The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-10 00:00:00

AIMICA.

I, Jaws 10.

The North German Lloyd's steamship Hansa,
Captain von Simian, sailing this morning with the
German, French, and English snails, takes oat 143
saloon passengers and a full cargo of general mer-
chandise, including a large quantity of French silks
and jewellery from Havre, value 182,200 francs.
The Hansa was advertised to sail on Wednesday,
but was detained in the Weser by fog.

Some of the Paris journals mention a change in
Übe maser et waving the clateert et the feehiatahle resew.
wale of Perk The trait, instead of beim armed ea MA's,
ie letrodaaed greeflag ea the *ate This arreageoseat in
yherteg to the eye, hat meet expeesive. _

DNIPANON OP INN Brurtr, AND Rita PLAIN
YAWL—The Royal Mad Company's ateasosidp Maedataxa,
Captain Wad ward, galled from Sombrispioa taamaday wit lk
th• araetbly mails far Lisboa, Cape Venire, sPsersualmak
Baia, Rio de Jamas% Masts Video, sad Boman Aymr.
The lamplaima Wok am 94 pmerpra, sad al freight
50,0504 is sus for As Bask 4 Brea ; WINK ie
bar anger as sesaast of tie Moister al Flows at Bie ;
forrellsey, 9754 ; Frond oria. 2004 ; jmnglary, 5.1254;
rod • mry fall amp et nark sad ImOidi maraisedik

P 0002.0111111 was guilkitins dat 6 o'clock this
morning. He only received notice of his fate half
an hour before the execution. At half-put 5
the reface of the Imperial Court entered his cell and
found him in bed and sound asleep. He woke him
up, tolci*mrthat his petition to the Imperor for a
pardon bee be rejected, and that •he lied now
Main to hope but from the mercy of God, and
must prepare to die it once. La Pommerais turned
deadly pale at this news, but speedily recovering
himself said, " I am ready," and at once began to
dress. The chaplain of the La Roquette prison, the
Abboi Creme, then came in and remained alone with
the criminal for ten minutes. What passed at this
interview was the seer of 000fession, and of
course cannot be known ; but it is reported that
the abl?1, m answer to an inquiry from a friend as
to what he thought of the prisoner's state of mind,
said, "I am satisfied with him." If this be true,
however, a great change must have taken place
since last night, for it is recorded that when the
gaoler then asked him whether he did not desire to
r away° the sacrament, he replied, "Bah ! religion
is all very well for children." After the final secret
interview with the priest, La Pommerais was
brought out to be bound for execution, and
the assistant-executioners proceeded to what,
is French phrase of world-wide celebrity,
is celled the toilette. Immediately before this
trying ordeal M. Claude, the head of the Police
of Public Safety, asked whether he had any reve-
lation to make. He replied that he had already
said all he had to say, and had nothing to
add. After this the miserable man scarcely spoke
a word. He refused wine, spirits; and food, which
were offered him, by a shake of the head. The
chaplain, who read to him a letter from his wife,
desired to cut off a lock of hair for her. Ls Pom-
murals assented by a gesture, and when it was cut
off ho kissed it, saying (aooording to one account),
"For my wife !" At five-Mini—Ms to 6 the double
doors of the prison were thrown open, and the
man about to die could see the scaffold and
hear the shouts of the crowd, " He is coming—he
is coming." Supported by the executioners, he
walked with tolerable firmness to the foot of the
scaffold, the chaplain exhorting him all the time.
Just before mounting the steps be embraced the
chaplain for the last time, saying, "I give you this
kiss for Clotilde "—(That is the name of Madame
La Pommerais.] It is said that be kissed the
crucifix. As he mounted the steps his firmness
forsook him. He was seized with a trembling, and
his head sunk on his right shoulder. A paletot,
which had been thrown over him like a cloak as he
walked out of the prison, was pulled off on
the steps, and he appeared on the scaffold
in his shirt with the collar cut off, a pair of dress
black pantaloons, and polished leather boots. In
five seconds from the time be mounted the scaffold
his head was off. A kind of splash-board of
zinc is a part of the apparatus used on these occa-
sions to prevent the blood from spouting upwards,
but at the moment when the knife was about to
fall this plate was found to be out of its place, and
one of the executioner's men who stepped forward
to arrange it received a shower of blood
full in his eyes. He raised his arm and
drew it across his face to wipe it.
The number of spectators present at this execu-
tion is estimated at 30,000 ; but from the dispo-
sition of the ground all but about 1,000 might as
well have stayed at home for anything they could
see. The executioner of Versailles assisted the
Paris executioner, and at 3 in the morning the
guillotine was tried to see that it was in good order,
La Pommerais' head and body were conveyed in
a cart, guarded by gendarmes, to that part of the
cemetery of Montparnasse destined for criminals,
but the remains will only be interred there pro-
visionally, the family having claimed them and
their request being granted. Contrary to custom,
the chaplain followed in a carriage to the cemetery,
and it is said that he was permitted to perform
some funeral rites.

Several of the evening papers avail themselves
of the sad occasion to publish articles against the
punishment of death.
Marshal Peliuier'a funeral was celebrated to-day
with military honours at the Invalides.
The Bourse remain, dull, and with scarcely any
change, although it is thought certain that there
will be a meeting of the conference to-morrow, at
which the armistice will be prolonged for a fort-
night only, in emordanee with the desire of Den-
mark. The attendance at the Bourse is now very
thin, many speculators having left Paris for the
summer season.

An Englishman named Thomas Fox, • native of
Boston, but who is believed to have graduated in
London as a thief, was tried yesterday for picking
the pocket of a gentleman named Dreux (aged 84),
at the doors of the Bank of France. M. Drenx had
been to change a I,ooofr. note, but be did not lose
any of his money. The pocket attacked contained
only papers of little or no value. These were
passed at once to an aoeompUes who made off
with them. 70161 defence was that he lodged at
the Hotel Maurice, and bad upwards of 301, in his
pocket ; but the court did not think these evi-
dences of respectability sufficient to outweigh the
positive testimony of two witnesses. The prisoner
was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and
five years' surveillance of the polies.
The Paris Cricket Club has made a much better
head against the Warwickshire Knickerbockers than
it did against the Nottingham men. bThe following
is the score of yesterday :—Paria, Ist innings, 66 ;
Warwickshire Knickerbockers, 86 ; Paris, 2nd
innings, 57 ; Warwickshire Knickerbockers, 37.
Total—Paris, 122; Warwickshire Knickerbockers,
123 ; with three wickets to go down. A victory
by three wickets only is not very crushing.
To-day the return match is being played ;
it has been raining nearly all day, the
Kniokerbockers having the bad luck to come to
Paris the day after Bt. Medard, whose fate wee
inaugurated by a heavy shower yesterday morning.
The appearance of the Knickerbockers in a four-in-
hand on the Boulevards yesterday produced quite
a sensation.
M. Schickler has refused an offer of 4,0001. far
Nabob, the father of IL Delamarre's Vermont.

Iraionrrca. Daarn.—Yeatarday morning a fatal
aeoident ooiarred at the Ttebarman% Tawas, If oestetrat.
street, Nottingham. Rebecca Atembereegh, mat! serrant,
wont into the calla: far some do, bat. set retareiog,
she was followed by a main seated fleassal Week who also
remained dowieteirk The laadlowd. gamed Kirk, feelin .
alarmed, also desosadad, bet reamed perkily en
foul sir lath tato the °Whir. The eirmat and Woe*
1 booms I aad were left in the oellar. A
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