The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-16 00:00:00

MADLLE. DOUDET'S APPEAL.

Madlle. Doudees appeal, writee the Perim =re-
spondent of the Doily Ifessa, at I thought would be the
sass, was adjourned, oa Friday, to April 24. The (*row-
ing is a ripen of what took plus la the Inapefal Court,
U. Ziaagauni presiding :

" Dr. Marsden and his daughters were not premise, but
the Court was crowded. The is displayed mush more
sonadesse than witea tried by the Correctiosal Tribunal,
and instead of baring constant moms to a emelliag bottle
took freeman notes during the proesedings. M. Demme
appeared as hoe advocate, and M. ChM d'ilet Inge, as
Mises Ike Tribmal. sated es manse! fee Dr. Mande..
After the sensed had , mimed the usual questions is to
but name, age, sad mollusks, one of the judges made a
Mg report is the Mee, is whisk all the facts were set
forth with impartiality. The menesd was then interne
gated by the Prmideat. she began by proustim that she
was perfectly hutment, sad then west ea to say that the
'wigwam given by her dim bad been mismdenteod and
adsremeseated, that her servants sad the sonderge of her
house had been gained ova to speak *Oast her, that
Aldan. Sedge and Other +haggles for the prosecution had
depose is matters of which they were Ignorant, that the
cuts md braises which had Men observed on the persoas of
the girls bad beim iollisted after they bad left her, sad
that the abildres bad spoken spinet her under the ialleenes
of their tether. All. in fact, that the maid Mak was that
the had bees very strict with the gbie, and she contended
that each a mune of **admit bad bees necessary In the
tees. After the interrogatory bad soaduded, the Court, on
the application of IL Hamer, postponed the further bear.'
lag of the ease So Tuesday, the 24th April."
Oa the 24th of April this extraordinary owe will be
resented with fresh rimer is both aides. M. Henry
Collies a barrister, who took his seat yesterday by the side
of M. Bunryer, has written a pamphlet (a Miseoire)in
favour of the seamed. This lliesofra, IL Boma says, he
intends to se for the defense, and the ground apes whisk
the court en seated to postpone the trial was that the whets
impaction wee net yet finished. Oa the ether band it to
reported that the Advocate-Osumi will take advantage of
the appeal to demand that the mimes of two years' impri-
sonment prononseed age** Mdlle. Doadet may be aug-
mented* ave.

Wit road is Golipans's Meanger :—" Mr. Web-
Woasespine lassilmeolhtlishit postpristor of tis. Adsiphi, is is Paris,
la outosa. Iskas advaatigo of a kW
bison to nu over to ass if *lre W &Whim' to
up These is .area miaow of a diasa to Mos
over timgaillphitoospramiautbelal hat
is Ist settled sa an saliftaa Wo Isar Maki afarttoelkba
m,. Indult, sitivalasier et the sane maim vat* AIN
mamma arm Yes alas* lath. Isatioajoarastal" Ilails
the samojoasall 2.-sg Tho Ail of Mit. BMW le 101.611,
oOsr thosamploas of Mr. Mambo% mossird mos tildo
ai bask. maser to haw beat iiillasiasj al bast Midas
isaflatsly bora oil au the be....
In ao ad tai
that Millman, Shwa tar Olivine* limbo 0
my isto W liao Luisa paha, Sat Nash rofsly an=
treesof th darkab at Psak aissly, iho actors sad
, °na it smiths Waal,. John pap so via."

THE INDIA MAIL.

We (Daily News) havereceived en despatches by
the Overland Mail, dated Calcutta, 10th ; Madras,
14tb; and Bombay, 18th March.
The following is from the summary of the Bombay
Mises:

The excitement of the fortnight is the opening by
&overnmtnt of a 5 per cent. loan of two millions
ling, to be employed on public works. (Bee our
eseunercial intelligence sebioined). From the class
of the Punjab war in 1849 the Governor-General, as
seeing the extreme necessity and enormous gainful-
Bess of public works, has been bent on raising money
for their construction, to any extent that might be
desired, so long as he could borrow below six and
Invest above ten per cent. And now for the first
time he seems to this insignificant extent to have
bees indulged. That public works would be infinitely
batter managed by private enterprise than by govern-
ment is beyond question, and no wonder that it
should, when we find three months required to answer
the simplest letter not requiring the slightest consi-
deration or reference to any party, months or years
the the explication of information for which a fort-
night should suffice, and an ignorance on the part of
the authorities of the physical, moral, industrial, and
financial condition of the country, which would seem
incredible if it were not confessed. But India has
been so governed heretofore that no temptation
hitherto presented has been found sufficient to allure
into it private capital or enterprise; and, as it is
reful the work should be left t undone, it neves-
tlevolves on government when all other parties
decline it.—A despatch of great ability, the pub-
lication of which is daily expected, has been
written by the Governor- General on public
works, for the promotion of which separate de-
partments are being arranged; and he has spe-
cially ordered that men should be placed in
charge of these exclusively in consideration of
qualification, and without regard to their position
in or their belonging to the service; the first step
towards securing for India the services of a great
body of civil engineers, not as a separate and inde-
pendent corps, but on the ordinary terms on which
they are engaged by European governmeuts or public
(companies. Lord Harris has already obtained for
Madras a liberal supply of these, who are now on
their way out, and others are desired to be enter-
tained or trained on the spot, under arrangements of
most praiseworthy liberality, and the system will, we
hope, be worked out at all the presidencies. The
Madras government, having succeeded in establish-
ing an excellent muteum at the Presidency, are now
endeavouring to bring local museums into existent.
up and down over the districts.
The electric telegraph has just been carried as far
north as Attok, and will be at Peshawur in three'
month's time—a distance in direct line of a thousand
miles from Calcutta, and the like from Bombay, and
sixteen hundred from Madras ; so that the three
presidencies could be communicated with simulta-
neously, and in a few minutes' time, by the Affghan
frontier—the only point in the whole circuit of our
dominions where serious trouble or annoyance can
arise to no. Meanwhile, after having completed three
thousand miles of telegraph with incredible economy
and speed, instead of encouraging by the lowest pos-
sible scale of prices the public to resort to it, until
they had found it a necessary of life, we have clapped
en it a rate of charge so monstrously extravagant,
that it is never employed unless by government, and
is utterly useless to the eimmuoity at large, and this,
h.% just after finding that by striking three-fourths
off our posteger, the Poet-office revenue has been
improved.
We have still troubles on oar Peshawar frontier,
sad a force of three thousand men was under orders
te take the field on the hat, when it was found that
the enemy had dispersed of their own accord, and the
troops were countermanded. Oa the 27th of Feb.
a successful foray was executed by a party under
Captain James, when forty Hill-people were cap-
tured, three killed, and five wounded, and a hundred
head of cattle secured. The statement formerly
published, that a party of the 10th Cavalry had
abandoned the cattle they were carrying to Fort
Msekeson. proves to be incorrect ; the escort was
from the 14th Irregulars, who carried off their booty
in safety, and never saw the marauders before whom
they were said to have fled. Operations have been
ordered to be commenced in the Meeranzai country
on the 20th of March. The proposed treaty with
Lost Mahomed has greatly offended the Hill tribes,
who have intercepted his son Hyder Khan on his
way to Peshawur to meet Mr. Lawrence.
The Umballa Chobhsm has been broken up, and
amongst our general orders will be found Sir Wil-
liam Gosem's opinion of the efficient state of the
several regiments of which it was composed.
The Governor-General, after directing that promo-
tions in the Bengal Poet-office should be made through
be

the department, has arranged that the head ihell
monopolised by a civil servant, of course at three or
four times the pay at wlich a thoroughly trained
postmaster from home might be wort d.
Three deplorable murders have occurred in the
morn of the past fortnight. A Mr. David Thom,
assistant in the Agra Bank at Bengal, once a enr-
olment in Dundee, has, in a fit of drunkenness, Me-
ssily pounded his wife to death with a brickbat EE
Sergeant Doyle, at Madras, hu nearly decapitated
Ms wife through:jealowy ; and a native in the Bow
in .a fit of suspicion, waylaid sad
the suossppecccted paramour.
The Glove eral reached Calicut by steam as
the 2nd of March, and had ptvbibly arrived at
Ootasamand by the Bth. Lord Blphinstone is at
Bombay. Mr. Maki, our new member of Council, is
expected a fortnight benee. The Commander of the
Forces, Sir Henry Somerset, is now at Bombay,
waiting to be sworn ins. Commander-is-Chief. Lord
Harris is at Madras.
The cavalry intended for the Crimea have now all
left us, and a highly complimentary and =latently
well-deserved letter from acv ..-- at, and eat order
from the Comte- -' Indian haw

.......ufaaaeran-Chiet of the envy,
been published in reference to all those °cosseted
with the dockyard engaged in hastening on the work.
This is the second time within these three years that
the marine department has been taxed to its utmost
by emergencies, End on both they have shown that
the zeal, perseverance, and expedition with which
they could push on work could not be surpassed is
any part of the world.

CASUALTIES by death in India sines the departure
of the ataal ea the feth March, 1886:
Her Majesty's Troops.—Lieetsosnt•Colonsl Green, 84th
Regiment, at Rangoon, on sheath Yebraery.
litdrea—Major (brevet Liettssant.Ootosol) J. Back,
Artillery, at ass, on the 11th February.
Beasal—Major Camp.U, 68th Regiment Native Infantry,
on board the Islam, at Meehan.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

'iissiiiiii;7lAzat 18.

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stave ear kat report has Om the Keilleados lourdby las ffieworo.
emend vi the 131 Instant, that the perstiosit al bait MI
wefts iztes:
ear sot lose for yelete to dr moist at IMINIAMI
aftehteh eta its wail to risetvit at Ileshay. Its in Not pi la 1
peest like a the ten= at the lass .• bit very panel sonde Ma
ban ended
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viblelt dm rnemeet el 1:s /elm rep array situ
thyyear, iy pt Ism
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rate dimmest as pasmoseet piper. It to sigiissidritho letrote
larapaneltn mp my Wm, needy diened thee therein
ail ft Is haws theme a Mom to. len
to wlth winner alb awn le speed feVila =Fry
(abet boy lie tt to rig. on' tin the alle at Inn= for the
entrantles ben that The tint of thle onflre ba of
none ban • navy tea la ea of petrinwit seouldn.
shish en am Is web ebb le per bwer an bet neoldbew—
a navy bee le then holders it Pm yes Coot pw, Mom the 1
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lag more la fie, doll • IME, limalm Male far ems dose to
eene—a ebb of imsbonqu Ifniblien will ant M beined WMeas pmts.
abet treenebe. Oar of neoritlas ea ws
wesneat Paw per Gat, lan 11011-111, 116 per lus
a re.; fltio..tatto,
lid U In fli• i MOW 0.441 M —ii. $t per Mlles; ditto
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at Lens el sr ria ementlei allies to doe the hinge, we
tenet to um nen will: ea the maim Ye name re.
oned,,thespeololies offsely Me& ewes el mow l
net semi nen lea of the aloe and diner* wide
abbe ben abeg oenrilei %nen 'Mien bewe out=
pnwing oaf% dalable inent of tronablen Inn
la seem pending the none hobos mile le eeppert
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to the pretest stole of beeimee eta he Weld for, we
fire. ,
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in value. 43 Inch are nominelly the ease, and Meet* anythlbg ha
been done in them. •
OUT 14nazottaits.-36 lath 34 yards seder 3 lb. Ire very dull.
but. support late ratee, end kw rim me reported.
Our fence:mt.-10 loch 20 yam* el ell.qualltksl On a Mile
melee in value sad heavy of male, tempt good quality 43 Wel, 'with
told horder, winds is in lair request.
Lord eters are T Cuss ant bath wretetedJy dell, and in the
latter no sales are reported, whitens the teener they an verylimited.
Domestics are still very Mikan to move, there beteg PI 1•11417
from the Arab or Persian traders, wham tun imposair•
wants.
is feat owning round, and the few 'Cesare in none, oblimbir local
ncaaeolin era FaveT llama—ln thine app the Burkett fa ern
mace denrereed.
realm Itin Goon are very difieult of mks
Comm Treas.—The better hello( which we bed wades te siting
In oar Met le this branch of our market be., we regret to gay, thew.
peered, and we hare again to notice a very (riling heiress, with a
slight fall la price in some counts. Dyed Turkey ted and orange are
likewise dull, aid cabin has been done ki them, but the latter le
firmer and looking up la price.
Wootuots.—There Is no improvement to notice in Win articlea
slick wahines very dull.
Maras.—The mita has undergone bat little change sleep bet
mall, exempt that there has been lea inquiry or Iron, and most de-
reriptioxe are slightly lower In value. Copper has, on the other band,
further advaneeo ha Woe. bat nothing has bees done. epelter, lin
plates, and quicksilver are all on the decline and very quiet.
beta.—Wenn bear of no move in this *Wee, though the seamele
supply of Albin" end Bees are now beginning to arr.re„ the Isapmer
of Om ems having brought the first tutioli of those brews.
titroata—Cottoa wool: The market has bean vary du•l the pant
fortnight, and few pus shams have been made, the traneacticee not
annealing 1,000 bales, mostly on native account, at a slight eonesselma
in prim to those ruling last mall; but, as the new ere.s le now begin.
ging to ante., though in very small parcels as yet, more activity may
he looked for es the wake aliveness, as an increased devike for ship.
meat China la thoring there WW &CCM I 'em dipper
vessels laid on the berth for that qoarter. The quality of what hoe
as yet arrived 01 the new crop proves inferior In colour, being much
stained, owing to the hatless of the rains.
Texraox.—Notwitbstanding government have taken up several
vessels of late for the eenveysuoe of Myelitis to England, and that our
supply of teenage Is Ur from abundant, tats have gone down, and ha
Oers Britain we quota there dull at U. IN. to 31, l3+. ed per ton
measurement . seeds, 31. tle. td. ; per ton. To China,
onetime to the list engagement, which was to a round sum, 6 re.
per candy.
Etcusion.—ltinee oar lest we have very lUDs alteration to report,
the tinnitenall br.nging a moderate supply ot Chita drawn Indite,
widen canted a slight advance, and the bovine.* done may be quoted
le. I 11-Ititt. to es. l 5.104. fur credit, sad 2a. I 2.8 d. to Ls. lid. for
documents. The tendency at the close is to slightly adiranted rates.
Os Calcutta we sow quote fin roe, at eight, and test at eh days' sight:
On Madras, 94 re. at au dap' bight ; and on China, 220 re. at IA dept.

CALCUTTA, Man= S.
Our produce market remains in the same inactive orate it
has been in for some time past. Indigo is heir brisk, but the bulk of.
the crop of good dereription is provited Ihr ; ties is still soles for-
ward, but everything elm is cud.
We at last taco tee pleasure to =Donna a more healthy impure
emit In the piece goods :market; advises from op-country assume •
better colour ; the money markets are easier, and although. *ales are
being made at • sacrifice on the east, mill goods ...re bailie moved at,
and widow:us require lobe replenished at the lower at.. ruling hem
we coorsequenky look tor sonsiderable activity in our import market,;
alibi:ugh, except in same iew article,, at ne adverts In values; for
the lower cost et seliklt goods me now being shipped at hums, eta
cash et importers to sell tam off on arrival, so that no gavel tan result
from holding off for higher prieem
EXCIAANOW• A. one period there was an eapectation that our rates
for the present read would have owing at an advance on last quota-
tions, but such did not prove to be the meet the supply of bills has'
not been lards, and although present woe geode oollto.-one must
purtly ge to repay the Musks for bills previously given out coerce:lit.
still *large portion havailable for remittance; sad baribens, getting
in they money mots truly, me enabled to discount for the merchant
the sales now making; oureequently the demand far - lie Is fully
equal to t°e supply; the state of the home m rke.a will not tend to
increase our drawings for some time to come, end it is not thought
that we shall have any large amount Irma China at the low rate
of 4s. 70. last ruling; so that If the acivit; in imports shall con.
lom. and our busy semen for the up-country mate is at hand, we
con cm that we meteor in the opinion that lower rates must shortly
be looked tor, mollies under any peculiar operattme or the banks
which cannot be antleipsted. QuAltioes for the present mail may
be capon as at 2.sj to Id. for credits, aid 2.1 to 2.1 i for &minuet
bills. [he Otieutal think is drawing at 2-01, but bO,l-1) of the other
basks have drawn at from 2Of to 2.0 at ail months' sight;
at move fur this mail the rate is rather looking downward.
Tressurland hank Poet Bills are quoted at 1 111 to I.llf.
Eamonrs have shown a constmet dcwaward teotleney mace our
last;but in the whole have been better supported than, under former
Mime advice. and the a..moced rate of cachet's., mule have been sa-
tiety:red. The tendency of List new. is thought to be in favour of
• rise, the demand for knees° or rice and teed. continuing.
M. le. ed. all round has been offered an American hip to load to Lon.
don. Rates may now he quoted ter London as follows:- sugar and
saltpetre, 41. ; rtes, 41, IM. to Si.; see.* Si. 1%. to 61.; Jute, 41. ;
Wes, Si.; al k and indigo, ail. to 71. ; other goods in like proportion.
For Liverpool :—ltice. vl. lea. ; Jute, 31. , ; seeds, 1:1. 10*. ; other
pools nominal. For Mauritius we now quote Its. 2.0 to 2.1 per
ear. To America the rata ate from In doM. to 1111 dots., or It dole.
all round.

THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.

(THOlt THE

Illt OP Till DAILY DZWIL)
PARIS, APRIL 13.

GENERAL

have been casting about lately

for additional space. Not writes' with a connecting
gallery between the Palais de l'lndustrie and two
galleries in the long machinery building, they have,
I am credibly informed, bought up the Panorama
building in the rear of the Palace, and are disposing
it for the reception of goods. All this Additional
space will, it is to be hoped, enable the manufacturers
of Paris to present to the world a complete collection
of those wondrous bronzes, clocks, boxes, and ttinkete
of all kinds, known to everybody as the Article Paris.
Already the authorities of the Gobelios have barri-
caded the north-east corner of the Palace, where they
are doubtless preparing a surprise for the let of next
month. In contact with the wondrous tapestries of
this national establishment will figure English paper-
hangings and painted glass. Let us hope that
we may be able to stand this contiguity
with better advantage than our neighbours
expect for us. The English committee ap-
pear determined to do their best to present the
English contributions in the universal competition as
gracefully and effectively as possible. With this
view Mr. Cole has invited Mr. Rigby Wyatt to Paris.
This gentleman is now occupied arranging the splen-
did Indian collection that is to occupy the south-
eastern corner of the galleries. I notice, also, that
the English proprietors of stalls have largely availed
themselves of stamped leather decorations, which,
fixed in designs upon the wood-work, and palmed
over, gives the effect of carving. The Glasgow and.
Dunfermline stalls are particularly conspicuous for
this imitation carving. Hunt and Roskell's gallery
stall is also in this style. The Nottingham lace stalls
are in imitation ebony, picked out with gold. The
effect is very pleasing. It is hardly possible to say
what other nations intend to do in the matter of sten
decorations; but, up to the present time, those of
England bid fair to equal any in the Exhibition.
The Nottingham stalls were sent from England.
There are a few stalls in the French gallery; but,
with this exception, all the stalls actually fitted up in
the building two days ago were English. Portugal
and Spain were leisurely measuring out their
Sardinia was desolate. In the German
Zaprrtment, there were a few castings perceptible,
and great activity prevailed hereabouta—bet in Ame-
rice,Tdelgium, Mexico, &c., there was no perceptible
movement. I am told that the Americans have
asked permission front the imperial commissioners to
throw a gotta perches arch, of French design, over
the principal entrance to their space. It is doubtful
whether this permission will be accorded. It is,
however, certain, that Elkington will have a grand
stand conspicuous in the central ball. What the
English will be allowed to place in the central space
to add to the general effect, is not
_yet known. A
lighthouse w however, among the British contribu-
tions. The arrangement of the central hall has been
delayed, probably, by the necessity of taking up the
flooring. The builders had left no interstices, monist
duet would have blinded ;the visitors and destroyed
the goods, had not thief interstices been insisted
OFC.•
have a remarkable *fact to note. The conductors
of the Great Exhibition of 1861 may remember that
Erskine Beveridge and Co., of Dunfermline, were the
first to send their contributions to Hyde-park. Their
cases led the way into the Crystal Palace. Well,
the same thing has happened in Paris. Their goods
were the first received into the Palais de L'lndustrie.
Really a firm so remarkably punctual deserve a re-
ward, and a notable reward, apart from all conside-
ration of the merits of their contributions.
A point which should at once attract the attention
of the English government is the working of the pass-
port system in connexion with the Exhibition.
Crowds of working men, leaving Manchester, Glas-
gow, Birmingham, or Liverpool, to visit Paris for a
week, will be seriously embarrassed by the complies-
Aisne of the present passport system. It has been sug-
gested to me, by a very high authority, that an arrange-
meat might be made between the French and English
iroveennients, so that passage cards could be issued to '
labibition visitors from England. These might is
issued by the municipal authorities of the reeintfao-
llirggit4vwer to or "wdstal-217 oe a stamped,recommendationithteinliaiciiiargarl
being
their employers, or from any two known people in
'the town. These card. would be printed by the gge. ,
verament, and peas the borer freely m P. 44 and:
back to England. Lord Cowiey.reiglit Bee to this at
once ; for I am anti* it is a pout of very great ins-
' postwar.. The passport system meet be ass prified
for the moment, if hundreds of thOulanda of English
people, unused to travel, are to be tempted from their
manse places to Paris during the ensuing summer.

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