cannier Apponyl, his Eieellesey the Humeri= Minister, his Excellency the Greek Minister, &c. His Imperial Higioess Prince Lucien Buonsparts strived fa Ulnwston on Stutday last, sad after putaldng of breakfast at the Btto Hotel, posted on to Coniston, and throb to Ands Wide. A letter from Rome of the 3rd says:—Arrivals madam het slowly. The French senator, Count Sintion, Mind bin yesterday. It appears that his visit le not un scansoted with the present complicationa. Visoonnt Perm say, M.P., hes pissed through from Naples to Ragland, eid Twin. Lord Pollington to still is Rome. Lady Augusta Hosts sad Lady Gibson Carmichael have gone on to Napier. M►. T. F. sad Lady Fremantle, and Colonel and Mrs. Da rysepte White me now in Roma." - - Mx.Backatque and the Haymarket company have main received the honour of a command to give a comedy Weaning to that theatre, at Wisdom. Castle, as two ma tions. The performances will take plats shortly after Chrietome. We (Bensday noses) hear that An UflOpei astcA, la which Mies Sedgerick plays her minim, character of Hester Grasetwook, will be the Bret selection. Oa Tuesday Miss Amy Sedgwick made her first appearance at the St. John's Wood Literary !agitation as a reader, and with complete success. Her selections in tragedy and comedy, chiefly from Shakspere, Tennyson, and Sheridan Knowles, elicited ent►u.iastic applause from • crowded audience. Two historical anecdotes connected with two illustrious pereoaages in English history have just come to light. Tho correspondence of the Preach Ambassador to the Court of Quer Elizabeth reveals to as what Elizabeth maid of Kassa. "He took pleasure," she said, "in insulting her perms; but she hail warned him to take care how he temoked bier sceptre." Ihe other anecdote ram to King George IV., sod is told in the diary of Kr. Rose, who wet mach with King George 111. and more with Mr. Pitt. Rose was talking to the King in his own bowie. " I thank God," said King George 111., and with warmth, "there le bat one of my children who wants courage, as I will not name bun, because he is to succeed roe." Here, than, (says the I littatrotai Loudon News) is anew bit for Mr. Thackarg's " Pour Georges." During the Christmas holidays Professor Faraday will deliver, in the Theatre of the Royal Institution, six lectures on " Varions Forme of Matter," In the style of Christmas sad to the capacities of a juvenile audience. We (Atheneum) announce with great satisfaction that the Intakes of the British Museum h►ve at length taken into eeri , us consideration the difficulties 'a which they are placed by our via of literary rued scientific restores. Something will now, we trust, be dons. At a very foil merinos of the board--sfter ommidershle diecossion as to the principle of separation—the terlterni have app.:doted a sub•eommirtee to consider and report on the 'abject. The *lndus of the hour of Commas, u representative of the powers that pay, is to act sa daimon of the sob-comtabtee. The Atacama's' matte that at the meeting of the Royal Academicians on Moniay, Mr. Cope's proposition as to its main principle of an increase in the number of the se ws:lake, may be considered to have been carried. The de tails of the ineware bays still to be considered. Meantime, in accordance with usage in such case., Sir Charles Eastlake suggested a reference to the council, which suggestion was taken by unantiuous consent. In the hands of the council, therefore, the matter now rests. Report will be made to • general meeting of the academicians, JO soon se the vise gentlemen of the council shell have ,named theer decidon in WOW ad proposal. The British government lately sent a traction locomotive engine to the Viceroy of Egypt Alter recitals! it, Said Paella ordered the seoiarer to get up steam, and hod the halt dozen carriages of the personages attending and his cars attoohed to it; then requesting them to get into their cur• elegem, be started off with theca—the locomotive at fall spied—es the great dismay of its unwilling pesoangers. Tb y thee passed through the principal streets of Cairo to the pat amenstosat of its Arch tohabiteals, and through the isberrob. sr Grand-piaor, on the way to the Palace of Laser-al-NU. The laropeam collected in front of Bhep pent's Hotel to Menem the some were highly mimed at this newel peasesser train, this exhibited through the city of the lialesfs, in the waits of its preesat rider. But Said Parka is notoriously Fond of a practical joke. The Bright lion. S. Cardwell, MX., accompanied by his private secretary, visited the Quotes College, Cork, on Wade...day. Hs strived at the college at tea o'clock, and proceeded to the Creek lodine-rooms, when be heard Ike haters of the vice-rreetdeet. He was eubsegriently present at the lensees of Dr. Boole sad Dr. Blyth. Mr. Cardwell ceretelly impeded every department of the college, sad made meat* larpdries es to the actual condition sad progress of each. Hornig stayed several homy at the collage, Mr. Card well whited the county prison, sad haviug paid his nispeees to the lord bishop at the palace, proceeded to Queenstown. Dr. Marian), the titular Bishop of Kerry, has it est the way to save the Populous. He divalged the Nerd sit • meeting held is the ohapel-yard at Yillalsey on Weineedey. "To return to the *Jayvee," said Bishop Moriarty, " we hove reason to fear that it will deal with the Pepe in • hostile spirit. Can we bring say influence to bear se its deliberations T Ym, sad I will prove it by a promos of removing se simple as that which we find in the history of the Lou.. that Jack built. Lied Palmerston will influ ence the onigrime—a pralianteatery majority will influence Lewd Pelaeretos—the mambas for the county of Kerry mid he lorciegh ladoence the majority—and you can toff imam them. (Loud erne of We will.')" The Rev. Dr. Jarbo, chaplain of the Tyne Sailors' Neese, hue reorived the offer of a chaplaincy on the Bengsl setablioltroent, from Sir C. Wood. Tan N tw J uDG g.—The vacant seat on the bench, in the room of the lots Mr. Justice Crowder, hos been filled by the appointment of the Solieitor-fhaerel, &r Henry Rea *. No decision, h.. we believe, been at prevent arrived at as to the suocomor of the S ,licitor•General, but the names of Mr. Idyls James, Mr. Wilde, and Mr. Rouradell Palmer ere mentioned as likely to be appolated.-2nosse. LAMEST INTELLIGENCE. THE AUSTRIAN INVITATION TO THE CONGRESS. "We fled," says the Dibats of to-day, "in the /vernal do Dm& an analysis of • despatch sent by Count de Rechberg to the various powers, to gether with the letter of invitation to the congress. According to this despatch France yielded to the wishes of Austria, in oonsenting that all the powers which signed the treaties of 1816 should be repre sented in the congress. Count de Rechberg believes it to be indispensable that the plenipotentiaries of Rome, Sardinia, and the Two Sicilia, should be also summoned. He adds that, from a just respect for the rights of the princes interested in the questions which will be discussed in the congress, the repre sentatives of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena should be admitted ' immediately these countries have re turned to a normal situation, which will guarantee their complete independence.' We call the atten tion of our readers to this passage. After the eekron declaration of the French government that the former sovereigns of Central Italy shall not be re-established by force, the language of M. do Rechberg may well create astonishment. This astonishment is yet increased, when we come to the last part of the despatch, and especially the passage where M. de Reohberg declares that 'the re-establishment of the princes, expelled by factions and the restoration of the pontifical authority in the insurgent provinces, is the first object to be attained by the congress.' Stich, if the analysis of the Journal de Deis& is correct, are the means which Austria believes to be necessary to assure the tran quillity of Italy. We doubt if these pretension. will be supported by France, and we have for guarantee the known intentions and the formal declarations of the French government." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. mom Otll OWN youissrommarr.) EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. ' This morning there came on at Tours a trial which excites immense interest throughout France. The few last months have been unusually fertile in causes cekbres both in France and England ; but I doubt whether anything more extraordinary in the juxtaposition of crime of the darkest dye with youth, 1 beauty, social rank, family, and fortune ever occu pied the attention of a court of law than the case of Madame Lemoine of Chinon and her daughter, faille. Angeline, who this day appeared at the bar of the Assize Court of the Indre and Loire on a charge of infanticide. The undisputed circumstances of the cue are that Mdlle. Angelina, a young lady of sixteen, of extraordinary beauty, having carried on an intrigue with the coachmen, became enceinte, and that as soon as her child came into the world it was burnt to ashes by the unhappy girls mother. The latter allege. that the inf►nt was still-born, but the daughter confused to the Judge of Instruction that it was born alive, that it had long beforehand been agreed between herself and her mother that it was to be destroyed, and that while she was in the pangs of labour her mother prepared a funeral pile of wood, which hai been laid in store for the dread ful purpose. Madame Lemoine, whose m►iden name was Meojot, belongs to an old family in Touraine. Her father was a judge at Chinon ; her grandfather sat in the Convention, and voted for the death of Louis XVI. Her ancestors, the De Champignys, have worn the judicial ermine in Touraine time oat of mind. She her►elf, when in the bloom of youth, made what was considered in the country a metal. home. She fell in love with and married M. Lemoine, an attorney of Chinon, who had scarcely any fortune. The marriage was not a happy one, and after a few years she obtained a decree of separation, which !eft her in custody of her two children—a son, now a law student in Paris, and Mdlle. Angelina. Her fortune, about 14001. a year, was considerable for the little town of Chinon, where she inhabited a handsome house, and ranked as one of the great ladies of the place. Mdlle. Angelina Lemoine was universally ad mitted to be the prettiest girl in the town—no small reputation, when we consider the proverbial beauty of the ladies of Touraine. The coachman, the third considerable personage in this drama, Fetee by name, is described by all the witnesses is a man of extraordinary ugliness— awkward and ungainly, ignorant, and looking much older than his real age, which is only 29. lie is unaffected by the slightest suspicion of any com plicity in the crime. On the contrary, he believed that he was going to marry his young mistress until, on his asking her hand from her mother, he was turned out of the house. The indictment Ode d'accusation), as is amid in each documents, does not confine itself to describing the crime charged, but enters at very great length into a variety of details conjectural, as well as re mote from the main facts of the case. It charges, among other things, that the mother was in the habit of reading Rabelais, and that the daughter's favourite was the " Confessions of Marion Delorme." Mdlle. Angelina is described as a singularly pre cocious young lady who, at the age of 16, openly boasted that she was fit to be married, and it is dis tinctly alleged that she made the first advanoes to the boorish coachman. Her object, it is said, was to get married, and to enjoy the freedom of the marriage state; she had heard a story of a young lady forcing her parents to consent to a marriage by becoming a mother, and she thought she would do the same. One day the coachman, while helping his mistress to lay down some wine in the cellar, said to her all at once, " Madame, I ask the hand of your daughter in marriage." Madame Lollloillell only answer was, " Go and pat the horses to immediately." The next day she discharged him without a word of explanation, but, according to his evidence, he said to Angelina u he was going oat of the house, " So, Madame won't let me marry you," and Angelina answered, " No, mamma says she will find means to get rid of it" (meaning the child with which she was enceinte). Rumours of the condition of Mdlle. Angelina spread in the town. The discharged coachman told all his friends of his emours, and said that he must of necessity be married to the young lady in the end. He imparted to many persons his idea of the inoome he was likely to enjoy and the scale of the establishment suited to his new rank in life. Madame Lemoine, who was highly respected in the neighbourhood, resolutely made up her mind to brave out the rumours current against the honour of her daughter. Thank* to the fashion of expansive crinoline, she made her walk about while far advanced in pregnancy in all the public promenades of the town, without it being possible for the public to perceive the young lady'. real condition. More than this, she made her on one occasion roll down hill, jut as people used to in Greenwich Park at fair time, for the express purpose of negativing the current belief. In spite of all these extraordinary manoeuvres, the infant was, as Angelina asserts, born alive, and after the full period of gestation. The girl also further admitted that she had agreed with her mother that the child was to be burnt as soon ai born; but she says she made &condition that it should not be burnt while alive ; she believes her mother killed it, though she knows not exactly Low, before putting it on the wood. Oa the other hand, Madame Lemoine maintains that there was no previous agreement to destroy the child, bat that finding it still-born, she suddenly resolved to put it out of the way, in order to save her daughter's honour. Such, iu all its main circumstance, is the outline of this remarkable case. M. Lachaud has gone down specially to defend Madame Lemoine. The counsel for Angelina is M. &filer, of the Tours bar. Almost all the Paris jour nals have sent special reporters to Tours• A despatch of this morning says that the court, which is one of the most spacious in France, was crowded with spectators from Blois, Ssumer, Angers, &c., and that a large proportion of ladies were among the audience. A telegram, dated 1 o'clock, states that Angelina in her examination retracts the confession she made before the Judge of Instruction, and now says that she only agreed with her mother that the child was to be destroyed in case of its being born dead. One of the witnesses, a NI. Lieubray, who had drawn the attention of the authorities to the suspicious circum stances of the case, has attempted suicide. The Bourse was sgain very animated, sad prices rose in the early part of the day, but after maay fluctuations the Rents left off at nearly yesterday's quotations. The last price for account was 70fr. 45c., bring 23c. lower than the highest point of the day. Mobilter rose Ofr.; Spanish Mobilier fell lfr. 260. The Orleans Railway fell 10fr., and Lyons, 6fr.; the other lines remain nearly as yesterday. M. de Lamartinee paternal estate of Monceanx, near Macon, is advertised for sale by auction at the Chamber oeNotaries in Paris on Feb. 7. The upset price is fixed at 1,000,000 fr. (40,0001.) The evening papers contain nothing of ha -1 penance. CENTRAL ITALY. (mom OUR BPSCIAL CORRISPONDINT4 A BATTALION OF CHILDREN. WANDIANO, Dec. 4. On the southern side of Reggio—the Regium Zvi& of Cicero, founded by that famous Marcus Apulia@ Lepidna, who, after having conquered the Bpi, opened the /Ernilian way from Piacenza to Rimini—is situated the town or the " Nobil Terra" of Beandiano, as the people of the country still call ft. The Tresinaro, a narrow but rapid torrent now swollen by the melting snows of the Apennines, runs on the northern side of this town, still famous for the exquisiteness of its wines, and once the splendid seat of the Fogliani, Bojardi, Tiene, and Bennvoglio families. It was within the walls of its formerly magnificent castle that Bojardo planned his famous poem " Orlando," which at a later period furnished the argument to Arictito's grand poem. Be sides the poet Bojardo, this small town, which has now a population of scarcely • thousand souls, gave birth to other men more or less illustrious, both in the annals of the middle ages and in those of our times. The Capuchin Magati, • famous physician, who flourished in Bologna at the end of the sixteenth century ; the Cardinal Toechi ; the Cavaliers Va ll isuen ; the learned Laura Bassi ' who in the year 1740 was elected professor in th e Archigimnasium of Bologna ; and the physicians Oarofoli and SpaLlanzani are amongst them. Nor are these the only men whom Scandiano has the honour of reckoning among its citizens. There is another, still alive, who, although born in the Modenese village of Bresoello, wee brought up by a gentleman of this town, Signor Matioli, to whom he was related. This man, who now enjoys an European reputation, is Mr. Panizzi, of the British Museum. After the assassination of the last Prince of Este, a natural son of Ercole 111., which took place in the very room from which I am now writing, &anthemo lost the importance it had had during the middle ages, and its castle was allowed to go slowly to decay, till it became almost uninhabited. Two apartments, one on the ground floor, the other in the upper story, still bear witness to its former magnificence. The gallery in the middle is adorned by splendid stuccos and an elegant work of Primatticcio, and its noble staircase is still in a fair state of preservation. Its large rooms and spacious halls have been almost ruined by the action of time, but its towers and battlements still stand out firm and distinct against the green background of the neighbouring hills. It is within the walls of thin ancient castle that the 400 boys of which the battalion of the edokseenti is composed are now quartered. The first idea of recruiting this legion of children belongs to General Garibaldi. When engaged in the South American wars, and in the defence of Rome in 1849, this gallant leader had noticed that boys, between the ages of 13 and 15 years, had proved useful in the daring military operations he wu called to accom plish. At the beginning of the late campaign, having found that the Lombard cities through which he marched his triumphant legions had given their contingent of young soldiers, he at once made up his mind to have a battalion of adoleteenti orga nised. An intelligent young offioer, whom he had known during the Roman campaign of 1849, being near at hand, he entrusted him with the formation of the legion, which at the beginning did not num ber more than 150. Austrian persecutions and patriotism soon increased the number of the adoleseenti, so that the battalion has now completed its numerical strength. These little soldiers are dressed in a dark green tunic, with red =ifs with a white edge, and dark green trousers. On my arriv ing here this morning from Reggio I happened to see them whilst they were manceuvriog on the parade ground opposite to the castle. I was really at the same time astonished and amused to see how perfect and orderly their movements were. They went through all sorts of military evolutions with such steadiness and precision as could scarcely hare been surpassed by grown-up soldiers after many months of training and drilling. Their commanding officer, Count John Arrivabene, a young nobleman of three-and-twenty. He belongs to an illustrious Mantuan family, which, since 1821, has contributed a great many soldiers to the cause of national independence. Although I really believe that this battalion of boys will do good service should it be calltd to fight against the enemies of Italian independence, its chief importance is of a moral kind, and is such as will be easily understood by all sensible men in Europe. This gathering of the representatives of the rising genera tion around the flag of their country should be taken as a warning to Europe that there cannot be any compromise, any temporary solution of a question which has taken such hold not only of all clause, but all ages. As I was wit nessing the moving spectacle of these boys parading before their chief, a tremendous cheer made me aware that something had occurred, which, being a stranger to the place, I could not understand. An old lady, apparently of high rank, had just crossed the Church-square, and was hastening towards a neighbouring house and it was for her that the cheers of the boys were intended. I asked • bystander what was the meaning of that demon stration, and he told me that the lady who had just crossed the square was the Marchioness Valente Gonzaga, the mother of the commanding officer, Count Arrivabene. She had come from Mantua on a visit to her son after her prolonged captivity in the Austrian prisons. You will not have forgotten how in September last the old marchioness had the audacity, as the Austrians say, of being present at a funeral mass performed in the ca. hedral at Mantua in honour of those brave Italians who had fallen on the battle-field of Solferino. Although she is nearly seventy years old, she was arrested and subjected to the most insulting treatment by the Austrian police, being shut up with the lowest description of (lamer our eamellas to be found within the walls of Mantua. The noble appearance of the o'd lady, with her care worn face, impressed me deeply. The medical practitioners announce, that a rather strongly developed small pox iv raging epidemically at Parts. It does hot attack children alone, but older people, who have too long omitted to have themsulees rwvaccioated. The Countess 8., who bears an historical name, hoe just het attacked with this disease. A grenadier on duty near the Thtitre dm Piro at Brussels ' a few nights back. picked up a roll of papers, which he gave to the officer at the guard-home. fis.on afterwards the sentinel saw • man rush out of the theatre, and address several person u it to inquire whether they bad found anything. On appealing to the grenadier he we informed that his roll of papers, which. as it appears. onntained 100,000 f. in banknotes, was In the hands of the officer at the guard-hones. On recovering his lost property he offered the soldier the magnificent sum of if. lific. THE OUTWARD BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. —The stem-ship Avon, Captain novena, left flostbatopt= yesterday enth the shove mails, 90 passengers, 62,0651. is specie, and 19,9371. in Jewellery. -r - - FRENCII iNNRW CALEDONIA.—The startling saws that three Englishmen bad been shot by the French authorities in New Caledonia had ocoattioned great excites :neut. According to his own statement, Captain Padden. who had been a settler sod trader in that ',aunts" before the assumption of sovereignty over it by the French, had landed at Moreton Bey from a whaleboat, having crossed to that place from New Caledonia in ten days with two white men and three islanders. WA report was that the French go comment had accused the Eoglish residents of supply's( arms and ammunition to the Rau's in de:lanced Melee. elatostion forbidding this traffic; that three men in his (Pan don's) employ who had been accused of this, having mire rendered themselves tor trial, had been shot by the entre order of the governor, after Laving been allowed but • quarter of an hour to say their prayers; and that fearing similar fats he had fled with his boat's crew, leaving not only all his property, hot even his family behind him. There are other statements, but so conflicting that ft is Impossible to elicit the truth. According to one account, the three mos who have beau shut were engaged in actual hoes tilitise againet the French authorities, end were only con. chinned slier a careful and impartially-conducted trial. At.. cording to another, they (or, at sit events, two of theca) were quietly pursuing their way to a boat near the chore when ey were *mats d, and the *fie evidence upon which they VIM madenined was that of two native women—evidence which would ...madly have been but of little value if It stood alone. But the whole matter, it is understood, is being fully investigated by the governor general. His Excellency's report, we understand, u.O trammeled by the times to the imperial government There is the same conflict of evidence se to the attitude sesame(' by the French authorities in NM Caledonia towards other Englishmen, and as to the genera aspect of affairs there. Something more definite must be known ere lose, bur, in any event, grim consideralona will be aluitat sure t.l stripe out of them occurrenosa.—.efustra/iart and New Zeeland Gazette. CENTRAL ITALY. General Fanti, commander-in-chief of the army of Central Italy, issued a notification at Bologna on the 3rd, intimating that, as the enemies of the present government are actively engaged in attempting to induce the troops to desert or to mutiny, all those guilty of such offence shall be tried by court-martial according to the existing laws of Sardinia. FRANCE. PARIS, Dac. 9. Sweden has sent in her adhesion to the Congress. M. de Mouldier leaves to-morrow for 'Vienna, to swum his post as French ambassador. The France Central* has received a first warning, for an article on the consequences of the treaty of Zurich. SPAIN. MADRID, Die. 8. The Spanish government his given orders for a levy of 60,000 men in January Dent. DENMARK►. COPENHAGEN, Dn. 9. The Fasdrelmadet states that Prince Christian of Denmark wu yesterday appointed Governor of Holstein. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE (TrA Tanta Ts), Dec. 3. The envoy of Prince Daniel, of Montenegro, has been assewinated. The news of the Sultan's refusal to accept Faad Paoha's resignation is confirmed. GREECE. The following is an extract of a letter from Athena, dotod 26th Nov., 1869 .-- We have had rather stirring time. for this put of the world thew last few days. First of all, the opening of the exhibition of Greek produce, though not exhibiting any thing very extraordinary to those who have been in the habit of frequenting the Crystal Palace, still promises well for the future of Greece. The embroidery, the etching on wood, sod the busts in Pentedioon marble, of the heroes of the Greek Revolution, including the English Philhellsora, Lord Byron, General Church, Captain Hastings, and Mr. Finley, are well worthy of mention. Next came the arrival of the Euryalus,with out royal middy. His snivel had been long announord for the 10th, but the wea ther, which had been exce,eively line up to the Bth, suddenly bmaine squally, and caused ua to be afraid it might detain the Poises longer than intended, as we knew he was to take Thermopylae, Marathon, and &adorn on hie way. However, faithful to the programme, the &typal= °see anchor in Pi. roils harbor- on the day appointed. Sir Thomas Wyse, with the reembrre of the leg►tion and the consular authori ties, Immediately went on board to pay their respects. Notwithstanding a moot pressing lovitatkiet from his Majesty King Otho to take up his residence at the palace, tie Prince decided on accepting the hospitality of our own minister dating him stay in At hens. Both the King and Maria did ell n their power to show Prince Alfred every attention ; a grand dinner cue day, and a grand ball the next, were gives at mart is his honour ; the sante amities' and the King's hones were placed at his divined, but the bad weather prevented, unfortunately, the several excursion* to the Intimating places in the neighbourhood planned by their Majesties for him. The Prince attended the English church on Sunday, when the Rev. Dr. Hill presched a very good sermon, ad hoc. Bir Thomas Wyse gave errata dinners, and on the 16th a grand ball, which wee honoured with the presence of the Kist and Qaeen of Greece, who were most gracious to every one present ; the whole corps diplonatirse, with all the notables la Athens, were in full dress. The King opened the ball by dancing with Mime Wyte, and the Queen with Prince Alfrait ' the Queen afterwards honoured Major Cowell and oar 5e- artery of Legation by dancing with them, end the King basoured our consul's lady, Mrs. Neale, by dancing a quadrille with her. At 12 o'clock supper was anionamd. A private table for the royal party, consisting of the King, Queen, Prince Alfred, Sir Thomas and Was Wyse, had been laid in &r Thomas's library, whore after sapper his Majesty re malted some time admiring the fine collection of books end pictures. Dancing was resumed with resewed spirit after supper, their Idejeatice seemiog especially to enjoy themselves, fir although they arrived at 9 p.m. it was poet three when the chef a" orchisfro gave the lest coup d'artLa that put an and to the wallop. Altogether this lute been one of the moot splendid pm we have had in Atheoe. The apartment. were deco rated la very good taste, the nocisio was first-rate, the pee- Nonce of our glorious Queeti"s young son made all oar hearts joyful. The attention paid by Sir Thomas and Miss Wyse to their numerous guest. and the splendour of the entertainment showed clearly that our host and hostess were horn In the land of hospitality. _ . . - On the 17th the Prince returned to hie frigate, attended by Sir Thomas and Mire Wyse, where their Mejeetke paid him a partiog visit, which we. amid by those niftiest to be very etiog ; in tact, had the Prince bees one of 1661 r neared religious they could sot bare been kinder to him. The Oreek goverausent having placed • small Ammer at the Prince's diapueel, be noted is It Element and the neigh bourhood, end on the 18th toe Enryslue sailed fur Corfu. The sleeted the young Prince has made a most favourable impression here, sad the English colony bas been much gra tified by the honours paid him, nut only by the court and Ike ufficaals generally, but by l chose who b e d •,,g opportu nity of paying him any respect, without overwhelm:deg him with idle compliments. His manners are captivating it is true, end the kindness be showed hie lgother middies in providing them with partnere at the balls woo the hearts of the Greek yowler Idea. Notwithstanding the bad weather Sir T. Wyse found an opportnnity of attending the Prince to the Acropolis ; and so one la more capable of imparting ancient lore or of point ing out theartietic views of the magoiticeat scenery than this learned and acconipliehed scholar, and I understand that under his scientific direction the Prince bra a few sketches, south will no doubt greatly delight hie royal wawa, and be agreeable emminers of his visit to Athena. The choice made of Idejor Cowell for his governor seems • very happy one, for it wee remarked by all, and the Greeks are keen obearvers se you know, that whether dancing with the Queen, oc conversing with our grandees, be never tom sight of hie royal pupil. Captath Tarletun seemed elm very essidunue in his attendance upon tier sailur Prince. Under such able tuition be cannot fail to fulfil oar hopes of be coming one of the brightest jewel& of our beloved falwree 010112. I II